in our understanding of the development of the city is changing, traffic situation along with urbanization and become prosperous together. Past or deserted road, along with the crowd in this live, build business circles and become congested. Originally orderly way, be influenced by parked vehicles, pedestrians, non-motor vehicles began to occupy the space originally belonged to automobile traffic.
traffic signal design and unreasonable surge in traffic, let grooming capability of the road began to fall, long clogged become the norm. Some people will switch to public transport, in response to the government will be open for the passenger bus out of lanes, did raise operational speed and efficiency of bus traffic, but the use of social space vehicle and therefore affected. The presence of rail transportation to ease congestion on city roads to a certain extent. But its construction cost and the scale is not small, and too many limited conditions, the construction time is very long, so the market and other capital began to solve the congestion of the transfer program, such as flying car.
concept flying car has been proposed a long time ago, in 1917, Aviation Heng Gelan middot; Curtis to show the world car + the new transport aircraft, its name is quite direct –Autoplane. By propeller tail and a wingspan of 12.2 meters Aluminum three-wing, trying to bring the car to the sky.
of course, limited by the technology of the time and in fact it Autoplane the sky did not really bring the car sustained flight, can only be achieved after a short flight landing distance required.
and we are concerned about the flying car, it is from Geely acquisition of US public flying carDivision Terrafugia start. This is a company established in 2006, R & D production in 2010 flying car Transition.
In 2013, the company launched the TF -X concept car, this concept flying car is powered by a hybrid system, the system consists of a maximum engine power and maximum total power of the two 305-hp 608-hp motor.
In addition Transition, other flying cars have gradually float out of the water, such as all-electric Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences with Studio FA Porsche manufacturing and testing VTOL aircraft; Slovak company Klein Vision to build KLEIN Aircar also into Bo official starter. And Audi has also joined Airbus, began to explore the efforts in this direction.
As we all know, the aircraft weight and fuel consumption is quite high, a Boeing 777-200 aircraft, a total of three tank loading 171,200 liters of fuel alone was 137.5 t weight of the fuel. The greater the mass the greater the fuel consumption of natural, such as the twin-engine 737, A320 hourly fuel consumption of about 3-4 tons of aviation kerosene.
but as a vehicle for their own use, if fuel costs are so the heavy, even if it is not necessarily affordable group can really afford. Therefore, the use of hybrid power section, select or pure electric, but at current levels and costs Sanden technology to support flight and road flying car within a certain distance of travel, at least at the level of the charge, it seems there is someDifficulty.
differ from road and rail traffic, the vehicles are traveling in a relatively fixed road network to reach the destination. Seemingly boundless energy in the sky any flight, in fact, there are various pieces of the air route of flight, and flight planning units and individuals have to go through in order to apply for approval of flight. Among them, including what people fly, what flight aircraft, contact method, the beginning of the end of the flight time, takeoff and landing and alternate airports and so should be noted in the profile. In other words, imagine the traffic jam really fly directly to destinations like or think.
In addition, the safety of the flying car is not yet clear the standard can be evaluated. If the United States Air Traffic Control FAA, for aircraft certification process is quite rigorous, takes about 3 – ranging from 4 years. From prototype to the parameters of each hardware and software, design requirements and how to test, we need to FAA audit. In other words, not simply launch a finished product can get approval, but rather from design to test all the details of the process, need to be approved.
and, including the construction of the apron, how to add energy and some other aspects of the charge, not quite perfect solution. How to improve the flying car performance in terms of payload management is the key to travel, that is, increase the number of each aircraft are equipped with, is the flying car to be solved. Want to see flying cars to solve the problem of transportation, it seems to wait for a considerable period of time will be achieved.
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