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Two-Seat Electric Octodecacopter Completes Early Flight Tests (wired.com)
3 points by grannyg00se on Nov 26, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Any explanation of what the advantages are to having so many rotors? Based on a recently-linked article [1], it seems like you'd take a big efficiency hit.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6730309


Crazy. Zero chances of that auto-rotating you safely down to earth when you lose power.




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