I have seen electric paragliders before but this is the first one that really looks like it's done right.
@lucywucyyy3 жыл бұрын
man im so glad electric paramotors are starting to be made, this is the future right here
@randyparsons31885 жыл бұрын
Seems like they would be much more reliable and easy to maintain than a 2 stroke. I guess you could add more battery depending on how light the person is.
@fpveddie5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video this is what I've been waiting for, I'm not flying yet but very interested, and I'd rather not do gas, I'm more of an electric guy, thanks again
@dannyfubar30995 жыл бұрын
Agreed, electric is a far better choice.
@Mark-gd5vr4 жыл бұрын
@@dannyfubar3099 range says otherwise
@boo79483 жыл бұрын
@@Mark-gd5vr true
@mariomegee61056 жыл бұрын
Love your setup, No running, 3 wheeler👍.
@natural97436 жыл бұрын
When the battery technology gets to 3 hour flight duration i'll definitely get one
@SternLX6 жыл бұрын
Why, do you fly with the throttle pinned wide open for 3 hours on your gas engine?
@WillBravoNotEvil5 жыл бұрын
In other words, you have no interest in contributing meaningfully. Fair enough - trolling's not illegal, but you're the author of your own isolation, amigo.
@JohnMac-qy3sg4 жыл бұрын
@@WillBravoNotEvil hows that trolling
@BrianPhillipsRC2 жыл бұрын
Looks pretty cool!
@ssrc306 жыл бұрын
I'll get one when it has longer run times. Excellent concept though. Sounds kind of like a turbo prop.
@bepowerification3 жыл бұрын
every electric paramotor should have a battery quick release mechanism because if they start to burn you're kind of screwed.
@MarkHuneycutt6 жыл бұрын
Noice!
@gooseboy60466 жыл бұрын
if there was a way to turn the canopy into an advanced solar panel that would be awsome more air time and when you land you can just spread it on the grass to refuel.
@LetsTalk6495 жыл бұрын
Great idea 70 ah I don’t think you could generate enough power to make a difference range wise nor charge up the battery faster then a on board inverter. 14-15 k is nuts when you can buy a fresh breeze or a flat top for 10k.
@bronney5 жыл бұрын
that flared landing bro, dayum!!! so yum!
@BargainAgent6 жыл бұрын
yes mate welcome to the future
@almilani43004 жыл бұрын
This seems like the way to go. The gas motor seems too much unless you are going really far. An interesting proposition
@bobby90505 жыл бұрын
Thanks great video
@prov4316 жыл бұрын
" ....pricing starts at $15,995 in the Adventure Pluma Chassis"......... that may be a hard spot.
@angelbreath65396 жыл бұрын
Ouch!
@SternLX6 жыл бұрын
That's a little over what I paid for my 2017 Zero DS(electric Motorcycle in case you were wondering) with the ZF13.0 power pack. I can do about 150 miles of city driving in one charge on it.
@mattleese77645 жыл бұрын
@@SternLX yeah but can it fly? lol
@SternLX5 жыл бұрын
@@mattleese7764 At 100mph it feels like flying really low. :)
@LetsTalk6495 жыл бұрын
I’d rather spend 6-9k for a gas powered unit.
@lucywucyyy3 жыл бұрын
i think the on off switch should be on the throttle, it should be a thumbthrottle like the open ppg as well
@alanlyons1195 Жыл бұрын
Are these still available at FLYPPG LLC in Illinois?
@mysql506 жыл бұрын
Ideally I would like something in the 25-30HP and 5 hour flight time. But to use a 30hp 1800rpm electric motor for 5 hours is going to require some 27K AH of battery capacity (Top of head math). That is significant but not unreasonable. Running 4x 12K AH LP batteries with voltage steppers will only add another KG of weight and the motor is not that much, so less then a gas powered engine. but the whole set up is is just over $2K before the rest of the gear and you are looking at a charge time of about 5 hours as well.
