Manned multicopter Episode 10, FINALLY UP & FLYING!
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Manned multicopter build part 10
Takeoff at 4:40
Fuel consumption is 0.65-0.7 liters per minute. Shaft power in hover around 30kW.
Thank you all for the encouragement and kind words, I really appreciate it. /A
The stealthiest of vehicles.
LazerLord10 You are everywhere.
Wow! Congratulations!
May I give some suggestions?
Most concerning your safety:
- Have a friend with you, when doing first flight experiments.
- Keep the propellers of the ground -> place them above your head.
- Reduce ground effect -> place the propellers above your head.
- Bring the center of gravity down, for stability -> place the propellers above your head.
- Bring the propellers away from you body -> place them above your head.
- Prevent engine brake down -> look at vibration, I think they are shaking apart.
- I would prefer electric, but I understand your choice.
And a question: are all 4 engines non-steady? If so, would it maybe work better to keep the inner 4 constant and the other ones variable?
Keen going pioneer!
Giesbert
this is some post he should really see...
Nice post, I hope he see's it and tries some of these.
Propellers above the head meant what a design of this thing has to be big and too heavy.
Props above his head would A require more thrust, and B a more sturdy frame, which would be heavier, requiring more thrust.
+1 for placing propellers above head, increases stability lot.
also weight balancing seems bit of, corner weights under check.
It amazes me how can people with these resources and engineering abilities build these kind of awesome artifacts and then record it all in 480p
Lol I was thinking that
Innadril ha, ha, you hit the nail on the head. I'm still laughing
At least it's quiet..your neighbors would never know you're flying overhead :D
I admire your resourcefulness. Respect to you!However, in it's present form this machine is a perfectly designed deathtrap. You should call it a total success as a proof of concept design and dismantle it. If I might suggest for your MK2 Design:--- Retain your engine mounting platform and suspend your seat below it on a flexible mounting.--- Using your body weight as a suspended pendulum will allow you to use handlebars on the bottom of the engine platform to control flight direction, much like some hang gliders. This will give you increased stability and faster and more simplified control inputs. --- Moving yourself out of the plane of rotation of the propellers improves safety.--- Install duct around the props. This will improve efficiency AND safety.--- Suspending your seat below will permit the use of a shock absorbing structure to absorb some of the damage when you land hard.--- mount a race car fuel cell type tank ABOVE the engines to dependably gravity feed the little monsters. Operating a aircraft at very low altitudes is always going to involve greater risks. Designing your aircraft to save your life when it's in Failure Mode is just good engineering. Remember, Gravity Gusts and Altitude Deficiencies seem to occur at the same time.
Hats off from Canada! This is how the Wright brothers started and look at the world now. You are awesome, my man.
Mexicans are already building these
This guy is living my childhood dream.
I love crazy people . The world would be a dull place without them . And UA-cam wouldn't be taking over my life !
Who else wanted him to just put it on full blast and let it go 2000 ft in the air??
As a firefighter I have to say that thing has some serious life saving potential. Keep up the good work buddy!
Lenny Leaver then in that case when you get stuck in a fire and he's looking at you through the window waving, I hope you feel sorry then you loser.
This is what we needed. These could be the very first steps towards a flying car. Well done brother.
You're an absolute 10 out of 10 legend, buddy!!!!! :)
This is brilliant! Not necessarily the most practical, and scary as hell with all those massive finger hungry props surrounding you, but it's certainly quite an achievement to have made this!
Forget those who mock you m8. Every successful design that has ever existed has been at the point that your at now. Reach for the sky man!
Lower your CG and you'll get a much, much more stable flight. She's a top heavy girl, if you could bring your body weight below the props you will notice a lot more stability in your design. Aside from that, great job!
