A British man, YouTuber “gasturbine101,” has posted a video of the first test flight for his “Swarm Manned Aerial Vehicle Multirotor Super Drone,” a “pentacontakaitetracopter” (aka a multirotor with 54 blades). The flight for this over-the-top flying vehicle lasted for about ten minutes and it looks like most of the time he was only about 4′ to 6′ off the ground. At one point he guns it to maybe 20′(?), but is only there for a few seconds. He concludes from the test that there’s a lack of “yaw authority” (i.e. control over side-to-side movement) and that he’ll probably need to add a tail rotor.
via Make
