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	I think anyone who's ever played with the concept of multicopters
has had the passing though of if/how/when they could be "man-sized";
just a matter of cost and flight-time.  Efficient doesn't really come
into it, how about "FUN"!!  ; )=20

	I could easily envision military use of single-person multicopters,
with the pilot lying flat, you could get EXTREME manouverability, but
obviously there's a limit (at the moment) of how much a human can
take, as well as structural stresses.  Of course you could just go the
remote method instead.=20

	Non-electric and collective pitch would probably be the way for
longer flight times, a single central internal combustion engine
feeding drive belts/shafts for an array of collective-pitch blade
assemblies.=20

	I think sensor and microprocessing technology/cost has come low
enough that these things are going to be popping up in the average
hobbyists backyard shed fairly shortly.  What would have cost tens of
thousands a few years ago can now be done with an arduino and a wii
controller!  (with motion plus, of course!)=20

	Moller had his Skycar back in '03, which was essentially an ethanol
quadcopter, but to me it looked unstable.  Wonder if he's been
upgrading the control systems since then (doesn't seem to be much new
info).  That said, a bit of a search seems to indicate quite a bit of
money going in for not much results showing...=20

	Lee
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