He may be able to get it airborne, but the chances that he will kill himself, and possibly many others at the same time, are quite high. The design of an aircraft is not a matter of by guess and by gosh.
It is true that the Wright brothers were not engineers, but they were highly skilled bicycle mechanics and they experimented at length before building the first successful airplane. This man has the internet but not much more to guide him.
Looking at the video that Sarah has linked and several others related to it, there are numerous aspects of his design that fairly scream out for engineering help. But he knows little or nothing about engineering, so that will not happen. Overall, his machine is an accident waiting to happen, most likely crashing to the ground in flames. That will be the tragedy of it all.
My gut feeling is to wish the guy well, or at least that he ends up with no more than some bad bruises and the odd broken bone. Yet, I cannot help thinking that en entire PhD can be written about this event. I cannot help seeing this as a man caught in limbo between appearance (witchcraft) and reality (western science)
I wish him well, also, in a way, I would like to see him succeed.
Of course if he did, the Left would portray it as a greater achievement than the White brothers Amy Johnson, Charles Lindbergh and the entire Apollo program combined
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He may be able to get it airborne, but the chances that he will kill himself, and possibly many others at the same time, are quite high. The design of an aircraft is not a matter of by guess and by gosh.
It is true that the Wright brothers were not engineers, but they were highly skilled bicycle mechanics and they experimented at length before building the first successful airplane. This man has the internet but not much more to guide him.
Looking at the video that Sarah has linked and several others related to it, there are numerous aspects of his design that fairly scream out for engineering help. But he knows little or nothing about engineering, so that will not happen. Overall, his machine is an accident waiting to happen, most likely crashing to the ground in flames. That will be the tragedy of it all.
Yes, good luck to him.
He's going to need it.
Anon.
My gut feeling is to wish the guy well, or at least that he ends up with no more than some bad bruises and the odd broken bone. Yet, I cannot help thinking that en entire PhD can be written about this event. I cannot help seeing this as a man caught in limbo between appearance (witchcraft) and reality (western science)
I wish him well, also, in a way, I would like to see him succeed.
Of course if he did, the Left would portray it as a greater achievement than the White brothers Amy Johnson, Charles Lindbergh and the entire Apollo program combined
Yup, I know that should have said "The Wright brothers" - a freudian typo perhaps? :-}}
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