@melkiades: true but since this time we learnt a lot about mechanical engineering, flight physics, ... and this heli is just a design for me: there is no space for the engine, for the fuel tanks, the beam supporting the rear propeller won't support it more than 1 hour flight, ... That's just some gross comments that can say an engineer! Leonardo Da Vinci thought about this at his time, he didn't just sketch machines. I'm not against some aircraft designs, they just need to be at least flyable! ;-)
I see your point but there's something you're forgetting: the designer didn't necessarily have in mind to design a flyable heli. Design is not always functional and it's certainly not engineering. In design, what matters is ideas. If one parcel of one section of this vehicle would give someone else ideas that could be applied to a real flying heli, then to me, the designer was successful. This is the same as seeing top models on the catwalk: you will never, ever, wear those clothes. They're in the realm of ideas: experiments, art, creations that will give ideas to the designers who work in the real world. In this case, we're in a world of imagination and that's why this design is perfectly alright. It could even serve for a movie with superheroes, for example, where the rules of reality are irrelevant.
One last point on this: in 500 years, when engines/fuel tanks may not even exist anymore and when flying could be worked out of quantum physics discoveries, you may not need what you are describing as essential now. Designers don't have to work for the present :) DaVinci certainly didn't, and the same can be said of many scientists, astronomers, etc. of centuries ago.
I can see your point, I would just love that sometimes designs were more close to something that could really work and I hardly see one part that can work expect in movies! ;-)
I whant it!
this has tragedy written all over it
Fake...
Designers are sometimes funny because they're offering you something technologically obviously impossible!
It's only a spanish proyect
Pierre3: this is what most people said of Leonardo Davinci's inventions on sketch 500 years ago :)
@melkiades: true but since this time we learnt a lot about mechanical engineering, flight physics, ... and this heli is just a design for me: there is no space for the engine, for the fuel tanks, the beam supporting the rear propeller won't support it more than 1 hour flight, ... That's just some gross comments that can say an engineer! Leonardo Da Vinci thought about this at his time, he didn't just sketch machines. I'm not against some aircraft designs, they just need to be at least flyable! ;-)
I see your point but there's something you're forgetting: the designer didn't necessarily have in mind to design a flyable heli. Design is not always functional and it's certainly not engineering. In design, what matters is ideas. If one parcel of one section of this vehicle would give someone else ideas that could be applied to a real flying heli, then to me, the designer was successful. This is the same as seeing top models on the catwalk: you will never, ever, wear those clothes. They're in the realm of ideas: experiments, art, creations that will give ideas to the designers who work in the real world. In this case, we're in a world of imagination and that's why this design is perfectly alright. It could even serve for a movie with superheroes, for example, where the rules of reality are irrelevant.
One last point on this: in 500 years, when engines/fuel tanks may not even exist anymore and when flying could be worked out of quantum physics discoveries, you may not need what you are describing as essential now. Designers don't have to work for the present :) DaVinci certainly didn't, and the same can be said of many scientists, astronomers, etc. of centuries ago.
I can see your point, I would just love that sometimes designs were more close to something that could really work and I hardly see one part that can work expect in movies! ;-)
I love what you guys were talking about. If this is at Apple, you engineers would have to make it work from whatever has been [well] designed... :)
Obvious, fake, not designed, just a render, not fancy. Next!
It is a representation of what the future could look like. Fancy IT!!!!!!
Yes, why not.
Do they take trade ins?