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The Pivotal BlackFly is an American electric-powered VTOL personal air vehicle designed by Canadian engineer Marcus Leng and formerly produced by Opener, now Pivotal. It was publicly revealed in 2018, after nine years of development. The aircraft is supplied to customers complete and ready-to-fly.
The M400 is a four-seat flying car, a type of VTOL personal air vehicle described by Moller as a "volantor" Skycar models from single-seat up to six-seat accommodation have also been envisaged. [4] It is intended to be flyable by anyone who can drive, incorporating automated flight controls, with the driver only inputting direction and speed ...
A flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft. As used here, this includes vehicles which drive as motorcycles when on the road. The term "flying car" is also sometimes used to include hovercars and/or VTOL personal air vehicles. Many prototypes have been built since the ...
The Bensen B-12, variously dubbed the Sky-Way or Sky-Mat was an unconventional multirotor developed by Igor Bensen in the United States in the late 1950s. Extremely unorthodox, the design sprang from Bensen's thinking about the engine redundancy necessary to ensure the safe operation of small, personal rotorcraft operating at low altitudes and slow speeds.
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single 14 hp (10 kW) Radne Raket 120 engine in pusher configuration, or optionally a 22 hp (16 kW) Bilsam TNA 200 powerplant, intended for heavier pilots. As is the case with all paramotors ...
The M200 is a design for a VTOL personal air vehicle, a class of vehicle described by Moller as a "volantor". The M200G Neuera is a circular craft with seats in the middle for two passengers and a control panel. The vehicle is 3 feet (0.91 meters) tall and 10 feet (3.0 meters) in diameter. Eight Wankel rotary engines power eight enclosed fans.
Personal aircraft may refer to: Flying platform, a VTOL capable personal aircraft; General aviation, which includes privately owned aircraft for personal use;
The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. [1] [2] The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out of the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft.