DailyDirt: Flying With The Greatest Of Ease
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The Segway was originally billed as a revolutionary new way to travel, but after it was revealed, it didn't seem anywhere near as cool as a flying car (or hoverboard). While everyone is more concerned about gas mileage nowadays, there are still some dreamers out there working on personal flying vehicles. Here are just a few examples of some ways to get yourself off the ground.- Personal planes that can take off and land in water are almost ready to ship to their first 35 customers. Prototypes of these electric planes have been flown in successful test runs, and FlyNano expects to start production in the next year. [url]
- A personal helicopter is becoming a bit cheaper and more practical -- just imagine 4 or 5 toy quadcopters linked together with a chair in the middle. The volocopter VC1 is the first all-electric manned helicopter, and all those redundant rotors allow for a few to fail without causing too much trouble. [url]
- Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) tells everyone how to build their own hovercraft using a leaf blower, some duct tape and a 4 foot diameter circle of plywood. Warning: make sure you have enough gas in the leaf blower so you don't sink in the middle of a lake.... [url]
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Filed Under: adam savage, flying car, hoverboard, hovercraft, mythbusters, personal mobility, transportation
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personal helicopter traffic -- ugh!
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Re: personal helicopter traffic -- ugh!
In any case, its 2012, where the fuck is my flying car already. the least we could get is a hoverboard.
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Icon A5
www.iconaircraft.com
fold back wings, dual water/ land takeoff and landing and a price point of about 140k which while not cheap in the real world - in the world of aircraft, it's hella cheap.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100330/1550518796/dailydirt-cool-new-planes.shtml
It's a bit amazing that so many kinds of personal aircraft designs exist...
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Flynano
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What part(s) do you think they are patenting? The weird wing does display an uncanny resemblance to the McGinnis wing.
http://www.synergyaircraft.com/
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Recommended design upgrade for the E-Volo copter
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Need a solution?
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110518/18051114329/dailydirt-odd-vehicles.shtml
The hoverbike looks cool, but somehow also more dangerous than the volocopter VC1. The hoverbike doesn't look like it's meant to really fly too far off the ground, but it still lacks a bit of rotor redundancy.
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Building one's own "air car"
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