Cezeri made its first flight

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What's the difference between this and any ultralight helicopter?
Utralight helicopters will not fall down suddenly when their engine fails. The big rotor will keep turning for a while more allowing the helicopter to come down softly. But piloting one of them is not easy and takes a lot of skills and training. Also helicopters are a bit louder. While these multicopters rely on propeller redundancy asserting that even when one or two propellers stop the remaining propeller will enable the vehicle to come down softly. Also these multicopters can not be made to run on gasoline, their flight times are limited by the energy stored in electric batteries which is much smaller than the energy stored in fossil fuel. They will arguably typically run for around 6 minutes while it is common for a single person ultralight helicopter to run for more than an hour.
 

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It never seemed like vehicles that would be used regularly anyways. Doesnt take a genius to see that nearly every type or form of flyings cars never have the neccesary safety nets or precautions within them to justify production or commercial use. They are nice demonstrators that can give use experience and a small lense into what may they be but until then they are trophies.

Kinda wish i finished my Aeronautical Engineerings degree whenever i read about these types of projects or discussion about the future commercial air vehicles. Then again i enjoy being happy and having meaning in my existence. Thank you for your sacrifice @Zafer lol.
 

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It never seemed like vehicles that would be used regularly anyways. Doesnt take a genius to see that nearly every type or form of flyings cars never have the neccesary safety nets or precautions within them to justify production or commercial use. They are nice demonstrators that can give use experience and a small lense into what may they be but until then they are trophies.

Kinda wish i finished my Aeronautical Engineerings degree whenever i read about these types of projects or discussion about the future commercial air vehicles. Then again i enjoy being happy and having meaning in my existence. Thank you for your sacrifice @Zafer lol.
Among the 407 models of flying car designs that be there are only half a dozen that can survive the challenges of physics and economics. 98.5 out of every 100 designs will fail having sacrificed all the resources they have poured in to making the dream come true.
 
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CEZERI's new flight video released

I don't understand why do they call this flying car? If it had one rotor instead of would they still call it a car instead of helicopter?

Anyways, world agreed on that flying cars is a no go concept. Just waste of resources or Selçuk fulfilling his fantasy.

Simple explanation.

More scientific explanation.
 

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I don't understand why do they call this flying car? If it had one rotor instead of would they still call it a car instead of helicopter?
Yes. There have been helicopters with wheels under them to drive on the road.
I have a design with removable rotor blades and drives on the road.
Anyways, world agreed on that flying cars is a no go concept. Just waste of resources or Selçuk fulfilling his fantasy.
The world is hard at work to make the flying car a reality but actually most designs are helicopter replacements and are not roadable and they are called flying taxis or eVTOLs. Those that are both roadable and VTOLs are the real flying cars but still there is no practical example of it. Other than my removable blade one.

Elon Musk is not doing flying cars but several of his friends are. And actually all of a sudden he may try to do once he sees others are very close to doing it, in an effort to not lose his leading role and cool to someone else.
 

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Another Turkish design another disappointment.
They should stop joking.


Don't get disheartened though there are still more to come.
 

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There are other designs around particularly from Teknofest finalists but they are only designs and not built at all.
And they are not really realistic models particularly because they are also required to drive on the road as well as fly in the air. Trust me there are also those that haven't been seen by anyone other than the designer himself.
 
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Flying cars are waste of resources.

1-) Too noisy to be used in cities. Imagine every family have a flying "car" in the city there would be a constant loud humming sound in the city.
2-)Not safe, landing, taking of, colliding in air, breaking down in air, crashing in the air to a building. Lots of crash possibilities with sure fatalities.
3-) A 300 kg flying car needs to exert 300 kg, down ward force in order to fly. Imagine thousands of these cars flying above the city, nightmare.

So, we won't see any flying car before solving these issues. And i don't think in the next 100 years we will be seeing any "flying car" in our cities.
 

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Flying cars are waste of resources.

1-) Too noisy to be used in cities. Imagine every family have a flying "car" in the city there would be a constant loud humming sound in the city.
2-)Not safe, landing, taking of, colliding in air, breaking down in air, crashing in the air to a building. Lots of crash possibilities with sure fatalities.
3-) A 300 kg flying car needs to exert 300 kg, down ward force in order to fly. Imagine thousands of these cars flying above the city, nightmare.

So, we won't see any flying car before solving these issues. And i don't think in the next 100 years we will be seeing any "flying car" in our cities.
The flying car industry is hard at work to solve these issues.
A flying car is actually a flying taxi in that people will not own them but they will rent them for the duration of the trip. In fact because the laws require it first flying taxis will be piloted and they will be like helicopter replacements. Less noisy than a classical helicopter, fully electric and short range. However vehicle developers will have to prove that their vehicles are safe for the aviation authorities to allow them to operate. China went out of the way to allow eHang air taxi to operate as touristic sightseeing vehicles along certain paths.

There will be levels of usage in time where initially certain predetermined flight paths will be allowed, like flying car airlines in urban settings. And in rural areas it will be pretty much free roaming.

There will be separation based on time of flight and place of flight to provide isolation between vehicles.

Safety comes first, air taxis were allowed in cities long time ago using helicopters but accidents caused them to be banned. So flying car is not a must have thing but a nice to have thing.

There are good flying cars and bad flying cars and in time the bad ones will be eliminated and several major designs will dominate the market. Some experts put this number to 6-7 different models, makers.

It will happen but very slowly and we will have time to reconsider them along the way.

Pure electric ones can only fly like 5 minutes but the laws requires them to have a minimum of 10 minutes reserve battery power which pretty much non of the current models can satisfy. So the advertised specs are way off and simply wishful thinking. But there may be hybrid ones and fuel-cell ones with longer time.

Cezeri is pure electric.
 
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I can imagine some of them being used to transport ill people for some people with a large farm (rich people) for fast delivery of organs, medicine, and maybe if energy problem is solved for pakets from amazon (not end to end but from logistic centres to local post station)..

there are not cars they are helicopters/ quardrocopters or multicopters
 

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I can imagine some of them being used to transport ill people for some people with a large farm (rich people) for fast delivery of organs, medicine, and maybe if energy problem is solved for pakets from amazon (not end to end but from logistic centres to local post station)..

there are not cars they are helicopters/ quardrocopters or multicopters
They come in various configurations and some do have the functionality of cars. But they are harder to make as you ask them to do more. The future holds some flying cars but not as many types as there are prototypes of now.
 

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How? By changing the laws of Physics?
This same question was being asked before the aero planes were invented.
Laws of physics allow many thing that people though are not possible.
Quieter, more efficient propeller designs are made.
Rules are put in place where the felt noise and crash risk of flying cars are minimized by enforcing a distance between noise sources and people. Rules will make it possible just like how ground cars were disciplined by making roads for them so will flying cars have to behave.
There are good and bad designs for flying cars. Bad ones will not be allowed.
 

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Some of the leading flying car companies have pivoted from their existing approach and have started designing their winged models. Chief among them are Volocopter of Germany and eHang of China. Birds have wings.

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Now this is a surprise, they have been under the radar for so long that I had lost hope.
They are on the same boat as the Cezeri and Aircar being a quad-hexa design, a supersized drone.
But an average human is considered to be 200lb which is 90.7kg (US standard) rather than 80kg.
 

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