The future of personal travel has been pushed to new heights. You would now be travelling iamulticopters, we can now look at a future where, one day, ubers and taxis travel above street traffic to their next destination. The advancement of drone technology has made this possible.
The Volocopter VC200 beacme the first certified multicopter to fly with a person onboard on the 30th march and made history.
The Verge called the Volocotper “a dream catcher” because of its symmetrical flock of propellers fixed above the egg-shaped, two-passenger cockpit. The VC200 looks like a supersized drone-helicopter but actually it’s a multicopter, also called multirotor, that uses fixed-pitch blades and is controlled by varying the speed of each rotor.
“The Volocopter is super easy to fly, silent and built with electrical simplicity compared to helicopters, which are difficult to fly, loud and mechanically complex,” said Jan Stumpf, CEO of Ascending Technologies, an Intel company that has worked with e-volo since 2013, in a report.
The VC200’s emission-free electric propulsion comes from 18 propeller-spinning rotors, all powered by nine batteries. It can reach up to 62 mph in flight and uses state-of-the-art navigation technology, making it a cinch to pilot.
Florian Reuter, managing director, strategy and finance at e-volo, estimates the price for the Volocopter will start at 250.000 €.
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