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  • Now why didn't they just build the Inspector Gadget Copter that pops out of your hat and you hang on to the two handles and go wherever you want?

  • it does not fly. Fake.

  • The Second Law seen once again at work.

    It would take something with enough potential energy--i.e. petroleum (-powered motor) or massive batteries (powering an electric motor)--to make the design viable, as one human being could not possibly overcome everything that would need to be overcome to make this an even theoretically practical machine.

    Maybe design a motor that runs on happy thoughts? Um...yes we can?

  • We we we so excited!!!

  • When i read the title, i was thinking of matrix. LOL

  • why was there a rubber band harp playing music in this?

  • ahh yeah, take that possibility & file it with other lame things you think are worthy of my time.

  • ahh yeah, take that possibility & file it with other lame things you think are worthy of my time.

  • you must make something like top gear - your girl might be slower pedaling

    I want to see real flying

    best regards!

  • Good job kiddos!

  • Now we're talking.

  • seems like it didn't work

  • caHCbuh_Yyc

    Japanese won. 17 years before........

  • @valken666 what about the earthquake? ^^ That's not winning

  • @gevespe Hiroshima & Nagasaki...........not fun

  • humm... not there yet

    keep it up, you're close

  • Interesting !

    Call me when "Human-powered helicopter Version 5.0" arrives...

  • You don't want to get tired when you're 400 feet in the air.

  • Well done. 

  • Not to be sexist, but I think a man would have a better weight to power ratio. Women, naturally carry more fat than muscle per weight. Also, that long heir probably weigh at least a pound or more.

  • There should be gears. She was going at maximum speed, so the lift could have been more, even if it was just a proof of concept. I think this idea is great, and they should keep working with it.

  • nice legs..generated some lift ;)

  • ALL THAT FOR THAT SHIT

  • Did she generate any lift?

  • @Aafiah23 Yup, that's why it's big news :P

  • Good.

    Now, let's do it with the minigun attached...

  • Interesting enough. But finding away to apply something like this into something usable.

  • @bmacmillan where art thou faith young padawan

  • This is a breakthrough, although mostly psychological. Now that we know it can me done, it's just a matter of developing technology like lighter than air components and adding control surfaces.

  • Did nobody think to bolt a gearbox onto that thing?

    Just like on a 10 speed, 1st gear will have you going into convulsions just to try and hit 5mph...

  • u know why it didnt work? cause she was out of the kitchen.

  • This is precisely the kind of research that will be useful in the coming decades.

    Not the helicopter part maybe, but making strong, light structures with very little material and getting the most useful work possible out of a relatively weak 'engine'.

    This is a study of efficiency. We've been making helicopters that beat the air into submission for decades, there's a lot to learn from one that seduces it into agreement.

  • now you need horizontal movement, steering and an easier way to make the props spin faster.. ..better gear system

  • the dreams of Icarus are the derans of all

  • Cool - now ALL the guys that worked on this project get to Bang the Pilot. !!

  • @MrJohn1966elliott There is air indoors...

  • @MrJohn1966elliott you've probably just made the absolute dumbest reply to a youtube video ever.

    There is air inside buildings too you know.

  • @MrJohn1966elliott you're an idiot...

  • the secrets out....now we know how they got bin laden

  • Fat bitch needed four propeller blades.

  • @intemister No we cant do that. Problem is if a man tried it, It would work.

  • Science to the rescue!!!! :D

  • Helicopter dick! oh wait.....it's done by a girl.....

  • lol improving much.

    watch?v=vYmF7-JWCVA&feature=re­lated

  • What the hell? Is this so that we can still fly in case those environmentalist crazies ban use of petrol-fueled vehicles?

  • Why didn't they make it so that it could gear up once the propellers were started? There is a reason our cars have more then one gear.

  • No luck on getting 3m up for 60 seconds, so no prize :P

  • Well that didn't work very well at all, did it!

