THE AERIAL SCREW: There's a Reason da Vinci's Helicopter Was Never Built

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I am attempting to replicate Leonardo da Vinci's aerial screw. It was essentially a pre-helicopter design that was never fully realized. There might be some reasons for that.
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[@captainstroon1555]

Da Vinci would be so proud that his creation actually works in a simulated world inside the personal thinking machine of a guy called Man of Scrap. And that people can watch a moving and talking picture of his creation actually working on their own thinking machines.

[@its_duckiooo_z8083]

yes he would be so proud

[@lucamega1212]

🤯

[@foxboi9032]

🤣

[@NaturallyYuri]

Yes

[@doge5344]

69 likes

[@SonOfmowgef]

I honestly wouldn't mind a dual series where Scrapman recreates things he's built in Scrap Mechanic in Trailmakers and also the other way around.

[@wolfbane5948]

Yes

[@InfiniXCat]

But with the collision particles Ouch that looks like Spain without the S

[@goodsirrrr]

"Everything is possible when you have turning, yaw, and roll" - not scrapman Edith: Thanks for the likes (I think this is my most-liked comment).

[@Rand0mSituation]

Theres a paper “plane” design where its just a tube with fins all around the rim on one end of the tube And you’d throw it while giving it a spin and it should fly Quoted “plane” because its not really a plane, its just a tube lol Note: Look up “Flying paper tube” for reference

[@angeloinfinity3054]

fun fact: way back when da vinci was alive and in similar times, copyright did not exist so inventors to safeguard their works would put small flaws with crippling impact in their creation so that only them would know how to build it properly also many projects were studies of functions and proof of concepts

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

that’s actually really smart

[@deathconccc3338]

Oh wow

[@angeloinfinity3054]

@@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890 necessity is the mother of all invention, lack of copyright is the mother of all flaws

[@glauberglousger6643]

How does that work with music, Art, or books? Also, if it’s 1 small flaw, it be easier to crack the secret designs

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

@@glauberglousger6643 don’t let people hear the music

[@cheesymcgee549]

On the PlayStation port (I assume for Xbox, too, but I don't own one), The achievement named "Leonardo Da Vinci", which requires to be in the air for 60 seconds without power cores, and it shows an image of the aerial screw, sadly no power cores would probably mean a glider, instead of an aerial screw.

[@stevepittman3770]

Upgrade time: 2 counter-rotating devices should be stable aside from the stability of the sails. And you should need half as many sails so maybe that would be more stable.

[@markjacobson4248]

I suggest something called the "Pedrail wheel" it's super cool but also very weird

[@deathconccc3338]

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[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

its like a suspension wheel

[@morgancollinsworth4779]

I think a pedrail wheel would be cool to see

[@ilovehumongoushonkers]

Lmao your comment got stolen by a bot, I hope scrapman sees it tho

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

@@ilovehumongoushonkers well i don’t see it so i assume it was removed

[@pacefactor]

Fun Fact: There are drones being developed using the aerial screw type of prop. It is show to be comparable in stability and power to propellers of a similar threshold with the possibility of being a lot quieter and more thrust at lower RPMs, along with some other advantages - though its major drawback is its weight of construction. The fun bit is that it generates lift in an entirely different way to most conventional methods, so a whole lot isn't known about it at this time and they haven't yet determined an ideal shape for them.

[@flintdoggo9897]

Really like watching your stuff recently scrapman, i was also wondering, have you checked out space engineer yet? it seems to be pretty similar concapet to the games you play so you could enjoy it, Just a suggestion though, keep up the great work!

[@The_Bhaskar305]

Try making the French "Marquis' Multiplane" of 1908. It was originally a flightless machine, but seeing how you tinker in trailmakers, i think you can pull it off and make a flying version. Also, you could use magnets to try and 'grab' the sails in a certain positions like the transformer you showed in this video of yours. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3uVgHaQqMSJsMU

[@HalfWolf2]

A long time ago in brick rigs I made a series of 'tornadoea' which were effectively spinning screws, that games build grind allows for different axes but in trailmakers you could make a series of layers that are plus shaped with a servo between each layer, and then as they spawn they rotate by like 45 degrees or so, then adding more servos to angle the sails, this making a corkscrew shape

[@i_forgor7268]

If your trying planes, try the one of the first plane, the "Wright Flyer"

[@eternal60214]

He's already done that build

[@i_forgor7268]

@@eternal60214 i think nah, he didn't build it

[@eternal60214]

@@i_forgor7268 you're not a good thinker then because he has

[@i_forgor7268]

@@eternal60214 send me the link then

[@eternal60214]

@@i_forgor7268 so easy to find kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqO2lmiQepukfZo

[@SecureGM]

There is this device kids played decades ago. It is lost to history now. It has ball/disc like pointy bottom and a lever on top, if you press it down it spins until it looses its momentum due to time or collisions. Could be fun to make something like that and see how fast and how long you can make it spin.

