Insane RC Helicopter

[Swass]

This guy is amazing, especially the upside down hover inches from the pavement and the sweet autorotation at the end.

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[starvingcfi]

no fuking way that's real

 

[cubegirl7]

computer animation, you got to love it

 

[Jmmccutc]

i don't know how animated that is...i think i just might be real

 

[Oakum_Boy]

Oh, it's real. My local club has a guy who can pull some of those wild manuvers, although not at that level....

 

[hoop]

OK guys,

I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, and may be showing my ingnorance in such matters, but it is my understanding that the basic priciple of physics in helo aircraft is lift. How in the hell can a helo be upside down, without slamming into the ground??? Is there some invisible force or law of physics that I'm missing here?? This one has me baffled............

 

[Timebuilder]

Well, first of all, it isn't a "real" helicopter, and very likely has a lot of advantages.

A reversible pitch main rotor/tail rotor.

Light weight.

Extremely high power to weight ratio.

I would love to see this design up close, particularly the RC hand controls that allow for such precision control via servos.

I'd also like to know how many times this guy repaired the aircraft during the time he spent learning this routine of maneuvers.

 

[TDTURBO]

I guess you could change the pitch of the main rotor to produce thrust opposite a normal helo. From a physics standpoint I dont think it would be that difficult, especially in an RC. That would be the only way possible to hover inverted without some other counter thrust device.


Awesome display of stick skills anyway!

 

[Typhoon1244]

I would not have thought a helicopter--of any size!--was capable of maneuvering that way. The complexity of the aerodynamics...Jesus! Makes me wonder about those "Aera 51" stories...

Some of the pilot's pictures.

 

[DCitrus9]

I'm sure it's real. I've seen a local guy with an almost identical RC copter pulling similar maneuvers. Although like posted above, not at near the skill level of the guy in the clip.

 

[Swass]

Rest assured it's real. It's a Raptor powered by a .90 engine, about 4 hp (give or take). The controller is similar to this one radio .

I'll bet he can tear that thing down in his sleep, cause when they go down it's not pretty.

Here's some more pics of this guys gear, he uses an Airtronics radio, the link above is a Futaba (they are very similar). Check out all of the billet alluminum on that thing.
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[Timebuilder]

That's some nice work. The Cobra is hard to tell from the real thing.

Awesome.

 

[Big Duke Six]

That Cobra IS sweet, so is the CH-47/46 without the body.

I tried to learn how to fly these things back in the early '80's, when they were pretty clumsy and could barely get out of their own way. They have come A LONG WAY, but this guy is incredible. I imagine he has spent thousands of dollars on repairs learning to fly like that. We used to use just one gyro for yaw stability back then - I am sure he has them on all three axes in this bird. Pretty cool!! The aerodynamics are not too baffling when you think about it. It's just a symetrical main rotor that can go to ridiculous levels of negative pitch. The hard part would be that when you're upside down, up is down, down is up, right is left and left is right. I'd go broke....

But really, they are SO stable with the gyros that a lot of TV footage you see of major outdoor sporting events (mostly racing) is done from RC helicopters. Neat stuff!

 

[flyifrvfr]

I have a couple of r/c helicopters and the way you fly it upside down is with negitive pitch. On the radio, the left stick controls the throttle and the pitch. When you push the stick to half full, the engine goes from idle to full power. When the stick goes from half full to full forward, you begin to increase pitch. The radio has a switch which holds the engine at full speed so you can make the blades go to negitive pitch while upside down and not kill the engine.

These helicopters can do things that a real helicopter can't do. Imagine the helicopter standing mid-air on it's tail, by using positive pitch and negitive pitch you can make the helicopter go back and forth while standing on it's tail. Look up videos by a guy named Curtis Youngblood, he is one of the best r/c heli flyers in the world.

This guy is pretty good, he did a maneuver called blade scuffing, you flip upside down and let the blades scuff the ground. Just so I can put this into perspective, a r/c flyer from Texas was killed a few months ago while teaching a new guy how to fly. The helicopter flown by the new guy went out of control and the instructor pushed the guy away as the heli was coming staright at them. The heli blades hit the instructor in the neck severing his main artery and within minutes bled to death. These things look like toys but must be respected.

 

[Future SNA]

I will agree with the last post, but will go further and say if you ever get a chance to go to some of the fly in's these remote control clubs have, namely the LARGE ones, go, by all mean. I'm still intrigued how these guys can fly these jet r/c planes, these things are so fast you can hardly focus on them, yet these guys whip them around with the greatest of ease. Pattern planes? Yeah, same thing, crazy fast. BTW, I got a bunch of this crap I'll sell DIRT CHEAP just to get rid of it, pm me And finally, those helo's are THOUSANDS of dollars total, makes me wonder how many he's gone threw to get that good, and believe, some of these guys are CRAAAZZZYYYY good, me, not being one of them.

 

[I.P. Freley]

That clip was absolutely jaw-dropping. I had no idea that such things were possible...

Naturally, the kid is like 13 years old or something. No way an adult could keep up with a thing like that.

 

[dmspilot00]

It looks fake to me, especially since the cameraman seems to be psychic.

 

[I.P. Freley]

I think it would take a Lucasfilm or Pixar video engineer to come up with the likes of that clip, and at five minutes long, I can't imagine anyone would put in the effort to make it look "right".

Just look at some of the shadows, for instance, and the smoke plumes coming from the exhaust. I thought at first it must be fake, but the more I watched, the more I realized it must be real.

 

[Future SNA]

The reason the camera man followed it so accurately is because this is this kids competition routine, he's not just out there dicking off showing people what he can do..........well he is........but not really. Same thing, nearly everytime, just like a real aerobatics pilot. Willing to bet the person filming has filmed him before, or knows his routine. If you get the chance to go to Nevada for one of this competitions, you should go, I'm **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** serious, these guys are frigain amazing, and the detail that goes into some of the scale rc's, it's **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** amazing as well.

 

[MJG]

Check out this link for some spectacular heli crashes:

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