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Posted: 2/17/2006 7:59:41 PM EDT
I was looking at personal flying machines and found these different things out there.
The first one looks like it could chop off your head real quick if something went wrong. The GEN-H4 from Japan www.ohgizmo.com/2005/10/19/the-gen-h4-personnal-helicopter/ Movie....www.gen-corp.jp/Sozai/photo/Sun_n_fun01/Default.wmv  The Air Scooter www.airscooter.com/pages/airscooter_main.htm  And the Solo Trek www.millenniumjet.com/ video....www.millenniumjet.com/Trek_Video.htm  |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:00:09 PM EDT
[#1]
Sure, why not. We all gotta die sometime.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:07:44 PM EDT
[#2]
fixed wing only for this guy thank you
My RC helicopter is dangerous enough with me flying it |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:09:22 PM EDT
[#3]
I'm waitng for this one.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:18:09 PM EDT
[#4]
I really think that the Moller Sky Car is nothing but a sham. I have yet to see footage of the thing actually flying like a plane or a helicopter. Yes it can hover a bit but the 300 mph he promises I think is a bit far fetched. Though I give the guy credit for thinking something like this up. And with that twin engine stand up contrapion!!!!!! Yikes! What happens when one nacelle loses power?
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:20:35 PM EDT
[#5]
you'll be waiting a long time. Moler has been working on that heap for decades and has lost millions of other people's money and several marriages on the project. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:21:34 PM EDT
[#6]
Hell yeah, i'd get on one of those things.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:28:57 PM EDT
[#7]
I don't think I'd like to hop in one of those things, but I've been designing and flying ultralights for years. Almost killed myself a few times, which is a problem if you're trying out your own designs and don't really know what your doing. I haven't done it in about ten years or so, though. I don't even know what the FAA regs are anymore. They had to change them after Sept. 11, I'm sure.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:37:18 PM EDT
[#8]
Moller has been scamming people out of money since the 50's, in all that time he has never flown any of his craft off a tether, he's in his 80's now, he will never live long enough to see one fly off the tether. The current model which has finally been flown on a tether in the hover, is incapable of controlled flight, all it can do after 30 years of development is hover, and only when on a tether.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:43:18 PM EDT
[#9]
I like the air scooter. I'd give it a try!
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:43:25 PM EDT
[#10]
I've seen the Japanese machines fly - at least they have multiple engines so loss of one or two is probably going to let you get back on the ground in one piece. I know the "chief engineer" on the last one - the answer is no. All of this sort of machine are fundamentally dangerous to the soft, pink bodies of humans which don't impact the hard, hard Earth with much grace. Moller is a con man without a clue. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:45:01 PM EDT
[#11]
So, uh, what happens when you run out of gas?
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:45:58 PM EDT
[#12]
NO
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:46:27 PM EDT
[#13]
I still wouldn't mind strapping a fan to my ass and go para sailing
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:46:31 PM EDT
[#14]
I like the ones that look like a lawn chair and a fan hanging from a parachute.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 8:53:09 PM EDT
[#15]
Think about the number of idiots on the road who can't handle operating in two dimensions. Imagine givng those people an aircraft.
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Posted: 2/17/2006 9:16:33 PM EDT
[#16]
Think about that for a second.......... Ok, so what happens when an airplane runs out of gas ?? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say the idea is to land before you run out. Radical, eh ?  |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 9:19:45 PM EDT
[#17]
We were supposed to have flying cars by the year 2000, I WANT MY FLYING CAR DAMMIT!!!
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Posted: 2/17/2006 9:22:05 PM EDT
[#18]
The Japanese one has a ballistic parachute mounted on top of the mast just in case you do just that. The thing also has four 10HP engines not one 8HP like the geek website said. I am considering one as we type. |
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Posted: 2/17/2006 9:24:02 PM EDT
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The small coaxial helos have no provision (clutch) for an autorotation so it is something to think about. |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 8:32:19 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/18/2006 8:42:00 AM EDT
[#21]
what he said |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 8:58:54 AM EDT
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I like this one. It's a true helicopter and an ultralight, so no pilots license, though I think anyone who trys to fly a helicopter or any other flying machine without training deserves the outcome.
www.innovatortech.ca/    |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 12:34:08 PM EDT
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Why would Sep 11 change what is or is not a Part 103 legal ultralight? In addition to Part 103 machines, we now have what is called "Sport Pilot" designation. 2 seater aircraft such as a C152 qualify. Your driver's license is your medical. Anyway, I wouldn't fly the twin nacelle thing without some sort of ballistic recovery chute, since it obviously cannot autorotate in event of an engine failure. |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 12:36:07 PM EDT
[#24]
Well, uh, you do the same thing you do in an airplane - land before you run out of gas. 
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Posted: 2/18/2006 12:49:15 PM EDT
[#25]
Only if it has an ejection seat.
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Posted: 2/18/2006 12:57:10 PM EDT
[#26]
How far do you think one of those things will glide when the motor shits the bed?
No thanks. |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 12:58:02 PM EDT
[#27]
I wouldn't mind one of these.
 
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Posted: 2/18/2006 1:01:56 PM EDT
[#28]
Might as well go skydiving without a chute.
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Posted: 2/18/2006 1:02:34 PM EDT
[#29]
No but I wouldn't mind having one of these. But at a 1.5mil, I'll wait till they are about a price of a Hyundai.
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Posted: 2/18/2006 1:04:03 PM EDT
[#30]
The airplain type I want... Ya know the hangglider type with an engine. If they run outa gas you can glide into a landing.
The other types I'd try out but wouldnt buy. |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 1:46:42 PM EDT
[#31]
I think you guys are way too hung up on "running out of gas". I have been flying small airplanes for a number of years, and running out of gas doesn't just happen. How many times do you run out of gas in your car? Mechanical failure IS a concern, which is why I wouldn't fly one if it can't glide on wings,autorotate, or deploy a chute. And I am one of those "crazy bastards" (as some people at the local airport put it) that flies single engine at night. And I do it all the time. |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 2:23:16 PM EDT
[#32]
Just an assumption on my part. I figured that the government would knee-jerk as usual. |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 2:28:44 PM EDT
[#33]
I want one of these......
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Posted: 2/18/2006 2:31:54 PM EDT
[#34]
Sounds like fun. I'd monunt a .50 on the roof!
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Posted: 2/18/2006 2:35:37 PM EDT
[#35]
Didn't the Mythbusters do a show on these things?
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Posted: 2/18/2006 2:44:07 PM EDT
[#36]
For 70-100k I can already get one of these which has had an FAA cert for almost 2 decades.
 Costs less than $90 per hour to fly, carries two people. I can land it in the space of a two car garage and it autos pretty well in case of engine failure. 180 degree autorotation (Windows Media) |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 4:44:19 PM EDT
[#37]
C152 gross weight exceeds sport category. |
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Posted: 2/18/2006 4:44:29 PM EDT
[#38]
 This reminds me both of a scary vision of futuristic JBT's, and also the Flying Monkeys from The Wizard of Oz. |
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