Flike - personal rotorcraft
 

Well, it flies - but does ground effect contribute?

(My advice - turn annoying sound down!)

https://youtu.be/H0epgrI4CDs

FLIKE ? The Ultimate Flying Bike

Dean

Fixed pitch rotors - wouldn't want to get out of ground effect, as it won't be able to autorotate when the batteries go flat!

Already out of ground effect, the rotors are more than one diameter off the ground. What a marvellous machine! Affordable too. Stabilisation technology already exists, so flyable by all.

Serious legislation required soonest! :sad:

aotw...... Unless a motor seizes, it's likely the battery-controller will reduce available power , thus a gradual descent is initiated.... the methods are well established in the model-world and it would appear the technology is easily and practicably scalable.
no doubt there has been a lot of spin-off ;) from the wind-power industry, also Solar and other generation forms, where power transfer and storage are required......see also, the latest "supercapacitor development using Graphene.

Henry is right!....the authorities will sit, fingers in ears, head in rectal orifice, until there are hundreds....they have a track-record of stable-door bolting.

hand gliding, Flexwing microlighting, parascending...and in other fields...the Go-ped (thousands imported until finally legislation caught up. ) , Segway.

The only case I recollect, where they were pro-active, was electrically-propelled, low power vehicles......I would not suggest that there was any lobbying by Sir Clive Sinclair, before attempting to foist his mobile bidet, aka C5 onto the public.:rolleyes:

Fair enough on the engine failure then, that was my main concern. Great, then, looks like it could be really good.

More on engine failure
 

I looked at their website under safety but was not completely convinced:
If say, left forward clockwise engine would fail. How would unbalanced lift and difference in torque be countered?
I only find a solution for same lift when left forward anti clockwise engine can go to double torque.
When you allow for 0,8 total torque the left forward anti clockwise engine has to go up to 1,6.
All under the assumption that lift and torque have linear relationship also when torque over a anti and clockwise pair of rotors are factor 3 different.

Nice sunday afternoon mathematics!

SLB