First manned flight with the Volocopter VC200

Ron Czapala

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/volocopter-first-manned-flight/

German copter company E-Volo still has its CEO. Not that engineers had any doubts about the safety of the Volocopter’s recent first-ever manned flight, which the company’s boss bravely piloted.
The extraordinary drone-helicopter hybrid is essentially a two-seat flying machine that gets off the ground with the help of what looks like a large number of drones that’ve been welded together.
The “super drone” is powered by an electric engine, with precision control offered by little more than a joystick with a few buttons it.
Following a number of successful remotely controlled test flights, the company decided it was high time someone actually climbed inside the thing to see how it handled humans. Or, perhaps more accurately, how humans handled it.

lardom

It should be very popular. It's already gotten a ton of views in just a few days.
I'll have to wait until someone develops a paraglider with brushless motors for the rest of us.

erco

Very cool. Of course, it's not the first time a German CEO was aboard for the first test flight. ☺