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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I see dead people, they don’t know they are dead.
Leave my cousins alone.
I like the one where you’re in a go-cart but with drone engines. See it on Youtube.
Yet another. While I do enjoy the tech guys all spending money on these toys, we wi not see them in any of our lifetimes.
Now, with a few weapons pylons.........
A Gatling gun.......................
I built that Revell model too.
Where is the little hatch for your feet to come out and go “pitter-patter” getting the thing up to flying speed?
Dad always kept me well-supplied with Revell aircraft models. He was pretty sly influencing me that subtle way!
Geese target wrrrrrrrrrrr crash.
That is always the case with propeller-driven aircraft. It is considered good form to keep your propellers firmly mounted on the drive shaft at all times.
Oh, yeah, Pogo! I remember that one as well. My brother and I put the model together in 1957 as well. Movies of it flying were eye openers.
Note that the plane of the prop blades intersects with the groin area of its pilot: worth thinking about, right?
Pretty sure that was Lindburgh kit..
I preferred Revell, seemed better detailed. Monogram was the other I did.
I could make a mess of any of them. They did not start coming our clean until I discovered the liquid plastic cement.
Video is nothing more than a scale model drone, no different than mine..........
That is definitely food for thought. It isn’t the foremost reason I wouldn’t fly in one of those things.
Giant skeet.
I used to pick up soda bottles (remember all the littering back then?) and redeem them - then go to our hobby store and buy another model.
Still build them - just finished a pretty decent 1/32 A4E on the hot pad in Chu Lai circa 1967. Don’t need to scavenge soda bottles anymore…
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