Pivotal | BlackFly Pilot's First Flight 

Looks great but I would want a ballistic parachute!!

With a craft of this type, take off should be quick and rise to safe parachute working height as quick as possible. Obviously if something goes wrong before you reach safe parachute deployment height, you're screwed. However hugging the earth at a low height could be more dangerous, if something goes wrong, even if you have a ballistic parachute on board. With all these quad copter technologies , whereby no actual lift, or very little lift is generated by the craft, then it's absolutely vital that a safe height flying profile is mait ntained at all times. This is a great flying machine, and looks great fun!

Awesome!!

Fantastic. Thank you so much for posting.

I think it needs landing gear and some short of g's absorbable matterial at the belly in case of a mulfunction or harsh landing. Maybe a rapid inflate foam or air department. (Like an airbag).

Awesome job guys!

I really enjoy paraglider videos - so elemental! This is gonna be even better!

As a small fixed wing pilot, I was a lot more comfortable once he had some airspeed up!

This is really incredible technology coupled with balls of steel!

Amazing!! 3-5 minute flight time?

Cool! Good job! Stéph.

Congratulations!!

AWSOME!

That had to be awesome.

Only thing missing is the ballistic parachute. Really cool

🤩👍 Wunderbar!

The right stuff mate.

The retrograde landing maneuver tells me that, A: extensive simulator training will be required, or B: there’s going to some crashed ‘flys needing repairs! Admire the idea of the craft, though I wonder about the actual product. We shall be watching for updates.

Hope it has a ballistic parachute.

So sick!!!

The dream is alive!

A pivotal moment

A very promising concept. It combines transitioning function with a very low number of moving parts. This will provide cost efficiency in traveling fast. I am curious about what's next.

How cool 30 minutes of flight. We have come so far.

I would love one of these in the garage..

Nice

Hugely important to put on the onesie

Isn't this revolutionary eVTOL 2 years old? A paper-thin carbon fiber (uncertified) multi-copter that will never see prime time, like all the rest (use at your own risk). I'm following Wisk, the Boeing green/eScam write off, since it made a very public splash last year at Long Beach. Update in two years. Bets on regular commuter service?

i have issues with the primary flight display being a tablet.

OK. When appears version equipped with K-36MD I will try it.

I know it’s probably dangerous but I’d love to fly it.

During the flight I constantly thought he should stay closer to the ground in case of a malfunction. That being said, I WANT ONE!

This is a great evolution from FPVs and a nice step on the way to affordable personal flight. So many doubters in the comments, but I am glad to see people are still willing to put their life on the line to push the frontiers of human experience. How long until we see them being raced with Red Bull logos on the side?

Death waiting to fall from the sky.

M83 are fantastic but not required here! Incredible aircraft though.

How long will it fly for?

It has a Perspex floor so pilot can judge glide angle during engine-out.

So funny Peter Sripol put his dad in his huge quadcopter vtol.

Byron or Rio Vista?

How much for a 180 second flight?

no auto rotation to land safely, no wings to glide in unpowered. Just drop like a rock....not for me.

Congratulations on a successful flight of an amazing design and build. Looking forward to more!

Amazing choice for the soundtrack! I love that song.

Hope it has an emergency chute in the event of disaster, although it won’t help in the v-tol phase.

Great for its 3 minute range.

Same cost as a Titan sub ride, what a coincidence.

How’s the glide ratio? 😮

If the motors die so do you !

I want one.

Stone with bows. Камень с бантиками

Is it possible for me to do a review video of this?

The smile says it all.

I imagine that this thing has, probably, like Lilium, triple redundant battery/electronics, and can hover with 1/2 motor power.

Try the sim... good idea! But how?

I call it the Spruce Goose… get in Smithers! 💀 lol, just kidding, looks amazing, are they available on Amazon yet?

