Worlds smallest One-man Helicopter GEN H-4 by ADEYTO

ADEYTO meets 75-year-old Gennai Yanagisawa, who runs an electronics equipment company in Matsumoto, central Japan, has created a 75kg (165-pound) one-man aircraft which sets the world record for the smallest helicopter. Gen Corporation, the company employee Yasutoshi Yokoyama flies in the air by GEN H-4, a compact single-seater helicopter developed by Gen Corporation, during its test flight in Matsumoto in central Japan’s Nagano Prefecture. Yanagisawa developed the GEN H-4 helicopter — with rotors, a chair, footrest and handle bar — in the late 1990s. Yanagisawa’s helicopter is the smallest model in the world in terms of weight and its rotor length of 3.9 metres. The GEN H-4 has two rotors turning in opposite directions to maintain stability, and four engines that enables a 30-minute flight with a top speed of about 56 miles per hour. The helicopter has two identical rotors that turn in opposite directions making the need for a tail rotor obsolete. Each r
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