[Nottingham] [OT] Completely Off-Topic, but surreal brilliance

[Martin]

So... A singular RC chopper?... Phah!

How about a webcam HEXapod chopper at 2000 feet and a
"Thunderbirds-Are-Go!" computer controlled GRASSHOPPER?...

Grasshopper 744m Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4

Beautiful!


Try doing that one just by eye and radio-control!... ;-)

Spectacular and some beautiful variable thrust rocketry and control.

Cheers,
Martin



On 12/06/13 17:30, Martin wrote:
> On 11/06/13 19:47, Jason Irwin wrote:
>> On 11/06/13 18:55, Martin wrote:
>>> Anyone else with surprising web gems?
>> Physics?  Pah!  No one told this guy's RC chopper.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lmeOfpxVU
> 
> Pah?
> 
> More like phew!
> 
> OK, so I'll admit. First thoughts were that all that was just a spoof
> and faked with clever video. Until:
> 
> Bert Kammerer - Alpine Heli
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbkhdioCHfw
> 
> 
> So, yee-haa! By heck!! So, some very good batteries, a fixed hub rotor,
> severe vectored thrust, a thrashed hub cyclic control, and some crazy
> manoeuvring. That's just got to have electronic gyro stabilisation with
> the controls commanding a computer "fly-by-wire". Still recklessly
> impressive.
> 
> Here's a pilot's-eye view:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYTuioRlzXk
> 
> 
> Makes real-world helicopter displays look so tame. But then, real-world
> is completely unforgiving of reckless displays!
> 
> 
> 
> I'll repost you with something equally impossible-but-real :-)
> 
> Levitation train
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybOHPLVzeMU
> 
> Controlled Quantum Levitation on a Wipe'Out Track
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZM4G77It3w
> 
> 
> The wipeout track is nicely surprisingly clever ;-)
> 
> (Again, apologies for the 'music'!)
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin



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