The Cellar - Dec 20, 2010: Lucy THM

While Elspode is waiting for his flying car, and others are waiting for their Jetson's jetpack, Lucy wants to satisfy your desire for personal wings.

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•Lucy THM is a new type of micro aircraft designed to provide unprecedented personal mobility.
•Key flight performance characteristics are: ultra short take off and landing (with a run of less than 15 meters and very steep climbing and approaching paths); rapid reach of high altitude; dragster-like acceleration; manoeuvrability and control at flight speeds near zero.
These characteristics are made possible by combining a thrust greater than the weight of the aircraft with a compact and innovative aerodynamic architecture that fits in the airstream of a propeller with a very large diameter.

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If that don't set the dogs to barkin', I don't know what will.

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The pilot, in fact, is seated inside an anthropomorphous fairing in a motorcycle-like posture and he wraps himself around the structure which is then perceived as a physical extension of himself: a “technological suit” worn to get yourself about in the air.
The sensation is that of manoeuvring the controls to move yourself through the air and not, as usually happens, to move the plane.

Hey George, look out for that tree. :rolleyes:

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