Is there a reason why you are still using a timer on a manned drone? To me it would make more sense to have a voltage display or a "Fuel Gauge" seeing as how you are physically on the aircraft. Very cool project and i'm looking forward to watching more of it.
Well, I want to answer simplicity, but when doing multiple start and stops, using a timer is not a very simple or accurate method of keeping track of how much flight time you have left. The thing is, that I started out having the battery bank fractionated for redundancy so that to get an accurate picture of discharge state I would really need 20 voltage meters, but now two flight seasons later, seeing how evenly the batteries discharge there really is nothing wrong with just sampling one or two battery packs for a good enough indication of overall battery status.
Maybe you could automate the timer to start and stop according to a minimum throttle speed of a few of the controllers? Or a few ground switches on the bottom of the chair? Just curious, wonderful build!
@@amazingdiyprojects Wouldn't you simply need the minimum voltage displayed? After all, if one of your packs is nearing critical low, you'll want to set it down anyway, right?
Fuel gauges are not practical in this type of prototype. A timer is going to give you a end time within a known safe period. Ignore the timer at your peril. I would suggest tripping the timer on arming like you can do with most RC models though. Having to split your attention and remember to arm the timer each time is a problem waiting to happen.
It’s very exciting. Feels like technology is finally catching up to our imagination. People like this guy push the industry by making their imagination real. 3D printer were talked about for decades but only became a practical and affordable reality because ambitious people made it happen. I think personal, affordable, safe and easy flight will finally happen for the same reason. Pessimism is cowardice. Our dreams are coming true.
When a dad builds a moat to keep people away from his daughter. Don't go out in the dark daddy it's killer bees, now how to get her onto the moat avator
I have been watching your activities for quite some time now, and find them fascinating. I fly multirotor machines, not manned, and get a great deal of enjoyment from them. I will soon be 85 years of age, and only wish I was younger, as I feel I was born too early. Keep up the great work you are doing.
Go to panama and do stem-cell injections, in combination with keto diet that will keep you alive for another 20 years which will be enough for this guy ( david sinclair)to prolong your life with his research. Just google joe rogan and stem-cells panama and then also proffesor David sinclair. There is still time for you old man, to become a young man :)
'It's a huge privilege to sit in the chair and fly.' You are too modest, Sir. It's your chair, your flying machine, and it wouldn't exist without you. You deserve every bit of that privilege!
The amount of time, money, patience, knowledge, etc... that this project must have required is astounding. Hats off and two thumbs up for your achievements ! Keep doing what you do and the future is sure to bring you great opportunities. Wishing you the best...
@@leemaples1806 I think it was closer to $5-10k. Prob cheaper as he previously tried various methods and spent more money developing it. It's simply quad copter parts mainly.
My dream has always been to build something like this and while I haven't had the money to do it yet I just want to thank you for actually following through and inspiring me.
The project in itself is, as usual, totally amazing and hopefully a lot of people will get to appreciate your ingenuity and fabrication skill through your videos. Furthermore, I think your video editing in this is spot on, which is a talent in itself. Great cuts between action and exposition, it never gets dull. Since I was there, I can say this video is in some ways even better than seeing it live.
i think we all want to see a manned altitude test. i would thinkthe best place for that would be over water? but, what about water-proofing.thats a whole other issue i suppose.
@@leemaples1806 Lol, water don't get him past that slice-o-matic, He'll have to do it in increments. The Flybye was at least 30', next 50', 75', then a 100'. I think the best thing is to stick a 170lbs of sand bags in it, and see how long it'l fly remotely.
This is the problem with this type of aircraft, you have a failure, you are toast. And unlike a helicopter, you cannot autorotate. The typical cruise heights make parachutes impractical. Failure is not an option.
Great job on this, stay safe, well safe as you can. You and the other guys doing this are definitely pioneers in this form of flying. Years ago, the first time I flew an RC quadcopter this is the first thing that came to mind, a manned multi rotor. I congratulate you on taking it to this level. I'll be watching and dreaming. Good luck and thanks!
