Building an Advanced Magnus Effect Plane

[@JoelCreates]

There's something delightfully unnatural about watching that thing actually fly

[@Project-Air]

I’m still surprised the Magnus Effect is that powerful to easily lift 600g of plane! ☺️

[@creativitybooth8115]

I am working on a project to drop a plane from space with a weather balloon can you give a plane design with big wings to fit many solar panels as possible

[@n.o6889]

@@creativitybooth8115 a glider? Big wing, so many place to fit solar panels

[@thirtythreeeyes8624]

​@@creativitybooth8115 Man that's a hell of mission to tackle if you don't know about aerodynamics. Also likely super illegal depending on location and prior approval/licensing.

[@creativitybooth8115]

@@thirtythreeeyes8624 as I am in india it is legal and there is no airport in the city I live so there must be no problem

[@acidxero]

Fantastic! I find it fascinating that you've adopted a bit of a "Slave One"-style orientation rather than something with a more horizontal juxtaposition, and I absolutely love it. Great work, sir.

[@Project-Air]

Thank you!

[@Linuxpunk81]

I was gonna say it reminded me of a B-Wing, but yeah slave 1 is more accurate.

[@adamwolfy4826]

I love the star wars vibe with this thing 👌

[@codetech5598]

You are not allowed to use the word "slave" anymore.

[@acidxero]

@@codetech5598 You're the only one I see complaining. It's funny how the people most insulted by the notion of censorship so often end up using bad examples of it to passive-aggressively complain.

[@PlasmaChannel]

Wicked cool. You're basically Alec steel meets Peter Sripol. Solid job on the video, and build.

[@jakedevries1455]

And Tom Stanton that's where I heard of project air when they did the miniature bouncing bomb with an RC Lancaster bomber and as soon as I see that video i was like I need to subscribe to project air and his projects have just gotten cooler! And all the channels you said are excellent as well... and yours is pretty cool too 👍 😉

[@cosmorito961]

Looks like J is the fan of aerodynamics

[@whatelseison8970]

Hey Jay, you should team up with one (or all) of these guys on an ionic wind powered plane! Or maybe realize Tesla's dream of a plane powered wirelessly by a massive DRSSTC. If anyone can do it it's you. If you do the latter make sure get Integza in on that somehow. I feel like he might not forgive you otherwise. 🤣

[@tobywebb2112]

Except Peter stripol makes absolute trash and usually breaks it before it can actually function. Hes fine with a mediocre display. But I prefer when people put effort and care into making something work properly. But that's just me aparently..

[@Vebtum]

Your brihish and I know that for a fact

[@IceJoolsstuff]

You should call it: "the flying paint roller"

[@IceJoolsstuff]

Senpai noticed me

[@sayedmuhammadidrees1453]

More like Wireless Paint Roller.

[@shannonm3841]

i was thinking flying toilet paper dispenser or the FTPD

[@shikhar3281]

@@shannonm3841 fricking trash police Department?

[@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316]

@@shikhar3281 that applies to every police department in our current world system, no need to put an acronym for it.. its already established and just is what it is

[@calgoh3589]

10:36 when it starts working and you can hear the happiness in his voice is priceless, Truly little nuggets of greatness on KZbin

[@spingebill8551]

Make a fuselage design that is smooth and covers everything and it’s something straight out of despicable me

[@loddude5706]

The 'Gru-mman Grassdiver'?. . . (sorry : )

[@potatofartsquad]

@@loddude5706 Nah, its the Slave-One

[@Zonker66]

Just love seeing the failures... and him not quitting. No one that hides failure can really science all that well. You can learn to walk without falling if you're held up and protected... but it takes longer and you learn less. I love seeing someone earn their success. Love the "back to the drawing board" mentality. Much respect.

[@crashtestrc4446]

Wow . I haven't watched it fully but I know it's gonna be nice

[@bryanwachter]

You don’t have a horizontal stabilizer. You made essentially a flying wing with no ailerons or elevator. Very cool that’s you’re trying to make something cool and seems like you had a lot of fun doing it.

[@ledocteur7701]

horizontal stabilisation is provided by the center of mass being far below the center of lift, an airplane style horizontal stabilizer might help tho.

