Puffin Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft from NASA
Jan.27, 2010 in
Aircrafts
Just look at the NASA’s Puffin Personal Tilt-Rotor Aircraft, it’s obviously another product meant for the most-wanted of your grocery lists. It features a vertical-takeoff and allows the pilot to fly with a prone position. Electrically propelled, Puffin can cruise at a speed of 150 mph and sprint at more like 300 miles per hour. Other features about it also include non carbon emission and the ultra quiet design.
It would be nice to see this practical concept hit the marketplace instead of the limited choice we have to choose from these days.
January 27th, 2010 at 9:11 am
Great concept from NASA, just one minor correction. Its not a tilt rotor, the rotors always remain in the same position. Rather its what used to be referred to as a pogo plane, in that it takes off standing on its tail and flips into horizontal flight as a function of ground speed.
January 30th, 2010 at 1:21 am
yeah. pogo-a-go-go. remember that one back in the ’50sa the air force tried? it was a pogo, but the pilot had to hang it on a hook on a vertical gantry to land it. that was then pivoted down to become a flatbed “trailer” for the airplane.
February 1st, 2010 at 11:52 pm
?? The cockpit ?? You have to lay down to fly it and if you do have any kind of a mishap the first thing to crash is your face ??? Looks like something popular mechanics dreamed up in the 50,s lol.
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:56 pm
The problem with all these tiny personal helicopters and other aircraft whose controllable flight depends on power is, if it goes wrong, there is absolutely no chance of making a safe landing. That’s why they never get certification.