{"id":197947,"date":"2024-10-19T05:56:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/watch-jetson-founder-pushes-the-limits-of-freestyle-evtol-agility"},"modified":"2024-10-19T05:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:56:38","slug":"watch-jetson-founder-pushes-the-limits-of-freestyle-evtol-agility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/watch-jetson-founder-pushes-the-limits-of-freestyle-evtol-agility","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Jetson founder pushes the limits of \u2018Freestyle\u2019 eVTOL agility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VeCf8B9OA1c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jetson Founder Tomasz Patan is clearly getting very comfortable with the Jetson One eVTOL\u2019s flight control system \u2026 Watch him wrench the controls around to show off how sharply \u2013 and safely \u2013 this thing can handle tight turns in flight.<\/p>\n<p>Multicopter drones were revolutionary little gadgets when they started to appear on the scene for a number of reasons, but one was their highly automated fly-by-wire control systems. No human could manually control motor speeds on upwards of four rotors simultaneously, but a sensor-equipped flight control system certainly could \u2013 hence, drones like the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/dji-phantom-quadcopter-review\/26812\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">DJI Phantom<\/a> were able to automatically lift off and land, maintain altitude if required, and self-balance against wind gusts to hover in place, while also responding quickly to a pilot\u2019s commands.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the promise with eVTOL aircraft \u2013 some of which, like the Jetson One, are really best described as great big multicopter drones a person can sit in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jetson Founder Tomasz Patan is clearly getting very comfortable with the Jetson One eVTOL\u2019s flight control system \u2026 Watch him wrench the controls around to show off how sharply \u2013 and safely \u2013 this thing can handle tight turns in flight. Multicopter drones were revolutionary little gadgets when they started to appear on the scene [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1694,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-electronics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}