Australia’s first flying car now ‘on sale’
Australia’s first flying car now ‘on sale’
Xpeng officially becomes first to market with its flying car, but getting behind the ‘wheel’ of the X2 is a completely different story.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47181671
Incoming Chinese carmaker Xpeng
Australian firm Pegasus Aerospace Corp received airworthiness certification from CASA for its driveable Pegasus E flying police car last year
you would need a pilot’s licence – not simply a car licence – to be able to eventually fly the X2 in Australia.
likely to be bungled in red tape for some time before it could take to the skies
We can take orders.... you can secure one with a fully refundable $100 deposit.
So I guess a more accurate headline would be this:
"Australia's" "first" "flying car" "now" "on sale."
I don't see any wheels, I bet it's controlled by a yoke or stick, it has 4 copters.
This is a drone, not a car
You can only call it a drone if it's from the Droné region of France.
This is just a sparkling quadcopter.
A drone is an unmanned vehicle, e.g. SpaceX drone boats serving as mobile landing pads, Ukrainian drone boats carrying explosives, drone research submarines, ground drones for mine defusal, etc.
This is definitely not a drone. It's a quadcopter.
“If you have a luxury yacht and you’re holidaying [and you want to island hop] – that’s the sort of application we’re talking about,” Mr Clarke said.”
Oh man, this is perfect for when I’m on my massive yacht and want to island hop. Finally, I’ve been using a regular old helicopter up to this point.
“They could buy five X2s for the price it would take to [replace the engine] in their regular helicopter.”
Australian farmers aren't buying million dollar helicopters to herd cattle. I don't know what the author is smoking.
Some of the ranches are big enough they do have helicopters. It's not impossible.
I know they have helicopters, I've been in a couple. They're pretty janky and cheap. Maybe there's farmers with million-dollar helicopters, but I haven't heard of one.
Edit: they're shitboxes like this: https://www.pbs.org/video/helicopter-cowboys-wrangle-cattle-australia-tahs67/