The only reason it is done manually is because it makes people feel safer, it can be done by the computer and the computer never fucks it up.
notice how 99.9% of plane crashes are pilot error not computer error if we exclude mechanical failure?
which lets be honest, mechanical failure is the main reason flying cars won't happen not because of chads being morons in them.
car breaks down and it stops, aircraft breaks down and ya die.
Something like pic related will be insanely easy to build. Essential a glider fuselage with 4 electric dusted fans that tilt forward.
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that wouldn't work lol
thing needs wings to generate lift, with engines like that, they generate only thrust
Many years of building stupid shit on KSP tells me that won't work, it needs a lifting body then it would work.
>$2 million flying buttplug
It would work, just not as pictured for more than 20 seconds. It would just never have the engines pointing horizontal with fuselage, constantly at an angle of 45 degrees or so, depending on airspeed/thrust.
You can point thrust in different directions, you know, like a VTOL aircraft. They're just extending this to 'flying'.
It will work, but as with KSP, you'll be using a fuckload of energy/fuel in keeping it aloft without generated lift.
Worryingly poor display of aero knowledge up in here.
Zee Germans are busy working on it.
The Lilium Jet – The world's first all-electric VTOL jet
-300 km range
-300+ km/h
-5 seats
-foolproof
-safety
>“You can’t hear it when it’s flying, you don’t need to build any infrastructure that cuts through nature, and it doesn’t create any emissions [fine dust or CO2],” says Wiegand, claiming that the Lilium jet can potentially become the means of transportation that creates the smallest impact on the environment possible.
>On the topic of Lilium’s Munich-based HQ, Wiegand says the jet’s ‘made in Germany’ engineering has been “a very good friend that is well-known,” not least in the eyes of investors.
Lilium has just raised $90 million in Series B funding. A year ago it raised $10 million in backing, bringing its total capital investment to a cool $100 million. Pretty good going for a company that was only officially founded in 2015. Lilium is now a thriving start up driven by the passion to revolutionize personal transportation. Financially secure thanks to reputable investors and supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA.
What happened to that one with the folding wings?