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Love the yoga ball as a soft landing device, can't believe the pilot trusted his life to an RC controller though and he never had covers for all those props which would have sliced him up like a blender if things went pear shaped.
Awesome stuff, just totally jealous as we are trying something similar and they flew first :-)
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Seriously radical death wish, that is just sooo out there, certainly on par with base jumping.
The main issue I see with these designs is putting the pilot on the top, surely it would make far more sense to put the centre of gravity below the blades rather than above them, that way recovery and banking would be easier to handle, since the design is more likely to pendulum rather than forcefully invert.
Also In a crash situation the blades are more likely to angle out over the pilot if he is underneath, rather than angling the head and legs into the blades with the current design.
Possibly a shark diving suit would be more apt instead of a crash helmet just whilst the design is being tested.
This is fantastic, congrats to the guys who worked on this. I think everyone here knows how non trivial putting something like this together is.
I'd be curious on the flight time. Very cool.
The Death Machine era beginning...
At least this guy wore a helmet...
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines! Very nice.
Awesome this is the beginning! Can't wait what are these guys up to after 5 years.
Awesome! That guy is brave!
BTW.: it's also a good incentive to everyone about losing a few pounds... LOL
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