Friday, August 25, 2006

A Flying Segway? The Personal Helicopter

Unlike traditional helicopters the GEN H-4 has 2 sets of coaxial, contra-rotating rotors (like a KA-52 Hokum) which eliminates the need of a tail rotor for balancing. It is powered by 4 lightweight 125cc 2 cylinder engines which use standard gasoline. It can fly to an altitude of 1000 meters at a top speed of 59 mph for up to 30 minutes.

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how cool is this? now i can literally "drop in" on my friends and parents.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Keep me on the ground. I don't trust helicopters at all. To have a personal helicopter might seem fun and everyone would love to be able to go out to their front lawn and hop into one to go to work. Just give me an old fashioned car.