The first man in the world to achieve a manned flight of an electric multicopter recently unveiled a tandem wing aircraft prototype, describing it as an eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing ...

Thomas Senkel of the German company e-volo recently became the first to pilot an interesting craft – a so-called electric multicopter with 16 rotors. With a single seat placed in the center of those ...

The flight took place at an airstrip in southwest Germany, and lasted one and a half minutes. Thomas Senkel, a physicist and designer/builder of the multicopter, piloted the aircraft from a ...

We’ve come a long way with drones powered by electric motors and batteries, but they are still limited in capabilities, payload, and range. A U.K.-based company is working on changing that and claims ...

Although underwater drones are capable of performing a variety of tasks, getting them to the "dive site" can still sometimes be challenging. A new system is designed to help, by using an aerial drone ...

ln recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) have become widespread in a wide range of fields, from industrial use such as agriculture, infrastructure inspection and disaster investigation, to ...

[amazingdiyprojects] has been making lots of test flights in his crazy eight propeller gasoline powered danger bucket. We last covered the project when he had, unfortunately, wrecked the thing in a ...