Volatus

"The sleekest aerodynamics on the market, double swept blades, fantail rotor: when you're coming off a weekend's team-building ketamine workshop there's no more costly way to move at immense speeds in perfect comfort and near-total silence. This is the real business class."

- Elitás Travel description.

The Buckingham Volatus is a private helicopter featured in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of the Further Adventures in Finance and Felony update.

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The helicopter takes a similar luxury appearance to the Swift, sporting a large nosed cockpit and sliding side doors. It appears to take influence from primarily the Airbus Helicopters H160 and the Eurocopter EC155. The H160's influence can be seen heavily in the rotor assembly and blades, Fenestron tail, side profiling and windscreen. On the rear is a Fenestron tail, similar to the Valkyrie's empennage, with twin tail wings. The vehicle has a 5 blade rotor and appears in a chrome finish. It has retractable tricycle landing gear like the Swift and Savage. The word "Buckingham" can be seen printed in white on the tail boom.

Passengers can drink champagne and browse the internet within the helicopter, instead of using the Mobile Phone.

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The Volatus has ok performance for a helicopter. It is not very nimble or agile and Helicopters like the Frogger and Swift have better maneuverability and are substantially faster than the Volatus. The Helicopter tends to lean when landing and is not very durable. It also is not a good choice when trying to escape gun fire as it takes only 10 seconds of continuous Minigun fire before stalling and falling.

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 * Can be purchased on Elitás Travel for $2,295,000.

Trivia

 * 'Volatus' relates to 'flight' and 'flown' in Latin, referring to the characteristics of a helicopter. This term is also comparable to the word 'Volito', seen on the SuperVolito.