What it's like to fly the Opener BlackFly eVTOL 

Amazing vehicle. Build in a parachute for the vehicle.

Wow... pretty humble guy doesn't know how awesome this really is🤣👌👌

This is insane 🔥🔥🔥

I saw your vehicle at the Pacific Airshow yesterday. It's was very futuristic looking. Looks like the wind was a challenge for a light weight vehicle?

Very interesting--most mature E-VTOL I have seen. I have always felt the most important thing for E-VTOL is to get to airshows like Oshkosh and demonstrate flight and this aircraft did well with a laid back test pilot as laid back as my Light Sport CFI was. This test pilot has done a good job explaining the aircraft and its viability as an aerial SUV. Even as a fixed wing LSA pilot, recreation-ally I rarely have flown more than an hour, and as an Ultralight trike pilot, even less time. This garage-able aircraft also solves as the test pilot mentions worries about airspace encroachment given the limitations designed into FAR 103. I can eventually envision longer range for it as new batteries come to market provided its flight management system is engineered and planned to allow those in the coming years.

The fly approves.

Innovatively simple and efficient design, well done!

very cool design! i'd love to try one out!

They really should make a small drone version of this. This thing is very simple to make (compared to other multi-mode drones), should allow for some very efficient flight when not hovering and still can takeoff and land nearly vertically. As a camera platform or just for fun it would be a great thing and sell like hot cake. Just put a rotating disk-like payload pod in the center to keep a camera or whatever in a fixed attitude to the ground and you'd have a great platform, much better than normal quads or planes for many applications (not all of course). As a crewed ultralight it always will be hideously expensive and they will need lots of redundancy and still will have to argue about safety all the time. Everything that is great about this concept is just as great as a drone and it even would be great PR for the ultralight version. Sell it for $999 and they'll land a hit with it. Quads have very limited range (due to no lift, so lots of battery draw in horizontal flight) and planes can't hover. It really is an absolutely unique and ingenious concept.

This VTOL is hard to beat in simplicity and compactness.

There's a caution at the 3:23 mark. Pilots must meet FAA Part 103 regulations so they aren't flying over populated areas or below certain altitudes or in controlled airspace, etc.

I would prefer a little more wing surface just incase even though that wouldn't help you in a hover with sudden power loss.

How many decibels at 20ft away

At least they are flying higher than 2 feet, so I’ll give it credit there.

This is exactly what I've been looking for, being able to experience flight without the costs of hangers, fuel, costly training etc... If the price is right ;)

This seems like the coolest and safest version…looks way safer than jetson

This is a cool experimental copter. Would love to take it for a spin! Anyway, thanks for the video folks!

Almost off the bat, I can think of a use for this aircraft in remote areas to be able to carry emergency medical equipment and medicines, and minimal amounts of food to sustain folks for 2 to 3 days until full rescue options are available.

Man was like "Planes worth millions , let me make mine" 😂😂

Wings seem small so I don’t think it would glide well like a regular plane that can glide for miles also say two motors cut out are you dropping like a rock?

I think it's been years you have been talking about selling the vehicle it gets me all Excited when you keep saying it's going to be on the market and it never happens, I've signed my email address to be on a list and I have not heard a word about it any more

Can it glide if you loose engines? If not, what happens?

"....we just call it The Bat"

what happens if a person puts conflicting inputs into the 2 sticks?

Could it be flown in the UK with no pilot's licence

BLACKFLY IS A GOOD CONCEPT. BUT THOSE IN CHARGE ARE NOT THE BEST...THE BLACKFY IN THIS VIDEO... HOW LONG DID IT FLY FOR?

So I will take 5, one for me and one for each of my adult kids:)

I'd like to see a 20 min video of someone actually flying this thing...a lot of people are saying it's not real...

DJI Human

How much would this cost?

I will make a garage for my house that the roof slides open for landing:)

LOOKS GREAT. I`D LIKE TO TRY ONE OUT.

I don't understand why we can't buy one

Needs some landing gear!

Can it glide if it suffers engine failure?

