How Does This Fly With Only 1 Wing?

Dude, don't worry too much about your translations. They get the message and details across. Good stuff!

Nice one Simon 😊 So cool to see someone else trying these one winged helicopters! I also based by designs on that original Charybdis design and found the extra stabiliser unnecessary. If the wing has a positive angle of attack, it works just like a flying wing (with no tail). I’ve also found other designs work without the counterweight (again, like a flying wing).

Your English is just fine. Certainly beats the hell out of my Swedish.

Why didn't you stick the pole into the ground to run these first tests so that you didn't have to be in the line of fire 😂

That one flight where it skipped off the ground and recovered was my favorite 😅 that thing is terrifying

Those 9:50 minutes until you mentioned the leading edge of the wing was facing the same way as the prop were Excruciating man...I did not see anyone in the comments mentioning it at a glance...I was screaming internally ! And then...FINALLY !

when having issues translating, dont be afraid to just say the word or phrase in your native language. Laura Kampf has said "Geil" so often, im sure everyone understands it now

Your English is fine. When the wing is free to move, the center of gravity is going to be directly below the center of lift; that is just physics. If that orientation of the wing is then such that the thrust vector is not pointing straight down, the wing is going to spiral off at random. The problem is, the center of lift tends to be halfway down the length of the wing, while the center of lift is much closer to the motor, so the wing will yaw (or bank, depending on how you look at it) severely, trying to get the COG directly below the COL. I don’t see how to overcome this.

You humor is matchless. I don't really care which project you pick, your sense of comedic rhythm and involvement rivals the all-time greats, like Buster Keaton. I am a fan!

I've heard native English speakers do worse. No need to worry at all. Besides, sometimes it helps the goofy tone of your videos and makes them that extra bit unique and fun. Thanks for always putting a smile on my face!

Am I crazy or is the wing spinning the wrong way? Surely the motor needs to be turned about 180°. Edit: nevermind. He figured it out @9:32

I like how you said it spins the right way and then you used a left-hand propellor.

The weight on the stick isn't to offset the centre of gravity, but to provide pitch stability of the wing. Without getting too deep into the dynamics, the weight on a stick increases the moment of inertia along the wing spar axis which, once spinning, creates a stabilising gyroscopic force that prevents the wing from pitching.

The whole first half of the video I'm sitting here going "The wing is backwards, right? It's spinning the wrong way. Is that how wings are supposed to face? Oh good it is backwards phew" Just gaslighting myself that I don't know how wings work anymore lol.

Why spin it knife edge first? What plane flies backwards, lol. Edit: Could you tilt the motor like your ground effect craft?

just imagine walking down the road at night by yourself and you hear the sound this thing makes and you cant really see but you can tell its coming your direction cause its getting louder and at the very last minute you see it out the corner of your eye and you quickly duck into a ditch on the side of the road fearing for your life and so you call the police about what just happened and when they ask what it looked like and you say “it was a bright green flying cricket paddle” they would just think you were high on meth or something and laugh. or maybe come and arrest you. “youre the third guy this week… you need to get some better stuff than that”

The issue with your English is in your head, I am English born and bred there and a proud member of the UK. I understood your speech very well. What a concept, does one have to be mad to think of it 😁 You have earnt a subscription from me. Thank you very much. What a wild idea.

I love that you show the failures along the way, it makes the successes that much sweeter.

I am only up to 8:00 so far. You have it spinning the wrong way. At my model aero club, way back in the sixties, a member made one of these. He carved the wing from a solid block of balsa. It was powered by a tiny glow plug engine. There was a thin metal rod attached at the centre point. He just threw it in the air with a spinning motion and away it went.

I'm very surprised at how such a tiny motor could have the power to move such a big wing so fast, that's a lot of torque, considering its length, goes to show how obscenely powerful brushless motors are nowadays lol. Great job.