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  Jun 22 2011, 04:57 AM
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panda!  Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242  |
http://www.gizmag.com/d-dalus-uav-design/18972/
Ok, so it is basically a UAV right now. But the company hopes to turn it into a passenger vehicle at some point. |
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Jun 22 2011, 02:14 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Currently marketing balderdash from the read of it, but I could be wrong.
If I am, it looks like it'd be a nice addition to a lot of civilian and military applications. Search and Rescue is the first one that comes to my mind, with the ability to drop emergency supplies to trapped people when found. |
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Jun 22 2011, 02:29 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
Near silent?
With FOUR Turbines? O.o |
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Jun 22 2011, 02:30 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Jun 22 2011, 09:29 AM)  Near silent? Hense my thought that it's marketing balderdash.With FOUR Turbines? O.o Then again, everything is relative. "Near silent... Compared to a Helicopter at full military power." |
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Jun 22 2011, 05:07 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,894 Joined: 11-May 09 Member No.: 17,166 |
OK, I see where you would want to call that a T-Bird, but it's just an exotic VTOL. The T-Birds are high speed craft CAPABLE of vertical flight but primarily designed to operate as WIGE (Wing In Ground Effect) very-low-altitude aircraft. I had a REALLY lengthy post on that at one point a couple years back, if you're interested enough to look for it (I don't have time right now to go digging).
Now, as a drone, kick hoop. Even as an aircraft with the Improved Takeoff 2 quality (or whatever the right name is for the thing, I'm at work) it's essentially a rotor-less helicopter from a game-mechanics standpoint. IF - BIG IF - they can scale the thing up it would make a GREAT air-rescue vehicle (Think Doc Wagon HTR Platinum) because it doesn't have to contend with rotor sweep when looking for a suitable landing spot. That said, I can't see how in that capacity it would be any less vulnerable to ground fire and FOD (Foreign Object Damage) than a ducted-fan VTOL (for a real world example, see the US Marine Corps F/A-35B version of the Joint Strike Fighter which appeared in Die Hard 4: Live Free Or Die Hard, orsomthing akin to the transport choppers in Avatar, assuming they could scale them up well enough). Anyhow, that's my two centi-Nuyen. -Kerenshara |
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