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First Flight Wow! This site won’t make you a real pilot, but it’ll make you wish you were one and tell you how it should be done. Virtual lessons with photos, graphics & text take you from the pilot’s lexicon through checklists, flight, control, landing and post flight inspections. Really great stuff!

TIPS FOR AIR TRAVEL SECURITY Specialists claim that flying tourist class is more safe than business class (though less comfortable, of course). Terrorists, as a rule, seize the first class area located near the cockpit and use it as a command post. Hence tourist class seats offer more protection since they are farther from the center of hostile action. Besides, the first class passengers are usually rich and well-known people, which are of great interest for terrorists. Therefore, during air travel try to mix with other passengers and, as much as possible, avoid luggage tags, dress and behavior that may distinguish you from them.

"Online Flight Manual" The online theory and application of flight. Truly inspiring work, if you can follow it, will give you the knowledge you need to fly and the inspiration to try it in real life. Takes awhile to load, but it is well worth the wait.

"The Aeroplane Speaks" by Horatio Barber. Unique book in which the principles of aerodynamics are presented as a committee of folks discussing their own actions. Interesting way to teach aerodynamics. Very inventive

Introduction to Helicopter Flight "Helicopter pilots don't fly, they beat the air into submission!" This is a popular saying among pilots of rotary-wing aircraft, who consider themselves to be a unique breed, not like fixed-wing pilots. It is easy to see why—helicopters seemingly defy the laws of physics. The only thing that keeps them aloft is a constantly beating rotor, which acts as a rotating wing, producing lower pressure above the rotor and higher pressure below it and thus pushing the helicopter up.

Chapter 10 - Rotary-wing flight control systems Chapter Objective: Upon completion of this chapter, you will have a working knowledge of the theory of operation and the maintenance requirements for rotary-wing (helicopter) aircraft.

Learn to Fly Helicopters - Basics of Helicopter Flight Somewhere along everyone’s aviation lifetime we have seen a small helicopter fly overhead. Some may have wondered what it would be like to fly one of these contraptions. A very few will actually go the next step and pursue that elusive dream. Hopefully, this article will enlighten you on some of the mechanics of the helicopter flight. Okay, before our first flight, let’s take a seat in our helo and review how the controls work.

Learning to Fly Helicopters Actually a pretty decent article about getting a pilot's license for conventional helicopters (big ones, not kits).

GEN H-4 Personal Helicopter « MaisonBisson.com An experimental ultralight from Japan.

Unique Machines: Scooting the Breeze Inventor Woody Norris is on the verge of realizing his dream of building an inexpensive personal flying machine.

Aeronautical Survival: Aircraft Emergencies - Survival techniques can be applied to almost any kind of environment; in the case of aviation, the use of them begins whenever an aircraft suffers some serious trouble and enters an emergency state.

Great Machines - Rotorway Exec 162F Helicopter Build your own helicopter.

In The Air: Lofty Legends Kit-built turbine aircraft rule the skies.

Unique Machines: Sky's the Limit The Moller M400 Skycar, a personal vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, represents every gridlocked commuter’s dream.

Skywalker VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft) The latest design phase of Skywalker VTOL aircraft has the potential to provide exciting air flight, piloted from your location, escaping city traffic and airport landing strips, for direct arrival to your destination. This Experimental Kit-built personal Skywalker VTOL is being prototyped and manufactured by Mirror Image Aerospace and TCB Composite Company Inc.

The AirBike™ VTOL Personal Aircraft [Allied Aerotechnics via Transport Trends] The AirBike concept is definately on the way-cool side of the flying-car conceptual range — perhaps the only flying sportbike ever seriously considered. The vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) craft uses a novel assemblage of fans to achieve directional thrust, and employs an complex means of air channeling to achieve airborne stability.

AirScooter II Ultralight Vehicle Going back to the future of rotor craft design is the basic concept of the AirScooter VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) vehicle by AirScooter Corporation of Henderson, Nevada. "The original Sikorsky rotorcraft helicopter concept was based on a coaxial design much like the AirScooter," says Woody Norris; internationally recognized inventor and AirScooter Corporation co-founder, "what we've done is package the coaxial design in a modern light-weight craft that allows for intuitive control and incredible maneuverability."

Personal helicopter gets off the ground - 16 January 2002 SoloTrek is described as an "exo-skeletor flying vehicle" and is a personal helicopter consisting of twin rotors atop a frame which carries its pilot. The twin rotors power it upwards and can then be controlled to steer the vehicle forwards. See also: Engineer Develops Personal Helicopter

Personal Mosquito Ultralight Helicopter for Under US$20000 (Weird) [ENGAGE POP-UP BLOCKERS FIRST] The Mosquito is one of the worlds lightest manned Helicopters that has been designed and developed over the past 10 years to deliver performance, reliability and ease of flight. Ken Armstrong of Kit Planes Magazine said that the "Mosquito is convincing - it's as close as you can come to real flying with almost no means of support, and the view is at least as good as a bird".

Homebuilt Ultralight G-1 Helicopter Designed, tested and sold in the 1970's by Compcop, the G-1 was intended to fill the need for an affordable, easy-to-build ultralight helicopter. The entire helicopter can be built at home with ordinary tools at a low cost. No license is required to fly the G-1 because it is in the license-free "Ultralight Aircraft" category (see FAR Part 103). The construction manual provides all the details needed to build the G-1, and the included Catalog and Helicopter Experimenter's Handbook give sources of parts and materials.

Propcopter Ultralight Helicopter PROP-COPTER Ultralight Helicopter. So Revolutionary, So Unique in it's Drive System, It is Absolutely, the Helicopter of the Future. So Simple in Design Even YOU could build and Fly This amazing Aircraft.. So Light Weight you don't even have to own a pilot's License to Operate it. But you SHOULD have Proper Training!

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