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This is very cool. I’m curious what the failure mode is like for this. In a plane you and glide and in a helicopter you can autorotate. With this, I guess it’
by tailspin2019 4y ago
This is very cool.
I’m curious what the failure mode is like for this. In a plane you and glide and in a helicopter you can autorotate.
With this, I guess it’s a fairly abrupt plummet to the ground?? (Hence a need to limit the height you can fly at?)
On the flip side I guess you may have more redundancies here with the 4x (or is it 8?) motors…
Also, the geek in me wanted to see a nice large cockpit screen with navigation and various vehicle metrics. I’m somewhat surprised that you can make such an elegant looking flying machine but not have much in the way of a computerised (or indeed any) dashboard! (Unless it just wasn’t captured in the video).
- Someone 4y agoFTA: The vehicle features eight drone-like propellers in four pairs, and the makers say the craft will stay aloft even if one of them fails. If a pilot does get into serious trouble, the Jetson ONE carries a ballistic parachute. It also features a triple-redundant flight computer, lidar-driven obstacle avoidance and terrain tracking, and a race-car-inspired cockpit.
- thrtythreeforty 4y agoBallistic parachute for the pilot or craft? I guess whoever is under it is SOL, as in a plane or helicopter crash.
- jaclaz 4y agoCannot say specifically, but usually ballistic parachutes for ultralight planes are for the whole craft, not for the pilot only.
- nradov 4y agoThe parachute unit is integrated into the airframe. If it's used, the pilot remains inside the aircraft and rides it down to the ground. These parachutes do take a few seconds to inflate and decelerate a falling aircraft. So there is a "dead zone" in the flight envelope: too low to use the parachute, too high to survive an uncontrolled crash.
- tailspin2019 4y agoThanks, I got so caught up watching the video, I forgot to go back and read the article :)