Indian Flying Taxi | Dubai expo 2020 | India Pavilion | IIT students new innovation

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To fly it you need to become a
Pilot+Driver=Piver 😂

People have had the delusional fantasy of a flying car for over 70 years now. After Igor Sikorsky invented the first successful helicopter in 1939, there was a fantasy of a helicopter in every garage. The problem was helicopters are hard to fly & extremely expensive, so that dream just wasn’t plausible nor realistic.

With the advent of quad & multi copters I think it makes it more realistic for the average person to own a multi copter. But at $685,000 that’s too expensive for anyone who’s not a millionaire!

It would be a way smarter investment to spend your $685,000 on a regular helicopter that can fly a lot farther & vastly more safe, than to waste your money on an eVTOL that can only fly 30 minutes before needing a recharge!

For the general public whom does not hold a pilot certificate (“license”) for an airplane nor a helicopter, I can see why the concept of being able to fly or having a “flying car” is such a novel idea, & it seems so exciting.

I am a commercial helicopter pilot so I have a different perspective about quad & multi copters.

First of all, quad & multi copters have low inertia fixed pitch propellers which means unlike a helicopter that they cannot autorotate/windmill their blades & “glide” down to make a safe landing if the power unit (engine/motor) loses power.

My guess is, because these electric powered multi copters do NOT have autorotation/glide capabilities that they will have to be equipped with an emergency parachute. There are some light airplanes equipped with parachutes like these, but keep in mind that the airplane is totaled & the parachute is only intended to keep you from dying & you will probably still sustain some injuries from the hard uncontrolled parachutes landing.

The catch-22 with ALL electric vehicles is the high rate of batteries that catch on fire. 🔥

It’s one thing if your EV car or truck has a thermal runaway & ignites with flames 🔥 hotter than a blow torch on the road or in a driveway. But imagine a thermal runaway battery igniting in flight at 2,000 feet altitude with an EV multi copter “flying car”.

Sure, as soon as the battery fails, & the multiple rotors stop spinning the computer & or the passengers can deploy the emergency parachute. But… Just as a caveat parachutes themselves do have malfunctions & ways that they can fail, especially if not packed correctly. So, having a ballistic parachute doesn’t guarantee your safety.

But, in this scenario let’s assume the emergency parachute opens & functions as designed & initially it saves your multi copter “flying car” from falling out of the sky.

The catch-22 problem with this scenario here is the fact that there are now flames 🔥 hotter than a blow torch shooting upwards into the emergency parachute which will quickly melt & burn up the parachute. 🪂

Logically parachutes are designed to create a slow enough descent rate that people can survive ground contact.

Anytime an aircraft is on fire in flight it is crucial to get the aircraft on the ground as quickly as possible to escape the burning machine.

So, if your flying car’s battery fails with a thermal runaway at 2,000 feet or higher, & you deploy the emergency parachute 🪂 you will run out of time because the parachute will be destroyed within a few seconds by the blow torch like, hot flames, way before the malfunctioning “flying car” can safely parachute to the ground.

Once the parachute & its risers are melted & burnt away, the malfunctioning multicopter “flying car” will now fall out of the sky with the aerodynamics of a brick at a terminal velocity speed of between 120 mph & 180 mph. The only question is whether the passengers will die first from the hot flames, 🔥heart ❤ attack or the hard impact from slamming into the ground at terminal velocity?!!

Don’t get me wrong. I think some of the quad & multicopters are very cool & innovative. I just don’t think the battery technology is advanced enough yet.

In Dubai they are designing autonomous multicopters to be used as air taxis. But, since they are electric they can only fly about 30 miles or 30 minutes which isn’t a lot & 30 minute flight times don’t give any margin for error with battery life degrading over time.

I think installing turbine engines would make multicopters a lot safer & a lot more useful with much longer flight times.

Then the guy said the first prototype “A” model will cost $685,000! That’s nuts! Why would anyone pay $685,000 for an aircraft that can only fly 30 minutes & only travel 30 or 40 miles, when for the same $685,000 they could buy a safer helicopter that could fly for 2 hours plus, but more importantly can safely autorotate & glide for a safe landing if the engine fails.

Anyone familiar with aviation knows prices start low on new aircraft & they go up. In the 1980’s Frank Robinson created the tiny Robinson R-22 to be an affordable helicopter. I think they started out with a price between $65,000 & $80,000 for a brand new R-22. But today, a new R-22 costs upwards of $250,000.

So, if this guy’s “flying car” now costs $685,000. Then within a few years they will cost more than a million dollars as the woman doing the interview was expecting.

The bottom line is the average Joe is not going to be able to afford a $1,000,000 “flying car”.

Furthermore, anyone with a million dollars to drop on a flying machine would be making a much better investment to buy a proven factory built helicopter design.

Seriously, there’s a reason this $685,000 “flying car” was being shown off at a car show for millionaires & not to regular Joes like you & I.

It’s a nice concept, but it’s highly impractical to spend a million dollars on a flying machine that can only fly you for 30 minutes & could kill you if its batteries catch fire in flight.

Maybe the technology will change to turbine engines some day? Hopefully it does. That would be way more practical & a LOT safer!

But for me, as the battery technology is now I just don’t trust these so called “flying cars”. I will stick to flying helicopters. 🚁

This is a one way ticket car capable of sending you to heaven

Cómo veo no va a volar está mal estructurado y si lo hacen volar se van arrepentir

DUMBO 🐘 😂

It's not Indian student idea

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This is working model ? Or concept model

Not looking practical model

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No one in the country can afford this just look at regular indian taxies