Who wants a flying exercise ball?

[beaupower32]

Not sure if I would trust this, but intresting to know that people are still willing to do crazy things to fly!

EAA News - New Aircraft Arises From Germany

 

[evangilder]

WTF?!?!?

 

[Crimea_River]

I wouldn't want to take that any higher than I'd be prepared to fall.

 

[Airframes]

I wouldn't want to take that any higher than the shortest grass !!

 

[Lucky13]

Wouldn't take that any higher, than as high as I can go by fart power!

 

[RabidAlien]

Wussies. That looks awesome! Its just a matter of engineering, making sure the combined lift of the rotors exceeds the total mass of structure/pilot. Oh, and making sure your batteries are all charged and gas is topped off. Nothing different than hopping into a real helicopter, except with this one, you have the option to eject straight up. Kinda hard in a conventional heli.

 

[Marcel]

Sure I wod try ot if I could. Looks like fun.

 

[tyrodtom]

At least in a helicopter you can autorotate if you lose power, I wonder if you can with this?

 

[GrauGeist]

Just think of all those sharp little rotors whizzing around if you crash that thing...

 

[B-17engineer]

Wonder what weight limit is

 

[mikewint]

Doesn't seem any more daugerous than an ultra-light. They say that up to 4 motors can fail and still land OK. Would bet they'd have to be evenly distributed though. Also states that each motor is 2kW so 28kW altogether and 746W are 1hp so 37.5hp all together. quite a bit of power. Using batteries is going to limit time in the air though

 

[Marcel]

Wonder what weight limit is

It's 80kg

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

T.........A.........R..........G.........E.........T P.........R.........A.........C.........T.........I.........C..........E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gnomey]

Looks pretty cool! Not sure I'd go up in it though...

 

[vikingBerserker]

Heck, I'll try anything once!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

That may be all you get David.

 

[GrauGeist]

That may be all you get David.

Yep...and when the ground rushes to meet him, he gets the "Ginsu treatment" with all those dang blades shooting all over the place...lmao

 

[mikewint]

Ridden 2 Hueys into the ground in my younger days, those big composite blades and the tail blade do a lot more: autorotate yea right

 

[bobbysocks]

thats an oversized and manned version of this

http://www.flugauge.de/

i'll pass...i perfer something with a glide ratio if the engine craps out. some of the nier ultralights and LSA ac you can perform a forced landing without problems. the guy has a lot of balls tho..i will give him that.