Business plan: 1. Collect two minutes of factual detail, 2. Stretch it into nine minutes by restating everything slightly differently 3-5 times, 3. Use filters to make stock footage look a tiny bit different, including the super-jokey scratchy film grain filter. 4. Call it @Technology vision; 5. ??? 6. Profit!
I’ve been watching Vids about these OTTO aircraft for a couple of years now, but I haven’t seen anything to show that these are now something worthwhile in the aviation marketplace. I would like to see that soon though, because the concept is very exciting.
Honestly I'm not surprised that the 500L was cancelled, even though it was flying. It never achieved even close to the jetlike performance it advertised, and it's super laminar flow technology was so finicky and prone to disruption that any improvement in the percentage of performance over traditional aircraft would have been in the single digits. This aircraft, if it is ever built, will likely only see similar single-digit performance improvements over existing aircraft, leading to no interest from investors or buyers which would be needed to get it beyond the prototype stage (Exactly like what happened to the 500L). Given they've never even published the performance achieved by the aircraft from testing, only that it "achieved all the goals that it set out to achieve" and that external analysis state that the aircraft reaching even half it's performance goals would be very generous for the design, this new jet design and scrubbing of the 500L from the website seems like an attempt to bury a failed prototype that didn't come close to what was expected of it.
The entire video is about future advances in aviation, but the video itself is intentionally made to look aged, with imitation scratches and lint. Why?
No carbon print - who cares about such stupidity? Customers seek comfortable and reliable transfer from A to B with competitive price - it's that simple.
Not supersonic. Not available in 2025. I want to see how those long windows integrate into a pressurized fuselage structure. This is pure fantasy. Never going to be built like this video depicts.
