Was at the GoFly challenge finals with us and a dozen others, and unlike us goes on to the GoAero challenge currently underway; each focused on scaling drone science to transport humans from one place or circumstance to another.
What I like about this man is that aside from being at an age when, like me, he may be forgiven for life of quiet contemplation: is instead still designing eVTOLs, artwork and tee-shirts.
Current focus appears to be on two-motored means of aerial support using motors that can be tilted in order to provide three-dimensional control throughout hovering and forward flight.
It begs the question as to what happens should one motor fail, but the problem with aviation regulation in this century is its undue reliance on failure redundancy. If you are flying to Australia I can understand you wanting to arrive in one piece, whilst in contrast the chances of one of these falling from the sky and doing you any sort of damage is on a par with your winning the Euromillions jackpot.
You're probably a billion times more likely to be mugged for your phone in Paris or London as you have being struck by an errant electrical flying machine, and nobody appears to be doing anything about that or the electrical scooter used in its pursuit.
The diminishing power of politicians and civil servants however does mean that that which is most easily regulated ~ flying machines ~ is so obsessively in the way that cancer becomes the preoccupying pathology of a mortal frame facing certain death.
Ed. Sorry that couldn't be more upbeat, Gary.
