I've needed to up the credibility of the website and decided the three implementations of the Teledrone cannot exist in graphical form alone. A competition like GoFly brings any number of SketchUp artists out of the woodwork, but as the executive director of the Vertical Flight Society pointed out, eventually you come up against the laws of physics.
Their database already features around 150 eVTOL projects and counting, and many appear only as drawings as yet. Those with prototypes are rare, those with flying prototypes rarer again and those with a saleable product ~ let alone customers ~ are as rare as hen's teeth.
This will surely change faster than people realise, but it is incumbent upon all developers in the field to push for the sort of progress that convinces a wider public. I shall in due course feature the work-in-progress in the database, but I shall need a decent picture for starters.
And while that has to be more than a sketch, we're are not at the stage yet where we're fitting the motors and rotors. I thus engage in a little theatrics with what is left of the timber and foam around the workshop and fashion these parts at rather less cost altogether. Still looks passable however, even awaiting another tin of matt black primer.
Looking at its camouflage colours though, it's going to require a lighter background than grass for photographs taken (naturally) by drone. Ideally I prefer a concrete strip, of which there are several at the old Burscough airbase.
Then again I may use the block-paved car-park at the local football pitches. It's most likely to be used in urban environments going forward anyway.
Then again I may use the block-paved car-park at the local football pitches. It's most likely to be used in urban environments going forward anyway.
