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and a new pilot/engineer is born.
True homebuilt spirit. He should join this group.
On Jan 14, 7:19 pm, William Hung wrote: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/homemade-...-man-builds-wo... Way to go Muhammed! |
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On Jan 14, 7:19*pm, William Hung wrote:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/homemade-...-man-builds-wo... Way to go Muhammed! Wil I remain extremely skeptical that the thing flys until I see a picture or video of it in the air. I mean, 133 hp?? With heavy Toyota car seats (4 of them)? Don't the smallest helios have over 200 hp? Ricky |
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Ricky wrote:
On Jan 14, 7:19 pm, William Hung wrote: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/homemade-...-man-builds-wo... Way to go Muhammed! Wil I remain extremely skeptical that the thing flys until I see a picture or video of it in the air. I mean, 133 hp?? With heavy Toyota car seats (4 of them)? Don't the smallest helios have over 200 hp? Ricky Other articles on the helicopter have reported its maximum altitude as seven feet. He is hoping to build one that will achieve fifteen feet. Still an achievement, as that is untethered. Charles |
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An accomplishment? Or an accident looking for a crash site?
The 12-meter-long aircraft, which has never flown above a height of seven feet, is powered by a secondhand 133 horsepower engine from a Honda Civic. In the basic cockpit there are two Toyota car seats, with a couple more in the cabin behind. Controls are simple, with an ignition button, an accelerator lever to control vertical thrust and a joystick that provides balance and bearing. A camera beneath the chopper connected to a small screen on the dash gives the pilot ground vision, and he communicates via a small transmitter. Mubarak says he learned the basics of helicopter flying through the internet after he decided it would be easier to build a chopper than a car. Flying his creation is easy, he claims. "You start it, allow it to run for a minute or two and you then shift the accelerator forward and the propeller on top begins to spin," he explains. "The further you shift the accelerator the faster it goes and once you reach 300 rpm you press the joystick and it takes off." Undeterred that his home-made transporter, which lives in a hangar on campus, lacks the gear to measure atmospheric pressure, altitude and humidity, Mubarak is working on a new machine which "will be a radical improvement on the first one in terms of sophistication and aesthetics." A two-seater with the ability to fly at 15 feet for three hours at a time, Mubarak's new creation will be powered by a brand-new motor straight from Taiwan, normally found in motorbikes. |
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On Jan 14, 11:22 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:
An accomplishment? Or an accident looking for a crash site? ......... Hmmmm.... it did not crash yet. But plenty of homebuilts here in North America have while testing. Plenty of homebuilts here never got off the ground because they are still in the garage after 20, 30? years and never get built. Come on... give the youth credit for ambition. |
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:37:27 -0800 (PST), wrote in
: Plenty of homebuilts here never got off the ground because they are still in the garage after 20, 30? years and never get built. Come on... give the youth credit for ambition. Exactly. Not only that, but: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/homemade-...unk-313408.php A 24-year-old undergraduate from Nigeria is building helicopters out of old car and bike parts. Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a physics student, spent eight months building the yellow model seen here, using the money he makes from repairing cellphones and computers. Eight months! Who has built anything that flies in 8 months? MMmmm..I guess I have: http://www.dighera.com/otto_meet_5-23-71_larry.avi :-) http://www.dighera.com/otto_meet_5-23-71.avi (These take a little time to load; be patient.) It still took about a month of weekends to complete. Historical information he http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...a?dmode=source |
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cavelamb himself wrote:
An accomplishment? Or an accident looking for a crash site? The 12-meter-long aircraft, which has never flown above a height of seven feet, is powered by a secondhand 133 horsepower engine from a Honda Civic. In the basic cockpit there are two Toyota car seats, with a couple more in the cabin behind. Controls are simple, with an ignition button, an accelerator lever to control vertical thrust and a joystick that provides balance and bearing. A camera beneath the chopper connected to a small screen on the dash gives the pilot ground vision, and he communicates via a small transmitter. Mubarak says he learned the basics of helicopter flying through the internet after he decided it would be easier to build a chopper than a car. Flying his creation is easy, he claims. "You start it, allow it to run for a minute or two and you then shift the accelerator forward and the propeller on top begins to spin," he explains. "The further you shift the accelerator the faster it goes and once you reach 300 rpm you press the joystick and it takes off." Undeterred that his home-made transporter, which lives in a hangar on campus, lacks the gear to measure atmospheric pressure, altitude and humidity, Mubarak is working on a new machine which "will be a radical improvement on the first one in terms of sophistication and aesthetics." A two-seater with the ability to fly at 15 feet for three hours at a time, Mubarak's new creation will be powered by a brand-new motor straight from Taiwan, normally found in motorbikes. I make it an accomplishment, AND probably also an accident waiting to happen;hopefully not. Just figuring out the hard numbers and applying them to available parts and achieving untethered flight for even a few feet, considering everything involved in doing that, marks this fellow as someone with unusual talent. Fron the looks of that thing however, I sincerely hope some legitimate helo company offers this guy a steady job before his talent ends up being wasted by his experimenting any deeper into the highly complicated world of helo flying. After accomplishing what he has done already, I'd not like to see him injured or killed for lack of suitable employment. -- Dudley Henriques |
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William Hung wrote:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/homemade-...unk-313408.php Way to go Muhammed! Wil All he needs is my help in collecting his $18.2 million dollars. |
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Well as we said about an elderly gentleman we met at an airshow with his
homemade coaxial helicopter with a Geo engine connected such that the cyclic tilted the entire engine-drive train to obtain forward, sideways and rearward flight. It had no collective but just used more throttle to climb and less to descend. There were places where you could see the threads on the ends of the water piping used to make the frame. He was actively looking for a test pilot to try out his bird. I declined saying that while I was fearless, I lacked the necessary qualifications to test fly his bird. He didn't just set around talking, he built one that he learned a bunch from and was going to learn a bunch more if he tried to fly it. We did ask him to let us know if he was going to start it up. We had definite plans to move our helicopters to the other end of the field if he was going to demonstrate his bird. Our work producing the Experimental Helo magazine has brought us in contact with some pretty amazing devices. "Ron Natalie" wrote in message m... William Hung wrote: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/homemade-...unk-313408.php Way to go Muhammed! Wil All he needs is my help in collecting his $18.2 million dollars. |
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