Posted on 06/02/2024 6:54:59 PM PDT by martin_fierro
Czech company UDX is flying scale prototypes of a tandem 2-up eVTOL it calls Airwolf. With individually-tilting ducted fan propulsion, it's got enough wing surface for efficient cruise flight as well as agile movement from a hover.
Imagine waking early Sunday morning to ride the twisty coastal mountains of beautiful southern California. It's going to be a perfect day and you expect exactly zero traffic, because you're leaving the Hayabusa in the garage and taking your UDX Airwolf hoverbike.
You don your lid, crank up your favorite tunes, spin up the ducted fans, lift off and hover out of your garage before blasting off with all the youth and vigor you've ever known. Within seconds, you're doing 142 mph (230 km/h), speeding over traffic, stop lights, and police with radar like a Peregrine falcon on your way to your favorite canyons...
This is the dream Czech startup UDX is working toward. Airwolf is a 430-hp (320-kW) motorcycle-esque eVTOL with "hummingbird-like" agility that seats two. It may look like a typical quadcopter, but what really sets the Airwolf apart from most other buy'n'fly eVTOL designs I've seen is the tilting propulsion pods. Each of its four shrouded fan units can move independently.
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Mine is coming Tuesday. I decided that I’d like to get to work in about 3 minutes.
Hell’s Angels will be the biggest customer d.... customers......
That video looks like CGI to me.
Are you planning to be a Helicopter Parent like Kobe Bryant?
I plan to do a flyby and drop the kids off.
The teaser certainly is CGI. The 1/3 scale proto test flight from a year ago looks real.
Yup
Looks a little like a snowmobile. It’s really a blowmobile.
Dynamically and financially, VERTOL is always going to be a hideously expensive proposition.
The Wright’s first powered airplane was roughly the same weight but only had 12 hp and made just 132 lbs of thrust. But it took off horizontally using wing-generated lift to get airborne instead of fan-generated thrust. With a 175-lb pilot going solo, this thing will need more than 6x that just to get off the ground. A boxy fixed wing with the same 400-ish hp will give you a cruise speed of about 225 knots, vastly more range, as well as protection from the elements.
I’m sure it will make an entertaining toy, but it’s highly impractical.
I’d love one but once they become available some bureaucrat will ban them over any public lands.
Just wait until they get to India and see how much stuff people try to stack on it or hang on it.
All for a cool $340,000 per the article.
Do the Nija outfits come with it?
I was thinking more along the lines of bill Cosby, 200MPH
Pipes!piiiipes!
I’m thinking more of the podracers from “The Phantom Menace”.
CC
The cops flying motorcycles in Judge Dredd.
It’s happening and nobody is going to stop it.
China has certified the EHang for production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBCq6JGKqUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-dQtb0hJzk
The Jetson ONE Does Not Require A Pilot License To Fly
It’s an ultralight.
In 2020 they estimated the cost to be $59,000.
https://jetson.com/jetson-one
Order a Jetson ONE
We are now taking orders for 2026
A few years ago Kittyhawk estimated their EVTOL would cost $10,000.
YouTube is full of videos on EVTOLs.
Their range is limited because the companies are trying to appease the green movement with electric.
You won’t have to live in a city to be near work anymore.
The EHang is autonomous. You get in and punch in your destination and it takes you there.
Trump’s Futuristic “Quantum Leap” Plan Captivates … and Raises Questions
New American ^ | March 4, 2023 | Luis Miguel
https://thenewamerican.com/trumps-futuristic-quantum-leap-plan-captivates-and-raises-questions/
…In his announcement of the plan, Trump said it would include building futuristic cities, known as “Freedom Cities,” on federal land; equipping these cities with air mobility via vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
It’s going to really screw up the Agenda 21 plans.
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