This 'Flying Car' Test Flight Went Badly Wrong, And Fast
Flying cars: we know they’re pretty much pie in the sky (pun totally intended). National security depends partly on people not being able to load small vehicles with explosives and fly them into crowded areas or into buildings. It’s just a bad idea, full stop.
That isn’t stopping people trying. Even so, when it goes as badly as this, the arguments against the concept just keep stacking up. This ‘Light Sport NI43RS Skyrunner’ was being tested by a husband and wife team when it failed to gain enough altitude to clear a building right ahead of the launch site and smashed into it – hard.
It’s not clear whether it was pilot error or a mechanical fault that caused the nasty-looking impact. Thankfully both the passengers survived, but judging by the damage to the $139,000-plus buggy, they’re damned lucky. We wish them a speedy recovery.
Other flying car projects we’ve seen have included the PAL-V Liberty, Toyota’s odd super-drone and these flying nightmares.
Source: Reddit
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Why keep people even trying to do this? There is no sense. Where would you can use this?
The Skyrumner is essentially a paramotor, those don’t really climb that well with weight, so I’m betting on a miscalculation, maybe he tested it alone, then loaded his wife on and forgot that people have weight and aircraft are affected by weight. after all, the only thing you can do to climb with a paramotor is give it more throttle or catch a warm air current.
Most drivers struggle on the ground, we should all stay there
Should have been called the Icarus
Flying cars were done in 1985
1950:„I bet there are flying cars in the future“
2017;
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