Guy makes homade plane

[gimpy117]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...eld-crash.html

Remember me guys? Though if you already hadn't seen this, you'd think it's interesting. I'm not getting warm fuzzes of chances of this thing flying or him not crashing it

[Schroeder]

Should he ever take off he will die. Maybe that guy should study aviation a bit more....

[Oberon]

Personally I wish him the best of luck, at least he has the chance to work on his dreams and try to make them a reality. How many of us can say the same?

[swamprat69er]

How many failed attempts did the Wright brothers have? MANY
Did they study more on the internet before they tried again? NO
They just 'went for it' and 'got it done'.
More power to this guy. One day he may succeed.

[Jimbuna]

Rather him than me

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

How many failed attempts did the Wright brothers have? MANY

Not really.

Did they study more on the internet before they tried again? NO

Actually yes.

They just 'went for it' and 'got it done'.

Not even close.

In 1899 Wilbur Wright wrote to Samuel Langley, curator of the Smithsonian Institution and early pioneer of steam-powered models, asking for information about those who came before. He told Langley he and his brother weren't "crackpots", in that they had no preconceptions or ideas about how it should be done, but rather were intrested in learning what they could and furthering the quest for knowledge of aviation and aerodynamics. One of the many papers they obtained as a result of this correspondence was the 'Tables of Aerofoils' produced by German glider pioneer Otto Lillienthal. No, they didn't have the internet, but they studied every piece of information they could get their hands on.

In 1900 they purchased a design from France and built the first wind tunnel in the United States. They then spent countless hours carving aerofoil shapes and testing them in the wind tunnel, using the simple means of one brother blowing cigar smoke into the fan while the other observed how the smoke moved over each aerofoil. This helped them decide which aerofoil would be best for a wing big enough to carry a man aloft. It also helped them conclude that Lillienthal's aerofoil tables were completely wrong. They published this work for Langley and others to read and comment upon.

Later that year they went to Kittyhawk, NC, with their first glider for testing. They held ropes and guided it from the ground, and didn't attempt to fly it themselves.

In 1901, after a whole year of tests, they went back to Kittyhawk, this time with a glider large enough to carry a man. It was successful.

In 1902 they were back again with a new model, which gave them problems and could indeed be called a failure.

We all know what happened in 1903. It didn't happen because they just "went for it", but because they had by that time devoted four years of study, research and testing, and were confident that they actually knew what they were doing.

More power to this guy. One day he may succeed.

Maybe, but he would have a much better chance if he actually studied how it works. Maybe he has. I hope so.
Information from How We Invented The Airplane, by Orville Wright.

Also the Wiki article is exceptionally good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers

[vanjast]

I smile.. and say absolutely nothingggg !!!

[Aktungbby]

What is actually the most amazing secret of the whole business that has come to light is the absolutely amazing efficiency of the home-made hand-honed spruce pusher muslin-tipped propellers. The Wright brothers were extremely careful of their patent potential and left relatively few records. Tests however, in today's modern wind tunnels on the propellers, themselves wing airfoil surfaces, reveal the amazing 20-years-ahead-of-their-time painstaking ability of the Wrights to get an inherently unstable aircraft up in some serious winds using the engine they had. The secret is actually in the two pusher airfoils, the propellers themselves. Today's propellers operate at 85% efficiency; the Wrights,( arguably history's first PropWrights?) concluding that propellers were themselves airfoils, got IT right the FIRST time and produced flawless blades that operated at over 80% efficiency! Engineering genius at the 'dawn of flight'. http://www.dirdim.com/port_featuredprojects.php?fileName=fp_wrightbros ...puts new spin on what we thought we knew!

[Sailor Steve]

And this has exactly what to do with the subject at hand?

[vanjast]

One aircraft is made from 'dustbins', the other is a work of study and engineering... only one is going to fly

[AVGWarhawk]

They will probably make a Hollywood production out of this. In theaters near you.