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Oud 3 mei 2017, 08:36   #51
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Ik stap voor geen miljoen in zo een vliegend misbaksel wat ge niet eens van binnenuit kunt bedienen. Laat dat maar door die knettergekke doen.
Uw subjectieve bompa-mening interesseert me niet.

Een kort geschiedenisfilmpje 2011-2016 van "jouw knettergekke" Chinezen die het toch maar gehaald hebben de Ehang 184, of allereerste passagiersdrone te bouwen:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaF1mIwiI6w

History of Ehang 184 (world's first passenger drone)

Veröffentlicht am 05.10.2016

The world’s first passenger drone capable of autonomously carrying a person in the air for 23 minutes has been given clearance for testing in Nevada. Chinese firm Ehang, which unveiled the electric Ehang 184 passenger drone at CES in Las Vegas in January, has partnered with the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (Goed) to put the drone through testing and regulatory approval. Tom Wilczek, Goed’s aerospace and defence specialist said: “The State of Nevada, through NIAS, will help guide Ehang through the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) regulatory process with the ultimate goal of achieving safe flight.” The founder and chief executive of Ehang, Huazhi Hu, said the move would lay the foundation for the 184’s commercialisation and kickstart the autonomous aerial transportation industry. Ehang hopes to begin testing later this year and will have to prove airworthiness to the FAA, with guidance from NIAS, before being able to operate in a wider capacity. Over the past five years, Nevada has been positioning itself as a test bed for advanced transport solutions, being one of the first states in the US to permit the testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads. The company based in the Guangzhou province of southern China, already makes camera and hobbyist drones, but its passenger drone could be the first of its kind, capable of transporting a person via air in the same way Google’s self-driving car can via road. The company envisages a system where by a passenger simply inputs the destination and the drone takes care of the rest, taking off vertically, flying at altitudes up to 3.5km (11,500 feet) at up to 100kmph (63mph) for up to 23 minutes using eight propellers on four arms. Given that fully autonomous road vehicles are unlikely to be widely available until the middle of the next decade, the time when commuters can simply jump in a flying autonomous taxi drone to get to work appears to be some time off yet. “I personally look forward to the day when drone taxis are part of Nevada’s transportation system,” said Wilczek. Whether consumers will share Wilczek’s enthusiasm remains to be seen.
En niet alleen te bouwen, passagiers gaan er in de zomer 2017 automatisch mee vliegen, te beginnen in Dubai.

Jij moogt ze allemaal knettergek noemen, who cares om jouw mening?
(die ingenieurs alvast niet)

En vele andere gaan volgen, of ga je Airbus ook knettergek noemen?

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http://sae-europe.org/airbus-will-te...-car-end-2017/

Airbus will test a ‘flying car’ by the end of 2017
February 27, 2017

In January, Airbus Group’s CEO Tom Enders announced at the DLD digital tech conference in Munich that the company plans to test a prototype of a “flying car” by the end 2017. Within 11 months, the company expects a single-person transportation vehicle to be airborne in limited tests. The company has completed design work and is collaborating with a number of external partners. It hopes to have a production-ready aircraft by 2021.

The vehicle is being developed as part of Airbus’ Project Vahana and was first announced in the news in September 2016. Vahana is a project of the A3 experimental group, the Silicon Valley arm of Airbus, which has the aim of disrupting the aerospace industry. *The ultimate objective of Vahana is to create an aircraft that can be the first certified passenger aircraft without a pilot. The autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle is going to be destined to individual passenger and cargo transport and is supposed to utilise clean technology. The aircraft is self-piloted, it can automatically detect and avoid obstacles, and it is composed of eight rotors on two sets of wings, both of which tilt depending on whether the vehicle is flying vertically or horizontally. The company sees the development of such vehicles as a way to reduce traffic and infrastructure costs in cities. The ultimate goal is to allow people to book flights in the personal flyer using an app.*

According to A3’s CEO Rodin Lyasoff, as ambitious as it sounds, this is a feasible project as many of the technologies needed, such as batteries, motors and avionics are mostly available. However, Vahana also requires reliable sense-and-avoid technology. While this is just starting to be introduced in cars, no mature airborne solutions currently exist which is one of the biggest challenges to the pilot project.

... Airbus is not the only company looking to develop personal sky transportation. Drone Company Ehang has created a personal flying system (also known as a drone taxi) that could transport people to different locations. The Ehang 184 may also carry people around Las Vegas after a deal to test the vehicles was struck last year. The AirMule ‘drone ambulance’, which is designed to extract soldiers from battlefields, also made its first test flight last month, when Israeli firm Urban Aeronautics announced that its Cormorant passenger drone designed for military use could be in use as early as 2020. On 14th February Dubai also announced at the World Government Summit a drone that can carry people will begin regular operations in Dubai from July 2017.

You can find more information here.
Die Chinezen waren Airbus dus veel te snel af, *die blauwe tekst leest zich ~hetzelfde als de Ehang 184*, het design zal wel wat anders zijn. Daarenboven zullen de accus tegen 2020 ook performanter zijn qua kWh/kg.
Natuurlijk wordt de Ehang terecht vermeld in het artikel

Hier een artikel ober de "knettergekke" ontwikkelingen en visie van Airbus:
http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/ne...f-Flyover.html

CityAirbus

faces behind urban mobility intelligence

Some of the faces behind urban mobility intelligence and projects, from left to right: Vassilis Agouridas, Benjamin Struss, Rodin Lyasoff, Matthieu Repellin, Marius Bebesel and Jörg Müller


For the last two years, Airbus Helicopters has been working on a breakthrough design that could soon become reality without having to wait for too many regulatory changes. So far, it has been kept under wraps. Developers in France and Germany are working on an electrically operated platform concept for multiple passengers. The aerial vehicle, which goes by the working title of CityAirbus, would have multiple propellers and also resemble a small drone in its basic design. While initially it would be operated by a pilot – similarly to a helicopter – to allow for quick entry into the market, it would switch over to full autonomous operations once regulations are in place, directly benefitting from Skyways and Vahana’s contribution.

The feasibility study has already been completed and the conclusion is favourable. For the moment, those in charge do not wish to reveal any further technical details. However, one thing that Marius Bebesel, head of helicopter demonstrators at Airbus Helicopters, can talk about is how CityAirbus would work in practice: customers use an app to book a seat on a CityAirbus, proceed to the nearest helipad, and climb aboard to be whisked away to their destination. Unlike Vahana, several passengers share the aircraft.

The sharing economy principle would make journeys in the CityAirbus affordable. A flight would cost nearly the equivalent of a normal taxi ride for each passenger, but would be faster, more environmentally sustainable and exciting. “A taxi ride through a new city is a nice experience as it is, but flying over that city would be much more thrilling,” says Bebesel. However, many questions are yet to be clarified: How quiet would such an aerial vehicle be? How safe? How would the vehicles communicate with each other? How can operators ensure that they will not be hacked? “To answer these questions, we are relying on the expertise and support of the entire company,” says Bebesel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-LnUYEXuM
Nederlandse versie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kekJgcSdN38

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