James May's Big Ideas

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  • @MuhammadAhmedMuddie
    @MuhammadAhmedMuddie 14 років тому +11

    Every program including James in it, is a blockbuster and damn interesting!

  • @EvenStarLoveAnanda
    @EvenStarLoveAnanda 10 років тому +28

    I like James May's humor the best out of all the Top-Gear guys. :0)

    • @rich1051414
      @rich1051414 9 років тому +2

      EvenStar LoveAnanda I prefer dry humor as well. If something is funny, it doesn't need all the theatrics :P

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 5 років тому +1

      There are more people liking humor. Hasn't May been on television some times? Rumour has, he was often showing up a bit late.

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      @1islam1 3 роки тому

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  • @BillStecik
    @BillStecik 10 років тому +67

    I gotta get one . I’m getting old and the choices are ..peeing pants , senility , stroke or being neatly sliced into bite size pieces for the birds .

    • @BillStecik
      @BillStecik 9 років тому +1

      ***** Jeremy ? who

    • @Thefreakyfreek
      @Thefreakyfreek 7 років тому +2

      like your way of thinking

    • @tonyfeuerhelm
      @tonyfeuerhelm 5 років тому

      ...take care you my not remember from where you left or more importantly which way is the House...then again...who Cares...were Airborne !.... : )....A.C.Feuerhelm

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 5 років тому +1

      How does a peeing pant fly? Like a para glider?

  • @JimThomasOutdoors
    @JimThomasOutdoors 11 років тому

    I'm really glad to here you are attempting to add a pop chute. This could be the start of another Model T Ford... where the common man can afford to fly and sales sweep the country. You Mr. Inventor, are a genius ! May God Bless you ... and keep your invention out of the hands of the auto manufactures.

  • @r2e7d83
    @r2e7d83 5 років тому +2

    In 2019 I want this for Christmas

  • @LamboGallardo560
    @LamboGallardo560 12 років тому

    That's just what makes them that much more amazing though. It takes true genius to make something so out-of-the-box actually work.

  • @philippepetit3105
    @philippepetit3105 9 років тому +1

    while the invention of helicopters they were two people chalenging for but the worst idea won and now we have stupid dangerous copters this is the way to do it's the most simple way only two commands whitch make it so simple that anybody could pilot it after one hour learning ! wonderfull

  • @neogeo8267
    @neogeo8267 8 років тому +14

    Unfortunately, power failure close to the ground (even with ballistic parachute) = not good.
    While removing the collective from the equation substantially simplification things, it also excludes the possibility of auto-rotation (and safety).
    It would be neat to see a variant with collective pitch.

    • @Veldtian1
      @Veldtian1 7 років тому +1

      Infinitely more complexity involved that would negate the innate simplicity of the design, plus the nature of the emergency chute is ballistic, it'll open in just e few vertical meters.

    • @undrcoverlouky
      @undrcoverlouky 5 років тому

      the solution: fly higher!

  • @Mrphilharmonic
    @Mrphilharmonic 11 років тому

    James May is a truly outstanding presenter, with his 'tongue-in-cheek' humor ("Time to head for Japan" - wonderful!) and dry British reserve, he has the perfect balance between seriousness and major sarcastic comedy. I would LOVE to see HIM fly this thing. Nothing personal James! (better get the parachute sussed first though - an EXCELLENT idea!)

    • @suetaylor1127
      @suetaylor1127 2 роки тому

      He is a chicken shit coward. He is a tea drinking sissy.

  • @BrainCellular
    @BrainCellular 12 років тому

    That's precisely why I love them. But still you have a valid point.

  • @Tuttomenui
    @Tuttomenui 12 років тому +1

    It wouldn't need a chute if the top blade could idle spin if the engines stalled. Or even both blades, but the gearing that makes then counter rotate might make them to hard to spin idle if you also had to spin the gears idle, but if the top blade could spin idle you will have auto gyro and that is essentially a built in parachute. Choppers have a switch to engage auto gyro so if you know your out of fuel you flip a switch and land. Gyro planes rule.

  • @calvinskithepolishamerican7524
    @calvinskithepolishamerican7524 5 років тому

    America did have something kind of like this in the mid 1950's, it was called the de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle, though it was only a few prototypes and the project sadly didn't go anywhere. Good to see our good friends in Japan have some interest in personal helicopters though. :)

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 5 років тому

      Check some airshows on very light aircraft. This is an antique video, developments have developed since. There are some other planes like this today.

