Pivotal | BlackFly Flight 

voicetube Well said. Until they can reduce the noise level, which in a little drone is already damn high, i can't see this taking off.

Puns make everything better.

I do agree with that.

Someone invents the new flying machine, shows a video, and all you can do is whine and bitch about the soundtrack... Which is FREE like the video. Aaaaaah shuddup. Fucking whiner. What the fuck have YOU done with your life that even comes close to matching this? Loser. Get a life. This was a great video of a great invention. Why is there ALWAYS a WHINING BITCH complaining about stuff they are completely incapable of achieving?. Since when does the opinion of a loser matter?

That's right Volga, I agree! I wish they would have the music "shuddup!" and keep the audio more simple, raw and truthful :-) A little more seriously now, I actually LOVE the video and only made the comment because I did admire the vid and the invention so much and would love to hear/view a version of it a bit more "in the raw." It appears a couple other people agree with me as well. But I'm sure many agree with you too. You do make a couple valid points; I should have given credit where credit is due (before whining about the way the video is presented). As for me being a loser, etc.… now there you're just being a troll. I mean, why go there at all. That's just totally not cool. I may or may not have achieved anything as stellar as this flying vehicle creation, but there's absolutely no need for you to hate on me like that. Constructive criticism should be just that - constructive, not mean-spirited and damaging. (Come on… there's enough of that on the Internet already).

probably some amateur hipster college cinematographers they hired, they're headquartered in silicon valley after all.

If anything slightly adding more saturation would be better lol. But desaturating in this case just removes less of the "magic" feel you'd think you'd get from a flying machine

It's 2018 & we gotta make stuff more legit since we're close to the 2020's....

Usually something done to improve the transition between something computer generated, blended into a real environment. Thought it was fake at first, until some of the end shots.

maybe he liked man of steel

I'm so glad I was not the only one pondering the same thing. 😎

Heck, they probably sell you an airship Final Fantasy style in 20 years, or a ticket if you are poor ;p

But make sure you wear a cape and underpants over your tights to maximise the experience.

Bruh. Good suggestion.

Finally somebody gets it!! I'm a pilot and want a plane or an ultralight or powered parachute really bad but can't really afford anything like that right now so I've been thinking about diff ideas about something that'd be super small, VTOL or less and electric and this ticks all those marks. And I really think this concept or a close variant of it is going to take off big time in the next decade or so like the car and aircraft did in the early 19000s

"near future in which most of us are whipping around the sky" dear God I fking hope not, we'll all have to invest in reinforced impact resistant roofs so we don't get killed in our sleep, and imagine the majority of poor drivers filling the sky! Oh god please no

It's an EV, noise at takeoff shouldn't be an issue, or at least I think it wouldn't, I'm sure the props make some noise, but I wouldn't think it would be any louder than a leaf blower or other small gas engined tool.

If you can't afford a PPG, you definitely won't be able to afford this flying "car".

They could have just designed it with 4 fixed motors like an r/c Drone and it would still fly VTOL plus every other direction possible! They’ve over-complicated this. Oh wait, the JETSON does exactly that plus has many more thousands of test flights! The “wings” on this aren’t for flying like a conventional plane, they could not generate lift, they are just a structure to hold the 4 + 4 motor configuration.

My dad left for milk 8 years ago, are you saying he just flew away?

to the the store...yes

That has already been done with the RU-vid video of the flying bathtub, manned drone.

Does anyone drink milk anymore?

@@SidwSace I am still drinking, I am 50y old.

Mark Jennings it's so shit 😂😂😂

some shots lack appropriate color conversion luts

Extreme lack of contrast.

wondered if they shot in moonlight to hide from popo

4 years later nothing happened 😅

@@itsourlife Are you serious? It's out there already, but lack of production lines are holding mass manufacturing. This is not a possibility. This is a solid concept that was thoroughly tested and earned this gentleman and his various development teams a heap of prizes. It's a shame that it did not achieve mass production (yet), but it is real, efficient and somewhat affordable, even as a prototype.

@@TRak598 That's what I mean. If it was anything revolutionary we would have been riding it. Just another flopped usual concept we can safely ignore.

UAVfutures oh hello Stu lol, what you doing here 🤣🤣

Jimmy Jango canadair did that in the 60s with the cl-84 dynavert. What they don’t tell you about here is that they probably have 30 minutes of flight time. And if the power system fails this thing will not glide. It will fall like a boat anchor and you will die unless you have a ballistic chute and are high enough to use it. It is certainly a technical achievement, but still not very practical.

