Q: William, you've been quiet for a while.
A: Yes. This isn't a question.
Q: ... will you tell us why?
A: Oh, sure! Work has exploded (in a mostly positive way), I'm organizing Camp Nerdly, and so, haven't had a lot of time to post to G+. I've been paying attention to you, though!
Q: What about all your projects?
A: Backburner. Front burner is keeping the work lights on.
Q; Do you still love us?
A: As much as I ever did. Tell me your stories!
Tell me what's up with you all!
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I've decided there's no way for me to hope to compete in Boeing's personal flying vehicle thing, but I can still work on making my flying stick bike anyway.
ReplyDeleteNever mind that I have no idea really what I'm doing. And no money.
So, I'm reducing the scope of the build even further from the simplistic flying vehicle I had sketched earlier. Just one blade for the rotor, and just one motor. Not that I have a suitable motor. I've got an idea of how I might make one, but...
Neat! In theory, wll it fly with a human?
ReplyDeleteMostly focused on how to even out sleep debt lately, but also vaguely thinking about Dreamation.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Nichols Flying with a human pilot is the idea. It's possible in principle, since electric passenger drones with much smaller total rotor disc area have already been flying. For example, the Ehang's single passenger drone has pretty small props.
ReplyDeleteRoughly, the required power is inversely proportional to the square root of the total disc area. Given that I'm going with a single blade, that means power is inversely proportional to the blade's length.
I want something that can fit in the same parking space as a Toyota Camry, so the blade length is roughly limited to 16 feet long (32 foot diameter disc). I hope that'll work well, but...I'm just not an expert on these things.