According to Node Air, the vehicle doesn’t have to be a means of transportation, and passenger and cargo logistics work better with detachable pods that can connect to aircraft or ground vehicles as needed. We have partnered with JetX to pursue that vision.
This idea has been seen before by us, most notably by EmbraerX with the Pulse concept. But it’s like this: Since most air travel involves ground logistics at either end, each flight requires moving people and cargo from ground vehicles to aircraft and back to ground vehicles.
Why not leave them in a cabin or cargo pod for quick and easy connection to both ground vehicles and aircraft?
In this model, the pod sits in the back of a skateboard EV chassis like the one REE has been building and rolls up in front of your door to pick you up. The chassis incorporates its own battery, motors, sensing, steering, and control mechanisms and can be land-hauled to the take-off point. Here a very large drone lands on top.
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The chassis on the ground releases the pod, and the fuselage grips the pod from above. It flies on its own battery power to its destination, where it unloads a small pod onto another land chassis and takes it to its destination. His three-legged journey without having to get up from his burgeoning ass. Pods may be dropped into railcars for ultra-efficient long-distance transportation without the hassle of traffic.
Florida company Node Air says it is working to bring this vision to life, and apparently doesn’t care if it needs to use another organization’s logo to make it happen. Hmm. Amazon, DHL, UNHCR Refugee Agency, they all get branded renderings on his website for Node Air.
Now, Nord is teaming up with fellow Florida company JetX for “the development of a new modular concept aircraft with JetX Vector Thrust Propulsion.” In fact, the rest of the release might be better cut and pasted. Because this is not exactly War and Peace.
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“The new aircraft takes the best of both worlds, integrating the Node Air modular transportation system with the best propulsion yet,” it says — the error is theirs, not ours. “The result will be something completely new, surpassing, unique and revolutionary in this starting industry.”
JetX, which you may remember from last April, was all about tilt-free thrust vectored propulsion technology. It takes a ducted fan propulsion unit (a fan with blades or the weird “bladeless” kind Jetoptera is working on) and suggests how a stationary fan can be augmented with flaps, rotating systems, cascading vanes, buckets, and other contraptions. To do. The thrust from these fans can be “bent” downwards. Thus, an aircraft can be designed with a fixed propulsion bank that does not require physical tilting to transition from hovering to cruising flight.
If you were a little skeptical of JetX’s ideas last year, this rather fanciful collaboration between two companies long in rendering and lacking in detail, accomplishments, and decidedly cash, certainly won’t help. If Node Air is struggling to get its modular transportation idea off the ground with a large-scale, efficient multi-rotor design, it’s to an unproven propulsion system (which becomes significantly less efficient near vertical lift). I don’t see how migration can help. .
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Similarly, if JetX weren’t able to take off drones using its propulsion system, it wouldn’t understand the wisdom of spending time developing a modular transportation system, things would become so complicated that certification would be required. must receive. If it works, it will be used both autonomously on the road and in the air.
Still, these two companies definitely know how to create funky renders. So look forward to some slightly cooler images in the coming months. However, we are not holding our breath for the final product.
Source: Node Air, JetX
