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A Flying Car. Anyone with CAD, CFD, aerodynamics skills wanna help?
by skanga 10y ago
A Flying Car.
Anyone with CAD, CFD, aerodynamics skills wanna help?
- ohstopitu 10y agome and my friend are working on something similar. We prefer to call it a drone though :$ My friend was looking into the material strength and feasibility while I was looking into the software. We intend to use a 3d printer to build a small scale model and progressively keep making it bigger. We would love to collaborate if that's ok with you. Based in Canada (Toronto) and we put ~10 hrs/week max on this project.
- jimnotgym 10y agoThe only person I ever saw get a human off the ground was this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k and several build vids. He would have really benefited with some fly by wire help
- ohstopitu 10y agothat + [0] + [1] inspired us to get started... [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yn2uyQJ1jc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yn2uyQJ1jc [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAdCt6qgj9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAdCt6qgj9k
- skanga 10y agoTerrafugia is awesome. They have tremendous respect from me. But I dislike any type of folding wings. They will need to make a massively strong hinge/joint for this type of machine since the entire car hangs off that hinge. This makes is heavy, inefficient, painful to maintain, vulnerable in fender benders, etc, etc.
- skanga 10y agoSounds good to me - call it what you like. Perhaps we can start a conversation. I'm skanga at google's email thingy.
- colorcoded 10y agoAmbitious! What kind of propulsion system will it have? How far did you get at this point? Where are you based?
- skanga 10y agoElectric propulsion. I have some very promising aero designs that I hope to get into a (virtual) wind tunnel. Bay area.