And here's what I mean... as China races ahead in both robotics and electric VTOL.
But this beast from Shanghai is what they mean by a 'lift plus cruise' configuration, and what we are considering among these pages for our flat-cat.
Its benefit is simplicity, needing no actuators to vector motors from the vertical to the horizontal that might potentially prove to be something of an Achilles Heel.
On the other hand what they've done with it looks altogether more complicated than what might be achieved with a conventional helicopter carrying a similar number of people, like Robinson's R88 below.
I was long ago offered an interview by Bristow Helicopters in the UK that I declined, and had I not done so it would have been a Robinson that I'd be using for my initial training.
It's one reason I suppose that if I am to build a boat, it has also to hover.
For regular readers too, note the cable-cutter.
