Rocket Powered Helicopter

"The copter makes use of tiny hydrogen-peroxide-powered rocket motors on the tips of the blades, which replaces the traditional engine-powered rotor. Large fuel tanks surrounding the pilot allow the Dragonfly to travel at up to 40 mph for 50 minutes."

via Popular Science via Neatorama
Shepppardsays...

That video has one of the coolest things ever, the camera can't capture the blades rotating fast enough, so it looks like it's just traveling at a slow pace, but if you look at the smoke around it you can somewhat judge how fast it's going because the smoke isn't dissipating fast enough.

grintersays...

>> ^rebuilder:
...but WHY?


The inventor previously worked as a successful stylist for 80's hair bands. Unfortunately when the taste for bad music dried up, so did his business. He was stuck with a warehouse full of hydrogen peroxide.

"F@$*K it! Let's build a helicopter!"

siftbotsays...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, Swiss, test, chopper, dragonfly' to 'hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, Swiss, test, chopper, dragonfly, smoky, smoke' - edited by calvados

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