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You can hear it for a second or two, a loud swarm of bees. Probably why they have the music to cover it up

It sounds really terrible that's hence the music to cover it up.

That's the whole idea if the music.

Sounds like buzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!! It's not a v8 engine duh duh duh duh duh. More like buzzzzzzzz

@@ttt3377 yep, just listen to any drone and multiply the sound by a LOT. The pilot can wear headphones just a helicopter pilot would.

I _thought_ we were talking about me.

We developed a prototype cam angle adjuster relative to pitch, at oshkosh last year for that very purpose. dont know what they thought of it. i dont think they ever asked us for anything to install.

Or maybe plexiglass panels on the bottom to see what you are landing on?

When it comes to joystick control scheme, you have to keep in mind that BlackFly is not like any other aircraft design, and is completely computer-flown with the 'pilot' only telling the flight computer the desired direction of movement. It is a shift of how to think about things, and the priority is simplicity for the average non-pilot to figure out quickly. Seasoned pilots of traditional aircraft designs will have to un-learn habits and shift their frame of mind. It has two joysticks because the second one is a redundant backup if there is a failure of one of the joysticks. It is an important aspect of the design that all safety-critical components have a redundant back-up. I wouldn't be surprised if the sale version does include a down-facing camera to help with visibility during vertical landing.

Those are some really GREAT suggestions!

@@xbpbat21x I'd like plexiglass on all sides of the cockpit! Why not? Why block a great view?

...and price is??

@@LaoFarm Its the same price as a tesla

Golfing is the worst waste of time ever, and what a waste of space, acres and acres so prissy ppl can hit a little ball around

@@jbird6609 k

Your right mainly. If you watch the movie the 5th element. The cars flying all over. Hologram stop and go lights. We had the engineering to make those cars in 1977. At xxxxx, we designed a black box the size of a 48 quart cooler. We mounted it in many things for testing and showing off to the joint chiefs. I PERSONNAL, was the pilot of a golf cart, that we gutted and installed the box. I took 4 of us 200 feet off the ground, for miles in a controled fight. Airforce sent fighter jets after us. We didn't, file flight planes, the project is still CLASSFIELD. The last craft I piloted with the box weight was over 150 tons. Pentagon, feared flying tanks. We proved wings are not needed. And the shape DOSEN'T matter. Seeming that you have a IQ. I started my quest in Nepal. Perfit carved stones, 1000 years ago. Lifted up 8000 feet and placed on a mt cliff side with no roads to get there. What we designed was 1000 year old engineering with modern tools. So , like I said anything can be done.

fly by wire for sure... surely they have settings for changing that

The whole thing seemed super like it was in control, and you were providing suggestions, lol. I mean, different design parameters and goals I imagine, and safety reasons.

@@TexRobNC Massive input delays can't be a safety measure. It makes things less safe by default. I have never flown fly by wire, so maybe this is normal for fbw, it just seems odd from my limited experience.

It's like a high end drone, you slow the movement down to avoid jerky movements. He held the stick left and right to it's maximum travel showing that there are pre programed limits, or like in drones, Beginner Mode.

@@indykurt I have only ever flown planes (not much mind you, just a couple of "lessons"/experience flights to try to desensitize myself to my fear of heights), not drones, and planes don't have input lag like this. A drone I can understand, though I have never flown one, since you're seeing it from afar and it takes longer to figure out what's happening, but something you're actually riding in it seems odd.

Flying cars are just airplanes and jets. Everyday vehicles everyone can fly around in will never become mainstream because of exactly what you said

Example please...

@@nathansodja farmers monitoring cattle or crops. Search and rescue of forest and theta coast guard because it can land on water

Hey, that was the name of my high school band!

it will not go further than it can make it back from on the battery life it has.

You could Make it auto land when low on battery. Im wondering though if it can auto rotate to a small degree. Could add impact safety features. Maybe emergency parachute type things or anything you possibly can use to slow descent. Maybe it could have a sensor that ejects you at the perfect time before you hit the ground so as to mitigate the force. This must be a thing. It has to work.

@@idonthaveaname42 of course it can’t ! Don’t be silly … there is no ability to change the pitch on the props.

It has a ballistic parachute

Same thing that would happen if you ran out of gas in a conventional aircraft? Come on guys.. logic is still a thing.

They want to control our movement. These things are the 1st step.

