I dont know how i find this so funny. BTW how did they do this?

Eggi said:
Its just an rc model that looks like a lawn mower.
I just cant figure out what theyre using for lateral control.
IE i dont see anything acting as a rudder, and it confuses and bewilders me!
but ya, cool looking.
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no its definately not. The flying lawnmower stunt is an old one, these guys just seem to have perfected it.
 
It says the Air Show was for the Make a Wish foundation. Maybe some kids wish was for someone to make a flying lawnmower.

Physics be damned.
 
Beef Welington said:
you can see a propeller attachment on the front of the mower... I assume they rigged a propeller to the engine and bent the bottom blades so that they made a fan. Once you get it started, it lifts up and flies around forwards. I wonder if they were controlling this though... How can you expect something that was clearly not designed for flying to fly with so much stability?
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You wonder if they were controlling it?!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
 
Beef Welington said:
no its definately not. The flying lawnmower stunt is an old one, these guys just seem to have perfected it.
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No, its an RC Model.
http://www.hardcoreware.net/forum/showthread.php?p=294924#post294924

Anyways, technically u could make a lawnmower fly. But you would need an insanely powerful engine, some sort of movable control surfaces, and some sort of control system on it, cuz itd prolly be unstable...or a really good pilot. For that matter, technically, you can make anything fly, even a brick. But this is an RC model.
 
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Beef Welington said:
HAHAHAHHAHAH ah hahah ahaha ha ha aaa.... ?
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You don't do a touch landing like that without control.

You can't do those maneuvers without control.

It's a stupid thing to even speculate.
 
I don't know shit about aeronautics but...

What if they put a weight inside the lawnmower that they could control the position of, and just slapped an engine on the back. Move the weight to back of it, it flys up; move it to the left, it leans left.

:shrug:

I'm talking out of my ass.
 
Dyno said:
I don't know shit about aeronautics but...

What if they put a weight inside the lawnmower that they could control the position of, and just slapped an engine on the back. Move the weight to back of it, it flys up; move it to the left, it leans left.

:shrug:

I'm talking out of my ass.
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yeah, you're talking out of your ass :\
 
Beef Welington said:
you can see a propeller attachment on the front of the mower... I assume they rigged a propeller to the engine and bent the bottom blades so that they made a fan. Once you get it started, it lifts up and flies around forwards. I wonder if they were controlling this though... How can you expect something that was clearly not designed for flying to fly with so much stability?
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holy fucking christ you're retarded
 
Vlasic said:
You don't do a touch landing like that without control.

You can't do those maneuvers without control.

It's a stupid thing to even speculate.
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Ive seen numerous occasions of people who bent the undersides of the blades on gas mowers. Run really fast with one of them, and it takes off at a level speed. Stays vertical for a few seconds and then loses balance. With controllable surfaces and a front propeller addition, its not stupid to speculate that a lawnmower could be controlled in the air.

Plus, where in fuck do you think somebody got the idea to create a model plane that looks like a fucking lawnmower? Perhaps, and now I dont want to seem pushy, but PERHAPS it was designed to mimic real modified lawnmowers that actually do fly.
 
Beef Welington said:
Ive seen numerous occasions of people who bent the undersides of the blades on gas mowers. Run really fast with one of them, and it takes off at a level speed. Stays vertical for a few seconds and then loses balance. With controllable surfaces and a front propeller addition, its not stupid to speculate that a lawnmower could be controlled in the air.

Plus, where in fuck do you think somebody got the idea to create a model plane that looks like a fucking lawnmower? Perhaps, and now I dont want to seem pushy, but PERHAPS it was designed to mimic real modified lawnmowers that actually do fly.
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Explain to me how they could train the blades to do a couple of consecutive loops and then go into a soft landing at the exact same spot it took off?
 
Beef Welington said:
Ive seen numerous occasions of people who bent the undersides of the blades on gas mowers. Run really fast with one of them, and it takes off at a level speed. Stays vertical for a few seconds and then loses balance. With controllable surfaces and a front propeller addition, its not stupid to speculate that a lawnmower could be controlled in the air.
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No you havent.
 
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