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Test flight held for small jet modeled after Miyazaki anime
- radiorental 10y agoThe bike helmet is the icing on the cake for me.
- paganel 10y agoI thought it was going to be named after "Porco Rosso" (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=855 http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=85...), to be honest. Talking about "Porco Rosso", I got to briefly visit Trieste for the first time ever this summer, Miyazaki and his fellow animators really did a very good job of portraying everything about the city, from the beautiful light to the Austro-Hungarian buildings from downtown. I had only seen the movie once, about 10 years ago, but I had a strong deja-vu feeling as I was visiting the Trieste waterfront, from where the first ever commercial Italian airplane took off in the early '20s.
- ionwake 10y agoDid you know the hotel, in the water, is based on a real world location? I once came across a real life photo of it, with a note about it being used as a reference for the film, but never came across it again - do you have any ideas where it was ?
- puzzlingcaptcha 10y agoSome googling suggests it could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_Bella_(Lago_Maggiore) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_Bella_(Lago_Maggiore) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdbfhr/5521339431/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdbfhr/5521339431/
- ionwake 10y agoThanks for taking a good look, I guess it could be the location, but I honestly remember a smaller island, on a lake, with a hotel on it in the photograph. Maybe it was from a different angle? After all how many lakes in Italy have hotels in them? Thanks again for trying.
- Causalien 10y agoYou are probably talking about lake bled in Slovenia https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Lake_Bled_from_the_Mountain.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Lake_Ble... or lake skader in Montenegro. https://justoffthebeatenpath.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/dscn7880.jpg https://justoffthebeatenpath.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/dsc...
- ionwake 10y agofascinating but I believe we have a winner below!
- puzzlingcaptcha 10y agoMy runner up is the islet of San Giovanni on the same lake: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/122043835.jpg http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/122043835.jpg (which is also mentioned in http://www.davinotti.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=329 http://www.davinotti.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=v...). In reality it was probably an amalgamate of several reference locations.
- hevyw8 10y agoLooks like this has been an ongoing project for a while. http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/08/06/real-life-nausiccas-mowe-glider-makes-first-powered-flight/ http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/08/06/real-life-nausiccas-mo...
- Washuu 10y agoIt has been going since before YouTube was created. I remember downloading the .MOV files from their web site back in 2003. PetWORKs is the company/creative group behind the project. http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/opensky/ http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/opensky/
- Animats 10y agoYes, the Moewe/Open Sky project has been going on since 1995. There was an RC model, a large glider, and then this full-sized one with a jet engine. This one first flew around 2013, but now they have more control, can get more altitude, and can fly around the pattern. Sadly, it needs too much runway to land at summer comiket.
- gargravarr 10y agoCan I be the first to note that being strapped to a large jet engine like that has got to be terrifying?
- T-zex 10y agoUnless you are a teenage princess.
- _pmf_ 10y ago> Can I be the first to note that being strapped to a large jet engine like that has got to be terrifying? The future of personalized transportation! Powered remotely by uBeam!
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoand loud
- hinkley 10y agowhat?
- fit2rule 10y agoI think its only terrifying until you reach glide altitude, and then turn it off .. and then .. I think the whole thing is probably fun as hell.
- codeduck 10y agoUnfortunately the design of this aircraft means its glide ratio is probably not that good.
- Applejinx 10y agoIt can't possibly have an airfoil. That's got to be a purely symmetrical airfoil shape, otherwise it'd be flipping him over forward violently. I didn't believe this design at first sight, and when I saw it actually flying I was amazed at how dangerous it was. It's basically an air surfboard. Astonishing. The weight distribution is nuts, I can't see how he'd possibly regain control if it flipped backward or forward even once. It'd just tumble out of the sky with you on it.
- savrajsingh 10y agoVideo link?
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y agoAw. You have to lie down on your stomach to pilot it?
- InclinedPlane 10y agoVideo: https://youtu.be/yHifJXf3oIo https://youtu.be/yHifJXf3oIo
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoJapan gotta be the only place to find somebody crazy enough to pilot that thing.
- FungalRaincloud 10y agoI don't even have my pilot's license, but if that thing was in front of me, I'd ask to ride. Bear in mind that in the early days of flight, we had people who were willing to play tennis on the wings while a plane was flying below them. Not being flown, flying. They were the pilot and copilot.
- hinkley 10y agoMoller worked on a flying car for, what, 25 years? And they wouldn't even let him fly it without a tether to a crane :(
- blunte 10y agoWould have liked to see it landing. And the caption said the guy is 50. Wow! He looks like 30.
- unrealhoang 10y agoLove to see the landing too. Landing shock might get too hard.
