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Old 22nd Apr 2017, 07:33
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Originally Posted by mickjoebill
Do you agree that what was flown was a full size two seater craft, ie of a size that could fit two adults?
Not without something in the video to scale it, no. The dynamics of the lift of were all wrong - something weighing over a ton wouldn't wobble in that way. Also I can't see how ~2000lbs or more of vertical thrust could be achieved with so little noise and so little evident jet-sheeting over the surrounding grass.

It looked and sounded like a model weighing perhaps 10-15kg with an array of standard electric ducted-fan units totalling somewhere in the region of 3-4kW. If it WAS bigger and capable of carrying a couple of hundred kilos of self-installing flight control system then show me the paperwork that would be needed to test fly that under remote piloting (because that's not a trivial thing in an EASA country). Then perhaps I might be less sceptical.

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