Would you really try this...........

[Nautical]

land on top of a house boat /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[jfm]

No. But then I wouldn't have a houseboat.

You get to some weird boatshows Nautical. Are you a member of some underground freaky-boat scene or something? I bet that one was underground in Hamburg.

 

[peterandjeanette]

That looks like a gyrocopter. Needs forward motion to land and take off. An ordinary heli would be no problem, /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif but a gyro would need either a very strong head wind or a very long houseboat. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[jfm]

The plot thickens Peter. Perhaps the houseboat styling is an understated facade and it gets the headwind by being driven at 50kts using its 3x2000hp engines on Arneson drives

 

[MapisM]

LOL, yeah, I'd love to try also a slalom course behind it!...
Actually Peter got it only partially right: a gyro it is, but definitely a VTOL machine.
The forward motion required by those thingies for both take off and landing is ridiculously low, 2 or 3 meters of space is more than enuff.

 

[Nautical]

......... "Are you a member of some underground freaky-boat scene or something? "..........


Yeah, think they call it YBW !