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Interesting but I am skeptical. That looked like about a 20 second flight with the footage repeated several times. Also I didn't see enough batteries on board to put out that much power for that long. May just be me though.
 
Bayless said:
Interesting but I am skeptical. That looked like about a 20 second flight with the footage repeated several times. Also I didn't see enough batteries on board to put out that much power for that long. May just be me though.
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Could be. I dunno.
 
The YT description includes "Being able to move through the air so effortlessly without vibrations or noise - it just felt so great."

Without noise?

Anyway, looks promising - at least when the air is still. With eight spinning food processor blades and no prop cages or pilot protection ... could be a bit dicey. No pun intended! Does seem it must have unusually powerful - and small - batteries.


 
Only thing I dispute about those units is, with no auto rotation abilities, as in a helicopter, a short in the electrical system or batteries dropping out, ( as lithium batteries do at times), it would glide like a chrome crowbar. I've done some crazy things in aircraft in my day, but to fly one of those things over 4 foot above the ground would not be one of them. Sorry. :rolleyes2:
 
PAUL161 said:
Only thing I dispute about those units is, with no auto rotation abilities, as in a helicopter, a short in the electrical system or batteries dropping out, ( as lithium batteries do at times), it would glide like a chrome crowbar. I've done some crazy things in aircraft in my day, but to fly one of those things over 4 foot above the ground would not be one of them. Sorry. :rolleyes2:
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:iagree: Glide angle of a brick, a hover at two feet would be my limit.
 
Extension cord? Might limit range a bit
 
Not for the faint of heart. Translated that means me.
 
It looked like so much fun but then reality began to rear it's ugly head.

One of the oldest gliders I have flown with much less to go wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingsby_Kirby_Gull

I have never flown in a rotary wing aircraft but I do know someone who owes his life to auto-rotation. Said it was a very hard landing but he could walk away. He was ferrying a helicopter across London when the engine decided to stop running. Turned it into a 4 man parachute.

David
 
DavidApp said:
It looked like so much fun but then reality began to rear it's ugly head.

One of the oldest gliders I have flown with much less to go wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingsby_Kirby_Gull

I have never flown in a rotary wing aircraft but I do know someone who owes his life to auto-rotation. Said it was a very hard landing but he could walk away. He was ferrying a helicopter across London when the engine decided to stop running. Turned it into a 4 man parachute.

David
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My very first time in a helicopter was up on Baffin Island doing site surveys for the North Warning system. First time up resulted in an emergency landing shortly after takeoff when the craft blew an oil seal or something. After some repairs by the in-tow mechanic, we all piled in the same craft and took off for a mountain top a hundred miles or more away. Needless to say I was a bit nervous flying over some of the most rugged terrain on Earth in that thing.
 
Logged enough hours as baggage in rotor-wing craft to KNOW I've reached my limit. No sense in pushin' my luck. :wink:
 
I'm perfectly happy with my vicarious thrills (with a DJI):

 
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