  • @imperialsecuritybureau6037
    @imperialsecuritybureau6037 5 років тому

    It looks like a very cool way of getting around... and probably very cheap too! Obviously has some issues that need to be worked out though.
    How does this thing yaw? Buttons on either side of the handles?

  • @johnnyj540
    @johnnyj540 8 років тому

    Well it's October of 2016 and still haven't seen it do a pattern, does anybody know of a video?

  • @goodkarma33
    @goodkarma33 11 років тому +2

    Beat the laws of physics into submission! So true, I laughed so hard!

  • @henrydehaan6538
    @henrydehaan6538 10 років тому +6

    it's just genius!

  • @EasternMerchant
    @EasternMerchant 13 років тому

    hehe Billy May, a pitchmen for products, James May, a pitchmen for ideas! :D

  • @DownhillAllTheWay
    @DownhillAllTheWay 8 років тому

    How does it turn? If it is facing North and the pilot wants it to face West, either the pitch on the rotors has to be individually varied (to create different clockwise and anticlockwise drag), or the speed of the rotors has to be independently variable.
    Looking at the rotor head, I can't see any possibility of changing the pitch. Also - does it autorotate if power fails?

    • @sanguchito7381
      @sanguchito7381 8 років тому

      From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEN_H-4: "Yawing motion is produced and controlled by electronic gyroscopically-controlled differential electric braking of the main rotors"

  • @warywolfen
    @warywolfen 12 років тому +4

    Hah! There's an old saying among fixed-wing pilots: "If God had meant there to be helicopters, He would have given birds rotary wings!"

  • @kennethj1956
    @kennethj1956 9 років тому

    I can't possibly see what could go wrong.............safe enough for a small child.

  • @florianbauer2463
    @florianbauer2463 2 роки тому

    Where does it go on?

  • @deltavee2
    @deltavee2 8 років тому

    James I quite agree with your bug-smasher description of a helicopter's approach to flight. You left out the part about every chopper pilot making a pact with the devil to keep it in the air, though. Nicked an idea from Kamov, have they?

  • @antonioscheel
    @antonioscheel 12 років тому

    awesome!! now i know exactly what to do with the old whipper snippers in my garage!!

  • @quillmaurer6563
    @quillmaurer6563 5 років тому

    "Need to be very smart, quite unhinged, and quite possibly a bit suicidal ... JAPAN!" Yet another iconic James May line.
    Do have to wonder about this contraption, how is yaw controlled? Pitch and roll (front-back and side-side motion) is by weight-shift, but how would it rotate? Would need some means of changing torque on each rotor, but it doesn't seem to have that capability given the fixed-pitch blades and as far as we can tell no differential mechanism of any sort. Seems like it is just stuck facing whichever direction it happens to be facing, which really limits the practical potential of it.

  • @Will_CH1
    @Will_CH1 5 років тому

    Death Trap. It needs pitch control so that it can autorotate if it looses power. Helicopters have this basic feature for safety. I am surprised that with your flying background, James, you did not point this out. Instead, you marveled at the simplicity of the design. A parachute needs hundreds of feet to deploy and is no substitute.

  • @dsouzand
    @dsouzand 10 років тому

    where can i watch full episodes? i dont live in the UK

  • @0Giulio
    @0Giulio 12 років тому +1

    I am glad to see this idea is till feasible my grandfather started on a similar concept in the 1950's with the Helivector.

  • @chrismofer
    @chrismofer 12 років тому +13

    1:24 "strapon chopper"

  • @OwnageProductions03
    @OwnageProductions03 12 років тому

    I totally agree with you. It goes hand in hand with an invention caused by the helicopter, the Rotary Engine. Mazda decided to arm their "RX" line of cars with such an engine. Pistons work fine, but Mazda created it just to "Think outside the box." They're not the most reliable, and have a lot of oil issues. But the payout is enormous. a 1.3 turbocharged can chuck out nearly 300 horsepower, while maintaining efficiency and sounding amazing. "Just because we can."

  • @thatguy17285
    @thatguy17285 12 років тому

    how would you ajust the fuel to air ratio in higher altitude

  • @rugelindinda
    @rugelindinda 11 років тому

    counterfeit pair blades nullify the gyroscopic precession? so the net effect in is like only one blade pair.

