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ZK-BEE Fusioncopter Nano
New Zealand
Приєднався 2 вер 2016
Adventures in ZK-BEE, a Fusioncopter JK-2B Nano gyro.
Also some for my previous aircraft, a Poorboy PB1 microlight.
Plus some tramps we have done.
Also some for my previous aircraft, a Poorboy PB1 microlight.
Plus some tramps we have done.
Pirongia 2 0
A fine, clear, cool midwinter day, 3000ft winds variable at 5kts.
Time for another flight over Mt Pirongia, followed by a 3000ft vertical float down to ground level.
I held about 2000rpm to keep a bit of slipstream over the rudder, stick held right back giving 5kts forward speed, and 700fpm descent.
Thsi little Nano gyro is a heap of fun!
Time for another flight over Mt Pirongia, followed by a 3000ft vertical float down to ground level.
I held about 2000rpm to keep a bit of slipstream over the rudder, stick held right back giving 5kts forward speed, and 700fpm descent.
Thsi little Nano gyro is a heap of fun!
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mattson 050724
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Landing at Kevin Mattson's Ngaruawahia strip. A high approach to clear powerlines at the threshold, and a looong landing with a slight tailwind. I sure hope that was my shadow on roundout, or I would have to file an incident report!
Just another landing at home
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Trying out editing 360 video into a smooth sequence. Lovely cold winter's day with clear air. Lower level than my normal approaches- those eucalytptus trees looked fairly close!
trying out 360 camera above head for better lookdown
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Gives a wider field of view downwards. Was an ovecast afternoon so not the brightest- still to tweak the camera exposure settings.
Raglan Wainui beach foreshore flight
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A short clip flying low-level (500ft) along the Wainui beach foreshore- a surfer's mecca down under. An overcast day so not so bright , but a lovely spot no matter what the weather. Still got to find a better site for the camera to give a wider all-round view and downwards, but it needs to be secure- with an open cockpit you don't want to donate an expensive camera to gravity!
VR 360 landing
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Just trying out the process of creating/editing/publishing a VR360 video. This is the landing sequence of the previous Black Sands video. Try looking around. Future videos need to be MUCH shorter!
Black Sands 360 test
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A quick trip to Te Kowhai to see what was happening at the NZSAA Black Sands fly-in. But really just an excuse to try out my new Qoocam3 camera and the Qoocam Studio editing software. A bit amateurish but forgive me- its my first rodeo! The camera needs to be mounted higher to give a better look-down view.
pirongia kakepuku autumn
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Just an uneventful local flight- as it should be! The new HD clutch makes pre-rotation much more responsive!
Pirongia summit flight
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A short flight in my Nano to the summit of Mt Pirongia. 3000ft over 'tiger country'- the pilot knows that but the trusty little gyro chugs along. I tried a 2000ft vertical descent, but held a bit of power and forward speed to avoid overcooling the engine and giving some rudder authority. Editing still could be tighter, but I like to review engine & flight data through the flight- particularly p...
Nano- trying camera head mount
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Home to Te Kowhai and return. With your head on a swivel checking traffic and the view it is a bit too busy.
Nano- trying camera mount right shoulder
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Flight from home to Te Kowhai and return. Camera mounted high behind right shoulder- way too much head in view!
Nicely flown
Just found your video M8. I have a friend here in Idaho that fly's a Nano & I fly a Pitbull with a Subaru as a fat ultralight. I believe the only other Pitbull still flying is in NZ.
Yes- just do a Google image search for ZK-RUN. Heaps of pics.
Super filmik 👍🏻 w styczniu zaczynam naukę latania wiatrakowcem i tez chce kupić JK2 Nano :) już nie mogę sie doczekać 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Can you share the STL...
sure- 4 files on my dropbox here- www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/r1z5x97sifhev4520qk8n/h?rlkey=980lplm1l3vs7ut95a1urxtuu&dl=0
Only 68 views, ridiculous it should be 68,000. What country. Searching for a Dragonfly in that territory almost impossible, but that is what is happening. The nostalgia of retracing my own flight with Chadwick just a few days before he disappeared in this country. It overwhelms me! The flight from Christchurch over the glaciers Mts Tasman and Cook, to come out to the coast just north of Haast. St Martins bay and the Lower Kaipo river, not to be confused with the next river entering the sea also called Kaipo according to the map makers. This helicopter crew were flying at a sensible height but Chadwick gave his passengers the thrill of a lifetime flying just above the seashore not more than a few feet higher that Lion Rick, just visible for a second in this clip. The entry to Milford Sound is of course always spectacular. On our day late in January 1962, in Chadwicks Dominie ZK-BCP and a full load of passengers, the sun brightly shining on the coast, flying at 500 feet or less, it took considerable expertise to navigate such an underpowered biplane to overfly the gravelled airstrip, Do a 180 as it was to be able to land on runway 29 with a severe cross wind. Those were the pioneering days. Eat your heart out. Chadwick is looking down on this enchanted land. RIP. Thanks for the posting.
