Personal Flying Vehicles

Cluster focuses on debates about innovative personal aircraft like eVTOLs, hybrids, and drones disguised as planes, questioning if they qualify as true planes versus gliders, with historical comparisons to Wright Flyer and Spruce Goose.

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GameDev Sep 14, 2012 View on HN

Make a human powered flying vehicle

tristanb Aug 8, 2018 View on HN

you don't need a quad/octo copter to do this, it could be a winged aircraft, and those are several orders of magnitude more efficient.

stephengillie Feb 2, 2013 View on HN

Where are the self-flying airplanes?

eru Jan 18, 2026 View on HN

More like a ultra-light plane / helicopter hybrid or so, isn't it?

ttoinou Jan 6, 2023 View on HN

Try gliders (without engines) then, they're very safe

devilbunny Mar 26, 2025 View on HN

Perhaps the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Vision_SF50 is along the lines of what you had in mind?

2Ccltvcm Jun 4, 2019 View on HN

I build and fly flying wings that don't have computers

whazor Apr 22, 2017 View on HN

The plane they are planning to build looks like it could glide by itself.

donpdonp Jan 23, 2019 View on HN

wow thats not even a plane in the video! its a square sled with quadcopter motors thats taking a plane body for a ride.https://www.liftaircraft.com/ has what I think of when I think of a possible future mode of transporation through the air.

Markoff Jul 1, 2022 View on HN

seems like no video of taking off by itself, they seem to have some catapult/string to take off, so if it can't take off it's not really a plane, just glider