[@bryanwachter]

@@ledocteur7701 that’s not really stabilization, that would be balance. Stabilization is active, using air flow to keep something stable. I think your plane could fly if it had stabilizers on it.

[@johanhoff958]

Yeah, the fact is, you made the job really hard for yourself by not just replacing the airfoils of a fixed wing aircraft, but also chucking the stabilizing features including dihedral and empennage. You also induced a counterproductive moment with your propeller position. Nevertheless, you made it fly...bravo!

[@a.sfennec3682]

The aircraft is asserting dominance

[@yayayayya4731]

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[@tengkubingit4422]

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[@biko9824]

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[@joeydr1497]

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[@Astraulix]

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[@TheKRU251]

I love your content. That was a great idea. These magnus effect 'aircraft' are never easy. Excellent work!!!!

[@volofly2011]

Nice job James! Keep pushing the edge. I love your creativity, ingenuity and persistence, that's an excellent formula for success. Love your channel and I recommend to all of my younger engineering friends and colleagues as a good example of how to get things done. Once again, well done!

[@Project-Air]

That’s great! Glad you like my videos, cheers

[@hashy4940]

Wow you actually managed to make an rc plane like this :D

[@NicholasRehm]

How about a magnus effect monocopter? Don’t think I’ve seen that done, and your project history is pointing you right in that direction

[@NicholasRehm]

Actually, rocket powered too :)

[@a.sfennec3682]

Great work as always, as someone who is interested in aerospace engineering I found this really fascinating

[@Al_Ares]

Man that's awesome! I would recommend making the tubes slightly dihedral to make it more horizontally stable and a fixed vertical stabilizer so it'll move in a much more straight direction. Cheerios!

[@jocax188723]

The funny flying T got the thumbs up from me. But it is maybe worth referencing previous Magnus Effect flying craft.

[@piconano]

One of the most unusual craft I've seen in a very long time. Good job.

[@PurnamadaPurnamidam]

Hey Man, felt a real pleasure seeing u succeed, keep this going on.

[@robertcarveth8722]

About thirty years ago I saw the wind blow a thrown away polystyrene milk shake container off the ground and my observation was that it was actually flying rather than being blown. I made a mental note that I must look more into the phenomenon later on . You have answered all my questions of 30 years ago.

[@amorporcalopsita]

Que legal novas intenções surgindo. Parabéns ao Canal 👏👏👏👍

[@ToddHofer]

You need to look into harmonic balancing of your "Wings". Pretty much the same thing that is done to your tires when you get them balanced. It will stop oscillations because of two spinning axis's that are off balanced. Could explain the bank/yaw that you are also getting. With a good balancing, you should not only be able to get a more controllable/sustainable flight but, you could even get it to hover without it lawn-darting into the ground.

[@billsheppard9368]

Seems like a bit of the 'pendulum fallacy' may still be in play. Perhaps a few degrees of 'dihedral' in the axles would help stability in the roll axis.

[@samuelgriffin8884]

Good for you kiddo!! Youre on to something. Thats how greatness is born bro!!

[@ashsmitty2244]

Of all the aerodynamic principles out there, the Magnus effect spins me out the most. 😉

[@SrEngr]

you don't need a circular core for the Magnus effect, think about a steamboat paddle. You can make a thin slat, like Venetian blind slat, work as a Magnus airfoil that displaces air reasonably well. You might make an aero-spike-like variant by cutting your cylinders into four sections along their axis, then reversing each section so it is concave when viewed from the outside, and gluing or taping them together.

[@thepvzgardenwarfare]

That one was incredible, i love it so much

[@ericdelmar2618]

I felt your elation and was very happy for you. Nice work!

[@voidwyrm6149]

it might be more stable if u use 2 pairs of "wings" (1 in the front, 1 in the back)

[@RobotSquadTech]

ya actually that would help

[@anthonyb5279]

Its supper cool that you made the correct analysis of the flaws and good corrections that worked! proper application of the scientific method!

