Re:Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off
by quacked on Monday January 28, 2019 @02:20PM
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I agree with you for "limited delivery applications", by if we're talking about limited delivery applications, why wouldn't we just use low-cost powered flight? Much safer and more controllable.
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Re:Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off
by dchichkov on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:25AM
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Low cost eVTOL flight? It has high external costs of noise pollution. Also the eVTOL is nessesarily a complicated machine. The cost of that complexity is high.
By talking sailplanes, I didn't mean unpowered flight. Of course you need power, to counteract drag . I was primarily referring to a form-factor (clean, efficient and and silent like a sailplane) and to a mode of takeoff and landing (convert speed to altitude with a wing, instead of eVTOL).