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Scratchthatguys · 2010-11-01 19:55:53

I've been studying, and I found out that a man-powered plane would last longer. But it would take a massive amount of energy to even move a plane, much the less make it fly.
So I decided to start inventing a man-powered flight vehicle you can wear. It has pedals, and the chain rotates a bar which makes the engine blades start moving. You tilt to adjust the speed, and then rotate to change the direction.

RobotKitty · 2010-11-01 19:59:56

That worked out so well in the past.

Scratchthatguys · 2010-11-01 20:04:08

You are actually standing upright, and it helps you hover, You grab onto a little thing, which rotates the engines which makes you turn and rotate according to it's position. It isn't nearly as heavy, and the prototype will have a protective coat of nylon over the wiring. Actually, maybe there will be no circuiting or wires. It'll be man-powered, but the small engines spin, either making it move, spiral, or fly. Maybe crash, but I'm only 8, and I came up with this design and sketched it.

Kileymeister · 2010-11-01 20:09:21

Scratchthatguys wrote:
You are actually standing upright, and it helps you hover, You grab onto a little thing, which rotates the engines which makes you turn and rotate according to it's position. It isn't nearly as heavy, and the prototype will have a protective coat of nylon over the wiring. Actually, maybe there will be no circuiting or wires. It'll be man-powered, but the small engines spin, either making it move, spiral, or fly. Maybe crash, but I'm only 8, and I came up with this design and sketched it.

Wouldn't you have to spin the engines yourself really fast?

Scratchthatguys · 2010-11-01 20:12:47

You pedal like a bike. Plus, it might work better if it's 2 person, where you have a passenger laying beside you who rotates one engine, and you rotate the other. It might work, but the speed would differ for each person. It might do a sudden barrel roll.

RocksAndFire · 2010-11-01 20:15:33

Wait...your 8?

soupoftomato · 2010-11-01 20:19:05

RocksAndFire wrote:
Wait...your 8?

He can't swim yet, but says he built this.

Scratchthatguys · 2010-11-01 20:21:30

soupoftomato wrote:
RocksAndFire wrote:
Wait...your 8?
He can't swim yet, but says he built this.

DESIGNED it. I can't build it. I did build a thread-wrapping device before. It consists of a sanded disk thingy, some thread, knowing how to tie a knot, and a cardboard box and tube.

MasterOfDeception · 2010-11-01 20:25:51

Post the design. Please. I want to see it. OVER 9000!!!

Scratchthatguys · 2010-11-01 20:26:18

So yeah, I know the square root of 64 (8) the 4th dimensional shape of a cube (Tesseract, google it.), and a few other things, but that doesn't mean I'm smarter than everybody. I just excel in science.

Scratchthatguys · 2010-11-01 20:31:14

MasterOfDeception wrote:
Post the design. Please. I want to see it. OVER 9000!!!

I could put it on facebook, but I lost the original design, and re-drew it.
Then I lost it again.
Now, I'll make a text-diagram.

/\
/ \
(+)---•--•---(+)
/ \
/ *--- \
/__----*__\
You put your arm in the •.
The *--- is the pedals.
---*

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what-the · 2010-11-01 21:52:38

Hmm.

Weight of a person, 80kg + 50kg for plane. Minimum amount of energy to hover the plane every second 1274N of virtical force. Seeing someone do that. Priceless.

Somethings are better with engines.

MasterOfDeception · 2010-11-01 23:07:38

what-the wrote:
Hmm.

Weight of a person, 80kg + 50kg for plane. Minimum amount of energy to hover the plane every second 1274N of virtical force. Seeing someone do that. Priceless.

Somethings are better with engines.

Lol. That is win.

PlayWithFire · 2010-11-02 00:00:53

i hope this works out for you, here is some information on how people in the past have built similar inventions, it looks like in order for the average person to operate it you would have to supplement for human weakness by perhaps adding a small motor.

unless you can think of a better idea tongue . i think it's awesome you're doing something like this at age 8! just be careful when testing inventions out lol.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 500AAAroZu

what-the · 2010-11-02 01:09:23

PlayWithFire wrote:
i hope this works out for you, here is some information on how people in the past ...

... just be careful when testing inventions out lol.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 500AAAroZu

Particularly aircrafts. tongue

PlayWithFire · 2010-11-02 02:09:09

what-the wrote:
PlayWithFire wrote:
i hope this works out for you, here is some information on how people in the past ...

... just be careful when testing inventions out lol.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 500AAAroZu
Particularly aircrafts.

lol, yes exactly.

Scratchthatguys · 2010-11-02 07:06:30

what-the wrote:
Hmm.

Weight of a person, 80kg + 50kg for plane. Minimum amount of energy to hover the plane every second 1274N of virtical force. Seeing someone do that. Priceless.

