The us will literally do anything but build better public transportation.
I’m absolutely positive, if anyone can turn this into a horrible disaster…it’s definitely Florida…
Electric jets? Is that a thing? How do they work?
Jet is just marketing speak here. It’s a bunch of ducted fans.
If it’s not generating compression to power itself it’s not a jet engine, it’s just sparkling ducted fans.
Like electric model airplanes and drones, but larger. Battery energy density is not high enough (yet) to electrify long-haul jumbo jets, but we’re beginning to see the electrification of small short-range aircraft.
They’re not jets. They’re ducted fans. Different things. “Electric jet” makes as much sense as “electric V8 engine”.
There is work going on making actual electric jets. They use plasma to expand the compressed gas in the same way conventional jets use fuel. Very early days though.
Hell yeah! They got electric V8’s now?! Bout time!
Cue DeSantis banning this for being woke.
We already have helicopters. They’re loud and somewhat dangerous. This is a dumb idea that will be you guessed it, loud and dangerous.
They claim that these are less loud and less dangerous. Since this uses a shit ton of engines it means that multiple engines can fail before it loses lift. The reason why helicopters are loud as fuck is because the tips of the blades break the sound barrier. The blades in these engines do not go faster than the speed of sound. And unlike a helicopter this eVTOL has wings so when it is in flight the rotors don’t need to spin as fast as during takeoff so the engines make less noise.