  • @MyVitaminPress
    @MyVitaminPress 3 роки тому

    where to get it

  • @mikenonya9741
    @mikenonya9741 5 років тому

    It's been over 10 years James May. Why isn't there one in my garage?

  • @rich1051414
    @rich1051414 9 років тому

    Counter rotating blades also increase efficiently, as well as, unfortunately, noise output, by generating turbulence.

  • @miguelvillanueva100
    @miguelvillanueva100 12 років тому

    EL HOMBRE LO DISEÑA Y LO CREZ Y DIOS LE DA VIDA A SU SERVICIO DE DISEÑADOR DEL ARTE.

  • @scottminnella1880
    @scottminnella1880 9 років тому

    That's the coolest thing I've ever seen. Why isn't this the next big invention? Are big name helicopter companies telling him that he's crazy?

  • @buditarigangersang3692
    @buditarigangersang3692 6 місяців тому

    Wou great nice kreatif buat helicopter sir wou nice!!

  • @jorgeoliveiracosta8234
    @jorgeoliveiracosta8234 4 роки тому

    Quanto custa um desse

  • @AManOfHope
    @AManOfHope 12 років тому

    Is it possible to make atleast the counter blade free spin when power is lost so that you somewhat crash in a more controled and less violent way. Much like a gyroscope?

  • @wonsnot
    @wonsnot 11 років тому

    where do I buy one?

  • @kanelupis
    @kanelupis 12 років тому

    You don't jump out of the plane. The parachute is for the whole copter. Both pilot and copter are gently lowered to the ground.

  • @kanelupis
    @kanelupis 12 років тому

    You know that the pilot doesn't actually bail out. The parachute is attached at the top of the copter to bring both the copter and the pilot down together. This safety system is currently employed on a lot of light aircraft: a parachute for the whole plane.

  • @Mana-Chann
    @Mana-Chann 12 років тому

    to what season of top gear uk, this clip is included?

  • @aaronthomas8834
    @aaronthomas8834 11 років тому

    Nice! You'll never have to worry about mast bumping again!

  • @BoredLikeHelI
    @BoredLikeHelI 12 років тому

    this is a prototype mini helicopter...a small cessna is another thing entirely. you can actually glide if you lose power

  • @motorkev
    @motorkev 13 років тому

    Very impressive. Can't wait for improve model.

  • @froggycss
    @froggycss 15 років тому

    this is awsum!

  • @rmcreal
    @rmcreal 9 років тому

    What could does happen if one of these engines stops ?

    • @neogeo8267
      @neogeo8267 8 років тому

      +rotorlite Fuel issues (either exhaustion, clogged filter/line or bad gas for example) would result in all power-plants failing at about the same time. No-Collective = no-go (just too unsafe imho)

    • @PuerRidcully
      @PuerRidcully 8 років тому

      Don't you have to regulate the pitch of the blades to autorotate safely? This machine doesn't have the pitch regulation, so the blades would either destroy themselves from rotating too fast, or the machine would go down too fast.

    • @neogeo8267
      @neogeo8267 8 років тому

      *****
      Auto-rotation is not possible with this design. I believe it relies on redundancy of motors as a safety mechanism... imho not safe :) (think fuel, fuel line or no-fuel condition for example)

  • @Dizrupta
    @Dizrupta 12 років тому

    Does anyone know the music that starts playing at 3:15?

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 5 років тому

      There should be a list of copyright holders for every video on UA-cam. And there is this app, telling you what you are listening to. So why bother us? Get an iPhone.

  • @Wilko710
    @Wilko710 12 років тому

    mixture control dial?

  • @johnrelluf3916
    @johnrelluf3916 11 років тому +1

    Hahaha my teacher flies a plane and she says that helicopters beat the air into submission too XD

  • @LouieSmithSenior
    @LouieSmithSenior 10 років тому

    Would all 4 engines fail if 1 failed in flight? If not, could it land, relatively safe, on 1 or 2 engines?

  • @Ticklemytummy
    @Ticklemytummy 12 років тому

    This is not a NOTAR. A NOTAR uses a turbine driven fan and direction jet to counteract the rotational torque of the main rotor instead of a tail rotor. This uses counter-rotating Main rotors to neutralize the torque.

  • @lonelyneuron
    @lonelyneuron 12 років тому +1

    thanks for caring for very slow internet connection. I'd like you to post some 12p resolution videos... to enjoy fluent low, very low resolution videos. I'd appreciate so.

