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Cruise-capable eVTOL flying motorcycle rocks tilting thrusters
newatlas.com ^ | May 30 2024 | Joe Salas

Posted on 06/02/2024 6:54:59 PM PDT by martin_fierro

Czech company UDX is flying scale prototypes of a tandem 2-up eVTOL it calls Airwolf. With individually-tilting ducted fan propulsion, it's got enough wing surface for efficient cruise flight as well as agile movement from a hover.

Imagine waking early Sunday morning to ride the twisty coastal mountains of beautiful southern California. It's going to be a perfect day and you expect exactly zero traffic, because you're leaving the Hayabusa in the garage and taking your UDX Airwolf hoverbike.

You don your lid, crank up your favorite tunes, spin up the ducted fans, lift off and hover out of your garage before blasting off with all the youth and vigor you've ever known. Within seconds, you're doing 142 mph (230 km/h), speeding over traffic, stop lights, and police with radar like a Peregrine falcon on your way to your favorite canyons...

This is the dream Czech startup UDX is working toward. Airwolf is a 430-hp (320-kW) motorcycle-esque eVTOL with "hummingbird-like" agility that seats two. It may look like a typical quadcopter, but what really sets the Airwolf apart from most other buy'n'fly eVTOL designs I've seen is the tilting propulsion pods. Each of its four shrouded fan units can move independently.

(Excerpt) Read more at newatlas.com ...


TOPICS: Hobbies
KEYWORDS: aviation; ecars; evs; evtol; freeperhooligans; motorcycles; udx
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To: Paal Gulli

“...But it took off horizontally using wing-generated lift to get airborne instead of fan-generated thrust....”


The Wright Brothers also used a derrick with a heavy weight - attached to cables and pulleys to pull the aircraft forward on a track to achieve lift-off.

Gustave Whitehead needed no such ‘help’ when he flew a powered aircraft 28 months before the Wright Brothers...

https://gustavewhitehead.info/about-gustave-whitehead/


21 posted on 06/03/2024 4:56:38 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: martin_fierro

I guess I’m just an old fart.

I ain’t giving up my 93FXR for nuttin.


22 posted on 06/03/2024 5:28:23 AM PDT by left that other site (For what is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed ...to be brought out. Mk 4:22)
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To: martin_fierro

You’d probably get it keyed for taking 6 parking spaces at Walmart.


23 posted on 06/03/2024 5:58:54 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Jonty30

Heh


24 posted on 06/05/2024 12:46:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: martin_fierro

They have been prmising this for over 2 decades. Come on and build them already!


25 posted on 07/27/2024 9:26:01 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (Is it red in here, or just me?)
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To: martin_fierro

So the idiots we see on the roads every day are now going to be over our heads. What could go wrong?


26 posted on 07/27/2024 9:34:44 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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