Flying Car : SkyDrive A Japanese tech company has successfully completed test flight of a “flying car”.
The aircraft has been designed to be the world’s smallest electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) model as a replacement means of transportation for the near future. It measures a compact two meters high by four meters wide and 4 meters long and requires only the maximum amount space on the bottom as two parked cars.
The powertrain consists of electrical motor that drive rotors deployed in four locations, with each location housing two rotors that individually rotate in opposite directions, each driven by its own motor. the use of eight motors could also be a way of ensuring safety in emergency situations during flight and intrinsically aims to affect compliance standards and allay potential regulatory concerns.
The startup, SkyDrive said the car lifted about three meters off the bottom with a pilot on board, who successfully conducted a brief test flight. The vehicle was airborne for around four minutes. the corporate says their model is that the world’s smallest, designed to require up an equivalent parking lot as two normal cars.
SkyDrive will continue to conduct test flights under an expanding range of conditions in order to improve its technologies further and achieve full compliance with the safety provisions of the Civil Aeronautics Act. To this end, based on the results of SD-03 testing, it aims to obtain approval for flights outside the limits of the Toyota Test Field before the end of 2020.
SkyDrive says it hopes to possess its vehicle commercialized by 2023.
Source:- SkyDrive
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