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Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

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Re: Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

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Post by augstein »

nine_k wrote: post #7

I wonder why the rotors are positioned so low. Should a propeller get fractured, the splinters would hit the pilot's chest and neck. OTOH putting the propellers above would change the shape and thus the aesthetics seriously.

Was wondering that too. Also can‘t the rotors be shrouded or does that affect the power/agility negatively?

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Post by aero-glide2 »

mortenjorck wrote: post #54

From the video, it looks like this craft is limited to about 10 feet in altitude (certainly as high as I’d want to go, but I imagine their primary market at first is going to be thrill-seekers). And yet that’s really all you need for a lot of point-to-point transport, especially in rural areas (which I also imagine will be the only legal places to fly these for the foreseeable future).

I'm not sure that is accurate, why would they include a parachute?

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Post by JKCalhoun »

dtgriscom wrote: post #45
sydthrowaway wrote: post #21

20 minute flight time? Useless.

Top speed of 60MPH; let's halve that for a safety margin, which gives a range of ten miles. There's around thirty towns and cities that close to my home. Reaching any of thirty towns in ten minutes would be far from useless.

Paramotor?

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Post by Robotbeat »

nine_k wrote: post #7

I wonder why the rotors are positioned so low. Should a propeller get fractured, the splinters would hit the pilot's chest and neck. OTOH putting the propellers above would change the shape and thus the aesthetics seriously.

This is still better than some of the similar designs. Some of them look really easy for the pilot to fall off and get ground up by the propellers. At least this one the pilot kind of looks sort of enclosed so they would not likely be able to fall out into the blades.

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Post by toomanybeersies »

Reminds me a lot of the Martin Jetpack, which received tonnes of media hype when it was first unveiled at Oshkosh 2008, and despite being "almost ready" for the next decade, nothing was ever built and the company went bust.

Incidentally, the remaining assets (including intellectual property) were just put up for auction a few days ago [1].

The market for what's essentially an aerial jetski has always been small, and now due to the drone renaissance it's basically non-existent.

[1] https://www.skylarc.co.nz/tenders/martin-jetpack/

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Post by msla »

kumarvvr wrote: post #41
ctvo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The concept is great, but the push for mass market adoption bugs me. > These things are not efficient modes of transport. It takes a lot of energy to move one person from A to B. Will you not entertain the possibility that a form of travel using geodesic distance may be more efficient? Going from Brooklyn to Manhattan and bypassing traffic, for example (a small body of water where flying across would be more effici…

> Will you not entertain the possibility that a form of travel using geodesic distance may be more efficient? I completely agree. But for mass market personal aerial vehicles, regulation would eventually force vehicles to fly close to ground (for safety of self and others, better fall 30 feet than 300 feet) In this scenario, geodesic distance hardly makes any difference. Personal aerial vehicles are never going to be…

The way to make flying cars (and let's drop the sophisticated terminology, we're discussing something called Jetson One) safe for the mass market is to make them available as fleet vehicles for taxi companies such that you can ensure all the drivers are trained and sober and all the vehicles are maintained and inspected. Even if the hivemind insists they'll be self-flying, it's still unsafe beyond normal bounds of unsafe to have ill-maintained flying cars trying to navigate three-dimensional traffic.

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Post by fastball »

satisfice wrote: post #65

Maximum pilot weight of 210lbs? I suppose if I were rich enough to buy this I could also get myself a personal trainer.

Well at 210 lbs you're either tall enough that you probably won't fit in this thing lengthwise or you are in fact overweight and losing a few lbs wouldn't hurt.
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