It can also generate electricity if you put its main rotor under a waterfall to charge the pilot's smartphones.
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I believe the long-range version has additional solid fuel tanks for storing dehydrated water.
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Ironically, it is not very good at flying in the rain though.
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The pilots affectionately call them Pond Hoppers.
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Its also essential that the rotor is not running during replenishment, otherwise it will split water into oxygen and hydrogen, with potentially disastrous consequences. An updated version with "hydro-glu" blades to prevent this is in development.
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Lovely helicopter, fact can also run for 30 seconds on pilots tears and body fluids once the water fuel runs out.
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True, and the collector thanks for those fluids are what have increased the survival rate of engine-off landings so dramatically.
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Presumably in the rain it could fly in theory for ever?
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