PteroDynamics XP-4 demonstrates high wind test flight.

Join us on an exhilarating journey with PteroDynamics XP-4, a groundbreaking aircraft that's pushing the boundaries of flight innovation. Watch as it undergoes a high-wind test flight, showcasing its power, precision, and agility. Witness the incredible aerodynamic design that's revolutionizing the future of aviation, as the XP-4 conquers the skies with grace and ease.
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[@raymondhuot1684]

This is THE BEST VTOL CONCEPT of all the others I have seen ! The battery are enclose in each motor pod giving a moving CG relative to the flying mode, very clever ! Having most of the weight in the wing , the hinge mechanism support only a fraction of the total weight. The BEST it is !

[@SteveP0808]

I know you guys mention this as an unmanned craft for cargo drop off, but that design is so awesome it seems like the best blend I've seen for potential private manned aircraft. With that thought, I wonder if autorotation could be achieved in the drone configuration for a mechanical only landing without power. This design makes more sense than the blackfly, Jetson, or any of those other crafts. Also, if you guys ever start working near Orange County CA, I have a best bud with 15+ years of firmware engineering I would try to convince to work for you. Our shared hobby was RC aviation of all kinds. I want to fly your planes!!!

[@TestMyVidsOut]

You can’t autorotate a fixed pitch propeller like the props commonly used on small electric flying craft like this. Adding variable pitched is pointless with electric motors and adds needless weight and complexity. Hard to see this scaling up with variable props

[@animatek6171]

@@TestMyVidsOut I think it's completely doable with reference to the Osprey. Different design, same principle. The advantage of this model is that having more wing surface saves more energy in cruise mode; and I imagine it is more maneuverable in both configurations. perhaps also considering another means of propulsion instead of electric motors; including tilting pitch propellers and the ability to land with wings spread. The more I think about it, it gets better and better.

[@FeralRabbit]

@@animatek6171the Osprey “can” autorotate but my understanding is not at a survivable rate of descent. For this in says a light aircraft version…..ballistic parachute.

[@pahtar7189]

@@FeralRabbit: The V-22 can auto-rotate when close to the ground, but generally it's much more effective to tilt the rotors forward and use the wings to glide to the ground.

[@FeralRabbit]

@@pahtar7189 not and have a reusable aircraft. The rotor loading is too high because the blades are too small.

[@bozs.r]

The best drone design I've seen so far. Amazing.

[@harrishariadi9329]

Can't wait the manned version of it

[@googleyoutubechannel8554]

Most impressive large VTOL demo on KZbin... transition in wind, moving vehicles, nice! If y'all can write software as well, think you have a winner.

[@Dudleymiddleton]

Great design work! Calculating the stresses and tensors and vectors and all that mathematics/physics stuff - and then test, test, test! It's going in the right direction, guys keep up the good work!

[@shazam6274]

Noice! So that's what a South Colorado Accent sounds like! Great design, great progress!

[@davidlee50]

Would love to see this in the Coast Guard inventory because it could drop a raft and food/water. And the Color would look so cool.

[@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler]

I just wanted to say great job at everyone on the team who designed this this has to be one of the best drone designs...

[@cj_clippy]

I love this company!

[@maxiegrobner9018]

Any addition to the war machine is greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work! Really!

[@dr.razorx]

Just Incredible !

[@dertythegrower]

Impressive.

[@ghostindamachine]

Awesome!

[@plombeurjdf4360]

Super vidéo 👍👏

[@Serhiy34]

Guys! You are the best! Your technical solution for transforming an airplane into a quadcopter is brilliant in its simplicity! No one has come up with anything like it. My congratulations to the engineers and programmers!

[@dsdgdsfegfeg]

It's so simple, I can't believe I had thought of it myself or anyone else built it yet

[@Serhiy34]

@@dsdgdsfegfeg Everything ingenious is simple.

[@fritzstudios8571]

This seems like the best so far.