It crashes. 👍

And that's about as much time you get flying it 7-10 minutes max before critical power loss.

can I really ask how it's revolutionary? If 2 motors fail on that thing it's just gonna crash, it doesn't have any lift other then engines and the takeoff and landing are done with the pilot with it's back towards the floor. It's awesome, yeah, but I just think there are more impressive aircraft

@@yoamal1187 Interesting question. The fact that you can part this on your driveway and, theoretically if it's not to far away, land on your works car park. It takes me back to the Jetson cartoons of the 60/70s.

@@yoamal1187 ballistic chute?

Not at all. There are a million other prototypes like this and none going commercial anytime soon. All these concepts are just... Concepts.

@@itsourlife As far as I am aware, this is, or is about to be, commercially available

Sit down gramps. 😳

@@wadesaleeby2172 easy girlfriend.

Maybe they are playing the long game and the target audience is 12 now.

It's not exactly marketing if it's not for sale yet?

@@pctrashtalk2069 so your saying that any product not yet for sale doesn't have a marketing team? I would think that hyping up the product to attract future sales and investors would be pretty important.

Yea me too, I also saw it fly, also the Osprey, the F35, the C5, the weather was perfect. The night airshows were amazing. Powered parachutes, ultralights. We flew in the ford tri-motor. life is good.

Because he's asking the flight controller to do it for him. Also note that the pilot is not returning the stick to center to stop the roll, instead he is commanding an absolute bank angle and the flight controller is doing the hard work.

@@remotelyinteresting9998 yeah I don’t think that’s right at all but thanks

It has wing surfaces which most other VTOL designs don't have.

Well that's an oxymoron "manned drone"

Certainly interesting. Thing I wonder though is if it will be stable at higher airspeeds. It seems quite reliant on high attack angles to fly stable.

Can wait for that world of disaster.

Probably not.

And given gravity, how do governments implement a highway code in the skies. Can u imagine idiot flyers up there? I'll take my chances on the road.

When the average American makes 4000 $ per year, like our Chinese colleagues do, hardware might be made domestically. Unless Russians only make 1000 $ by then and they collectively forgot how to make wodka.

Probably like VFR where the pilot avoids bad weather and visually avoids other traffic.

Answers to those questions is exactly the reason there are a million prototypes but not one successful commercial craft you or I could ever buy. Unless there is another revolutionary tech these prototypes will come and go for decades.

20, yes, true and dollars.

According to their FAQs, it will be about the price of an SUV.

@@saureco Thanks. Be a fun toy to have if your rich with a huge property I guess.

Lol, would not have expected the most rational comment to come from your channel. I fully agree with your statement

@@nickhopkins73 ​ @Nick Hopkins I try not to be rational but sometimes I can't help it.

@@JustPlaneSilly Perhaps this what spectators said when they saw the Wright Brothers fly...

@@xbpbat21x I doubt it. They had no alternatives. When presented with 20 minutes of flight not to exceed 62 mph, almost every available alternative is a better choice regardless of the price point that this comes out. If this is a fun toy for rich kids, then there ya go. However, for practicality, walking is almost better. I believe if this becomes tech that gets leveraged for something down the road, then perhaps it has value other than demos at airshows proving only that we can put a human in a drone. As is however, flying slow for 20 minutes may be beneficial as an air pod in a big congested city that goes back and forth between charging stations, a lone businessmen can use to get to their office or something but the demand for this in reality as an alternative to any existing mode of transportation has to be near zero. All of that said, I don't know if this unit is the final draft or just a proof of concept. If this thing is going on the market in this form, I think it is silly for a number of reasons not limited only to its lack of practicality. No wheels (I am guessing to save weight) having to tow it, that ridiculous AOA, weight limitations. The vehicle in this video is little more than a novelty as is.

@@JustPlaneSilly Your lack of imagination and forward thought astounds me. Are you even an aviation enthusiasts? If inventions are the nudges towards the future, then innovation is the hill it rolls down. I like how you put your thoughts and feelings into spectators in before you were even born. Early on, aviation was a gamble...it was the most dangerous way to travel, not to mention a losing financial business. It took innovation to get it to where it is today. Look at computers, look at the telephone. I guess because this first prototype doesn't satisfy all of your needs in today's modern society, then it's a waste of time. I'm glad that these are only YOUR thoughts and opinions. If everyone thought like you, we would still be riding horses to work.

For a completely different aircraft flyby demonstration. Look at the cameras along the flight line: they're all pointing away from the EV.