Reynard Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Safety features: Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP), provides safety through redundancy for its passengers and/or cargo. DEP means having multiple propellers and motors on the aircraft so if one or more motors or propellers fail, the other working motors and propellers can safely land the aircraft. Autonomous pilot allows for a safer flight. From an earlier article. Apparently it will be initially piloted but will have autonomous capability. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoonyBob Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Call me reactionary, but - it is inherently unstable, and requires fly-by-wire. Any failure that involves both assymetric lift and some fault in the artificial stability system will tend to be catastrophic. There's some good footage of the occupants of an F4 ejecting when the ASS failed on takeoff... what's the maintenance overhead on military aircraft with ASS fly by wire? ICAO targets a once per million flying hours possibility of a catastrophic (causing death or serious injury) failure in an SRE aeroplane; in a good year, we achieve ~1 in 850,000 for structural & systems failures not caused by human errors in operation/maintenance. We all know DO 160 does not garauntee perfect avionics... Given the failure modes and effects spread of that thing, I do not as yet see a probability of failure that I'd put my neck on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Maybe the designers of the ASML Aero machine, also have plans for a high-tech, cheap ejection seat, for their product? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoonyBob Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 3 minutes ago, onetrack said: Maybe the designers of the ASML Aero machine, also have plans for a high-tech, cheap ejection seat, for their product? Create your own market, BRILLIANT!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Why eject the seat? Just have a BRS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 6 minutes ago, Marty_d said: Why eject the seat? Just have a BRS. Because they flip so fast the lines would be wrapped around you before you could blink. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Literally at BREAKNECK speed? Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 2 minutes ago, facthunter said: Literally at BREAKNECK speed? Nev Imagine a fuselage/cigar shaped object with no wings dropped off a bridge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 THAT doesn't compute. This GADGET has fans doing things quickly, in the rotational sense. Not just falling at 32 ft/sec/sec. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 12 minutes ago, facthunter said: THAT doesn't compute. This GADGET has fans doing things quickly, in the rotational sense. Not just falling at 32 ft/sec/sec. Nev The falling rate doesn't matter although it will fall fast if it gets upside down with all fans going; the point is it doesn't have wings to slow rotation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 ALL of that is why I call it a gadget. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 3 minutes ago, facthunter said: ALL of that is why I call it a gadget. Nev Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thruster88 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 The Joby crash in 2022 was caused by a single propeller blade failure which subsequently damaged other propellers. Joby prototype lost propeller blade before 2022 crash: NTSB | News | Flight Global WWW.FLIGHTGLOBAL.COM One of Joby Aviation's pre-production prototypes broke up mid-flight after losing a propeller blade during envelope-pushing flight-testing in February 2022. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just imagine the amount of interference happening when that pile of blades starts waltzing through the sky.? Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just imagine all the racket if a number of them start whizzing around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbon Canary Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 I dunno, this crowd may be interesting to watch regardless of what view you have of the development and suitability of the technology. The CEO of Vertiia was previously the CEO of GE Australia and the lot that placed the order (albeit conditional) are significant players - and operate King Airs etc and do medical transfers etc. So again should be no fools. i guess all I’m saying is I think this lot are slightly better than ‘wannabe’s’….and at least they are home grown. Yeah it’s their first attempt, but we need to start somewhere to transition to new energy sources……and I think is better than batteries for this application. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 I agree, but it's easy to place a conditional order. If nothing is ever approved, you haven't paid for anything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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