AeroMobil Flying Car: Design, Aerodynamics, SWOT Analysis, and Future

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the AeroMobil flying car, a Slovakian concept poised for mass production. It begins with an introduction to the vehicle and its design, focusing on the external components of the AeroMobil 4.0 and 5.0 models, including their lightweight reinforced fiber bodies, wings, and wheel configurations. The report then delves into the aerodynamics of the flying car, explaining lift, drag, and the forces involved in hovering, vertical, and sideways flight. A detailed SWOT analysis is presented, highlighting the strengths such as its unique design and the use of current technology, weaknesses like the lack of specialized expertise and safety concerns, opportunities including addressing traffic congestion, and threats such as potential design flaws and lack of proven success. The report concludes by emphasizing the engineering ingenuity of the AeroMobil, its potential to alleviate traffic congestion, and its promising future.

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Introduction
The AeroMobil flying car is a concept by a Slovakian company. Currently, the cars are
set for mass production. There have been several design prototypes production and testing of the
flying car. The most popular versions are the Aeromobil 4.0 and 5.0.
External components
To achieve seamless convertibility from a car to a flying car AeroMobil is designed with
great precision. The external body frame is built with lightweight reinforced grass fiber (Radu,
2017). Reinforce fiber is preferred to its strength and ability to absorb shock. The exterior design
allows for perfect aerodynamics this is necessary for any flying object.
As mentioned earlier there are two series of AeroMobil being worked on currently – the
AeroMobil 4.0 and AeroMobil 5.0. The two have a different design and structural built. As a
result, they have different external components (Radu, 2017).
The AeroMobil 4.0 has two wings that are symmetrical they help to in control and
stirring of the flying car. The wings are made to reinforcing carbon fiber. The set of wings can
flap out and in. wings help the car achieve aerodynamics when it takes off horizontally. It also
has a proper at the back area. The car has an adoptive flying control surface with the assistance
of strong suspensions attached to the main body to enable for optimum landing and taking off
(Williamson,2017).
The flying car has size 165 / 65 / R15 on 15jx6 rim front wheels and 145 / 65 / R15 on
15jx4.5 rim rare wheels. This is useful for road drive and landing (Radu, 2017).

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Just like all other cars, the AeroMobil have headlights and backlights. Headlights are for
the purpose of road visibility during a road drive. Optimization of aerodynamics and a
streamlined body has enabled the car to have great aerodynamic properties.
AeroMobil 5.0 has unique futures that are very different from those of AeroMobil 4.0.
The exterior body of the is more streamlined. The car has two motors attached at the end of the
wings (Zhang, 2017); the wings can flap in on car mode and out on plane mode. Other external
components are common for the two cars (Radu, 2017).
Aerodynamics of Aeromobil flying car
In a powered flight, the flying vehicle is subjected to various forces. A powered flight is
composed of forwarding motion, hovering, vertical motion side and rear movement. When
hovering in a no-wind condition. Amid hovering flight, a flying car keeps up a steady position
over a chose point, generally a couple of feet over the ground. For an AeroMobil flying car to
hover, the lift and push created by the rotor framework act straight up and should measure up to
the weight and drag, which act straight down (Rajashekara,2016). While hovering, you can
change the measure of principle rotor push to keep up the ideal hovering elevation. This is
finished by changing the approach of the fundamental rotor blades and by differing power, as
required. For this situation, push acts a similar vertical way as to lift

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Fig 1. Aerodynamic lift of the wings
The drag of a hovering flying car is for the most part prompted drag brought about while
the blades are delivering a lift. There is, nonetheless, some profile drag on the blades as they
pivot through the air. All through the remainder of this talk, the expression "drag" incorporates
both instigated and profile drag (Sivak and Schoettle, 2017).
All together for an Aeromobil flying car to produce lift, the rotor blades must turn. This
makes a relative breeze that is inverse the course of rotor framework revolution. The turn of the
rotor framework makes a radiating force (dormancy), which will in general draw the blades,
straight outward from the fundamental rotor center point (Zhang, 2017). The quicker the pivot,
the more noteworthy the radiating force. This force gives the rotor blades their unbending nature
and, thus, the solidarity to help the heaviness of the Aeromobil flying car. The diffusive force
produced decides the extreme working rotor r.p.m. because of auxiliary constraints on the
fundamental rotor framework (Trancossi, 2017).
Hovering is really a component of vertical flight. Expanding the approach of the rotor
blades (pitch) while their speed stays steady produces extra vertical lift and push and the
Aeromobil flying car climbs. Diminishing the pitch makes the Aeromobil flying car plummet. In

