You know, remote control micro-aircraft are cool, whether they hover like ‘copters, fly like birds, or do both: like the new Jump Jet from Snelflight. It’s a kind of mashup toy, with four rotors to keep it aloft in the hover, or tilted to propel it forward, vectored-thrust style. From the demo video of a prototype in flight, it looks much easier to control than the multiple-crashing Chinook:

The aircraft charges from a power brick (not the controller, like Picoo Zs,) and a full battery will apparently give you around five to six minutes of flight. Its got proper three-axis control too, so you’ve forward and backward flight and yaw and roll. The IR remote has a range of 30 feet, and the model is designed to be as robust as you can get in such a small size, so it should survive the impacts it’ll incur as you learn to fly it. This extra sophistication means it will cost around $160, and it’s due for release imminently in the UK and later in the spring over in the US. And I want one! [SnelFlight]

Via [Gizmodo]

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