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Old 7th Jun 2018, 09:36
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your next ultralight...?


Looks like fun!
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Old 8th Jun 2018, 03:46
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Looks more like a flying yacht than a flying car ... doubt that would get a roadworthy
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Old 9th Jun 2018, 02:01
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Does it 'glide', or 'auto-rotate' in the event of battery/electrical/fan, failure......??

Or, does it drop like the proverbial streamlined brick when those tiny little fans stop.. For what ever reason...??
(Serious question, by the way...)

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Old 9th Jun 2018, 03:45
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I'd say the biggest problem for something like this is indeed redundancy, when you run out of juice for some reason what happens then? You can't deadstick glide or auto-rotate it as it has no moving control surfaces, it looks like it moves by changing the speeds of the propellers, a great way to make it "Simple" but means that when they stop you have no back up, you'd simply fall out of the sky I'd dare say Griffo.

I know this is just a prototype and there is a long way to go but I'd be extremely keen to see how they sell the "Crash Survivability" of something like this!!
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Would not like to be sitting in it if it threw a blade my way
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