OH Mon Dieu , merci de m'avoir faire rêver par ce beau moment de vol , depuis Icare , jusqu'aux jours d'aujourd'hui , le rêve de l'homme reste toujours , intacte : VOLER . Grande Admiration et respect HUbert Etienne
Michael Whinnery Why it’s very Aero dynamic and most of the old time WW1 planes were mainly wood covered in fabric. I’m sure it handles extremely well. With that bi-wing it’s probably very hard to stahl.
Today in international news, a devastating fire in Frances white flag factory completely destroyed the facility. Emmanuel Macron announced that due to a total loss in their war-fighting production ability they have upgraded their national alert status from "run" to "hide".
ubermench1000 Well at the rate they are importing African and middle eastern muslim men , coupled with macron telling white women to breed with black men , it will only be a few years before they only speak arabic and are ruled by Sharia law .
@@TheBargepirate And leave their entire air force and navy and all communications and equipment totally in tact for the the new dictators, probably ISIS this time round, to use against the rest of Europe, England and their allies, just like in WWII.
Quite a few (lighter) homebuilt aircraft use two-stroke engines for the better power-to-weight ratio. You may want to give them a few minutes to warm up, so they don't stall on sudden throttle changes.
@@user-oj3rw1bw5e A reserve parachute could work if falling from about 220 metres. The Fallschirmjager in WWII managed to leave the plane at only 76.2 metres in Crete and there were lots of them, all unharmed and landing on earth rather than a body of water.
My neighbor retired, then started building an airplane in his garage. it took him five years to finish all of the work. It was actually a pretty little airplane. He died when he crashed it on the first flight. Sad, he was a nice guy.
O desenho desta aeronave deixa dúvidas à primeira vista ! Mas ao sair do chão, mostra um desempenho muito bom . Parabéns ao seu construtor e piloto ! Saudações do Brasil !!
Many constructors of the Flying Flea lost their lives before the kit was banned. Mostly because of unsuitable engine choice. It was originally intended to use a small motorcycle engine. Also the airflow between the wing and tailplane was disturbed when in a steep decent, causing spiral dives into the ground. You need big balls to fly one of these, that's for sure.
The flying flea was advertised as “ extremely stable “. “ Flies hands-off “. Unfortunately it was even more stable if it got itself inverted, as some discovered.
Mein gott,das Flying Flea , my dad & friend, both over 250lb, built in friends basement, knocked out wall to remove plane, 60 years ago,I was 6or 7, never remember it getting off the ground, it was built from a book, translated from French to English & Germain, and metric to inches , you have to be a little nuts , but aren't we all, good luck in the air all👍🛩️
O liebes Land, o Belgiens Erde, Dir unser Herz, dir unsere Hand, Dir unser Blut, o Heimaterde, Wir schwörens Dir, o Vaterland! So blühe froh in voller Schöne, Zu der die Freiheit dich erzog, Und fortan singen deine Söhne: „Gesetz und König und die Freiheit hoch!“
Only the French could compose a song with lyrics that not only make Lice (a Louse) sound adorable by high lighting it but give the music a catchy melody that makes one want to dance in carefree abandon.
@yesca jasta True, the vortex effect allows a Bumble Bee to fly. Perhaps the unusual wing configuration makes a vortex effect under the plane providing more lift than the small wings can supply by themselves.
@@stewartmarshall4112 They are very wide indeed. I was so preoccupied with the length that I did not notice the width. The tail surface is just about as big as the main wings as well.
He looks like he has the spirt of man for freedom just thank were we are to day in aviation , cars . boats, and electronics and so much more. We owe a det of thanks to those with the spirt to try as he may have build this aircraft base on old date it still made it work and so many in the past paid with there lives or came close at times, some were made to look like fools and others made history. If you never try you will never fail and if you never fail its possible you will never have susess and make history . Thanks to all who try for its much safer not to risk looking like a fool or paying with your life but win or loose at least you took the risk from those crossing the seas or strange lands or starting a business or building a aircraft
There is a great paperback. "The world's worst aircraft" The Flying Flea has a chapter all to its self. The aerodynamics are just beyond awful. The close coupled wings could aerodynamically lock the aircraft into a dive from which there could be no recovery. There were attempts to rig them more conventionally - the Mignet plans calling for an all moving wing to control pitch and rudder to control yaw/roll a bit (ugh) - but those that staggered into the air looked like the one in the video. Not really flying just moving through the air. They were banned in many countries I think.
Es una maravilla que hayas construido con tus propias manos este hermosa máquina. Estas cumpliendo el sueño de muchos. Te felicito!!. Un abrazo gigante desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This is a great plane! One important element that everyone who flies/drives/operates any vehicle with safety belts must know is that ALL shoulder straps must be anchored ABOVE your shoulders! If they are anchored below your shoulders then in a crash, or even a profound stop, the straps will at the least compress your spine. At worst, it could crush your spine. So please always be certain to have them anchored higher than your shoulders. If your vehicle doesn’t have any structural elements that you can anchor them to up high, then you might need to add a roll bar that can raise the anchor points.
F22 Raptor jockeys, eat your hearts out lol. Cheeky, fun little machine --- with the strangest wing configuration and vertical fin/rudder. Only thing I didn't like was pilot's habit of leaving engine running in unattended aircraft, chocks or no chocks.
