The Hexacopter - UFOs Explained

[All Seeing Eye]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYujjP5J-k&feature=player_embedded[/yt]

Wow have you seen this!!!!!!!!!!!!

Build one big enough and stick a huge light on it and you've got an explanation for all the UFOs people have been seeing.

This thing is incredible, have you seen the speed and manoeuvrability? It moves itself too via GPS. You wouldn't even need to scale it up that much for one person to travel in it.

Imagine the Military applications this thing could have if they stuck a gun on it and some Mini Missiles.

WOW!

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Add a real-time video link or upgrade the GPS and you potentially have a cheap terrorist weapon as well.

 

[Jetfire]

That was pretty cool...would have been funny if the coke bottle hit him in the face.

 

[captcalhoun]

six engines, six times as many things that can go wrong.

 

[FordSVT]

Multiple engined aircraft are typically much safer in the event of an engine mishap.

This is a helicopter with six rotors instead of 1 or 2, it's an evolution of a design, not a revolutionary one. What could a terrorist do with this that he couldn't do with any radio controlled, model helicopter or air plane?

 

[Mysterion]

With the camera on that thing you'd have a great recon tool for the Army. It's portable enough that a squad-sized unit could probably carry it and whatever support equipment it needs with no real added burden to their usual combat load-out.

 

[Lindley]

Multiple engined aircraft are typically much safer in the event of an engine mishap.

That depends on a multitude of factors, not least is what caused the problem. If it's fuel exhaustion, you'll lose all the engines pretty much simultaneously, of course; and multi-engine aircraft don't tend to get glide ratios anywhere near as good as single engine craft.

 

[Trekker4747]

The high maneuverability of the toy could easily be credited to the toy's low mass and the power of the electric engines.

A full-sized craft may not be as maneuverable.

 

[sojourner]

Yea, it's a toy. It in fact would need to be scaled up alot for a passenger. If it would even work. The problem is that you can't just scale it up. The power to weight ratios for a toy are much different from a large aircraft.

Even at this size we are never shown what the flight duration is. If it can only fly 3 minutes on a charge it's applicable uses become limited.

 

[Captain Pike]

Yeah I was wondering that. How long do the batteries last?

Still an impressive demonstration though..

 

[CuttingEdge100]

Looks like it could make a good transport vehicle (manned or unmanned)

 

[sto vo kor]

That's going to need some serious battery power to power 6 rotors.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Looks like it could make a good transport vehicle (manned or unmanned)

Certainly wouldn't need a runway.

 

[Buck Rogers]

I've seen a concept by NASA called the puffin its electrically powered with 2 rotor/props its launched vertically,and transitions to horizontal level flight fairly quickly it uses LI Poly batteries for fuel.
There is a computer generated video giving you a taste on how it operates.

Signed

Buck Rogers

 

[Lindley]

Looks like it could make a good transport vehicle (manned or unmanned)

Certainly wouldn't need a runway.

It would probably be expected to use one anyway if operating on an airport.