Backpack Helicopter: The Future of Personal Flight

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Backpack Helicopter

A backpack helicopter is a motor, rotor, and controls assembly for a helicopter that can be attached to a person's back. This allows the person to walk about on the ground while wearing the backpack helicopter, and then use the backpack helicopter to fly. A harness similar to one used for a parachute is used, and there should also be a strap running between the legs. In certain designs, the amount of upward force may be increased by using a ducted fan design. There have been a number of attempts made to create backpack helicopters, with varying degrees of success.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Backpack helicopter

Chapter 2: VTOL

Chapter 3: Jet pack

Chapter 4: List of rotorcraft

Chapter 5: Hiller YH-32 Hornet

Chapter 6: Helicopter flight controls

Chapter 7: SoloTrek XFV

Chapter 8: Helicopter rotor

Chapter 9: Tip jet

Chapter 10: Quadcopter

Chapter 11: Gyrodyne

Chapter 12: Steam rocket

Chapter 13: Rotorcraft

Chapter 14: Helicopter

Chapter 15: Yves Rossy

Chapter 16: Aerospace General Mini-Copter

Chapter 17: Gyrodyne RON Rotorcycle

Chapter 18: Martin Jetpack

Chapter 19: Solution F/Chretien Helicopter

Chapter 20: Hoppi-Copter

Chapter 21: Nagler-Rolz NR 54

(II) Answering the public top questions about backpack helicopter.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of backpack helicopter in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of backpack helicopter' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of backpack helicopter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Oct 25, 2022

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Copyright

Backpack Helicopter Copyright © 2022 by Fouad Sabry. All Rights Reserved.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

Cover designed by Fouad Sabry.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Bonus

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Preface

Why did I write this book?

The story of writing this book started on 1989, when I was a student in the Secondary School of Advanced Students.

It is remarkably like the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Schools, which are now available in many advanced countries.

STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. This term is typically used to address an education policy or a curriculum choice in schools. It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy.

There was a weekly class in the library, where each student is free to choose any book and read for 1 hour. The objective of the class is to encourage the students to read subjects other than the educational curriculum.

In the library, while I was looking at the books on the shelves, I noticed huge books, total of 5,000 pages in 5 parts. The books name is The Encyclopedia of Technology, which describes everything around us, from absolute zero to semiconductors, almost every technology, at that time, was explained with colorful illustrations and simple words. I started to read the encyclopedia, and of course, I was not able to finish it in the 1-hour weekly class.

So, I convinced my father to buy the encyclopedia. My father bought all the technology tools for me in the beginning of my life, the first computer and the first technology encyclopedia, and both have a great impact on myself and my career.

I have finished the entire encyclopedia in the same summer vacation of this year, and then I started to see how the universe works and to how to apply that knowledge to everyday problems.

My passion to the technology started mor than 30 years ago and still the journey goes on.

This book is part of The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies which is my attempt to give the readers the same amazing experience I had when I was in high school, but instead of 20th century technologies, I am more interested in the 21st century emerging technologies, applications, and industry solutions.

The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies will consist of 365 books, each book will be focused on one single emerging technology. You can read the list of emerging technologies and their categorization by industry in the part of Coming Soon, at the end of the book.

365 books to give the readers the chance to increase their knowledge on one single emerging technology every day within the course of one year period.

Introduction

How did I write this book?

In every book of The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies, I am trying to get instant, raw search insights, direct from the minds of the people, trying to answer their questions about the emerging technology.

There are 3 billion Google searches every day, and 20% of those have never been seen before. They are like a direct line to the people thoughts.

Sometimes that’s ‘How do I remove paper jam’. Other times, it is the wrenching fears and secret hankerings they would only ever dare share with Google.

In my pursuit to discover an untapped goldmine of content ideas about Backpack Helicopter, I use many tools to listen into autocomplete data from search engines like Google, then quickly cranks out every useful phrase and question, the people are asking around the keyword Backpack Helicopter.

It is a goldmine of people insight, I can use to create fresh, ultra-useful content, products, and services. The kind people, like you, really want.

People searches are the most important dataset ever collected on the human psyche. Therefore, this book is a live product, and constantly updated by more and more answers for new questions about Backpack Helicopter, asked by people, just like you and me, wondering about this new emerging technology and would like to know more about it.

The approach for writing this book is to get a deeper level of understanding of how people search around Backpack Helicopter, revealing questions and queries which I would not necessarily think off the top of my head, and answering these questions in super easy and digestible words, and to navigate the book around in a straightforward way.

So, when it comes to writing this book, I have ensured that it is as optimized and targeted as possible. This book purpose is helping the people to further understand and grow their knowledge about Backpack Helicopter. I am trying to answer people’s questions as closely as possible and showing a lot more.

It is a fantastic, and beautiful way to explore questions and problems that the people have and answer them directly, and add insight, validation, and creativity to the content of the book – even pitches and proposals. The book uncovers rich, less crowded, and sometimes surprising areas of research demand I would not otherwise reach. There is no doubt that, it is expected to increase the knowledge of the potential readers’ minds, after reading the book using this approach.

I have applied a unique approach to make the content of this book always fresh. This approach depends on listening to the people minds, by using the search listening tools. This approach helped me to:

Meet the readers exactly where they are, so I can create relevant content that strikes a chord and drives more understanding to the topic.

Keep my finger firmly on the pulse, so I can get updates when people talk about this emerging technology in new ways, and monitor trends over time.

Uncover hidden treasures of questions need answers about the emerging technology to discover unexpected insights and hidden niches that boost the relevancy of the content and give it a winning edge.