Rv4 Guy yes, it will have a a very advanced ballistic chute system. I had read something about said chute release hatch automatically opening during takeoff and landings.

bout 350

Their website has a lot of stats: www.opener.aero/ I find some of those numbers hard to believe, but if they are true, then this is one awesome piece of technology.

It has a 25 mile range guys. It's basically just a toy at the moment. Get your hands on graphene batteries and that will change. Until then this is something you hop in for 20 minutes and play.

It's written in the description: "For more information, visit opener.aero." I guess you didn't even read the description to see if this infos was there..

25 mile range in the air is equivalent to over 60 miles on the road, on average. It is very viable as a taxi service. There are other flying cars that are better though like Lilium

victor van dyke They need to work on "crumple test" like normal cars do, in case you like... crash lol. They need a better landing system that doesn't just use the bottom of the vehicle. As you said, weight could be an issue (especially if you're a heavier person, or you want luggage or something). For now its a good one-person vehicle if you want to have fun, but practicality is about a 4/10 so far.

max payload 250 lbs. people are gonna need to lose some weight if they want this thing.

+CharChar They don't bother crumble tests too much with planes like Cessnas cos you are gunna die anyway if you hit anything head on, cos you can't fly slow enough. But with the BlackFly it can go slow (like a car) and so crumble would be a good idea (for slow flight).

CharChar well, to land you can just add 3 carbon skids, I guess they would take an additional 15kg to the already low 250pnds of liftable weight...

+Traeng I reckon small spring loaded stick skids on the wingtips (like some gliders have) would be light and it would keep the wings level. But forward an back rotation is necessary for VTOL operations (I think). It does on the ground what it does in the air. It tips.

No it is not about time. It is past time now. Another promise un-met.

I wish people would stop staying that. Nobody promised us anything. If you want something, make it. If you can’t make it then don’t complain about how long it takes someone else to make something. And it’s not a flying car. There are no flying cars. There will never be any flying cars.

@@AMGF815 Imagine getting upset over a paraphrased "quote" from a 1950s cartoon character.

This is a helicopter.

I first read about the Moller Sky car thirty-four years ago, and they spoke then as if its commercial launch was but a couple of years away. I'm still waiting. And since then I have seen a hundred similar dreams come and go, their success forever a year or two away. I will believe it when I see it.

Lk T went cars came out they were expensive, dangerous, foul smelling death traps that terrified the horses.

It definitely has my vote for "best flying car with no wheels scraping the fuck out of its own hull as it lands" award.

It's loud BUT can be made quieter.

yes, because the sound of the hull scraping across the floor as it lands on the hard surface is offputting to investors.

Flight sound is reminiscent of angry bees.

Lokki YES....

IMO each engine and battery needs to be independant to each motore with battery failover power management, and the system should offer redundant flight control. So concurrently losing 2 or 3 engines or 2 or 3 batteries should still afford a soft emergency landing. The flight control system needs to have triple redundancy, with isolated power supplies for each system. Only then can you skip the parachute because of weight and because of N+2 redundancy for failure designed into the flight system.

Yes when all 8 engines fail there is an optional parachute.

on the website it said it was not as loud as a car

There aren't going to be flying cars above cities. Every collision will be fatal. Insurance premiums will be sky high (lol) because of the inherent risks and large payouts involved. Regulating consumer air traffic will take major planning and setting up new infrastructure. It would be a nightmare to safely integrate flying cars into existing traffic urban plans. Hate to rain on the parade, but this will remain in the Jetsons for the foreseable future.

БРОНЕЗОР Freddy Mercury died of AIDS

People have extra cars. They can just carpool then.

KonstantinGeist # You are verliy right, but in cases like strong winds, we shall fly this thing on lower altitude.

And birds

KonstantinGeist it can only fly in 25mph max wind and 86℉ max temp.. oh and it can't get wet lol

Well surely this first concept is not meant to replace everything. Just like you use a mobile phone for personal computing and connectivity, and laptop/PC for proper working. 100 years ago people were arguing that _cars don't solve anything as you still have to have a horse to go around when there's no gas_ And look where we are now.

Is there a plane that can take off from a short driveway and store inside a two-car garage? This could.

This is not a plane, this is a multicopter with benefits. Those benefits being that it can lift off for the very few minutes of powered flight that the most modern batteries can provide. It will never see production like all other gazzilion different multicopters for , *ehem*, "everyday use". And speaking of planes, and helicopters for that matter, as I said this thing will never be able to make an unpowered emergency landing because it won't either glide or autorotate, and will fall like brick both physically and as far as airworthyness certification goes. And in case you may say "oh but those parachutes for small planes" forget it. For any VTOL/STOL every single gram counts, this does not have any to spare.

