Why is this news. What difference does it make to me that Renault is going to sell in India? KSAM
scribe. I can imagine how happy those who have been waiting since that year and paid money
It would be better if Chernikov offered to make roads with a 10-year guarantee, illuminate them and remove dirt, which turns into dust when a large flow of cars moves and pedestrians breathe this muck!! Plus, Chernikov would suggest putting things in order with the sidewalks that were blocked by the owners of the private sector, plus the emission Wastewater right on the road!!!
The author, well, you are a blockhead, neither a photo of cars equipped with a gas tank, nor a description of the principle of operation, nor the facts that today such cars are used to the fullest North Korea and enthusiasts around the world!!! Actually what did you want to say?!!!
@Vitaliy, The author is handsome! Of course, condensate in an incomplete tank and oxidation of the tank itself is a lesser threat, especially in very coldy, when refueling to full in case of fraud, they will not top up once, with ten refuelings - ten, plus the lost time for each refueling ... what are you all smoking there? Experts! I always refuel on all cars from the lamp to the full, all my life I did not do it right ... that's sadness !!! Interestingly, the author, what kind of car do you have now and how many cars did everyone have empty tank???
@1965boris1965, eco4re? Directly in the PTS written? strange, I have a car of the 8th year (until 2008 there was a miserable data on the class), euro 5, but there is no info in the TCP. Does this mean that you can ride, but I can't? Here's what it's about. Yes, there are a lot of garbage dumps of stinkers (old Volzhan women, etc.) they have no class. But there are also Mercy, Opel, BMW, etc. no class. But only their exhaust is cleaner than all these news and iksrevv.
Wasn't he, V.V.P., talking about the abolition transport tax on private cars, for pensioners? And very recently!
@aleev_daniyar, fabulous idiot... Where would our auto industry be without these foreigners? Until now, they would have riveted a "penny" (which, by the way, is also the merit of foreigners).
@Vitaliy, Lada Silhouette - Project C is Vesta's platform and it was released in 2015
Well, apparently UAZ understood that no one needs a Pro lam, we wait further until the price becomes acceptable for such a technically obsolete car. And the booth or whatever is behind it is not the merit of UAZ, after all, they do not produce it.
Wow! Chotky Italian crossover!
And it is not surprising that more and more people are buying. This once again proves the fact that Subaru are moving in the right direction. After the release of the updated forik, sales are growing every month, what will happen when they launch a new legacy for sale? It's actually a rhetorical question.)
change cummins to 405,406, etc. this is a complete madhouse, gas engines are complete junk!
Are there eared ones?)
The dealership has everything you need to check the car, so it is logical that now many are launching certification programs for used cars.
Many movie characters had flying cars. And what kind of movie heroes did not fly on flying cars! This is Fantomas, and Harry Potter (who flew not only on a broomstick but also on a Ford Anglia), a guest from the future in the Soviet film of the same name also flies on something similar, and of course everyone remembers whole strings of flying cars in The Fifth Element.
Meet - flying car-helicopter PAL-V ONE! Already, many experts in the production and invention of flying vehicles claim that already in 2017 flying cars will go on free sale and their price will not exceed 300 thousand dollars. Of course - only a select few will be able to buy such flying cars, namely rich clients who already have more than one copy expensive cars or an expensive yacht.
In 2014 Dutch company P-+AL-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle, or "Personal Air vehicle") has completed test flights of the PAL-V flying car. This company PAL-V Europe NV has created the PAL-V, which is nothing more than a hybrid of a car and a gyroplane.
Appearance of the flying car Helicycle PAL-V
The Helicycle PAL-V is a three-wheeled teardrop pod with a pair of folding propellers, a tail and two seats. The main structural elements of the flying car - helicopter are made of lightweight carbon fiber, aluminum and titanium.
PAL-V ONE flying car-helicopter concept
PAL-V ONE is a mini helicopter. It is based on the invention of the Spanish aircraft designer Juan de la Cierva, who back in 1923 created something similar to a helicopter, called the "gyroplane" - from the English. autogiro (other names are “gyroplane”, “gyrocopter”). Working on it, the designer realized his dream - to create the safest aircraft in the world. The main difference between a helicopter and a gyroplane is that the main rotor of the gyroplane is not rotated by the engine, but by the air flow that flows during the flight. The helicopter rotor is rotated by the engine, causing the air to go down and thereby keeping the body in the air, and in the gyroplane, the blades create lift due to the air passing under them, like the fixed wings of an airplane (there is no downdraft).
In the development of this flying car, specialists from such serious scientific laboratories as the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands and the laboratory of the University of Delph took part.
A prototype of a flying car was tested completely on the ground a long time ago - in 2009, and in 2012 it was already able to fly. According to its creators and inventors - flying car PAL-V passed all possible tests on safety and fully meets all safety requirements in all largest countries peace.