[@charlie_lee_rhee8866]

I wonder if there is a more efficent fuselage /body design. I've seen petersripol swap the wings for the magnus rotors on a normal plane design, and i've also seen a video of a drone with four magnus effect rotors on a drone instead of propelers. I wonder if there's a middle ground, wich has both controlability and stability.

[@rcbif101]

My most recent design is stable and has landing gear for takeoff and landing.

[@50ShadesOfBeige]

For a side project this was bloody amazing!

[@aphinion]

Great engineering mindset! Just keep going ;) This is an absolutely amazing project. I find that effect still totally fascinating!

[@alan2here]

please revisit this :) Could use one white tube rather than two, putting the battery inside the rotating wing, with bits hanging out either end that hang downwards to stop the battery spinning round instead of the wing, remove the tie-fighter bits from the ends of the "wings", and if possible remove the propeller. It'd look even more spooky to see it fly :)

[@roboman2444]

Does the speed of the rotors change the lift characteristics? If so, you could have a small "tail rotor" that you vary the speed of as an elevator.

[@tomasmackeon8261]

yes indeed it does, faster cylinder rotation makes more lift

[@andresmarrero8666]

Keep developing this concept. It has a lot of potential and is a nice aesthetic change from the standard airplanes.

[@tylerhusky4065]

Hey man that is pretty freaking cool, I give you a 10/10 for finding a common scientific physics phenomenon that is relatable to almost everyone in all corners of the globe, and exploiting said phenomenon for aviation purposes never before seen!

[@chiragsingla.]

Btw, it was used in aviation, and it was not successful, because of the drag, he also had to face it in the video and rebuild his aircraft

[@master-gbig1140]

I am so glad you didn't give up because that was crazy- wild. That was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. And now that you've proven that it can be done. Somebody has to take it to the next level. Great job kid-o, and Thanks for hanging in there.

[@Xiphactinus]

0:40 you're telling me you're Kevin de Bruyne's long lost RC loving brother?

[@alexanderglass2057]

So for a science fair project I had set up and illustration in research panel on all the different ways to generate lift. I actually found that the Magnus effect is much stronger if you use something like a paint roller. Pretty much the principal uses drag to create lift and if you want more low speed lift you need more drag. Also a rear horizontal stabilizer seems to be the way to go with dealing with pitch problems.

[@Indian_villager88]

Noob here so pardon me if my question is dumb. Any thoughts on spinning the two drums separately and varying their relative speeds to help manage yaw/pitch? Like I mentioned my understanding of all this is limited so I'm not sure which axis this would impact more.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Roll/bank/turn, or yaw - I think. Pitch would be spinning both faster/slower to vary the reaction against the fuselage.

[@njfish89]

good at removing fluff and flying! this looks insane and bloody cool. good job sir

[@josephreber525]

Well Done 😎👍👍

[@couldrey47]

Great video. Nice use of the word "snapage". Or, possibly, invention. Keep the videos coming.

[@lukesworld2864]

I like this! Nice catch on the thrust point being too low. Have you tried having the prop be a 'pusher' orientation? I'm curious if that would give smoother air over the rollers to help their effectiveness, or if the thrust from the prop actually makes them work better due to the air it throws over them.

[@thespalek1]

The shere, authentic joy at the end and 'keep watching it!!' 😂 just made my day

[@sean21868]

ah yes flying T post

[@stbhcorporation7611]

lol

[@chrisbarnes8887]

Thats pretty cool to see it fly. You should for sure continue working on this project to improve on it. My one thought would be maybe using a little larger battery thinking the extra weight at the bottom will help keep it from pitching up as much.

[@henntendo]

looks fairly strange that

[@TheBigBigBlues]

Well done, what a great feeling when a project finally works.

[@danat211]

I doubt you will see this comment, but why not use four rotors for stability? If that works better you could even use two motors (L and R) for roll control

[@KurtacusRex]

The timestamps are amazing. A real man of the ppl here

[@Andrew_V-ju2kz]

AWESOME

[@MishaDaBear]

Very interesting, makes me ask questions! 1 I wonder about the effects of using a slightly oval rotating tube? What of an egg shaped tube, wonder if that would fly? 2. The lack of directional control was likely more to do with the length of the craft, centre of pressure, battery location, and the location of the directional drag component (the rudder)! What about extending the build? 3. What about adding 2 small motorised gyroscopes (one clockwise, the other counter clockwise) in a trailing tail assembly instead of a rudder which could steer by adjusting the speed of each of the two of gyros?

