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Old 8th Jul 2019, 05:50
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Originally Posted by Bend alot
I posted why but the post is gone.

The current system was not designed for Suburbia helicopter flights - how long to take off in my R66 to say the casino for lunch if I say lets go now?

Same as turbines are no good on 10 minute sectors requiring engine shut down.
The current system wasn't designed for person carrying quad-copters either. There was a lot of time and effort put into trying to establish commercial helicopter service in the 1970's. It went nowhere and died because there were a lot of reasons it's not a practical, economically viable business. A lot of those reasons transfer directly to other iterations of commercial intra-urban VTOL air service ... like quad-copters.

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