Flying RC "Up" House Uses Real Balloons

Growing up my brother and I tried tying balloons to action figures and trying to float them around the house. We never got the buoyancy just right; the action figures either stayed on the ground or floated to the ceiling. If you have ever seen the movie "Up" you know it's about an old man that attaches a bunch of balloons to his home and floats it away.

A pair of RC plane builders from a YouTube channel called Flight Test have taken their papercraft skills and used them to build the house from "Up" complete with a pair of motors off the side and a bunch of balloons that hold the house aloft.

The finished flying machine actually flies around the room held aloft by a bunch of balloons. They could probably sell a plethora of these things to people if they sold this as a kit. If I flew it, it would either float off outdoors or get smashed to bits by the ceiling fan. If you want to try your hand at building one of these, the video shows how it was made.

It's not exactly a step-by-step, but with some skill and parts you might pull it off. There is a papercraft version of the house available for download. The electric motors used for the design were from a broken X-Wing toy. I'd wager this is a much more difficult build than it looks. You would need to graft the motors and required electronics onto the house. I'm surprised that no one has made a commercial kit to build something like this in the years since the movie debuted. Check out the vide... squirrel!

SOURCE: gizmodo