Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Personal flight

I was thinking about personal flight and how many small propeller cartridges would be needed to lift my weight. I weigh 95 killograms. If a small cartridge was able to lift about 500 grams then you would need over 190 of them to lift my weight. To be safe I would say about 200 would be good enough because you need to allow for the added net weight from all the devices plus anything you are carrying and you would need a little bit more power anyway for extra control. 

One propeller cartridge is two propellers that spin in opposite directions, they are both powered by the same electric motor. Although they spin in the opposite direction they both push the air in the same way. They are nested in a small grill to stop the little propellers from hitting anything around them. 

The device I have in my head would be a kind of rigid shirt that has propeller cartridges built into it that fold outward when flight mode it switched on. I dream of trying to make such a thing. Perhaps it could be a back pack with an umbrella type thing that folds out. 

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