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.
Awesome, I was unaware that chainsaws generated so much lift. And another thing.... how in the world did you manage to get not just one but two chain saws to start sucessfully. They must have been brand new.
