Heather was an excellent choice for this tutorial. Who could resist watching the video all the way to the end. Her smile is enthralling. Very informative video by the way, just grease those squeaky controls .
Nice piece of machinery!! Noticing the locking hardware and all the nice machining. The main rotor head and tail rotor linkages are nice pieces of engineering. Helicopters are such amazing "contraptions", which is the appeal. I get the impression from earlier postings that you might be involved in the company that makes these kits; if so, thanx for making this activity available to more people who can't afford the full-blown machines.
Just thought of something. When hovering an RC helicopter with the nose pointing at you left becomes right and forward becomes backward on the cyclic input and takes a bit of getting used to. So it would be like you sat in the seat applying left cyclic and the helicopter rolling to the right.
THE HELICOPTER IS PERFECT. THE MATERIALS, SHAPES, AND COLORS. AND I THINK IF HEATHER REALLY WANTS. SHE CAN FLY IT TO. IF YOU CAN MAKE A TO SEATS OF IT TO LEAR HER TO FLY
RPM means revolutions per minute, It's how fast the blades turning, or this case how fast the engine is turning. You always want to keep your RPM's in the green, remember more power to the engine more left pedal input for lift. It's basically the same as your car engine ( when checking your timing their checking your RPM's. Hope this was helpful?
billt460 - Go look up "dissymetry of lift", it is helicopters 101 stuff. In a nutshell, helicopter rotors are built to deal with this automatically, there is no action required from the pilot to specifically address this (except keep airspeed within limits). Advancing blade flaps up, retreating blade flaps down, effectively changing their angles of attack (thus lift) balancing out the lift on both sides when the helicopter moves at any nonzero speed.
Thanks, once a flight instructor - always a flight instructor. I got about 650 flights out of my two Mosquito helicopters before they failed in flight. Experimental is the right category for sure.
Oh wow! I always wondered how they work. Very informative. So cool you don’t need a license to fly this, being an ultra lite and all. I want one!!!! 🤗🚁
hey jerry,never seen a better presentation of how a helicopter works and very very well done.thanks a lot.who i presume is your wife and your dog did make us feel at home,relaxed and totally at ease a you went about.great job jerry.
Without tail rotor input the fuselage will begin to rotate in the direction the main rotor is turning (top Blade) as soon as the aircraft gets light on the skids, even before it's off the ground. Pulling the collective without coordinated left peddle and cyclic will send you on a very unwanted circus ride.
Search here on RUclips for Autorotation. Helicopters can indeed glide without power, using airspeed to drive the rotor and then land using the rotational energy stored in that rotor. So if the main rotor separates or something like that then yes, you are dead, but if the engine stops, you have options to get it safely to the ground.
technicaly speaking the blades do not take a "bite" of air . what is happening is the blades as they change pitch there is low pressure on top of the blades. And high underneath the blades thus giving the helicopter lift.
+FASTPISTOLDRAW I'd disagree. As in a fixed wing airplane, the rotors are just like wings. It tales a measure of angle of attack, the rotor or wing actually DOES scoop or bite the air. This is HOW the low pressure above and high pressure below is created. Pitch is the degree to which the angle of attack is applied to get more or less lift. In fundamental terms you can reduce a great deal of aeronautical jargon into the fact the a wing or rotor, scoops the air and pushes it down while Newton's law takes effect and lifts the machine.
Gosh coordinating all that must be a challenge that I wish I could master. nice video, very infornmative and simple to understand, but as you say, your body has to figure it out. thanks. best wishes Hayden
Are there actually High Quality Kits available for Making a Helicopter of this obvious Quality, as there are for other Experimental Airplanes? What an Awesome Ride!! I used to watch a TV Show when I was little, I called “WHIRLYBIRDS”. It came out in 1957, and ran for 3 Seasons. I used to draw that Helicopter all the time.... and I wanted to become a Helicopter Pilot when I was little, but never did. I became Skilled enough to Build one however, being a very Skilled Welder and an R&D Machinist... but Money is the Major stumbling block on being able to do that!
They will "drift down" if one remembers to quickly lower the collective and maintain forward speed by diving. In aviation jargon it's called an "auto-rotation." The wind keeps the blades turning, in effect a flywheel storing energy, to be used during the flare to stop and lower the ship to the ground. You get ONE try to do it right!
this is awesome! what are the rules and restrictions on running them on private property? is there like a ceiling where you can operate without having to contact controllers? or can you really only run these in uncontrolled airspace?
Good question. As speed increases the loss of lift from the retreating blade theoretically will eventually invert the aircraft, but helicopters don't fly that fast.
I've long dreamed of making the joy of flight available to anyone by building aircraft that anyone could fly without training. It's quite simple to do.
The reduction belts should be replaced at the first sign of any wear. Nearly all components are replaced at the 500 hour inspection, some sooner than that.
