@@Forgotten_Aviation i'd like to see it. not hear about it. in my imagination i could imagine going up or down a bit but soon as a direction is chosen it goes out of balance and out of control. the weight is in the center and the lift is on the airfoil, so gravity pulls the engine down and air pressure lifting the airfoil up causes a imbalance so the engine is traveling in a circle at no speed and the tip of the airfoil is doing perhaps a thousand miles an hour. i do not believe it is workable. i believe the airfoil will fly and the engine not so the airfoil will rise above and flip itself over the weight. lets see the pictures. thank you.
G'day, Speaking as one who has made and sold over 50 Chainsaw-milled hand-painted Hardwood Cross-Boomerangs, I really didn't think that anybody had ever built any powered human-carrying Boomerangs which were less practical and more horribly inefficient than are Gyrogoflopters and Autogyros...; but this thing herein truly qualifies as having been conceived and cobbled together by a dangerously deluded Lunatic, who narrowly defeated themself in the creation of an Infernal Device ! What a beautifully-built embodiment of an absolutely horrible idea ! Of course, it would have to be French... Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
@@Forgotten_Aviation high jerry wow. never heard of that one. getting the wobble out of it would take so much energy it is hard to imagine it being practical to do. an interesting experiment though. our immediate ancestors were very inventive. probably because no one had told them they couldn't do it. harharhar. thank yew. have fun. learning lots.
@@garychynne1377 It's probably not as hard to balance as you would initially think, as all it requires is to get the mass balanced which you need to do with any props anyway. In early Microlight/Ultralight days it was hard to get a prop that would match the low power engines in use, so it wasn't uncommon to cut one blade off a prop and put a counterweight on instead. Looks weird but much better then trying to drive a prop that is too big
You're looking in hindsight. Lots of science we know now we know because of guys like this experimenting. Also we have monster pc's now doing complex calculations they couldn't even dream of doing.
@@electricalmayhem Indeed! I think they needed to be able to move the cockpit laterally to change the center of balance as the craft spins up. Recon that's why they went for the flotation device.
Am I weird for thinking that giving this design another shot with modern materials, maybe at a medium drone scale, would be fascinating?
No. I think it would be fascinating also.
Turns out there was a flight capable monocopter. The
Bölkow Bo 103.
@@Forgotten_Aviation i'd like to see it. not hear about it. in my imagination i could imagine going up or down a bit but soon as a direction is chosen it goes out of balance and out of control. the weight is in the center and the lift is on the airfoil, so gravity pulls the engine down and air pressure lifting the airfoil up causes a imbalance so the engine is traveling in a circle at no speed and the tip of the airfoil is doing perhaps a thousand miles an hour. i do not believe it is workable. i believe the airfoil will fly and the engine not so the airfoil will rise above and flip itself over the weight. lets see the pictures. thank you.
I would like to see it as well. However I have not, so far, been able to find any video of the Bölkow Bo 103.
@@garychynne1377 Here is a monocopter model flying: ruclips.net/video/F2AGo2niN9w/видео.html
The expression "The French copy nobody, and nobody copies the French" comes to mind.
G'day,
Speaking as one who has made and sold over 50 Chainsaw-milled hand-painted Hardwood Cross-Boomerangs, I really didn't think that anybody had ever built any powered human-carrying Boomerangs which were less practical and more horribly inefficient than are Gyrogoflopters and Autogyros...; but this thing herein truly qualifies as having been conceived and cobbled together by a dangerously deluded Lunatic, who narrowly defeated themself in the creation of an Infernal Device !
What a beautifully-built embodiment of an absolutely horrible idea !
Of course, it would have to be French...
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
…surprising nobody.
unimaginable nonsense. what was he thinking. i know what he was thinking, but what was he thinking. certainly not physics.
There have been attempts to build a monocopter. The Bölkow Bo 103 was a flight capable example.
@@Forgotten_Aviation high jerry wow. never heard of that one. getting the wobble out of it would take so much energy it is hard to imagine it being practical to do. an interesting experiment though. our immediate ancestors were very inventive. probably because no one had told them they couldn't do it. harharhar. thank yew. have fun. learning lots.
@@garychynne1377 It's probably not as hard to balance as you would initially think, as all it requires is to get the mass balanced which you need to do with any props anyway. In early Microlight/Ultralight days it was hard to get a prop that would match the low power engines in use, so it wasn't uncommon to cut one blade off a prop and put a counterweight on instead. Looks weird but much better then trying to drive a prop that is too big
You're looking in hindsight. Lots of science we know now we know because of guys like this experimenting. Also we have monster pc's now doing complex calculations they couldn't even dream of doing.
@@electricalmayhem Indeed! I think they needed to be able to move the cockpit laterally to change the center of balance as the craft spins up. Recon that's why they went for the flotation device.