Rick: You are right. There is no collective control available to the
blades. This means autorotation is not feasible. Yaw control of the
coaxial ships is usually accomplished by differential torque on the blade
sets, which is normally accomplished by differentially changing the pitch on
one set vs the other. While I have flown several different experimental
homebuilt helicopters, I wouldn't want to be close to this thing with the
engine running and it tied down. I think that we have here another
potential Darwin Award candidate.

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Kathy Fields
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"Rick Beebe" wrote in message
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I hope no one has posted this yet...

I wonder if it would really fly. Looks like he used a steal frame, its
got to be heavy. He said he didn't create any plans. Just because it
"looks" like it could fly doesn't mean it will. My money says it just
shakes around a lot.

Doesn't look like there's any control on the rotor blades other than
speed. So it might go up and down but it probably isn't controllable.

--Rick