[@coreytaggart128]

I think this is the mechanism you were describing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5vci2iFnJiei9U "tin plate spinning top" is what I searched for to find it more examples in images then videos.

[@Mr-vy7zf]

If I remember correctly what are you actually talking about, I saw such things like 10 years ago or even earlier, maybe something like this is still being sold somewhere I didn't check, but greeting from Russia

[@radudinescu1975]

Try building one cylinder that is powered by thrusters to go one way and another, making a propeller to turn. Try using this cylinder mechanic to power a car or plane in trail makers.

[@nick012000]

Or just build two screw rotating in opposite directions.

[@gigatheprotogen]

Maybe you could add pistons from the base to the bottom sail to add more stability to the corkscrew

[@jccrofty30]

Really liking the series of recreating historical or little known vehicles

[@j.jimenez7545]

I'm really loving this series Would be awesome to see a rotodyne

[@Nightman5694]

you should make the DaVinci tank, its basically a pyramid that has around 8 cannons and flaps on the top, and spins while shoot, making it basically a minigun!

[@barefootalien]

This actually wouldn't be all that hard to modify to get working in Trailmakers. I can think of two different ways. One, tailfins or sails extending radially outward from the base would provide a lot more rotational drag, putting much more of the power into the air-screw. Alternatively, any even number of them connected to each other, with corkscrews in counter-rotating pairs would work, though then it'd just be a primitive quad-copter. You could also make one with two concentric corkscrews on concentric axles with gearing to make them counter-rotate, but... I think that'd far outstrip the materials available and understanding of mechanics of the time.

[@rupo654]

Scrap man is scra vinci

[@karl_look]

ska vinky??

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

scrapida la menavice

[@jellynightthenight8796]

LOL

[@JSBEATBOX]

Yayyyyyyyyyy! You should do a series of all of da Vinci's machines at some point!

[@cananvanloggerenberg1609]

I've watched a lot of your videos, really enjoy them. Honestly IMO, most intelligent youtuber when it comes to building impossible crafts and extremely knowledgeable about real life physics and mechanics. Big ups bro, love the effort and dedication.👏

[@dizzydrc]

Didn't think you'd pull it off... Nicely done Scrapman👌🏼

[@Cosmic_Tortoise]

Aerial Screw - The precursor to one of the most widely used inventions in american households, the Ceiling Fan! (running the Aeriel Screw in reverse, anchored to the ground, would create a fan shoving air upwards. Attached upside-down to the ceiling of a room and you have a ceiling fan using this machine and method.)

[@chara020]

Very Nice! Well done, and it’s kinda bright. But… “Mom, is this a star?” “No, it’s Scrapman testing his flying screw!”

[@thespyderdude]

I like that he thought it wasn't possible, it worked, then he managed to give it control of altitude

[@suicidalbanananana]

Different kind of contraption but also to get stuff in the air, something i saw recently and made me think "would this work in building games?", look up something called SpinLaunch, while you cant go to orbit it could still be a cool way to travel. Might be more useful in scrap mechanic survival btw, both for quick travels (if you can land in water) but maybe also for flinging crop crates to farmer?

[@tbuk8350]

You can also add wings to the base facing in the opposite direction, so it slows it down with drag, and any rotational force left in the base gets turned into lift. I've done the same in Besiege many times, and actually created some perfectly stable flying machines that way.

[@ashleyarundel3134]

Adding a rudder sail (and front counterweight) to the base may reduce the counter rotation and give steering? Awesome build all the same!!

[@jojonotoxicophysics]

Hey scrapman sticking with the rotating theme could you try and recreate one of those twisting seeds that fall from trees and glide gently to the ground.

[@its_duckiooo_z8083]

this should be a series

[@ericmartin8271]

Check out the main battleship guns on Space Pirate Harlock. A proper turret needs 2 axis of rotation, but in space/in the air you need to fire in all directions, so one of the axis of rotation is the “waistline” of the spaceship.

[@overnova875]

A possible idea that i thought of to lessen the counter-rotation is to add tail wings to the base so it catches more horizontal wind which slows it down so more of the energy goes to actually rotating the screw

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

you should make a mechanical horse (in SM) with a lot of power so you can make inefficient old carriage designs

[@devarious1988]

That, or Karl Benz' motorized carriage which led to the invention of the car.

