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Re:China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight mot... by rkon on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @05:40PM (#3045350)
If only I had a dollar for every post about some new "flying machine" that can only hover 3 feet off the ground...
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Re:China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight mot... by georgieporgie on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @06:18PM (#3045498)
Every one that I've seen appears to be capable of going arbitrarily higher, it's just nobody in their right mind would take the risk.
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Re:China: Man builds flying contraption powered by eight mot... by VladRussian on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @08:06PM (#3045848)
this one was taken a bit higher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsqyphVERA&feature=relat...

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