Comments on: Go anywhere and land anywhere quickly and quietly

By: CVLR

CVLR — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 03:38:25 +0000

DVDR: “What about load lift differences?”

Steep glide slope vis-à-vis distributed electric propulsion, very high disk loading, electric’s high peak power, or something else?

By: DVDR

DVDR — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:28:25 +0000

What about load lift differences?

By: DLR

DLR — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:18:43 +0000

Looks like we finally got our flying car

By: CVLR

CVLR — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:22:55 +0000

Ezra, the difference between then and now is that you can buy a quadcopter for a couple hundred bucks, ArduPilot is as good as anything available to corporations and governments, and SpaceX is using consumer electronics equipment in its rockets.

That said, Freddo is quite right. The gulf between what’s possible in manned vs. unmanned is vast, and there isn’t necessarily much reason to think that Google will succeed with any less bowing and scraping than Boeing.

And after the Boeing catastrophe, the FAA is going to regain its gestapo attitude — guaranteed.

(Thanks, Boeing.)

By: Freddo

Freddo — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 19:52:34 +0000

Interesting platform. Of course comparing what is a mostly-unmanned testbed with a helicopter that has been cleared for public & commercial usage is a bit disingenuous, but let’s blame the journalist for that.

By: Hans G. Schantz

Hans G. Schantz — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 19:20:07 +0000

With a name like that, you can’t help but like the project. I wish them well!

By: Ezra

Ezra — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:52:50 +0000

This sounds all too good to be true. I can recall that several decades ago no less than forty or so such flying saucer type vehicles had been proposed. Each was touted as a sure thing. The last I recall was flying saucer type, autonomous or man-controlled flight, eight engines and four computers, you did not even need a pilots license to know how to fly. Never heard of it ever again.