Technical characteristics of the flying car-helicopter PAL-V ONE
The flying car has only 2 seats in the cockpit - the pilot and the passenger sit one after the other. It is also equipped with two propellers - accelerating and carrier, which allows a flying car to do without wings. On the ground, this light two-seater and three-wheeled streamlined car behaves with enviable maneuverability, thanks to its small volume it parks in hard-to-reach places and with the ease of a motorcycle overcoming traffic jams. Also, a flying car - a motorcycle is very stable despite its tricycle thanks to a system of gyroscopes - which do not allow it to tilt too much to the sides. The patented DVC™ (Dynamic Vehicle Control) body tilt system automatically adjusts body angle based on speed, acceleration and steering angle. At low speeds, the “commands” from the steering wheel are sent to the front wheels of a flying car, and at high speeds, their main part is redistributed to the body tilt mechanism relative to the road. Such a system was developed in 1994 by the Dutch Anton van den Brink and Harry Kronen.
Fuel consumption and speed of the flying car PAL-V One
Here's what's interesting - the Flying Dutchman PAL-V can only move like a car. He has gasoline engine, quite powerful - from 218 hp which accelerates the car very quickly - in less than 8 seconds to a speed of 100 km / h. Wow - they outperform many golf cars, that's how! When moving on the ground, the main rotor is complex and does not affect the movement and aerodynamics. And the most high speed, which can be achieved by this flying car, both on the ground and in flight, is about 180 km / h. But here's what is significant - in flight, fuel consumption increases very much and, accordingly, the cruising range decreases over a distance. The weight of the PAL-V flying car is 680 kg, but during the flight it can also carry up to 230 kilograms of cargo. Depending on the weight, this flying car can fly from 350 to 500 kilometers, and fuel is consumed in the air somewhere around 20-30 liters for every hundred kilometers.
At the same time, when driving on the ground, a flying car PAL-V consumes a little more than 8 liters of gasoline for every 100 kilometers. The volume of the fuel tank is 100 liters and this allows the PAL-V flying car to travel 1200 km without re-injection of gasoline! In addition to gasoline, a flying car engine can use biodiesel and even bioethanol.
PAL-V One flying car dimensions
The size of the PAL-V gyroplane when driving on the ground is compact - 4 meters long, 1.6 meters wide and high.
General, road and flight characteristics of the flying car-helicopter PAL-V ONE
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How does a PAL-V ONE ground vehicle turn into a flying helicopter?
As the creators of this flying motorcycle stated - main problem was the speed of transformation of a ground vehicle into aircraft- that is, it was necessary to develop a reliable mechanism for folding screws on the ground.
The PAL-V flying car turns into a helicopter in just 5 minutes. What is happening? The car stops and the engine turns off. A tail with stabilizers emerges from the body of the car. Non-working screws folded on the roof go into working condition and unfold. Then the engine of the flying car starts up again and it automatically pushes out the accelerating propeller. As the speed increases, both propellers begin to work simultaneously. Interestingly, the PAL-V flying car-helicopter can take off and land on both runways and regular highways, and it can even take off from the field. To accelerate a flying car, a straight section 165 meters long is needed, its speed is only 50 km / h. Reverse transformation of PAL-V ONE from autogyro to ground vehicle happens in 10 minutes.
PAL-V development company CEO Robert Dingemans says the vehicle can be used both as a traditional land vehicle with good acceleration and as an aircraft - if you suddenly want to suddenly fly through a smoky and gassed traffic jam or fly over a small area of off-road - for example , through the forest or over the mountain.
PAL-V ONE Helicopter Car Pilot License
Do I need a pilot's license to fly a PAL-V flying car? The rights are required, for example, when flying on a Slovak air car, and serious pilot rights. But since maximum height, which a flying car climbs does not exceed 1200 meters, is quite small and, of course, will not interfere with civil aviation. At such a height (which is not regulated international law flights) can be flown by anyone with the right to drive a sports aircraft.
Pros of the PAL-V One flying car
But all the same - it's a bit high to fall, if anything ... Therefore, in the event of a motor failure, the car does not fall, but descends in autorotation. And of course, you don’t need an airport and runways for a flight, a straight section of a highway is enough (without potholes and potholes, of course), or an open field. And forward - take off!
PAL-V ONE flying car-helicopter safety
This vehicle is less noisy and safer than a conventional helicopter. Low noise is ensured by the fact that the propeller blades rotate at a low speed, less than the speed of a conventional helicopter propeller. Takeoff and landing take place at low speed, and this process is extremely and easily controlled.
Runway for flying machine PAL-V ONE
For a normal takeoff, you need only 165 meters, and a flying machine can take off both from a hard surface and from grass, that is, from almost anywhere. This property of his is somewhat related to the Terrafugia TF-X flying car, which can also take off from almost anywhere. And when landing, the PAL-V ONE flying car only needs 30 meters to come to a complete stop.
