Is this real? I'm very skeptical about hits being real. Veeky Forums's thoughts?
Is this real? I'm very skeptical about hits being real. Veeky Forums's thoughts?
Yes, it's basically a very dangerous GEV.
It's totally legit. I am a fan of Colinfurze, he does a lot of propulsion based stuff like this. Modern two-stroke engines weighing 20 kg can put out over 50 horsepower so a pair can easily lift a person off of the ground. Despite what everyone thinks the reason why personal flying machines don't exist isn't because our engines aren't good enough but rather for reasons of control. As you can see he simply hasn't bothered with control, I presume he just tuned the throttles to match and hoped they stayed that way for the whole flight. No control surfaces either, just shift around weight. So in short it's not as spectacular as it looks, anyone can do this with a big enough prop and fancy Japanese two-stroke engines, it's the control that's the problem. Colinfurze is a joker, check out his homemade turbojet videos. What I really like about this dude is that despite being a plumber with zero engineering training everything he builds werks. Note that there was an official company trying to create a marketable hoverbike of similar design and that didn't even get off of the ground.
There's no reason it couldn't be real.
As points out, it doesn't rise out of ground effect. It's closer to an inefficient hovercraft than a helicopter.
He also only ever flies it briefly, and never really has it under control.
It's possible for it to be fake, but it's also entirely possible for it to be real.
>It's possible for it to be fake, but it's also entirely possible for it to be real.
I'd point out that if it were fake you'd expect him to make it look a little better. As it is, it's about as stable and safe as riding a unicycle while holding a weed whacker in each arm.
>if it were fake you'd expect him to make it look a little better.
If it was fake and looked better, it would also look more fake.
>Every time some small hovering device appears on Youtube there's always a load of people wondering if it's faked
>I've been telling Veeky Forums for ages that hovering machines are the way to get youtube views and kickstarter bux ever since BTTF 2015
>For the public is clearly easily amazed by anything that hovers even if it's not very useful
>Veeky Forums's autistic userbase ignores the obvious public interest, instead focuses on the fact that they are inefficient.
And that is why you will never be rich.
>didn't even get off of the ground.
Cool channel - I'm going to follow this guy
1) This took exceptional build skills to make, especially in such a short time.
2) He put life and limb at considerable risk.
3) There's no Kickstarter or other high-revenue followup.
4) People get more views for playing video games.
The reality is, not many people could pull this off.
>This took exceptional build skills to make, especially in such a short time
You have to put in effort to make money
> He put life and limb at considerable risk.
Because his design was very crude and he was just doing it for fun
>There's no Kickstarter or other high-revenue followup.
Because he isn't marketing it and his other videos get 1 million plus views so he is making youtube bux.
> People get more views for playing video games.
Very rare to get a million views doing that.
>The reality is, not many people could pull this off.
I'm working on an electric version, even simpler and safer than petrol.
As usual whenever Veeky Forums is presented with an opportunity they throw out all kinds of excuses as to why it wouldn't work, is stupid, is too hard, not worth their time etc etc. Classic "smart but lazy"