Would it be possible to fly a helicopter to the moon, if it were solar powered or some shit?

Reza Baluchi wrote:

If you built a large bubble around the helicopter you could still have air around it for lift one you got into space. The solar panels could be mounted on the surface of the bubble. Actually, I have been testing such a scheme and have been looking for a sponsor.

Why complicate things? Shit. I'm just going to go outside, turn my lawnmower upside down, crank it up, and fly that mad monkey up out of this solar system.

That video of them landing a helicopter with solar power or some shit... faked. Damn NASA and their govt conspiracy to promote some shit.

This is why I come to letsrun, all the cutting edge science. I could read about science at nasa or some shi7, but those guys are years behind. Anyways, gettting a solar powered helicopter to the moon should be a relatively simple matter. The earth is moving right? And the moon is moving right? All you have to do is get the helicopter to hover in place in the path of the moon's orbit, should be easy with solar power. The force of gravity operates at the same speed as the force of light, so using its solar motor the helicopter can propel itself opposite the earth's gravity at the same speed, hovering. The earth will move away from the helicopter and when it gets into the path of the moon's orbit, in the moon's gravitational field, the moon will scoop it right up. Its just a matter of using light rays to hover down at this point.

Totally possible, the earth is spinning like wicked fast, just take off in the helicopter with a rope attached then just let out a little rope as the copter gets higher and that bitch will pick up mad centripetal force and sling shot to the moon in a few hours. Boom!

Ummm...No wrote:

Helicopters get lift by means of their blades acting in the same manner as airplane wings. The top surface is curved, while their bottom surface is flat. This results in air moving over the blades having to move a greater distance than the air beneath the blade. As a result, less air pressure is on top of the wing. This higher pressure underneath the blade pushes the blade (and hence the helicopter) up.

Oh boy I love being pedantic years later.

Considering that most helicopter rotors are actually symmetrical airfoils, this is wildly incorrect.

What about the boundary layer and shit. Something about angle of attack, right?

Harambe wrote:

Ummm...No wrote:

Helicopters get lift by means of their blades acting in the same manner as airplane wings. The top surface is curved, while their bottom surface is flat. This results in air moving over the blades having to move a greater distance than the air beneath the blade. As a result, less air pressure is on top of the wing. This higher pressure underneath the blade pushes the blade (and hence the helicopter) up.

Oh boy I love being pedantic years later.

Considering that most helicopter rotors are actually symmetrical airfoils, this is wildly incorrect.

newsyearsday wrote:

Go get yourself a helicopter license, take off straight up and just keep going. You'll get there!

The op would never get his chopper up.

Robert Haberstroh's ghost wrote:

What about the boundary layer and shit. Something about angle of attack, right?

Yes, angle of attack creates the pressure differential not the shape of the airfoil.

I just happened to read this entire thread. This thread needs to win an award (or some shit). Amazing.

I remember reading this thread when I was three years younger.

any updates on this?

Yes, thanks for asking.

It was much closer than I had originally imagined. Thanks for the advice everyone!!!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/7f/b6/e27fb65bee0fce1869933803531362dd.jpg

Wait, the blades need air right?

No. Outer space is pretty much devoid of gaseous particles. Spinning helicopter rotors require running into gaseous particles to create pressure differences that create lift. Craft designed for outerspace have rockets / plasma accelerators to create motion in the void that is space. The highest recorded helicopter flight is @ 40,000 ft. Planes can get higher due to their Brayton cycle engines (@ 74,000').

Keanu wrote:

Wait, the blades need air right?

If the helicopter gets moving upward fast enough to escape earth's gravity before the air runs out, then it could make it to the moon. The solar powered part is a red herring. The helicopter is a projectile, not an aircraft, once it is in space.

Well, actually we live inside a dome and the earth is flat. And it is impossible to land on the moon because that is actually a star, not a ball of rocks.

Solar powered helicopter is happening!!!!!!! Not just the Moon, but on Mars!!!

Letsrun is proven right once again!!!!

I was so excited I forgot the link

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/29/us/nasa-mars-rover-helicopter-scn-trnd/index.html

Prophetic!!!

Have we shut down NASA yet? wrote:

Serious question. I'd like to at least try.

Helicopters have a hard time flying to the top of very tall mountains as the air isn't dense enough. So, no.