kaz3g Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Copy the birds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Copy the birds I tried that when I was about 4...I was unsuccessful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I tried that when I was about 4...I was unsuccessful. What did you break? i broke a tooth because my knee buckled and hit me in the chin...but I grew another one ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 What did you break? i broke a tooth because my knee buckled and hit me in the chin...but I grew another one ? I never broke anything trying to fly. I spent considerable time making my wings that attached to my arms, with my grandfather constantly over my shoulder "It'll never work". I wouldn't believe him until I had established that for myself. I didn't jump off anything with them. I just ran down the hill flapping my wings until I was tired. In hindsight, I had way too little wing area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I never broke anything trying to fly. I spent considerable time making my wings that attached to my arms, with my grandfather constantly over my shoulder "It'll never work". I wouldn't believe him until I had established that for myself. I didn't jump off anything with them. I just ran down the hill flapping my wings until I was tired. In hindsight, I had way too little wing area. I jumped off the laundry roof with kite made from cane, brown paper and string, and a tea towel for a parachute. i was 7 and my mum was in hospital having babies so my dear old nan was looking after me. She got such a fright she gave me a paddling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I jumped off the laundry roof with kite made from cane, brown paper and string, and a tea towel for a parachute. i was 7 and my mum was in hospital having babies so my dear old nan was looking after me. She got such a fright she gave me a paddling. I tried bed sheets for parachutes, usually off the water tanks which were close to gutter height. I wrecked my mum's umbrella doing that. I did find that I could get a reasonable glide laying on top of a sheet of masonite. Too much AoA and you would backslide, which wasn't as bad as negative AoA which would tuck under. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Ask MR Da vinci for his Hang-glider plans ? ( Leonardo da Vinci ) spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I know a dog can fly on a sheet of corrugated iron off the back of a Ute. Ask me how! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I know of a wildcat that flew. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I watched my SIL's female Blue Heeler fly out of the back of the ute when she (dog) snapped at a passing branch on a bush track, and got too good a bite on it!! She just went - ZIP! - straight out! We were doing about 60kmh at the time, and she hit the track, unhurt - tried to stand up and start running - but she fell over, because her body was still doing 60kmh, and her legs were only doing 20kmh! She did that about 3 times, before she slowed down enough, to be able to get her legs going at the rate her body was going at! Meantimes, we were rolling about in the ute, killing ourselves with laughter. We stopped, and she jumped back in with a sheepish look, and didn't snap at any passing branches again, for a couple of days! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I tried bed sheets for parachutes, usually off the water tanks which were close to gutter height. I wrecked my mum's umbrella doing that. I did find that I could get a reasonable glide laying on top of a sheet of masonite. Too much AoA and you would backslide, which wasn't as bad as negative AoA which would tuck under. I don’t like the sound of that -ve angle of attack...I imagine your head was at severe risk! at least I landed on my undercarriage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I don’t like the sound of that -ve angle of attack...I imagine your head was at severe risk! at least I landed on my undercarriage. That was the cue do kick it away and bail, or at least slide back to change the CoG. Weightshift flying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwell Posted July 22, 2019 Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 Let's get back on topic gentlemen. As amusing as reminiscing about our childhood experiences may be, they provide more heat than light on the subject. How to Fly is the topic, which shouldn't be that difficult to explain, for experienced pilots at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 they provide more heat than light on the subject I disagree.... They were my first experiences of "feeling" the airflow and trying to control inputs accordingly. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwell Posted July 22, 2019 Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 Accepted M61. Develop that line of thought so we might learn something about how to fly we didn't already know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wjohnmid Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 Manwell, this thread is intresting and should be developed without input from the nay sayers. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfly Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 And so we might learn something about the group we didn't already know .... not all of us are gentlemen. ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwell Posted July 22, 2019 Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 Very few, in all likelihood, Garfly, but ya gotta be optimistic... ? Ladies too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 The very vague question has been used by at least one instructor that I have encountered. I think the idea was to ask a question vague enough so that whatever You answered you were wrong and the instructor would then enlighten you. I think the question needs to be more defined. to become airborne, lift must exceed gravity. If it doesn’t you’re not flying. There are quite a few different ways to do this though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 I dont consider projectiles and rockets to be flying, or cricket balls. Flight involves aerofoils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 I dont consider projectiles and rockets to be flying, or cricket balls. Flight involves aerofoils. And that’s why the question needs to be more defined. Rockets and missiles usually have control surfaces. They fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherk Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 keep the Blue on top and the Brown on the bottom ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 In order to imitate the birds, observe them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfly Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 keep the Blue on top and the Brown on the bottom ! Even that's arguable, comrade .... "The Soviet-era attitude indicator is the opposite—brown on top and blue on the bottom. That could spell disaster for an unfamiliar pilot trying to recover from an unusual attitude in instrument meteorological conditions." https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2013/april/04/mig-15-flying-the-enemy-fighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 I dont consider projectiles and rockets to be flying, or cricket balls. Flight involves aerofoils. How would describe a jet pack? I would consider that flying using thrust vectoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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