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Hexa, the pioneering commercial drone globally. This eVTOL, shaped for human use, weighs 195kg and runs on eighteen lightweight batteries. It's designed for quick and easy learning, allowing anyone to fly in minutes. Credit: Joshua Olaiya #innovation #tech #drone
This is a battery-powered helicopter. The flight time cannot be long. Also, those batteries have to account for a substantial amount of the weight of the craft due to the limit of power density of batteries, meaning that compromises to the design were made with that in mind, like using carbon fiber on the landing feet. Lastly, the batteries are fully exposed without a housing or central distribution, meaning they are subject to excess wear and tear from the environment. This is a video of something a person CAN do but not of anything useful in the longrun.
I can't believe someone is really considering this to be a usable transportation product. The noise it produces. The size it has for lifting one human without any luggage. What are the safety standards if something happens in the air? What about landing locations? Open blades all around. And what is the battery range? 10-20 minutes, or less? Just, unreasonable, if you ask me.
This thing will never see commercial use. You have what looks to be 18 propellers that positioned quite close to one another. All it takes is some kind of debris (a bird) to take most of those rotors out. Not even mentioning the maintenance on 18! Propellers! More doesn't means better. More meaning more points of failure. And once again, we have iPad controls...it's not like we've learned anything from the submarine SeaGate incident right? Now a lot of people in the comment slamming on the usage of the word "Drone". To be fair, if this thing can be remotely control and fly on it's own then it could technically still be a drone with the option of being able to man by a human passenger. Drone take off is a lot more simplier than helicopter. And if Rent-a-Drone-Taxi is a thing in the future, I can understand the concept. But I don't think they ever have an actual human flying this particular one on any serious use altitude. Just from the technical failure I've mentioned alone is already proven this to be unusable. There is no point in trying to invest money into something like this when a similar more reliable option such as the mini copter or hang glider has seen use everywhere in the world. In fact quite recently Hamas uses it.
This keeps getting reposted, nothing new, and the casual wanna be influencer type presentation lacks professionalism and polish and makes the whole thing look and sound like a gimmick. There is nothing quick and easy about flight dynamics, flight coordination and flight planning. That attitude is an accident waiting to happen.
And it's got some proper seatbelts, too. 😉
Pascal BORNET This is indeed the future of drone technology, I have few questions on its application and would appreciate your input if you will. Does the pilot require certification from FAA or other regulatory body to fly the drone? Are there restrictions to some level of altitude the drone can fly and in what classes of airspace is permitted without approval? What medium of communication is encouraged in instance where manned aircraft may be close by? Lastly, Would the application be use for recreational or commercial purpose?
Since the beginning of using electronic parts, we have less and less hour of maths at school. So, today, only some of us kows that 2+3×2 give 8 and not 10. Tomorrow human kind will forgot how to pilot an aircraft. And then.....when il will be difficult to own a computer... what will we do ? We will walk ? ... only if we have understood to not eat big mac and coca cola every day.
hum... but if the driver is onboard the vehicle, you can still name it drone? On wikipedia I read: [...] drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle
It’s great and it looks fun to use and a must have for a sprawling country vacation home/resort/farm. But Hexa could also use another branding/positioning and/or a definitive strategy. It’s not really a drone, it can float on water, it cannot fly in rainy weather, the pilot seat looks a bit too exposed, the iPad isn’t rated for rain or bright sunlight, it should have a second seat that will allow the second person to commander it, it could use small rotational wheels under every leg. It looks like a helicopter with 18 small blades… Reminds me of a modern day flying Beetle 👏👏👏.
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