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The Flying car nails 35-minute test flight between two cities
https://thehill.com/changing-america/re … etween-two
Flying car completes first ever inter-city flight over Bratislava
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/flying-car-co … 57749.html
The general public talks about dissapointment in the future, there is a perception that technology is being withheld...why dont we have a colony on the Moon? Batman Spiderman Stretrek type gizmos, where are the flying cars seen in Japanese anime and Disney / Jetsons style cartoons...this near term scifi stuff might now be profitable.
...of course some of this might beconme a 'conspiracy'? some dude on a beach will take a blurry photo... 'Flying Alien UFO cars' a reality now?
When will we be officially in the visionary future seen by science?
Russian company tests flying taxi
https://rumble.com/vd9yb3-russian-compa … -taxi.html
Safer nuclear power against pollution?
https://www.cnet.com/features/is-nuclea … ge-puzzle/
Guys flying around like Ironman comicbook characters? Air-board rider gets halfway over Channel ..."Le Rocketman" Franky Zapata https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/air-boar … l-c-366862
Special Ops Soldier With Jetpack Boards Ship
https://futurism.com/the-byte/special-o … ship-video
for a while....People were dissapointed with the future after Apollo, no flying cars, no space ships, no asteroid mining
We have our mobile cell phones, we have hydro vertical farming, we also have A.I type software, we have scanners and printers that can 3D-Print Across Our World
So when will we be officially be in the future? we need China farming on the Moon or Musk Space-X and his town or city on Mars??
Flying car makes successful test run between airports in Slovakia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video … akia-video
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For Mars_B4_Moon re new topic ...
The vehicle you cited (assuming it is the same as I've seen in Internet video) is quite impressive.
It has been reported as making test flights before this. It looks and performs the same, but the range of the test flights has been extended.
That actually looks like a ** real ** flying car (to me at least).
The engineering to accomplish safe flight with all the folding that is needed in ** very ** impressive.
I hope there is a market large enough to at least pay back the huge investment that was made to reach this point of demonstration.
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we do have several flying vehicle posts, so its not all that surprising to see one outside of the prototype stage.
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Whilst I try to be open minded when it come to new technologies, flying cars would appear to me to be a bad idea, for three reasons:
(1) Fuel consumption. We are entering a period of energy scarcity and energy, especially liquid fuels, will be less affordable in the future than it has been in the past. We need solutions that improve energy efficiency. Flying cars do not appear to be compatible with that goal.
(2) Safety. Having seen how some lunatics drive past my house, the thought of them driving over my house and potentially crashing into my children's bedrooms scares the hell out of me.
(3) Environment. Cars already kill a lot of birds. Flying cars will kill more.
"Plan and prepare for every possibility, and you will never act. It is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear than to analyse every possible obstacle and begin nothing. Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers."
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Calliban,
You raise valid concerns. Now imagine a suburb with no roads, no pavement. Just houses with yards. A garage with a driveway just large enough for a flying car to take-off and land. Or perhaps a landing pad on the roof of a building. And some flying cars have already been built based on quad-copter or octa-copter designs with all electric motors. Obviously short range, but intended as automated flying taxi within a city.
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No fly zones...radar evading as not flown at altitude. Flying in bad weather with out proper training or support instruments.
found the other topic
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9716
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Ryse Aerotech’s Ultra-Lightweight eVTOL Just Completed Its First Manned Flight
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/watch-r … 00546.html
“It was effortless and very enjoyable to fly,” pilot Erik Stephansen said in a statement. “I was thrilled at how I could literally hover, take my hands off the controls and the Recon sat there stable and safe.”
Billed as a buy ‘n’ fly aircraft, Recon’s simplicity and size mean that any wannabe fliers won’t need a pilot’s license. Plus the craft doesn’t require any special certification (it’s the same as Jetson’s personal electric aerial vehicle), the idea being that farmers and ranchers could immediately put it to use in the agriculture sector with no red tape.
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Your electric flying taxi is just around the corner
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ … the-corner
Prototypes are finally taking off after a difficult time for investors, and some surprising challengers have joined the race
Among the fighter jets and military helicopters performing for the crowds at the Paris airshow last week, a strange two-seater craft lifted off the runway. Like a drone crossed with a helicopter, the Volocopter has an electric motor and a white wasp-shaped body, on top of which sits a circular frame supporting 18 separate sets of blades, or rotors. With that short flight, the dream of making flying taxis for the masses moved a little closer to becoming reality.
Made by a German startup, Volocopter was the only such vehicle actually flying at the show, while other companies displayed mock-ups. Getting from the costly design and testing phase to even costlier manufacturing will be a major challenge for the industry. Not all of the competitors will survive.
Companies hoping to make flying taxis – the industry refers to them as eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing) or urban air mobility – have already had a tough two years. The sector became one of the most notable examples of the pandemic-era financial bubble – second perhaps to the crypto boom and bust – as investors sought an aerial Tesla, capable of flying passengers with zero carbon emissions for the first time.
However, the subsequent surge in interest rates around the world has made investors wary of companies with untested products and exuberant growth forecasts. The US contenders Archer Aviation and Joby Aviation, Germany’s Lilium, and Vertical Aerospace, owned by British energy entrepreneur Stephen Fitzpatrick, listed during the pandemic via mergers with cash shell companies. The valuation of all of them has fallen, in some cases dramatically, since then.
“The whole industry has fallen into, I would say, this big economic depression, which was largely induced as the interest rate increased,” said Klaus Roewe, Lilium’s chief executive. That has now turned around, “not in enthusiasm, but it’s getting out of the depression”, he said.
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