[@Midnight9909]

Я тоже как ребенок радовался за автора, когда ему удалось сделать это ! 👍

[@stephantranquille6681]

Never heard of the magnus effect but since you killed it, well done and thank you!

[@creativitybooth8115]

Amazing

[@timh8903]

Great to see that thing finally flying - looks great. You're excitement says it all!

[@pakpanda687]

Amazing i am from indonesia

[@loddude5706]

Welcome aboard!

[@jtdrexel]

I’m just happy for, watching your excitement over your successful flight! Haha. Good stuff.

[@cicADA001]

good day to random person scrolling down coments :)

[@Because-Linux]

Hello from 2 years in the future.

[@NotOrg7]

Ily

[@samuzamu]

You too!

[@abhisekhkumar4948]

Hey! Thank you! 🎉 I hope you are keeping well. ❤

[@finecutpost]

So glad you persevered and had success.

[@j.a.g.a138]

wow

[@dmartinr41]

I love you put the ad a part of the video to easier skipping :)

[@lwebius2111]

With this smal Diameter you need high Rpm. Usw KFC bucket this works great

[@jonrambin1572]

I admire your persistence. What a result!

[@nanor7447]

22 seconds ago

[@R9000]

It's really impressive that you managed to get this to work. Though even if you hadn't, at least you'd have a really... weird, wide RC car.

[@_edmund]

seventh

[@mangeshgaikwad345]

Extraordinary ❤🤟 I haven't seen such machine before.

[@kerbalsomething2673]

Fortnite gliders be like:

[@dimsum435]

When I was about ten years old, 65 years ago, I was given a Revojet for my birthday. It was a tethered version of one like this, it had a kite string attached.

[@technicaldavelazer9151]

First comment

[@pierre-rose7783]

Awesome, glad to see it fly at the end !

[@jalexandus]

first

[@bernardmiller5347]

Very direct and honest and didn’t clown it up too much.

[@scotthealey1887]

It seems like this would have a much greater chance of success if you just took a regular rc plane with a carbon spar and replaced the wings with magnus effect barrels. It needed a vertical and horizontal stabiliser behind the cg and motor/prop out in front of cg. The hanging weight only works on parachute type wings like para motor.

[@madprops526]

Need counter rotating trust motors/motor. Very impressive flight and the idea is exceptional. Very good job!

[@doranjaffas7351]

I started watching with some skepticism but found myself fascinated. Very well done and I subscribed.

[@Mark01962]

That was fun to watch. Good on you for going against first reactions and shortening the "wings". I din't think it would work ... but it did.

[@PeterKNoone]

Congrats! That's really quite a contraption. Nice work getting it to fly.

[@Project-Air]

Thanks!

[@warmiceUT]

Great project, awesome! Your projects are cool, loving it. Just a tough of this *flying object*, as it without a wing, power-off = disaster .. might be a good idea to add-on an emergency parashot landing switch. ;-) Some propose idea: :-) 1) A design to detect lower voltage (not too low, preserve for throttle/rudder motor), and shut-off the cylindrical (with ejecting the parashot), timing would be critical 2) Enhance the 2nd motor mount, with vector control motor mount, to provide a much effective rudder control (without the use of vertical stabilizer) , along with forward propulsion 3) The remaining current in battery, shall be good enough to provide minimum steering assistance for the rudder in parashot mode Hope to see if you are interested and share this new version :-)

[@PathogenMedia]

Wow, this is really amazing!!! If I whould replicate your success I think the right position of the proppeller may be inline with the wings, therefore less ballancing forward and back..; or a second proppeller above the wings, to ballance the aircraft when pushed forward. But the fact that it flying so well it's impressive! Great job!