Luddite

I didn't say it's a plane. I pointed out a plane can't fit in a moderate garage and take off from the driveway. This can.

well we gotta start somewhere buddy. Remember what the first cars were like?

It would never fly w a twist unless you twisted it lengthwise but then there would be no cockpit and what would be the point then?

и в поле есть зарядка

Странный Л Янкович only 4 of the 9 played tennis

Jesse McKay ты пьяный?

chili24137 helicopters kill geese :(

+cuill Less rotor hazard and faster top speed cos the props are nearly horizontal (like a plane) in fast flight (and vertical on hover). The pilot ist tipped 45 degrees forward and back. Good idea cos it's so simple, but has it's drawbacks with a bit of discomfort. Nothing's perfect but this is great cos it's transitional and still simple and what comes with simplicity is cheapness and lightness and way easier to make than a tilt rotorcraft (and does the same job). One or two seats (side-by-side) only, otherwise it would be more like a rollercoaster than a flying car.

it has radically less moving parts than heli

+thelittle And much cheaper than a heli, doing away with the huge rotor and it's complexity and expense. Way safer and more (inherent) reliability, the list goes on.

And much cheaper than a heli, doing away with the huge rotor and it's complexity and expense. Way safer and more (inherent) reliability, the list goes on.

Dota2 Live I don't think it comes with that.

Wing doesn't rotate at all. Moving part=fail point.

Everyone has 2c to waste when sitting on the sidelines doing fuqall.

Video clearly shows it taking off in 10 ft run. It only needs to upend for pure VTOL, which is a pretty reasonable compromise when you consider it doesn't have to have wings that rotate.

build one then....Really thats all you have...

The pilot is tipped 45 degrees forward and back. Good idea cos it's so simple, but has it's drawbacks with a bit of discomfort. Nothing's perfect but this is great cos it's transitional and still simple and what comes with simplicity is cheapness and lightness and way easier to make than a tilt rotorcraft (and does the same job). One or two seats (side-by-side) only, otherwise it would be more like a rollercoaster than a flying car.

electric motors and propellers?

Omicron Vega who said anything about investing? It’s just a video showing it off. Chill out

What? On website the specified nearby everything except the price. They even mentioned differences between USA an International versions.

Kiss Béla moller'ish fake indeed

нуууу) правда нужно усовершенствовать его ,и сделать более безопасным.

можно подзарядиться от попутной ЛЭП )))

So what? Every industry waits on it. That doesn't mean the world should do nothing and wait until the power tech arrives.

Proof it's CGI?

It is not CGI.. This is a real working prototype and this is real flight

They did

The parts that are real are the cockpit/pilot shots. The rest is CGI (some glitchy, such as 0:43) and 1/4 scale models. Find independent video of a full-scale version being flown by a human - it doesn't exit, even with supposedly 12,000 miles logged and 2800 takeoffs and landings. It's vapor-tech looking for further funding. I hope they can build it, but they haven't done so yet. Is Paul Moller involved with this organization?

Not CGI. Smart camera angels and not total, all close-ups. It is fake and illusion, yes, your opinion is correct just not CGI, one drone and smart camera angels and dummy. Not real-people in the machine - machine is a drone -with just dummy

Minimum of moving parts - motors, small control surfaces, that's all, apparently.

поэтому и нужно придумать бесконечную энергию.

Верно чувак, тут на земле эту проблему с теслой не могут решить, а уже на воздушный транспорт замахнулись. Эти пепелацы скорее всего замануха для экзальтированных инвесторов, чтоб бабло выделили. Сразу вспоминаю еще черно белую хронику, где различные фрики строили причудливые летательные аппараты, где нужно было педали крутить и огромные лопасти раскручивать, и ведь взлетали, даже в то время, и что-то так никто эту затею так и не реализовал, по причине огромных энергозатрат, законы физики никто не отменял. Двигаться по земле гораздо выгоднее чем поднимать массу в воздух.

это точно)просто когда бензик кончиться то будут именно такие машины.

Ну может любой дурак и догадается, но не каждый сможет это воплотить в жизнь. Отсеиваем всех дураков, и останется только ГЕНИЙ. аминь

путин гораздо лучше сделал в сколково, гораздо лучше чем на западе, не имеет аналогов, только действующей модели еще не показали, еще пару годиков ребята

It will only be toys for the rich.