[@musiclovers8427]

wow😮😮😮 Amazing👍👍

[@jimmyjango5213]

So cool

[@roguegamer6499]

I hope one day to see this available for the general public with custom paint jobs/modifications

[@pyeitme508]

Wow😊

[@CrazyKingJammy]

This is a type of design Ive been looking for! I wonder if we can build a boat plane, shaped like a catamaran, VTOL foldable wings like here, but the Catamaran/Full Body wing design. Can land on air or water, assuming the haul can support the weight on land. Of course, this is just my fantasy talking.

[@planetsec9]

Ok but a modified version of this would be perfect for Mars exploration, like Ingenuity but better, the ability to fly long distance and fast over the martian terrain but also being able to hover and land cause no runways, best of both worlds, Ingenuity already proved that COTS is doable for Mars so maybe this design would work too

[@warum.nicht12]

One and only concept

[@user-or2gg7ml2i]

This is briliant !!!...something moving behind and inside the tail to make the cg change will the wing folding , i guess

[@jiangzhao1142]

A very good design. The key question is how much weight can it carry? How far can it travel?

[@dertythegrower]

What about cargo loads in wind?

[@jacekpiterow900]

Will be way cooler if it lands at full speed. Just quickly bend the wings going to hovering configuration and plant itself in a spot on a platform. Like Space X buster. But overall awesome tech!

[@cogoid]

There is a video from two years ago where a slightly smaller X3 prototype does some cowboy style flying like that. Check it out -- it's pretty cool!

[@zibbitybibbitybop]

This looks like a really good candidate for the Replicator Initiative if the Pentagon can get that going. Just imagine a small USN carrier with a giant swarm of these for recon and warhead delivery, that'd be a nightmare to defend against.

[@watchthe1369]

I would say it should be able to haul a pallet of equipment or a stretcher. The pallet would guarantee enough cargo to make a decent difference and make the litter/ stretcher pick up work for covert medevac. Bigger rotors might be all that is needed to do that? Prop planes and helicopters all have benefitted from extra props and blades.

[@mitchellbutler7068]

You need to make these in all scales. Can you strap one to the back of a grunt

[@r0cketplumber]

This is aguably simpler than a retractable gear aircraft, with only two moving joints vs the multiple ones needed for gear, struts, doors, shocks, brakes, shimmy dampers... granted the PD landing feet need some springs and dampers, but can probably be just gas spring/shocks. Clever and elegant.

[@acarrillo8277]

I preferred the high wing design but I am sure there are reasons to do it this way.

[@imogen1]

Put this on a commercial airline chassis and you have solved the gate spacing problem while eliminating the need for a runway.

[@sciencecompliance235]

I'm not sure this would scale up like that, among other problems it would have with jet wash. If it did, the overall aircraft would probably be significantly heavier since wings on transport aircraft are finely tuned pieces of structural engineering. Maybe there would be a niche for aircraft like this, though, for shorter-range, smaller passenger capacity flights.

[@asparagusstaging430]

@@sciencecompliance235 It would also be extremely dangerous. With more moving parts there are also more ways to fail. If something goes wrong when it is switching modes then everyone is dead.

[@sciencecompliance235]

@@asparagusstaging430 I don't know if it would be any more dangerous than a tilt-rotor aircraft.

[@SJ-xg1uf]

Man this is mad genius. I wonder why Zipline isn't using this technology 🤔

[@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife]

Probably because this took tremendous resources and time to build and test while a net trapping / catapult launch system is far simpler of a system to design test and deploy. That's just my guess.

[@halabuloogy]

my girlfriend refuses to touch me at night when i watch these kinds of videos

[@pauldannelachica2388]

How about a close air support like A10 aircraft

[@Dudleymiddleton]

Oh, shoot, I forgot to add the word "Awesome" somewhere in my comment. I do apologise! :)

[@carklimar]

this is the future...!

[@jessiejoestar6021]

How much can it carry?

[@transvestosaurus878]

Do you intentionally design it to look like hunter-killers from Terminator, or is that just a happy accident?