[@GiffysChannel]

I've been fascinated by the magnus effect since I saw that basket ball video. Thank you for visiting this concept, I hope you do more with it. My understanding of it is that the higher the speed it's spinning, the better. More surface area I think would also be better. I wonder if there is a sweet spot for radius? So many aspects of this I would love to experiment with.

[@GiffysChannel]

@test time you do what a helicopter does, get to the ground as soon as possible lol

[@christiansantos7164]

I felt your happiness! You are truly living, bro. Thank you for inspiring us!!!!

[@CappeSun]

I have only seen this design a few times before, but it's definitely the coolest configuration.

[@migalito1955]

Very good. You had success that was elusive for the others that had tried the concept.

[@LeeWhitcher]

Very cool! Don't forget you've also made a gyroscope here... That means your rudder will be causing pitching as well as yawing!

[@TheHandyAndy]

Thank you so much for showing your whole process. This is a great show of design mind set that failure is not a bad things. I see to many young people give up when they fail thinking they have lost. Failing and failing fast is key to learning new skills you will in time have a massive win. So to those in school or those learning a new skill, if your not failing your not learning anything new. Keep up your great work.

[@stephendoherty1275]

Good job! I believe your tubes would benefit from some texture to grab the air more, like dimples on a golf ball. This would make the wing more stable so the slick surface doesn't "let-go" and "tip-stall" so quickly. Another item would be to have a vertical fin with rudder a few inches aft for better directional control. Do it again!

[@williamscoggin1509]

I'm thinking that part of the problem also is your forward thrust propeller is disrupting the airflow over your cylinders causing a stall effect on about half of the cylinder. If you could possibly change the propeller set up out with and enclosed squirrel cage type blower fan with the airstream coming out of a tube a little below and behind your drum like a jet push. That should make the lift of your drum as wings much more efficient.

[@cclfrank24]

Brilliant job, man. That was a wild ride.

[@_bluespider5470]

Props to you for giving plans for free instead of selling them, good mentality. I didn't skip the ad and might go over patreon if I get more money next year. BTW not intending on building one myself, you're way to crazy man, keep it up 🤙🏼

[@Hellsong89]

4:35 No not really a new pulley but addition of edge to prevent it from sliding off. If you used ABS platic, you can chemically weld the ABS plastic washer in place using acetone and since there is hole there you can make small ring to center it properly. This way you save filament. I have used this technique even on failed prints, by counting, or looking on the software what layer it was doing, calculating the height using layer height, removing bottom peace how ever high it was in cad, printing the rest, removing how many layers were failure, sanding both surfaces even and chemically welding them together. Then sanding and filling any imperfections with putty made of abs support material and acetone in glass jar with suitable sealing metal lid. If putty dries into container, just get it loose from glass if possible and pour in more acetone and in a day you have more putty or slurry depending how much you have added acetone.

[@davegriffiths]

That final configuration was a genuine surprise. More like a powered kite but great fun!

[@Turboy65]

Three things to make a Magnus wing work better: Shorter span. Larger diameter. Higher RPM. And a fourth: Surface texture affects performance. Too smooth reduces lift efficiency, too coarse a texture greatly increases drag. I suggest testing by wrapping the cylinder in sheets of sandpaper at differing grit levels from super coarse to the finest available.

[@juliyarezvukhina8804]

James. You are already an incredible inventor.

[@stevencirrito5422]

That was pretty incredible. I wonder if it would help by making the horizontal thrust from 2 additional spindles perpendicular to the vertical lift spindles and spinning them opposite each other. Propellers create torque in one direction and switching it to spindles might cause a slight gyroscopic stabilizing effect. Just food for thought but really cool man! I just subbed.

[@mr.himalayan6258]

Hey, few experiments you dear : 1. Try to put fan on the top of it like choper have to give initial hight and thrust, after reaching good hight you can turn it off. 2. Try to increase the length of stem of fan that you had attack and try to put that stem of fan in very middle of both the rollers. 3. Try to make rollers like this sign * Means make small edges or sharpe humps on the surface of circular roller which will look like this * I'm subscribed to your channel with bell button on and waiting for more experiment in this invention. Good luck from land of 1.3 billions people - Bharat

[@224rebels]

Props to you for not putting it behind a paywall.