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http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/141 ... tml?page=3

Makes the current ones look heavy in comparisom. :)
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Pretty Cool!
It's never good to wake up in the shrubs naked, you either got way too drunk, or your azz is a werewolf.

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Looks like he needs to refine the controls a bit.
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haha SWEET!
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OH MY GOD

i am so researching into this.


ps: the smallest helicopter i saw before this was one didn't even have a central engine. It had tip-jets on the ends of the blades - yep, rocket powered helicopter blades. It was called a skycycle or something.
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http://www.acecraftusa.com/photos.html

this looks similar to OPs
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I've been looking for a new way to commute to work. I wonder what its fuel range is.
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This looks incredibly dangerous. :D
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Richard Cranium wrote:I've been looking for a new way to commute to work. I wonder what its fuel range is.
one in my link was over an hour of flying.
& the legal top speed for an ultralite is 50mph.

so 50miles.
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I wonder if the guy flying that thing has ever heard the term 'rotor bounce?' :o The way he walks up to and away from that rig - I can only assume he hasn't...

(for those who have never ridden in a chopper - rotor bounce is when the tip of the rotor hits a pocket of denser / thinner air - it can cause the tip of the rotor blade to dip suddenly ...up to 5 feet in some cases! This is why you ALWAYS DUCK when leaving a helicopter)
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Gekko71 wrote:I wonder if the guy flying that thing has ever heard the term 'rotor bounce?' :o The way he walks up to and away from that rig - I can only assume he hasn't...

(for those who have never ridden in a chopper - rotor bounce is when the tip of the rotor hits a pocket of denser / thinner air - it can cause the tip of the rotor blade to dip suddenly ...up to 5 feet in some cases! This is why you ALWAYS DUCK when leaving a helicopter)
If the blade on that chopper dipped that much it would have completely snapped off several times over. That bounce probably only matters enough in a helicopter with a considerably greater than 6 foot blade span.
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Post by Ferno »

Not only that but the blades don't flex like they would on a larger helicopter.
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True enough - but I still wouldn't ride in it! :lol:
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