Building The Fastest Possible Wind Powered Aircraft!

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I am experimenting with wind power! How fast can I make a creation go using only the power of the wind against sails?
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In the toughest motoring expedition in the universe, you and your friends will build your own vehicles to cross a dangerous wasteland. Explore, crash horribly, use your wits to build a better rig, and get as far as you can with whatever spare parts you find on your way.
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[@SonOfmowgef]

I vaguely remember a good while back Scrapman made a vehicle that pulled a kite. Would be pretty interesting to see that flipped, so the kite catches the wind to pull the boat.

[@RamiGold]

yes

[@FireBallT073]

That just sounds like Parasailing but with extra steps

[@lstchance87]

Like the movie waterworld

[@iMrx911]

Yes

[@user-wi7iy2me7y]

Ah yes you just remade sails

[@casualcomrade8814]

1:58 I like how for a split second the epic music plays while he's in the air

[@marcus757fugaming7]

Ik

[@braedennoble1566]

whats the song name

[@skystriker4459]

Yes

[@jakey6274]

@@skystriker4459 thanks

[@icanonlyhave50charactersin30]

@@jakey6274 thanks

[@naofuminorikiya2527]

Yup he cuts the music when he lands on water makes this even funnier

[@jellyd8662]

You can go faster then the wind by only windpower in trailmakers just like sailboats do it. The problem with this in trailmakers is keeping the boat from tilting. I have exceeded windspeed in TM by more then double but doing this at 700kph is gonna be a challenge.

[@kurtisam]

same. i also took it a step further and made a drone with some UFO engines (not for power but for side to side resistance, like a keel) and was able to get to around 3000 mph doing laps around the map.

[@cjslime8847]

@@kurtisam thanks just amazing

[@NuclearTrinket]

There is a video about going faster than the wind with only wind power

[@MergeMechanic]

I think with a certain mod you once used you can make it so that you can "drive" on water, I think it would be interesting to see what happens with the big waves, going against, or with them.

[@mohammadnazriabdsamad8286]

ScrapMan, what's the fastest plane you've made/subscribed to so far in Trailmakers? Could you fly that plane Into the wind until you reach the edge of the high seas map?

[@kurtisam]

it is possible to reach the edge of the map, its just super hard. the same thing happens as in other maps.

[@arathearapaima7107]

You can do it pretty easily, just use a plane that breaks the sound barrier

[@Truly_That_Guy]

Make a skipping rock to skip over the water using the wind for help!!!

[@rainneir]

He made a rock skipper last year i think i wanna see what happens if he uses it in the high seas

[@nautilus2584]

I like how Scrapman uses strategy to create fast vehicles (in general) instead of just making giant blocks of thrusters/sails/engines

[@alexjing2967]

Scrapman has like the most precise upload schedule ever

[@lyo6200]

Fr

[@LjCaples]

If you're a KZbinr, you'd know how he does it :)

[@quackin12152]

@@lyo6200 yeah for real

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

@@LjCaples scrapman is an AI?

[@naofuminorikiya2527]

@@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890 what?!

[@villagernumber7882]

Suggestion: you should name that sail craft "the mundinaut" (its a play on the Latin words mundi and nautae which literally translates into "The world Sailor") I feel that it's a fitting name for your sail craft

[@spikepillow3301]

There are still those floating logs in the water in the High Seas, right? This is vague but I wonder if we (as the community) could make some kind of challenge relating to them.

[@knightbeforedawn]

Multiplayer Monday challenge to collect them and each player builds a craft to pick them up and they have to carry them with themwhoever collects the most in 5 minutes (or whatever's fair)

[@spikepillow3301]

@@knightbeforedawn Here's a potential twist: The logs have to be loose and not held in place by a tractor beam. Though I suppose a tractor beam could be used to place them on the craft

[@DaStuntChannel]

10:53, the speed is calculated at the center of mass probably, since it touched water with the bottom part of the ship, it tilted down really fast, which made the center of mass go faster, like a wheel through the road, the part that is contacting the ground is at 0 speed and the opposite part of the wheel is at double of the current speed

[@DaStuntChannel]

Actually I'm wrong, that would be the case if the speed is calculated at the center of geometry...

[@creativenametxt2960]

I mean, it makes sense that ingame you break the sound barrier when you are going a certain speed relative to the ground, but shouldn't it actually be the speed relative to the wind? Wind is basically moving air, so irl you should be working in the reference frame of the wind.

[@cjslime8847]

Imagine forcing yourself to stand still on faster then sound wind

[@C.I.T.]

Scrapman didn't pass the sound barrier, he passed the physics barrier.

