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Meet 'Blackbird': A flying taxi that spins and moves in any direction thanks to new propulsion system (www.space.com)

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A new type of flying car could soon be ferrying passengers through the skies using a novel propulsion technology, engineers say.

On Nov. 5, CycloTech, an Austrian company that builds flying car components, unveiled blueprints for its new "BlackBird" demonstrator aircraft — a flying car that uses a custom-made alternative to propellers.

Dubbed the "CycloRotor," this all-electric propulsion system is based on the principle of the Voith Schneider propeller (VSP) — which is frequently used on tug boats and ferries.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh come the fuck on with this. It's a quadrotor, but with even more axis of failure. Cyclorotors are not new, we've been using them on ships for ~100 years and on experimental aircraft since at least the 90s.

I will give this company credit though, they do have a tech demo that can fly. It's teensy, but it does look like they've actually done some amount of novel engineering to get this working.

Every time I see one of these new "air taxi" things, I play a little game with myself: "Is this more capable than a helicopter?". Thus far the answer has always, invariably, emphatically been no. Helicopters! They're already more than dangerous enough. Stop trying to make them even flimsier.