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Old 29th Aug 2019, 18:13
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Flying Bull
 
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Originally Posted by gator2
I built one of these in 1996, with chainsaw engines running wide open and opposing flaps beneath each motor to kill lift and provide yaw control. Kind of like a opposing thrust reverser on a fixed wing jet. Plan was to use it to use it as a portable ski lift in the back country. It worked, but wife decided it or she was leaving me. So now it hangs in the garage, a mute testimony to what could have been.
Come on, send a picture - of the chainsaw and the wife, which was worth keeping ;-)
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