[@the_andrewgrech]

Gonna throw a guess out there... perhaps while a vehicle is rotating on its axis, that is calculated into the speed of the creation. That is my guess why when you hit the water, the speed increased; the partial impact with the water caused the vehichle to quickly rotate, which in turn increased the speed shown. I don't know how speed is calculated in this game, and that is why it's only a guess.

[@snelake]

it could be you getting launched out of the water because of the rotation

[@marshahouson9io649]

Speak English

[@Rhyno186]

Exactly what I was thinking. When the lower part of the vehicle hits the water, it slows down dramatically, but the part above water gets snapped forward and down, causing the speed calculation to jump, assumedly measuring the speed at the tip.

[@snelake]

@@Rhyno186 or perhaps it measures speed at the seat

[@snelake]

@@Rhyno186 because i can’t see how they could calculate where the t was

[@Art_Joga]

Interesting fact: The Wright brothers' "plane" needed a catapult for it to fly, while Santos Dumont plane didn't need anything to fly (including the Wright brothers' they only showed their invention after Santos Dumont )

[@raphaelrutigliano1175]

Scrapman, I don't know if you realized, but you hit 760 once you touched the water a couple of times. If you build a sailkite that can barely touch and drift along the water, we might have a win here.

[@hahahahahah6991]

Nice video but you should make a creature that uses "walk" power to break the sound barrier

[@brrrrrr]

You can technically say that servos are "walk" power

[@hahahahahah6991]

@@brrrrrr yes but of you use it for spinning than it will be like a wheel

[@brrrrrr]

@@hahahahahah6991 so "walk" power isn't "walk" power?

[@hahahahahah6991]

@@brrrrrr you can use servos but not as wheels

[@xnrs317]

Day 248 of asking scrapman to make a plane dogfight evolution video (trailmakers)

[@literallynoone9705]

YES

[@mus_xr4653]

That’s not going to happen

[@ererederechte]

Or hovercraft backwards Evolution demolition derby with waves and the only propulsion method is sails

[@HITLER11167]

Yes

[@megacharizardxgod5298]

@@mus_xr4653 i wouldn't say it's not going to happen, just not anytime soon

[@fernandoqueirozpopovic7024]

I find it hilarious how the music picks up as soon as the wind hits the craft that jumps out the water

[@end_slayer]

I really love when people do the music like this (2:00) so thanks for that

[@Dannoprime]

would be interesting to see if you used gimbals to keep the creation oriented in a position then maximising sails efficincy to push / get pussed in one direction

[@Hlebuw3k]

Idea: Try to replicate how surfers ride the waves, since the ones at the edge of the map are so insanely huge and fast it would certainly look awesome

[@timonviljoen3397]

I would love to see scrapman doe a surfing vehicle for the massive waves. Either a surfboard or some typ of bboat that rides the wave

[@ezrarichardson279]

Most sailboats can go faster then the wind while tacking (going sideways to the wind) except if they have to much drag. The veritasium video was about going faster then the wind directly downwind, completely different.

[@Xeroxia]

You know how the creation has light weight properties because of the sails? Please make a blimp it would be so cool

[@Loooom555]

You should play a game called “from the depths” It’s complex but you can make basically anything you want

[@Clover-re4ud]

Scrapman it would be cool to see you make a blimp using sails.

[@notschniz2365]

The reason of you going co sisterly 724 is because of, well you said it, gravity. Considering you can’t go faster than the wind parallel to the wind, the only other way you can go faster is through gravity. But because you built a box of sails, the air resistance in all directions is basically ridiculously high, so your downwards speed is being severely limited by your ridiculous air resistance, causing you to have an extremely low terminal velocity of 4 mph (or was it kph I didn’t see). This makes the entire craft feel extremely light, because you can fall extremely slowly, which means along with auto-rotation, I believe this might be one of the most interesting ways to slow your fall (video idea?). Also, in order to reach maximum velocity, you would want to get your air resistance at the direction the wind is blowing at a maximum, while making sure the air resistance towards the direction of gravity is at a minimum. You would need to get really high on the initial jump tho because you are going to lose altitude really quickly like this.

[@Earthenfist]

You could sail faster than sound on... Neptune, I believe? Or perhaps Uranus. They've got supersonic winds.

[@JessePigmen]

Scrapman : you cant go faster then the wind Me : well actually acording to veratas.... Scrapman : and yes i've watched the veratasium video

[@WD-1477]

*Surfing episode would be awesome 🌊😎👍*

[@deanandrewkhoo9567]

Video idea: make a blimp using sails (just make the ballon part made out of sails)

[@tornadoblovom3460]

Good idea

[@wadekinney8]

Try getting to the sky box, if it exists? Maybe the wind effect don't apply that high up? Then drop in to the corner from above with your sail box.