[@littleb9298]

internet: Wow, this design is genius. dji: Wow, thank you for saving our R&D effort again.

[@FeralRabbit]

Looks right, flys right.

[@BG-me3pc]

WW2 B17 bomber is what it reminds me of , If it could do VTOL .🤔

[@makoado6010]

well build a two seater with cabine and i buy one. would be perfect to jump to land from my motoryacth.

[@Carbon2wheeler]

So when are you slapping a seat on this bad boy?

[@yaosio]

Why have a guy talking and then make cover up what he's saying with loud music?

[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

Compro 50.000 unidades para a força aéria brasileira do rio de janeiro

[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

Compro 50 unidades para o exército brasileiro

[@Abricos4440]

2-gas hybrid engine and 2- regular Bldc motor ... 🤔

[@subhamparida8317]

Made in USA 🇺🇸

[@lanceroark6386]

Seems to me that dropping the craft onto a cargo net then lowering the net so that the craft can be lowered to the deck and strapped to a trailer would be better than hoping the craft doesn’t get slammed into the deck.

[@jonclement]

trust in the potential for autonomous landing. I'd be more weary of damaging the propellers in an unstable net & most of the time there won't be a net available. best to design for the worst case scenarios. Good thought though. I wonder if a net would be a good way to catch a fixed airplane landing at a specific spot

[@marionorbertoBITZ]

It is similar to the concept of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey which is a joint service multi-role fighter aircraft using tilt-rotor technology

[@MeerkatADV]

Not similar at all.

[@matthewhines8424]

Take my Money!!! Now Please

[@poljakov13]

How much you have to offer?

[@ps3301]

Where is your airtaxi configuration? U can go IPO. Your design has almost no extra weight penalty compared to all other designs.

[@philipmonroe81]

They need one that a man can pilot

[@sprinteroptions9490]

so at 1:54 you tripped a spring with a servo... saw the jerky.. stop lying.. goodnight

[@user-le9ij9um5z]

Интересно, но - не перспективно.

[@poljakov13]

Just like TESLA as electric car was not promising in lots of people eyes at early days of TESLA?

[@gscorp9156]

Классный аппарат, нужно построить такой в России, для людей

[@igorivanov4579]

Продам идею повышения устойчивости при изменении режима полёта данного аппарата.

[@devilemperor6668]

Why Don't Ptero Dynamics talk to Indian Govt. for this coz they are Searechin Good Drone... That's why our US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in India today to talk about India - US Developin Weapons together... Imagine World's Old & World's Biggest Democracy workin together for the Betterment...

[@manofsan]

They are buying the Predator

[@w8stral]

Useless it is electric

[@poljakov13]

thats what makes it cool

[@w8stral]

@@poljakov13 And UTTERLY USELESS

[@hobbyrob313]

And yet I think this could be better! (Sorry!) because that rumble with folding wings there you just have to completely off. (get rid of the folding system!) extra mechanicals and electronics extra space and weight... all unnecessary and therefore nonsensical! . (Sorry again! I think so, but I can't reach your goal, so who am I!? ) Then make that plane so that it can take off straight up! (Do that on engine and computer power!) Healthy and friendly greetings from the Netherlands! Rob (I hope I don't come across wrong!? (I'm NLer)

[@squelchstuff]

Winged flight is far more energy efficient than rotor flight. This design makes use of the vertcal take off and landing capabilities of a rotor craft, but quickly transforms to winged flight for cruise. The reasoning for this configuration is explained very well in this presentation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4KkqmWraJh1e8U

[@hobbyrob313]

@@squelchstuff Hello sir, but then again we have motors strong enough to pull up an airplane fuselage from the upright position (so it's possible!) and how often do I see RC pilots hovering with their aircraft? ( so this is also possible! ) can it also be automated? ( yes of course! ) . And thus... away with that turning of the wings, it just costs extra weight and energy! sorry, but it's all unnecessary! Healthy and friendly greetings from the Netherlands! Rob

[@dickbrmly]

I hope it finds mountains of non-military use as well.