Black Fly

[TR Ganey]

Check out this new drone reported to be available to the general public in 2019. Can't wait to see thee flying around the neighborhood.

 

[Starz]

We can always dream.
But
I’m willing to bet money that it won’t happen in that time frame.
(In the USA)

 

[Possums]

Looks about as real as one of old utralights.

 

[TR Ganey]

Looks about as real as one of old utralights.

I do believe it exists (the Black Fly). I do believe it will "at some point" be available to those who can afford it but I don't believe that it will be in the near future. Time will tell.

 

[Starz]

I flew an ultralight for several years. You could not pay me enough to get in that machine. I’m thinking a dead stick in that one would not fair well.

 

[TR Ganey]

I flew an ultralight for several years. You could not pay me enough to get in that machine. I’m thinking a dead stick in that one would not fair well.

according to the various videos that I watched on it, it is designed with a load of redundancy and is capable of safe emergency landing with a motor or battery failure. Then if things go really bad it had a parachute. Sounds like fun to me, I'm ready to try it!

 

[NAVMAV]

Wow.

Rgds, NAVMAV

 

[Starz]

according to the various videos that I watched on it, it is designed with a load of redundancy and is capable of safe emergency landing with a motor or battery failure. Then if things go really bad it had a parachute. Sounds like fun to me, I'm ready to try it!

You first.

 

[BrianS]

I flew an ultralight for several years. You could not pay me enough to get in that machine. I’m thinking a dead stick in that one would not fair well.

I flew Ultralights for years. Put a BRS Ballistic parachute in it and I’ll get aboard, in a heartbeat!

Whole Aircraft Rescue Parachute Systems | BRS Aerospace

 

[TR Ganey]

I flew Ultralights for years. Put a BRS Ballistic parachute in it and I’ll get aboard, in a heartbeat!

Whole Aircraft Rescue Parachute Systems | BRS Aerospace

It's already got it! I'm with you let's go!

 

[Starz]

Watched a guy die in an ac that had a chute. Safety pin was still in place at the impact site.

 

[TR Ganey]

Watched a guy die in an ac that had a chute. Safety pin was still in place at the impact site.

Sad story! Gives on good incentive to use the "remove before flight" thingy!

 

[Asgard]

Problem is that sort of craft will spend a long time in the part of it's flight envelope where a BRS will be about as usefull as a chocolate teapot.
50 ft is not high enough for a chute to be any good, but 50 ft will break your back at the very least.

That's not to say it wouldnt be safe enough if the redundancy is properly implemented, nothing is 100%

 

[lertsek]

How much are the batteries?

 

[Starz]

Sad story! Gives on good incentive to use the "remove before flight" thingy!

To this day, I still don’t like to look at those red tags. Was not a good day. We had warned the pilot to stop the maneuver he was doing several hours before.

 

[TR Ganey]

Problem is that sort of craft will spend a long time in the part of it's flight envelope where a BRS will be about as usefull as a chocolate teapot.
50 ft is not high enough for a chute to be any good, but 50 ft will break your back at the very least.

That's not to say it wouldnt be safe enough if the redundancy is properly implemented, nothing is 100%

They said that if it lost a battery or if it lost a motor that it would still land safely. They actually float so I guess you could take off over water and stay over water until it reached enough altitude for the BRS to be useful. I believe it will eventually come to market but with a 25mile range how useful will it really be?

 

[deleted member 877]

They said that if it lost a battery or if it lost a motor that it would still land safely. They actually float so I guess you could take off over water and stay over water until it reached enough altitude for the BRS to be useful. I believe it will eventually come to market but with a 25mile range how useful will it really be?

A huge amount of money and resources are being thrown at the challenge of making batteries last longer - look at far we've come in the last decade. Give it 3 or 4 years and that 25-mile range will be quadrupled.

 

[Flycaster]

"I don't think so, Tim......"

 

[roadkilt]

How loud must that thing be? Wild. Very “Blade Runner”

 

[Gary Rowe]

I flew an ultralight for several years. You could not pay me enough to get in that machine. I’m thinking a dead stick in that one would not fair well.

I think in the event of a power falure it would drop like a ROCK.