Have You Seen This Amazing Flying Lawnmower?

[jammieg]

Whoever built it makes it look so easy.
http://www.crapville.com/videos/flyinglawnmower.asp

 

[enigma]

How does that thing fly?!?

Does it have a makeshift jet engine built in or something? Lawnmowers are pretty heavy, and not exactly aerodynamic.

 

[Chronos]

It is easy to design a device that defies the rules of physics. Making it work is harder.

 

[Wardw]

Obviously not a real mower, just a balsa mockup (but a good one from a distance)
Add a new dimension to the phrase "if pigs could fly".
Now that would be something, bacon that flies straight from the farm to the table :-)

 

[brewnog]

Kinda takes the idea of a hover-mower to extremes...

 

[Astronuc]

I am impressed!

It doesn't seem too heavy from the way it bounces on landing. I suspect that the handle behaves as a counterweight.

Very clever. I take my hat off to the engineer who designed and constructed it.

 

[FredGarvin]

These have been around for quite some time. I used to work in a hobby shop back in the day and I remember talking about them. Here's a link to one from back in 1978:

http://www.bellevillercflyers.com/gallery/album24

It is a neat idea. Not something you see everyday.