SierraKiloGulf ua-cam.com/video/OYHCP3-mpxk/v-deo.html
if he had been under it those ground hits wold have been harder because of less ground effect
probably tested with potatos first anyway
@@BK-hq7tn that video misses the mark, if he put weight above the rotors to demonstrate the opposite effects (like in this very video) then those of you who don't build aircrafts would get a better idea of what I mean
A crazy and genius man!!!!! Wow. Congratulations man
Very good job! I would totally put something under the chair to absorb shock in case of a hard bounce. Pogo sticks, bubble wrap, something.
put airbags or padding in the bottom so if something goes wrong u can drop down with a bit of a softer landing.
This is awesome. Please do add 4 leaf springs to the bottom (2 on each side for stability) so that in the event of a fall from 6 feet, you wont break your back. I don't want to see you get hurt. They could also work like skids. I hope you're wearing some ankle guards.
It does my heart good to know there are people out in the world doing CRAZY SHIT like this!
Chris Brown STOP FUCKING PUNCHING RIHANNA! 😂 😂 hahaha
Gives new meaning to "keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times."
Do a barrel role
Haha blew my eardrums out when I skipped from from you talking to flying. Had the volume up loud. nice work
This is why women live longer than men
😂😂😂😂
Needs Landing skids and crushable foam to absorb impact from hard landings. protect your spine!
I love it! I think if you put your cockpit under the blades and you were to ride under the blades, your stability would be amazing! Keep up the good work.
marktevans exactly. lower centre of gravity
That's pretty cool, good work. I feel like one built with a huge array of powerful DC electric motors controlled by an Arduino and powered by a big deep cycle battery could be more reliable though? And probably get more flight time. It could also be made to hover and stay level automatically by using a gyroscope, accelerometer and good coding. There would be no need to manually keep it balanced. It would go a long way towards safety.
This guy is just a handyman. Probably mows lawns for a living, he has no idea what you’re talking about.
Dude. This is so awesome. My first thought is having the blades above you might better stabilize you with your body weight below. Less top heavy in a sense. Solid work though. Absolutely love it.
Amazing!
A fantastic piece of machine! Ignore all the safety junkies.. You estimate the risk and do what you feel comfortable with. There will always be ppl telling others that what they do is wrong in one way or another...
Only just discovered this amazing guy. Just blown away with his ingenuity.
It needs a better suspension system to protect your spine from injury in the case of drop from two metres "altitude". What about mounting the chair on air bags of some kind, minimal weight but it could protect against a nasty injury, compressing air is better than compressing your vertebrae.
this. Seriously dude.
agree - see my comment re: adding space hoppers to each corner to act as static landing gear (impact protection)
That was AWESOME! I thought we were heading for a trip through the woods when you showed the flyers perspective . Come on let's go!! Two feet off the ground and zipping through the woods? Hell ya! LOL
Very good idea
but there are some obvious problems with the swing of the drone, this is
because when putting the chair on, the horizontal center of gravity is
very above the base, so the system will have to be making corrections
permanently. I would suggest lowering the center of gravity to achieve good stability, or raise the engines to the midline. Very good idea, congratulations
That sound would make it an excellent war machine. I can just imagine how terrifying that would sound coming towards you on a battlefield.
bukueOner lol
bukueOner imagine being in the desert with your army and the suddenly thousands of these things come with bombs and you hear their sound.
the mosquitoes lol
Lovely! I would incorporate the safety seat from this machine, with the other electric machine. I would also place a air bag under the seat - For reference, some paraglider harnasses have this feature. In my opinion your electric copter is the best one on UA-cam at this time!
This is like a childhood dream come true... awesome!
Why are people putting him down? This is how great inventions are made, by someone in his shed in the garden. Left to you health and safety pansies, you would still be living in the cave wondering whats over the horizon.
Amazing job. Don't worry about the negative feed back. If you could afford to design extra safty features, you obviously would. A anustable pitch prop setup would undoubtedly be out of your price range. However, ducting the air flow of the engines would not be. I would sugest large servo controlled air flow obstructers to control thrust output for each power plant. Alowing you to maintain a constant rpm "collectively" while giving you more stability and control. Great job, sir.
