Not to stand in traffic jams: a city plane is being developed in Britain

British car manufacturer Aston Martin, in collaboration with Cranfield University and Rolls-Royce and Aerospace Solutions, began developing a private city plane with vertical take-off and landing, according to Naked Science.

The prototype was named Volante Vision Concept. The aircraft, designed for 3 people, will be equipped with a hybrid engine and autopilot.

According to the head of Aston Martin Andy Palmer, the development of such a machine was prompted by a desire to provide an alternative solution to urban problems, including traffic congestion, environmental pollution and low mobility in general.

Such a solution would be air movement, which is an essential part of the transport of the future.

Volante Vision Concept is a solution to all the above problems, equipped with a top class service,

added Palmer.

The idea was strongly supported by the head of the Rolls-Royce Electrical division, Rob Watson. According to him, the company has already demonstrated its hybrid electric systems for ships and trains, and is now pleased to participate in the Volante Vision Concept project.

We are thrilled with the thought of what technological solutions are possible in the aerospace industry,

he declared.

Comments

[ANCIENT]

Will the pilot be hybrid too ??? Helicopters are not enough for them, they are doing nonsense!

[Looking Petrovich]

Quote: ANCIENT

Will the pilot be hybrid too ??? Helicopters are not enough for them, they are doing nonsense!

Well, why? Interesting concept.
It’s not suitable for the Russian Federation: it’s not enough for cops to arrange ambushes in the air, and taking bribes is not convenient.

[Vard]

Those who will fly on such a thing ... Any traffic cop bent ...

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Vard

Those who will fly on such a thing ... Any traffic cop bent ...

Interestingly, Mara Baghdasarian’s papa bald has already begun to gnaw at the purchase of such an ashtray?

[Shurik70]

The concept, of course, is interesting, but what about security? Three motors are not enough.
A bird got into one motor - and accept, pedestrians, a half-ton gift on your head.
So there should be at least four screws (and preferably six), moreover, located on the external rotary rods. Here and stability in flight, and compactness when parking, and the ability to compensate for the failure of one of the motors.

[poquello]

Quote: Looking Petrovich

Quote: ANCIENT

Will the pilot be hybrid too ??? Helicopters are not enough for them, they are doing nonsense!

Well, why? Interesting concept.
It’s not suitable for the Russian Federation: it’s not enough for cops to arrange ambushes in the air, and taking bribes is not convenient.

from E, they are developing, the Japanese are going to exploit for the Olympics, and the German lily flies completely on electricity, by the way IMHO it’s worth buying a lily, there it will be implemented to fold the wings and it’ll be super

[Vladimir 5]

Helicopter take off, you need to “drive” enough air (remember the snowstorm under the helicopter), and then there are 3 mini screws (3x80 + 250 +50) 300 kg .-, picture for ignorant fools ...

[poquello]

Quote: Vladimir 5

Helicopter take off, you need to “drive” enough air (remember the snowstorm under the helicopter), and then there are 3 mini screws (3x80 + 250 +50) 300 kg .-, picture for ignorant fools ...

and Ehan 184, for the knowledgeable? and look at the British fantasies and talk about what is the point, if it's still a fantasy

[Vladimir 5]

Ehan 184 has 8 screws for 280 kg - compare the British with three screws and the load more than 1,4 times ...

[poquello]

Quote: Vladimir 5

Ehan 184 has 8 screws for 280 kg - compare the British with three screws and the load more than 1,4 times ...

Duc by analogy can put 6 and it is like a plane, but actually

look at the British fantasies and talk about what is the point, if it's still a fantasy

[Bypassed]

Modern technologies ensure the production of hydrogen directly at a gas station, while the cost of fuel per 100 km and refueling time are comparable with similar data for cars using gasoline and diesel fuel. Toyota has launched the construction of a Toyota Mirai plant with a TFCS (Toyota Fuel Cell System) propulsion system. Toyota is continuing to improve its models in this class. At the prestigious world motor shows in 2015–2016. introduced the new Toyota FCV Plus concept, which is designed not only for travel, but can also become part of the infrastructure that produces electric energy when not used for its intended purpose. The development of motor vehicles using hydrogen as fuel is supported at the state level in Japan. So, for the 2020 Olympics, Tokyo will spend 360 million euros on “hydrogen” support, partially paying for the construction of gas stations and the cars themselves. A third of the operating costs of each gas station will be jointly offset by Toyota, Honda and Nissan.

[poquello]

Quote: PASSED BY

Modern technologies provide hydrogen production

crossed with one friend, his face is so disfigured in a good way - he produced hydrogen in childhood

[Bypassed]

Is technology safe? In my youth, I rolled hydrogen cylinders .... well, a lot in general, when I studied plasma technologies. But once even cooler - I managed to set fire to about a liter of water - without a fool, just an unsuccessful SHS synthesis (well, I put out a termite in plain water). Blazed - a little without a mustache, nose, eyes and eyebrows did not remain. Thanks to the university sports club - the reaction saved.
But as for hydrogen - so Japan and Norway breathe very unevenly for these technologies. It is understandable - there is plenty of energy and water. By the way, there was a project on Sakhalin - but it seems to have died at the pre-design stage.

