This car-sized two-seater VTOL can take off and land directly in parking slots - Yanko Design

The Onyx is the outcome of a pretty basic demand. The future of flight cars is clearly the VTOL, or the vertical take-off and landing vehicle, and when they do become a norm, they'll demand to follow a prepare framework to fit into a world that was dominated for a century by 4-wheeler cars. For instance, taking a VTOL to the nearest supermarket would mean having to park it in the aforementioned car-park as whatever regular car. That's why the Onyx is designed the fashion it is… to provide that seamless transition from state-vehicles to flight-cars without necessarily needing a change in infrastructure.

The Onyx comes with a six-rotor set, housing two rotor-units in front and iv at the back (each rotor contains ii propellers that rotate in opposite directions, making the Onyx have a total of 12 propellers). This organisation gives the Onyx an overall rectangular layout, as opposed to a hexagon or square layout that would come from orienting the propellers radially or on the sides. The rectangular layout ensures the Onyx occupies the same corporeality of infinite as an SUV or a pickup, letting information technology comfortably fit into existing car parking spaces, and allowing conventional open parking lots to serve as docking/parking zones for VTOLs likewise.

Despite its large size, the Onyx is a two-person VTOL, with a single-piece glass hood that opens outwards, assuasive passengers to embark and disembark from the sides, similar a helicopter. This limitation is brought about, in function, by the fact that the Onyx is entirely electric-powered. Interchangeable bombardment packs supply power to the 12 propellers that are designed to be power efficient while profoundly reducing rotor noise, making the Onyx a non-polluting VTOL in more ways than i!

Designers: Charles Champagne & Jorge Ciprian (Imaginactive)