Holy $#$ - eBay Copter

Anthony W wrote:
Flyingmonk wrote:

Dan wrote:
Or yawn's BD-5J.



Oh I think Juanito's BD-5J will fly...
... once. : -)

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone


It'll fly off a catapult on an aircraft carrier, but according to my
father, so will an old Chevy...

Tony

There are photographs of vehicles being catapulted from carriers. A
google search should find a few.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Stuart & Kathryn Fields wrote:

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.


Ask yawn, I bet he will tell us zoom has already flight tested it.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

"Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired" wrote in message
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Anthony W wrote:
Flyingmonk wrote:

Dan wrote:
Or yawn's BD-5J.



Oh I think Juanito's BD-5J will fly...
... once. : -)

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone


It'll fly off a catapult on an aircraft carrier, but according to my
father, so will an old Chevy...

Tony

There are photographs of vehicles being catapulted from carriers. A
google search should find a few.

http://www.webmutants.com/strategypage/contest1.jpg

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.


There's no cyclic control, either. This thing will not fly successfully. Get
your camera ready; MTJ is gonna make the news.

("Anthony W" wrote)
It'll fly off a catapult on an aircraft carrier, but according to my
father, so will an old Chevy...


If you lack a decent rudder on a 1964 Biscayne, I understand you can use the
doors in slow flight for some yaw control.

"64 Biscayne. Are you declaring an emergency at this time?"
"Yes."
"But you haven't [been] launched yet."
"Well thank goodness because we're having problems with our wipers."

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/835474
Chevrolet Biscayne ...in the hangar

http://www.webmutants.com/strategypage/contest1.jpg
Guessing ...old Ford Falcon? Something European?
I zoomed in on the JPEG but couldn't figure it out. Saturday night - bored.


Montblack

Paul,

I zoomed in and zoomed out several time, I swear I don't see a Biscayne
in the picture on the website. All I can is the beautiful woman in the
white come-n-get-me : -)

You sure it isn't one 'o them trick pictures? I stared and I
stared... No car. It was hypnotizing. : -)

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

Montblack wrote:
("Anthony W" wrote)

It'll fly off a catapult on an aircraft carrier, but according to my
father, so will an old Chevy...



If you lack a decent rudder on a 1964 Biscayne, I understand you can use
the doors in slow flight for some yaw control.

"64 Biscayne. Are you declaring an emergency at this time?"
"Yes."
"But you haven't [been] launched yet."
"Well thank goodness because we're having problems with our wipers."

Considering the one my father told about was done during WWII, it was
probably a 1930's Chevy but I'm sure the rest would apply... Maybe we
could get zoom to try it in an AMC Pacer...

Tony

("Anthony W" wrote)
Considering the one my father told about was done during WWII, it was
probably a 1930's Chevy but I'm sure the rest would apply... Maybe we
could get zoom to try it in an AMC Pacer...


Off the end of a flight deck ...well, they were called an aquarium on
wheels.

http://www.american-motors.de/pacgeng.html
Pacer history.

With a flat tire would that make it a ....Tri-Pacer???


Montblack

Flyingmonk wrote:
After closer examination, I think it is too heavy for the horsepower
available, and as Anthony said below, no enough done to keep engine
cool.

I keep seeing that long drive chain flapping around like a wet noodle.

-cwk.

"Jimbob" wrote in message
...
I hope no one has posted this yet...

Oh my god.

My exact same feelings. WoW !!!

I would normally say something witty, but I am speechless. Is it a
scam? Perhaps an organic brain dysfunction? Or maybe this man is a
brave new form of life being weeded out my Darwin...

This is so far beyond anything I have experienced.

You think that is bad, I saw Moller's sky car advertised as being on one of
the science channel shows, again. they said it would do 560 MPH, or
something stupid like that. Why don't these doods investigate these things?
--
Jim in NC