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Pilot Zone => Pilot Zone => Topic started by: Jim Logajan on December 13, 2021, 12:23:54 AM

Title: Novel aircraft.
Post by: Jim Logajan on December 13, 2021, 12:23:54 AM

Which of these, if any would you be willing to fly?

Title: Re: Novel aircraft.
Post by: Rush on December 13, 2021, 02:35:35 AM

Me? None. I’d need to be 30 years younger and male to feel invincible enough to try one of those things.

Title: Re: Novel aircraft.
Post by: TimRB on December 13, 2021, 12:58:03 PM

Not a chance.  You can't autorotate one of those things like a helicopter.  So if the SHTF and everything stops (especially the rocket/jet pack things), your day is ruined.  I'm not comforted by the fact that some of them are equipped with parachutes.  With a helicopter or airplane, as long as the wings or rotor stay attached, you have a chance.  On the other hand, some years back we had a fatal accident near here where a helicopter's rotor blades did, in fact, fall off.  I think it may have even been an introductory flight for a prospective student.

Tim

Title: Re: Novel aircraft.
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on December 13, 2021, 01:20:42 PM

none