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Personal Helicopter Available For $30,000

Posted by timothy on from the thwop-thwop-thwop dept.

gsfprez writes "The question was recently asked on /., "will personal flight ever be viable?". The answer is "if you have $30,000 today, yes". They are looking to work with Americans who will be willing to help them with testing a few final steps of their GEN H-4 Personal Helicopter, such as ballistic parachutes. $30,000 to beta test a helicopter I can park in the garage? Honey, pass me 5 credit cards!"

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  1. Possibly more viable personal flying options by netringer · · Score: 3, Informative

    The SoloTrek will likely be available commercially at some point: http://www.solotrek.com/

    The Moller Air Car is less likely: http://www.moller.com/skycar/

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  2. Pictures by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you hop over to the Japanese section, you will see it feels much more up to date, and there is even a photo gallery.

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  3. And for a somewhat more professional kit heli by Jim+McCoy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out Rotorway (http://www.rotorway.com/) which offers the Exec 162F as a kit helicopter. These things are supposedly a little bit more "twitchy" and not as forgiving as a bigger helicopter (less time to react and less angular momentum stored in the blades in the case of a power failure) but for $65k you get a well-tested and engineered system backed by a "real" company and not someone running an operation out of their garage. The system this article references seems to be the ultralight of the rotorcraft world and not the Cessna 162 or GlassAir...