Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Meet the Jetracer That’s Powered by 10 Jet Engines”.
Meet the one-seat Flying Machine powered by 10 jet engines, it’s called The Jet racer. We spoke to the folks at Zapata, the company behind the jet racer, to learn more about how it works when you might get to fly one and what they’re planning to make. Next. Let’S get into it, you might already know the Zapata name from some of the extreme sporting and Recreation devices they’ve invented such as the flyboard, easy fly and flyboard air.
Now the company is using its experience, making flying machines to work its way into mass transit. You can think of the jet racer as a bridge technology between Zapata’s recreational vehicles and the air Mobility Market. Let’S start with some fast facts about this jet powered Barrel rolling flying machine.
Its top speed is still being determined through testing and tweaking, but Zapata estimates it could be between 125 and 155 miles per hour. Its maximum altitude is similarly yet to be determined, but Zapata’s website says it imagines the jet racer being able to reach over 9800 feet. High and with 10 engines Zapata says it can lose two and still fly. The machine has very strong capabilities which can be a bit intimidating when you look at it from for the first time, but flying it is actually super easy that ease of flight is due to the jet Racer’s built-in flight controller, which automatically keeps the Flying Machine stable.
In a variety of weather, conditions prevents crashes and makes autonomous flight a possibility. That’S why jet Racers flight control? Is this week’s? What the feature? One of the major challenges in selling air Mobility is a mass transit solution is the reality that most people are not trained. Pilots and even if they were you’ve, seen how some people drive. Do you really want road rage to go airborne? That’S why most companies aiming at Urban Air Mobility have some sort of autonomous flight capabilities built in as a pilot. You decide what you want to do so I want to go this way.
I will turn right. I want to turn left. I want to go down.
I want to go up, so you can give input to the mission, but the machine decides how it is going to do it and no matter what you do, no matter. If there is 80 kilometers wind, if you’re giving crazy input to the machine, the machine will not let you crush literally, anybody can sit and fly it after receiving minimal trade. Zapata has demonstrated the flight controller’s capabilities by programming it to do a barrel roll at the push of a button.
It’S a pretty conceived a pre-designed systems that barrel roll is a good example of the the inherent capabilities of the machine, but the machine is is capable of doing if asked to with its compact size and relatively short fly time. The jet Racer’s main use cases are imagined to be recreational military and perhaps in delivering personnel and goods to Offshore operations like windmills that don’t have much space to land on about 25 people will get a chance to test pilot. The jet racer in the United States.
Eventually, Zapata plans to establish permanent flight centers, where the company’s flying machines can be rented like a jet ski or an ATV Zapata, is also working toward launching another flying machine which will feature a hybrid electric and combustion engine and a longer flight time. 2023 is going to be a big year for us in the in the US, especially we are going to reveal our Flagship products, which is the sbooter and it’s going to be the year. So please look out for that and sign up for the jet system. Experience and for your first flight, the SP2 later this year, would you like to fly in one of Zapata’s flying machines? Let us know down in the comments, as always thanks so much for watching.
I’M your host Jesse oral, see you next time with the fam .