Mike Truelove flies Aerocycle 3 in the BHPFC's 2015 Human Powered Flight Competition.
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2015
- Mike Truelove was one of the pilots for John Edgley's Aerocycle 3 at the BHPFC 2015 Human Powered Flying Competition at Lasham Airfield. This aircraft has been in development for 3-4 years to be marketed as a kit finally. It has made substantial improvements in the last year and is a capable HPA as can be seen in this video clip. Mike had to land as he had run out of runway and was heading towards a farmer's crop.
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Imagine the effort gone into getting that far! Well done ! It looked easy sitting here in my chair.
it's amazing to fly, but it's even more amazing to fly on your own....
At the Sultan Table: Boy, ah boy!! This ain't a wet dream, but a DAMN ETERNAL dream! My complyments, my celebration, and my admiration to all the team!!
Hi from South Korea, that's a wonderful achievement
Muy bueno, felicitaciones a todo el equipo y al piloto. Muchas gracias por tan buen esfuerzo. k.anton.Arg.
I’d like to see one of these built using Coanda effect, perhaps a couple of box bellows to pump the air over the leading edge. Propellers are inefficient at propelling aircraft forward, when what is really needed is the air to move over the upper surface of the wing. Forward motion would be a side effect. I notice too, that some battery powered leaf-blowers have about the same “horse power” as a man, and the velocity of air coming out the nozzle is in excess of 100kph. Might not need such extreme and exotic engineering for the wings.
I have no other word to describe it
Great, now it's ready for its Trans Atlantic flight!
Good take-off.
Awesome
Love it
어린학생들인줄알았는데 어르신들이대단하시네 great
Good stuff! What's the record length to beat?
bravo
i want one of those
Просто превосходно!
Спасибо
Going to go : FURTHER - but remembered : in time - he'd forgotten his - PASSPORT *R > G*
what's distance you flew?
wow
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
What about using gears like in mountain bikes? The pilot could change the transmission gears incrementally in order to reach the highest RPM as possible maintaining about the same pedaling speed. This would generate a lot more thrust, especially if you use high diameter chainrings, let's say 30 cm.
You don't gain momentum like on a bicycle rolling down the road. the pedal system is tuned to get the optimal performance from the athlete/propeller to sustain lift (years of research).
How do you control the rudder? Since your feet are busy pedaling, obviously the standard foot controls are unavailable.
+Dan Blundon . I replied earlier to your comment but it seems that it didn't register. I repeat that it is quite difficult to be piloting at the same time as pedalling; some pilots grab hold of a structural member of the aircraft with one hand and steer with the other, this is in order to steady themselves while they puff like mad. The designers have also come up with different solutions; the controls of a few new aircraft are by model aircraft electronic controls which allows for adjustments and the use of just a small stick in the pilot's hand. It seems that these systems have proved difficult to work reliably and much time is often spent on the runway adjusting. As these aircraft are slow to respond to changes in wind strength and direction a lot of experience and skill comes into it. See my other video of Airglow flying in gusty conditions... czcams.com/video/7Td-SiLGP7Y/video.html. The situation is made worse for some aircraft which have done away with ailerons for ease of construction.
It certainly looks tricky as hell, but a whole lot of fun. I wonder if you could work out some sort of system similar to how the Microsoft Sidewinder joysticks worked, you had your usual pitch and roll, but could also twist the handle left and right for yaw. It works well in a computer joystick, though could be difficult to implement in an actual aircraft.
Climb to the first thermal and you can travel across the country
Thermal? Nah, jet stream!
How about adding a 4 bladed propeller instead of a two blade? would that make a difference?
I fly electric RC airplanes and I know that adding another blade to the prop takes a lot more power, gotta be the same here.
*seems impossible to die in this thing unless you crash into a tall structure or if the thing breaks apart*
Crashing one of these from low altitude probably isn't much worse than wiping out on a bicycle at a good speed. Having the wings break at a higher altitude though... That's a bad day.
Imagine how fit you would need to be just to get that thing to a hundred feet.