  • people are so ungrateful about science, its the future guys 

  • Look at how hard she had to petal to make it go though.

  • Mai roflcopter goes soisoisoi

  • flAAAAyyyy flllllYYYYY

  • I was convinced the guy in the center was about to burst into interpretive dance.

    I don't know why

  • Interesting, get the gearing so that the props turn faster and you could really move

  • poor gearing

  • DAMN... LOOKS TIRING....

  • Ummm did it work? I couldent tell?

  • OHMYGOSH! MAN CAN FLY!

  • How will this help future society when all of the humans have been wiped out by the machine overlords that they've been powering?

  • If I were one of them, I would be humping the girl doing the work.

  • Ive watched this closed to a dozen times and im still alittle hazy about who actually died.

  • That guy with the camera choper in teddy ruck spin would be so impressed.

  • Nice idea but, it will never take off :D

  • if you get leg cramp you're screwed.

  • If you just climb on top of the thing you could get higher. I don't know if this is just a really early development. But if this is the model of crafts they will stick to I think this idea will never take off.

  • THE ONLY USE I CAN THINK OF FOR THIS PIECE OF HOVERING CRAP IS TO USE IT AS A BAIT TO RAPE AN UNSUSPECTING BICYCLE ENTHUSIAST.

  • Hey dudes we have 2 projects that we can develop:

    1 - Build a clean energy mini-plant for the local nursing home;

    2 - Build a human-powered helicopter.

    What should we choose??????????

  • @PortuguesePunisherrr Its a student program, calm down hahahaha. Christ, all these comments are crucifying these guys about it being a waste of money, its already been done ect ect. Yet everyone seems to have failed to read the description and work out it was for a competition.

    It's the second human powered helicopter to ever get off the ground. Thats an achievement. Comments are so fucking dumb on youtube.

  • @TheSpeedyspeed xD I know..... just kidding

  • @PortuguesePunisherrr Good haha, sorry if that came across abit angry, a quick look at the comments was causing me anguish.

  • call Lance Armstrong, maybe he can make it fly ;-)

  • didnt we already invent the helicopter?

  • I'm pretty sure one or more wings were touching the ground throughout the entire clip

  • What?! no lift!

  • Hey assholes, this isn't about making a human powered helicopter that goes a few inches off the ground. It's about testing the science to see if it's possible. There is no telling what will come of this research in the future. Might help discover something that will save your life someday.

    There is no such thing as useless science and stupid experiments...

  • @psychomelody Useless science examples, (actual experiments): A study shows that early teens that have falatios are more like to have sex at an early age; A elephant was injected with 3000 time the usual dosage of LSD( with no other prior studies ), the animal died 2 ours later. There was an other study to see the anti-depressive properties of semen but I would not want to go in to details, and I cold go on with others. Your point is moot!

  • @MaCs1313 Those were each done so you, the asshole that you are, could spout them and reinforce my statement below. Unbeknownst to them, their experiments would be used to identify morons who know absolutely nothing about the history and reasoning of science, but can try to seem self righteous by spouting facts to try and negate something they don't want to believe.

  • @psychomelody Did I hurt your precious feeling, did you take it personal, good I glad that you're mad it make's me happy my experiment has worked.

  • @psychomelody unless its political science lol, sorry had to but i actually agree with you 100%

  • @psychomelody What about performing an experiment to see what flavour Fruit Pastelles gorillas like the most. That would be useless science and a stupid experiment...

  • @Dannydurangi . That may not be a useless science nor a stupid experiment. We can use it to determine the development of taste buds in the ape evolutionary chain (it wouldn't be perfect, as we don't have an earlier evolutionary decendant surviving today), but it could help us know if the increased brain size has an affect on taste.

    Thus, neither useless science (unless you are not interested in this science...) nor a stupid exprement.

  • @SethGibbs No, not to determine the development of taste buds within the ape chain; simply they just wanted to test which would be its favourite Fruit Pastille. That's the only thing they wanted to know, with no intention of using the data for future experiments.

