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999 out of 1000 people reading these forums wouldn’t live longer than a few minutes of a zombie apocalypse.
999 out of 1000 people couldn’t fashion clothes from grass that would be functional for more than a few minutes.

999 out of 1000 people couldn’t craft 200 arrows while simultaneously chopping down trees using a stone axe made from rocks twigs and grass— not even for a few minutes.

999 out of 1000 people can’t fit nor carry a stack of 64 1 meter concrete blocks in their backpacks.

Obviously our avatar is that one person who can do it all—even fly a gyrocopter unassisted by computer controlled stabilizers.
A helicopter pilot told me it was sometimes like juggling and riding a bike at the same time. Also there is a zone just above ground where the physics plays hell with not crashing. I saw them hovering in that zone many times just to get the feel of it.

Edit: I'm not sure if this is what he was talking about, but there is something called a "Vortex ring state". That would kill people that didn't know what was happening.

 
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A helicopter pilot told me it was sometimes like juggling and riding a bile at the same time. Also there is a zone just above ground where the physics plays hell with not crashing. I saw them hovering in that zone many times just to get the feel of it.
You don't even have to be off the ground, or anywhere near it, for a helicopter to explode. It's as though they know they're an abomination to physics and wish to end their torturous existence.

From the wiki -

"The vortex ring state, also known as settling with power, is a dangerous condition that may arise in helicopter flight, when a vortex ring system engulfs the rotor causing severe loss of lift.

Essentially, the helicopter descends into its own downwash. When the condition arises, increasing the rotor power merely feeds the vortex motion without generating additional lift"

 
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The Wright brothers weren't the first men to fly, they were the first to survive the landing :-)
:)

I can see it in cave man days:

Grok: Grok wants to fly, fly like bird!

Alok: Hmm <Pushes Grok off cliff> No... well maybe. Let me see if Thorak want to fly too!

 
We really need the ability for custom paint jobs and free hand grafiti with the airship. That's a flying billboard that will look lame without.....stuff.....written on it. (Family friendly, of course.)
and custom sounds, so we can have beautiful moments such as

 
It was a combustion engine model. The real deal. ;)
And the best I can do is make sure it does not fly realistically because very few people would get that thing off the ground... without plowing right back into it 20 seconds later.
Being lightweight, the heli is really too responsive, indeed. A plower, air-head turns, self destroyer in a tree, so many purposes. But sure it is hell of a fun.

 
Pagan woodland creatures are the ones without organised belief systems.

I'm certain that this is no entity property so someone seems to be bringing his personal baggage into the game.

Maybe he's suggesting that we should eat more pagans? We'll probably never find out. Nor should we try to.

 
Hey I began looking into this airship thing and it looks as Lockheed Martin has built it's first models, back in 2016!

I am posting links for those of you interested in it. It is a little big but the developers could shrink the size to fit easily into the game.

The reason for the links is to give everyone an idea of what an airship could do.

This thing is part blimp, part wing and part hover craft.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjK8NWZ5PrYAhWDuFMKHWGhDAUQtwIIOjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fla-fi-lockheed-martin-aircraft-20160308-story.html&usg=AOvVaw1ItMnfhvYOV77XFGUl22N-

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjK8NWZ5PrYAhWDuFMKHWGhDAUQtwIINzAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2016%2F03%2F10%2Fthis-airship-transports-lockheed-into-new-territory.html&usg=AOvVaw2_wA-oUCgSX4X-GyePr5Rj

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjK8NWZ5PrYAhWDuFMKHWGhDAUQtwIIQDAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Flockheed-martin-p-791-hybrid-airship-cargo-blimp-2016-5&usg=AOvVaw1CZizKdqzoCPwX2wAlxPlw

This forth link is mainly for size on other into. Again it could be smaller and even a different shape.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi9_qCA5vrYAhXQ0VMKHbWBDxQQjhwIBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextbigfuture.com%2F2016%2F03%2Fhybrid-airships-nearing-significant.html&psig=AOvVaw1FZRHZizN0u4iGRQ1G7Piz&ust=1517233665578390

 
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Surprisingly difficult to fly those. The pilot involved in this rather sedentary impact had hundreds of hours flying time with various types of aircraft and even he couldn't prevent its front-bum, and more importantly the cockpit, from hitting the ground. Nobody was injured in the following footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-RPTiVa_Q

This one just seems to give up on the runway :-)

 
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Surprisingly difficult to fly those. The pilot involved in this rather sedentary impact had hundreds of hours flying time with various types of aircraft and even he couldn't prevent its front-bum, and more importantly the cockpit, from hitting the ground. Nobody was injured in the following footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-RPTiVa_Q

This one just seems to give up on the runway :-)

Pessimist. :)

But did you notice that this was a prototype? In other words. Airship- alpha 1

 
Pessimist. :)
But did you notice that this was a prototype? In other words. Airship- alpha 1
Airships in general, regardless of whether they're blimps or have a rigid structure, have a terrible safety record. They just seem to attract accidents. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airship_accidents

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England."

- King of Swamp Castle - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 
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IMO, ultra-light style airframe would be the most practical and realistic for the average survivor in apocalypse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aviation

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The jet-powered wing-suit is one of the few modes of aerial transportation without a single fatality. This is mainly due to the fact that only a handful of people have been b̶r̶a̶v̶e̶ stupid enough to try it. Perfect for those quick escapes from the top of a skyscraper :-)

wingsuit_with_frikkin_jets.jpg

"It said that before being allowed to jetpack-fly in Britain, he had to get himself registered as an aeroplane, because parts of his body, rather than parts of his jetpack, acted as control surfaces; but he was exempted from the seat-belt rule."

Yves Rossy's wiki entry

 
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