Hi, With the 17x5 props, you are currently displacing 1135ci volume of air per a single rotation. With the maximum amount of static thrust being at a ratio of 6 in forward propulsion to every 10 in diameter, a 14x8 prop would give you slightly ( just less than 10% ) more static thrust (for lift), but would increase your speed in forward propulsion by 60%. If it creates too much load on your motors or ESCs, you could go with a 15x7 which would give you about 6% less static thrust but still gain 40% more in speed. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
@@peterzingler6221 Actually, it's the a ratio of 10 diameter to 6 forward is the perfect pitch for lift to get the smallest diameter prop without loosing lift. Unfortunately, most props are made at a ratio of 2 Diameter to 1 forward at the most but that is an easy one to find props for such as my hex with 15x7.5 props.
Over the 10x6 ratio and you start loosing lift efficiency, draw more amps, but gain speed. Under that ratio and you've lost both lift efficiency and speed.
Very cool! For now I've given up on my project to build a internal combustion quad rotor due to time and money, but it's so great to see this craft in the air again. It's simply brilliant in so many ways. Well done!
6:28 You compared the drag coefficient of a sphere (0.47) to a streamlined body (0.04). In fact the value for a cylinder perpendicular to flow ranges from 0.7 to 1.2 depending on things like surface roughness & Reynolds Number. However since the craft pitches relative to the direction of travel, there is no way to properly implement a streamlined cross section, so what you have is as good as it gets.
This is just such a remarkable achievement, congratulations again! The control you demonstrate makes this project look so refined, it is easy to imagine practical applications. It looks so fun though! Thanks for sharing.
Vous êtes un pionnier de l'aviation en drone! J'espère que l'histoire retiendra votre nom, comme Blériot, White, St Exupéry! Vous êtes un héro génial! Bravo, Monsieur🙌
Very well done sir. I recognise and salute the determination and discipline you have applied to achieve your requirement. I once designed, built, and flew an RPV autopilot back in the 1980s but senior management at the company reckoned that RPVs would never catch on. How short sighted and stupid was that! Keep living your dream and I hope you get industrial support in moving forward. Fantastic.
Very impressive! I love how your always so in tune with what you enjoy and the things that give you pleasure. Your passion truly does shine in everything you do and say.. Thanks for sharing!
Maverick: Requesting permission for flyby. Air Boss Johnson: That's a negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full. Goose: No. No, Mav, this is not a good idea. Maverick: Sorry Goose, but it's time to buzz the tower.
Its 8 months now, i have Heard of you Last since. I Hope everything went Wright with you and Natalie. It would be Nice to See some sign of Life from you. Marty Christmas and a Happy new year from germany
Unglaublich, bin Mega begeistert von deinem Projekt. Für mich die BESTE selbstgebaute Flugmaschine die ich hier je gesehen habe. Sieht so aus, als würde es richtig viel Spaß machen damit zu fliegen. P.S bin froh, dass du jetzt immer einen Helm trägst 👍
The engineering and though process of this project is very impressive. The redundancy alone is unbelievable. If multirotors flying humans ever gain traction to polularity, i can definitely see engineers use some of your concepts!!
*** Brilliant idea and execution. I do have a suggestion. You should consider combining several technologies into one VTOL that can fly forward at a fast enough pace to cover some distance. For example creating a very small (2 seats) fixed wing that has props for the Vertical take off and small jet engines or a different set of props that can propel the craft froward. More complicated set up would be to make the props rotate from a vertical to horizontal position but I can foresee multiple complications with something like that. If you shaped the craft properly you could allow it to land on water or ground. With your brain, you could do some amazing things and I bet you could get most of the funding needed through a crowdsourced based site from most of your viewers. I would certainly pitch in. Thanks for all the amazing videos you create.
I am not sure if he has any redundancy in place. Ideally there would be two independent power sources making it exceedingly unlikely that both would fail simulateneously
I am officially jealous. We are designing our own (very different build but same idea) and are still in the prelims before build. You make me jealous. You give me hope. Continue to have fun with your great craft!
