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China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Nice. I take it the paired rotors means it can manage if one fails.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

I certainly hope so. But I doubt it.

It doesn't take many flight hours to realize how many backups and contingencies there are in a normal SEP aircraft in case something fails.

And the common denominator for all these techbroesque personal air transport vehicles is the obvious lack of any of those.