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Title: Air Force Research Laboratory awards $300K contracts in flying car project
Post by: Elderberry on February 13, 2021, 10:30:11 pm

American Military News by Thomas Gnau - Dayton Daily News   February 13, 2021

Spintech Holdings, Inc., of Xenia, has been awarded dual Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contracts to help advance electric flying cars.

Spintech will work with partners the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) and Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company that focuses on electric vertical take-off and landing (or “eVTOL”) vehicles — often called “flying cars.”

The first contract will focus on propeller blades, while a second contract will focus on composite materials.

The propeller blades project will “explore novel methods of manufacture and materials leading to improved manufacturing, reduced cost, and increased structural efficiency of propeller blades” for electric flying cars, Spintech said in a new announcement.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/02/air-force-research-laboratory-awards-300k-contracts-in-flying-car-project/ (https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/02/air-force-research-laboratory-awards-300k-contracts-in-flying-car-project/)

Title: Re: Air Force Research Laboratory awards $300K contracts in flying car project
Post by: Sled Dog on February 21, 2021, 04:35:22 pm

The disk loading of flying vehicles defines their efficiency.    Helicopters have the lowest ratio of disk area to weight and thus the most energy efficient vertical take off and landing vehicles.

Title: Re: Air Force Research Laboratory awards $300K contracts in flying car project
Post by: Joe Wooten on February 22, 2021, 01:16:59 pm

With all the morons driving on the roads, do we really want them to take their stupidity into the air?