Thanks Jerry! That was very educational for all of us out here that love helicopters, but that don't know a thing about them. Very nice of you to share. Heather in now a STAR! I love you Heather, can I have your autograph? :D
Explain the "controls are offset 90 degrees" thing a bit more. I don't recall that from poking spinning gyroscopes. When I poked them they'd just start some kind of weird precession... but then I was poking them at the top.
Errr.... when a force is applied to anything, I think a reaction from that force should occur immediately, unless you are getting into einstein territory... ....and being sure to look at things on a molecular level, no macro level, which could hide a reaction because of the elasticity of the object. For example, kicking a soccer ball, the soccer ball will not immediately move in total because of inertia, but it certainly is deforming and reacting at the point of impact and the reaction is traveling through the air inside and across the surface of the soccer ball...
@jman9295 The Mad max machine was a gyrocopter, not a helicopter. A gyrocopter has a free wheeling main rotor and a pusher or puller propeller to push it forward to keep the main rotor spinning. They don't fly backwards/sideways or hover like a helicopter. They do look like helicopters though so easy to confuse.
Well, a model heli has an RC system with electrically powered servos, and a stabilizing system. Many of them nowadays even have electronic stability augmentation systems complete with gyroscopes and microprocessor. Most full size helis don't have that. However, the full sized machine must be as close to 100% reliable as possible, otherwise landings can get a bit rougher than you'd like :)
@aqueousone That would be a nice back-up when a safe autorotation is not possible. Air bags under the seat would be nice too. Even safer would be to just leave it in the garage, however, to live a good life one should live as though one had already died.
I love helicopters, but WHAT HELICOPTER? Someone is a lucky man... helicopter AND a gorgeous wife? (Hey, you asked for it buddy.) But I always heard it called a cyclic... "sick-lick", not "sigh-click"). Her body needs to learn how to fly... heh heh. :) Nice mosquito, Jerry!
I like how you speak to her with respect. I sense love in you. You seem worthy to be a father. Well done.
I try to speak to everyone like that, especially children.
I learned two things...how a helo works and I really like Heather!
Heather was an excellent choice for this tutorial. Who could resist watching the video all the way to the end. Her smile is enthralling. Very informative video by the way, just grease those squeaky controls .
I plan to do this too. Build a homebuilt piston powered helo, convince my wife to fly it, and then collect the life insurance.
Pappy Gunn 😃
Nice piece of machinery!! Noticing the locking hardware and all the nice machining. The main rotor head and tail rotor linkages are nice pieces of engineering. Helicopters are such amazing "contraptions", which is the appeal. I get the impression from earlier postings that you might be involved in the company that makes these kits; if so, thanx for making this activity available to more people who can't afford the full-blown machines.
Heather is a sweetheart.
I dig her.
@@optimuscprime great
Just thought of something. When hovering an RC helicopter with the nose pointing at you left becomes right and forward becomes backward on the cyclic input and takes a bit of getting used to. So it would be like you sat in the seat applying left cyclic and the helicopter rolling to the right.
I want one. Or both. Stunningly beautiful.
Omg she is adorable.... I came here to just see her.... God bless you dear
Best way to explain. Animation tutorial are so complicated and inorganic.
Good video. I don't think I'd have the guts to fly an ultralight helicopter. I admire your sense of adventure!
I found this informative and refreshing. The narrator had a voice for it and obviously the young lady added to it
Very down-to-earth simple explanations, thanks!
Finest compliment a flight instructor could get. Thank you!
i love people who make their own aircraft.
egshane wish I had the brains to do so.....
I have flown RC helicopters at competition level and this looks like a full size RC helicopter
Please tell Heather she has the prettiest hair i think i have ever seen:)
she is absolutely gorgeous
get Heather back for another tutorial!
You made it look so simple. I want to fly now . Love your introduction. Thank you. 🌹❤️🇨🇦 .
You're most welcome.
THE HELICOPTER IS PERFECT. THE MATERIALS, SHAPES, AND COLORS. AND I THINK IF HEATHER REALLY WANTS. SHE CAN FLY IT TO. IF YOU CAN MAKE A TO SEATS OF IT TO LEAR HER TO FLY
Thanks. I've done about 15 hours on an RC heli. Can't imagine getting INTO one of these knowing how tricky they are to fly!
They're both works of art.
RPM means revolutions per minute, It's how fast the blades turning, or this case how fast the engine is turning. You always want to keep your RPM's in the green, remember more power to the engine more left pedal input for lift. It's basically the same as your car engine ( when checking your timing their checking your RPM's. Hope this was helpful?
Pronounced rip-em's....
An ultralight helicopter, a sure-fire way to pick up women! LOL!
She cute!, but were and how did you train before you could fly and how many hours did it take?
