RE: Airspeeder aerial racing series announced

RE: Airspeeder aerial racing series announced

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zombeh

693 posts

186 months

Monday 8th July 2019
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AnotherClarkey said:
It's a shame really because the idea is intriguing. I wonder how it could be made reasonably safe given the speeds and altitude? Just let it crash with the pilot in a protected cell and crumple zones/airbags? Could a kind of zero/zero ballistic parachute be made to work?
Ballistic chutes for that sort of weight aircraft have been used as low as 100 feet, I'd not want to rely on one though and would much prefer to be in something that's designed to be hard to crash.

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Monday 8th July 2019
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I don’t think the ‘60s F1 car look works. Would prefer a modern drone to look like a modern drone.

qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months

Monday 8th July 2019
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Drone racing is fantastic, but clip something and they tend to crash, very quickly.

If you could encase the rotors to stop them clipping things that might be quite helpful.

Seeing them scaled up to take people would be amazing, they'll need a bit of protection I guess.

I'd love to see it happen, even if you fly solo and they just compare timed laps.


951TSE

600 posts

156 months

Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Maybe they should talk to Colin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k

After all what could possibly go wrong.

DavieBNL

292 posts

62 months

Wednesday 10th July 2019
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OK I am really missing something here. Drones by definition are unmanned, racing them, especially with those FPV specs, looks great fun.

But put a person in it? How is that then drone racing, surely that is just small sub-scale (maybe) aircraft racing?

Or, is the person sitting in this device just baggage while someone else on the ground controls it - hence the inclusion of the "drone" descriptor? So who would volunteer for that?

What am I not getting?

CanAm

9,115 posts

271 months

Wednesday 10th July 2019
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DavieBNL said:
OK I am really missing something here. Drones by definition are unmanned, racing them, especially with those FPV specs, looks great fun.

But put a person in it? How is that then drone racing, surely that is just small sub-scale (maybe) aircraft racing?

Or, is the person sitting in this device just baggage while someone else on the ground controls it - hence the inclusion of the "drone" descriptor? So who would volunteer for that?

What am I not getting?
The manufacturer does not call these drones, except that the flying prototype is an unmanned ¾ scale version of the octocopter, and therefore a drone v

DavieBNL

292 posts

62 months

Thursday 11th July 2019
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Ah cheers CanAm, get it. Obviously need to pay more attention!