[poquello]

Quote: PASSED BY

Is technology safe?

this technique isn’t quite safe, helium is already being pumped into balls instead of hydrogen, and a rationalizer had a car on the water in the USSR, the Japanese had read Soviet science and life and were carried away

[Faceless]

Let them fantasize. They have nowhere to park a car in London in the center, not like an airplane.

[210ox]

Good technique .. For James Bond ...

[HAM]

Yeah, then he certainly wouldn’t screw up with the Skripals, he would have fallen without a trace. Khaili Likely that it was he .... mixed up, but didn’t shake the “newbie”

[210ox]

Yes, according to the plot, he would have pulled the “newcomer” out of the glass and flew further on this stray ... Fleming didn’t finish something ..

Quote: HAM

Yeah, then he certainly wouldn’t screw up with the Skripals, he would have fallen without a trace. Khaili Likely that it was he .... mixed up, but didn’t shake the “newbie”

[Fedoslov]

And we have a VAZ in Russia. And you?
We will soon turn into a large Northern Bantustan. We can’t produce anything.

[kvarfax]

Apparently you either live in a fantasy world or in a parallel universe. Take the same auto industry. We will not go far for examples ... let's say.
Germany, the factory. Can they produce? It would seem yes ... but in fact components are imported there from all over the world! Hmm ... it turns out if Western manufacturers import imported components - this is normal. The globalization of the market and the like, for some reason, doesn’t bother anyone there. If they do it in Russia, it is "they do not know how to produce."
Ok, let's leave the localization. Quality ... numerous reviews of foreign large and very expensive brands. Tell me the matter in the number of breakdowns during operation? Well, but in this parameter too, far from everything is so rosy "with them." This is normal. Hmm ... they turn out to be able to produce. Domestic no. Why? Yes, because they are domestic they can not. And "they" can.
And ... maybe everything is explained simply? Double standards of ratings? As the saying goes, "there is good where we are not." After all, there you are not = there is good. And you are here, a logical conclusion, it’s bad here. But again, a logical conclusion suggests itself ... maybe it’s not at all then what kind of place it is ...
There is a fable on how the summer went
bee -Oh! Wonderful, there are flowers, honey, and a lot of sun! -
dung fly -go ... oh! One foul smelling th ... about the circle! -
choose who you are.

[alstr]

I will add. My classmate worked for Ford. Been to several factories in internships. So he said that the quality of our assembly was better than, for example, Spanish.
So that we can normally collect.

[Fedoslov]

What? Is it normal for us to collect? 6 brand new KAMAZs came to our organization. I did not expect such a shame. Practically ALL nuts the workers had to stretch. Is this a quality control system?

[alstr]

I don’t know about KAMAZ. Only about Ford. And that was in the early 2000s.

[kvarfax]

I do not know about KAMAZ, but on other machines the first MOT requires just pulling all the nuts. And given that your Kamaz trucks were apparently moving under their own power, this happened, so ... it looks like a normal regular situation. And you just hastened to conclusions.

[Bypassed]

Volkswagen at the Paris Motor Show 2016 showed the concept ID, the serial version of which is scheduled for 2020. Electric car ID represents the next generation of innovative electric vehicles and, according to the company, will set the automobile standards for the future. For example, the ID is equipped with a gesture control system and an active info display on the windshield.
The electric hatchback will be equipped with a 125-kilowatt (170 hp) PS electric motor. Volkswagen, the range is up to 600 km. It is stated that this is the first Volkswagen concept car that can move in a fully autonomous mode.

[reservist]

The Russian company Hover Surf, the founder of which is our compatriot Alexander Atamanov, introduced a flying vehicle at the Gitex 2017 exhibition in Dubai by order of the emirate’s police.

[Azazelo]

And the residents of the city will perceive the screeching of these city planes ???

[NF68]

I can imagine how these planes will fall in the event of accidents or serious malfunctions. If in an ordinary car there is still a chance to survive, then in aircraft such chances are meager. And for those on whose heads this miracle of technology may fall, too little is pleasant.

[san4es]

Quote: NF68

I can imagine how these planes will fall in the event of accidents or serious malfunctions ..

... Parachute will add

[NN52]

Well, actually San, the idea is beautiful ... Hello!
Only now before the mass implementation at our current level of technical development and science in particular, it is not known how much time will pass ...
And so he would fly on this prodigy, having previously disabled the autopilot ...

[san4es]

... Greetings

Quote: NN52

.... I would fly on this prodigy, having previously disabled the autopilot ...

... Chur. I am a passenger! ... But the parachute system is a must!

[NN52]

What San do not trust?
We are low and not fast, and a pancake ...