I think 50 kph is a great speed. When I was a teenager and got my first moped it was restricted to 30mph/50kph. It would be great, now that you have this built to refine it and make it more efficient but at the same time it is an amazing thing you have achieved and there really should be an award presented to you or some kind of sponsoring. I love your videos and wish it was me in your seat
As a prototype, you are right there! Now make your refinements and well, the sky's the limit! (Ugh. I know.) You are 95%, maybe 98% to having a completely viable form of electric powered transportation! The Kevlar guy wires are Genius! Probably the reason others have failed. When I first saw this (plopping quad rings) I was like, how is this going to work? I didn't realize the cables were there. They are so light and SUPER strong. (We braid it onto communication cables where I work). Thanks for your hard work and sharing this project. As Dave Jones would say, "Winna', Winna', Chicken Dinna'!! (EEVBlog, Australia). That has to be a blast to fly.
It's been 5 months since your last video. You posted at least every 2-3 weeks before that. Is everything OK? Can someone who reads this give us all any news? Thanks.
Now 8mth, not looking good he could be dead with all these high risk activities, hopefully just taking a break and spending more time with his young family...
It is surely an amazing vehicle, still I am concerned, that if any of your lines would snap you would get cut by the propellers. I would add some kind of protection or barrier between you and the blades, also some frame around your body in case you land up side down or anything goes bad, that would protect you from falling directly on you head, i mean these are my only 2 suggestions, other than that I am amazed how well it works and looks
Looks like fun ...must be very rewarding to have designed something so different and have it work so well. Blessings to you and yours in Jesus' name!!!
Totally amazing project. "Flying lawn chair". It seems to be very stable. I imagine it will eventually look somewhat like a flying saucer, as it takes shape, with added aerodynamic carbon fiber fairings and center "fuselage" with retractable landing gear. Or better yet, moving the chair or pod under the rings to provide easy entry to cockpit, improve horizontal stability with better center of gravity, pick up more lift and directional speed while saving some weight. I'll be anxiously watching. You are doing great !!
K.I.S.S. Why risk fucking up a flight on an experimental craft by adding complexity, and taking brain power away from the controls, when you can simply match speed with another big ass vehicle?
A very clever idea. A winged plane uses speed to create lift. Drones like this have to provide lift and forward motion which must need a lot more power. How long can you fly for compared to a winged machine?
Daniel Hughes That would make battery life even worse. Supercapacitors just exert energy faster, meaning they would have much worse battery life than batteries.
@@-Burb One of major advantages of supercapacitors - virtually unlimited charge-discharge cycles. The catch - energy density is too low to replace regular rechargeable batteries. On a bank of supercapatitors of the same weight as li-pos - expected flight time will be something like 30 seconds instead of 10 minutes... PS: it needs an arc reactor :)
I watched all of these videos, as fascinated as anyone else who watches them I'm sure, and I'm curious about the ground level wind speed. It seems like even a minor gust of wind would be slow to compensate, and would utilize much of the reserve thrust. But even so, waiting months for a really calm day would be completely worth building something like this. I might look at a design using 8 much larger motors, and use a ducted fan design on a rigid frame to increase the reserve thrust, decrease the weight a little, and preserve my limited supply of fingers. Maybe throw the saved weight at auto-leveling for the captain's throne. Amazing stuff that Orville and Wilbur Wright would delight in watching.
I initially thought the same "why not just use a phone GPS" but the side footage from the car is a useful analysis tool. Something the phone cannot do.
@@jessemoody2218 Uh, no. GPS is far more accurate than estimating based on observing a car with an unknown speedometer accuracy. GPS speed *looks* inaccurate if you're looking at it while accelerating or braking, especially on consumer GPS units with only a 1Hz sample rate. Increase the sample rate and you get a more accurate speed reading. Hold a steady speed and you get an accurate speed reading. If you only care about the overall average speed between 2 points, GPS is extremely accurate. That said, I would still have used the car as a reference for the testing, but carried a GPS to log the runs to get the actual average speeds afterwards.
The purpose was not to test max speed, since that varies with the wind conditions anyway. The purpose was to show the machines tilt angle at different speeds.
This video is shown airporn neer Laxa city in Sweden. I found it on google map. This man Axel Borg. He is living Orebro, Sweden. Lets try find this man, and know what happend. You looked his materials and now forget about him!! Why?? Have you got any heard??? People, answer me
I am so happy I found this channel! All those projects are very amazing. Its weird that you have only 60k subs with such great projects. PS. Got and idea: To build some kind of vehicle (like 3wheel bicycle) that will run purely on solar panels mounted on top. And maybe some supercapasitors as buffer for passing areas cowered with shadows.
