I want to see this video with small children ‘trampolining’ on the craft’s netting while in flight.
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I think you mean: worrying about cutting off someone else’s head, so bourgeois.
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Only to the marketers.
Thinking WIG here also. Plus this looks as if it’ll accommodate more than 1 passenger.
Its definitely a flying boat. Not a very good boat though. Not even a very good ultralight helicopter. Doesn’t look like it can leave ground effect, which is probably a good thing.
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Perhaps it can be sold to the law enforcement market.
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I for one welcome any disruption of Big Water Taxi. For too long those corrupt bastards have held our lake infrastructure by the balls, over-charging us every time we needed to have drinks on our friend’s veranda. Well, no longer.
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Seriously, it’s bad enough trying to enjoy public parks with quadcopters and rc planes making that mosquito-in-the-ear sound.
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Most states in the US have laws on the books about not harassing or passing too close to other craft at speed. They were designed to get jet skiers to stop buzzing sailboats and fishermen, but it seems like it would apply to these monstrosities, too.
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Wait, doesn’t that mean it is subject to Admiralty Law and so you’re a sovereign country while you ride it? Or is that the one where you get to buy you birth certificate and sell it to the Federal Rockerfeller Reserve… or something?
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A pilots license? Nonsense! Not even a driving learners permit! Whatever could possibly go wrong? Maybe an Aerial Jackass License?
I’d prefer one of these:
No cupholders in the Russian version, but man I bet there was a glorious rumble, traveling in those things. Curiously, I’m feeling nostalgic for a sound I’ve never heard or, in this case, felt.
…with extra rumble available when desired:
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The reason they should be flown over water is because if there’s is a malfunction, they have an 0:1 glide ratio.
Only if it’s got gold fronds on the edges, I think…
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