{"id":8713,"date":"2014-03-03T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=8713"},"modified":"2014-03-03T13:08:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:08:20","slug":"really-incredible-h-u-l-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/really-incredible-h-u-l-c\/","title":{"rendered":"The Really Incredible H. U. L. C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">One of the things that attracted your editor to the idea of electric flight was the introduction of powerful little permanent magnet motors in model airplanes.\u00a0 With people like Jean-Luc Soullier and Brian Carpenter having used or exploring the use of model aircraft motors on their small, but people-carrying aircraft, we know that flight with these little marvels is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8714\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HULC-vector-diagram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8714\" alt=\"This vector diagram shows the forces involved and gives away the young lady's weight - not very chivalrous!\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HULC-vector-diagram.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HULC-vector-diagram.jpg 350w, http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HULC-vector-diagram-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This vector diagram shows the forces involved and gives away the young lady&#8217;s weight &#8211; not very chivalrous!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But nothing prepares one to take in the flight of an attractive (human) model carried aloft by two H. 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(Heavy Ultra Lift Crane) model helicopters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two RC helicopters lift a woman - Aviation Milestone &amp; World Record (HeliGraphix HULC project)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/77uK19KxMuI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to <i>The Blaze<\/i>, \u201c\u2019This is the first time in the world that a human person is being lifted by a remote-controlled aircraft,\u2019 said Tobias Wagner, Heligraphix and H.U.L.C. pilot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team used upgraded Gaui X7 \u2018megatron\u2019 helicopters outfitted with some seriously heavy-duty components, to give each of the two model helicopters 10 kW of constant power, Wagner said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two RC helicopters lift a woman - The EQUIPMENT we used (HULC project)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7uxuf5JhKLE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The team had performed an earlier, single helicopter lift with their eyes on achieving a person lift \u2013 the first for this type of model aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RC helicopter weight lifting record 30kg\/66 lbs - record heavy lifter\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-PigXQWChs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Maybe someone, somewhere, is planning a two-person lift. \u00a0Who knows what applications this heavy-lifting technology might find?<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Freally-incredible-h-u-l-c%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;font=segoe+ui&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that attracted your editor to the idea of electric flight was the introduction of powerful little permanent magnet motors in model airplanes.\u00a0 With people like Jean-Luc Soullier and Brian Carpenter having used or exploring the use of model aircraft motors on their small, but people-carrying aircraft, we know that flight with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[2571,4854,4855,4856,4858,1163,4859,4857],"class_list":["post-8713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-electric_powerplants","category-sustainable_ga","tag-brian-carpenter","tag-gaui","tag-h-u-l-c","tag-heavy-ultra-lift-crane","tag-heligraphix","tag-jean-luc-soullier","tag-the-blaze","tag-tobias-wagner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Really Incredible H. 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