Total wing size?
Kind of a disappointment after seeing Gossamer Albatross cross the channel some thirty plus years ago. Albatross was first human powered flight.
Once he loses weight he will fly for sure
I wanted one until I imaging what a small breeze would do to me.
Cool... but how do you yaw?
+DayTripperID . Use rudder, the deflection of the rudder then yaws the aircraft, the result is that roll follows due to the dihedral. Make up a small paper model of a wing with dihedral, look at the wing directly from the front, then turn the wing slightly in one direction to the viewer, the more forward wing will see a higher angle of attack to the oncoming air and so lifts that side of the wing causing it to bank, the banked wing in turn causes the aircraft to turn.
+insultantable Lol, I know you use the rudder. If you normally use rudder pedals, but you have to power the craft by pedaling with your feet, how do operate the rudder on an aerocycle?
+DayTripperID . As you can see at the start of the video, the pilot has one hand on the front diagonal structures, the controls are mounted there, including rudder. Betterfly has it on a stick on the right hand side of the pilot at the level of the seat. Aerocycle 3 could be controlled by model aircraft circuits, I'm not sure, but Betterfly has control cables; in my opinion, the old fashion links by cable is much more reliable.
Attention everyone in the comments section. Would anyone happen to know where I can find the plans/diagrams to this aircraft?
Thanks for your enquiry. Do you intend to build one? If so, the designer is intending to sell this aircraft as a kit. Do let me know what's on your mind and I'll pass it on.
Yes. I was planning on building it myself or purchasing a kit.
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Curious what the total weight is?
Around 45kg, the aircraft is a very sturdy and successful one.
Interesting, thanks!
I think this is Aerocycle 3
Geoff Killer You are right. Someone had registered the aircraft as Aerocycle 2 and I knew that was wrong, but I couldn't get hold of John Edgley in time to verify it so I went ahead. But I have uploaded the video again as Aerocycle 3. I will now take the other one off.
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Thank you for your comment. Aerocycle 3 is a good all-round performer, and has been winning in competitions.
so my e bike actually also have enough power to take me to the sky
Generally, yes--more than enough.
Many small electric motors & batteries from RC airplanes have enough power for HPA flight--but then, it's no longer an HPA.
and two man in it..so if first man tired..still second man for continue activator the airplane propller..and airplane can continue flying
i think..put two airplane propler..for speed..
OK, now do a pattern. -:)
what if the chain comes off tho
rhen you tilt the front up increasing the drag.
it will b a better glider.....we can call Aerocycleglyder 4. It will also b a v gud weight man agent tool...... put d client in it n push them off d cliff.... definitely d survivor instinct will force them to exercise by pedaling in order to minimize impact. interesting tho.... pls perfect n after dt I purchase 1. interesting.
" Albatross was first human powered flight." Quite wrong. A bit of fake news there; must be contagious... The first was Southamptpon University's SUMPAC, flown by Derek Piggott in 1962. Link here: czcams.com/video/f6M9K98So0o/video.html Paul MacCready's Gossamer Condor was the first man-powered aircraft to win the Kremer prize, which involved a figure of eight flight. That was in 1977. The Gossamer Albatross was the first man-powered aircraft to cross the Channel.
you should stick a couple helium ballons under the wings or something for lift then you wouldnt have to peddle so hard and it would still be man powered
not how it works but ok
@@LegendLength A 10cm cube of helium lifts one gram, and a 10cm square of the mylar wing material might weigh about 0.5 grams. So if the wings are on average 10cm thick, filling them with helium would mostly remove the weight of the wing material, top and bottom, not the wing spar though. I think it could be worthwhile, and I'd love to see it done.
Helium is not allowed in this competitions, and it would not be true heavier than air human powered flight.
So thats a no.
заебёсся так педали крутить-то,вот если бы вместо велопривода был моторчик лошадок 5 хотя бы - это было бы совсем другое дело
running that same distance would be less tiresome
Yeah because that's the point lol.
try to run to the same height