Autonomous Electric Air Taxis (Wisk)

[Fares_Fair]

These WISK manufactured aircraft are described as experimental, on their website.
Information as at 24 July 2022.
Source: Wisk website.

Propulsion:
Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL).

12 tiltable rotor fans with redundancy if a fan fails.
[Unsure how many fans can fail before plummeting].

Range is 40km plus reserves.

Speed is 160km/h.

Equates to 15 minutes flying time.

Altitude is 457m (1500') up to (5000') 1524m.

Safety features includes a parachute deployment.

[#Metro]

Don't these have to be licensed and registered with CASA or other regulatory body?

15 min flying time isn't much. Can't see it being used for regular commuting.

[verbatim9]

Sounds very gimmicky and experimental to me. Better to stick with proven mass transit technologies

-Fast electric rail to Toowoomba, Sunshine Coast, and Coolangatta Airport.

-Build the busway extension from UQ to Indooroopilly Shopping Centre. This will provide fast East-West trips as well as a congestion free way to get to the Gabba and to the city by Metro bus.

[ozbob]

This is nonsense.  To be promoted by LM Brisbane and others as a public transport solution just confirms how far they off the pace.  Fools.

At best a niche rich tourist gimmick.

The 'Cleveland solution' was more grounded than this latest pie in the sky.

The LM Brisbane was in the RAAF for a while. 
He is still very much a fan of things aeronautical which is fine providing it doesn't start to impinge on rationality.

[Ari 🚋]

This is absolutely the stupidest thing I've heard in a while - there's a reason we don't have flying cars, or use helicopters as taxis. Orders of magnitude more inefficient than ground transport (including cars!), visually and auditorially intrusive, expensive, and overengineered. I seriously cannot see how anyone takes this as a serious mass transit proposal when it's barely tenable as an overpriced tourist gimmick.

[#Metro]

Can someone photoshop a rotor onto a BCC bus?

 

[#Metro]

EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE


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First vision of 'AirBus' BRT for Brisbane. Busway station plaza roofs will become helipads for the new public transport aerial BRT service providing direct service from busway stations to the CBD. King George Square to be modified as a landing plaza supporting up to four helipads.

- First route will be Route 747 (King George Square to Mt Coo-tha Summit) running every 15 minutes all day.

- Second route will be Route 777 (King George Square to Brisbane Airport) running every 30 minutes for VIPs who don't want to get stuck in surface traffic or take Airtrain. Perfect for the FIFO commuter and business executives. [Note: Airport Access TOLL APPLIES +$50]

- Trip will take 12 minutes to Mt Coot-tha, 15 minutes to Brisbane Airport
- Go Card accepted, full integration with TL network, touch on at new fare gates to be installed
- Subsidsed by TransLink just like all other PT



(Note: Post is Satire)