The building block for writing this book include the following:

(1) I have stopped wasting the time on gutfeel and guesswork about the content wanted by the readers, filled the book content with what the people need and said goodbye to the endless content ideas based on speculations.

(2) I have made solid decisions, and taken fewer risks, to get front row seats to what people want to read and want to know — in real time — and use search data to make bold decisions, about which topics to include and which topics to exclude.

(3) I have streamlined my content production to identify content ideas without manually having to sift through individual opinions to save days and even weeks of time.

It is wonderful to help the people to increase their knowledge in a straightforward way by just answering their questions.

I think the approach of writing of this book is unique as it collates, and tracks the important questions being asked by the readers on search engines.

Acknowledgments

Writing a book is harder than I thought and more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. None of this would have been possible without the work completed by prestigious researchers, and I would like to acknowledge their efforts to increase the knowledge of the public about this emerging technology.

Dedication

To the enlightened, the ones who see things differently, and want the world to be better -- they are not fond of the status quo or the existing state. You can disagree with them too much, and you can argue with them even more, but you cannot ignore them, and you cannot underestimate them, because they always change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones or amateur, others see genius and innovators, because the ones who are enlightened enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do, and lead the people to the enlightenment.

Epigraph

A backpack helicopter is a motor, rotor, and controls assembly for a helicopter that can be attached to a person's back. This allows the person to walk about on the ground while wearing the backpack helicopter, and then use the backpack helicopter to fly. A harness similar to one used for a parachute is used, and there should also be a strap running between the legs. In certain designs, the amount of upward force may be increased by using a ducted fan design. There have been a number of attempts made to create backpack helicopters, with varying degrees of success.

Table of Contents

Copyright

Bonus

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Epigraph

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Backpack helicopter

Chapter 2: VTOL

Chapter 3: Jet pack

Chapter 4: List of rotorcraft

Chapter 5: Hiller YH-32 Hornet

Chapter 6: Helicopter flight controls

Chapter 7: SoloTrek XFV

Chapter 8: Helicopter rotor

Chapter 9: Tip jet

Chapter 10: Quadcopter

Chapter 11: Gyrodyne

Chapter 12: Steam rocket

Chapter 13: Rotorcraft

Chapter 14: Helicopter

Chapter 15: Yves Rossy

Chapter 16: Aerospace General Mini-Copter

Chapter 17: Gyrodyne RON Rotorcycle

Chapter 18: Martin Jetpack

Chapter 19: Solution F/Chretien Helicopter

Chapter 20: Hoppi-Copter

Chapter 21: Nagler-Rolz NR 54

Epilogue

About the Author

Coming Soon

Appendices: Emerging Technologies in Each Industry

Chapter 1: Backpack helicopter

A backpack helicopter is a motor, rotor, and controls assembly for a helicopter that can be attached to a person's back. This allows the person to walk about on the ground while wearing the backpack helicopter, and then use the backpack helicopter to fly. It is similar to a parachute harness and should feature a strap that goes between the legs for further security (so the pilot does not fall out of the harness during flight). In certain designs, the amount of upward force may be increased by using a ducted fan design. Backpack helicopters have been attempted by a few different inventors, with varying degrees of success.

Generally speaking, a conventional helicopter and a backpack helicopter are distinguished from one another by two primary distinctions:

To begin, there is no major tail rotor, and the main rotors rotate in the opposite direction. Fine adjustment of a differential gear inside the rotor drive transmission allows for precise control of the yaw angle. Yaw is something that can be induced by adjusting one rotor such that it spins slightly faster than the other (turning motion).

Second, the rotors have a constant pitch, which helps keep things simple but makes it difficult to do autorotation in the case that the engine stops working. As a matter of course, a ballistic parachute would be included for reasons of safety.

In 1969, an issue of Popular Science magazine carried an article on a backpack helicopter that did not use contra-rotating rotors but instead used miniature jet engines arranged in a tip jet arrangement. It's possible that this concept may work in autorotation. Devices such as a backpack helicopter, which are similar to open-topped, miniature helicopters, also have a seat and leg supports. Backpack helicopters fall under this category. In principle, a rocket-powered jetpack would be less efficient than a helicopter since the rocket-powered jetpack would have a bigger specific impulse, but the helicopter would be better suited to hovering because the propelled gases would have lower velocities.

an electric backpack helicopter with a self-leveling autopilot was a product that the Australian electric business CopterPack had created, From 1941 forward, German engineers were responsible for the development of the Heliofly brand.

Horace T. Pentecost, an independent inventor, was the one who came up with the concept of the Pentecost HX-1 Hoppi-Copter and exhibited it to the military in the year 1945.

Rhyme (produced in Japan) (made in Japan)

Libelula, which translates to dragonfly, is a helicopter developed by Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana. It features a two-bladed rotor that is propelled by a tiny rocket motor at the end of each rotor blade. A jetpack is another product that the business makes.

SoloTrek XFV (Exo-skeletal Flying Vehicle).

Martin Jetpack

Several versions manufactured by Vortech are equipped with seating. In the past, they also produced a pure backpack variant that had two very long rotor blades, each of which was propelled by a little jet engine fueled by propane and mounted at the very end of the blade.

GenH4

Trek Aerospace's Springtail

{End Chapter 1}

Chapter 2: VTOL

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can hover, take off and land vertically without depending on a runway. This categorization may encompass a range of kinds of aircraft including helicopters as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and gyrodynes.

Some vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are also capable of flying in other flight modes, such as conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL), short takeoff and landing (STOL), and short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) (short take-off & vertical landing). Others, such as some types of helicopters, are unable to operate by any other method owing to the absence of landing gear that is capable of managing taxiing. VTOL may be broken down further into V/STOL (vertical or short take-off & landing).

Some aircraft that are lighter than air are also considered