Gamera's May 12, 2011 Flight

Final Gamera Test Flight from May 12, 2011 at the Comcast Center, University of Maryland, College Park.

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[rhynobots]

Actual flight starts at 3:00

[GunterYang]

WOW! People commenting here are truly amazingly idiotic. Go and build your own human-powered helicopter and post a video before you talk all that smack about this effort. No, wait... First go to college, study engineering, get a degree, go to grad school, understand advanced concepts of physics, THEN build your own and tell us all how awesome you are. Dumbasses...

[Tetrodioxide]

I am laughing at GunterYang's hysterical post. I'm an aeronautical engineering major, and while I find this feat interesting, it is not impressive for me in the science behind it but a curiosity that of all the things a large group of people could have gone after with their knowledge, it would have been this. Why not have worked on a reusable low-earth rocket for small payload deployments (a project that many departments are now competing for). Now that would have been impressive.

[jazzy jay]

the degrees not even necessary, so really understand physics, and build, those are the only steps

[CaptObvious22]

Put some Gears on that thing.

[drumstyx6464]

Hmm, it seems to me that very heavy gearing would be appropriate here, yet she's pedalling furiously. With a much heavier gear ratio, she would start out MUCH slower, and could be pedalling as slow as the gearing allows (literally could be one pedal rotation to 25 blade rotations).

I hope this project goes much further!

[lmp1054]

impressive, the helicopter and the girls muscular legs

[EhrgeizShuriken89]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa no

[welshpete12]

What a remarkable achievement , well done . I would have thought it would be impossible !

[GunterYang]

Fair enough. One does not necessarily need to go to school to learn enough to make this thing. But working with a team of folks who are well read in the relevant topics sure helps.

* I think I made the original comment after watching some "free energy" machine videos so I was a bit worked up over people's understanding of how things really work..

[apprupai]

@GunterYang

Your retaliation is warranted but doesn't make sense. Yes, a lot of effort was put in here and good for them for achieving results. However, don't inflate the requirements to put something like this together. Most inventors out there are/were dropouts. Also, the Gamera looks exactly like the Yuri on a diet - so where's the innovation? (agreed I don't know the design details but why make something that looks the same? Try something different)