Flight Videos of the Freewing Scorpion in Mojave Desert
In this video, you will see remarkable performance:
• Body tilting up to vector thrust, as in the above photo. Just one jackscrew, compared to hundreds of moving parts in a tilt-rotor.
• Take-off roll less than 3 body-lengths - no more launchers, no more runways.
• Freewings neutralizing turbulence - you can see the free wings bounce away from gusts, and notice the smooth horizon.
• Obstacle clearance approach angles steeper than 45 degrees, harnessing the "barn door" drag of the tilt-body flight mode.
. For context, know that a normal aircraft approach is between 3 and 6 degrees. So the Scorpion approaches like a helicopter.
. (The video shows this not just from the ground point of view, but also from the belly camera, and it is quite amazing.)
The three videos, below, are the same, except that the top video is about 13 MB in size, the one below it is about double that size, and the bottom one is some 130 MB in size. Keep that in mind as you play or download one or another of the videos. You can start playing any of them without waiting for the full download, as they are set to stream. The first two are MPEG4 (.mp4), same as used in iTunes. The bottom one is a .mov format.
The bottom two do well with expanding to full-screen display.