Watch this brave pilot survive his first flight in a DIY multicopter

It took him over two years of development, but this daring Swede was recently propelled aloft for around eight minutes of flight in his homemade electric multirotor. And what a glorious eight minutes it was.

The unnamed pilot, who has been posting updates on his quadcopter project under the handle “amazingDIYprojects” for over seven years now, can be seen buzzing through the trees in this sun-dappled Swedish forrest like something out of a Scandinavian fairy tale. At the end of the video, he demonstrates the quadcopter’s vertical prowess by bouncing gleefully up and down in the air while seated in the center of four circular rotor-mounts. “It’s like a rollercoaster feeling,” he says breathlessly at one point.

He says he used 57 percent...

Continue reading…