Awesome Gentleman Builds Homemade Flying Contraption

How fast does the whole assembly counter-rotate vis-a-vis the propeller rotation?

He's thought of that already!! He has 4 engines mounted one way and the other 4 the other way! Still, I do like the safety measures he has incorporated into this device like the fine cotton cockpit and the....the....the fine cotton cockpit!!

Did I miss something?; they all looked the same to me.

I think so. Look, in the larger, clearer first picture of the article, at the blade "twist". If all the engines run the same direction with those blades, the "lift" would be half positive, and half negative. I think he's reversed the run direction on half the engines. Doable, but not easy. But that would counteract the torque-spin problem. And it IS the method Kaman used on his meshing-double-rotored helicopter designs. He wasn't the only one, obviously, but his designs were so distinctive they are the first ones I think of in this instance.

A Prime Candidate for the Darwin Awards!

LOL

What, no steel roll cage and a dead man switch?.....only protection for the pilot is a wrap-around cloth barrier of some sort????????? IMO, it's the ultimate Cuisinart PRO......

Yep. Bailing out of that one at least guarantees you won't feel the hard (chute-less) landing.

I wonder if he can kill all the engines from one switch?

But, if he did that, then bailed, he'd probably just fall in the middle of the machine, and they'd all crunch together. Bummer! I HATE it when that happens!

Are those fuel tanks or rocket propelled grenades?

Ohhh definitely the Chinese copy of the Soviet RPG........

interesting that he's wearing the jacket, considering there are what I think are at least six cooling units visible in the picture, plus a freezer. (and some substandard wiring on the wall of the building in photo #2.)

I also wonder why he chose to angle the bracing on the perimeter rim... is there some torsional force acting there? why not use simple verticals struts, and about half as many. He only needed one ring I think, to support the engines.. the rest is cosmetic... imho.

and what do I have to do to earn "Awesome Gentleman" as a description?

chris

1.- Certain poissoning treatments require you to keep warm.

2.- Because otherwise, it would bend like a flying tortilla.

3.- As per Merriam Webster's definition: "Awesome Gentleman: That one who commits awesome acts of gentleness.

You have to give him credit for the "Trap door" in the floor of his (cotton) cockpit, (not shown)
The carefully designed stress absorbing peripheral struts, and not
least his sheer guts for laughing in the face of danger, as the leg chopping props
rotate all around him. But, fair play he has built one, which is more than I have done!

jt.

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