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Single seater rocket copter, Dragonfly is environment friendly but pricey
In mans constant endeavor to take to the skies, we’ve come up with all sorts of contraptions. One genius has come up with one such flying machine that combines handy ingenuity, a bit of rocket science, helicopter mechanics and above all being environment friendly. Enter the Dragonfly, a simple, one man pilot, rock powered helicopter.…
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Now helicopters run on electricity
We’ve seen a super sports bike that runs on electricity so how does a helicopter that works on the same principles sound? The whole idea was proposed quite some time back but has been made possible with the downsizing of batteries. The design is about 50-years old according to a source, but the entrails are…
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NASA designs and test helicopter airbags, don’t worry no crash test dummies were injured during testing
NASA believes that if cars can have it so can choppers. We’re talking about Air bags, just in case you were wondering. At their Langley Research Center in Virginia, NASA’s engineers have devised a test center for coming up ways to better protect passengers who could be victims of helicopter (or other small flying vehicle)…
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Airbags for helicopters, thanks to NASA
We may soon see those helicopter pilots exhaling in relief as they get this news come to them with a fair share of relief. Folks at NASA are working on helicopter airbags that will minimize the problem of crashes constant crashes with pilots having no way out. If you’re wondering why helicopter pilots don’t jump…
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Sikorsky’s X2 technology increases chopper speed by two times
The helicopter that you see today can travel a maximum of 150 miles an hour with today’s technology. With X2 technology, Sikorsky, a chopper manufacturing company, hopes to fly helicopters nearly twice the speed of today’s speed. That target is 290 miles an hour and that is nearly 40 miles faster than a helicopter has…
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Robo-copter can navigate without a GPS
This flying robot has been designed and created by US-German team very recently. Their goal was to make this robot automatically navigate inside a simulated nuclear plant and find and image a control panel without the aid of the GPS. This robot has been named as the Pelican based on a hardware designed by the…
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Chinese farmer builds single-seater helicopter using basic physics
What isn’t possible by man should never be possible by chickens (save: laying eggs). That’s what I felt the first time I saw Chicken Run. The movie inspired me to take up something as a cause, building an aircraft with nothing but a few simple tricks in the bag and a little bit of theory.…
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Sky is the limit, with the strap on mini-helicopters
Rush hour traffic and getting late to work will soon be a thing of the past. The Martin Jetpack will soon let people fly to work! These mini-helicopters can be strapped on and you can easily fly to your destination. The two liter jet powered engine will easily let you fly across the sky skies…
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Fuel your Mini RC helicopter by USB
Brando is now offering a min RC helicopter that can be refueled from your laptop or desktop provided your don’t use the Stone Age ones which doesn’t come with a USB. It is a standard 3 channel helicopter nothing technologically advanced about it other than the fact you can charge with your USB. It will…
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Muecke is a Personal Commuter helicopter
The Muecke helicopter has no tail rotor but has two rotating blades rotating in the opposite direction. This is enough to give the helicopter to lift and balance. It is also easily portable. All the user has to do is grab one end and lift and push it like a wheelbarrow. Ofcourse personal air transportation…
