We built and flew a personal eVTOL in 8 months
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- čas přidán 19. 09. 2023
- We designed, built and tested this personal electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in just 8 months. While this is a very early tech demonstrator, it gets us one step closer to our mission of redefining the joy of flight while minimizing the environmental impact of recreational aviation.
We are now very excited to announce that we’re accepting reservations for our go-to-market product, the Spinner. The fully featured Spinner prototype will be unveiled in 2024.
Learn more at upwardsaero.com
Can you please tell me what motors and escs you used for the build, it was pretty cool.
Awesome. Many people are making these now, hope to fly one some day.
Great job!!!👍👍👍
Nice! U did an awsome job that thing looks so cool i wanna fly it
the only reason we dont see more of these is the price of the controllers and motors.. some quick math says those alone are 6000 dollars, the props are another 1800 , so it gets expensive fast.
One day these parts gonna be common so after that we can purchase them for a reasonable price✌🏽
@@velociainnovations4944 yes, the bldc motors and controllers will become cheaper as theyre being used in more and more sectors
How much???
How far does it fly on one charge???
I'm interested...
Hello can you tell me more about the control system you used, and how you tuned the PID parameters? Thanks, this is for my research
❤❤❤ brilliant project congratulations ❤❤❤
There is a fundamental problem with all of these vehicles, no matter who has built them... If the engines stop, you fall to your death, killing anybody you land on. Even helicopters can autogyro. But these... You just fall straight down. We all know that these electrical systems are extremely reliable, but it doesn't change the certainty of death or extreme bodily harm. The only answer is to design a large light weight body in carbon fiber and reinforcing internal foam, so that the vehicle falls at a much slower rate.
If multiple engines fail they're in a lot of trouble but a hexacopter can safely land with one engine out. The flight controller has to be programmed appropriately to do this but there are videos on CZcams showing how a hexacopter can still fly even with one failed motor.
There at least one thread on this topic in the ArduPilot forum.
parachute.
Xpeng is already testing parachutes. It makes sense that all vtols will come with one. You should check out xpengs video
@birbexe yep, if there is parachutes to let hols humvees beeing dropped , than this could work.
Lil bruh never heard of parachutes!
Also if you give them money they'll make the frame out of CF
Yo I’m trying to build one could you help me out
@upwardsaero wat kind of control system have used in this flying for altitude and direction Moto controling..
Here's a clickable link to our website: www.upwardsaero.com/
How much power is each of those propellers have?
I'm having a hard time getting help with controls on my project. In specific getting my microcontroller which uses 2 joysticks to communicate with my Flight Controller. Obviously we don't want wireless but every schematic and bit of code uses radio, wifi or bluetooth..
Not to bad! - but there is no redundancy - if you have a motor failure in flight yours screwed! may there is but is there gps lock to control hover and provide stable flight with accelerometer to counter bad pitch and roll?
Motor?
ESC?
Can you send me what's details of your project?
Dude your website doesn't work. How do I reserve one?
Why is no one using Solid Hydrogen? A couple of small tanks of Magnesium Hydride MgH2 and you could fly it all week!
how many cost this drone making go ????
Nice job, but redundancy needs to be applied by duplicating the number of motors in order to achieve a safety standard like e-hang has.
Incredible. There are companies that have spent $500mil and have not gotten as far as you have. Great work!
not really. Building a prototype is 10% of the work. 90% is making it aviation-grade.
While this is a great personal achievement, unfortunately it's a long and winding (and expensive) road to type certification.
You are right about prototypes being 10% of the work, absolutely. And although there is still 90% of the work remaining to make it aviation-grade, since the Spinner is classified as a Part 103 ultralight it does not require type certification! Still a lot of work to be done, but not nearly as much as for a helicopter, or other certified aircraft @@pamirsevincel9118
@@upwardsaero Think HYDROGEN!
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That's good. Hang time, considering it's just as much or more than billion dollar companies can keep people in the air.
Bruh u guys seriously considering a 170k price tag? Lots of other more advanced evtols that travels longer ranges for same or cheaper
Or you can a used paramotor for 10k and get hours of manned flight.
@@Uncle_Fred The problem with a paramotor is that you don't have vertical takeoff and landing. So you need a fairly large plot of land to take off with a paramotor. That said, I do think incorporating a wing is the future for these kinds of personal manned aircraft. But the vertical takeoff is a necessary practical feature.