Yet another multicopter-style flying vehicle takes to the air – this time a single person water landing craft funded by Google co-founder and billionaire Larry Page: Flying car? Kitty Hawk’s first prototype looks more like a flying raft – Alan Boyle/Geekwire See the Kitty Hawk fly in this video:
The German startup company Lilium has now flown the first full-scale prototype of their electric-powered vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft called the Lilium Jet: They explain what they mean by electric jet as follows: The electric jet engines work like turbofan jet engines in a regular passenger jet. They suck in air, compress it and push it out the … Continue reading Sci-Tech: Lilium Jet electric VTOL vehicle makes first demo flights
It appears the first multi-copter-style VTOL vehicle to come to market will be the Volocopter from e-volo of Germany: World premiere of the Volocopter series model 2X The flying taxi is just about to be launched onto the market Friedrichshafen, Germany in April 2017. The German start-up e-volo is celebrating the world premiere of the first series … Continue reading Sci-tech: Volocopter 2X – Two person VTOL multicopter going into production
Here is the latest video update from EHANG of China on the development of the EHANG 184 autonomous aerial vehicle for single passenger air taxi services: AvWeek has a brief article about the project: Video: EHang Reports Progress With Autonomous Air Taxi – Aviation Week – The company says it is on its third generations of propeller, electric motor, … Continue reading Sci-Tech: Update on 2 vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) vehicles
Some interesting technology videos: ** Demonstration of a fully autonomous self-driving Tesla: All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware | Tesla ** Urban Aero‘s Cormorant/AirMule vertical-take off and landing (VTOL) ducted fan autonomous vehicle is large enough to transport cargo and one or two persons. I’ve posted here several times over the years about Israeli-based Urban Aero … Continue reading Sci-Tech videos: Tesla self-driving demo + Urban Aero VTOL + Volocopter