Welcome to my channel where I share my journey of inventing a human powered ornithopter that makes it possible for humans to fly like a bird! Yes, you heard me right, I'm not crazy, I'm just ambitious.
I've always dreamed of soaring in the sky, feeling the wind in my face, and seeing the world from a different perspective. And I'm not satisfied with airplanes, helicopters, or jetpacks which are aviation machines. I want to flap my wings and control my flight with my own body.
It is here that you'll see how I design, build, test, and improve skybike, as well as the challenges, failures, and successes I encounter along the way.
So if you're interested, or you just want to see me crash and burn (hopefully not literally), then please subscribe to my channel and hit the bell icon to get notified when I upload new videos.
Flying as alao been my dream, ive never conformed with aeroplanes, I Want to use my own arms. But because i wasn't born with the building talent i can't do anything but dream about it, or in this case, trust in people like you to make it posible. Please never give up. I find every video soooo fascinating, I Love the design of the wings and looking at them every second of the video, so satisfying and aerodinamic looking. Keep on
PLEASE KEEP ON! YOU CAN DO IT! WITH EVERY ATTEMPT YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW THAT CAN BE IMPROOVED AND EVERYTIME HEADED MORE TO THE RIGHT DIRECTION! YOU, CAN, DO IT!!
Okay so let me share my advice , since this is where I can free my mind , I suggest you weigh yourself first , Then , put a number of dumbbells or Weights in a plastic bag, and Then see how much air it takes to lift off, JUST ENOUGH, to float in air for about 3 -4 seconds to be safe , because once you figure out the amount of air you need , I want you to imagine taking ALL THE BALLOONS you tied to the plastic bag with your body weight on it , and make a copy cat of the visual mass , Of the Balloons it took to lift them. I think this is the Catalyst into making this work , and I also believe you might look like a peacock 🦚 when you make your invention, idk if that would spark somebody’s imagination✨✨, but THIS IS MY INPUT , GOODLUCKKKK. 😃😁 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽
since the 70ies people fly with hang-gliders, like birds! Not sure about this "sky-bike" but I didn't see much flying there. If you want to feel like a bird, learn hang-gliding. Lots of schools all over the world.
oh my its such i amazing creation! but it gets me so upset that it doesn't work.. i do hope one day someone will make a pair of wings that work.. Nice work man, it was worth it because i flew a little when you jumped. :)
Add a longer boom to the tail so that there is more leverage on its affect in stabilizing your pitch also maybe use a rc flight controller with built in gyo stabilization just to control pitch at the tail everything else will be controlled at the wings by your arms but u can use car window motors as a powerful and cheap servo to control the tail
i want wings like the pigeons, using my arms for take a fly, but wings have to be not too long and too short cuz if long produces less moves and too short have to do more moves with wings like colibri xd
Please send your address to Arnold Stafford 4389 Eggleston rd Pearisburg Va.24134 and I will send you pics of my take on the only way man powered flight will produce the power needed to really fly
I support your idea i think its cool. Just think of maybe a redundancy for the wings so that if you hit a big gust of wind the wings don't pull back past ehat your rotator cuffs in your shoulders can take plus it may add stability so that you have more surface area for lift and dont drop out of the air like a rock if your flying
@@GregoryWingmasterHello! Please try modeling a suit off something big and heavy like a quetzalcoatlus! They are huge prehistoric reptiles the size of a giraffe that were able to fly! They were likely very poor at take off, much like albatross, but would leap up off the ground with their strong legs to fly.
Some time ago I did the calculations and a paraglider needs about 7 HP to fly. This ornithopter is heavier, less aerodynamic, and with very little wing area. A human at most produces 0.8hp , and for a few seconds, It is impossible for it to fly.
I beg to differ, a number of your assumptions in your flight performance calculations are clearly very different to mine. Like Coeff. of drag for skybike vs paraglider. (strings create a LOT of drag)
@@GregoryWingmaster I have not really taken into account the drag to make the calculation of energy consumption, only the meters of height lost every second to maintain the proper speed for flight. With the height you lose every second and the weight of the aircraft, you can calculate the energy you need every second and then get the power. An ultra-efficient glider that loses the same altitude every second but moves forward more, is more efficient, but if it weighs the same it would need the same power to fly.
@@GregoryWingmaster You can calculate the power your aircraft needs to fly. Look for a slope and make glides, see how long it takes to descend and with the weight you can calculate the power, calculate the potential energy you have spent, for example 5 meters of difference in altitude and 100kg. and based on the time it took to lose those 5 meters you can calculate the power. when you start flapping the efficiency will probably drop. But at least you have a reference.
you do make good points and there are indeed still some things to be discovered. Bear in mind that human powered flight has been around since the sixties Gossamer Albertross by Paul McCready. So we know that a human is powerful enough. We also know that flapping is a more efficient propulsion method than a propeller.
@@GregoryWingmaster Small scale flapping is more efficient, but you know that aerodynamics don't scale well. All the large scale ornithopters I have seen did not perform well compared to propellers. in fact a human powered ornithopter was made and it only managed to maintain altitude for a few meters but did not maintain flight. Another experiment I think that you can do, is to mount the aircraft on a bike and see if on flat terrain you are able to maintain the 30 kmh needed to fly with those wings. The bike chain is more efficient than any propeller or flapping. And so you would have a rough reference of how much force you would need to counteract the drag of the aircraft. Best of luck, I subscribe to follow your progress.
Ooh yeah, really looking forward to your next video :) i hope you will make it electric, like an exosceleton, super strong flaps at your own control, it was once a fake video when Playstation move came out, make it real
Of course not......there is no record of wombats speaking English ever.....I suggest you find a more appropriate communication method for your wombat pilots club. I also dought there are any wombats following my channel....poor things are missing out..
