On 07/08/17 08:16, Roger Clarke wrote:
[Google Wings is piloting its delivery drones (in both senses of the word) at a small new residential area called Googong, outside Queanbeyan NSW ...
Keep in mind that Google try a lot of things, only some of which become products or services.
One thing interesting with "Google Wings" is the hybrid aircraft. Unlike the the typical 'copter drone, optimized for vertical flight, the Google Wings drone had wings and motors for forward propulsion. It appears to be designed to take off vertically, using twelve lift motors, transition to horizontal flight with two larger motors and at the destination land vertically. This suggests ti could travel longer distances. However, I still don't see this becoming a mainstream service.
Google previously tried a tail sitting flying wing design: https://web.archive.org/web/20141105011555/http://aviationweek.com/technology/google-details-project-wing-unmanned-package-delivery-rd
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