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a no wind condition when lift and push are underweight and drag, the Aeromobil flying car
plummets vertically.
Fig 2.Vertical take of the flying vehicle.
In sideward flight, the tip-way plane is tilted toward the path that flight is wanted. This
tilts the absolute lift-push vector sideward (Wang,2017). For this situation, the vertical or lift part
is still straight up and weight straight down, yet the level or push segment presently acts
sideward with drag acting to the contrary side
Fig 3. Side tilting of the blade for sideways movement

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SWOT Analysis
Strengths,
The Aeromobilis one world is the first flying car with a unique design and
maneuverability. Consequently, this goes about as a strength since there are no different
associations (Burns, 2017). There is subsequently not rivalry or weight in assembling the car.
The association is utilizing the most recent current innovation in the entirety of their exercises,
which makes everything less demanding (Mathijsen, 2017). The car is one of the things to
come's most anticipated innovation. Henceforth, if or when it hits the market, many clients will
be anxious to take a few to get back some composure of it (Becker, 2017).
The concept of flying cars has been a fictional idea for a long time. As a result, a majority
of technology enthusiast are much awaiting for the mass production of the flying vehicle.
Aeromobil 4.0 and 5.0 have gained a huge following hence the market is ready for taking up the
product (Rajashekara, Wang, & Matsuse, 2016).
The Aeromobil is a unique design that captures the art of ingenuity and design
engineering. With its convertible concept from the road to the sky, with foldable lightweight
wings, the project will see it time.
Weaknesses,
The Aeromobil has two noteworthy weaknesses. In the first place, there is the absence of
enough specialized expertise to get the car to the market. There are still some minor troubles in
assembling the car to full finish for it to be ok for use. Second, there are different contentions
rotating around the assembling of the car with many saying that it probably won't be sheltered
and in this manner (Sivak & Schoettle,2017), this influences the association producing the car

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contrarily. There is a need to balance the weight of the car, performance, and safety. This has
emerged to be a major issue and a weakness to the design presently, in the open doors area; there
is one noteworthy open door for this association.
The flying car industry has been dormant for a long time since the first prototype was
built, there have not been real supporting registrations in many countries, as a result, market
take-up will be slow as legislation must be developed before the flying vehicle can enter the
market for most countries (Scott,2015).
There are no real supporting structures and technical expertise for the flying vehicles.
Currently, it is not known whether one will require both a driving license and a flying license or
there will be a complimentary licensing for flying vehicles.
Opportunity
Traffic congestion is a major issue worldwide innovators are looking into the solutions to
decongest cities. Bigger streets and motorways are particularly abused which prompts the normal
speed of vehicles at pinnacle times to be diminished to around 35 miles for every hour in certain
nations. This, thusly, implies fuel is squandered and the quantity of fumes outflows in the climate
quickly expanded. One answer for the issue is only formed more streets, nevertheless, this is an
over the top expensive procedure and is not entirely suitable in substantially developed zones.
An option in contrast to growing current traffic systems is build up another arrangement of
roadways in the sky for future flying cars (Mathijsen,2017).
That the makers could include a greater group in the assembling and more partner could
be included to help in both the budgetary and specialized expertise requirements for the
production of the car.

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Threats.
The principal threat is that the design of the car may negatively affect the car's execution.
Finally, the last threat is that since there has been no other fruitful production of a flying car,
there is not much ensure that this one will be effective (Nneji ,Stimpson ,Cummings & Goodrich,
2017). It points of reference has fizzled, and in this manner, the Flying Car Aeromobil may
likewise not be fruitful. This investigation can assist the association with correcting the
fundamental switches and think of various techniques to manage every issue recognized while
exploiting every one of the chances and strengths that it has (Nneji et al., 2017).
Lack of supportive legislation in major cities that might be a perfect market target for the
Aeromobil will continue to slow the uptake of the flying car.
Conclusion
Aeromobil is a state of art design that displays engineering ingenuity. The concept cars
have gained traction with people already preordering before mass production of the car begins.
The flying car will come a long way to ease congestion in major cities and make transport
through private means more comfortable.

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