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The more amazing and useful thing I notice is VTOL. The day may come when we can fly from home to work even though there is no runway at either end. THAT would be cool.
You can do that already, Charlie. :-)
But I think this design is a little to gimmicky. 390lbs useful load is me and a child. And where are we seriously going to go within 200miles? A serious effort would drop the cost, complexity, weight, drag and airflow disruption of eight of those motors to produce a decent electric plane. Then I suspect you could get 3-500 miles with a 450lb load (Me, my girl, and her bikini.) (On second thought, no need to make allowances for the bikini.)
On 12/3/2015 2:26 AM, steve Izett
wrote:
The Future may be very interesting and at current
rate of change in battery tech, may be closer perhaps than we
envisage!
Though some of you might be interested if you
haven’t seen this proposal yet.
Cheers
Steve Izett
http://www.jobyaviation.com/S2/
I agree; the future is closer than we tend to think. :-) We use
things every day that were science fantasy (not just fiction) when I
was in high school. I'm pretty confident that by the time my RV-7
rotary flies, I'll be able to put an affordable electric motor &
batteries on at least an ultralite style a/c as an 'after supper'
toy.
Charlie
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