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PteroDynamics Transwing is an electric VTOL aircraft with folding wings. It can take off and land vertically, then transition to efficient forward flight. Its compact design reduces drag and size, making it useful for advanced aviation missions.

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Entropic Boss1 month ago

Cute but horrendous loads on those hinges.

Mohammed Ghoneim1 month ago

Transition is too complex compared to other configurations. CG, thrust vector and magnitude makes it so much harder to stabilise

John McElligott1 month ago

Great— The Drones are Trans!? My church doesn’t stand a chance!

Highly Suggestible1 month ago

wow, this might be the coolest thing I've seen online in at least an hour.

ivan flores1 month ago

Missions? You mean killing people?

BAM Studios1 month ago

Put a bike tire on a rod, spin it really fast, as fast as you can, then try rotating it. This will not be commercially viable due to the extreme stress of this absurd design.

CDU1 month ago

Can you land it, with only 3 motors working🤔

JonZfromtheOC1 month ago

That’s going to rip apart at full size, you can see the model was having stress issues during transition..

MechaManiac1 month ago

Didn't the Osprey have issues with moving the nacelles?

John Thompson1 month ago

Drone.. Does it have night vision ? And can it imitate sounds of Nature ? But can it do all that and project an image in the Sky ?

Cassandra1 month ago

Neat

Eric1 month ago

This is really cool!

Tm Neimi1 month ago

Now it's a real advancement in VTOL. I know, so many others. This one makes me smile.

Redacted_Squirrel1 month ago

Interesting design, but the rotors need to be able to independently pivot for more stability. That is a very unstable transition. Without independent control of the pitch on the rotor any variable pushing against the vehicle can't be properly countered.

Utpal Parajuli1 month ago

We got trans planes before GTA 6 😂

BlackLabelExpat1 month ago

I wonder how that would work with payloads. What if only one wing had an extra payload left?

David Murray1 month ago

You crossed an OSPRY with a hungry wasp; he's got more wings.

Donnie, Donnie Darko 🇺🇸1 month ago

And, it's already obsolete because small drones can take it out?

Teuku Muhammad Firdaus1 month ago

Didn't the osprey have issues with moving the nacelles?

I_have_manynames1 month ago

THIS IS THE MOST GHOST IN THE SHELL THING YOU WILL SEE TODAY!

ban Bhan1 month ago

I don't want this hinge for my sock drawer, so for a $200,000 drone..

たまおじさん1 month ago

F4F wildcat：Great job，bro.

Stephen Cardwell1 month ago

This is fucking WILD.

reverend_renegade❤️1 month ago

trans wind eh, what are it's pronouns? forward / swept?

Billy Severt1 month ago

now try it in a high crosswind...

Rob Waschka1 month ago

Expenzive complicate this same two or more combo drones Ukraine know

常磐木狂屈1 month ago

(デルタの玩具になりそう。('_')

Ginés García Mira1 month ago

😍😍😍😍

Salemsky1 month ago

They're trying to give our drones HRT

BRAVVORM1 month ago

Vertical takeoff that transitions into efficient forward flight without looking like a Rube Goldberg machine is genuinely hard to pull off — nice find.

Eko Saputra Wijaya1 month ago

We got trans planes before gta 6

Merri Hopkins1 month ago

"its compact design reduces size" …

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