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Post by Peter Lewis on Jun 6, 2015 8:44:48 GMT 12
I compare the MJP to the Segway.
In both concepts, the original idea was low-cost, flexible personal transport.
In both cases the end result has been/will be a relatively high-cost low-usabilty machine that will only work in niche markets.
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Post by conman on Jun 6, 2015 9:43:15 GMT 12
It is also as noisy as hell, can't see it being allowed to fly in anything but the remotest of areas, I have still not seen any video of it flying with a real person more than 10 feet off the ground, I wonder what the life expectancy of the engine is given it seems to be running flat out
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 6, 2015 12:05:31 GMT 12
What can this thing do that a Robinson R22 cant already do much better?. Simple, you'd use it to fly from your house to the shed where you keep your Robinson R22.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jun 6, 2015 12:22:12 GMT 12
I'd rather walk..
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Post by Darren Masters on Jun 6, 2015 19:56:45 GMT 12
"Jet" refers to the speed at which this thing would plummet to earth should it sustain an engine failure at low altitude. No matter how you dress it up it has no engine out capability,it can't glide or autorotate it would just drop like a tonne of bricks. It also has very limited range and endurance,it would need to be transported by road to most applications its being marketed for. Ha ha. Plummet. Love it Did you get a job with NZ Herald?
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 6, 2015 20:27:00 GMT 12
It also has very limited range and endurance,it would need to be transported by road to most applications its being marketed for. I can remember helicopters being carted around from job to job on the back of trucks when I was a really young kid in the late-1950s. Presumably they were too expensive to fly when the charge-out meter wasn't running.
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Post by isc on Jun 6, 2015 20:49:25 GMT 12
I can remember the first helicopter that I saw, a Bell 47 sitting on a truck in the main street in dannivirke(lived there from 1958/60). If you can get the September 1945 copy of Contact magazine, there' a good article on the future of helicopters. isc
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Post by ErrolC on Jun 18, 2015 16:08:25 GMT 12
nextbigfuture.com/2015/06/martin-aircraft-has-over-40-million-in.html?m=1#moreMartin Aircraft has over $40 million in jetpack deals Martin Jetpack is the world's first practical jetpack, with potential search and rescue, military, recreational and commercial applications, both manned and unmanned. Four agreements signed by Martin Aircraft at the Paris Airshow : 1. An agreement with Beijing Flying Man Science and Technology Ltd involves the parties working towards the future delivery of a Martin Aircraft package with an initial tranche of 100 manned Jetpacks, 50 unmanned Jetpacks, 25 static models and 25 simulators. It is noted that at this stage the agreement is a strategic co-operation agreement and any sales are dependent upon a successful supply agreement. 2. An agreement with Beijing Voyage Investment Ltd a subsidiary company of well-known Chinese-based AVIC International Holdings Ltd for the intended future delivery of manned and unmanned Jetpacks, simulators, and static models. 3. An alliance agreement with Czech Republic-based Martin Aircraft Company s.r.o. to establish a European sales centre for the Martin Jetpack. 4. An alliance agreement with New Delhi based M2K Group Ltd to establish a regional sales presents in commercially important India market.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jun 26, 2015 10:06:44 GMT 12
Still selling the sizzle..... link
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