I love this buddy ...awesome video ...don't listen to haters .. they are jelly for real because u can fly high on a chair wile there chair is planted in front of the TV watching u ... good job brother ... I'll keep my eyes in the sky looking for you soon ;)
Dude.... You are pretty amazing, and still young enough to explore many more contraptions as yet unthought of. Good job.
Reminds me of the 60's hotrodders in southern cal.....always tinkering...faster higher.....great job!
A quote from Wilbur Wright for you - “More than anything else, the sensation [of flying] is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost - if you can conceive of such a combination.” - I'm guessing you can dude!
You need the props above you dude. Your center of gravity is way to high and makes the octacopter unstable. And you need to bring the middle 4 props out more so is has more left and right pitch control. And some landing gear to absorb the landing Other than that pretty cool dude well done!
Watch this to the end.
ua-cam.com/video/HYD5F9CLX8g/v-deo.html
Its great to see you getting better flight times. If I could, 2 suggestions. (1) someone earlier mentioned a roll cage, great idea. Second, redundancy, start working on remote in flight engine failures, what would be required to compensate! Safety first.
What sensors do you have? You could probably achieve greater stability through the flight controller. Until it hovers and flies like it is on rails without a passenger you shouldn't be onboard. Fly by radio or mavlink or something.
Second, aside from safety issues, mounting high above the head would help you avoid prop wash and ground effect when taking off.
Wow, you have some balls to fly that thing
Hats off to those daring young men in their flying machines! Seems like a lot of things have to work flawlessly...I hope there is failure protection engineered into it. Enjoy the flight!
Thank God for lunatics, keep up the good work
We have people who do things & people who talk.
coolest thing I've seen on UA-cam in a long time
I would highly recommend extending those arms out further. That should help smoothen out your thrust issues. More of a circular motor pattern would be more practical. But otherwise a wonderful build :-D
Tony Vitone
Weight anything else want get up
Hello. I accidentally saw your video and it's a great project, I'm sure!
If you don't mind, I would suggest the following 2 improvements(if you would consider them please let me know, to subscribe to your cannel):
1. reverse the engines and propellers directions to down(also rotation must be to make this possible), in order to improve lift efficiency and security in case of accident(propeller or bad move and dropping on propeller)
2. together with idea #1 or alone: set 3-4 light rubber ballon wheels(as in airplanes wheels) with springs, to avoid crash landing damage to you and the machine
3. it would be amazing to implement a gyro (Arduino maybe ? :) ) controller to control each engine independently, based on its efficiency and necessity in running , this would offer you the next step for moving forwards and stay put with no effort. With a little automation, you could compute the efficiency of each engine and make the apparatus a perfect flight machine.
4. I don't know, but your seat can be from extruded foam, very light and strong enough
5. suggest you wear a helmet
6. also a big step would be to be able to rotate the angle of the propeller/engine forwards and backwards, to support speed flight and more forward power combined with lift support
Good luck and hope to hear from you!
Bogdan
looks like you found the sweet spot for it. Time to take it for a spin :) The best time to fly it is in the morning or evening when there is not much thermal activity I can hear the sweet spot the engines are more relaxed and not making so much noise heads up
Sir, I like you're creativity. May I make a suggestion? Add a slight safety cage in case you land off center damaging a blade then possibly having it injuring you. Maybe a simple helicopter landing gear set up to take an abrupt impact from below. Keep up the good work.
this is a modern day wright brothers youtube adventure. fucking awesome really...
Imagine something goes wrong and it just keeps getting higher and higher and he can't stop it
Good luck with this fantastic toy!
That is just amazing. Now build one that's market ready and make millions
Very cool. It's one thing to think about making a multicopter and it's another thing to have the ingenuity to build your dream. Great job!
That looks totally safe. I want two.
