I was thinking "oh well, this is interesting, but..."
But it was really interesting.
Each of the things I was thinking, had already been thought out. This runs for an hour, is rechargeable, and even has a small parachute, to emergency bail with, just in case it stops running somewhere at altitude.
Apparently, like a traditional helicopter, as long as you are (above) a certain flight level. Flying too low, appears to be more risky than flying higher.
There are something like 15 photos attached. Seems quite interesting.
It is not terribly fancy. Just the basics, but seems a very good concept.
The one thing it says is they are (still) looking for someone to boot the project up with an investment.
Maybe too much liability.
But I like it, very much in fact.
I will attach a clickable link below.
I would question the safety angle to this. While it’s nice to have the parachute.....if you don’t have at least a couple thousand feet....I don’t see the chute slowing you down enough to prevent serious injury.
Whatever it is, it isn’t a drone.
Its a perfect vehhicle for do drop in jihadhi suicide bombers.
We could market a model called” 72 Virgins Sky Carpet.”
The unit would easily hold a jihadhi and 100 pounds of IED full of creative jihadhi shrapnel. Think of it, they could crash the thing right into any high rise apartment of office building!
They will sell like hot cakes!
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I actually like it, although the silly lifting cable arrangement is a headache waiting to happen. The motors to wind the cables, keeping them in sync up and down, all extra weight and complexity.
This is a logical extension of load-carrying "quad-copters" that could deliver a living "load" from one GPS point to another quite well. Difficulties are the same as with drone vehicles on the ground - collision avoidance.
ADS-B could resolve that, with some additional electronics.
I’ll stick with Ducatis.
Very Jetsons.
In the late 1970s, Popular Mechanics (iirc) covered a similar disc vehicle that was actually built and running. It had only 4 blades run by 4 wankel rotary engines, and supposedly reached a similar speed. But because it was not made of modern composites, it weighed enough to be used only as a hover craft, not a helicopter. As a kid I used to day dream about taking it out into the desert. :)
I could see it with a ball turret underneath...
‘I’m looking for investors to make it happen - the technology is on the market.’
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People with viable ideas can usually find investors without hyping the ideas in the media.