Holy shitnuggets

"Übel" (ubel) 04/28/2016 at 18:09 • Filed to: None

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Speaks for itself

Kailand09 > Übel 04/28/2016 at 18:39

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I kinda want to take this and apply maths and sciences and make it actually gain some higher flight and usability.

vondon302 > Übel 04/28/2016 at 18:40

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This guy is legendary! and I thought the canon was cool.

ttyymmnn > Übel 04/28/2016 at 18:42

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The US Army has been trying to build something like this since the ‘50s. Piasecki got close with the VZ-8 Airgeep . Maybe the technology is finally mature enough to make it possible.

Übel > ttyymmnn 04/28/2016 at 18:44

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I’d guess a lot of it comes down to weight. It’s a lot easier to balance when you’ve got enough mass in your own body to swing things around than when you’ve gotta have the machinery balancing itself.

I did see in the comments a lot of people suggesting to do 4 rotors and use a quadcopter-type control system, which I think would be pretty damn incredible.

Übel > Kailand09 04/28/2016 at 18:45

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In the comments people were suggesting 3 or 4 rotors and a quadcopter-type control system, seems like that would be a pretty functional way to go.

Übel > vondon302 04/28/2016 at 18:46

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Yep! My personal favorite is the motorcycle-engined tuktuk, it had me browsing craigslist trying to find a tuktuk for a while

Kailand09 > Übel 04/28/2016 at 19:05

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Hm. Part of me thinks the instability of the dual front to rear rotor would be more fun and easier to whip around for better handling.

But you need lift somewhere, and we’ve seen how nimble quads can be. Control would become a challenge, which certainly couldn’t be quite as manual in my opinion. Like leaning in a motorcycle vs steering only in a car.

Lots of variables. Cool idea

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > Übel 04/28/2016 at 19:19

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His accent is straight out of a Charles Dickens novel and that was some of the worst music I’ve ever heard. But that hoverbike is epic. I want one.

Übel > Kailand09 04/28/2016 at 19:24

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I’d go with a pair of rotors front and back. It would make load balancing fairly easy since you’d just have a left/right and a front/back control of some sort along with a throttle for overall lift. You could even use load sensors in the foot pegs/handlebars to maintain the feeling of using you body weight to control it.

Übel > IanZ - limited-slip indifferential 04/28/2016 at 19:28

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Oh god me too. Those motors aren’t as expensive as one might think either, there’s a whole slew of them available for well under $10k.

Kailand09 > Übel 04/28/2016 at 20:08

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Now that’s some thinking. Damn that would be sweet