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This supersized drone will fly you to work (or anywhere)
- ChuckMcM 11y agoInteresting, although challenging to see it actually land somewhere. And with a 23 minute hard deadline, if you were backed up at the drone landing pad at work, well you would not want to idly wait for traffic ahead to clear up :-). Also very curious about those motors. Given a 260 lb passenger limit, the total system is probably 500 - 600 lbs and you then need to move 650 lbs of air through three engines (if you want engine out recoverability). So a single engine generating a nominal 200 lbs of thrust? So 800N over 23 minutes is about a megawatt if I did the math correctly. Not sure if you can store enough energy in that volume at a low enough weight to meet their specs. But I'd love to see it fly. [1] Great discussion of airplane engine power -- http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/propulsion/q0195.shtml http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/propulsion/q0195.shtml