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

Woo-hoo! Scrapman did supersonic build attempt like I suggested only more epic! Looking forwards to seeing the next attempt!

[@Linuxdirk]

Once again awesome work with the music is post-processing! 👍

[@FoshizzleMaMan]

ScrapMan is such a feel good channel.

[@ozonelow706]

Love your videos I’ve been watching them for a long time now.

[@ARockyRock]

Theory as to why you can only go 720 when you touch the water for a sec: The game only checks if you are going 720 in one direction at a time. When you tap the water, part of the speed is going down into the water so the game keeps accelerating you in the direction of the wind. Basically, you were still going 720 following the wind but you had some more speed in a different direction that was messing with things. aaand in the time it took me to type this you already figured this out lol

[@brickerupdike5908]

I was having a similar glitch recently, (not in the DLC) where in the builder, some blocks would not have the config pop-up and couldn't be deleted or multi-selected. The only way to get rid of them was to reload the game, which was annoying to say the least if I was trying to save a creation. I attributed it to the beta mirror mode and my not-so-fast laptop, but now I think it's a whole slew of bugs in the newest update.

[@normalyoutubechannelnothin2462]

i love how he does the music its amazing

[@barrybend7189]

4:49 your catching water currents or water drag which is shearing your craft apart.

[@sheri9516]

The change of background music when he gets out of water into fast wind

[@knightbeforedawn]

If you have sails facing each other they add thrust in relatively oposing directions. If the sails are orientated the same way as eachother, the thrust will be in the same direction. It's all based on their orientation to the winds direction. A sailboat will use a combination of mast rotation and rudders in the water to stabilize and redirect that into forward motion. I wonder if this translates to Trailmakers accurately?

[@ruben_rome_7645]

I was dealing with the same bug you were with the transform feature. I’m glad it wasn’t just me lol

[@shuttleman27c]

Make a wind paddle boat. Just have sails on rotors that get pushed and spin causing more thrust with the paddles, or use a gigantic wheel powered by it and you should be able to go over using only wind

[@spacewalk3046]

if you are gonna use sails on propellers id suggest u also try using paddles cuz they were the fastest thing to use for props before the update, even in air compared to all the other aerodynamic parts and id suggest u use the speed glitch when u set joints to the speed -100 (use the rotating servos) cuz then youll achieve the fastest speeds. But if u use more than i think 2 servos, they get offset form eachother so just like with ur ornithopter but underwater attempt, it will act as a reaction wheel because the servos are offset, so far the only way ive found to counteract this is just a keel if u are using it for a boat or just something that spins creating a countertorque at a certain speed.

[@Hlebuw3k]

I was just about to comment about the Veretasium video when you mentioned it 😂 It feels like that method should work, but im not sure how to make it work properly here

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

make a wedge system that allows a train to climb uphill, but not slide back down the wedges will be facing forward, that way once the trains wedge is over that one wedge ground, it can’t go back down the trains wedge will be on a pice of suspension so it can go over the wedge

[@lanky3]

Hi persun

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

@@lanky3 hi

[@alexanderkrauss6266]

I guess, the very first try where you went, as far as I seen it 758 kph, was as you discribed. So it was windpower + gravity. But I´m looking forward to these things you mentioned at the end.

[@zallionbalancebreaker3470]

Love the shape

[@illuminatifatman5480]

7:23 IS THAT A TIE FIGHTER!

[@jackgarrett6210]

New glider evolution using the sails

[@jaunusender6166]

The fact that it's going sideways faster make sense because you don't have any forward drag everything is just getting carried along on the Wind. If you think of it more along the lines of fluid dynamics with fluid of the air is rushing past it so quickly that being open sideways and having your wings horizontal would carry you at least 720

[@jaunusender6166]

Since you're being pushed forward by the wind the wind ahead of you would be slower and create more drag

[@ashleewhitbrook8992]

you should try using body pivots to help with the steering like the old toy snakes that you used to get as kids

[@swiftchicken187]

Can you make a sea skimmer where only the bottom fin is in the water possibly powered by sails

[@GridM0nkey]

It's like a manta ray egg casing before you added the tail... neat designs though

[@SarungStreams]

Stone skipping challenge. Make a vehicle that throws (or is the stone that is thrown) a stone. See how far it can go/how many times it can skip

[@haydenhouston2650]

For those massive waves you should build a surf board/boat creation to see if surfing is possible!

[@SGTRandyB]

I know I’m 8 months late… but the mere fact that you reference a veritasium video makes me wanna subscribe again.

[@Lost.911]

Hey scrapman you should make a fishing/crabbing boat to conqueor the waves

[@NikkeNick]

We’re still waiting for you to publish the dragon it’s very cool.

[@Anti-Smart]

You should do a slow falling challenge for multiplayer. Special rules, no going up, that's it other than your normal rules.