  • @dario1234567890ful
    @dario1234567890ful 12 років тому

    cuanto es su valor

  • @doddles
    @doddles 12 років тому

    omg two counter rotating blades, that is an AMAZING discovery... too bad RC helicopters used that ages ago lol

  • @creativitytools4576
    @creativitytools4576 3 роки тому

    can it auto rotate ?

  • @aganpangestyo5264
    @aganpangestyo5264 5 років тому

    Simple👍👍👍👍

  • @Jermster_91
    @Jermster_91 Рік тому

    I read the title as "James May's Bad Ideas"

  • @AusWater96
    @AusWater96 12 років тому +1

    Why would someone like a comment of something they can hear in the video?

  • @MisterSisterNW
    @MisterSisterNW 12 років тому

    Helicopters don't "beat" anything into submission. The same laws that give lift to an airplane wing, give lift to a helicopter rotor.
    I'm 59. Been flying rotorcraft and fixed wing since I was 19 ( via the U.S. Army). Nothing scary about helicopters unless you're "low or slow".

  • @valdecyr1
    @valdecyr1 8 років тому +1

    MUITO BOM E APROVADO POR MIM.

  • @ethanwelles
    @ethanwelles 5 років тому

    But James, don't propellers and turbines also do the same thing, just in a different axis?

  • @ArchSpawn
    @ArchSpawn 12 років тому

    i see a problem... you cant turn around.... the helicopter has the back rotor to turn it and counter spin ...

  • @Jonway9
    @Jonway9 11 років тому +7

    "time to head to Japan" LMAO

  • @clintyoung8255
    @clintyoung8255 11 років тому

    I like this, take off from home and land at work, or vise versa...lol I would want a guide on the edge just to make sure I don't chop the bits of a tall person off or if I got to close to a building...lol

  • @Billswiftgti
    @Billswiftgti 12 років тому

    Yes but...will it blend?

  • @Rick1885
    @Rick1885 12 років тому

    I want one!!!!

  • @kYfuSioN
    @kYfuSioN 12 років тому

    his english is really really good for a native japanese

  • @peterrodriguez45
    @peterrodriguez45 5 років тому

    Perfecto

  • @tonyfeuerhelm
    @tonyfeuerhelm 5 років тому

    ...nothing like a 12.000 volt high tension power line to govern your approved flight plan...

  • @michaelhelms1370
    @michaelhelms1370 12 років тому

    There are four engines and the manufacturer claims it can fly with only three (if load maximums are not exceeded). However, since the blades are fixed I suspect that the only method of controlling vertical speed is with the throttle. This scheme seems very dicey at first glance to me.

  • @StefanoTrefano
    @StefanoTrefano 12 років тому

    what if it runs out of feul?

  • @flyinbiker2001
    @flyinbiker2001 9 років тому

    I only see 2 problems with it 1st if you fall over were are those rapidly moving blades going ?
    2nd ... 4 engines made out of weedwacker's ... I dont think more need be said on that
    oh forgot 1 more.......... if 1 engine fails it only has 1/2 the power of the other rotor so then begins spinning like a top which brings us full circle back to the 1st problem because it aint going to be pretty when it hits the ground
    I watched it fly at Oshkosh and it was a interesting novelty and they were thinking $ 40.000.00 and you too can own a Vegomatic

    • @bharathj8077
      @bharathj8077 8 років тому +1

      please numbur

    • @chaytonruijsenaars3971
      @chaytonruijsenaars3971 8 років тому

      sounds like my kinda machine: beats the shit out of rules (even the laws of physics) and is about as safe as a weedwacker with a 12 inch carbide toothed saw blade on the end spinning at 40,000 rpm, i want to grow up to be a pilot! lets see if my parents would rather me fly a rickety chair with a set of spinning blades ontop around the neighborhood instead of getting a motorcycle (working on a home made rickety ass motorcycle that should fall apart at around 55 miles an hour)

    • @D8W2P4
      @D8W2P4 6 років тому

      Where do you think helicopter blades normally go in a crash?
      Care to explain what's wrong with small displacement engines?

  • @ufoengines
    @ufoengines 10 років тому +1

    Cool! I'm working on something similar. UA-cam .. "Helicopter Model 4 Monocopter". But even I would put my money on this!

  • @natezei8230
    @natezei8230 10 років тому +1

    This is great, how realy smart people always work and their vision can see things that others can not.
    wish to be in one of them flying around with no fear of crashing ????

