Inflight Entertainment => The missing link => Topic started by: FlyboyGil on January 12, 2008, 04:20:16 PM
Title: Here an easier way to get to work!!
Post by: FlyboyGil on January 12, 2008, 04:20:16 PM
Don't know how much truth there is to the story, but wouldn't it be cool to have one of these if it is legit? ::unbelieveable:: ::unbelieveable:: ::unbelieveable:: ::unbelieveable:: ::unbelieveable:: ::unbelieveable::
Title: Re: Here an easier way to get to work!!
Post by: Fabo on January 12, 2008, 08:40:49 PM
Sure it would, it is not even that expesive, but it would surely need many money into it at least to safely hover.
Title: Re: Here an easier way to get to work!!
Post by: Oddball on January 12, 2008, 08:51:51 PM
i wonder if they wil part exchange it for my 1.2 litre fiat punto? ::thinking::
Title: Re: Here an easier way to get to work!!
Post by: airtac on January 13, 2008, 02:26:00 AM
WOW, right now it would only cost 49,800 USD to kill yourself in a new and unique way ::loony::
Title: Re: Here an easier way to get to work!!
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on January 13, 2008, 08:39:38 AM
This is a good example of how every decade or so someone decides to reinvent the wheel. It seems every engineer I have ever known has gotten sick and tired of his work commute and sketched out his idea of a George Jetson aircar. Most never made it as far at this one did. However, these concepts seem to all share the same design flaw in the eyes of the FAA: They are multiple-engined aircraft that would become unstable and uncontrollable should any of thier engines fail.
I have seen some concept craft that had as many as 8 lifting fans, all driven by their own engines. Looks great on paper, but god help the occupants of it and anyone underneath them should even one engine fail. These concept machines would simply tumble from the sky if that ever happened. Because of it, they cannot meet basic FAA certification standards for aircraft with more than one engine and are all doomed to the dustbin eventually.
There is a reason helicopters are so expensive. Meeting the FAA's certification standards requires a great deal more than backyard engineering and home-shop tooling. So far, only the military's Osprey is even close to being the first powered-lift category aircraft, and it required decades of development and huge cost overruns before it came into service. Shoot, I remember reading about that machine when I was in the military over 25 years ago! It was supposed to initially enter service in the late 1980's, so it only took an extra 15 years to work out all the kinks in it.
Title: Re: Here an easier way to get to work!!
Post by: Oddball on January 13, 2008, 10:50:36 AM
and the ospery is still having troubles with its engines, a particle seperator blower has a defect in it that causes it to jam and then sends a pressure wave through a hydralic line rupturing it sending the fluid onto a infra red suppressor causing the naccele to go on fire.
Title: Re: Here an easier way to get to work!!
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on January 13, 2008, 10:48:41 PM
and the ospery is still having troubles with its engines, a particle seperator blower has a defect in it that causes it to jam and then sends a pressure wave through a hydralic line rupturing it sending the fluid onto a infra red suppressor causing the naccele to go on fire.
Oh excuse me. I meant to say, "The worst of the kinks out of it." Hehe. As they say in the military, "Never fly the A model!!!" ::rambo:: ::rambo:: ::rambo::
