Prince.Skeletor
Don’t Be Like He-Man
The Jetson ONE is what we believe to be the world's first commercially available full size flyable personal multi-rotor vehicle.
Jetson recently released a video of the aircraft being piloted by the company's founder, Tomasz Patan. The company's website states "Jetson is a Swedish company with a mission to change the way we travel. We aim to make the skies available for everyone with our safe personal electric aerial vehicle."
The company claims that the Jetson ONE can still fly with the failure of one motor, and features a triple redundancy flight control computer, LiDAR sensors for obstacle and ground avoidance, hands free hover capability, and a ballistic parachute deployment for when the poo really hits the fan, so, it's pretty safety conscious.
The Jetson ONE costs $92,000 as a DIY kit, and requires a $22,000 deposit.
Here it is in action, this is the ad that came out:
This is just the beginning though as right now this will be mostly a toy for the rich.
It's not at all for long distance.
With a 20-minute flight duration and possibly extremely limited spaces in which to fly it, you won't be making any long excursions to your super yacht on the other side of the world with it.
That said, it is an interesting development that has only been made possible with the advent of brushless motors and smartphones. Yes, that is a smartphone in the cockpit giving flight stats.
Configuration wise the vehicle isn't actually a quad-copter, but what's known as an X8 configuration, using eight rotors in sets of two on each corner of the aircraft. As any drone pilot may know, the X8 configuration is extremely robust, has okay redundancy, and is also incredibly powerful. Many drones that are set up for flight in more extreme weather use this configuration.
Jetson recently released a video of the aircraft being piloted by the company's founder, Tomasz Patan. The company's website states "Jetson is a Swedish company with a mission to change the way we travel. We aim to make the skies available for everyone with our safe personal electric aerial vehicle."
The company claims that the Jetson ONE can still fly with the failure of one motor, and features a triple redundancy flight control computer, LiDAR sensors for obstacle and ground avoidance, hands free hover capability, and a ballistic parachute deployment for when the poo really hits the fan, so, it's pretty safety conscious.
The Jetson ONE costs $92,000 as a DIY kit, and requires a $22,000 deposit.
Here it is in action, this is the ad that came out:
This is just the beginning though as right now this will be mostly a toy for the rich.
It's not at all for long distance.
With a 20-minute flight duration and possibly extremely limited spaces in which to fly it, you won't be making any long excursions to your super yacht on the other side of the world with it.
That said, it is an interesting development that has only been made possible with the advent of brushless motors and smartphones. Yes, that is a smartphone in the cockpit giving flight stats.
Configuration wise the vehicle isn't actually a quad-copter, but what's known as an X8 configuration, using eight rotors in sets of two on each corner of the aircraft. As any drone pilot may know, the X8 configuration is extremely robust, has okay redundancy, and is also incredibly powerful. Many drones that are set up for flight in more extreme weather use this configuration.