David Jenkins
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 08:26 AM |
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And now for something completely different...
Manned multicopter
Look closely at his control mechanism... yes, it's a R/C transmitter!
Damn clever bit of engineering though...
[Edited on 1/11/11 by David Jenkins]
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jabbahutt
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 09:14 AM |
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That's amazing, hell of an achievement. When is the Haynes book out
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jossey
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 09:16 AM |
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<~~~~ likes this...
Thanks
David Johnson
Building my tiger avon slowly but surely.
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GeoffT
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 09:19 AM |
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Wonder how much sixteen of those little motors cost........
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Peteff
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 09:24 AM |
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I'll have mine with some longer legs on it so I can sit underneath away from the shredder blades please
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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owelly
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 09:53 AM |
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Ha ha, you've all fallen for the oldest trick in the book. It's obvious to any half intellegent soul that all the people in that clip are
only 8" tall, and they're using a toy multi-copter. Durrr!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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russbost
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 10:28 AM |
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Love the fact that it's perched on a space hopper!!!
But what a brilliant bit of kit - have to say i wouldn't fancy sharing space with all those whizzy blades tho' - one bird strike &
you're sitting in a blender!!
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coozer
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 11:21 AM |
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What a waste of time.. why not stick with what we have that works OK??
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 11:25 AM |
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You could use the same argument for climbing Everest... you do it because you can!
The main thing is that it is probably a hell of a lot easier than flying a 1-man helicopter - certainly my R/C multicopter is far easier than the
equivalent heli (I'm still good at crashing it, though).
[Edited on 1/11/11 by David Jenkins]
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tegwin
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| posted on 1/11/11 at 12:23 PM |
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Actually its quite an advancement on what we have at the moment...
There are only 16 moving parts.... do you have any idea how many moving parts there are in a conventional helicopter?!
No transmission losses.....
More efficient- No lift wasted in counter-torque (tail rotor)
As above, its more inherintly stable given that it is microprocessor controlled....
If we could just find a suitable powersource....
I recon (provided you are reasonable with software development) that you could build something like that for under £1000.... Pretty good
considering...
[Edited on 1/11/11 by tegwin]
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