If I am sculpting a life size male figure out of an oil based clay like Chavant, what diameter galvanized pipe should I use to support the aluminum wire and the weight of the clay?
If you are going life sized, I am not sure how much good aluminum wire is going to be - steel wire or rods might be betterIn any case, 1/2 NPT water pipe is probably strong enough, but 3/4 is easier to handle and leaves enough clay to work with in the wrists and the ankles for a male figure of common size.
By rigging the load with a stiff loop sticking up and putting a hook down from the copter or vice versa, you could lift a (small, the first answer is right here,) load by maneuvering in to hook the load, lift off, lower the load and back out of the hook to fly offThis is not the way real helicopters do it because they can't safely get that close to the load - so they use a long cable.
