I bet they had to cut the video that often due to very short battery life.
The flight technology is trivial, no joke, that’s a task every competent aerospace engineer can solve. But as long as batteries don’t get much, much denser energywise (by multitudes) those VTOL capabilities will suck every battery dry within a few (very few) minutes. Proof: This thing would already be on the market if it worked on combustion engines or turbines and simply be a helicopter.
True. I used to follow an ultralight EV VTOL startup that is still trying to get buyers on a 20 mile range, and that’s with an 8 kWh battery. To me that’s not a lot of sky for a six figure price tag.
I bet they had to cut the video that often due to very short battery life.
The flight technology is trivial, no joke, that’s a task every competent aerospace engineer can solve. But as long as batteries don’t get much, much denser energywise (by multitudes) those VTOL capabilities will suck every battery dry within a few (very few) minutes. Proof: This thing would already be on the market if it worked on combustion engines or turbines and simply be a helicopter.
Physics is the endgame. They can’t change that.
True. I used to follow an ultralight EV VTOL startup that is still trying to get buyers on a 20 mile range, and that’s with an 8 kWh battery. To me that’s not a lot of sky for a six figure price tag.