Is there a reason why you are still using a timer on a manned drone? To me it would make more sense to have a voltage display or a "Fuel Gauge" seeing as how you are physically on the aircraft. Very cool project and i'm looking forward to watching more of it.
Well, I want to answer simplicity, but when doing multiple start and stops, using a timer is not a very simple or accurate method of keeping track of how much flight time you have left. The thing is, that I started out having the battery bank fractionated for redundancy so that to get an accurate picture of discharge state I would really need 20 voltage meters, but now two flight seasons later, seeing how evenly the batteries discharge there really is nothing wrong with just sampling one or two battery packs for a good enough indication of overall battery status.
Maybe you could automate the timer to start and stop according to a minimum throttle speed of a few of the controllers? Or a few ground switches on the bottom of the chair? Just curious, wonderful build!
@@amazingdiyprojects Wouldn't you simply need the minimum voltage displayed? After all, if one of your packs is nearing critical low, you'll want to set it down anyway, right?
Fuel gauges are not practical in this type of prototype.
A timer is going to give you a end time within a known safe period. Ignore the timer at your peril.
I would suggest tripping the timer on arming like you can do with most RC models though. Having to split your attention and remember to arm the timer each time is a problem waiting to happen.
@@amazingdiyprojects you do realise that if the batteries are in parallel, they will equalise, yeah?
Who care how fast it goes? You’re FLYING!!
yeah, it's awesome!
Facts he made it happen
Hovering is enough for success for me. Doesn't have to move an inch.
It’s very exciting. Feels like technology is finally catching up to our imagination.
People like this guy push the industry by making their imagination real.
3D printer were talked about for decades but only became a practical and affordable reality because ambitious people made it happen.
I think personal, affordable, safe and easy flight will finally happen for the same reason. Pessimism is cowardice. Our dreams are coming true.
You must not be american
You're an inspiration buddy. It's great to see someone engaged in a project that lights them up.
50km/h is more than enough for the occasional night time beer run !
Pull a Tucker Gott and do "Flying my personal multicopter to McDonalds"
@@TacoDude314 Copter fly-thru, brilliant.
[Flies through the drive-thru] "Yeah, lemme get a fuggin' uhhhhhhhhh..."
@THAT Guy Sweden
When a dad builds a moat to keep people away from his daughter. Don't go out in the dark daddy it's killer bees, now how to get her onto the moat avator
I have been watching your activities for quite some time now, and find them fascinating. I fly multirotor machines, not manned, and get a great deal of enjoyment from them. I will soon be 85 years of age, and only wish I was younger, as I feel I was born too early. Keep up the great work you are doing.
Go to panama and do stem-cell injections, in combination with keto diet that will keep you alive for another 20 years which will be enough for this guy ( david sinclair)to prolong your life with his research.
Just google joe rogan and stem-cells panama and then also proffesor David sinclair.
There is still time for you old man, to become a young man :)
'It's a huge privilege to sit in the chair and fly.' You are too modest, Sir. It's your chair, your flying machine, and it wouldn't exist without you. You deserve every bit of that privilege!
The amount of time, money, patience, knowledge, etc... that this project must have required is astounding. Hats off and two thumbs up for your achievements !
Keep doing what you do and the future is sure to bring you great opportunities.
Wishing you the best...
Miss your great videos! Hope you are well and still doing that great stuff.
very refreshing to see someone actually applying dymaxion principles
So graceful! Looking forward to placing my pre-order!
i wonder what the cost would be for a pre-assembled model.3rd of a mill? about?
@@leemaples1806 I think it was closer to $5-10k. Prob cheaper as he previously tried various methods and spent more money developing it. It's simply quad copter parts mainly.
wow. if i could get all the parts in a kit for under 10k i would sign up for one.
Everybody will be flying a helicopter/multirotor someday, at the rate this is going.
+1 on the pre-order.
That thing is amazing!
My dream has always been to build something like this and while I haven't had the money to do it yet I just want to thank you for actually following through and inspiring me.
The project in itself is, as usual, totally amazing and hopefully a lot of people will get to appreciate your ingenuity and fabrication skill through your videos. Furthermore, I think your video editing in this is spot on, which is a talent in itself. Great cuts between action and exposition, it never gets dull. Since I was there, I can say this video is in some ways even better than seeing it live.
