The Astro Elroy – a single seater semi-autonomous passenger drone capable of 71km/h and 25 minutes of flight time carrying up to 116kg.
Although it has onboard controls for emergency manual override, the idea is that the passenger enters their chosen destination and the drone does the rest.
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that looks like it would completely pulverise on impact
my bro has done tests on the metal fatigue for the blade rotation,
they are all death traps,
saying that I love the squirrel for that drop view
Interesting – can you ask how these blades are different to standard helicopter blades? Obviously they are shorter. Do they spin faster?
I’ll drop him a line
pair of weirdos
tribology is sexy Brother
The study of friction, wear, lubrication, and the design of bearings; the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion.
See ?
ah yes I see
*performs discreet uptuck*
try biology. Is sexy Brother
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See?
oh..now it’s like that scene from the crying game
Cian you made sexy scairy ;)
*buys new razor*
25 minutes of flight you say….jumps in….starts her up and starts stopwatch
Unfortunate these won’t have the gliding capability (if high enough) of a heli when it’s engines go
They’ll come down like a stone
But probably not often enough to make any impact (sorry!).
can helicopters glide? they seem like death traps to me if anything goes wrong.
Yes. It is called autorotation. It will slow down your decent, but you don’t get a huge amount of lee-way, you’re still dropping – just not a terminal velocity :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation
Just measured the distance from home to work. 7.3km (as the crow flies). Could I make it there and back on 1 charge? Might ask work to install a charger on the roof for me.
Better check the battery capacity and charge time required.
Zappone could get one for her commute.
Oh wait, it wouldn’t have the range for the gravy route.
70km/hr. So it would take less than 7 mins each way. Better than the 40mins – 1hr it currently takes.
Get a bike. You should do it in 20 mins
Just not today… it’s pouring!
I wouldn’t go out in that weather in a bleeding drone!