Thanks for explaining the operation
billt460 - Go look up "dissymetry of lift", it is helicopters 101 stuff. In a nutshell, helicopter rotors are built to deal with this automatically, there is no action required from the pilot to specifically address this (except keep airspeed within limits). Advancing blade flaps up, retreating blade flaps down, effectively changing their angles of attack (thus lift) balancing out the lift on both sides when the helicopter moves at any nonzero speed.
good learning sister.
Brilliant Jerry well explained . Looks well made machine
Thanks, once a flight instructor - always a flight instructor. I got about 650 flights out of my two Mosquito helicopters before they failed in flight. Experimental is the right category for sure.
Oh wow! I always wondered how they work. Very informative. So cool you don’t need a license to fly this, being an ultra lite and all. I want one!!!! 🤗🚁
Lovely wonderful excellent superb.
hey jerry,never seen a better presentation of how a helicopter works and very very well done.thanks a lot.who i presume is your wife and your dog did make us feel at home,relaxed and totally at ease a you went about.great job jerry.
Kindness radiating from her, just like my sweet girlfriend who loves me to the moon and back. Ps. I love helicopters
Heather is absolutely Gorgeous!!!
A helicopter reacts like a gyroscope! Very interesting. Never thought about that!
Excellent video, Jerry!! That's neat that the throttle is like a motorcycle handle!!
Without tail rotor input the fuselage will begin to rotate in the direction the main rotor is turning (top Blade) as soon as the aircraft gets light on the skids, even before it's off the ground. Pulling the collective without coordinated left peddle and cyclic will send you on a very unwanted circus ride.
Good video. Many questions answered.
I get the impression Heather is in full charge when it comes to anything like that. She doesn't wait for any man to run out and defend her.
Search here on RUclips for Autorotation. Helicopters can indeed glide without power, using airspeed to drive the rotor and then land using the rotational energy stored in that rotor. So if the main rotor separates or something like that then yes, you are dead, but if the engine stops, you have options to get it safely to the ground.
SHHH!!! JERRY, WE'RE WATCHING HEATHER :)
Good work and information about basic skills for flying helicopter
Great job ....beautiful helicopter...thanks for share your videos...very interesting ...
technicaly speaking the blades do not take a "bite" of air . what is happening is the blades as they change pitch
there is low pressure on top of the blades. And high underneath the blades thus giving the helicopter lift.
+FASTPISTOLDRAW - layman's terms
+FASTPISTOLDRAW
I'd disagree. As in a fixed wing airplane, the rotors are just like wings. It tales a measure of angle of attack, the rotor or wing actually DOES scoop or bite the air. This is HOW the low pressure above and high pressure below is created.
Pitch is the degree to which the angle of attack is applied to get more or less lift.
In fundamental terms you can reduce a great deal of aeronautical jargon into the fact the a wing or rotor, scoops the air and pushes it down while Newton's law takes effect and lifts the machine.
STEVE R JR false, just like a variable pitch prop. Some of the resulting thrust come from the AOA of the blades and not from the airfoil itself
Oh please Steve, this lesson was for laymen (nice work Jerry), and not for aeronautical engineers. Chill!
Well-explained, thank you! Cute assistant, too... ;)
Gosh coordinating all that must be a challenge that I wish I could master. nice video, very infornmative and simple to understand, but as you say, your body has to figure it out. thanks. best wishes Hayden
Are there actually High Quality Kits available for Making a Helicopter of this obvious Quality, as there are for other Experimental Airplanes? What an Awesome Ride!!
I used to watch a TV Show when I was little, I called “WHIRLYBIRDS”. It came out in 1957, and ran for 3 Seasons. I used to draw that Helicopter all the time.... and I wanted to become a Helicopter Pilot when I was little, but never did. I became Skilled enough to Build one however, being a very Skilled Welder and an R&D Machinist... but Money is the Major stumbling block on being able to do that!
They will "drift down" if one remembers to quickly lower the collective and maintain forward speed by diving. In aviation jargon it's called an "auto-rotation." The wind keeps the blades turning, in effect a flywheel storing energy, to be used during the flare to stop and lower the ship to the ground. You get ONE try to do it right!
You have dun this manure with some altitude right.? VARY NICE .
I love your work just love it thank you
Helicopter is great but heather is hot
Very informative video your a very good instructor she will be a good pilot keep up the great videos
There's nothing better than an awesome machine with a pretty girl in it :o)
SHE SURE MAKES YOUR COPTER LOOK NICE!
Great tutorial. Thanks!
An excellent model! Well done!
Jerry, Great video. You sound a lot like Tom Seleck.
Yep , shes a cuttie
2:35 We have a bad ass over here and I like it.