  • @Dannydurangi No it would not. It would teach us something that we might have use for in the future. Granted, it would not be the best spent money, but it is not a useless experiment.

  • @N3CR1S Such as when we throw Fruit Pastille parties for gorillas?

  • @Dannydurangi you are clearly not interested in discussing things seriously. godbye.

  • @N3CR1S Am I--am I expected to leave now...?

  • @Dannydurangi well what if you're being attacked by a gorilla and all you have is a pack of fruit pastelles?

  • @drumbum99 Then I would accept my fate and have a nice, tasty sweet before my impending, painful death.

  • @Dannydurangi touche good sir

  • @psychomelody No such thing as stupid experiments? OK then, why don't you run into a brick wall head first to examine what is the velocity that will knock you out unconscious.

  • @iambehindthemirror With comments like that, you've obviously been trying this experiment yourself. THANK YOU FOR MAKING SCIENCE A BIG SUCCESS! Your input is always valuable, no matter how useless you are.

  • @psychomelody Of course not, I'm not doing that experiment, but you have obviously done it more than once. What about another useful, not stupid experiment? Add your own urine into your drink to find out how it affects pH level in your stomach. What? You said there are no stupid experiments!

  • @psychomelody Yes: The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) went 20 feet

    The above is the first steps

    On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with

    Wilbur flies a glider in earlier tests

    Kitty Hawk, Oct. 10, 1902.

  • @psychomelody yes but there is such a thing as scientific priorities, especially in difficult times, and I don't see what applicable technology is being developed here. Why don't you enlighten me?

  • @kyebean Unless you're a scientist, and I know I'm not, we are in no position whatsoever to decide what kind of priorities there are in the learning process. By even assuming such shows such ignorance and arrogance that I just can't stand your comment and have blocked you.

  • @psychomelody I think I'm in a position to say, that with very limited funding for science, and problems like climate change, petroleum dependency, environmental destruction, water and food shortage and disease, projects that have no foreseeable applications are not the best use of scientific funding. Now if ANYONE actually has a foreseeable application for this, please fucking tell me. Oh you blocked me because I disagree how open minded and scientific of you.

  • i can lift off the ground by jumping

  • They cheer like someone dunked a ball or scored a goal. Nerds!

  • Look ma, I'm powering a helicopter! No hands!

  • sorry but i dont feel like they accomplished much

  • the fat guy was all excited because he thought he could use this opportunity to hug "the human" powering the copter... nerds...

  • Take that Da Vinci

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  • Clearly the point was for it to be a quad copter , obviously not the most efficient usage of the available (wo)man power but it worked.. for a moment at least.

  • Holy crap commenters are so stupid on this channel... Don't you realize this is an exploit? If you read the article you would have learnt that it was only the second ever human-powered helico to lift off the ground. And for the gear ratios, each rotor is 13 meters long and there is 4, can you imagine the force that would be needed with a higher ratio?

  • Yay she made the props turn

  • Does it take off?

  • @valkiris Yeah i know sorry.

  • clearly these idiots dont even know about gear ratios wtf, i can safely say these retards were lead to create this , this was not an idea of any of those retards clapping like they achieved something, TOOLS! This is american colleges at its best, good for nothing ! and all you get in return is an over inflated ego, way to much confidence and no skillz, have a nice life.

  • @dfhohj Dude, have a chill pill.

  • A little more height could have been useful for us to believe anything happened.

  • now fly it across the english channel!

  • shitty

    

  • cool

    

  • what the fuck was that. I think it was pretty stupid idea.

  • underwhelmed. but good job

  • Man what a useless piece of work hahah

  • that was ridiculous :D

  • they were overly happy. the gear ratio is not right for a person to be able to do that.

  • she's gonna lose weight so bad! lol after 5 months shes gonna be skinny!