  • @Veldtian1
    @Veldtian1 12 років тому

    ME WANTEE NOWWW!!!

  • @TheTechLad-d2p
    @TheTechLad-d2p 12 років тому

    strap-on chopper! lol

  • @FutureReverberations
    @FutureReverberations 3 роки тому

    "... ok but having said that I really would like to have a go in this thing"
    And James may reveals his 0.25 Hari Kari.

  • @HardcoreXxXxDude
    @HardcoreXxXxDude 12 років тому

    but will it blend...

  • @Monte_Melkonyan
    @Monte_Melkonyan 12 років тому

    AND HOW LONG can this thing stay in the air?

  • @flyer5769
    @flyer5769 9 років тому

    I heard a better description of the helicopter than James Mays.
    That is "3000 moving parts flying information all looking for a way out!"
    Though I have to admit it looks like it would be fun until you started looking down while you are flying.

  • @TheNeshkey
    @TheNeshkey 3 роки тому

    Wait. So did May have a go on that "helicopter" or not?

  • @Rickster5176
    @Rickster5176 12 років тому

    If the blades are fixed pitch, how could it possible enter an autorotation if the engines failed? It would drop like a beveled brick, wouldn't it?

  • @losttango
    @losttango 12 років тому

    "Helicopters don't "beat" anything into submission. "
    Hence the words "seem to".

  • @Logansfarm
    @Logansfarm 11 років тому

    so what if your thumb gets tired?

    • @armiestone
      @armiestone 5 років тому

      Hahahahahaha, down you go bro😂😂😂

  • @lopzag
    @lopzag 13 років тому

    I WANT ONE! :)

  • @will891410
    @will891410 12 років тому

    video processed in eniac computer.

  • @anuj18
    @anuj18 13 років тому +2

    what's the price...what's the price :-)

  • @noutram1000
    @noutram1000 3 роки тому +1

    Well that's a small piece of simple genius and no mistake. With a bit of automation it could make a personal escape pod from skyscrapers or a short range taxi ("vertical personal lift"...)

  • @americanaviator676
    @americanaviator676 12 років тому

    Use tip jets and you don't even need a counter rotational rotor.

  • @francovance1
    @francovance1 12 років тому

    Birds and other flying creatures also beat the air into submission by moving their wings...just like a helicopter!

  • @PacificCircle1
    @PacificCircle1 12 років тому

    would be great to get around a disater zone.

  • @JBofBrisbane
    @JBofBrisbane 12 років тому

    It's said by fixed-wing types that "helicopters don't actually fly - they're just so ugly that the earth naturally repels them."

  • @tarqhd2228
    @tarqhd2228 9 років тому

    هنا هو العادم واحد و 4 محركات ترتبط معا بطريقة شبه الدوار. أنا لا أرى أي طريقة يمكن لهذه الدوارات تحرير تدور. أنا لا أرى أي علامة على وجود مخلب شريحة أو وسائل الفصل التام، وأنا لا أعتقد أن الجهاز يسافر بسرعة كافية أو لديه ما يكفي من الوزن / كتلة تدور الإعداد الدوار موانع التناوب دون المرور من خلال علبة التروس التي لديها الكثير من المقاومة، وأنا لا أعتقد أن الدوارات طويلة بما فيه الكفاية.

  • @scheusselmensch5713
    @scheusselmensch5713 5 років тому

    Strap on chopper, eh? I see what you did there James.

  • @adrianocolombo
    @adrianocolombo 10 років тому

    this just missing the wings for stability and turning (the espatuas)

    • @philippepetit3105
      @philippepetit3105 9 років тому +2

      adriano colombo it misses anything this is the most intelligent way for copters only two commands and no complicated mechanics this is the future

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 5 років тому

      It is not a rocket suit. It has two rotary wings. You have two brain halves and you still keep them empty. Other people have two eyes. Are you shure you have eyes?

  • @lordpoee
    @lordpoee 11 років тому

    Never woulda got away with that Hara Kiri joke in the US

  • @ZonePvP
    @ZonePvP 10 років тому +2

    This is some of the most close thing you can get of a *'flying car'* now. But it should be as a hobby tool or a vehicle at a project area, not a privat *'car*'. To many crashes.

  • @ntdonat
    @ntdonat 11 років тому

    time for another fearless lunatic, indeed.