@SternLX6 жыл бұрын
Charge on the J1772 EV Standard and you cut recharge down to 1 hour easy. Oh and EV batteries are measured in kWh these days. Put a 7.2kWh Battery pack with current state-of-the-art lithium-ion cells behind a 25 kW(about 34-35hp) brushless motor and it'll easily run wide open with a low load for about 2 or 2.5 hours. Also a prop is going to pull much less amperage than the drive train and weight of a vehicle uses. But you don't fly a butt fan with the throttle pinned 100% of the time so flight time can easily be extended. Plus if you set it up properly you can have the prop windmilling and recharging the battery. Kind of like regenerative braking.
@grejen7115 жыл бұрын
@@SternLX Recharging with a windmilling prop will be very inefficient and ineffective; the result will be tons of drag. There is almost never any good reason to intentionally induce drag when you're flying except to actually do the flying part. If you want to go slower you trade that speed for altitude.
@wll15005 жыл бұрын
You're lucky to get 3 hours with a gas unit, dream on lol
@thomastompkinssr71865 жыл бұрын
wonderful machine what were you guys think of next. Electric gyrocopter perhaps
@ripmanridin70926 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool................The future!
@bigsailboatproject5 жыл бұрын
I wonder what the CC equiv of that motor is? 200? Trike looks a lot easier than lugging around a butt fan for sure, but then he makes it look so darn easy!!
@jb5music5 жыл бұрын
That's great. So HFC wouldn't give you 5 times the endurance like the quad copters? So you could actually get somewhere?
@KenHeron5 жыл бұрын
FUN!
@LAPGOCHINSTRUCTOR5 жыл бұрын
Being electric you get instant torque
@Vicariously...I5 жыл бұрын
Are the batteries easily interchangeable and chargeable off the motor to have spares? If so, what is the weight of the battery and it's cost? Also, what is the life of the battery? How many charge cycles will it take before it begins to degrade? Thank you.
@orgonsolo62915 жыл бұрын
Is it the propeller that makes all that noise? Looks like great fun!!!
@JAW886 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@bobsnabby22985 жыл бұрын
How much you need thrust to stay in a continuous flight mode and not sink ? What is the air speed at that point ?
@scarroll4514 жыл бұрын
looks like you had some thermals! mid-day?
@JM-yx1lm5 жыл бұрын
Wow thats a badass looking radial flux motor!! I have one very similar to that from a washing machine and turned it into a wind gen. I beat that beast you have would do great to make power
@MarkLoves2Fly3 жыл бұрын
What motor is used for this unit?
@joesmith64425 жыл бұрын
I don't mean this in any smart alack way, but can you (or someone) explain what the advantage is of an electric paramotor? It's not flight time, it's not weight, it's not noise, it's not expense, it's not time between flights....am I missing something here?? I mean that seriously. At the moment I don't see any reason whatsoever to buy one of these vs. a regular gas powered paramotor. Happy to hear a legitimate explanation though. Thanks.
@Jan-ex3wj5 жыл бұрын
emissions
@HobkinBoi5 жыл бұрын
I could think of one, I guess. You can spin down completely at anytime during your flight instead of idling. Then you can nearly instantly spin back up when needed. But that's just about it. Most would be better off with a gas unit otherwise.
@joesmith64425 жыл бұрын
@@HobkinBoi I see, thank you for the comment. Yeah seems a minor thing. I just don't understand the push for electric, unless it's a need to "go green" so people can pat themselves on the back or whatever. I fly RC foam planes, so I know all about lipos and electric motors, but as far as paramotors go, it just makes zero sense to me, at least at the current level of technology.
@HobkinBoi5 жыл бұрын
@@joesmith6442 Well, unless you're charging the battery pack from a solar array or a wind turbine, which would probably need to be of substantial size to charge at a reasonable rate, then it could be for green. Maybe its useful where you're running off grid.
@carlbamburg74395 жыл бұрын
Joe Smith.. I don't think it's about being green at all.. Seems to me reliability, ease of operation, motor longevity and the overall reduction of failure points (plugs, wires, carburetion, fuel mixture, exhaust leak issues etc) would ALL be great selling points for an electric motor.. Just my two cents..
@robertmcgee1415 жыл бұрын
Volume sales is where the money is. get them to a cheaper price point than gas, and and corner the market.
@bernardstewart15235 жыл бұрын
How much will it cost and will it work with a 200 pound man ?
@bicanoo_magic34525 жыл бұрын
That is THE perfect design combo. Para with detachable electric motor... hang on, what's the price???? AAAh.. I'll be well and truly I'll be walking around with hip pins by the time I can afford that...
