The finalists for Boeing’s $2 million ‘personal flying device’ contest

[AggieMike88]

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/14/17460360/go-fly-prize-boeing-finalists-drone-vtol-jetpack

The GoFly Prize is intended to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers. “The GoFly Prize is going for a seemingly impossible challenge: to have something that is small enough [for] individual flying, while having long endurance and low noise,“ Mike Hirschberg, executive director of the Vertical Flight Society, told me. “Based on conventional wisdom, any one of these would be very difficult. Together, it doesn’t seem possible. And that’s why it’s so exciting.”​

 

[dembro]

Which one would you get on? Blue Sparrow looks kind of cool. I think I had a toy as a kid that looked like the Tetra. The Aviabike looks cool too - but none of these seem as practical as the already flying Flyer thing that Kittyhawk is doing. Wish they'd take the gloves off it though.

 

[James331]

Many of these seem like they didn't have pilots on the design teams lol

 

[dembro]

Truth!