e-volo: the world’s first manned personal electric helicopter

Multicopters have proved themselves as stable flying platforms with the likes of the AR Drone, but we could never have imagined this. e-volo is basically a bunch of copters tied together with a Swiss ball. This is the lucky guy up flying the world’s first manned electric powered copter.

The exciting part is e-volo’s goal: to mass produce affordable personal flight for everyone, and with 20-30 minutes flight time already achieved, we’re excited. They’re even talking about how a one hour fight would cost just €6 – so we get to fly and it’s cheap and environmentally friendly? What a winner.

They just need to make the e-volo a wee bit smaller and we’ll be ready to commute on it right away. Just need to save up for that parachute. Here it is in action.

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Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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