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  • T3
    Krzysztof Bosak June 24, 2011 at 10:03am
    Military post. Removing!
  • Duane Brocious June 23, 2011 at 7:44am

    Having grown up with Popular Mechanics in the 50's and 60's, there isn't to much that is new to me. What I like is the ability today to actually play with the stuff. I saw the prints for the Cypher in the 70's while working at Sikorsky and saw it in action when it was University project in the 60's before Sikorsky bought the rights to it. They had this thing for 30 years before they had a market for it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Cypher

  • Paul June 22, 2011 at 6:23pm

     

    Lot's more here.

     

    http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/02/dream-of-solo-flight.html

     

    http://www.alebady.com/2010/02/%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B...

     

     

    Paul.

    Dark Roasted Blend: Dream of Solo Flight
    Dark Roasted Blend
  • Brent June 22, 2011 at 11:29am
     Someone asked me a while ago, why don't we have quad's big enough to put people into?  The only thing I could think of is that they take a lot of space and they don't crash nicely like planes and (regular) helicopters.  Anybody have any other good reasons?

    The manned quad was built and flown in the 50's if you can believe it. What can be done with today's technology and simple controllers?

     

    http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/curtiss_vz-7.php

    Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 helicopter - development history, photos, technical data
  • T3
    Rory Paul June 22, 2011 at 10:12am

    Just remember to winch it in before you go under the power lines...

     

  • Mathew krawczun June 22, 2011 at 8:47am
     

    @Randy

    there was also a design for a flying cart that was basically a quad like in design and a few human powered helicopters but not much else. You hit the reason on the head when you pointed out the safety problem. All engines fail while in flight at some point which is why aircraft don't get very far in manned aircraft design.

     

    @Gary mortimer

    Speed of deployment and the ability to be deployed while the cars is moving are the really the only other small advantages. So too me this idea seems best suited for on the move front line duty where you don't want to be bothered with batteries. But if you ask me I’d take a tether less UAV over this any day myself.

  • Dror Caspi June 22, 2011 at 8:25am
    You said it, altitude.  I would assume a mask of a similar height would be much heavier and would take longer to deploy.
  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer June 22, 2011 at 3:23am
    Other than altitude, it does make you wonder what it can achieve over a very long portable mast. I don't think it can fly free as it has no onboard power source. The earlier version looked very agricultural will try and find a pic.
  • Coptaire June 22, 2011 at 2:33am

    They do exist today, can cite 2:

     

    MARTIN jetpack: A personal bi ducted fan (reached 5000ft in May 2011 unmanned, before assessing the overall security, parachute equipped).

     

    MOLLER SkyCar and Jetson quad ducted fan

  • Developer
    Randy June 22, 2011 at 1:05am
    Someone asked me a while ago, why don't we have quad's big enough to put people into?  The only thing I could think of is that they take a lot of space and they don't crash nicely like planes and (regular) helicopters.  Anybody have any other good reasons?
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