This is very interesting and cool, but until it can serve a purpose it's just an expensive toy. For example, when you can take your wife and two kids, plus the dog, plus luggage, on a five state tour, without having to wait hours to recharge after every few hundred miles, THEN it will serve a porpose. When I can take my wife into town for groceries and supplies, THEN it will serve a purpose. In short, it would need a lot more power, more space, and a liquid fueled engine. What you have now is a vehicle for novelty, and for short flight tourism, or short reconnaissance or survey hops.

That AOPA is featuring this aircraft in this way would imply that the Black Fly is soon coming to market. Let's hope. When are demo flights coming in my area?

I REALLY REALLY REALLY want one sooooooo bad!!!!!!!

i want one

For short, low, fast single person evac, i can see this being useful in war

No x box controllers i hope

But would this fly on PPL, LAPL or a Heli license???

Yes

"Somebody who doesn't have a pilot's license" Perfect, can't wait until the sky is full of them. What can possibly go wrong.?

The real question: what is flight time vs charging time?

I dont understand. This makes no sense. He never said bro? Not once.

The future is exciting

Make a one that’s capable to glide, simply put propellers on a glider and I would take 1

Very cool day job!! Kind of like being a paid race car driver😊

I already have experience flying a DJI Mavic so I’ll bet I could fly that thing with half the training they recommend.

Of all the "flying" cars this has been the one that seems the most exciting because of its ease of use and supposedly projected low cost to consumer. Also the safety features are impressive. Every other flying car either requires one to obtain a pilots license, which is costly and time consuming. Then the prices of nearly every one I've seen has been obscene. Like one I saw in a video that it's selling for $400,000.00 + and it's completely self flying. That's no fun! You should have the option to either fly it yourself or put it on autopilot...

When can I expect delivery?

They're using using Forced Perspective to make the pilot look larger than a child.

CMON FOLKS !!! OVER 100 GRAND FOR THIS ??? Make it 20 k, so people can afford this....There is only 14 minutes of flight available before full charge is needed....You can sell tens of millions of these worldwide at 20 k prices IF you advertise right, especially in Australia, and New Zealand.......

Sounds very loud, too much so for city use

Wonderful development. Have you guys considered something like a Catto Propeller (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4YIRRotxv8g.html) to increase efficiency and eliminate noise?

Cool, but that UP inflection of the pilot nearly killed me.

The question I always ask of EVTOL, if there is ever a zero thrust condition in cruise, can it be landed in a controlled manner? I don't care if it's gliding, auto-rotating, or a parachute and I acknowledge that every aircraft has an envelope where no thrust is going to crash. If it cannot be landed from cruise in a total failure of thrust, it's a death trap. Don't get me wrong, I'd still have a go, but I'd do so knowing that it's a death trap, but I would not BUY a death trap. Still, that thing is pretty cool and I hope they prove all skeptics, myself included, wrong.

Why does everything he say sound like a question? That’s a really weird way to talk?

Looks a bit unstable in all ways.....

If I had the money to buy one I definitely would for 10 hour trips back and forth to west Texas

This gives off Titan Submarine vibes…..

so now its 2023 .. so whats happening? any updates or has opener gone bankrupt? they have had plenty of time ......dated 3/10/2023

If you could keep the price around $50K, it might be feasible…

Do you need another engineer?

Open Access! Lol

Only $100,000 + lol

Why does he ask a question with everything he says?🙄

They have hobbled my knight in the orbitsl rotation

when it can carry 400 lbs with an hour of flight time and retractable landing gear at a price point below $60k i'll buy it. til then its just a toy for rich guys.

This power line powered passenger drone (a.k.a cable drone ) could be another alternative: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-unKaU5FyDrw.html

The way he talks, hard to listen

They really couldn’t incorporate some sort of landing gear? 😂😂😂

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But it's a flopping sea horse. Why.. that's never going to be a viable commercial configuration and they stuck with it unchanged, zero progress for I don't know how many years now. It may be an opener but it's not a closer.

Another rich guy toy no real practical use.😅

Now if they would get off their a$$e$ and sell this. I’d like one before I turn 90

Stupid, dangerous and full of noise and ecological damage! please don’t let this happen to our environment! i absolutely agree to this as an ambulance btw.

It's awful.

Meet George Jetson.....

THRUST, COCKpit, JOYSTICK.

Whats innovative here?! Its just a big ass drone