Thank you for those kind words!
Your incredible character shines in this project. May you be blessed with health and further progress.
Glad to see it out of ground-effect finally... time for altitude trials!
Big Time!
Bring a parachute.
i think we all want to see a manned altitude test. i would thinkthe best place for that would be over water? but, what about water-proofing.thats a whole other issue i suppose.
@@leemaples1806 Lol, water don't get him past that slice-o-matic, He'll have to do it in increments. The Flybye was at least 30', next 50', 75', then a 100'. I think the best thing is to stick a 170lbs of sand bags in it, and see how long it'l fly remotely.
This is the problem with this type of aircraft, you have a failure, you are toast. And unlike a helicopter, you cannot autorotate. The typical cruise heights make parachutes impractical. Failure is not an option.
Great job on this, stay safe, well safe as you can. You and the other guys doing this are definitely pioneers in this form of flying. Years ago, the first time I flew an RC quadcopter this is the first thing that came to mind, a manned multi rotor. I congratulate you on taking it to this level. I'll be watching and dreaming. Good luck and thanks!
Very impressive bro been watching you for years...
steve hazard
No need for that..
This is Sweden (say it with the voice of Gerard butler in movie The 300.. this is Sparta)
the string tethering is absolutely INGENIOUS
Hi, With the 17x5 props, you are currently displacing 1135ci volume of air per a single rotation. With the maximum amount of static thrust being at a ratio of 6 in forward propulsion to every 10 in diameter, a 14x8 prop would give you slightly ( just less than 10% ) more static thrust (for lift), but would increase your speed in forward propulsion by 60%. If it creates too much load on your motors or ESCs, you could go with a 15x7 which would give you about 6% less static thrust but still gain 40% more in speed. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
The pitch is way to high the efficiency would go down like hell
@@peterzingler6221 Actually, it's the a ratio of 10 diameter to 6 forward is the perfect pitch for lift to get the smallest diameter prop without loosing lift. Unfortunately, most props are made at a ratio of 2 Diameter to 1 forward at the most but that is an easy one to find props for such as my hex with 15x7.5 props.
Over the 10x6 ratio and you start loosing lift efficiency, draw more amps, but gain speed. Under that ratio and you've lost both lift efficiency and speed.
Nurd
@@danielhughes1702 Now it's time for everybody's favorite subject; MATH!
I must say this is the most impressive attempt at this I have seen to date and I follow a lot of projects.
Hope you're doing ok. No posts for a while? Looking forward to seeing a new video from you soon!
Good to see you are taking your safety more seriously. Part of being a pioneer is living to talk about it!
Very cool! For now I've given up on my project to build a internal combustion quad rotor due to time and money, but it's so great to see this craft in the air again. It's simply brilliant in so many ways. Well done!
Hey man! Hope everything is ok! Haven't heard from you in a while! If you're taking a break, then enjoy it! It's well deserved!
I think something happened 9 month without any info. I think he let us know if he wanted to take a break :(
Wow!
A manned drone-competition would be awesome! I'd absolutely LOVE to see the different designs up against each other!
6:28 You compared the drag coefficient of a sphere (0.47) to a streamlined body (0.04). In fact the value for a cylinder perpendicular to flow ranges from 0.7 to 1.2 depending on things like surface roughness & Reynolds Number. However since the craft pitches relative to the direction of travel, there is no way to properly implement a streamlined cross section, so what you have is as good as it gets.
Amazing progress man. It’s must be an absolute joy to fly in something you unique in this world that you painstakingly built.
Damn, 8 months without any activity on youtube, I hope you're okay.
No idea what happened :(
@@GoncaloRijo Maybe he crashed and hurt himself bad ? He did crash the petrol powered one he made but luckily didn't hurt himself
@@diyguy928 I hope he is OK... But I'm starting to be afraid of something bad happened...
@@GoncaloRijo does seem odd he hasn't posted for 8 months
@@diyguy928 his domain will expire soon...
This is just such a remarkable achievement, congratulations again! The control you demonstrate makes this project look so refined, it is easy to imagine practical applications. It looks so fun though! Thanks for sharing.
how long does it take to charge all this
Vous êtes un pionnier de l'aviation en drone! J'espère que l'histoire retiendra votre nom, comme Blériot, White, St Exupéry! Vous êtes un héro génial! Bravo, Monsieur🙌
Hey, noticed you haven't posted a video for a while. Hope everything's ok?
