Personal Helicopter Available For $30,000

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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Re:$30,000 a little bit extreme?

[photon317]

Looking at their site, it seems that while the frame and rotors are pretty simplistic, there's a lot of novel and expensive design/engineering work in the enginer/transmission part that's in that little backpack on the back of the thing. They have a cutaway view of the transmission with a breif description. Once the R&D costs are gone and they begin mass manufacturing I bet they could get the price down to $10k or so.