Will the Kyosho Hyperfly NOTAR Hover?
People say manufacturers stole my idea for ETRMS and this NOTAR.
Listen, It was never stolen! I simply was messing with inventing and doing untried stuff back when RC was new.
I never tried to sell the idea, just show them off, so I sent articles and pictures and vids to the magazines and manufacturers.
I just wanted to show what I could do and they could print it, which they did.
I know all the people who used the ideas, especially Aki Suzuki (owner of Kyosho) who paid me very well for 8 years for this Hyperfly Idea.
Many people said it could not hover or even fly at all for that matter.
Mode I Radios made it tough for USA pilots who can't fly airplanes in Mode I either.
Once Great Planes began selling them with a radio, I tried to not allow them to sell it with a Mode I radio,but it was out of my hands by then and Futaba had a ton of left over Mode 1 radios, and made the deal. I was disappointed in that.
But it really sold well overseas, where they fly mode I.
Because this machine was new, and unconventional, it was beyond most Mode II fliers flying capability who had no understanding of basic helicopter theory and aerodynamics.
Here I show exactly what it could do. (And of course in the right hands), they were proven wrong, as I demonstrate the extremes in this video.
(some people can't drive you know, and if you dare to learn something new, with practice, you can master anything, as many of us could really fly the Hyperfly great. But most not, and it is still the same today)
Helis are difficult.
The Hyperfly turned out to be the most sold model of all time in Kyosho's history. Most of the sales came from overseas where people did not give up learning to fly it like they did in the USA.
It ran it's sales course for 8 years, which is longer than most innovative flying machines that typically have a sales life expectancy of only 2 years or less.
It was featured in Aviation Weekly and Space Technology magazines. The original is on display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum which was donated by Aki Suzuki of Kyosho Corporation.
I had to successfully fly it for the museum staff first, to prove it's airworthiness.
This machine was originally designed by me to prove a point. And that point was that I could take any electric ETRM helicopter, take the tail rotor motor off, put a plastic plate on the tail and fly around just fine.
You may have seen it in one of my other Hyperfly videos on youtube.
It was a new kind of flying machine at the time, that only needed a 2 channel radio to fly.
I hope you enjoy this bit of more R/C history folks.
Thanks for watching.
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