If you had several million dollars to spend on R&D and a team working on this, I can't imagine how far you'd be. Very cool. Good luck fine tuning. Once done, sell it as a "Home built".
flynomo he should crowdfund and form a team!
add a little software for stabilization and its gold
You should make body kit for it. One way to get the craft more stable is to make a ring covering around the blades so wind isn't throwing you off balance. I think it would be really cool if that happened
nothing beats having spining mini blades of death surrounding you.
it looks like it would be an absolute blast!! I think I'd play with it all day :) I think it may sway around because its close to the ground and the wind blowing off the props and whipping around the ground (ground affect) and back to the machine. If you were higher I believe it would be smooth. But then again your up high and away from safety. Good Job!!
I applaud you man. a few more safety touches and you may have something special👍. and all the nay sayers never had the smarts to try something like this. so keep thinking I love it.
Ok I will tell you the same thing I tell all u guys trying to do this. Put props above where you sit this will make it a lot more stable and easier to fly
Your putting all the Weight on top and making it top-heavy and off-balance basically you're making it want to flip over but by putting props overhead it will naturally balance out. keep up the good work
Also, the combustion engines just don't change revolutions fast enough while in operation to make the corrections more precise from the rotors thus improving stability
keep in mind he starts the engines (from the top) *before* he gets in so having all those props running at neck level might be a little nerve wracking for some people.
HormigaZ the gas engines he uses are a bit small it would be beter to use 8 larger gas motors with bigger props 4 arms 2 motors per arm
So if 1 motor fails you can still fly down safely. Now gas is beter for longer run time is a must for now & you will need some1 to make him a good Computer motherboard to control the power to the motors The same type of motherboard used in say a phantom drone with self-leveling technology But still props should alway be above the pilots head . The weight needs to be under the props for better stable flight I saw that one guy on. UA-cam has already done this eight engines but they are electric they are above him and he sits in a super small canopy but if you watch it you'll see it is much more stable
Fixt100 look up " Maned homemade drown " & you will see a guy who built a drone with props above the canopy that he sits in it is very stable but because it's electric it doesn't have a very long run time
he needs a system like those new drones have that transfers the weight after takeoff (to stabilize the camera) wouldnt even have to be powered just moves up and into an overhead position when he releases the lever on the hydraulics and applies throttle.
Thumbs up! You walk in the footsteps of the Wright brothers! Hat off for you sir!
What a wonderful flying blender!
My garden is getting a bit overgrown so if you want to do a low flyby over my garden it'll save me some work.
I’m certain that you must have considered mounting the motors above the pilot’s perspective even mounted on a restricted gimbal arrangement. This might result in more of a simulated feel of a conventional helicopter experience. It would appear to create a more stable flight characteristic. I shooting in the dark and would assume that you have been down that road and many others in the course of your design concepts. Truly remarkable! You certainly have a great degree of courage. The top mounted propulsion platform may even add some degree of auto-rotation capability! Just thinking out load! Both of my hats are off to you, sir.
Cool as hell.. but if something bad happened those blades would fly right into you. You might want to add some shield around your legs.. just in case.
nice work but you should put some kind of safety shields around those blades and widen it out some.those blades look as if one slip was to happen you will be sliced up.
It is a very cool and dangerous project. You should have sacrificial landing skids to absorb a hard impact. Lightweight foam would help soften a hard impact. Another idea would be to use an autogyro blade on stop to give you lift in forward motion and if there is a failure it will slow you to a landing.
If you tilted all the engines/props inwards a little you would get a self stabilising effect much like dihedral on a wing.
hey when are you taking pre-orders? haha.
ever toyed with the idea of having the propellers rotate like an osprey aircraft?
Just got my first rc quadcopter.... crashed it 10 times and lost it on the neighbors roof on the first day. They are hard to control... this guy is nutz.....kookoo.
does this use BAGPIPES as an engine???
totaly awesome dude. a buble around it and a gastank with a parachute plus balls and your of!
Dre Net too much weight
Truly amazing! Love to see people investing things like this
The Wright brothers started somewhere!!! Great job. And don't listen to nay sayers.
