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Monocopter - Personal flying suit project

This site documents the efforts of Andreas Petzolt who is designing and building a turbine-powered personal flying suit. Thanks to Richard Harding for sending this in! Link.

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Posted by: strangeluck on August 29, 2006 at 11:48 AM

Make! You've just got to do an article on this one.

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Posted by: Netstorm on August 29, 2006 at 12:29 PM

Somehow this construction looks dangerous to me, lol :)

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Posted by: TickleMeElm0 on August 29, 2006 at 12:33 PM

This guy has a couple of brass ones, that's for damn sure.

Are you allowed to nominate someone in advance for the Darwin awards?

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Posted by: Ian12 on August 31, 2006 at 4:00 PM

IIRC, the Mythbusters tried one similar to this. It didn't work.

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Posted by: dculberson on September 1, 2006 at 1:15 PM

Mythbusters frequently fails to implement even basic design criteria into their projects. Meaning, false negatives (ie buried alive where they didn't use a concrete vault).

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Posted by: thenickboy on October 7, 2006 at 8:13 AM

I'd love to see this guy's calculations on this thing. Except for the points mentioned in TFA, this guy's design looks pretty solid. I'm wondering if he could scale back his factor of safety tho, things look a little too beefy in some places - makes me wonder about his power:weight.

His fin design, testing, and construction looks top notch!

Serious props.

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