Subject: Re: [ipwave] Flying cars and taxi one step closer to reality

From: Alexandre Petrescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:01:33 +0200

Fred,

I would like to know whether somebody came up with groups of such flying 
taxis or VTOLs, like when they came up with 'platoon's of convoyed cars 
on the ground?

Alex

Le 19/09/2019 à 17:51, Templin (US), Fred L a écrit :
> Alex, Urban Air Mobility is indeed inevitable and will be the vertical 
> component
> 
> of an integrated 3D its landscape. Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> Fred
> 
> *From:*Alexandre Petrescu [mailto:[email-masked]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2019 1:22 AM
> *To:* Templin (US), Fred L <[email-masked]>; [email-masked]
> *Subject:* Re: [ipwave] Flying cars and taxi one step closer to reality
> 
> SEveral companies do more and more flying taxis, now safely with people 
> on board.  It takes some courage, but it's a wider audience now.
> 
> 3. France 2 Telematin samedi 14 octobre "Futur du Transport Urbain", à 
> partir du 2:48:36 dela video 
> https://www.france.tv/france-2/telematin/1060857-telematin.html
> 
> Le 24/01/2019 à 16:34, Templin (US), Fred L a écrit :
> 
>     Hi Alex,
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
> 
>         From: its [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of Alexandre Petrescu
> 
>         Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 3:47 AM
> 
>         To:[email-masked]  <mailto:[email-masked]>
> 
>         Subject: Re: [ipwave] Flying cars and taxi one step closer to reality
> 
>         Impressive,
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
>         The kind of thrill seeing these videos is similar to seeing (manned)
> 
>         first plane vertical take-offs.
> 
>         Airbus also featured air taxi ambitious concepts (cartoons) on youtube
> 
>         since almost two years.
> 
>         A company named AKKA in Europe proposes a similar concept of more of a
> 
>         plane (horizontal take-off) which self-... flies.
> 
>         The Dubai air taxi did fly a year ago, but there was no human inside, so
> 
>         one legitimately wonders whether it could actually carry that much weight.
> 
>         The new thing about the boeing video is that we see larger propellers
> 
>         and a dummy body inside (hopefully weighted).  It seems much closer to
> 
>         implementations.  Impressive.
> 
>         The next step would be to see a human take responsibility of sitting on
> 
>         the drone while lifting a few meters above ground.  Like in what they
> 
>         did with first elevator in NYC, first man in first plane, bridge
> 
>         engineer first walk on bridge, agency director first liftoff towards
> 
>         first man in space, etc.  Until then one still doubts :-)
> 
>     Already been done, and a long time ago (Lunar Landing Research
> 
>     Vehicle (LLRV) - 1969):
> 
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSlaYfxklm4
> 
>     Fred
> 
>         Remark, contrary to the self-piloting(?) air taxies, the challenge for
> 
>         self-driving cars is to see a car, or a group of cars, on the road
> 
>         _without_ humans inside.  One did see drivers with hands off the wheel,
> 
>         drivers on passenger seats (nobody on driver's seat), etc.
> 
>         Alex
> 
>         Le 23/01/2019 à 16:46, Templin (US), Fred L a écrit :
> 
>             Hi, lately we have been talking quite a bit about flying cars and taxis in a
> 
>             theoretical sense, but today Boeing has issued a public announcement
> 
>             showing that they are one step closer to reality. Here is your air taxi for
> 
>             the urban air mobility environment:
> 
>             https://www.yahoo.com/news/boeing-passenger-air-vehicle-prototype-111551329.html
> 
>             Thanks - Fred
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