Lawrence Payne you mean the Santos Dumont
This is just a suggestion,but it would be good Idea to design a metal cover that would encompass each Motors
Blades /propellers for safety reasons
ducts also increase efficiency/thrust of fans.
utsports So if the cage for the props gets bent and hits a prop, it stops the prop and/or throw shards of metal around
If the operator during flight or while the Motors Blades/Propellers are in rotation,if an impact occurs that would shatter the Blades/Propellers and propel the material in many directions and cause major damage to others or bystanders,an if you build a Cage correctly if there is an impact with the Cage/Guard the object would be stopped from impacting with the Blades/Propellers and thus avert a catastrophic condition ,and a hard enough impact would just house the material within the Cage/Guard.PS also if a guard is on/in place that would work as a bumper,during flight if the operator accidentally at slow speed impacted against a Tree as an example the guard would take the impact and not the Blades/Propellers themselves
you could increase stability by taking your 4 central motors and pushing them out of line with each other. I would also have to assume you will get more lift aswell. those blades are working very hard and almost sounds if you are fighting rotor wash making it unstable.
still beats flying with spirit airlines..
Have you considered of using a generator and four induction motors of about 2kw and 4 frequency variators? It would be a more accurate control of the rotation speed.
That is awesome! Looks a lot more stable once you are clear of the ground. I applaud your caution in not taking it higher. I also love the seat design. Any plans to enclose it? I do have a couple of suggestions.
1. wear a helmet
2. Add extra shock absorption. The seats in the black hawk helicopter have a 12 inch stroke as a safety feature.
lower the center of gravity by placing the engines & propeller at a higher position than the seat will make it more stable
It is far better to see the sky above, not engines.
do you install gyro for stabalisation?
+Rick Boyd since when do you go flying to see the sky you can see the sky just fine from the ground
Could probably use something like a raspberry pi and a handful of level sensors to automatically stabilize it.
you are a nice man.
i believe u love doing experiments in a quite isolated place free from interruption.
You forgot the helmet, safety is number one priority!
Don't use wireless controlling system, please. when your radio fails this machine won't work anymore. And please use some prop covers. Good luck and be careful!
In future i would recommend a wired connection for steering, it minimizes the risk of a signal loss.
congratulation!
you built a flying blender!
Landing gear with springs and shocks, saftey cages on motors, saftey cage for pilot, air bags, four more engines, more fuel capacity, and other stuff, and I'll want one to commute to work in.
Tek Sight You forgot time travel warp drive.
I can't help but imagine this guy being carried away by a bunch of large angry bumble bees in a chair as their new king
how is this not millions of views viral??
Congratulations and well done, a tremendous feat! My hat is off to you (so now you can see my bald head).
I knew I'd find you here Bruce.
I'm everywhere mate :-)
+xjet sent you an email about AccuRC simulator ;)
Patent your eight motor pattern and 16 piston design. Let others modify around the basics but you be the king of this design. New Zealand Aotearoa watching. Well done. I hope to see you go up pikes peak USA in this new design. You need to have one wheel touching the road to qualify. So we look forward to you getting a play station four video game and placing a DVD ROM of Dirt Rally game and find the 20 km climb of 1400m to the top. What I like is the sound of it staring up. 16 exhausts sound grungy. NZ supporting with Pearce memory of powered flight before Wright brothers by a few months. If you want to come to tokoroa for your Pearce award please start planning.
2 suggestions.a. Mount the engines overhead. Much more stable.b. Add an Arduino controller.With that, you can make the system: 1. remain level... it will automatically maintain levelness. 2. maintain heading... it will autocorrect any heading drift. 3. maintain altitude... no more up and down jitter. With all three movements automated, when you elevate to a given height, then release controls, it will stay there rock steady.BTW, nice design, especially the seat.
Add a gyroscope and automate the leveling
Hey! Just in case no one told you yet: As soon as you're out of the ground effect the machine should hover more stable :-) More is better in this case. Cheers!
He said that in the video lol