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Re:Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project? by jimnotgym on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:12PM (#13111135)
The only person I ever saw get a human off the ground was this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k and several build vids. He would have really benefited with some fly by wire help
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Re:Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project? by ohstopitu on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:23PM (#13111190)
that + [0] + [1] inspired us to get started...

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yn2uyQJ1jc

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAdCt6qgj9k

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Re:Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project? by skanga on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:54AM (#13113182)
Terrafugia is awesome. They have tremendous respect from me.

But I dislike any type of folding wings. They will need to make a massively strong hinge/joint for this type of machine since the entire car hangs off that hinge. This makes is heavy, inefficient, painful to maintain, vulnerable in fender benders, etc, etc.

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