Alex Ω this guy is stupid
shes very attractive in a wifely kind of way, a naturally beautiful and elegant woman and not a tart
Contact number sent me and details
Steve Fox TRUE
I like your video good information
Heather is a good sport.
Excelente videos.
Perfect "girl next door".
Good information s
Good work putting Heather in the vid.
Nice explanation and pleasant lady!
No ballistic parachute on the rotor head?
@mrbilly800 Co-axials are somewhat more expensive to build but are easier to control and provide more lift for the horsepower than tail-rotor designs.
this is awesome! what are the rules and restrictions on running them on private property? is there like a ceiling where you can operate without having to contact controllers? or can you really only run these in uncontrolled airspace?
great video, i've been up in a blackhawk once and the pilot put my stomach where my head is. i think i'd like to fly an ultralight some day though.
Very pretty.....
Oh!... And the chopper is nice, too .
Thanks for Sharing this nice video.
Good question. As speed increases the loss of lift from the retreating blade theoretically will eventually invert the aircraft, but helicopters don't fly that fast.
I've long dreamed of making the joy of flight available to anyone by building aircraft that anyone could fly without training. It's quite simple to do.
All about understanding of the basics of maneuverability and principles
Fantastic video! Very helpfull.
Waooo....amasing👍👍👍
The reduction belts should be replaced at the first sign of any wear. Nearly all components are replaced at the 500 hour inspection, some sooner than that.
Or maybe daily. HA!
Thanks Jerry! That was very educational for all of us out here that love helicopters, but that don't know a thing about them. Very nice of you to share. Heather in now a STAR! I love you Heather, can I have your autograph? :D
Explain the "controls are offset 90 degrees" thing a bit more. I don't recall that from poking spinning gyroscopes. When I poked them they'd just start some kind of weird precession... but then I was poking them at the top.
+CHOPPERGIRL AIRWAR Gyroscopic procession : when force is applied to a rotating body, the reaction from that force occurs 25% later in the rotation
Errr.... when a force is applied to anything, I think a reaction from that force should occur immediately, unless you are getting into einstein territory...
....and being sure to look at things on a molecular level, no macro level, which could hide a reaction because of the elasticity of the object. For example, kicking a soccer ball, the soccer ball will not immediately move in total because of inertia, but it certainly is deforming and reacting at the point of impact and the reaction is traveling through the air inside and across the surface of the soccer ball...
CHOPPERGIRL's AIRWAR GOOD
Thank you Jerry, and Heather!
It must be such an incredible feeling to fly one of those.
Thank you for this vidio, I want to fly a helicopter now....thanks for the education on helicopter...
Love her she's shy
Why not put a governor on the throttle? Consistent head speed makes for more stability...
@jman9295 The Mad max machine was a gyrocopter, not a helicopter. A gyrocopter has a free wheeling main rotor and a pusher or puller propeller to push it forward to keep the main rotor spinning. They don't fly backwards/sideways or hover like a helicopter. They do look like helicopters though so easy to confuse.
I'm a modeler helicopter,I think ,rc model helicopter has complex engineering rather than the full scale
Well, a model heli has an RC system with electrically powered servos, and a stabilizing system. Many of them nowadays even have electronic stability augmentation systems complete with gyroscopes and microprocessor. Most full size helis don't have that.
However, the full sized machine must be as close to 100% reliable as possible, otherwise landings can get a bit rougher than you'd like :)
@aqueousone That would be a nice back-up when a safe autorotation is not possible. Air bags under the seat would be nice too. Even safer would be to just leave it in the garage, however, to live a good life one should live as though one had already died.
A really Cool Helicopter!!
How many Horsepower, and what make and Model Engine.
What Make and Model Helicopter, and how much does it Cost?
It's a remarkable machine, especially considering it had to weigh under 254 lbs. They no longer make this model. composite-fx.com
I love helicopters, but WHAT HELICOPTER? Someone is a lucky man... helicopter AND a gorgeous wife? (Hey, you asked for it buddy.) But I always heard it called a cyclic... "sick-lick", not "sigh-click"). Her body needs to learn how to fly... heh heh. :) Nice mosquito, Jerry!
Really loved the flight!!!!!!!!
Very good🚁👏
Yes, the Infamous Heather!
Very informative video. Thanks jerry and the lovely Heather.
Great clip for such a pretty lady. Thanks heather
Famous understatement she's good looking
@xtraceex A very nice piece of engineering. I've no connection with the manufacturer, just a very satisfied customer.
She's Kinda cute has Lovely hair too
Heather seems competent enough, I bet she could learn to fly that thing in a jiffy.
Please, I repeat the question from shanta trasaily , what is this engine, and how much cc and HP?
Thanks !
mosquito-helicopter.info/Mosquito_Model_Air.html
Thanks for the explanation bro.
That helicopter looks like a deatb trap