Aviation Ping!.................
Aviation Ping List Ping!............
You’ll still need an FAA issued pilot license. And an instrument rating if you want to fly in, or through, adverse visibility conditions (clouds).
Beautiful renderings. Also like that they understand that you have to use ducted fans.
Will see if they have the performance out of their fans to make it work.
Good intentions plus cool art work <> working flying car.
Just saying
Uber rich, virtue signaling, extremely expensive toy.
With technology now growing exponentially, one can only wonder what people will be in store for 100 years from now.
I have no doubt there will be flying cars and multiple industries making them like the auto companies today.
Sure wish I could be alive to witness that future.......
As a side note, back around 2000 while on a pheasant hunting trip in N.W. Kansas, we stayed one night in the home of a 94 year old lady who grew up in that town of Logan KS.
Over breakfast we listened to her brief history of surviving the great dust bowl in the 1930's and as a child, every Friday her family would take the horse and buggy into town for supplies..........
The house in town where she lived was built outside of town and her father had it towed into town by mule train, rolling it over the tops of logs until it was located where it is today.
She was a living history book.........
I could really use one of these for my 3 days a week commute into MIT. Just to make everyone jealous.
Yeah, and when Light Sport catagory was introduced it was supposed to open up aviation as cheep.
Well a decent LSA is around 200 thousand.
Just what will this cost? TOO much.
Ooooh.... I WANT.
In fact, put me down for 2...
If they actually ever get off the ground.
I want my
I want my
I want my flying car...
Cheaper!
Ready now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI8AemQcclY
Very cool, but the government would NEVER allow such a thing.
I saw an article yesterday about a company that will be selling these, or simlar, “for the price of an SUV”.
And anyone can own/operate one because it’s classified as an “experimental aircraft”.
I’ll be the first to say this will cause Congress to freak out and change the law/regulation at FAA.
Imagine a couple of million of these in the skies above the LA basin. Doing 200mph.
As a aircraft engineer (not so much any more) with a rather specialized skill I get calls to work on these projects all the time. Very few, if any, are feasible. And they are usually funded by some silicon valley billionaire that has zero idea about aircraft or aviation YET thinks he knows all there is to know about aviation and aircraft. These new electric versions are just to “green up” their portfolios. And they all run the same way. They run the projects like they did their software company. They won’t hire experienced lead engineers because they don’t tell them what they want to hear. They demand long long hours on site (in the last offer I had they demanded I move to Mountain View,the most expensive place in California and work for peanuts). So they are left with young inexperienced engineers with no leadership. BUT. It’s there money and props for hiring the young guys to get their start.
What will the pilot’s insurance premium be?!?
Probably if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
That's claiming one 66 kW battery charge will give you 1h 5m of horizontal flying time and at the top speed of 250 mph the equivalent of 271 miles. But can a battery maintain that top speed during its entire discharge??
FAA would never allow that.