Airbus reveals the next generation of CityAirbus
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#2"65 dB(A) during fly-over and below 70 dB(A) during landing."
So like a vacuum cleaner, yikes!
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#3"65 dB(A) during fly-over and below 70 dB(A) during landing." So like a vacuum cleaner, yikes!
Yes, except it will be on top of a building (most likely) and fly hundreds of feet above.
Lawnmowers are significantly louder.
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#450 miles on 1 charge seems fairly inefficient to me. Especially when compared to land based electric vehicles.
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#550 miles on 1 charge seems fairly inefficient to me. Especially when compared to land based electric vehicles.
Not really a fair comparison to make considering the energy required to constantly fight gravity is significantly higher with one than the other.
Additionally, one has to consider the flight path would ideally be more straight, allowing for less overall mileage per trip than a land vehicle.
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#6"65 dB(A) during fly-over and below 70 dB(A) during landing." So like a vacuum cleaner, yikes!
I think a helicopter is a better comparison here, and they seem to be 80-100 dBA.
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#750 miles on 1 charge seems fairly inefficient to me. Especially when compared to land based electric vehicles.
I assume that explains the "for metropolitan use" bit.
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#8As much as I want to live in a world with the Jetsons, what's the business case here? Presumably it's going to have to launch vertically from the top of buildings, which means that you can go from skyscraper landing pad to skyscraper landing pad. How many taxi users are trying to travel within a financial district? I imagine much more commonly they're trying to go from high-density to low-density (like FiDi to West Village) which this operating model could only support if you build a serious amount of elevated architecture.
Not to mention having to pay for insurance premiums of a miniaturized airplane that is zipping around a heavily inhabited urban area.
Re: Airbus reveals the next generation of CityAirbus
#9As much as I want to live in a world with the Jetsons, what's the business case here? Presumably it's going to have to launch vertically from the top of buildings, which means that you can go from skyscraper landing pad to skyscraper landing pad. How many taxi users are trying to travel within a financial district? I imagine much more commonly they're trying to go from high-density to low-density (like FiDi to West V…
You can imagine them being used to get people from train stations or similar to tall buildings, I suppose.
Re: Airbus reveals the next generation of CityAirbus
#10As much as I want to live in a world with the Jetsons, what's the business case here? Presumably it's going to have to launch vertically from the top of buildings, which means that you can go from skyscraper landing pad to skyscraper landing pad. How many taxi users are trying to travel within a financial district? I imagine much more commonly they're trying to go from high-density to low-density (like FiDi to West V…
There are probably enough people of financial means who are willing to pay for expensive and much faster taxi service, especially if they can go to the roof of the building they're currently in to depart.
There are lots of reasons why this won't work, but it could work... and it could be quite useful in the right scenario.
Lots of useful long distance flights leave early in the morning, meaning to get to the airport for those flights you have to leave VERY early. But with an air taxi like this, it might allow you to save a couple of hours and a lot of headache.
It's not really mass-marketable though, and I doubt we could expect to see a constant stream of little air taxis buzzing around.