An Aircraft Engined Porsche and a Flying Car
Direct Link: https://youtu.be/yO683XvKseE
This was an interesting one. I misunderstood until embarrassingly late in the planning process and thought the PAL-V prototypes flew and drove. Well they don't which meant the plan I had for the video didn't make sense anymore. I was still trying to figure out what the video was going to look like even as I was filming it. So if it's a disjointed mess, that's why. I even considered scrapping the whole video, but these prototypes and the engineering involved is just too cool to not share.
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Mr. Dunn, is the "Under Dunn" youtube channel basically dead now?
I'm going to say say yes as to not over promise anything and so you can be surprised when the next video comes out
"That's a compass. I don't need to be a pilot to figure that one out" *heehee* It's not a compass, it's the directional indicator (or horizontal situation indicator, depending on your accent). There will be a compass in there somewhere in production, you need one legally, but it doesn't look like that. Also, 400k (even in euros) isn't that crazy for a small plane when new - the little planes we train in go for 160k new, and the most popular new sale general aviation aircraft in the world today is the Cirrus SR22 which goes for a cool million dollars each. Most of us get into groups of up to a dozen people and buy a second-hand aircraft, often from fifty years ago :D
It does have a compass on top of the dashboard, close to the windscreen, it seems Robert has missed it. You can see it through the window. It needed to be further away from all the electricals to work properly.
Awesome!! You came to visit my country!!! Someone I worked with moved to the PAL-V company and of course I immediately jokingly volunteered to test drive their thing for them. My office was located in the middle of the country and I live near the coast and there is no horizontal highway, I needed to travel north via Amsterdam or south via Utrecht so this would cut my journey by quite a bit. A boy can dream :-)
Great video! And it answered all the engineering questions I had!
You finaly make your way across the big pond, and dont even mention it to your patreons 😆
I definitely should have! I didn't share that I was going to Europe publicly while I was in Europe because I was afraid of security risks or whatever, but I should have told my patrons
The part of me that loves complex engineering solutions to problems loves this thing. The part of me that understands Murphy’s law hates this thing.
This was great to watch a video about, but while the product tickles my happy place for weird mechanical engineering, as a product it terrifies me and gives me V22 Osprey vibes in all the bad ways.
Great Video Robert. Thanks or dankje. The attitude indicator used to be called an artificial horizon (or gyro horizon )...used to work on digital versions of these for an aerospace company.
Awesome! I actually saw the Porsche a couple of times in real life! One of the PAL-V engineers went to the same archery club as I did. He took the car with him a sometimes.
Ton? I think that archery club is like 1.5km from my house
To want this, you need to a) be able to fly. b) want to do it badly enough to want a plane or plane-like vehicle and c) not be rich enough to be able to have a plane AND somewhere to PUT that plane, AND not be rich enough to rent a car wherever you go WITH the plane. So with this you could basically make this your daily car AND plane, and fly places and then drive around those places in the same vehicle without paying for storage. Except, you will have to pay for parking, and you will need to worry about someone stealing it or parts off of it while it's parked.. I dunno. Cool idea but I'm not sure who it works for.
Well, imagine living on an island. Or in the center of London, and you have a country house. Or in the middle of a remote forest. Or you inspect gas lines for a living. Or you live in a quiet mountain valley, but work somewhere else. As soon as you have to go through anything other than a relatively flat, not too populated area with a dense road network, roads can be either slow or take surprisingly long detours.
That was awesome
The first prototype doesn't just lean like a carver.....it looks an awful lot like it too....and you know where those were made? Yep, the Netherlands too. I like how they even made it orange :)
Correct, though the hydraulics are somewhat derived from Carver, and the frame was a modified and aluminium version of the Carver. The front suspension is the exact same.
The decisions based on conflicting regulations is pretty interesting. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that much compromise in something I'm flying in. 😅
That was enteresting !