POSTED BY

Joel Johnson

AT 9:27 AM
Monday March 30, 2009

Science Fiction • Vehicles

fake • helicopter • hoax • hotelicopter • viral • yotel

Hotelicopter is not real, sadly

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"Hotelicopter" is a remodeled prototype Soviet MiL Mi-V12, now filled with 18 cabins and suites. It will be making an innaurgral tour through North American destinations this summer, with prices to be announced soon. (Expect to pay a considerable premium over your typical live-aboard helicopter stay.)

It is certainly not a real thing, as the obviously rendered video implies, but instead a viral promotion for a stay-at-the-airport hotel company.

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13 Comments

Halloween Jack

#1 – 9:56 AM March 30, 2009

Obligatory mile-high club joke.

TedJohnson

#2 – 10:38 AM March 30, 2009

Dark Roasted Blend has this collection of real humongous helicopters.

Anonymous Anonymous

#3 – 10:44 AM March 30, 2009

Well, yeah, no shit. If you've been in a helicopter you'll know how noisy they are, and that there's no way they could pack in enough sound insulation to make one acceptable as a luxury hotel room.

superhelix

#4 – 11:14 AM March 30, 2009

I dunno dude. I think it's real - what's so unbelievable about a flying hotel? There's already underwater hotels...

http://blog.hotelclub.com/top-five-underwater-hotels/


Trent Hawkins

#5 – 11:53 AM March 30, 2009

In case anyone is wondering, the Mil-12 can lift three regular sized Gundam or two Evas.

Nelson.C

#6 – 3:42 PM March 30, 2009

Are there any Mi-12s still flying? I thought the Mi-26 was the heavy lifter of choppers these days.

Gronk

#7 – 2:10 AM March 31, 2009

Och. Not only do those annoying laws of physics prevent our world from being a world with wonderful things like hotelicopters - now even the video has been deleted.

Anyway, I'd guess two rotors and turbines would probably not create enough lift for that monster, with the law of scale and everything. Not when the rooms come with bathrooms.

Anonymous Anonymous

#8 – 5:48 AM March 31, 2009

D'oh! ('cause of the MiL Mi V-12's NATO reporting name)

Trent Hawkins

#9 – 6:23 AM March 31, 2009

#7 Well, it can lift about 88,000 pounds, so it can lift a two story house, just not the foundation.

Mr_Voodoo

#10 – 9:01 AM March 31, 2009

Perish Hilton?
..sorry, couldn't help myself...

Garak

#11 – 1:39 PM March 31, 2009

Maybe if this thing at 6 rotors of that size and could still fly on 3 it might be safe and marketable. That would be one big helicopter.

LBlackwell

#12 – 11:55 AM April 3, 2009

I went to the site (www.hotelicopter.com), and hotelicopter is a real company launching on Wednesday. If it’s not a flying hotelicopter, anybody know what it could be?

Anonymous Anonymous

#13 – 2:06 AM April 16, 2009

when i went to hotelicopter.com, it is a search engine for hotels. rates and all. to think that it could be real. sigh.

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