Battery powered rotary wing personal transport

[midnight rambler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAEy0NltoFQ

[ximmy]

It was a matter of time, and white ingenuity... Just wait till they start performing acrobatics...

[hoarder]

German engineering. If it can do that well with a portly pilot like the inventor, it should do even better with a normal sized pilot. I want one.

[Cebu_4_2]

So he leans to steer it like a unicycle?

[hoarder]

So he leans to steer it like a unicycle?
He twists the hand control and it varies the speeds in the rotors.....my guess anyway.

[Santa]

Agreed. It had to be done. Well done team. Cool. It's a lot of fun.

Have to say though, it'd take up quite a few car spaces for a personal flying transport.

Imagine 50 of them trying to park at the Mall, or parking it in the driveway, for that matter.

Suppose you might get around that by paying for landing rights on Walmart rooftops, or some other corporate megalopoly.

Face it. there is not going to be flying personal transport for the consumer masses.

All we're gonna get is a shitload of virtual realities. But I still think it's cool.

I just wish it had some actual practical application, like maybe flipping it upside down

and using it to mow treetops or something(hemp). :)

[Cebu_4_2]

Agreed. It had to be done. Well done team. Cool. It's a lot of fun.

Have to say though, it'd take up quite a few car spaces for a personal flying transport.

Imagine 50 of them trying to park at the Mall, or parking it in the driveway, for that matter.

Suppose you might get around that by paying for landing rights on Walmart rooftops, or some other corporate megalopoly.

Face it. there is not going to be flying personal transport for the consumer masses.

All we're gonna get is a shitload of virtual realities. But I still think it's cool.

I just wish it had some actual practical application, like maybe flipping it upside down

and using it to mow treetops or something(hemp). :)


Who the fuck goes to the mall that is closed in the USi?

[Santa]

Who the fuck goes to the mall that is closed in the USi?


Where would you go? A football field? Empty malls have about the only parking space big enough
for crazy ass shit like that giant drone. Not that I don't admire some crazy ass shit, mind you.

Come to think of it, it might work as a tourist attraction ride, like a hot air balloon.
Charge $100 to take a skinny kid up and hover for a few minutes.

For a truly great personal flying experience, you can't really beat a good old fashion hang glider.
I went out to Telluride back in the 80's to take hang gliding lessons, but damn if the instructor
didn't crash and die after the first day. I never got off the ground myself. It killed my desire.

I still kinda regret pussying out on it, though.

[Jerrylynnb]

Santa, I have to admit, I am wondering about you:

"...using it to mow treetops or something"...

I'll swan, I never would have thought of using that upside down as a tree top mower, but, hats off to you Santa, it kinda' makes sense, somehow.

I wonder what life is like in your midst, if this is an example of what you come up with.

Of course you know what they've done here is just spread the load (18 spinners instead of ONE), and no cyclic variance (each spinner has a center of force always at its hub, where ordinary helicopter spinners let you vary the center of force some distance away from the center of the hub. In this contraption, they just vary the total force (angle of attack) for each individual spinner to give you pitch and roll - I haven't figure out yet how they gain yaw (probably some complicated combination of this one wide and this one low - who knows?). The critical point of this "flying" machine is in the strength of the channels that hold the multiple spinners - they've got to handle the total load in the cab, and, so you are very limited unless you use exotic metals. Probably prohibitively expensive, and slower than a modern family car.

Nice thinking, though.