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Flying Platform - Personal UFO the X jet

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited February 2012 in Ten Forward
Ok I keep asking and asking, where is my flying car, then I look at videos like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHJBvtr0H-E&feature=related

And again I ask where is my flying car? Just seens like a waste, I mean if nothing else can this tech be use to help firefighters with very tall buildings?

Put 4 of these babys on a whatever you can dream up, and I bet it can get it wher eis needs to go. After all this tech is over 30 years or more old, and I am sure there is something better they can make. Just takes money and someone willing to dream up the ideas.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Everything firefighters use is meant to ensure their safety while doing dangerous things.

    The military discontinued the X-Jet project many years ago because it was a flying coffin. Highly unstable, very limited range, and most importantly, even under ideal circumstances when it could be balanced vertically, it would start to rotate if it stayed stationary, making it useless as a shooting or observation platform. It can't actually do any of the things described in that propaganda film - it's top speed was actually around 30 miles an hour, to 70, and its range was measured in the tens of yards, not miles. The contractor claimed the final product could, but made no progress getting there from the deathtrap prototypes.

    Scaling it up made all of its problems even worse. The Avrocar was its vehicle sized version of the same technology, and was prone to flipping over, spinning uncontrollably, and oscillating until the pilot threw up or lost consciousness. At least the Avrocar could be kept stable as long as it was less than a few feet over the ground and kept the landing wheels extended to touch the ground, but then that pretty much defeated the whole concept of flying and you're left with a standard car that burns five gallons of jet fuel per mile.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Well I was picturing something with a remote from the ground, while using the single jet lift to move up along the building sides. And as far as being stable, don't you think 4 used together would make for a safer ride? Yes, that was over 30 to 40 years ago, and if someone picked the ball up with something like this x-jet, you could make for a better system, that far out performs the older x-jet. Whatever is made should be given to the CIV ranks anyway, the Military has enough toys to play with. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    hmm X-jet + firefighter + high pressure hose = chaos. Unless a principle design is created that doesn't involve beating the air into submission flight will never become normal for daily commuter vehicles.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I think all you need is a stablizer tossed on this thing, so you keep it from tipping over. But again if you part a few of these guys together, that issue shouldn't be a problem.
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