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I wouldn't want to fly any kind of helicopter or multicopter into a door in the side of a traditional multi story parking building. the sudden and asymmetric en
by NickNameNick 10y ago
I wouldn't want to fly any kind of helicopter or multicopter into a door in the side of a traditional multi story parking building. the sudden and asymmetric entrance into ground-effect will roll the aircraft, and I'm not sure what having a roof above your rotors would do - possible choke them of airflow and force them into high-speed-stall.
airflow near walls is turbulent, and the funneling effect may suck the aircraft towards the wall.
Solvable problems - you just have to build a landing pad away from the side of the building.
- civilian 10y agoTotally true. I imagine you'd have to have some kind of checkerboard of landing pads. And, if our flying cars are helicopters or multicopters, we've got more problems, because we can't actually stack that many helicopters over eachother, due to the interference of their air columns. :-/
- nrjdhsbsid 10y agoI think realistically all of the caroplanes will be built more like quadrocopters than normal aircraft. It's much less efficient but the only thing that really meets manuevability and safety constraints