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 really preferred Revell as a kid. I made a few Monogram models, but no Lindbergh models. The Revells just seemed higher quality with more detail and parts that fit together better. They also had more aircraft to choose from. I was really into it for a while with my ceiling filled with the models I had built, hanging with fishing line.
Then I discovered girls.
The Japanese models, forget the name, were of high quality in the late seventies if you were a fan of century series and f-15/16s.
Seriously, I get close to these stories on occasion than you can ever imagine without giving away too much.
* Their are 400 of these companies trying to go E-VTOL to Jetsen mobiles.
* One recently got $500 billion in seed corn from a major investment firm
I shake my head. No one wanted American Piston Engine Manufacturer Continental, so the CHICOMS bought it for $167 million.
They bought Cirrus & Mooney and I think at least one other.
Will anybody in America wake up?
Ah, yes - that, and going to Vietnam put a damper on model building for a bit. But once I was the prisoner of a traction rig at Camp Camp Pendleton (from an argument that I had with a machine gun) I got a Paashe aircrush from my dad and a 1/72 Bf-109E kit and I was off to the races again..
My first thought as well.
I always wanted an airbrush, but never got one. They looked wonderful!
It’s not too late - get a good one and practice your mixtures/thinning and air pressures and away you go! I’m still building and occasionally win a contest or two.
Go for it!
And the suit steamer to get the wrinkles out of your clothes.
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