  • reminds me of that vid where the dude with wings on his arms jumps off a rock and lands face first into the ground

  • i saw santaclaus at 0:52

  • Reminds me of the arcade game Propcycle

  • wow, the hate comments here are just sad to read. 

  • they should change the title to "human-powered helicopter THAT DOESNT FLY"

  • Should be called a human powered ground effect machine.

  • what is this failblog

  • WTF.

  • So much for the claims that American science and manufacturing have fallen behind. This was definitely twenty billion dollars of research grant money well spent.

  • good job thats the most usless invention ever(in 50 years its probably gonna prove me wrong though)

  • maybe next time they make one that can fly

  • This will be the next step for Ryan Air....

    If you dont want to peddle you pay!!!

  • why are they cheering?!?!?!

  • this... doesn't seem very effeciant

  • LOL they seriously think they fly with that shit?

  • in the future, could be used to lift disaster victims 5 inches off ground

  • @Pelonetillo haha yeah did it even get 5 inches?

  • @Pelonetillo If they all help with paddling

  • @Pelonetillo Not if the GOP is in power since they aren't exactly in the business of helping disaster victims atm.

  • This device still needs AT LEAST the amount of power you would need to climb vertically while having the weight of this machine dangling around your waist. Are these physics- or sports students?

  • No one has ever created a human powered helicopter so even being able to get off the ground is actually fairly impressive.

  • @molesniper666 nobody cares :/

  • one of the stupidest things i have ever seen...

  • @bmak8690 you havnt been on the internet long have you?

  • I wonder who would be able to fly this thing longer than one minute, the only guy flying out there would be Lance Armstrong, plus he aerodynamically fitted (for those who remember Robin Williams ;p)

  • It looks like its geared too high. If she peddled at like maybe 1-1.5 peddals/sec, I think you'd get more power. 

  • hmm...interesting ! I think that is the first lifting of a man through his own power. Bravo!!

  • @marinohell um, a dude flew a human powered plane for several miles years ago...

  • @jeffzahnd yes, it is true! but you have to make a difference between inertial sustentation and static sustentation .You're talking about inertial sustentation, which is like the aircraft?!

  • How can you guys mock a bunch of college kids doing a project. Do you know how much design work is involved in this? I can only imagine how many iterations it took going from "need more lift -> larger blade-> bigger frame-> more weight-> need more lift., repeat..."

  • there should be a thing that helps make it faster underneath her witch ids connected to each proppeler witch converts feiceis into feul when they realise their higher than taipei 101 and shit themselves

  • You lose weight and get to work with out traffic !!!

  • It was a bad decision to include hand pedaling.

  • shave her head and remove all items of clothing, also remove all sexual organs and use amphetamines, then you will have true flight

  • I didnt see it fly, and I saw her pedaling as fast as she could, try to keep that up for a long distance and see how practical this piece of shit machine is

  • @DeagleBeagle

    I agree because of the hand pedaling. If hand pedaling has never panned out for bikes, whatever possessed them to use hand pedals for a flight machine. Even the man powered plane that crossed the English Channel used only leg power.

  • Shhits retarded

  • after five decades in development, 50 million dollars spent on research and experimentation, 300 sacrificial cattle and the blood of 25 virgins, we have kinda almost got it in the air for a little bit.

  • I can jump and pretend i'm a bird for a second, i'd be off the ground, doesn't count as flight, idiots

  • Waste of money

  • they should have created a human-powered penis masturbator and used me as a test subject.

  • @WavesOfTrolls LOL!!!!!!!

  • @WavesOfTrolls It's called a hand.... try it out yourself or get a friend to do it... or an enemy if you are into that.

  • @WavesOfTrolls i believe thats called "a hand"

  • @WavesOfTrolls There's plenty of those around and some have been well tested and certified by many individuals to perform well.

  • This is shit! I didn't even see it take off...

  • i use to like newscientist until i started watching their videos

  • those with a good eye can clear see that the thing did get airborne, so stop carping that it dint and get urself some professional help