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Sabrewing Rhaegal

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Testing has begun!

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More tests, working flying model and VC.

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Eventually I'll place a few instrument displays onto the laptop monitor, I'll animate and link the light switch, maybe a button or two on the laptop. After all, a cargo drone is expected to be largely automated. The poster on the back wall came from Clip Drop, the awards are fictitious. To generate the text to image, I entered the terms, "sabrewing rhaegal drone" and this was the first image that popped up. I did it many more times and every result was more like the little spindly DJI drones with a little camera hanging underneath. In contrast, I'd say the software did it's best to mash an image of the actual Sabrewing drone with a picture of the Game of Thrones dragon.

The shadows on the monitor wall, of portions of the award plaques, suggest surrounding the office/cockpit with an opaque "skin" would block the direct sunlight.
 
Great idea! But isn't it a little boring to sit in front of a screen and simulate somebody sitting in front of a screen?
 
Thank you so much for the insight and question! I think flying Dark Star a second time is boring. I think developing for a sim, without actually ever creating something that flies is boring and I probably will think creating a second flying vehicle is boring. Since my attention span is so much shorter than the average, I figure I have had elevated opportunity to consider the ideas of meniality, of patience and of meditation. Literally anything can be boring, imo, as it can also be an insight into what motivates.
The office/cockpit is largely a joke. If shippers must employ "pilots," Rhaegal itself is a joke. Invariably, there will be some sort of compromise, shippers will be able to time share a piloting service when they need direct control, or there will be a place very much like this office, where someone can assume emergency manual control. Eventually, however, automation will improve upon all possible human inputs and it will become impossible to override. You will have to negotiate, instead.


Loved that movie and how about the name synchronicity. Ameriflight recently released the statement, "autonomous drones are not intended to replace our workforce, but rather augment it, so that we can serve an even greater share," exactly the same message expressed to the Pony Express riders and their furriers. You'd have to admit, it probably gets pretty boring lining the same Beechcraft 99 onto the same 15 or 20 approaches, time, after time, after time. These commercial pilots are probably looking forward to some quality down time, playing Counter Strike, or something. Maybe flying Rhaegal angrily, or reminiscently, "if only I'd been more efficient 🤖."

The truth is, you're not intended to fly Rhaegal, but you're welcome to. It is not a dogfighter, there is no crosshair and no speed brake. The goal is for it to populate your skies, filling it's role in autonomous delivery. I actually got the idea doing my last airport, because there was an Amazon warehouse next door. All these semi's driving over to PDX, which is maybe 8 miles away, or Port of Portland, 12 miles and then the goods have to get swapped around and then these same trucks head out into the Gorge and maybe go as far as Eastern Oregon and Tri Cities. What a freaking self perpetuating traffic jam. Buy more stuff, make more gridlock!
So I got to thinking, with all the drone technology, there has to be a better solution. I did a little surfing and stumbled onto this. These things can carry LD3 containers and land in a basketball court. They will put so many people out of a job, it is a human tragedy, wrapped up in the pretty disguise as a triumph of civilization. This is what Rhaegal simulates and you are welcome to explore it.

Ideally, I'd distribute Rhaegal with a couple of D pads. They are like helipads, except with a "D." A few pads, as scenery addons, a few traffic routes, but I don't know if my attention span can handle it.
 
Small update, one of the nacelles is animated. I'd wondered if the render would do justice to the three visibility states in counter rotating animation, it is what it is.

 
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