One for the pilots

[zilspeed]

I know I don't post in here very often, but I know there's at least one (ex)pilot in here and it seemed too good an opportunity to miss.

Tut, this looks like it could have been right up your street back in the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQb0d7rYp9o

The Darwin awards will hopefully deal with this little project before it goes much further...

[tut]

10 out of 10 for effort and enthusiasm, but it certainly will never be fighting any fires.

Even if they had an engine that could turn the rotor blades fast enough for take off and they could change the pitch, they would get a slight surprise when they started spinning like a top due to the lack of a tail rotor. Would love to have seen the inaugural flight, from a safe distance of course.

tut

[Doc883]

That camera man was pretty brave, I was half expecting the rotors to detach themself from that tumble dryer