{"id":104183,"date":"2020-08-26T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104183"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:03:01","slug":"meet-the-air-forces-flying-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104183","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Air Force’s “flying car”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is not a joke. This the the brainchild of the Agility Prime program, a non-traditional program seeking to accelerate the commercial market for advanced air mobility vehicles. That thing that looks like it was cobbled together came from Air Force grant money though AFWERX. I expect this weird stuff from DARPA, but not the AF itself. DARPA is probably too busy trying to figure out how to tie rockets to squirrels and train them to attack the genitalia of our enemies.<\/p>\n

So what is AFWERX? I’d never heard of it, and it appears as if that’s not a clever acronym. Here’s how they describe themselves;<\/p>\n

AFWERX is the Air Force’s team of innovators who encourage and facilitate connections across industry, academia, and the military to create transformative opportunities and foster a culture of innovation. Our mission is to solve problems and enhance the effectiveness of the service by enabling thoughtful, deliberate, ground-up innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enhance, enable, facilitate, these are words usually used to fluff up a resume.<\/p>\n

Back to the egg-copter pictured above;<\/p>\n

Agility Prime is a program with a vision of world impact,\u201d Barrett said during the program\u2019s launch in April 2020. \u201cThe thought of an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle \u2014 a flying car \u2014 might seem straight out of a Hollywood movie, but by partnering today with stakeholders across industries and agencies, we can set up the United States for this aerospace phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the heat of the afternoon, Matthew Chasen, LIFT chief executive officer, piloted the Hexa over the Camp Mabry parade ground, just a few miles from downtown Austin.<\/p>\n

We now have over fifteen of the leading aircraft manufacturers in the world applying to partner with Agility Prime, with many of them already on contract,\u201d said Col. Nathan Diller, AFWERX director and Agility Prime lead. \u201cThis flight today marks the first of many demonstrations and near term flight tests designed to reduce the technical risk and prepare for Agility Prime fielding in 2023.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You may soon have that flying car that we were promised mid-century. You’ll look like an idiot and it’ll sound like a swarm of Africanized bees, but it’ll fly!<\/p>\n

I think we could save some money and time by contracting with Colin Furze.<\/p>\n