Pretty cool, eh?
Note how the pilot doesnt move a muscle. Probably if he moved sideways, that dang thing would lose its balance and flip over and shoot straight into the ground.
LOL Bill!
After I posted this video link I some how sensed you would be attracted to this thread with all those innovative designs you have come out with in the past. :mixedsmi:
From what I gathered the pilot does use slight body movements in part to help control it, or it looks like he does, however they are slight movements. I may be wrong. The two twist sticks appear to control engine thrust and I think yaw to turn it. That's just my guess.
But I feel that the turbine's high speed rpm is the neat thing about it which I believe gives it it's gyroscopic stability which makes it a stable platform which seems it would contribute to fast turn around yet stabile enough to easily keep it from upending out of control and heading to the ground like a thrown penny rocket.
It looks completely safe and stable to me. I believe it's gyroscopic affect is the key to the stability. It does look safe and would be neat going over swamps and through the woods with the ease that he demostrates. Don't have to worry about rotor strikes either.
Just thought about this: Because of the very high rpm (prob 28,000?), one twist stick probably adds or deminishes counter rotational thrust to fight the gyroscopic affect of the engine to deliver yaw and the other twist stick would be for direct engine lift, hover, letdown, thrust, with slight sways of the pilots body to keep it vertical or lean it in the desired direction similar to the two wheeled segeway is operated. I think I read somewhere that it too made use of a gyroscope for stability.
Anyway, an interesting flying machine.