He's now flying upside down
Kobe'd
Very well done sir. I recognise and salute the determination and discipline you have applied to achieve your requirement. I once designed, built, and flew an RPV autopilot back in the 1980s but senior management at the company reckoned that RPVs would never catch on. How short sighted and stupid was that! Keep living your dream and I hope you get industrial support in moving forward. Fantastic.
A very well done! Your projects are always amazing! I must say you've chosen the most appropriate name for your RUclips channel.
Dude, I cannot convey how cool this is, it has to be the coolest things I have seen on youtube, scratch that on anything!
Leaf Blower: "Well, I'm out of a job!"
Lawn Mower: "If he gets any lower, I'll be out of a job!"
WOW well done. I have pretty much followed you from the start of your project, and to watch you fly around like this gives me goose bumps.
More than 5 months without a post :/ Are you OK?
Very impressive!
I love how your always so in tune with what you enjoy and the things that give you pleasure. Your passion truly does shine in everything you do and say.. Thanks for sharing!
1950s: in 2000s we will have flying cars
2000s: flying chair, flying wing suit, flying iron man suit, flying water tower
And jet man that's pretty cool to watch too
flying grain silos..
This is so exciting to watch. I can only imagine what flying over the trees must feel like
Amazing, as always, of course! Frohe Ostern! Happy Easter! Glad Påsk!
So lovely to see you enjoying the fruits of your labour. You are inspiring!
Put it in Acro mode Buddy and you can do 100km :) Joke apart, you have done a great work buddy. stay safe
The world is much more interesting with people like you in it. Glad to see you wearing a helmet.
Maverick: Requesting permission for flyby.
Air Boss Johnson: That's a negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full.
Goose: No. No, Mav, this is not a good idea.
Maverick: Sorry Goose, but it's time to buzz the tower.
Its 8 months now, i have Heard of you Last since. I Hope everything went Wright with you and Natalie. It would be Nice to See some sign of Life from you. Marty Christmas and a Happy new year from germany
He answered two weeks ago in an other comment that he is fine, just busy as a dad. Working on a new VTOL project.
@@sirglider thank you so much for this short Info. 8 months was a long time...
No update yet ? Please, tell us that you are ok !!!
Unglaublich, bin Mega begeistert von deinem Projekt. Für mich die BESTE selbstgebaute Flugmaschine die ich hier je gesehen habe. Sieht so aus, als würde es richtig viel Spaß machen damit zu fliegen.
P.S bin froh, dass du jetzt immer einen Helm trägst 👍
Who designed this? They're a genius. Also, makes a change to see one of these fly at speed, rather than just endlessly hovering.
dude he designed it he's the genius
“Walking through the air@.
Such guys as you give us the future
You, sir, are my hero. Amazing DIY project, indeed.
So great to see the progress you've made since I last saw. Pioneer and all around good man.
The next question is how far can you go? Looks realy good and realy stable in the air!
you can actually go so far with it there's no coming back from it ha ha
*really
The engineering and though process of this project is very impressive. The redundancy alone is unbelievable. If multirotors flying humans ever gain traction to polularity, i can definitely see engineers use some of your concepts!!
Hasn't posted in awhile, hope he didn't get hurt in a crash or something
Yes, exactly what I was thinking.
*** Brilliant idea and execution. I do have a suggestion. You should consider combining several technologies into one VTOL that can fly forward at a fast enough pace to cover some distance. For example creating a very small (2 seats) fixed wing that has props for the Vertical take off and small jet engines or a different set of props that can propel the craft froward. More complicated set up would be to make the props rotate from a vertical to horizontal position but I can foresee multiple complications with something like that. If you shaped the craft properly you could allow it to land on water or ground. With your brain, you could do some amazing things and I bet you could get most of the funding needed through a crowdsourced based site from most of your viewers. I would certainly pitch in. Thanks for all the amazing videos you create.
nice Venus fly trap ya got there if those strings snap buddy.
I remember when you were building the first chair! You are a pioneer and have come a long way, congratulations!!!
