Another VTOL ‘thing’
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It’ll be nice and quiet with this above your head...
two 400 horsepower automotive motors powering two counter-rotating fans,
Avoid imitations
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When are they going to design the rest of it?
I think they saw their investors coming..............
Sort of a bit like an upside down Harrier..... good job they are not using a couple of Pegasus.... mind you I guess that a couple of automotives roaring flat-out above your head may be distracting. Seems to be in need of constant noisy engines to stay up in the air.
Worth having a look at their web site..... the design seems to change every month so this may well just be a picture story project....
Worth having a look at their web site..... the design seems to change every month so this may well just be a picture story project....
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The press release has come from Discopters and is dated today.
More info here.
At least I found out what happens when the donks quit...
This stuff even has it's own investors blog
Who knew!
More info here.
At least I found out what happens when the donks quit...
This stuff even has it's own investors blog
Who knew!
That parachute is smaller than that used for ONE person, not 7 people, 2 V8 engines, a fuselage and some fuel.
But if "investors" are stupid enough to put their money into a CGI exercise, then they deserve to lose it.
If a pegasus jet engine was barely able to support the Harrier, I somehow doubt that 2 car engines can support this figment of somebody's jerkoff project.
But if "investors" are stupid enough to put their money into a CGI exercise, then they deserve to lose it.
If a pegasus jet engine was barely able to support the Harrier, I somehow doubt that 2 car engines can support this figment of somebody's jerkoff project.
Easy peasy - just after you have reduced the earths gravity and increased the air density - or even easier just make it out of unobtanium?
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Even as a massive joke, they couldn't propose to drive it on a road with:
a. Piddly little wheels that will trip over a snail;
b. Using airblast to push it up a hill or get away from a traffic light;
c. Relying totally on brakes to turn or stop;
d. That amount of weight on the roof and a Reliant-Robin-type nosewheel to turn a corner;
e. No front-end crash attenuation or airbags; and most of all
f. No windscreen wipers. Geez.
Pure cgi dreaming.
a. Piddly little wheels that will trip over a snail;
b. Using airblast to push it up a hill or get away from a traffic light;
c. Relying totally on brakes to turn or stop;
d. That amount of weight on the roof and a Reliant-Robin-type nosewheel to turn a corner;
e. No front-end crash attenuation or airbags; and most of all
f. No windscreen wipers. Geez.
Pure cgi dreaming.
