The stupidest thing ever. All the blades are at neck level. In fact, at one point he waves and I thought I was going to see some flying digits.
This is loud, and “flies” for ten minutes. It looks more like he’s trying to hold down his metal laundry rack in a wind storm.
Is that aluminum foil over his head
Livin’ the dream! Heh.
Heh, just in time for fall clean up!
That’s why there’s a dome over his head, to deflect broken propellers.
Other than doing it because you can, I bet he’s got the down payment for a real chopper sunk into that contraption.
With all those spinning blades close by you’d think he’d at least want to put on a pair of pants.
I like the part where it actually looked like it might fly and everyone got nervous.
what is with the black socks with shorts?
I happen to think it’s pretty cool. Stupid too. Given what he’s working with it’s a halfway decent design, but I’d rather use one of those motors to torque roll a Yak over his head.
Might have been kind of dumb but it was British eccentric and pretty cool. He shouldn’t have done it in a public park or walkthrough though in case the contraption collapsed. At the youtube site there is another one with some Germans doing something similar. They had dramatic music and the guys were dressed in flight overalls with patches. It also worked, perhaps a bit better but I’d bet cash money that the Germans were standing around watching it fly trying to figure out how to put a gun on it 🙂
I know I’m not the only one who wants to see an epic crash…With him in it.
Man has always had that innate desire to fly. I would have been the first in line to try that.
Further proof of the inverse correlation between intelligence and free time.
Sure, everyone laughed and said We’re gonna need a bigger boat, then he flipped it and started an airborne lawn care service for the stars
And being an immigrant he was allowed to steal the jobs Mexicans used to due without a minimum wage.
Bonus: He looks a little like the gyrocopter guy from the old Mad Max
a few hundred kids helium balloons tied to a lawn chair would have actually flown and been a lot cheaper,
Natterring nabobs of negativism. He needs only to add some helium balloons.
If those metal pinwheels can be launched, you got yourself a Ninja movie.
The black socks really bother me, btw.
Here’s the first idiot to do that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L75ESD9PBOw
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It’s all fun and games until you “Neil Armstrong” the thing
https://youtu.be/mBlNfFcV6ns?t=1m13s
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Why bother wearing a helmet with that outfit on.
So much negativity!
As long as my tax dollars didn’t go into it, I say “Good Job! Have Fun! Knock y’seff Out!”
It needs inflatable reindeer to guide it.
Then he could hire himself out to Amazon at Christmastime.
When he perfects it and it is drivable about 5 feet above regular traffic, I’d love to buy one. Would be my luck to be shot down by some angry motorist or redneck, tho.
Always amazing the money some people will spend just to show the world how stupid they are.
That contraption is so loud, he’s not going to have any hearing left and Lord help him if that thing falls sideways and those blades break off. Bye bye Mr. Black Socks.
I’d like to see it fly unmanned and upside down into a busy mosque during Friday Satan prayers. Paint it up like a big slab of bacon.
They all laughed at the CatCopter drone too…