In Make:V76, Mike Senese wrote an article, titled “Flight Trainer,” in our Made on Earth section. It was about the Kiddy Copter built by Charles Helmholdt of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mike was not only impressed by the build but that Charles had created a 100 pages of documentation of his project. A pilot, Charles had […]
Engineer and rotorcraft enthusiast Cameron Carter finally realized his dream of building and flying his own helicopter. This dedicated New Zealander has spent 12 years engineering this complicated personal flying machine. He sought a project that involved solving all the problems that the pioneers of aviation had to solve. One of his biggest motivations was […]
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Check out this great NPR piece about engineering students at University of Maryland that are trying to win a three-decades-old contest for human powered flight.
This is a wonderful collection of black-and-white newsreel footage, assembled by the company that invented the newsreel, showing a montage of early helicopter prototypes in all their wacky and frequently-terrifying glory. It’s a highlight reel, about two minutes long, and the various clips that went into it are indexed, annotated, and available for watching in […]
Impressive Kinect-based gesture-controlled RC helicopter.
Blue LEDs on top, gold underneath. I love the shout of glee at 11 seconds when the image first appears. Mziwisky hits it out of the park with this one. Hats off to you, sir. [via Hack a Day]
