12-14-2024, 05:57 PM
This post was last modified 12-14-2024, 05:58 PM by jaded. Edited 1 time in total.
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Found a "goodie"!
May be a new EV vehicle past initial testing, but of a design that doesn't require FAA permitting since it's too new to be regulated ... yet.
Suggested as "possible" since Stellantis just purchased Archer Aviation & both companies were working on this. Yes, I'm hashing up the description but this is a short YT an the REAL meat is in all the aviation chit-chat in the comment section. What was really interesting was one of the comments mentioning from the underside these EV (almost heli-vehicles) are designed to look like a fixed wing aircraft. Out of all the crazy stuff out there this line of thought strikes me as the most plausible, even if it's a different company testing out EV heli-vehicles.
Couple of interesting comments so everyone doesn't have to search.
@Mike-f5r 1 day ago
Hi TK, could be testing of these larger drones, or "piloted aircraft" that are "air taxi" type that lift off straight up, transition to airplane mode, similar to a Marines V-22 Osprey, except a lot smaller than the V-22 (maybe Leonardo AW609 ?). FAA does not have regulations for this type of aircraft yet, and needs test data to set up new rules. (would this require helicopter pilot, fixed wing pilot or something new ?) U.S. Navy has an airbase (and test facility) at Lakehurst NJ, could be doing flight testing on these drones from there.
@ksavage681 2 hours agoMy guess is that testing is over now. Word is they have been seen around since 2022. Just a new type of helicopter drone. Much quieter and electric. They don't warn you when a helicopter is out flying, do they?
@kenwork3323 7 hours agoI am in the Pinelands. Jointbase area. It was April28th 2022 that I had what you just showed the picture of or similar go overhead heading east , low altitude, very quiet, leaving from Lakehurst Navy, It was dark out 8pm to 9pm. We have been seeing hovering lights for longer than 2 years , not helicopters. Flightradar24 patterns of helicopters from the base would show some but not all aircraft coming and going. Some areas in the pines would show some of them in a pattern over open fields. Maybe testing or training. Some nights there is a lot of helicopter traffic, I would say for recovery if something didn't go well. Reguardless . Manned or unmanned , Advanced technology always seems to be alien to the out of the norm. Best things are kept secret... USA. . Like the test virus, testing the imaginations of people. This time instead of just listening to a radio of invasion, they added the optics.
@tuna1936 18 hours agoI can confirm these are not the archer aircraft. I live by the phl airport they have been here the last two nights, half a dozen or so. They are the size of a 14 passenger van in length but the underside is designed to look like a plane from the ground looking up. The dark night sky hides the horizontal plane rotors. The archer has vertical rotors or props these do not. It’s very interesting from the side profile and only out at nightfall. Hope Tk sees this
@tuna1936 16 hours ago@ hard to tell in the dark. The lights are always on on the under side which distorts what you can see of the upper half., wing tip ends are lit red on one side and green on the other while having two white lights up front a red in the center belly and maybe a single white out back. The vertical stabilizer if it has one seems to be reflecting because it’s not lit, but has a fuzzy static like look reflective vinyl does from a far. Again it’s tough to see it could be wrapped to portray the look of a normal airplane but it is not. Like I said the underside is designed like that on purpose it seems also.
May be a new EV vehicle past initial testing, but of a design that doesn't require FAA permitting since it's too new to be regulated ... yet.
Suggested as "possible" since Stellantis just purchased Archer Aviation & both companies were working on this. Yes, I'm hashing up the description but this is a short YT an the REAL meat is in all the aviation chit-chat in the comment section. What was really interesting was one of the comments mentioning from the underside these EV (almost heli-vehicles) are designed to look like a fixed wing aircraft. Out of all the crazy stuff out there this line of thought strikes me as the most plausible, even if it's a different company testing out EV heli-vehicles.
Couple of interesting comments so everyone doesn't have to search.
@Mike-f5r 1 day ago
Hi TK, could be testing of these larger drones, or "piloted aircraft" that are "air taxi" type that lift off straight up, transition to airplane mode, similar to a Marines V-22 Osprey, except a lot smaller than the V-22 (maybe Leonardo AW609 ?). FAA does not have regulations for this type of aircraft yet, and needs test data to set up new rules. (would this require helicopter pilot, fixed wing pilot or something new ?) U.S. Navy has an airbase (and test facility) at Lakehurst NJ, could be doing flight testing on these drones from there.
@ksavage681 2 hours agoMy guess is that testing is over now. Word is they have been seen around since 2022. Just a new type of helicopter drone. Much quieter and electric. They don't warn you when a helicopter is out flying, do they?
@kenwork3323 7 hours agoI am in the Pinelands. Jointbase area. It was April28th 2022 that I had what you just showed the picture of or similar go overhead heading east , low altitude, very quiet, leaving from Lakehurst Navy, It was dark out 8pm to 9pm. We have been seeing hovering lights for longer than 2 years , not helicopters. Flightradar24 patterns of helicopters from the base would show some but not all aircraft coming and going. Some areas in the pines would show some of them in a pattern over open fields. Maybe testing or training. Some nights there is a lot of helicopter traffic, I would say for recovery if something didn't go well. Reguardless . Manned or unmanned , Advanced technology always seems to be alien to the out of the norm. Best things are kept secret... USA. . Like the test virus, testing the imaginations of people. This time instead of just listening to a radio of invasion, they added the optics.
@tuna1936 18 hours agoI can confirm these are not the archer aircraft. I live by the phl airport they have been here the last two nights, half a dozen or so. They are the size of a 14 passenger van in length but the underside is designed to look like a plane from the ground looking up. The dark night sky hides the horizontal plane rotors. The archer has vertical rotors or props these do not. It’s very interesting from the side profile and only out at nightfall. Hope Tk sees this
@tuna1936 16 hours ago@ hard to tell in the dark. The lights are always on on the under side which distorts what you can see of the upper half., wing tip ends are lit red on one side and green on the other while having two white lights up front a red in the center belly and maybe a single white out back. The vertical stabilizer if it has one seems to be reflecting because it’s not lit, but has a fuzzy static like look reflective vinyl does from a far. Again it’s tough to see it could be wrapped to portray the look of a normal airplane but it is not. Like I said the underside is designed like that on purpose it seems also.
