Posted on 11/23/2021 10:41:40 AM PST by Red Badger
Zeva's one-person eVTOL aircraft: a tail-sitting flying saucer design with some interesting advantagesZeva Aero VIEW 8 IMAGES
Zeva is deadly serious about bringing this tail-sitting eVTOL flying saucer to market as a one-person air taxi, and if you can get over the idea of soaring above the city head-first, face-down and Superman-style, it's got some interesting advantages.
We've seen a lot of different eVTOL designs over the last five or six years, but the sector keeps managing to find curveballs to throw at us, and we remain fascinated by the creativity this emerging market has inspired. I'll admit to making a bit of a face the first time I saw Zeva's carbon-fiber UFO design, but I hooked up a chat with CEO Stephen Tibbits to learn more, and came away convinced that this bizarre-looking aircraft might fill a niche.
In basic terms, the Zeva Zero is a large carbon-fiber disc, roughly 8 ft (2.4 m) in diameter and weighing 700 lb (317 kg) gross, with a person-sized cavity in the middle of it and a clear section allowing you to see out. There are two propulsion nascelles on the front, and two on the back, and each of them has two electric props mounted coaxially.
Batteries – around 20 kWh in the first prototype and 25 kWh in the first planned production model – will sit in the sides of the disc, separated into a number of different packs. These packs will be isolated from one another in double-walled carbon boxes, which will be constantly monitored and capable of venting both heat and toxic gases outside the aircraft in the case of a battery fire. A further bulkhead will isolate the battery areas from the passenger compartment.
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Looks like it would be nice and warm in there. Where’s the AC?
If a rotor blade cuts loose in that thing, it could be painful...
Only until you hit the ground at 160mph, then no more pain.....................
They even thought of a hook to snag power lines for inflight recharging!
Nice. Set it up to run auto on GPS coordinates. No more roads, bridges, or traffic jams. Minor issue if a technical problem occurs at 1,200 feet.
No thanks. I’ve always believed in flying saucers where you can sit upright and have some protection from the elements.
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Crap and it already when splat
38,000 people a year die without the z-coordinate involved.
Retards shouldn’t get to leave the ground.
Yeah. No.
Don’t fly over rural Arkansas; some redneck with a shotgun will bag an “alien.”
Ah yes, nothing like head on into the ground, arms pinned to your sides to ensure instant death!
I seem to remember a number of US and German experiments with prone piloted aircraft that didn't last real long and the other experiments with trying to land aircraft vertically (XFY-1, XFV-1) butt-first that didn't work well either.
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You owe me a keyboard, bro!
Not as appealing as other concepts. Also, I am not sure I’d want to step out into it on the 35th floor and release it, hoping the battery and motors were or remain fine. That is a leap of faith too far.
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