last year i built a quad rotor drone completely from a pile of parts, took about 3 hours. that first hover to some people might be trivial but when you put all that work into that aircraft and see the landing legs leave the ground for the first time, is a moment of pure excitement
No so far from the truth, I worked at ATC for years, one of many stories was that a controllers screen totally died when a cleaner unplugged around the back to plug in a vacuum cleaner!
The stability was average, the wheel moves too much too, i hope they will fixe it. For the moment i m 100% ehang who so much advanced and autonomous. I would like archer make fully autonomous too, do you know if during this test flight it was autonomous without pilot? Hope archer will be not to late on 2024-2025 Do you think archer team can make progress and do you believe on this project ? Keep going and working🛩💪
by emphasizing just how monumentally difficult this extremely brief hover was -;-dependent on miles of wiring ,computers, battery regulation, stepper motors, lines of software and so on and on you inadvertently show just how precarious is the operation of this aircraft . just a couple of corroded connections or some computer failure can result in catastrophic failure unlike the 'comparable' fixed wing aircraft of the same passenger capacity let alone installed power or range, speed etc which is naturally stable and far more efficient but also fail safe and needing no continuous artificial stability . Think of the 737 software glitches after certification and still able to be overridden by a human pilot . "Solving" VTOL hovering is addressing the wrong problem even if so 'admirable' necause of the difficulty of making it work at all --just compare the Segway,- -inherently unstable but forced to work by computerized gyroscopic wizardry to the simple child's scooter or it's electric counterpart -- doing the job long after the segway is forgotten. Ditto the misbegotten Boeing "go Fly" competition --again, answering the wrong question.
Can’t wait to see full flights
Archers mullet game is top notch!
😂
Well done Archer team. Looking forward to next milestones.
Thanks! Stay tuned!
Love to see Trent palmer hope to see more
Trent is right, the hover test is sooo smooth it doesn't even look real! Excited for all the test flights in 2022!
Thanks for coming on this journey with us. 2022 (and beyond) is going to be fun. Stay tuned!
Great! Archer will change our life!
Very cool. Great job everyone!
Sooner ca ride that 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Good luck Archer 🎉🎉🙏🙏🔥🔥😍💖
last year i built a quad rotor drone completely from a pile of parts, took about 3 hours. that first hover to some people might be trivial but when you put all that work into that aircraft and see the landing legs leave the ground for the first time, is a moment of pure excitement
Yapp its true joy amazing
I believe in this company and project! So excited for 2022 And beyond!
More and more company are developing airtaxi 👍👍👍🥂🥂🥂
Awesome area of startup
Good air taxi
Not hard to figure out where you are with the video intro...
What? You mean like with the big "Serv-Aero Eng." sign and all? Super secret.
Congratulations. What FAR are you seeking certification?
I would like flight controls in aircraft
Coms with aircraft were temporarily lost when yellow hat guy plugged in the coffee maker
No so far from the truth, I worked at ATC for years, one of many stories was that a controllers screen totally died when a cleaner unplugged around the back to plug in a vacuum cleaner!
The stability was average, the wheel moves too much too, i hope they will fixe it.
For the moment i m 100% ehang who so much advanced and autonomous.
I would like archer make fully autonomous too, do you know if during this test flight it was autonomous without pilot?
Hope archer will be not to late on 2024-2025
Do you think archer team can make progress and do you believe on this project ?
Keep going and working🛩💪
that is a caster wheel they do that
by emphasizing just how monumentally difficult this extremely brief hover was -;-dependent on miles of wiring ,computers, battery regulation, stepper motors, lines of software and so on and on you inadvertently show just how precarious is the operation of this aircraft . just a couple of corroded connections or some computer failure can result in catastrophic failure unlike the 'comparable' fixed wing aircraft of the same passenger capacity let alone installed power or range, speed etc which is naturally stable and far more efficient but also fail safe and needing no continuous artificial stability . Think of the 737 software glitches after certification and still able to be overridden by a human pilot . "Solving" VTOL hovering is addressing the wrong problem even if so 'admirable' necause of the difficulty of making it work at all --just compare the Segway,- -inherently unstable but forced to work by computerized gyroscopic wizardry to the simple child's scooter or it's electric counterpart -- doing the job long after the segway is forgotten. Ditto the misbegotten Boeing "go Fly" competition --again, answering the wrong question.