The Japanese Raised A Flying Machine With A Man On Board

2023 Author: Natalie MacDonald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-26 13:59

A video recording of a demonstration flight of a flying car for one passenger was distributed by the Japanese company SkyDrive. As the Associated Press clarifies, the developers intend to bring the process to the conveyor stage by 2023.

• The video clearly shows how the device with eight screws around the compact passenger capsule rises about one and a half meters above the ground, makes a circle around the site and lands at the same point from which it took off. It is not specified whether the flight was controlled by a person inside or the movement of the apparatus was controlled from the side.
• SkyDrive engineers now call their main task to ensure the safety of passengers. In addition, work is underway in the direction of increasing the flight range: at the moment, the machine can be in the air for no more than 10 minutes, but the designers want to extend this time by at least half an hour.

• Unlike air vehicles already on sale in the United States and some European countries, the Japanese design does not have a wheeled chassis, so it cannot move on the ground. However, SkyDrive expects to position it as a personal air transport. In addition, it is planned to build an unmanned air taxi on the basis of this development.
• The first officially registered commercial flight of a passenger drone took place in July in the Chinese province of Shandong. The 16-engine EHang 216 is capable of flying at speeds up to 97 km / h for a distance of up to 32 kilometers.