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German Multicopter Lifts Human Pilot

Posted by Peter Bell on October 31, 2011 at 2:30pm

http://www.e-volo.com/Home.html

Love the yoga ball as a soft landing device, can't believe the pilot trusted his life to an RC controller though and he never had covers for all those props which would have sliced him up like a blender if things went pear shaped.

Awesome stuff, just totally jealous as we are trying something similar and they flew first :-)

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  • Developer
    John Arne Birkeland November 1, 2011 at 1:48pm

    The dilemma is that if the pioneers of the early airplanes and helicopters and cars and so on had todays modern view on safety, they would get nowhere. If you look at old footage from early days and the golden age of airplanes they where all raving lunatics with a death wish by todays standards.

  • Ellison Chan November 1, 2011 at 1:41pm

    Hold mackerel!

  • MarcS November 1, 2011 at 12:00pm

    Batteries look like 2x 6S5800 SLS per motor (german distributor of lipos).

    What would concern me the most is vibrations of the long booms... In the video there are some moments I feared it would go into resonance...

    Let´s see where this goes... As long as flying times are counted in minutes these platforms will be interesting experiments.

    And it should be said to everyone thinking of doing the same: This is not a toy! You need some luck to not get injured.

  • Michael Krader November 1, 2011 at 10:15am

    as to trust and safety, i wonder what it was like when the wright brothers laid down next to a running engine with open props with chains.

  • Brent November 1, 2011 at 7:23am

    Nice work! According to the website the software was developed in house by a team member.

    A close up of the motor/esc.

    http://www.e-volo.com/Prototype_files/e-volo_IMGP2316.jpg

  • 100KM
    u4eake November 1, 2011 at 5:29am

    Awesome !  Son't know what else to say !  And it looks like such a simple construction.  Just rc motors with props and lots of them.  Did he use the arducopter brain ?

  • OpticalFlow November 1, 2011 at 4:30am

    Wow.

    It appears they're in Karlsruhe. Warthox lives an hours drive away in Freiburg  .... just thinking him being in control of this thing.

  • Developer
    John Arne Birkeland November 1, 2011 at 3:06am

    Looking at the pictures on the HP I would guess Hacker motors and HobbyKing CF propellers (Mejzlik clones). ESC's are almost impossible to see but maybe Castle Creations HV controllers judging by the shape.

    There are four arms with 4 motors on each arm (16 motors total). I would not be surprised if the controller is a standard KK controller in a quad setup (4 motors controlled in parallel as one on each arm).

  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer November 1, 2011 at 1:17am

    They are going to be everywhere now....

  • Robert Hannaford October 31, 2011 at 11:09pm

    Awesome, curious to know what the total battery size and ratings were.

     

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