Flying Stuff

Combine this

Which is an electric plane that actually works

Although if I’d made it, I’d have made it with an android/iPad as a dashboard… with inbuilt gyro/location stuff… and I’d have made the entire compartment bit made out of bubblewrap…

It says “Peghiny says the key to flying is watching the voltage. The 72-pound, 70-amp-hour lithium-polymer battery started the flight with 74 volts. Peghiny says I should be ready to land when it hits 65. Once I climbed to around 600 feet, I could pull back the controller to 1,800 rpm to minimize the drain on the battery. Full power is 2,200 rpm.

You should climb out at about 40 miles per hour and cruise at about the same,” Peghiny tells me as I strap into the seat. “On final, fly it at 45 and remember it stalls at just 22.”

So that’s cool. More at Wired

… combine that with this here battery

Which is a battery that took an Audi 375 miles at 55mph on a 6-minute charge…

… and you’ve got two interesting things combined into one REALLY interesting thing.

The trouble with democratised flight (which is basically what the flying car thing is) is that most people are a clueless dipshits who can’t walk around their own house without falling over and breaking things – cars kill more people than Hitler – put that into 3 Dimensions… and you’ve got the solution to the population over-shoot right there.

But these thing go more slowly than your average car… so if we could make them out of zorb-stuff, we might have a winner.

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speaking of winners, one day in an entirely unforeseeable future, I’m going to go over this entire blog from the beginning… and see what has happened to all this stuff, or if it is indeed all vapour-ware… which is what I accuse everyone else of.