test flight in Kanazawa

2008年10月4日、
金沢市民芸術村でのテストフライト。
金沢21世紀美術館の「金沢アートプラットホーム」の展示の一環として実施しました

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• OpenSky
• Hachiya
• moewe
• Mehve
• glider
• sailplane
• flight

[callmeshane303]

When are we going to see it fly under it's own power?

[smad333]

Good to see it flew ok, the design is ridiculously dangerous though, general unstable and will tip stall and spin easily, and I can see that from here!

[edwardreid]

So,why not use a ducted fan engine? Seagull wing would be good except for sidewinds. All the horton designs were swept wing designs. Split flaps and ailerons is what is needed on this plane to control it. Thrust can control up or down with the wingtips set as elevator surfaces. A small turbofan engine as a ducted fan engine would be able to put enough thrust and the thrust angle set to the elevator angle in the wingtips would yield a good flight angle under power.

[leneanderthalien]

@edwardreid

No: such curious design was newer use: the only flyng wings that realy good fly, was the Fauvel (straigt wings autostable profile) and the Horten (delta wings ).

And in addition, a jet engine on a slow aircraft is a big error: very low efficiency, hight consumption,shitty noise

[sundancer84]

very bad design.... pls get rid of it before smth bad happens!

[mobius1aic]

Miyazaki would be proud.

[AtrejuDrachenstein]

Looks like the glider from Nausicaäa :-)

[Ali078607860786]

i like that good on u

[paeioagnj]

乗りたい

[TheMovieWalker]

メーベってこんなにデカかった？

[edwardreid]

Actually the wing design is very stable. I tried this trick many years ago on paper planes and I believe it might have been tried by the germans in or before WW2.

The rudder placement is ok. I would increase the runner hight or surface area a little to aid in antispin.Another way would be to use vectored thrust as a failsafe antispin control or wingtip ailerons in which the last 10% is used as a spin brake. I work with unusual model airplanes and this one has interesting potential indeed!

[darkbeetlebot]

@HGlider1 exactly! I've never taken an aerodynamics class and I know what a diffusion tip is!