Excellent.
Well done mate, appears to be fairly smooth machine. Is that the throttle on the cyclic you are using with your left hand?
Yes- Red knob at 12 o'clock is the pre-rotator control- 12o'clock = OFF, 3 o'clock = ENGAGE Yellow knob obscured by left hand is throttle- 6 o'clock = IDLE, 1 o'clock = WOT They just interfere slightly towards the end of prerotate as you wind up to 180rrpm at 3000erpm
Interesting, I would imagine it would take some getting used to then like anything it will work just fine.@@ZK-BEE
First couple of take-offs were 'busy', but I quickly got used to it. Now not an issue. @@jimwolfe2862
I have been enjoying your videos a lot and am interested in a Nano myself-I have a property in the country with a clearing that I might be able to take off in without cutting trees down…. What do you think your take off roll is and how much room do I need to clear a 50 foot object?
My strip is about 240m long, half on the flat and half sloping down to the cattle race. Take-off roll is typically 75-100m, a fully flared landing roll can be just a few metres but more comfortable to do a rolling landing of about 15m. I only use the top part of the strip, but nice/essential to have the full length available in case I need to abort a take-off (haven't needed to yet). Re 50ft clearance I am not sure. The Nano lifts off at about 30km/h but then you need to stay flat and build speed to about 60km/h before climbing away. You wil see on the videos that takes pretty much the full 240m. The Nano is not a high powered rocket ship- it is a reliable little fun flyer with good handling characteristics.
Greetings Sir - From the Black Hills, SD I throughly enjoyed your beautiful and daring flight over "tiger country" In the intrepid "little gyro that- could" Thought for just a minute, "tiger country" May have meant a glimpse of the Tasmanian ? But I suppose that would have been different island and another time ... I look forward to seeing more of this cool little flying machine
The little Nano certainly is a heap of fun. Weather pemitting off to our national microlight fly-in next weekend- hopefully some more pics/video after that. No tigers around here- they were on our 'West Island' 2000km and 100 years away.
Thanks for the download. Beautiful piece of country.
Z
Very cool!
Excellent little plane. This is the first footage I've seen of the PB.
Nice gadget to have but $400 is super pricey:-) Maybe $60-$100? Reporting on engine and exhaust temps out of range from common engine temp type sensors would be useful. Altitude callout would be nice too, on a pricey version, there is a cheap module now for doing "radar" like plane to ground distance measurements... a poor man's LIDAR. Maybe useful for very low flying or landing or skimming your wheel on the water.
What engine , gear box, and prop are you using!
Rotax 503 DCDI, 2.58:1 (??) gearbox, 2 blade Ivoprop
Is this a Jim Hartung design?
Yes, his PB-1 design. The only area I deviated from his design was the cockpit nose- I repurposed the pod and wheel spats of my old Airborne trike.
I'm building a plane trailer right now. Do you know the wheelbase width between the outsides of the front wheels? On my VJ-24W it's 46 inches. David's back wheels in tricycle format are a whopping 76 inches from outside to outside, but if I go back to a tail dragger configuration I'm wondering if I can reduce that. Also, do you know about how wide is the back elevator? On my other plane, it's a whopping 9 and a half feet. :-/
My mains are 1450mm (57") with fairly fat tyres. But I have gone for straight swing arms so the wheels are angled inwards, with the top of the wheel further out. From the drawings, bracket to bracket on the A frame is 52" plus 2x 9" for the axle/wheels = 70". A lot will depend on your axle arrangement and tyre width I am in the process of modifying my main suspension using some Honda 50 rear shock units to give me a more robust suspension and eliminate the hardware below the axle that digs into the ground if/when your shock cords fail, the suspension bottoms out and the swing arm bends! I will post a video/pics of before and after showing what I have done when complete in a week or so.
ZK-BEE Poorboy PB1 -- Ok, thanks muchly!
nice low view taking off, those are some tall trees! 2x taller than typical
Nice.
Have you seen the homemade chase cams? ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=ultralight+chase+cam+improved
Yes, I had seen an earlier video about it. This looks to be a real improvement. You have inspired me to try something similar- the videos are a bit boring without the aircraft in view.
Well, keep making them pointed forward anyway until you have the curiosity to experiment around with other views, they give me a preview of what it looks like to fly from the cockpit, very useful with regards to landing speeds and approaches, etc. A stable mount forward is a lot better than what some do which is mounting them to their helmet, and with every swivel turn to the left or right to check for traffic, the video viewer becomes nauseous and sea sick with the constant back and forth. Probably the best is having multiple views from multiple cameras, and stitching the best segments from various angles all later together in an video editing program.
