From personal tilt rotor aircraft to air taxis and flying cars, check out some
amazing personal flying technology that might become the future of vertical
takeoff.
number 10
The vahana also known as the alpha one in January of this year
Airbus completed their first test flight on the vahana. The first completely
electric vtol vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Airbus has said it
wants to build a fleet of autonomous multi rotor E VTOL aircraft, that can be
used to fly from rooftop to rooftop in dense cities where traffic is often at a
standstill.The company says it plans to have a production ready version by 2020
Now don't plan on flying in one of these with your friends the company says it
will be a single passenger self piloted aircraft. Well I guess that's not really
all that bad, at least my friends won't ask for a ride in my awesome personal
drone. No hmm aircraft uh whatever it is I think it's a pretty cool way to travel
from point A to point B.
number nine
The Hero flyer we kind of came across this
one by accident and thought wow this is pretty cool. There isn't much info out
there on it but it appears it was designed for the entertainment and
marketing industries. Basically an anonymous pilot wears the costume of a
superhero sports team movie or TV character, or any
branded flight suit and performs to the amazement of viewers at various venues.
Such as, charity events, amusement parks, sporting events, conventions grand
openings, corporate events, movie premieres and even commercials.
Number eight
The aw609 this next VTOL basically takes science fiction to the
next level. I know everyone has probably seen something similar to this, but
imagine being a CEO for a company and instead of a personal helicopter you
have a personal VTOL. The agustawestland aw609 formerly the Belle Augusta BA 609,
is a twin-engined tiltrotor VTOL aircraft with a configuration similar to
the Bell Boeing v-22. It is capable of landing vertically like a helicopter
while having a range and speed and excess of conventional rotary aircraft.
The aw609 is aimed at the civil aviation market in particular VIP customers and
offshore oil and gas operators.
number 7
The passenger drone so our last video we
did on passenger drones got a lot of flack for the phrase passenger drone.
Which we're pretty sure we coined by the way, anyway we just wanted to say we told
you so. Okay, all joking aside this company has basically flat-out named their
passenger drone, passenger drone what an original name. Seriously, think about it.
It will be like band-aid or Kleenex it's really pretty great branding their
website says the aircraft is equipped with high-end technologies like adaptive
flight control fiber optic internal communications field oriented motor
control and encrypted communication channels their drone can take off land
and perform all stages of flight maneuvering completely autonomously
guided securely via LTE 4G network or onboard controlled they also say you can
take over the controls at any time via the touch flight control or their
fly-by-wire joystick
number six the 0g although the zero-g is still in a prototype phase we still
think it could be a game-changer the rendered images of their finished drone
look pretty amazing the prototype design made its first
manned untethered free flight test on November 4th 2017 after about 10 man
tests were conducted in altitude hold mode this free flight came after six
months of unmanned tethered flight testing with some 50 flights made at a
height of about six feet all around the same time when other companies hadn't
even gotten their drones off the ground no pun intended
number five the fly cart
we have done videos on go-karts in the past hell we have even done videos on
the walk carts which is a water go-cart but we have never done a video on a
flying go-kart the fly cart is considered a mini personal air vehicle
and was designed as a flying go-kart the goal of the program was to produce a
low-cost easy to assemble and fly recreational aircraft that could fit in
a one car garage and provide hours of fun I don't know about you but when I
was little I used to always dream about flying to school weird to think about
that kids in the near future might actually be able to do this
well given they are automated and the kids themselves aren't actually flying
them
number four this scorpion 3
so before anyone says you guys have already
shown this one in another video the answer is yes we have but this is an
update for this awesome drone bike hmm I wonder if we can coin
that phrase next so what's the update you asked
well apparently hover surf will be selling these awesome machines here in
the US and you don't even need a license to fly them it's the closest thing to a
flying car that has actually made it into production we think this actually
might be better now if they could only make a hoverboard
like seriously guys what is taking so long to make a hoverboard
number three the Lilium jet
our next personal flying machine comes from William they
have combined the idea of a personal drone with fetal capabilities and oh boy
is this being amazing founded by entrepreneurs in 2015 lilium is looking
to combine the efficiency of an electric car with the vertical takeoff
capabilities of a helicopter and the handling speed and convenience of a
personal jet they feel by combining these technologies they could present a
solution for urban areas that continue to grow more and more crowded using fans
embedded in the wings the five passenger aircraft can hover land or take off from
a set position similar to a quadcopter drone oh and did we mention it's all
electric the aircraft's body houses twelve flaps each of which house three
electric engines at takeoff all of the flaps are vertical and creating lift
once airborne the flaps are moved to a horizontal position and the fans fold
back into the wing so the jet can accelerate they claim it can even reach
speeds up to almost 200 miles per hour
number two the Bell V 2 ad valor
much like the design of the aw609 our number
two is a tiltrotor aircraft these incredible machines are the future of
aircraft and made strictly for our Armed Forces
compared to legacy helicopters like the uh-60 blackhawk the new V 280 will fly
at twice the speed and twice the range and will have a medical evacuation
coverage area five times greater than current helicopters the Army had been
planning through its joint multi-role demonstrator program for two very
different vertical lift prototypes to begin flight demonstrations last fall as
part of a critical path to informing and shaping the design of a future vertical
lift helicopter fleet expected to hit the skies in the 2030s
what do you guys
think do you think these beetles could replace
helicopters one day or is the ever so old design of a traditional helicopter
here to stay
number one e-hang 184
the e-Hang has really done so much in the last
two years from Dubai investing in these for the first ever air taxis to being
the first passenger drone to complete a real man test flight of course with
anything new people have their reservations a lot of people are afraid
of this method of transportation and think that they will fall out of the sky
believe us when we tell you you are not alone but a hong hwon 84 is the safest
on the market right now most other designs require a runway to
take off and land and a pilot's license to operate but that is changing
development and electric power batteries and autonomous flight systems have led
to more people accepting the idea of flying cars or personal drones the
ultimate goal is a pilotless passenger drone that can either be parked outside
your house like an ordinary car or even summoned with a smartphone app like uber
or lyft with lyft obviously being the more appropriate choice since you're
literally flying through traffic
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