Learning to fly a home made helicopter
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Learning to fly a home made helicopter
this should be an entertaining series! Haven't had a chance to watch most of it yet, but I've raised an eyebrow!
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That looks like a Darwin Award waiting to happen!
No sense of self-preservation from the onlookers in video 1 either - where do they think all those whirling bits are going to end up when he rolls it over?
He has already had one lesson in an R22 - he mentions it in video 2 - so why not go and learn to hover properly before trying out your home built death trap?
No sense of self-preservation from the onlookers in video 1 either - where do they think all those whirling bits are going to end up when he rolls it over?
He has already had one lesson in an R22 - he mentions it in video 2 - so why not go and learn to hover properly before trying out your home built death trap?
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Originally Posted by TowerDog
I saw 3 "episodes", can't find any more. Bad omen..? 
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Originally Posted by Less Hair
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He mentions the RRPM is 730 in the hover - I wonder if he has thought through its ability to autorotate, the blade area is small (hence the high Nr required to generate lift) - how is that disc area going to provide enough auto force to keep the rotors going when his engine stops?
And since he doesn't have a collective, how would he cushion the touchdown?
Definite Darwin Award territory.......
And since he doesn't have a collective, how would he cushion the touchdown?
Definite Darwin Award territory.......
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
He mentions the RRPM is 730 in the hover - I wonder if he has thought through its ability to autorotate, the blade area is small (hence the high Nr required to generate lift) - how is that disc area going to provide enough auto force to keep the rotors going when his engine stops?
And since he doesn't have a collective, how would he cushion the touchdown?
Definite Darwin Award territory.......
And since he doesn't have a collective, how would he cushion the touchdown?
Definite Darwin Award territory.......
However, in the chap's defence he's quite open in the comments about only aiming to get the thing to a few feet and hover taxi about. So if it's going to be horrendous, it'll be because fast spinning machinery has gone wrong!
