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Recent edit: Thursday November 01, 2012

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Selected video for 2012
for study, enjoyment, and discussion
Birdman of Tambu
HG  in an Australian 1976  TV Show 
 Shipwrecked teens are cast on a unknown island
inhabited by peoples  who's ancestors shipwrecked
many years earlier, sort of a time warp into the past
Interesting full 23 minute broadcast
filmed in Australia 1976 , Sci Fi Adventure
Original 1975 -90 minute feature film became a TV Show
 
 submitted by Neil Larson
 
Laterals

=>  Homemade inflatable wing like "Woopy Fly"

Homemade inflatable wing like "Woopy Fly". First ground tests of inflate and control. Real Flight no on this video. Flat area 18 m2, wingspan 9.2 m, Aspect ratio 07.04, Num cells 33, weight ~ 10 kg. Reflex airfoil wing with a supercharged, similar in design Woopy Fly (boom and paragliding canopy with auto-stability profile). The first test run. Sew polypropylene film 90 g/m2. Spar of the five six-foot tube of D16T. Supercharging a turbine from a domestic hair dryer. Rechargeable 12 / 24 W. A few months later showered plastic impregnation, and even two turbines were not enough to maintain shape, on the experiments were completed. The principle works, but in operation, compared with a paraglider wing was not very comfortable (to be collected / disassemble the boom, connect the batteries, etc.). IMHO, on a similar principle can be made ultra-light airplane, compactly folded, but we have to do with the chassis. The video version without the vertical fin, and later one has been sewn. But for the foreseeable future is likely to continue not to be, I personally think the glider easier. The area of 18 m2; 9.2 m Span; Extension 4.7; Number of sections 33; Weight ~ 10 kg; Auto-stability profile.
[[Machine translated and edited from original Russian]]
submitted by Neil Larson