@jamessutherland42385 жыл бұрын
Cool. Maybe one day
@KingJellyfishII6 жыл бұрын
Is that... Two contra-rotating props for torque compensation?
@Noonenaught6 жыл бұрын
it is just a quad blade propeller, people have delved into contra rotating to reduce torque but is often preferred to have a lighter, simpler machine 2 blades is cheaper and more efficient also
@cheguajak3 жыл бұрын
😍😍👍👍👍✔️
@LikeAGroove6 жыл бұрын
It would've been cool if there was some sort of material that could harness solar power , so the wings would be made of that kind of material , then the battery would be connected to the wings and voilà, solar powered glider!
@Noonenaught6 жыл бұрын
not any time soon
@LikeAGroove6 жыл бұрын
yea haha, but i'm sure this will happen in the near future!
@darkshadowsx59495 жыл бұрын
flexible solar panels are a thing but they arent as efficient as normal ones. even if you cover the whole top of the wing you might get 300 - 350w but it also depends on the angle of the sun to the cells. with the motor likely being 50,000W+ its really not worth it for the added weight. now if you can steal one of NASA's radioisotopes AKA RTG and willing to carry such a device (impossible to to explode could leak radiation if damaged in a crash) you could possibly fly for 30+ years straight. weight might be an issue though. dont quote me on flight time. You would have to be constantly battling winds or out running storms. just not worth it.
@thomaspayne68665 жыл бұрын
That might get you another 3 minutes of flight time of the additional weight and drag didn’t subtract 5 minutes.
@ivansalesmaciel46594 жыл бұрын
Boa tarde tenho interesse para trazer para o BRASIL
@appleyardcircus45323 жыл бұрын
Funny that e motors don't have wireless controllers
@LetsTalk6495 жыл бұрын
5 gallons of gas will keep you in the air for 3 hours. 45 minutes is not long enough for the money. I’d rather have a water cooled unit on a trike.
@lifeofbassman72285 жыл бұрын
I am trying to us a 1 kilowatt ebike motor power by an extricate generator
@magicwand67464 жыл бұрын
At $2 a gallon ... gas smells nicer these days
@David657026 жыл бұрын
Dude
@grobschnittt5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for wearing blue-jeans during the flight. It's disgusting to have to look up hairy bare legs as in other videos. Nice ride. About $14,000 out of my price range.
@mark95493 жыл бұрын
Do You intend to say Tucker Gott about hairy legs !?
@grobschnittt3 жыл бұрын
@@mark9549 : Any paramotorist’s bare legs, hairy or not.
@fiesty1614 жыл бұрын
Too expensive for my blood pressure.
@jocollum81364 жыл бұрын
0:38 08:07 06:59
@thedronehorseman47135 жыл бұрын
It still seems noisy.
@Tarbabyification4 жыл бұрын
Stop the music
@DonHavjuan2 жыл бұрын
The music. Dude. No.
@thelemonlama27226 жыл бұрын
Soup
@mobo93915 жыл бұрын
It gets old and hard to follow when a person says "aha" over and over.
@xaviahealey-diaz74465 жыл бұрын
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@Drivertilldeath6 жыл бұрын
30 min flight time, nope. need way more flight time to more like 5 hours or more. But electric is the better option imo.
@grejen7115 жыл бұрын
Five hours!?! LOL this is for recreation. You're bladder last five hours does it? The regular 2 stroke motors used for this typically carry fuel for 2 or 2.5 hours max. Cessna 172 carries about 4 hours fuel (although it does fly at 90-100kts indicated instead of the 15 or so PPG flys at)
@HobkinBoi5 жыл бұрын
@@grejen711 You still get longer flight time on gas though at the least. Also I dont know about you, but unless you're chugging water at every given moment, I can hold for 5 hours if need be. Now if you want longer flight time, you'd have to have a bigger fuel tank, but I believe you're limited to how much you can carry on the paramotor (5 gallons I believe?) Also the whole thing would he significantly heavier carrying that much fuel.
@grejen7115 жыл бұрын
@@HobkinBoi Five hours! ha. Wait 'til your over 40 man.
