I like the sound of that thing.
Why the design feaatures? Because that’s what Nausicaä’s flyer looked like!
Test flying this thing in close proximity to high voltage power lines, an elevated freeway. Nuts!
I love the fuselage sign at 0:33 in the first video which, I am told, means “Private use” :-)
I guess the negative dihedral is to cope with the lack of a tail, and the ‘variable’ Centre of Gravity? Putting it all at the wingtip means there is space for springy wing-wheels?
DavidS wrote:
I love the fuselage sign at 0:33 in the first video which, I am told, means “Private use” :-)
More accurately, “Own-Use” or “Personal-Use”, referring to an in individual (such as the builder) rather than any general private individual.
The 自 means roughly ‘self’, but a specific self (someone, or a thing itself). Together with 家 (one’s own house/home), it means something like own, personal, or self, depending on context.
It was at the Oshkosh EAA event. I’d never heard of anything like it.
how do they steer this thing? And what kind of engine is that?
Somehow I doubt he meant to land on the grass but rather missed the runway?
It kind of looks like a manta ray… impressive as they are I thought they belong under water?
“And what kind of engine is that?’
A piston engine (motorcycle?) driving a ducted fan?
This must be Miyazaki…