Safe emergency landing of flying car PAL-V ONE
And one more thing - even if the engine breaks down, the PAL-V ONE air vehicle can be landed safely in autorotation. How? Unlike a helicopter, the propeller behind the cockpit creates the driving force in the PAL-V. If a helicopter's engine fails and breaks down, its pilot needs to quickly change the angle of the rotor blades, and very strongly, to switch the car into autorotation and make a sliding gradual landing, eliminating a sudden fall. The gyroplan at loss of speed simply starts to gradually decrease. When the engine fails, it does not fall, but glides like a glider, using the autorotation effect. Therefore, during an emergency landing, a flying car-helicopter can be landed smoothly and almost without movement on the ground.
PAL-V One flying car-helicopter course
At the same time, the manufacturer will still oblige all future PAL-V pilots to take a 30-hour flight control course. It is necessary! Even a 3D simulator for training future pilots has been installed at the manufacturer's headquarters, where all the smallest details of the flight are recreated.
The cost and possibility of serial production of the flying car PAL-V ONE
The price of a flying car PAL-V ONE
PAL-V successfully tested the ONE prototype in 2012. And in May 2014, the manufacturer began to take the first commercial orders for the release limited edition(of 45 pieces) aircars worth 500 thousand euros each. The price of a flying car, as we see, is quite considerable! Their deliveries should begin in 2016-2017.
The Dutch, wherever possible, announced the start of sales of the PAL-V ONE helicycle. At the same time, the possibility of bringing it to Russia is being considered, where the cost of a new car will be about 10 million rubles. But here's how to fly and whether it will be possible to fly on such machines - after all, in Russia there are too many different bureaucratic bodies monitoring the airspace. But it is likely that when a lot of such machines are bought, then the obstacles of bureaucracy can be overcome.
Flying car PAL-V ONE - serial car of the future!
The transition to mass production of such flying machines can be just a real revolution in transport life. Probably, once also spontaneously and suddenly, causing stormy delight among some and complete misunderstanding among others, there was a transition from carriages and carts driven by horses to ordinary cars. Potential consumers of such machines can be the police, ambulance, army, well, various geological exploration and other scientific expeditions. It's not bad after all - as long as there is a road - you drive a car, there is no road or a mountain ahead (well, or there is a lake at last) - you press the button and now your car turns into a small and compact helicopter and you successfully overcome the obstacle encountered.
Guess who created the world's first officially licensed flying car? Of course, the Dutch dreamers! PAL-V, together with the design studio Spark Design, thought about building aircraft based on the Carver tricycle approximately ten years ago. And in 2012, test flights of an apparatus built according to the gyroplane scheme took place - with a traction propeller and a free rotor that creates lift. The rest of the time was spent fine-tuning the design and certifying the machine. And finally, PAL-V is offered to everyone!
The company accepts orders for two versions. The first, Pioneer Edition, will be released in a limited edition of 90 copies at a price of 499,000 euros. For this money, the buyer will receive double car with the maximum range of options and rich interior trim, as well as management training courses and training in any corner of the planet. You can reserve the PAL-V Pioneer Edition now with a non-refundable deposit of 25,000 euros. However, if you do not rush, then you can get by with smaller amounts: regular version Sports costs 299 thousand euros, and the fee for it is 10 thousand. By the way, if the company has difficulties with certification of the flying car in the country of the buyer, then it will still return the deposit.
For comparison: the simplest helicopter costs about the same, and the price of an ordinary gyroplane is an order of magnitude lower. But PAL-V takes versatility. On the roads common use A 100-horsepower Rotax engine allows a four-meter machine with its own weight of 664 kg to accelerate to 160 km / h, and acceleration to “hundreds” fits in 9 s. Transferring PAL-V to flight mode takes five to ten minutes, after which a car with a 200 hp traction motor. a maximum of 330 m acceleration is required for takeoff. The speed in the air (the same 160 km / h) is quite comparable with the speed of an inexpensive helicopter, and to land a car, even with a failed traction motor, it is possible at a speed of 30 km / h in a section no longer than 30 m. True, the law requires take-off only from specially designed lanes, but in some countries it is possible to use sections of roads in private ownership.
And most great advantage PAL-V in front of helicopters and conventional gyroplanes - the ability to arrive at the take-off point under its own power. The only difficulty is that management requires not only driver license but also a flying license. Although the design affiliation of the machine to gyroplanes allows you to get it after 30-40 hours of training.
PAL-V promises to start serial production flying cars by autumn, but their delivery to customers is scheduled only at the end of 2018. By the way, if the client has doubts, you can reserve a car for only 2,500 euros - and on a return basis. But then you will have to wait the longest, and if you refuse to buy, you will not be able to resell your turn to another person who wants it.
