>32 fricking engines
Presumably those are electric motor powered ducted fans, all powered from a central generator. Which makes the maintenence burden... somewhat better, hypothetically.
cool, can I see a video of it flying?
The lilium would be the closest flying thing
It's not a design that handles heavy payloads. Forget about it for carrying munitions.
Only problem is if one engine fails during hover thing crashes, and for 4 engines probability of failure of 1 one them is quite higher.
Also synchronizing thrust of 4 engines is difficult.
>why not a huey? >why such a radical redesign? >can that many blades actually provide enough lift?
so what I am seeing is a twin micro jet engine, that powers an array of electric motor driven props. it has barely enough strength to lift off with much of any load.
>why not a huey?
Because it can fly in fixed wing mode with left generated by wing, its much more economical and faster. More range more speed during cruise flight.
Looks like just enough thought and effort were put into this to get funding from some low-level RND fund from the military, and the for the project to die and whoever made these images to walk away with a cool couple million. Not a bad grift
Welp, be prepared for the maintenance crews to stage a violent coup if you actually try to adopt this dumb meme. Also, LMAO, the fuel distribution system of this thing alone would need to be some MC Escher-esque non-euclidean nightmare driving people insane for trying to comprehend it.
multiple small rotors are shit compared to a single big one
wrong image
cool, can I see a video of it flying?
>cool, can I see a video of it flying?
This is moronic
You ain't seen nothing yet!
>VTOL
How?
This seems like an exponentially more complicated alternative to simply making the wings pivot.
Yeah but the wings have to come off for transport so...
It's a CGI militarized version of a real aircraft - the Lilium air taxi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywJWka1evH8
>185 kts
>Almost as slow as a fricking cessna while using 32 fricking turbines
Why
How does it VTOL with no clear method of downward thrust?
Probably intends to redirect the ducted fan thrust downwards with the trailing edge flaps/ailerons
Multiple? 32 fricking engines, how long would it take to check every one of them. Maintenance and repair, yeah, forget about it.
One fails, replace next flight.
Who cares if it fails you hav loads.
>32 fricking engines
Presumably those are electric motor powered ducted fans, all powered from a central generator. Which makes the maintenence burden... somewhat better, hypothetically.
The lilium would be the closest flying thing
It's not a design that handles heavy payloads. Forget about it for carrying munitions.
"Mauser" is German for a cat that is especially keen on - and good at - catching mice. Fledermaus is bat. But "Fledermauser" doesnt make any sense.
Niether does the "aircraft"
There's a lot of cool and promising EVTOL's being developed right now, this isn't one of them.
same energy
SOVL
more like STO-VL
Only problem is if one engine fails during hover thing crashes, and for 4 engines probability of failure of 1 one them is quite higher.
Also synchronizing thrust of 4 engines is difficult.
the hangar queen of hangar queens, why the frick would you need so many engines?
only two jet engines, the rest are electric-motor props, like you would find in your drone at home.
couple of things,
>why not a huey?
>why such a radical redesign?
>can that many blades actually provide enough lift?
so what I am seeing is a twin micro jet engine, that powers an array of electric motor driven props. it has barely enough strength to lift off with much of any load.
It looks like a hovercar more than an aircraft
>why not a huey?
Because it can fly in fixed wing mode with left generated by wing, its much more economical and faster. More range more speed during cruise flight.
Looks like just enough thought and effort were put into this to get funding from some low-level RND fund from the military, and the for the project to die and whoever made these images to walk away with a cool couple million. Not a bad grift
>How suicidal do you want the maintenance crew to be?
>I dunno like 32 turbines per craft level of kill me
These are not turbines but brushless electric motors.
too weird ass looking shit for military to approve
Aerogavin for the 2020s
It’s a good opera. Very pleasant
It's artwork cooked up by some conceptual design group. Shouldn't really be thought of as a serious proposal
https://pan-spatial.com/
>32 seperate engines
Welp, be prepared for the maintenance crews to stage a violent coup if you actually try to adopt this dumb meme. Also, LMAO, the fuel distribution system of this thing alone would need to be some MC Escher-esque non-euclidean nightmare driving people insane for trying to comprehend it.
how long would this shit be down for rotor replacement/ repair?
From experience... motor driver replacement & calibration would be the real uptime killer