[@looksgoodonpaper]

Yet another awesome video in this great series. Liking this concept of videos very much!

[@Logic_Blade]

You could probably put wings on the base facing sideways so that the base wouldn’t spin as much

[@ererederechte]

7:10 Steven he's dad on his way to school: Imma pretend i didn't see that

[@KV-2-2-2]

“When I went to school I walked uphill both ways” “Physics wasn’t invented yet”

[@skjekken]

Try making a quadcopter with the aerial screw as propellors. Some researched just did that a few days ago and showed it working, even saying that it might have some benefits over tradition propellors.

[@nivekkiwi]

Now you can build da vincis "flying machine", the one with bat wings. And you could combine it with his parachute design for emergency.

[@esoses55]

Maybe when you attach sail to the sides bottom platform, they could create enough resistance to stop it from spinning?

[@justarandomgamer7667]

So I can see why the historically-accurate creation sparked- the lift created by the sails pushed them up against eachother since you didn’t have them all connected individually to the bar in the center, instead creating an almost spring-like design that the generated lift interacted with. Rq I’m not an engineer lol, I don’t know how to use proper terms to explain this. I’m just trying to put what I see into words

[@snipersnipes4475]

What about da Vinci’s “Fighting vehicle”? It’s essentially a 360 degree tank

[@th3darkgem566]

I love how Scrapman is explaining his jokes to people

[@Jkauppa]

one spiral on top, a ton of vertical wings up keeping it up, in-line and stable against the rotor spiral, two parts, top-down

[@Jkauppa]

add a spike under the base, then its a floating spinner toy

[@moroblizniak4457]

Very enjoyable series! You tried to make actual tank track in TM? Also more DaVinci stuff would be neat

[@anteshell]

A little correction. The counter rotation is not caused by conservation of momentum, which is the first law. It's caused by two forces opposing each others, which is described in the third law of opposing forces or action and reaction respectively.

[@An_Anubis_76]

You should build a Da Vinci tank. That would be cool

[@zezeiko]

You could try to build the McDonnel XF-85 goblin, a very small fighter plane designed to drop out of the cargo/bomb bay of planes, it was labelled as a "parasite fighter" as it was harbored inside of another aircraft and deployable.

[@fakeaccount8457]

A large scale battleship using arial screws should be interesting

[@ducknan5229]

Hell yeah

[@agentv1240]

That animation actually works, because the sail is connected to the base with ropes, and that whole assembly is free spinning around the shaft.

[@onixbomb3611]

You should try the kugelpanzer spherical tank created in ww2 for scouting

[@BL00F0X]

I'd love for you to try to build a strandbeest. They are wind powered walking machines.

[@sebastianmauger-hollmann1416]

I'm curious to see the corkscrew props used for a quad-copter. Perhaps having 4 of them will allow for more control, or at least a more steady lift off

[@aguest8150]

A large amount of da Vinci’s inventions would work with just a small amount of modifications like his tank or his plane

[@dergus8833]

why do all these creations actually manage to turn out better than the original

[@Kronholio]

If I'm not mistaken, your modified version has a state, where the corkscrew is in the Buildmode-position. Wouldn't that mean, that you could brace the bottom of the corkscrew against the main mast, too, and move the brace up and down when extending the corkscrew, perhaps via pistons?

[@prodbymoondawg]

You probably have the best community out of every youtuber

[@adiasmawi5418]

Son: Dad, can we have firework? Dad: But we already have fireworks at home. Fireworks at home:

[@simplypurple5578]

I love how ScrapMan had to explain that he knows that you can't invent physics

[@antoniolozic1517]

Try to make working tank tracks, even if it might be really hard, the end results would be really cool

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

Tried and it's a pain

[@antoniolozic1517]

I also tried it to make the russian kharkovchanka and it was really glitchy

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

@@antoniolozic1517 i tried a ww1 tank, but the threads were huge and broke all the times. Collisions in trailmakers are pretty approximated and glitchy, but it's because they're made to make possible to have air drag and body damage in the game, compared to scrap mechanic who doesn't.

[@cvetanmironov8894]

This machine is so holy it's raining gold

[@GrandJediMasterYoda]

by definition, this is technically a VTOL aircraft

[@rossitzadimova7547]

you can put some type of wind resistant block to stop the base from spining

[@rossitzadimova7547]

the base is where is your seat

[@alpha3wolf359]

Could you program some thrusters on the bottom of the creation to fire off at the right time to keep the bottom of the creation from spinning?

[@somedudenamedjuno1301]

Yess! I totally commented about da Vinci's inventions!!

