Definition of multicopter in English:
multicopter
nounˈmʌltɪkɒptəˌməltēˈkäptər
A small, typically unmanned helicopter having more than two rotors.
the possibility of new perspectives on the ocean has driven my interest in aerial imaging using multicopters
Example sentencesExamples
- While you do pay a price in performance, a multicopter is the only one of the three aircraft designs that works reasonably well with blade guards.
- In October 2011 he made the first manned flight with an electric multicopter at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany.
- Losing a rig like that is very painful, but losing a larger multicopter with a gimbal-mounted SLR can cost upwards of $10,000.
- These kind of shots are not easy to do with a multicopter - you have to be very proficient with one.
- Technically, it's a multicopter rather than a quadcopter, because it has 16 rotors instead of 4.
- On a multicopter, it's got to slow down the counter-clockwise-spinning blades, while accelerating the clockwise-spinning-blades enough to make up the difference.
- Want your plane or multicopter to fly around like a hotrod?
- This emission-free multicopter can hover and glide by changing the thrust and torque produced by 18 spinning blades.
- The Black Knight Transformer, a so-called "multicopter," is designed to land near combat zones and then drive toward the injured soldier for others to load him or her into the vehicle.
- The 3D Robotics Y6 multicopter has been flying over vineyards in Northern California to monitor ripeness.