2.65m */ 0.1 seconds = 60 mph.
Airliners fly about 500 mph, so something about this math is far off...
2.65m */ 0.1 seconds = 60 mph.
Airliners fly about 500 mph, so something about this math is far off...
They are not targeting airliners for the current generation.
Like someone else said in the comments, (if true) this tech seems to have already been used in military bombers for a long time now, so to me it's weird it hasn't made it to civilian aircrafts already from the civilian arms of military contractors, and instead needs to be reinvented by a start-up.
[1] https://www.wildbergair.com/registrations/C/OE-CRG_1_01.htm
So the class of technology they need to make this works already exists in production. So the real problems will be how they’re sensing, and can they make them survive hundreds of thousands of air miles.
A shower of something like nuts or cherries halls a few feed past a bright area and the bad ones just magically sort themselves out into a different stream away from the main flow.
I’d love to see one in person.
One test aircraft used 2.65m poles extending off the front of the wing. One test aircraft used a boom extending off the nose. The model airplane used a big rig sticking out front and teeing off to the sides.