Jon Leyland sent me some pics of his foamy doing a nose down hover.
He said he reversed the wires on his ESC, flipped the prop around and went for it.

He said it was marginal control at best but it would climb with power...

WoW!!!!

He's not touching any control but the throttle either!!!

This guy is good. Hat's off, gents...

Is that 2 lb test tied to the tail. LOL [X(]

He really is this good....

Seems like any number of reverse hover hot rods would have tried this before,, maybe they tried

wouldnt all the control surfaces be reversed in an inverted hover [:@]

it's not that throttle is the only control he uses it's jut that he hasn't had time to get his hand to the transmitter after release yet, and those are the only two shots they got before it hit the ground

What ya need to do is get a speed control from an r/c car that has reverse on it... you might have problems with the prop, but you could probably come up with something that would work. Now that would just be cool

Wouldn't there be no control except throttle? There is now air being blown over the control surfaces. Personally i think its impossible.

The air is being blown back over the control surfaes.

The reversible car ESC has already been thought out and is in the works.

Um.. don't think so Wayne. Just as there is no propwash in front of the airplane under normal rotation.

Man,

I need more sleep or something.. You guys are correct.

Im a dummy.
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SORRY, I DONT BELIEVE THAT PICTURE, PAINT SHOP PRO AND PHOTO SUITE ARE GREAT PROGRAMS YA KNOW. IN BOTH OF THOSE PHOTOS HE ISNT TOUCHING THE TRANNY, APART FROM THROTTLE. ALSO THE PROP ISNT MOVING, NOT EVEN A SLIGHT BLURR AROUND THE EDGES, UNLESSS THE SHUTTER SPEED IS EXTREMLY FAST I THINK THIS PLANE IS BEEN HELD UP WITH A PEICE OF STRING!

NOW, I THINK THE MASTER OF THS SKILL, DOCTOR JASON, BETTER PUT IN HIS WORD!

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It might hover -untill any control was needed!!!!!!

A little 2 lb test, a thumb tack and a camera and mine should be ready soon.

He is hovering that is my brother. He sais there is no control over it that is why he isnt touching the transmitter...

So its really not a hover, it's just a split second in time before it hit the ground. If I jump off a milk crate and someone takes a picture of me in the air just before I land on the ground am I hovering? No.

Yes..............................si that why it is so vertical? and it seems to be TRing, looks very uncontrolable to me



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looks entirely real too me... remember I can show you a picture of a REAL brick flying... yup, up in the air, the pic just doesn't show what happened a split second after that. same thing here. as others mentioned, it is hovering inverted, at least long enough to take a pic. (which amounts to a grand total of 1/2 of a second or less!)

You guys don't get it. He built an entire up side down room and he is hanging in the picture as well as the furniture. The plane is hovering. Joe

Anyone can do inverted hovering! Just get a heli!

A)Either he is doing it (highly unlikely but in some 65th dimension maybe possible)

B)Or it is tied to ceiling with the string they use in movies for those crazy fight scenes i.e. The Matrix

C)I have better things to do ah har me hearties

It is a fake, but not like you think. The dude is hanging from the ceiling and he is doing a normal hover in the room with the camera inverted as well. Cool looking shot.

it could be for real..if he was luke skywalker and the force was with him

If it was anybody but Jon (like maybe amost of the people who've replied to this post) I'd say it was a fake. When you can do it, you take a pic and show you can. If you can't, you say it's a fake. Simple enough. I've seen the guy do stuff with a plane that wasn't inverted hovering, and if I didn't know better I'd say that was faked. It wasn't.

Nobody said we was flying it around, just that it hovered, momentarily, inverted. Nobody said he had total control. There might not have been enough airflow over the surfaces for control, but I still say that if this particular guy said it hovered, even briefly, then it did.

ok..in that case the paper airplane i just made "hovered" for a second..just before it hit the ground. yeah he might have slowed the fall a little..but you can't take credit for something you didn't do. if you can't control it....should you get credit for it? don't think so

I would imagine it could be stable enough to hang inverted like this for several seconds before it fell off to one side or the other. Most planes hover somewhat easier as the CG is moved back. Looking at this as a pusher, the CG is waaaaaaay back. I may try it with mine before the night is over. I think I'll hang mine from a string so when it does fall out, it won't cause any damage.
Later,,,basmntdweller