The Jetson Flying Car

The real life Jetsons! Start-up develops a $92,000 flying vehicle dubbed Jetson One that ‘anyone can own and fly’

   The electric flying vehicle can operate for about 15 minutes on a single charge
   It comes 50 per cent complete with the rest built at the new owners home
   The device, which sells for £66,000 ($92,000) is sold out completely in 2022

A startup from Sweden has developed a personal flying vehicle that it says ‘anyone can fly’ called the Jetson One, and it is available for £66,000 ($92,000).

The all electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft was launched this month, three years after the firm released a ‘proof of concept’ prototype in 2018.

‘Our mission is to make flight available to everyone. The Jetson one is an electric helicopter that you can own and fly. We intend to make everyone a pilot,’ said Jetson co-founder Peter Ternstrom.

The single-seat ‘built at home’ kit-copter can zoom along at 63mph thanks to its lightweight aluminium and carbon fibre frame and 118 horesepower engine.

That is based on a pilot who weighs about 13 stone (182lbs) – those weighing less or more could see a greater or lesser flight time before it needs to go back on charge.

The vehicle is 112 x 95 x 41 inches, and has prop arms that are designed to fold in on themselves, leaving an ‘on the ground’ profile, similar to a touring motorbike.

Reserving a build slot for the single-seater Jetson One requires a £16,000 ($22,000) deposit, and when it arrives, it is half assembled, with the rest ‘built at home.’

It is an octo-copter with four arms stretching out from the fuselage, each containing a pair of rotors – producing lift.

In the US it is classed as an ultralight aircraft, meaning no pilot licence is required to operate the vehicle, according to Jetson.

It is flown using a throttle lever, a joystick and a pedal, and comes with an onboard computer that keeps it stable during flight and watches for ground obstacles.

It can climb up to 4,921ft, although in the video shared of it operating, the pilot keeps it relatively close to the ground.

This might be due to the fact it only operates for about 15 minutes on a single charge, meaning there may not be time for extended higher-altitude flying.

The onboard system is capable of hovering and gently bringing down to the ground if the pilot takes hands off the controls, but there is also a ballistic parachute if it were to run out of power or the motor fails.
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I can see it's use in suburban areas but not in high density cities because of the inherent danger . An ultra light , there used to be a lot of them operating until the operators got thinned out by their use, were safer as you could glide them to a landing if in trouble - these don't have that capability but the parachute could solve that .
I'll stick to a paper plane

Cheaper than a lot of cars but I'll take a pass for the time being too. I wouldn't spend that sum on a car anyway, but many do.

My bucket list is to get a small Cessna or Piper Cub . I watch these pilots flying along the beach in a small slow plane and would love to give it a shot .

I used to go up with a friend in a small Cessna and he'd let me take the controls but he was probably trying to take my mind off wanting to be sick Lol.

The plane was a hire and well cleaned but once it was all closed up and we'd taken off all I could smell was vomit from some previous flight. Terrible! That was my last jaunt Lol.

Lol . Yeah I could understand how the smell could get to you . I go charter fishing and the stink in the cabin from the guys that got seasick can get to you . I didn't think about that being in a cockpit of a plane so I better change my bucket list .

I dont like the idea of the blades spinning at the height of my torso, it could turn you into a kebab

Other than that its very cool

I actually didn't even notice that. They'd be better on the roof.

Anything marked "electric" gets the Woketards all excited.

We're NOT going to have electric Jetson pods. First, for the congestion, as mentioned. Ultralights are banned from urban areas for just that reason...every plane in an urban area has to take instructions from ATC, and travel in the assigned lanes.

Second, the battery life. What happens when you're over downtown LA and your battery quits? And it can happen fast...batteries are funny that way. I had bought a used electric motorcycle, just to experiment with...it was fun but, with battery limitations, not practical for more than a three-mile trip across town.

You want a used Nissan Leaf, you can get them, cheap. The batteries decompose; it costs more to replace them than the car is worth; and with the old batteries, you can wind up stranded, with a lot less range than the computer told you.

Of course the same problem will come up with aircraft...until we have a few Li-I batteried planes crash, and start fires that cannot be put out.

Red Lily wrote:I actually didn't even notice that.  They'd be better on the roof.

If it doesn't have a ballistic shute I would never get into one