What if there is a power outage problem, what safety measures are in place ? Just curious, not criticizing.
it would just drop like a brick. its a simple quadrocopter. verry dangerous indeed
I am not sure if he has any redundancy in place. Ideally there would be two independent power sources making it exceedingly unlikely that both would fail simulateneously
The best compound-copter yet. Keep it up!
I HAVE TO KNOW 2 THINGS!!!
1. What is the flight time your getting?
2. How high does she go?
Being that it lifted him quite easily off the ground, probably a few hundred feet. The wind up there would be a problem though haha
I am officially jealous. We are designing our own (very different build but same idea) and are still in the prelims before build. You make me jealous. You give me hope. Continue to have fun with your great craft!
But how high can it go?
I think 50 kph is a great speed. When I was a teenager and got my first moped it was restricted to 30mph/50kph.
It would be great, now that you have this built to refine it and make it more efficient but at the same time it is an amazing thing you have achieved and there really should be an award presented to you or some kind of sponsoring.
I love your videos and wish it was me in your seat
This shit reminds me of Hey Arnold episode where the man has all the pigeons who fly him away.
As a prototype, you are right there! Now make your refinements and well, the sky's the limit! (Ugh. I know.) You are 95%, maybe 98% to having a completely viable form of electric powered transportation! The Kevlar guy wires are Genius! Probably the reason others have failed. When I first saw this (plopping quad rings) I was like, how is this going to work? I didn't realize the cables were there. They are so light and SUPER strong. (We braid it onto communication cables where I work). Thanks for your hard work and sharing this project. As Dave Jones would say, "Winna', Winna', Chicken Dinna'!! (EEVBlog, Australia). That has to be a blast to fly.
5 months no updates... did he had a drone accident?... I hope hes ok
Maybe he crashed and hurt himself bad ? He did crash the petrol one he made but luckily didn't hurt himself
I love as you care, maby he is building more drones in China to sell
Wow this flying chair looks pretty cool. Really enjoyed to watch it flying in the air. 👍👍
It's been 5 months since your last video. You posted at least every 2-3 weeks before that. Is everything OK? Can someone who reads this give us all any news? Thanks.
Now 8mth, not looking good he could be dead with all these high risk activities, hopefully just taking a break and spending more time with his young family...
@@noproblem2big337 or maybe he is preparing something really big
It is surely an amazing vehicle, still I am concerned, that if any of your lines would snap you would get cut by the propellers. I would add some kind of protection or barrier between you and the blades, also some frame around your body in case you land up side down or anything goes bad, that would protect you from falling directly on you head, i mean these are my only 2 suggestions, other than that I am amazed how well it works and looks
Looks like fun ...must be very rewarding to have designed something so different and have it work so well. Blessings to you and yours in Jesus' name!!!
Oh for fuck's sake, get your god mongering out of here. You're in the wrong crowd buddy. Keep that bullshit in America.
Thank you for not being afraid to acknowledge our Creator sir. Respect
@@flybeep1661 U should know that Jesus Christ is Lord of the whole earth not just America :)
Totally amazing project.
"Flying lawn chair".
It seems to be very stable.
I imagine it will eventually look somewhat like a flying saucer, as it takes shape, with added aerodynamic carbon fiber fairings and center "fuselage" with retractable landing gear. Or better yet, moving the chair or pod under the rings to provide easy entry to cockpit, improve horizontal stability with better center of gravity, pick up more lift and directional speed while saving some weight.
I'll be anxiously watching.
You are doing great !!
there is several apps that tell you your speed (on your phone)...wouldnt that have been easier?
K.I.S.S.
Why risk fucking up a flight on an experimental craft by adding complexity, and taking brain power away from the controls, when you can simply match speed with another big ass vehicle?
Sir, I am guilty of laughing at this when I watched your earliest video. Now today! Bravo Maestro.
Why don't u post anymore
Great project. Glad to see that you have "proper" protection equipment. Cheers from Toulouse, France.
Imagine driving down the highway and you see that one guy on his regular morning commute
I would convince my employer to let me build an ultralight landing pad on the roof.
The strings and ridiculous proportions remind me of the first days of aviation. You're in the early days of a future mode of transport
Really cool. Anyone know his name so we can look up to see if he has had an accident or is still alive?