Somethings are better with engines.

It is much smaller than a normal plane. It is about one eighth of it's size, maybe the size of one or two people.

mariobrosrule · 2010-11-02 12:11:14

Scratchthatguys wrote:
I could put it on facebook...

You have a facebook... And you're 8...

Sunrise-Moon · 2010-11-02 12:31:53

Scratchthatguys wrote:
So yeah, I know the square root of 64 (8) the 4th dimensional shape of a cube (Tesseract, google it.), and a few other things, but that doesn't mean I'm smarter than everybody. I just excel in science.

You certainly don't sound like eight- you have really great spelling and grammar. High-five!

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The_Dancing_Donut · 2010-11-02 12:38:56

Sunrise-Moon wrote:
Scratchthatguys wrote:
So yeah, I know the square root of 64 (8) the 4th dimensional shape of a cube (Tesseract, google it.), and a few other things, but that doesn't mean I'm smarter than everybody. I just excel in science.
You certainly don't sound like eight- you have really great spelling and grammar. High-five!

Yeah, ask anyone in my form how to spell excel, and you'll likely get exell, exel, or even ecsell. And we're in Year 8 at high school.

P.s. I CAN spell, but, um, lots of them in the lower set can't.

I'm nearly 5 years older than you, and what's a tesseract (too lazy to google, lol)? Oh, I can do square roots, nth term etc.. smile

Sunrise-Moon · 2010-11-02 12:42:00

The_Dancing_Donut wrote:
Sunrise-Moon wrote:
Scratchthatguys wrote:
So yeah, I know the square root of 64 (8) the 4th dimensional shape of a cube (Tesseract, google it.), and a few other things, but that doesn't mean I'm smarter than everybody. I just excel in science.
You certainly don't sound like eight- you have really great spelling and grammar. High-five!
Yeah, ask anyone in my form how to spell excel, and you'll likely get exell, exel, or even ecsell. And we're in Year 8 at high school.

P.s. I CAN spell, but, um, lots of them in the lower set can't.

I'm nearly 5 years older than you, and what's a tesseract (too lazy to google, lol)? Oh, I can do square roots, nth term etc..

A 4th dimensional cube (if you count the 4th dimension as being an actual dimension, and not time).

Read more about the 4th dimension here. Why? Because the 4th dimension is awesome.

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Scratchthatguys · 2010-11-02 16:17:39

Sunrise-Moon wrote:
The_Dancing_Donut wrote:
Sunrise-Moon wrote:

You certainly don't sound like eight- you have really great spelling and grammar. High-five!
Yeah, ask anyone in my form how to spell excel, and you'll likely get exell, exel, or even ecsell. And we're in Year 8 at high school.

P.s. I CAN spell, but, um, lots of them in the lower set can't.

I'm nearly 5 years older than you, and what's a tesseract (too lazy to google, lol)? Oh, I can do square roots, nth term etc..
A 4th dimensional cube (if you count the 4th dimension as being an actual dimension, and not time).

Read more about the 4th dimension here. Why? Because the 4th dimension is awesome.

I agree. The 4th dimension rocks.

I heard of it in a book, and now I have a document written by me on wormholes, black holes, the possibility of white holes, and time travel.

The_Dancing_Donut · 2010-11-02 16:23:55

Scratchthatguys wrote:
Sunrise-Moon wrote:
The_Dancing_Donut wrote:

Yeah, ask anyone in my form how to spell excel, and you'll likely get exell, exel, or even ecsell. And we're in Year 8 at high school.

P.s. I CAN spell, but, um, lots of them in the lower set can't.

I'm nearly 5 years older than you, and what's a tesseract (too lazy to google, lol)? Oh, I can do square roots, nth term etc..
A 4th dimensional cube (if you count the 4th dimension as being an actual dimension, and not time).

Read more about the 4th dimension here. Why? Because the 4th dimension is awesome.
I agree. The 4th dimension rocks.

I heard of it in a book, and now I have a document written by me on wormholes, black holes, the possibility of white holes, and time travel.

Still confuzzled, lol! smile

Scratchthatguys · 2010-11-02 16:25:49

The_Dancing_Donut wrote:
Scratchthatguys wrote:
Sunrise-Moon wrote:

A 4th dimensional cube (if you count the 4th dimension as being an actual dimension, and not time).

Read more about the 4th dimension here. Why? Because the 4th dimension is awesome.
I agree. The 4th dimension rocks.

I heard of it in a book, and now I have a document written by me on wormholes, black holes, the possibility of white holes, and time travel.
Still confuzzled, lol!

Here, part of an article on a tesseract:

Too lazy to copy and paste the article. Here's a link!
Wikipedia: Tesseract

The_Dancing_Donut · 2010-11-02 16:37:49

That fails. lol

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