Helicopter or drone.
Well technically, I guess, the word helicopter would be correct.
However this is more commonly used for the aircraft with a Single Main Rotor configuration (or Coax/Tandem/Synchropter/etc.).
All these aircraft are familiair with colletive and cyclic pitch control.
But since this aircraft has multiple rotors and definitely no cyclic pitch control (probably not even collective pitch), I prefer to call this configuration Multirotor.
I see that this configuration is very popular in the drone industry, hence the other 'asked' option of 'drone'.
Technically, this could be a drone. However the human being on board would have to be payload/cargo and a pilot would be required to be present on the ground, having the ability of 'full control' of the aircraft.
So, I think we can therefore safely state, that this is not a drone.
While it is technically possible to have some form of a "rapid controlled descent" with one or two engines inoperative, I doubt it very very veeeeerrrrryyyy much, that this is achievable on a vehicle like this, with a relatively high disk loading.
It would be a very, very rough landing, most likely not survivable.
An emergency parachute would be the best option.
Last edited by TimdeBoer; 5th May 2018 at 16:38.