New flying machine

[N601RX]

https://www.advancedtacticsinc.com/at-transformer-first-flight-video/

[DS1980]

I guess you could make the Sears building hover if you put enough engines on it.

I thought the "roadable aircraft" that are coming out are horrible. That thing needs to be euthanized. No doubt that cost a fortune of taxpayers money and what did they accomplish? A hovering short bus. Go government.

 

But thanks for the post.

[scottfromiowa]

Hey Darin: NOPE.

I won't even bother with my reasons as oil does not mix with water...

[DS1980]

Um, ok

[Bob - S50]

Rotorcraft don't fly, they just beat the air into submission.

 

Bob

[Joe Zuffoletto]

Good lord. At least the music was soothing.

[aviatoreb]

Hey - why the negativity?  I was just last week in LA on business - and I tell you what - 15 minutes on an LA traffic freeway - and I would have loved to have had that thing.

[Seth]

So you are saying that a service to get you around congested road traffic areas by air would work?

 

At some point I may actually put that business idea into reality.

 

-Seth

[aviatoreb]

So you are saying that a service to get you around congested road traffic areas by air would work?

 

At some point I may actually put that business idea into reality.

 

-Seth

 

Yup - that is what I was saying.  :-) I was at SQL last week as well - and I saw two different Surf Air flights departing.  Seems like a hopping business they have.

 

But that is different than the dream I was just suggested of a quadcopter-car- just lift off right there in place in a traffic jam and fly a few miles directly to your driveway.  Nothing saves more time than that.

 

Amazon proposed on sixty minutes to deliver packages by quadcopter.

 

How long until some business proposes moving people from one street address to another street address by quadcopter?  Just dial up on an iPhone app that you are at 11 Maple Street and you want to be 8 miles away at 16 Main Street and a quadcopter is deployed from a charging station on top of a nearby building 6 blocks away - you step into a small capsule suspended below the quadcopter and off you go.  Someday maybe tens of thousands of these people movers will be buzzing around low within large city limits.

[Seth]

Yup - that is what I was saying. :-) I was at SQL last week as well - and I saw two different Surf Air flights departing. Seems like a hopping business they have.

But that is different than the dream I was just suggested of a quadcopter-car- just lift off right there in place in a traffic jam and fly a few miles directly to your driveway. Nothing saves more time than that.

Amazon proposed on sixty minutes to deliver packages by quadcopter.

How long until some business proposes moving people from one street address to another street address by quadcopter? Just dial up on an iPhone app that you are at 11 Maple Street and you want to be 8 miles away at 16 Main Street and a quadcopter is deployed from a charging station on top of a nearby building 6 blocks away - you step into a small capsule suspended below the quadcopter and off you go. Someday maybe tens of thousands of these people movers will be buzzing around low within large city limits.

Only a matter of time until the quad copter people transport. Check out the Terrifugia TFX. Not quite the same but maybe my readable airplane of the future.

http://www.terrafugia.com/tf-x

Check out the video on the page - and yes I've posted this before.

-Seth

[bonal]

If your stuck in traffic in the city there is a good bet your in bravo or at least Charlie airspace at surface or under a low shelf. And with amazon delivering and ups and fed-x all using computerized uav's at the same time just think of the mid airs that will be happening.

I know it's still a ways off and it seemed to work out for George Jetson but I can only imagine the traffic that's now in the air instead of on the ground and out of my way as I pass overhead. The FAA and ATC are going to have to figure this one out and soon.