I’ve wired 100 Fuel Sharks in series and connected them to an old LED flashlight. Tomorrow, I’ll be using it to carve my initials in the moon! In you face, Neil Armstrong. /s 

Warren Oates approves the use of “big sexy goggles”. 

A Russian Venus probe? Crashing back to Earth somehow? What kind of hack TV writer would dream up that kind of preposterous nonsense?

Was it absolutely the first thing I noticed? “Why soitenly!”

Wasn’t this exact scene cut from “King Ralph” because they though nobody’d believe it? 

It took me a few seconds to work out folding front seat-back works. Apparently, your spine is a key structural element in a crash. 

Dumpster crabs? Why not Zoidberg, why not? 

Dumpster shark? 

“The car you won’t be caught dead in!” — so... success? 

It’s not the X-57. Sean Clarke took over for Mark Moore (who left to join Uber’s urban aviation program), but I saw an update published from the ITEC 2018 conference just last month. As far as I know, it’s still very much on: https://itec-conf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Building-NASAs-X-57-Electric-Propulsion-X-Pla…

That’s my guess too.

They appear to already rotate. I’d guess it’s a center-of-gravity issue — a trade-off between VTOL and cruise mode. I don’t know for sure. 

No. You may be thinking of half a dozen other VTOL aircraft — both piston and turbine. These usually failed because the throttle lag and spool-up times didn’t allow for particularly responsive control or attitude correction. Electric motors don’t have this problem, but are (for the moment) limited by battery energy-den…

Point taken... but it uses a system called Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology (LEAPTech) — developed as part of NASA Ames X-Plane program from 2015. The prop-in-wing config blows the air directly over the wings to generate lift. Each motor can run at a different speed (that’s the asynchronous bit in the…

Why is no one here from Elio responding to this?

Look again. I was told a while back it was actually 2 hands (labor and management) about to grasp in a handshake. The 2 center elements are the thumbs.

You have to admit that was a pretty good design for only 3-4 months of work.

BRG and biscuit. Great choice! Hub splines on wire wheels can be a pain for some — glad you kept them.

Cool idea, bro. But why stop there? If we add an autonomous audience, we can remove all humans, and any possibility of emotional engagement from the equation entirely.

No. It just proves you don’t travel much. If I’m staying in Europe for a few weeks, I’ll usually rent a car in Brussels and drive. I can travel to Germany, France, Netherlands and don’t have my passport stamped in those countries once.