MOPED ARMY

How to get investigated by the FAA really fast

If you keep under 3000 feet and 10 miles away from airports i dont think anyone would notice you.

As an engineer I genuinely hope nobody tries to fly this thing ever

Until you slide out of ground effect without enough collective/throttle it tips over and a blade digs in and flings you lord knows where...from what I'm told learning to hover is one of the hardest things to master of helicopter flight. That would have to be gone over every nut and bolt before even daring to start it up...even then, super sketch....but god how fun.... :)

You would be surprised a lot guys with “experience” will fly the biggest piece of crap without any fear.

My local airport has some janky ass planes. U won’t be caught alive in any of them. Cover in rust after all the under belly paint is removed too. It’s like watching a moped fly lol

Look at the bolts!

hundreds died before the wright brothers in such craft. i think i wouldnt cheap out on air travel lower than red eyes in economy class ;)

^ The guy in Mad Max rocked a gyro copter, very different than a helicopter. Gyro-copters are rad as hell, I wish I had the guts to try to learn to fly one, as a younger man I dreamed of owning an ultralight plane, now I'm old and the risk/fun ratio is beyond my desire to fly. :)

With the way older motorcycles & mopeds get quirky or break down i wouldnt trust that thing even if experienced in flying. The only thing certain is... if there was a homemade helicopter forum it would be a ghost town... except for their OT section.

lol, a great conversation piece.

"Dad died in this."

When I was up in Alaska, just about everyone flew little bush planes, the one we were using was a 1953 Piper Colt with canvas body. It was in pretty good shape with up to date maintenance, but it would be like going on a trip in a car that old. You would hear about them crashing all the time and people usually came out with pretty minor injuries. It's like a motorcycle, you learn pretty quick how to crash in such a way that you don't die... The dangerous part is getting stuck in the wilderness with a broken leg or something.

The difference between all planes (even old ass ones) and this thing is that there are redundancies built into the powertrains at every opportunity on planes. This is just kinda cross your fingers you didn't miss anything pre flight and go for it

You might wanna re study your knowledge of FAA regulations. You can probably fly an ultralight aircraft as long as your solo. Experimental aircraft has different regulations.

So true, I already was looking at them lol