This belittled V-22 Osprey lookalike looks like a sleek and aphrodisiac simple machine , does n’t it ? The Falx Salker is a VTOL aircraft and is designed to be a hybrid galvanic vehicle , with solar energy augment the 100hp engine to achieve a fuel efficiency of 10 litre per hour of flight . concord to their website , Falx Air Vehicles is “ define to let go of its first 100 % scale platform during 2008 head to authentication during the next 3 geezerhood . ”
It will plain matter in at 770 and 990 pounds for the single- and duple - seat version , and Falx sees it have many applications , including as a police force vehicle ( visual sense of the hover cars from Bladerunner zipped through your head then did n’t they ? )
So why are we skeptical ? Well , sure , the V-22 is a military vehicle and it ’s extremely sophisticated — but it ’s been under development for over 20 years . Longer , if you include all the X - aircraft that predate it . Two of the prototypes crashed , and two former product models dash too . So can this pocket-sized UK company really overpower the same tricky engineering obstacles faced by the V22 , including that difficult transition between the hover and forward flight ? We ’re not certain — it seems rather a lot of innovative engineering and control design . We ’d have it off for it to be real , though . [ FalxviaGizmagviaUberreview ]
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