Posted on 01/03/2022 12:36:14 PM PST by Red Badger
The Bellwether Volar: a flying hypercar for private ownersBellwether Industries VIEW 13 IMAGES
The UK's Bellwether Industries has built and flown a half-scale prototype of its stunning Volar eVTOL, and is preparing to release footage. It's the most brazenly futuristic design we've ever seen, a flying hypercar for a utopia even sci-fi doesn't dare dream up.
I mean, look at the thing. It looks like it's doing 200 miles an hour sitting still. The lines are graceful, even sensual. The profile razor-sharp. The slanted louvers give it a rib cage and warn of frightening velocities. The stubby vee of the tailfins evokes the threat of a fighter jet, but the layered bodywork and its sumptuous, gleaming finish tell us this is a design of peace, hope and ambition.
This is a design to stir the imagination and the passions. You can picture it knifing into a cloud bank, leaving gently swirling vortices of vapor as the only calling card of its silent visit. You can see it gently touching down on an impossibly high-rise vertipad, its sleek glass roof retracting to let a lady and a gentleman out, dressed for the opera and right on time.
A stunningly-designed flying supercar for a sophisticated and genteel utopian future A stunningly-designed flying supercar for a sophisticated and genteel utopian futureBellwether Industries It's not only the most beautiful eVTOL concept we've ever seen, it might be the most beautiful we're likely to see for a long time. So take one last magical gaze through the image gallery before we look any closer, eh?
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Aviation Ping!...............
That is indeed a very beautiful machine! I shudder at the thought of having idiot drivers operate in the 3D.
Only the very rich could afford it..................
the way humans have been handling their vehicles on the ground since the pandemic, I can only imagine the carnage, cadavers and debris raining down throughout suburbia if this thing ever became the common mommymobile during daily commutes.
After Uncle Sugar figures out a way to give those wealthy buyers a tax credit paid for by the rest of us.
At $2Million a copy that won’t happen any time soon.................
Yep, probably the sleekest pile of smashed bloody parts I’ve
ever seen at a crash site.
“mommymobile” ??? not likely ... where you gonna put two kids, a stroller and a weeks worth of groceries?
Of course. The rest of us will be on horseback by the time it goes on the market.
My suspicion is that eventually these vehicles will only be operated automatically, GPS guidance system and through virtual highways/streets in the sky. LIDAR/Manual mode will only be emergency recovery, sit down etc.
It’s still using fan blades to propel the craft (no anti-grav yet), but the bodywork looks great and it does add a measure of safety. Looks sort of like the flying cars in Blade Runner.
The hype sounds like a real estate broker describing a cottage (shack) for sale on a lake. . . .
The GME Stonks croud is salivating over something like this.
There are Youtubers that lost their $60k/year jobs in 2019 that bought $500K Lambos in 2021.
I would imagine these are their target buyer.
You’re half right..........$2 million.......................
‘Twas a bit-o-humor
But, you’re probably right. It will be bought for some wealthy couple’s imbecilic immature son. He’ll later claim he was merely afflicted by wealth as the cause of the raining down of carnage, cadavers and debris.
Thank you for helping me see more clearly =o)
Looks like they would put a parachute device on the thing...............
“I shudder at the thought of having idiot drivers operate in the 3D.”
I think any appropriate licensing test would eliminate all but a very few individuals. Could one in a thousand pass? One in a million doesn’t seem out of line.
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