Volocopter
- Manned electric multi-rotor VTOL vehicle.
This section provides links to various science
and technology news sources, plus a selection sites
on particular topics
These are not intended to be extensive or inclusive;
just a subjective selection of pages about new technologies
and scientific topics that I think are neat.
Neurea
(M200) - in 2007 Moller initiated plans
to commercialize this small ground effect
vehicle, which he first demonstrated back
in 1989. The new version, M200G, will use
the Freedom
Motors Rotopower engines, invented by
Moller.
Zapata
Racing Flyboard Air - jet powered standing
platform. As of 2016, it provides: Autonomous
flight up to 10,000 feet – Top speed of 150km/h
(93,2 mph) – 10 min autonomy
DARPA Transformer - this program seeks to develop
vehicles for the military that can switch from driving
to a vertical-takeoff-and-landing flying mode.
logi
Aerospace - Tyrannos: "first roadable 4-person
air vehicle that anyone can literally drive into the
air". The vehicle will use the firm's improved ducted
fan design and lightweight carbon fiber composite
structures.
Terrafugia
- developed by group of MIT students, including Carl
Dietrich who won the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT
Student Prize for his design concepts.
D-Dalus
- An innovative system that "uses four, mechanically-linked,
contra-rotating cylindrical turbines, each running
at the same 2200 rpm, for its propulsion".
IAT21
- Austrian company that invented the D-Dalus
D
Dalus Video - YouTube - "Servus TV program
broadcast on 27 July 2012 showing the first sucessful
Test Flight of the D-Dalus Cyclogyrocopter at
the test facility in Austria"
Spruce
Creek Fly-In Community - example of the more
than 2000 US communities centered around a runway
that's used by the inhabitants as routinely as
driving a car on the road.
High Altitude
Glider Project - project by Art Vanden Berg involving
a "small, self-guided glider, designed to fly
at very high altitudes. The glider is carried up by
its tail with a helium weather balloon to altitudes
of up to 85,000 feet above sea level, and then released
to fly back to the launch point."
yet2.com
- TechPak - "new, small jet engine is suitable
for light-sport, ultralight, and experimental aircraft,
and can replace the vibrating piston engine and propeller
combination as used in most sport aircraft with smooth
jet power for the 21st century."
