The Megacopter drone lifts over 130 pounds, breaks payload record

The Megacopter, an aptly-named multicopter drone, has received the Guinness World Record for heaviest load lifted for a remote-controlled multicopter: 134.5 pounds.

The aluminum and plywood drone has 48 propellers that sound like an angry swarm of superbees. According to Guinness World Records, the Megacopter was made by Henning Pederson and students from the University of Oslo in Norway, and took 18 months to build. You can see the weights that are being lifted in the middle of the structure.

"In order to be counted as ‘lifted,’ the lowest part of the payload had to be elevated to a height over 1 m (3 ft 3 in) for a minimum of 30 seconds," writes Rachel Swatman for Guinness World Records Read more...