[san4es]

Quote: NN52

What San do not trust?
We are low and not fast, and a pancake ...

... How is it? .. I'm going higher ... Well, consider a quadrocopter (class).

[NN52]

Well, if Sanya is higher, then first you’ll go through the medicine chamber (if you go ..)
And the quadcopter camera is bad ... For 100 km .... altitude ...

[san4es]

Quote: NN52

, .. a beautiful idea ..., I myself would have flown on this prodigy ...

... Dim, and on such an "albatross", could he?

[NN52]

Sanya, well, this frail airplane ...
If I understand correctly, then it is controlled by body weight (moving body weight), if not mistaken ..
Definitely not for me, I'm not extreme ...
Fly yourself on such a miracle ..

[san4es]

Quote: NN52

Sanya, oh well, this frail airplane ... Fly yourself on such a miracle ..

... chasing the ducks - just right

[NN52]

How to shoot?
It will take you back ...
And how can I throw off my dog ​​after game in the swamp? She will disagree ...

[san4es]

Quote: NN52

How to shoot?
It will take you back ...

... from a dive

... And how can I throw off my dog ​​after game in the swamp? She will disagree ...

... by parachute

... Communication failed ... press brought
(!) .... For the flood - Sorry

[sabakina]

Dmitry, good day? I do not understand, due to what it takes off? Is it really just a thought? * There is no propeller, a jet stream is not visible, a “towing aircraft” too ....

[NN52]

Hello, Glory!

There is a small jet engine.
But managing this device is somehow tricky ..
Japanese, in a word ...

[NF68]

Quote: san4es

Quote: NF68

I can imagine how these planes will fall in the event of accidents or serious malfunctions ..

... Parachute will add

And those who, to their "happiness" will be exactly under the miracle plane urgently give out helmets? Only here and urgently, in seconds, the issued helmets will not help.

[san4es]

Quote: NF68

... issued helmets will not help.

... No, they won’t help ... the weight is big. Have to equip a siren (during the descent), to disperse the crowd .......

[NF68]

Quote: san4es

Quote: NF68

... issued helmets will not help.

... No, they won’t help ... the weight is big. Have to equip a siren (during the descent), to disperse the crowd .......

It was easier to create a vehicle — something similar to airmail of just the right size — and it’s not necessary to turn it all up to great heights.

[MPN]

Quote: NF68

Imagine how these planes will fall

They will fall by parachute and very smoothly ... but it will not be difficult to hijack anything on such a transport (in a place with transport) with the help of hackers ... well, I think so ...

[NF68]

Quote: MPN

Quote: NF68

Imagine how these planes will fall

They will fall by parachute and very smoothly ... but it will not be difficult to hijack anything on such a transport (in a place with transport) with the help of hackers ... well, I think so ...

The same hackers can arrange such a traffic schedule that few people would not think. And anyway this taratayka will fall down. And from elementary failures of equipment or the same electronics no one can give firm guarantees. Perhaps something like this can still really appear, but at a completely different level of technological development.

[parusnik]

Beautiful car. a beautiful idea ... but there are plenty of problems if implemented ...

[kakvastam]

It will be possible to talk about any massive use of “air cars” only after the introduction of fully automatic piloting (with corresponding changes in the legislation), otherwise there will be unacceptably many disasters.
But you still have to master the third coordinate; today's transport system creates too many bottlenecks.

[Yrec]

The automaker, in collaboration with the "British scientists" invented the plane. Already funny.

[RUSS]

Over the past 10 years, how many have already created such flying machines .... And what's the point?

[100502]

Imagine how a rich addict in big ben flies on this miracle)

[Piramidon]

What is somewhat reminiscent of publications in Soviet magazines "TM", "Young Technician", "model designer." Maybe slammed from there? In Soviet times, there was such a bike that the Japanese subscribe to all of our magazines, + hire cleaning agents in our design bureaus, who get all the developments they have refused from the bins ..

[Horon]

Such projects from time to time arise and are safely forgotten due to low security in a real city! Another grant eating without a real future!

[evil partisan]

It is strange that Elon Musk has not yet been noted on such a burning topic. ...Though ... He has no time now . Hyperlop designs in Dnepropetrovsk. Ugh! - Dnieper !!

[BISMARCK94]

I don’t understand the ridicule in the direction of development ... The future lies with aircraft, then only a teleport except. Although ... Probably also laughed at the first planes and cars ...

[Rostislav]

Serious players gathered, however.

[Ros 56]

May it not be so much as you can carry nonsense. You gentlemen, first learn how to accidentally use what is available now (air, auto, motorcycle, ship.), And then stutter about the future.

[Manul]

We are also going to Mars. It is funny and sad at the same time. In this shell of lifting force on itself only. And they will begin to develop - the helicopter will turn out

[Hole puncher]

Looks like traffic jams, I understand.

[M. Michelson]

Yes autogyros for these purposes it is necessary to revive!