Excellent summary of current WIG technology ! There were a few of these I seemed to have missed. Daniel is doing great work at RCTestFlight here in Seattle. I’ve always thought the hover wing could be improved upon. It was always just a mashup and flies at an odd angle forcing the pilot to peer over the nose. The hovercraft aspect gets the machine free of the surface a little faster with less power, but once airborne it just becomes extra drag and weight. Enjoyed your video ! 👍🏼
Hi. I am developing an electric amphibian roadable flying car design that works really well on water, in ""ground effect"", and transitions to land using its 4 large wheels. It is called the Sky Chaser, and looks and drives like a car, flies both vertically and horizontally, and is amphibian. It has 2 rotating prop motors in front and a stationary prop motor in back blowing thrust through its internal wing. It is basically a twin engine tractor tricopter flying wing design, with double elevons, and double rudders, and has extremely short wings forming the body of the vehicle. The rotating front motors are mounted on nacels connected to the internal wing, and the prop motors throw high speed thrust over the internal wing. This gives the short wing a lot more lift. Also the side panels housing the wheels extend both above and below the wing and help channel the thrust over the wing and act as wiglets, which reduce the wingtip vortices, thereby reducing drag. The vehicle works very well in all modes of operation. It works great on water and can take off an land both vertically or horizontally. The wheels acts as rudders in the water, and the thrust over the wing lifts the vehicle out of the water, with only the rotating wheels guiding the vehicle, enabling the vehicle to take off on water in a very short distance. The thrust over the wing also enable transition from VTOL to plane mode and visa versa at very slow speeds, making the transitions very stable. It flies really well and is very maneuverable. The vehicle can seen in my icon on the top left hand side of this post. If you click on the icon you will find flight test videos. The design was tested as a 1/6 scale vehicle built using water resistant foam board and hot glue, and the bottom part was also covered with packing tape to make it extra water tight. In addition, I have recently made a functional full scale unmanned prototype which has begun to hover. I started the project in 2016 in San Diego, Calif, and 3 years ago the project moved to the middle of Sweden to work with a business partner, where our goal is to make a Blade Runner style manned flying car. For more information about the project, search: Sky Chaser flying car. Flight videos on TikTok. Search William Walker Sky Chaser. SkyChaser(dot)se
Someone needs to marry a WIG hull, to a Caproni flying barrel type of air prop (above the back deck area), with one air cooled engine to power both the air prop(s), and the water jet propulsion systems.
@@onewingspanaboveFrom the first second of seeing Soviet ekranoplans they have been my favorite form of transit and so any channel that focuses on them I save, and once I saw you had a channel about gev's and were naming other channels dealing with gev's I felt someone may also wish to see them.... I enjoy your channel.
IM A FILIPINO INVENTOR, MAYBE IF REGENT CAN HIRE ME AS A DESIGNER AND FUND ME FOR MY RESEARCH, NOT ONLY THEY CAN BEAT DARPA THEY CAN BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. AND MY DESIGN HAS SO MANY SAFETY FEATURES, ITS SO EASY TO ADAPT THAT CAR MANUFACTURERS WILL BE HAPPY TO ADAPT TO MY DESIGN.
@@onewingspanabove i give a clue, remember about cyclocopter , not the circular one but the threaded. theres somebody who make it but his design is not feasible for real application also those circular ones also. i found a way to make it practical and feasible. sometimes you just tweek it a little and add some personal touch to an existing tech to make it your own.
@@onewingspanabove one type of my design is based on cyclocopter, if your creative enough youll figure it out. for ex. youll just replace the wheels of a motorcyle taking advantage of cyclocopters ground to effect. a little food for thought. i still have another 5 types of propulsion that i originally thought out. one in those design can conquer the pacific, an air fortress. youll be amazed how simple it is to make.