[@toaster3082]

This man is just pumping out content right now

[@_DamienTM]

"You don't invent physics and then it applies to you" Says ScrapMan while playing a computer game in which all the physics were invented by programmers.

[@aseem5662]

On the topic of bizarre, please try the "peugeot moovie concept car"

[@nyscersul42]

Hahahahaha i suggested this! Thats... great man. Love that you listen. :)

[@doodletanki6661]

another reason why the corkscrew wouldn't work is because most of the corkscrew would cancel itself out in terms of pressure difference created, as the air pressure below a layer of the screw is immediately cancelled out by the lower pressure on top of the layer right below it

[@nicholasgallega7485]

when something unexpectedly works in your favor: YES! YES!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

[@terradaktill1179]

Great vid! Liked the educational bit at the start

[@philemonzz]

You, kan and kosmo should do a challenge where you create vehicles for each other then do a race or derby. you can't rig the entire thing it still has to be driveable

[@VAXHeadroom]

Multiplayer suggestion: Recreate the Monitor and the Merrimac and reenact the Civil War battle.

[@Non_Consistent_Potato]

The friction on the wood possibility leading to a fire and wind knocking it over would make it a poor transportation vehicle, but what it would be useful for is a transportable guard tower, and even then it would still suck and only used on not windy days

[@scottowens398]

I think you could potentially use a piston on another servo thing to stabilize the screw part. I don't have the game, but I think that's a decent solution.

[@hmmm...gamerigess8165]

You should make a car that moves with peristalsis movement like a worm! I would love to see it! love the vids keep up the good work!

[@tblsp]

You could anchor the bottom of the creation with a piston and a anchor block that attaches to the sail

[@dryryeroll7823]

I think trying to make the BV 141 would be fun. It's and asymmetrical German plane from WWII. It could pose an interesting challenge when trying to get it to fly well.

[@tryz0r]

At this point i think we'll get a new series called "Turning Old Failed Inventions Into Success".

[@smahadik156]

8:17 Woah woah woah woah woah woah woah, That reminds me of the Japanese Anime Scenes "Ore ore ore ore ore ore ore ore.........." Anyways even I was surprised when I saw that thing lift of for a little time especially when Scrapman explained that it isn't supposed to fly.............. 🙂 Anyways I was thinking after watching this video It might be easy for you to make a Sail Beyblade!....Right? If it is easy then pls make one cause even it would be fun to watch it...........👍🏻

[@Gomorragh]

this is where time travellers find out that da vinci was directly tuned into feedback of your vids when youtube updates all of its servers onto quantum computers, and youre inventions are the cause of all his fever dream inventions :p .... well since you mentioned sarcasm :D Also ... maybe more sails on the base may give it more lift like those counter rotational things you have built in the past

[@toddabbott781]

Just put wings that rotate and have them spiral up the pole. Then put big flap out the back attached to the base to slow the rotation. Then maybe make a smaller screw using wing tips to go forward. Maybe it the screw in the front could be angled you could actually steer and counter the last of the spin... especially if you can get it moving forward a bit.

[@mob-7475]

You should build the APT British train

[@mist1615]

Lover your videos scrapman your so creative and have so many Ideas,thank you :)

[@joreyoutdoors.7237]

Can you recreate the Atlantic snow cruiser and se how it would work

[@hendrix232]

Scrapman needs to play space engineers

[@Name_not_visible]

My favourite scrap man series

[@user-pc5sc7zi9j]

The conservation of momentum just says that objects by themselves will maintain their spin and trajectory untill affected by outside forces. "each active force causes a reactive force of equal strength and opposite direction" is another law.

[@w5sds722]

Scrap man you could try adding rotors under the spinning part so that it works similar to a helicopter!

[@datbubby]

keep this seriess going!

[@ICANDOANYTHING871]

10:36 build your own fireworks machine!

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

That's actually pretty dope

[@Ewout761]

8:20 I would really want to see what first person looks like in that

[@duodecaquark3186]

I would have attached the sails to the central shaft at inervals that line up when the sails are angled.

[@rabbitsoldier9225]

Would you do a series on making Leonardo da Vinci‘s creations in trail maker’s please

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

scrapman should do a build my life video, but he’s building his childhood house or apt

[@TheCorruptClown32518]

Hey your consistent huh

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

@@TheCorruptClown32518 ye

[@z4clewis]

Hi persun

[@thundercrowz]

You should make a snowmobile in scrap mechanic

[@Gabriele_G]

Try building one of those old bikes that had one big wheel and one small go on water

[@scottowens398]

A penny farthing?