[@joefowler449]

This is cool

[@depressingdonuts9898]

Could you use skis to make a jetski? Idk if you can, but food for thought!

[@falkaa4566]

Hi Scrapman, sorry english is not my mothertong. I think, as water in montain river, air in wind can be use as a "support" for acceleration force. Like a oar in water during rafting, you can mime the movements and articulations of a bird to push air in the wind. That sould probably push the limit of 720 kph

[@falkaa4566]

We never seen bird flapping their wings in wind, he prefere saving energy. That's may be why you don't think about this solution before :)

[@Jeron-E]

T - HS Tbh i want more

[@INS4N1TYVR]

I feel like the ending is gonna have something to do with going in to the vortex, but it’s just a feeling, just a feeling.

[@badwolf4480]

Sccccccrrrrrraaaaaaapppppp mmmmmaaaaaannnnn hype. Love the videos and youve helped me really understand trailmakers.

[@Dvance]

:o I didn't think this was a possible feat.

[@Diekyl]

ScrapMan, you mentionned Veritasium as I was going to write it in my comment :P If the simulation is close enough to reality, you should be able to go faster if you fly in the wind at an angle instead of going straight parallel. It is true that if you sail parallel to the wind, your maximum speed is the actual speed of the wind, but if you sail for instance at 45° then your theoretical max speed would be roughly ~1.4x the speed of the wind (Pythagoras).

[@geoffo7920]

Do the sails move over to regular sandbox? If so, you might could make an ornithopter or Ray there

[@kylecerny7730]

build a designated surfing creation. honestly i think this would be a lot of fun to build myself but i dont actually have the game nor the engineering knowledge that Scrapman does.

[@quackin12152]

Suggestion: Collect all treasure chest (nightmare warning)

[@m.h.6470]

Just a short physics lesson: Wind can NEVER go supersonic, as the speed of sound IS the speed of wind. Sound is the movement of air molecules - and so is wind. So for wind to become supersonic, it would need to be faster than itself - see the problem?

[@coltonscalf5478]

you can do a surf board to traverse the waves

[@jaimeemoshe161]

When you said to have a craft to go along the massive waves, I immediately thought about a video idea, making a surfing vehicle.

[@chickenhunter9474]

Maybe the spin of your kite adds to the velocity meter so thats why its over the wind velocity

[@chmey8217]

Nice

[@Zacian2.0]

8:00 when you spend all your time upgrading engines but forgot that you are an overweight box

[@Chris_Darkmonkey]

You need to have a flat side against the wind and you need air dinamics

[@_the_fritz]

You mean aerodynamics?

[@self_destruction7603]

Hey Scatman pls make new Trailmaker Videos! I really love them.

[@awesomekrisna3324]

Thank you, notifications 🔔🔔🔔

[@dmeriskelly6619]

You should really try to make a flying fish glider/sub with sails for wings. No.9

[@qwertymcenglish4825]

You should try to make a sailboat that stabilizes using a hiking system. #13

[@mufd1356]

Your solo umbrella type sail craft was going faster then the wind I think with the box design your getting wind resistance In the front while the wind is pushing behind you

[@whyrichard_]

Hey scrapman you should try to remake the your parachute with the sails.. and maybe a plane aswell??

[@BeanBlizzard]

I'm locked outside my house watching this...

[@Chaotic_Soul_]

I would like to request that you make a sail powered vehicle that can ride all the way from the edge of the map to the center of the vortex

[@Zacian2.0]

At the start of this video, this is what I am thinking: Wont the sails tear during the sonic boom due to instant pressure change, if they didn't already tear due to insane pressure?! Oh wait, this is a video game

[@williamtyrrell794]

You guys need to do a sails only multiplayer Monday

[@JargBeatzz]

could you do a surfing creation that you would ride on those big waves it would be epic !

[@braindeadjet8086]

He should make a paper airplane with the sails

[@Bill2bearockstar]

Can you make like blimp with a small engine. So all sails, which makes it almost weightless and then a small engine to give it that last bit to make it a controllable aircraft.

[@samphoenix1674]

im curios about the box sailer ship at the end , what would happen if you added weights to one end with water skies to skim the water

[@FuelDropforthewin]

Multiplayer idea: sailing ships with broadside cannons duke it out on the high seas.

[@snelake]

can you get the water walker you did in one of the best builds showcases and put it in the high seas? i think it would be really interesting to see how it works with waves.

[@yot387]

You could build a "Surfer" vehicle. Some kind of giant Table Surf

[@KaneyoriHK]

With the big sail, there's a bit of a negative design, air resistance will hit the sails and slow them down further.

[@tonk9512]

Make a surf board and surf on the waves