- puzzlingcaptcha 10y agoYou can see the landing here: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201608010046.html http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201608010046.html Looks rather gentle.
- devereaux 10y agoHuh, no. The marionettes lines, chin wrinkles but also the deep glabella wrinkle (aka 'deep frown') indicate this person is unlikely to be 30. You can see it on http://imgur.com/a/OuFkK http://imgur.com/a/OuFkK Anyway, a beautiful video, very inspiring.
- MrLeftHand 10y agoI love when writers, novelists, artists dream up something then a group of crazy engineers come along and build it.
- supergreg 10y agoI'm still waiting for my hoverboard.
- WalterBright 10y agoAn anti-gravity generator is needed. A lot of people would like to see that :-)
- kaybe 10y agoA Higgs manipulator.. We'll get there, we made the first steps.
- philbarr 10y agoAnd it does look like the anime version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zhLBe319KE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zhLBe319KE About 35 seconds in.
- JulianMorrison 10y agoA lot like, except it can't VTOL but it certainly takes off and lands on very little runway. And except you can't stand up on it, but standing up on an aircraft that's already pitch-unstable sounds like a recipe for a faceplant.
- ionwake 10y agoIt is a shame VTOL is not incorporated, I can't help thinking it would be pretty easy to add what with available cheap multirotor stabilisation tech... the more I think about it, the more possible it is, and safer.
- teraflop 10y agoThe difficulty with VTOL isn't just stabilization, it's weight and thrust. The multirotor drones that have become popular in the last few years are only feasible because they use small electric motors and have very high thrust-to-weight ratios. (see e.g. the square-cube law)
- justifier 10y agoi always loved the attention to detail on display in the vertical take off in the film a little foot pedal can be raised and with a swift impression the aircraft gets a downward burst that sends it about 2 or 3 meters straight up and then the engine propels it forward: https://youtu.be/tdAtYXzcZWE?t=27 https://youtu.be/tdAtYXzcZWE?t=27 there is another launch where they just fall out of a larger already moving flying machine.. unable to find a clip online but it's about at an hour and 28 minutes into the film another awesome launch is when back home in the valley of the wind the glider is hooked up to a slingshot that throws the glider without using any fuel up into the air where the pilot then activates the engine.. unable to find a clip online but it's about at 22 minutes into the film and another where the pilot runs the glider off a cliff and then flips up on top before launching to speed.. unable to find a clip online but it's about at 15 minutes into the film as for landing, i'd hardly say vertical, mostly just a short runway i love this style of landing shown early on, where the pilot flips under the glider and glides low enough to run off the glider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRZ5JalHjhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRZ5JalHjhs this is a remarkably creative, brilliant and beautiful film a rare post apocalyptic vision, both socially and environmentally, that retains beauty and hope i highly recommend it to everyone
- SonicSoul 10y ago"if i move up the front, the nose goes down because the weight is on the nose. if i slide down the nose goes up because the weight is on the tail. to make a turn, if i tilt my body this way the force is on the side" yaikes, this thing seems to be all manual based on weight disposition! Makes it quite a bit more challenging in my opinion.
- JulianMorrison 10y agoIf you look, the wing flaps move much more than would be possible with mere shifting bodyweight. So clearly it's sensor based, not purely manual.
- catbird 10y agoLooks like there are ropes attached to his harness that control the flaps as he leans to either side.
- johngalt 10y agoHang gliders are piloted in a similar fashion.
- Raphmedia 10y agoMakes it seems a lot of fun to ride too! Like a flying skateboard!
- gozur88 10y agoI'm curious how you pull out of a dive in something like that.
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- 6stringmerc 10y agoThat design, while interesting and reminiscent of all the flying wing experiments and developments over the years, scares the ever loving hell out of me. I say this as a person working on a personal wing device also without a large vertical stabilizer control surface. Brave soul, and I fully applaud giving it a try!
- riffraff 10y agoI watched the video mentally screaming at the lack of protection, not even a full helmet. I'll join the applause!
- Glyptodon 10y agoCan you stabilize this sort of craft with gyros or something? Or is it pretty much a flying death trap?
- whamlastxmas 10y agoGyros would probably weigh too much. I wouldn't call it a death trap, but it's probably a fair-weather light-use aircraft.
- callesgg 10y agoShould have used a parachute. You can by emergency parachutes intended for paragliding, at 300 USD it is worth it.
- kaybe 10y agoNo use at that height. The minimum I've seen in base-jumping is around 30 meters with instant chute deployment and perfect reaction time.
- DigitalJack 10y agoPretty amazing. I'm worried about the positive feedback in the controls though... shift weight back to pitch up, which is going to cause more weight to shift back. Definitely a stall hazard, and a tough one to get out of.