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Old 19th May 2016, 07:22
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riff_raff
 
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"We are a team of visionary aerospace engineers and product designers from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Our academic and professional backgrounds span from aeronautics and aerodynamics to robotics and ultra-lightweight structures. Initially funded by the European Union and supported by the European Space Agency and its Business Incubation Centre Bavaria we are developing the most advanced personal aircraft the world has ever seen."

Based on what this team is proposing, I would question their claims of expertise as "visionary aerospace engineers" or the ability to develop "the most advanced personal aircraft the world has ever seen". Unfortunately, this group of young inexperienced engineers will learn the cold, hard lesson of the difference between conceptual and real world designs. Those 36 tiny electric rotors will produce far less lift than they predict, the complete system will be far heavier than they predict, and it will be much more difficult to control this system than they predict.
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