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Re:Cora – Kitty Hawk's prototype air taxi [video] by baybal2 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @03:29AM (#16582976)
It would be happy if they had anybody of who has some semblance of an aircraft design engineer background.

Their first try: zee aero made a barely flyable contraption that was nuked by American FAA, and rightfully so.

http://wap.business-standard.com/article-amp/international/l...

This time, I don't see this being much better. My early childhood aspiration was aeronautics. I believe as somebody who built a semiflyable motoglider as a 15 years old in 2006, I can comment on technical soundness of this. Biggest red flag in the design are fans in front of the wing. Turbulence from them will be randomly stalling the wing, and most likely asymmetrically - which leads to a corkscrewing risk, especially with that huge elevator.

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