Comment on China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton

• winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If it only did up and down then it wouldn’t be very practical or useful in most applications. There must be some sort of propulsion

  source

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tilting like helicopters and multicopters, you don’t need a dedicated directional thrust, just vectoring

    source
• ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It does have some surfaces that look like they could produce lift.

  Traveling fast enough it could probably lose thrust and “land” horizontally… Until the legs grab and it tumbles.

  source