This chat was comment about an unusual homebuilt plane. Respect that fact and leave politics out of it. Personally I've had a gutful of world politics lately. RELEVANT comment please or none at all.
i do think its a nice plane... but could do with some colouring... i do like how basic it is though. all that stuff you can probably buy at the local hardware store... also the engine could probably be replaced with a lawn mower engine as you'd only need the propeller to spin at around 4,500 rpm to probably fly that little beauty which can easily be done with the right gearing. as for the F22 raptor with americans saying "Our F22 raptor is the best most agile air craft ever made!".... so is that why in war games where they test planes, the Euro fighter which was made in the 1980s kept up with everything it threw out and was also able to out run the F22 raptor? also the F22 raptor may have vertical lift capabilities but still takes a fucking long time to climb up for 30,000 ft, the Euro fighter typhoon only needs a short run way and can get up to that in about 5 - 10 seconds as it just goes straight up because its agile and fast enough to do so as oppose to the F22 of getting to that height in 20 - 30 seconds... then theres the fighting capability... F22 raptor is specialised in plane vs plane (air to air) combat, where as Euro fighter is for everything (Air vs Air, Air vs land and Air vs sea), then the F22 raptor can fly about 20ft above the floor without any problems of crash landing which is good, give the plane a biscuit, but the Euro fighter which is almost 30 years older has been known at air displays to fly about 3 - 4 ft off the ground at high speeds and sometimes if the pilot is mad enough can fly upside down with the tail just 2 inches off the floor... so F22 raptor... over priced piece of shit. basically all it is, is just stealth panels with an engine which americans keep saying we'll never be able to get a plane that can beat the F22 raptor at flying in stealth, but they're wrong there as im sure the Euro fighter if we replaced all its panels with stealth panels which can be done easily, would easily beat it as most people when they spot a Euro fighter, its already about 500miles away from where you saw it. as for the F22, because its so big, you can always see it and hear it.. hell even a spit fire would beat it or one of the french planes from WWI because they were able to fly extremely low at slow speeds, so slow that the F22 raptor would be going to fast to get a lock on, or if it slowed down to match their speed, it would drop as its too heavy. so basically all america has done is made it then claimed its the best because its american and nothing in america ever fails (apart from corvette, xbox, microsoft, Chevrolet, hummer and a few other things).. nothing from america fails according to americans... they even claim their abrahams to be the best tank ever but russia has them beat at that and basically any british, french or german guy knows that if theres a Big tank sat firing and you want to sneak up on them, simply get people to sneak up on it while its in artillery firing mode, don't open fire on it but simply, take a grenade, sneak around the front, wait till is fired a round, pop the pin and roll the grenade down the barrel, then run like fuck.
***** What the hell substance are YOU on, pal? Your grasp of reality and aircraft design suggests that you sit in a blacked-out room 24/7 with six computers all running, playing video games... you take a break only when the daily delivery of pizza & coke & speed turns up. To avoid the inconvenience of 'comfort' breaks you could always wear incontinence pads. 1. No capable pilot would fly inverted with tail "2 inches off the deck" because the slightest turbulence or misjudgement would turn him & his machine into a smoking black streak along the ground. Any military fighter pilot caught pulling a stunt like that would be stripped of his wings, grounded. It's all about economics -- a hugely expensive aircraft, and a pilot who cost millions to train. 2. Your propeller RPM is wild guesswork. If the mill is a modified VW (?) with laminated timber prop, it probably runs around 2,500 to 3,000 rpm. Even bloody lawnmowers don't run at 4,500 rpm you turkey. 3. I'll bet the Euro fighter CANNOT do 30,000 ft vertical climb in 5-10 seconds. You really must get off the funny weed, pal. Even with anti-G suit, any pilot strapped to a ship with 3000 to 6000 ft PER SECOND vertical climb performance would be unable to breathe due the G forces involved. But for lack of fuel, that acceleration would put him into orbit. Be credible. Check your facts before you think of posting. Or stay silent.
seriously why is it when i respect people in what they say without calling them anything or being an asshole towards people why do people always see it as a reason to be complete dicks towards me? fuck it, already fighting depression... from various amounts of people constantly treating me like shit.
***** Don't let your alligator mouth write a check your humming bird ass can't cash ! ! ! IF you are fighting depression....stay off You Tube......it will help you get better....
Lovely video! What a cute little airplane! Nice design and workmanship. Loved the music too. Would be nice to see a closeup of the cockpit interior and instrument panel. Congrats to you on a terrific project!
This is the last of the mighty, proud Slobbovian Air Force! Pressed into service during the Great Potato Weevil Insurrection and the following Golden Turnip Uprising, then languishing in the post-conflict backwash of enforced peace and bureaucracy, these noble craft wasted away as crop-dusters. A very few of them were returned to service in the infantile postwar Air Mail division of the great Slobbovian National Postal Service for their unique STOL capabilities. This last surviving example was the service aircraft of former Slobbovian Minister of Agriculture Grigoric Pootemsky. With its unique features- belly mower, PTO for most three-pointed attachments and a sawmill, it served its purpose with great distinction! It was rescued and lovingly restored in 2008-2009 by Vogelfrit, and proudly takes to the skies to this day!
