PAL V 1: Flying Car
#1
Posted 03 April 2013 - 15:01
#3
Posted 03 April 2013 - 15:57
You should be able to hit 88 mph and prop and rotor spring into action - seamlessly.
Edited by Tony Matthews, 03 April 2013 - 15:58.
#4
Posted 03 April 2013 - 16:25
I'm sure there would be a microsecond where there is no drive .........You should be able to hit 88 mph and prop and rotor spring into action - seamlessly.
#5
Posted 03 April 2013 - 16:28
#6
Posted 03 April 2013 - 21:13
It does look interesting
#7
Posted 03 April 2013 - 21:36
Seriously though, the autogyro makes a perfect platform for the "flying car" and this one looks pretty well thought out.
#8
Posted 04 April 2013 - 02:38
Roughly speaking I get 4 helicopter flyovers per day. We also get about 10000 commuter cars across the town. Imagine if even 1% of the commuters switched to these things. I'd buy a 0.5" rifle.
#9
Posted 04 April 2013 - 06:00
Jesus wept.
Roughly speaking I get 4 helicopter flyovers per day. We also get about 10000 commuter cars across the town. Imagine if even 1% of the commuters switched to these things. I'd buy a 0.5" rifle.
You are not too far off the truth.
A few years ago I lived in Sao Paulo. I was told then that SP has the highest per capita number of helicopters in the world. I cannot think how many flew around us each day. But I am sure I could see 4 in minutes. Not a problem for me as I really love them (and used them then). But my wife found the constant noise too much. Particularly where we lived, just off Ave Farima Lima, where the noisy little Honda 125s, local buses, choppers and the Boeing 737s and smaller Airbuses (on their very low finals (you could look into apartments from the plane as you passed!) into downtown Congenias airport all met!
But now we live in Europe and have a small municipal airport nearby. My wife is fascinated by a wee yellow Gyrocopter that buzzes around almst daily. She thinks the pilot and passenger who are apparently sitting, exposed, on a motorised bed frame are crazy.
Edited for typos - I use a tiny laptop with a cranky keyboard that leads to spelling errors..... Sorry.
Edited by Dipster, 04 April 2013 - 06:03.
#10
Posted 04 April 2013 - 07:02
#11
Posted 04 April 2013 - 08:34
Jesus wept.
Roughly speaking I get 4 helicopter flyovers per day. We also get about 10000 commuter cars across the town. Imagine if even 1% of the commuters switched to these things. I'd buy a 0.5" rifle.
... and a good crash hat.
At least the hospitals would be under less stress - no survivors from a mid-air
#12
Posted 04 April 2013 - 09:10
At least the hospitals would be under less stress - no survivors from a mid-air
You would be surprised by how much people can survive.
http://www.militaryp...l-Falls-of-WWII
Include a guy in Norway i can`t find. But he landed in the snow.
He was subsequently captured and interviewed by the Gestapo who were initially suspicious of his claim to have fallen without a parachute until the wreckage of the aircraft was examined. He was then a celebrated POW before being repatriated in May 1945. (Reportedly the orderly Germans were so impressed that Alkemade had bailed out without a parachute and lived that they gave him a certificate testifying to the fact.)
Edited by MatsNorway, 04 April 2013 - 09:17.
#13
Posted 04 April 2013 - 10:24
You would be surprised by how much people can survive.
Mats, I know about Alkemede's story - and the set of circumstances that all came together to allow him to survive. I didn't know about the others though - thanks for that.
#14
Posted 04 April 2013 - 18:14
I know, most unlike me to go off-thread, but I thought this was great. Why they have wheels on 747s I don't know, all they need is lots of holes in the belly.
#15
Posted 04 April 2013 - 20:24
#16
Posted 05 April 2013 - 00:51
Jesus wept.
Roughly speaking I get 4 helicopter flyovers per day. We also get about 10000 commuter cars across the town. Imagine if even 1% of the commuters switched to these things. I'd buy a 0.5" rifle.
I'd be more concerned that so many people have difficulty parking cars, let alone driving them that the idea of flying cars is simply frightening. Of course they would be so regulated that they would be hard to use. I wonder why not use a folding wing like a powered hanglider...safer.
#17
Posted 07 April 2013 - 09:21
#18
Posted 07 April 2013 - 13:51
A vaguely interesting concept. but as a car it 'handles like s sports car' Yeah right, a top heavy 3 wheeled car handles like a Sports Car. At a guess it flys better than it drives. Though that too will be a compromise. BUT it does work.
As you say not a great car design - I also suspect that it would be too heavy to be a good autogyro. And the hinges in the main rotors are a bit of a worry. But a clever design anyhow.