I really thought this would fly well

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Can't the rotating blades be made into a flywheel themselves? I mean get some mass into them and then you'll be able to get rid of everything else in your design, you'll be back with just the blades and the stem and then it won't matter that it spins

so…. if you had flown that model plane you showed you would have had some idea of the scale of the problem. swap fixed and moving portions of the "wings" so you would be within an order of magnitude of what you needed. also put them right below the prop. and the "training gear" aka needles sticking out of a semi-truck. with no "off" switch. none of this is meant to belittle or berate – make a crazy flying thing but how about start with a known good / successful flying thing ?

I’d be interested to see what would happen if you used the main propeller shaft as a sort of pyrotechnic cannon, taking the chute above the spinning blades!

I thought you were going to make the shaft the the fly-wheel, with some kind of internal clutch.

May I just say: WHEEEEEEEE!!! I had one of those dangerous string-pull air dancer toys as a kid, so that flight path is familiar. Way, way higher, and unobstructed by drywall, relatives, and similar breakable objects. But familiar.

I am like 90% sure the twisty thing is why grown-up helicopters have those pokey-out tailfin things with the little sideways propellers on them. They are pokey-outey for leverage, so the sideways propeller can be of reasonable size, and then it can be used for steering, too. Not, like, normal, reasonable steering, though. Freaky helicopter steering. (It's amazing that helicopters work as well as they do. Did you know they're not required to have black boxes in them? That's insane.)

I look forward to whatever bizarre mechanism you come up with just to try something different from existing, proven designs!

go CO-AXIAL !!! , and four mini FPV style props for roll and pitch control (which can double as an extra/emergency thrust should your autorotation be miscalculated!!) If you dont want to use batteries (which i totally understand), maybe the flywheels can double down as alternators too… I wouldnt use the original props for pitch and roll bec that would just be a classic helicopter and increase the complexity.. Love your videos!! huge fan (Ba Dum Tss)!!

I haven't seen your lady this enthusiastic ever I think! Looks like a win!

Just buy an RC heli 😂

If that wing solution would be feasible, helicopters would not have a tail rotor (or double rotors spinning in opposite directions).

Those aeleroms are nowhere nesr big enough….considering you used a precision aerobatics katana as a visual aid…precision aerobatics planes are notorious for having huge wings with large control surfaces because theyre designed to fly 3d aerobatics which the majority ofnmanuevers are done post stall and not using the airfoil….the key is huge control surfaces guiding the theust from the prop….the ailerons you employed are more for a wing with an airfoil and ustilizinf the wings lift….in this situation its not using a wing to fly so your going to need obnoxious cintrol surfaces to get the same affect because its relying just on the air flow thats the thrust from the prop nothing else is contributing to the lift on this application…that would be my theory

She’s a keeper!

I vote for counter rotative blade solution 😀 It could allow to keep the current clean design in comparison with a tail rotor.

Pivot the project to a flywheel powered helicopter. You can cancel your torque spin with a tail rotor and it would be interesting to see how you approach machining a swash plate

This quit being a kids style helicopter as soon as you started.

Try a Russian version instead of the wings!