"Flying car"

• Source: Global Times
• [15:34 August 05 2009]
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Xie Yanzhou with his "flying car"

A freshman in Donggan Middle School in Donggan City, Guangdong Province, has won first prize with his lithium-battery-drived "flying car" model in the 24th National Youth Scientific Innovation Contest.

"The car is powered by two pairs of propellers of the same rotation speed and different rotation direction, which would also balance the propellers' torsional stress at the same time," explained Xie Yanzhou, 12. "Ducted fans are another feature helping accelerate the efficiency of the propellers and protect people from getting hurt." said Xie, who is called  "the Star Inventor" at the school with his vertically-powered takeoff and landing car.

Xie Yanzhou's gold medal