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Blade Runner: 18-Rotor "Volocopter" Moving from Concept to Prototype - WorldNL Magazine

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Inventor and physicist Thomas Senkel created an Internet sensation with the October 2011 video of his maiden—and only—test flight of a spidery proof-of-concept 16-rotor helicopter dubbed Multicopter 1. Now the maker of the experimental personal aviation craft, the European start-up e-volo, is back with a revised "volocopter" design that adds two more rotors, a serial hybrid drive and long-term plans for going to 100 percent battery power. The ne…
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World NEWS Live broke the news in on Monday, May 19, 2025.
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