This is so COOL!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:00 pm...hoping that he will survive?...
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....!...oh me, of little faith with flying machines...without wings?...
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:00 pmRe: This is so COOL!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:41 pm...why am I sat in my chair...with my fingers crossed...
...hoping that he will survive?........ ....!
...oh me, of little faith with flying machines...without wings?......!
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...hoping that he will survive?...
..... ....!...oh me, of little faith with flying machines...without wings?...
...!Paul...
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:48 pmI love flying in helicopters (in real life and in the sim) but even I would be a little anxious on an open-air, peroxide powered...thing.
Re: This is so COOL!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:56 pmReminds me of the Fairey Ultra-Light that first flew in 1955. http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/fairey_ultralight.php
Although it used a conventional gas turbine it worked on exactly the same principle. The main problem was that it was very noisy. I see from the video that they still haven't overcome that. The article on this new Dragonfly mentions no tail rotor but I see the prototype still has one while the Ultra-Light didn't.
There's a video of the Fairey Ultra-Light at the 1958 Farnborough Air Show here (about 3 minutes in) --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RktYJnO-3yM
The whole video is worth watching.
Although it used a conventional gas turbine it worked on exactly the same principle. The main problem was that it was very noisy. I see from the video that they still haven't overcome that. The article on this new Dragonfly mentions no tail rotor but I see the prototype still has one while the Ultra-Light didn't.
There's a video of the Fairey Ultra-Light at the 1958 Farnborough Air Show here (about 3 minutes in) --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RktYJnO-3yM
The whole video is worth watching.
Re: This is so COOL!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:56 pmVery impressive technically, but it looks like Santa's sleigh and it makes a terrible racket.
Re: This is so COOL!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:03 pm...oh me, of little faith with flying machines...without wings?...
The issue is not the lack of wings, the issue is that the wings are moving faster than the fuselage (hopefully)
Re: This is so COOL!
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:07 pmI flat out just don't think it looks safe, and while I was dispatching a couple of days ago, I showed this to some of my classmates that were waiting around for flights and such, and they all agreed too. One person even thought it was a video that would eventually lead to the pilot crashing.