Flying Bathtub

[ranworthbreeze]

A friend of mine sent me this youtube clip.

 

 

Regards

Alan

[PastorsDayOff]

Fun! But also somewhat disappointing! From your title I was honestly expecting to see someone having attached wings to a Bounty 37!

[ranworthbreeze]

Maybe it is possible but you would need a lot of propellers to get any lift.

It might solve the Potter Heigham Bridge issue however

Regards

Alan

[Hockham Admiral]

It would do that, Alan... If its lift failed when overhead the bridge there wouldn't be a problem anymore!   

[Vaughan]

Seriously though - surely that thing is a piloted aircraft. Doesn't it need a licence?

[TheQ]

in the UK with him on board it's a piloted needing a Licence, Weight would decide whether is a microlight or full licence.

If  he were not onboard then he would need  a permit for flying a large Model aircraft over 20Kg.

If it's over 150Kg then you are back in aircraft rules

[Hockham Admiral]

They never do seem to pay more than lip service to EU rules though, do they?

(Our aviation rules follow European JARs)

[Guest]

36 minutes ago, TheQ said:

If  he were not onboard then he would need  a permit for flying a large Model aircraft over 20Kg.

Which is also governed by the civil aviation authority 

[TheQ]

14 minutes ago, Ricardo said:

Which is also governed by the civil aviation authority 

Though I believe, issued through the Large Model Association...

[Maxwellian]

3 hours ago, Hockham Admiral said:

It would do that, Alan... If its lift failed when overhead the bridge there wouldn't be a problem anymore!   

There might be a problem for the boat going through though John! 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Though I believe, issued through the Large Model Association...

Yep and I believe the British model flying association have a hand in it too as they have 3 grades of tests of a pilots ability luckily iv all 3 so safe to fly at a public display etc as well as be an examiner, there are some seriously large models about do it no surprise they are basically governed as a microlight as much smaller models have resulted in fatal injury's .

[grendel]

4 hours ago, Hockham Admiral said:

It would do that, Alan... If its lift failed when overhead the bridge there wouldn't be a problem anymore!   

Just fit the drone engines to the bridge- much easier

[BrundallNavy]

4 hours ago, Vaughan said:

Seriously though - surely that thing is a piloted aircraft. Doesn't it need a licence?

Not if it’s under 70kgs empty weight, curtesy of the new EU regs.