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18-rotor electric helicopter makes maiden flight

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If its 18 rotors aren’t enough to get you excited, this crazy flying machine has a “pleasant sonorous sound,” according to German engineers who built the Volocopter VC200.

The successor to the even more outrageous Volocopter VC1 is being billed as “the world’s first green helicopter,” but a number of other projects have also claimed that title.
via cnet

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