@5123rick5 жыл бұрын
Really cant see the point, no advantages at all. Heavy, still noisy, short flight times. In our sport you cant plan flights too far ahead . Lipos cant be left fully charged, so you charge night before, then weather is cack so have to put batterys into storage voltage. Oh but then weather gets better so recharge the battery, nope cant fly ........... Fast charge kills batterys, so still long recharge times. Just no where near ready. This is aviation , who wound swap from a very reliable 2 stroke , can xc almost anywhere and get more fuel etc. Get a grip, future my ass
@bobnwashington5 жыл бұрын
Henry Ford heard similar retorts, Fix Or Repair Daily vs the reliable horse. It's called progress, Henry's Ford isn't the Ford of today, progress, it has to start somewhere, visualize the knights with the latest ivory hubcaps on their chariots? (*L*)
@gwkdad6 жыл бұрын
Just as loud, fly 50 min (on new batteries), 3 hour charge time in-between flights!!!, replacement cost of expensive power cells. If any of those Goldplated iPhone types fly, you might sell a few...
@vaprex6 жыл бұрын
Exactly, @gwkdad This is one of the reasons that free market capitalism (by itself) may not be enough to push the emerging technologies forward. Yes, e-paramotors are a niche market. The same could be said for electric cars several years ago. Not to get political (...sadly everything is viewed as such these days) - but if we had given the same financial incentives on developing more powerful, smaller, and lighter batteries (and/or all renewable energy technologies) as we did to large oil corporations for the past several decades, we may already have your "cheap and serviceable 3-hour flight paramotor." The private sector has definitely progressed (slowly) on battery technology & performance, but it seems if we devoted more explicit and intentional focus on the ability to store energy (i.e. batteries) all of future society would be better off. ...but, as they said in 'Raising Arizona': "If frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their ass hoppin' "
@charlesmiller50786 жыл бұрын
There are hundreds if not more Companies trying to improve battery Tech, its kinda like cancer, they need a big break through to get any where, Yes they will sooner or later get there. Maybe 50 years from now, Good thing is everything will change, tho that will take time also. You see alot of promising ideas, but they go nowhere. But alot of money is directed in that direction, so all we can do is hope for a break through. Its the biggest hang up to moving forward as we type.
@notsponsored1036 жыл бұрын
You guys are so far off the pulse. Seriously. There's one great thing about free market capitalism that drives development that you seem to have overlooked, Competition. Just look at how the world's leading Motor Vehicle Manufacturers have reacted to the success of the Elons Tesla. Sure, there's been some problems with the business model and long delays with deliveries, but full electric as a successful concept has the rest of the industry frantically trying to catch up so they can claim their share of the market. If you think battery tech is still 50 years from its potential you've got your head in the sand.
@charlesmiller50786 жыл бұрын
We were typing about Para motors not your God Elon. When a new Tech is truly great it totally takes over quickly. Tesla is a mess. Dont get me wrong, I hope battery tech explodes (sorry didnt mean to use that word) quickly, but be honest do you see that happening. Were using the same type batteries in our cars as we did 50 years ago, Yea...were moving right along. Have you been smoking dope with Elon, come on be honest, cause it sure sounds like it. Let me guess you Love Apple also. I knew it. FAN BOY.
@notsponsored1036 жыл бұрын
I'm sure we can keep this discussion civil. I know we're talking about PPG, I'm not a FAN BOY and I don't use Apple products. What defines 'quickly' is surely a relative concept. I used the battery revolution gripping the auto industry as evidence that my points are valid. Several brand new vehicle manufacturers have joined the full electric industry. The Bollinger B1 is a perfect example of what can be accomplished in an environment where nobody would have expected electric to go yet. Check it out here www.bollingermotors.com I'd say battery tech is certainly moving quickly in the Auto Industry. As for PPG, all I can say is watch this space, you can bet there's some cool stuff to follow.
@martinstreeworks33106 жыл бұрын
Any body that uses the phrase "Electric Engines" should be removed from your advertising team because if it is electric it is a MOTOR not an engine!, back to school einstein!
@Noonenaught6 жыл бұрын
engine /ˈɛndʒɪn/ noun 1.a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion. motor /ˈməʊtə/ noun 1.a machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for another device with moving parts.