Saturday, August 15, 2020

New model, Ah me...



Can't help but be impressed considering the fact it was made out of leftovers, to the extent those square-section spars were split from a rectangular. Needs a dab of paint but you get the picture: about the smallest and lightest conceivable design of helicopter able to levitate a human being on the one hand and be mass-produced on the other, and largely in flat-pack form.

Measured between the axis of each motor it is just four foot long by three wide, with drone centre sections just sixteen inches wide along with a box of the same dimensions square and only one metre in height (or around forty inches all in).

Shall spray it up in post-box red and use the same outline for the website, pending its fabrication at full scale. About as versatile an aircraft as could be conceived, to the extent it can be flown in reference to either direction (at a ninety degree offset), and is adaptable to a range of different sizes of accommodation.

These are broadly of one metre height for a "semi" like this, two metres for total incorporation of a standing operator, or around a metre and a half for a seated.

Strong, light, practical, inexpensive... and two inches inside the spherical dimension afforded by the GoFly challenge.