Cambodian students transform school seats into convenient flying devices

A group of students in Cambodia have built a prototype of a manned drone from an unlikely item: a school chair.

Young people at the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NPIC) used $20,000 to turn a school chair into a flying device with eight propellers that can take off to a height of 4 meters.

A group of Cambodian students with a flying device they built. (Photo: Reuters)

In the future, this group of students hopes to improve the design so that the drone can carry heavier loads and fly higher. They also believe that one day, this machine can be used as a means of supporting firefighters to approach fires in high-rise buildings.

According to the Daily Mail, with the original idea of ​​getting out of Phnom Penh's traffic jams, NPIC students designed this flying device to carry people around the capital. With 8 propellers and a learning chair as a driver's seat, the children hope their product will soon be put to use.

'The machine when flying without a driver was very shaky, but when I sat in it, it was more stable. I feel very interesting , ' shared student Lonh Vannsith, 21.

The 'flying chair' model can carry a 60kg person and fly for 10 minutes over a distance of 1km. The students spent 3 years researching and developing this machine.

Last year, a Japanese startup called SkyDrive conducted a test flight of a similar device. SkyDrive was founded by some former engineers at Toyota. Their goal is to invent the world's smallest flying car.