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Came here to say exactly this. I'd add that of the non-aerospace tech companies that have tried to build planes, I'm not aware of any that have launched commerc
by debatem1 8y ago
Came here to say exactly this. I'd add that of the non-aerospace tech companies that have tried to build planes, I'm not aware of any that have launched commercially and I can only think of one that has ever flown.
Turns out that building commercial aircraft is still hard.
- trhway 8y agomaking flying things is easy these days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQK9m_OBVgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQK9m_OBVgY >The US military has sunk $50 Billion dollars into this problem over the last 30 years and still aren't there. Bell X22 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arXpHn9DPYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arXpHn9DPYo ) was technically pretty successful from the start. The only disadvantage vs. V-22 is the speed - that speed though comes at the cost of lesser stability and safety and higher complexity of V-22. For commercial application the priorities would be different, and thus i think the multirotor, being more easy to develop, would come cheaper and sooner than that while any commercialization of V-22 is doomed from the start.
- dogma1138 8y agoThe X-22 was in no way more stable or safer than the V-22 it had just as much problems at start and unlike the V-22 which was based on the XV-3 and XV-15 those problems were not mainly in manufacturing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_XV-3 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_XV-3