I don't mean to piss on anyone's parade, but just what exactly is the company behind this trying to accomplish? Where would one park this thing at their office? How much would the electrical bill cost each month to keep this charged enough to make it to and from work each day and then maybe a little trip here and there over the weekend? What happens when just one of the motors begins to struggle a little? How does their software handle that situation? And what if there is a power loss due to a hidden fault in that particular battery pack? Remember "Houston, we have a problem"? Hidden flaws can rear their ugly heads in any component, at any time, in any place, at any altitude, and this craft has a simple-to-calculate glide path when they do: straight down. Where does one take it for maintenance? How will replacement parts be acquired if the company begins to financially struggle so parts manufacturing has to take a back seat to paying the employees? Don't get me wrong: this is a beautiful toy that should make a few millionaires squeal with delight. But for the life of me, that's about as far as I could see this thing -- or any other craft like it -- penetrate the market for single-person aircraft.

Well done. You made a crappier more expensive type of plane

Congratulations on getting to manned flight. It looked a little abrupt on the launch, and a touch rough on landing. I don't think you're going to sell many, but I'd bet on the systems you develop for safety and flight control are going to be technologies you will sell to many manufacturers with less radical designs.

We need these in rural areas for emergency first response.

Will await the jetson flying car.

🆒😎👍!

It is my opinion that the nose-skyward takeoff and the rear downward landings are going to relegate this craft to the bottom of the heap as far as "man carrying drones" go. I was also surprised to see how little actual LEVEL flight was achieved during this test.

It would be nice if it had simple landing gear on it so it could moved easily without the external wheel setup. Also why takeoff vertically when you could do a very short takeoff and have more forward visibility? Flexibility would be nice. Sure there would be a weight penalty but if you go somewhere you are not going to be able to move it on the ground.

Absolutely needs a parachute system. Not if but when this has an electrical failure your done...

Hope it has a built-in emergency rescue system....

Such a goofy concept

I still wonder why there are no landing skids on this craft.

What would happen in this craft if there was total engine or power failure?

Why is it leaning back during take off and landing.

Strap missiles to it on your next promo and your minted.

Damn...

An electric airplane with no glide ratio. What could possibly go wrong?

Ditch the music

How about certificates

Why not have a couple of feet to stand that thing straight upright on the landing.

Popped CB and your fokkered!

I'd rather have a Cub

It's a cool toy but I see no practical purpose for it other than experimentation. Very limited range and probably no recharge options other than at the takeoff point.

proper landing gear would make it look a bit more complete

Ya know, as far as the ballistic shoot, 🤔think I’d rather have 4 small rockets to slow the landing…ala Falcon booster recovery technology.

Very nice. Kinda over dramatic though. Grass strips seem to be the common landing option. Not a good work commuter. Especially to a parking lot made of concrete.

What's with everyone saying too dangerous and even a parachute wont save you? Name any aircraft that is 100% safe or even close until you have completed your climb out and set for cruise. The take-off and landing phases for any aircraft is the most critical and dangerous.

Pilot? What pilot?

Computer software works 100% of the time. Have you turning it off and back on agai................

Can it maintain flight with only 4 motors? I think id have a chute on it, but then again I wouldnt fly it anyway because im a coward when it comes to gravity.

Why though?

I think this channel is shadow banned or something

Why did they design this thing with such poor ground visibility below the pilot? I fly a gyrocopter because of the great visibility & long flight time-range!

No air foil to glide if motors fail. A fatality is imminent!

I think the design of this is very cool. Except that it is (by law) an aeroplane, and as such, it is bound by all the laws of aviation. Repeat after me: THERE WILL NEVER BE A FLYING CAR.

If you thought helicopters were noisy.......

i hope you dont use made in china batteries

Could always do better without the dramatic music. I hate music in Aircraft videos. How come car videos dont have these magical fantasy music overlaid? No one learns.

Why not just make a drone car.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

A goose would destroy that….

With giant pinwheels as a backdrop, to boot. This is so wrong on so many levels.

He didn't "fly" it at all. Must have been preprogrammed to do that flight. As a pilot that would NOT be fun. Let me fly the thing, see how it "feels", what is a wing stall like what kind of roll control does it have, how is the elevator pitch sensitivity things like that.

Bin the music it’s pants. And no female will ever be able to fly this aircraft… why? Because you have to reverse it down 😂😂

We call the people who fly in these things crash test dummies. These things are a waste of human endeavour and the Earth’s resources.