A vessel reportedly under threat of hijack is commandeered by special forces during the course of the night off Southampton, and I do consider this might be a role for what I'm building here. The helicopters involved weighed up to sixteen (US) tons, and there's not much you can do to reduce the impact of that at dead of night except to hope nobody wakes up first.
In contrast to an individual eVTOL, which whilst noisy is a great deal less so than either this or else Gravity's half-dozen turbo-jets. (Jet-pack designers were dismissed out of hand for GoFly's challenge on the basis the organisers couldn't hear themselves think).
Fortunately this coincides with an improved means of ingress and egress to the prototype that I have been formulating simultaneously, it not being the easiest thing to climb inside a 'wheelie-bin' unaided.
It will have to wait however for a subsequent rebuild, and that's the perils of prototyping: you've no sooner built one, than you realise it is too late to incorporate so many potential improvements that have therefore to await a subsequent iteration.
There's a limit of course to the number of those iterations, and that's called cash.
The benefit though of the TELEDRONE at this stage lies in the fact that such iterations are relatively inexpensive (and I say relatively), in comparison with the likes say of Vertical, whose re-designs run to six- or seven-figure sums.
(And then there's Airbus's and Boeing's, the latter having recently been furloughed in the face of the double-whammy of the Covid-19 pandemic and their own reiteration of the 737 Max).
All of which means that revolutionary designs often spring from lower-budget arenas.
Like, say, a bicycle workshop.
