It was only a matter of time. I kind of want one but at the same time these marketing videos make me uneasy.
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Oh, and I think it's an Octo because in the final prototype at the end there are 8 motors but clustered together in 2s. I think that makes it an octo rather than a quad.
Submitted by brainwipe on Thu, 2016-01-07 09:12
Yeah, that's a terrifying video. They may as well have said "many of our ex-employees have died in horrific air-crashes, but that won't stop us!"
Submitted by babychaos on Thu, 2016-01-07 09:22
I like the it will fold up to fit in a car park space but presumably it won't fly or land from or into a space like that without it's death rotors taking out anyone or anything to the sides of the craft. I'm sure those collapsing arms won't inadvertently collapse mid flight causing it to either plummet out of the sky or if the blades are still spinning shred the cockpit and pilot into a fine slurry.
They also seem to be testing it in what looks like a bond villains secret lair.
Submitted by Evilmatt on Thu, 2016-01-07 19:21
What's interesting to me is that they chose to put the person on top. I would have thought putting the rotors up high would be better because then the centre of gravity is below the centre of rotation and that normally makes things more stable. As they have it (like my quad), you put the weight about the centre of rotation to make it more manoeuvrable. I wonder how many aerodynamicists are looking at it thinking "christ, really?".
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Oh, and I think it's an Octo because in the final prototype at the end there are 8 motors but clustered together in 2s. I think that makes it an octo rather than a quad.
Yeah, that's a terrifying video. They may as well have said "many of our ex-employees have died in horrific air-crashes, but that won't stop us!"
I like the it will fold up to fit in a car park space but presumably it won't fly or land from or into a space like that without it's death rotors taking out anyone or anything to the sides of the craft. I'm sure those collapsing arms won't inadvertently collapse mid flight causing it to either plummet out of the sky or if the blades are still spinning shred the cockpit and pilot into a fine slurry.
They also seem to be testing it in what looks like a bond villains secret lair.
What's interesting to me is that they chose to put the person on top. I would have thought putting the rotors up high would be better because then the centre of gravity is below the centre of rotation and that normally makes things more stable. As they have it (like my quad), you put the weight about the centre of rotation to make it more manoeuvrable. I wonder how many aerodynamicists are looking at it thinking "christ, really?".