Axel Borg. I could not find anything though.
This is a man in love with FLIGHT.
This is the last video, it is 8 mounhts ago. Are you alive?
A very clever idea. A winged plane uses speed to create lift. Drones like this have to provide lift and forward motion which must need a lot more power. How long can you fly for compared to a winged machine?
Wow, didn't know this would come back! Maybe you should stop before you get yourself hurt, but it's very very interesting to watch
Flying that looks immensely fun!
We all know Natalie had emergency services on speed dial...
"You dial 91, and then when I say, dial 1 again".
It looks so easy to control I’m so happy to see this in market soon
You definitely need a field charger. Or spare batteries :)
May be they have a Tesla Supercharger at that airodrome :-)
Or replace the batteries with super capacitors
Daniel Hughes
That would make battery life even worse. Supercapacitors just exert energy faster, meaning they would have much worse battery life than batteries.
@@-Burb One of major advantages of supercapacitors - virtually unlimited charge-discharge cycles. The catch - energy density is too low to replace regular rechargeable batteries. On a bank of supercapatitors of the same weight as li-pos - expected flight time will be something like 30 seconds instead of 10 minutes...
PS: it needs an arc reactor :)
It's simply fantastic! I can't believe this happens in reality! This is our future!
No problem bro, I'll fly it for you so you can watch and feel the airflow from underneath 😂
That is just above and beyond bad ass engineering and brave piloting skills. You Rock brother! Awesome work.
How long you can hover with full charge battery?
Yes , love to know how long you can fly forward on a fully charged battery ?
@@r11rs not long drones are inefficient af
Peter Zingler , need an answer from the builder preferably.
He estimates about 15 minutes.
@@GoldenCroc Need an answer from the builders.
what an achievement and results - so beautifull flight manoeuvres ...
Put carbon roll bar on.
Useless and more weight.
I watched all of these videos, as fascinated as anyone else who watches them I'm sure, and I'm curious about the ground level wind speed. It seems like even a minor gust of wind would be slow to compensate, and would utilize much of the reserve thrust. But even so, waiting months for a really calm day would be completely worth building something like this. I might look at a design using 8 much larger motors, and use a ducted fan design on a rigid frame to increase the reserve thrust, decrease the weight a little, and preserve my limited supply of fingers. Maybe throw the saved weight at auto-leveling for the captain's throne. Amazing stuff that Orville and Wilbur Wright would delight in watching.
Your phone has GPS it is a speed ometer no car neede
I initially thought the same "why not just use a phone GPS" but the side footage from the car is a useful analysis tool. Something the phone cannot do.
GPS speedometers aren't as accurate
@@jessemoody2218 You really need both and compare numbers to know what ever those were accurate enough.
@@jessemoody2218
Uh, no. GPS is far more accurate than estimating based on observing a car with an unknown speedometer accuracy.
GPS speed *looks* inaccurate if you're looking at it while accelerating or braking, especially on consumer GPS units with only a 1Hz sample rate. Increase the sample rate and you get a more accurate speed reading. Hold a steady speed and you get an accurate speed reading. If you only care about the overall average speed between 2 points, GPS is extremely accurate.
That said, I would still have used the car as a reference for the testing, but carried a GPS to log the runs to get the actual average speeds afterwards.
The purpose was not to test max speed, since that varies with the wind conditions anyway. The purpose was to show the machines tilt angle at different speeds.
That's so graceful. Nice job done there.
Is anybody here from Sweden? Lets try find this man?
This video is shown airporn neer Laxa city in Sweden. I found it on google map. This man Axel Borg. He is living Orebro, Sweden. Lets try find this man, and know what happend. You looked his materials and now forget about him!! Why?? Have you got any heard??? People, answer me
nobody cares about him? Hello!
Вот вам и ,,КОВЁР-САМОЛЁТ",
БРАВО ,МОЛОДЧИНА!!!
>Manned
>Drone
Pick one
If everyone thought like that, we would still be in the stone ages!
I am so happy I found this channel! All those projects are very amazing. Its weird that you have only 60k subs with such great projects.
PS. Got and idea:
To build some kind of vehicle (like 3wheel bicycle) that will run purely on solar panels mounted on top. And maybe some supercapasitors as buffer for passing areas cowered with shadows.