The cows may have been spooked by your shadow, if you see where it passed right by them. Usually from what I've seen of flying videos, cows are fairly demure, it's horses and deer that get spooked and run like mad. ua-cam.com/video/SYRAuxkCdWw/v-deo.html Having grown up on a farm, a bit of exercise won't kill a cow, they could use it.. All they do is eat and poop all day long. As long as they don't stampede over a fence like a bunch of scared dummies, or break a leg ....
These are just the replacement herd of heifers, will be calving and into the milking herd next spring. They get real spooky while they are running with the bulls- just like teenagers! I prefer the young calves or mature cows- much more docile.
Seems like you could make a little shroud to go around your carb, with a vent door in front controlled by a push/pull cable... considering its right next to a 300F bank of cylinders... they should be keeping the carb plenty warm, if you just prevented the slipstream from sucking away the heat. It's like on a motorbike... I got a 250F engine between my legs, but my hands and knees and feet freeze in the winter time... because the 65mph wind just sucks all the heat away because my cruiser motorcycle has no fairings whatsoever.
You are correct, but I like to keep things simple- less weight, complexity and chance for things to go wrong!. I have only had carbs ice up a few times over the last 20 years flying, showing up as a gradual power reduction, which you can generally clear by cycling the throttle, keeping away from condensing air (cloud/mist/fog) or descending into warmer air. With 2 strokes the oil mix and slight reverse flow helps prevent ice sticking, and the Bing slide carbs are more icing resistant than those with a butterfly throttle.
I think I'm going to paint my Orange and Yellow w/ diagonal stripes: www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/album.php?albumid=629&attachmentid=66608 Do you remember which ultralight your fiberglass cowl was meant for? I like the look of that too, more than the Poorboy Platypus looking front end... I'll probably make up something custom, I've done fiberglass before, not a problem, just lots of sanding and sticky mess with fibers stuck to your fingers...
The cowl and wheel spats are off my old Airborne Windsports Edge trike. I have since removed the spats- their attachment complicated and weakened the gear legs/suspension, and my flying buddies reckoned it looked too 'girlish'- please excuse the latent sexism in their comment! Your colour scheme will certainly make it stand out! I went for yellow/black to match my car in the background. In VFR fliying it is all about 'see and be seen', and bright colours help!
I think they look pretty good... they just make it look more premium and aerodynamic, and less like a garage built. Make things the way you are happy with them, everybody else's opinion be damned. Otherwise you will never be completely happy with what you build, and it will annoy you. If you like them off, leave them off, and if you like them on, put them back on. If I had followed a course of life that others had proscribed and outlined and wantedfor me, and not rebelled completely and bucked the system, I'd be dead long ago.... probably dead from overwork and homesickness at a High Powered Day Trader's desk in a big unhappy city a million miles away from the family farm I grew up on... I'd rather be poor and home and alive than rich and far away and dead.... hard choice to make, to go against others... ua-cam.com/video/nUTXb-ga1fo/v-deo.html Thanks for the info, I'll probably make my own, as to buy one would be prohibitively expensive compared to labor, some fiberglass cloth, styrofoam, and resin/hardener and sanding disk. I repaired a friends smashed up Camaro front end one time and it turned out great. Still haven't picked it up yet, but I've been working non-stop to refurb a trailer to do so... I made parts today... www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/album.php?albumid=630 www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/album.php?albumid=627 I think your plane looks sharp; I'm going to be coming back to it a lot as inspiration to clean up and up the styling on my own...
Might want to practice next some dead stick landings with your engine at complete idle, coming in hot. Not a matter of if, but when... better to do it straight into your home field and get good at it, so when you have to do it someday into an unknown field unexpectedly, you'll be ready. David is giving me his Poor Boy, I just need to put an engine and prop on it and fix up some bent things and do some other things to it...
A lot faster and a higher wing loaded plane than I would like to teach myself to fly in, that's for sure. Looks rough keeping that nose level on take off and not nosing into turf at the first gopher hole.
Some dubbed over narration and tips specific to flying a PB might be helpful... I'm going to have to learn to fly in one of these...
Looks like an aircraft based on the Chinook WT11 with some differences. The WT 11 had a huge wing.It was a gentle aircraft and way overpowered with the Rotax 377 engine.I was fortunate to have one about 20 years back. I am sure the PB would be as good .The strut to wing attachment of the chinook was unique but it worked! The poorboy seems to have gone traditional in this area. Your PB is nicely done.Hope it flys good.
Thanks for the compliments. Yes, it's an easy and gentle flyer. The designer took the best he saw in a number of similar type.
Awesome. Thanks for posting.
Looking great! Can you recommend a 6061 T6 supplier? Most sizes seem hard to get here in NZ.
I used 6060 industrial grade tubing from Ullrich Aluminium- same grade as Max Clear used in the B22s. Tensile strength is about 80% of 6061 so I went a tad thicker in the critical area (spars, boom tube).
Thanks for the info. Much appreciated.