![]() In fact, this bird can be plugged in and charged up just like a Tesla. There have also been breakthroughs in battery power management, allowing these machines to be powered electrically. Variation of the flight controllers that keep our drones stable in the air are used in these machines, which make many hundreds of calculations per second, adjusting power to individuals motors in a non-stop flow to ensure stable flight. The whole VTOL world has gotten a massive kickstart from the work that’s been done with drones. It’s often referred to as UAM, or Urban Air Mobility. It’s part of a coming shift in aviation where we’ll see drone-like vehicles transport goods, and people, over urban areas and to nearby cities. The company bills it as “the world’s first consumer drive & fly eVTOL,” where eVTOL stands for Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing. Its planned vehicle is called ASKA, and it looks pretty interesting. One of them is on display in the US at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s museum:Īnd now comes word that another company is entering the modern flying car era. ![]() Get in there and do a search for “Flying Cars” and you’ll pull up some amazing concepts like this one: It drives! It flies! It’s a flying car!!!Ĭonvair, which produced the car illustrated above, briefly did make flying cars. There was something great about seeing those old articles, which the blog described cleverly as Tomorrow’s Future Today. One of my favorite blogs, which appears to now be dormant, used to be. And a lot of concepts that made it onto the pages of Popular Mechanic, but no further. ![]() There were a lot of dreamers in those early days. And why wouldn’t they? I mean, think of the convenience if you could have a vehicle that could drive you to the office and fly you safely to a neighboring city? ![]() Though they didn’t have online metrics in those days (there was no internet), you can bet that those stories picked up a ton of eyeballs. If you’ve ever look at an old issue of Popular Mechanics, you’ll have seen concepts for flying cars. ![]()
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