Dyson Powered R/C Plane

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At first I thougth it was a PeterSripol video.

I bought a broken one. It happened to be an easy repair too I had to buy another one. Still repairable. Week later Now I have 23 working Dyson vacuum cleaners

Can we all stop and appreciate the absolute butter of a landing at 10:12

Dyson might be over engineered, but they’re incredible at what they do.

This was an awesome project to see in person, thanks for offering to let me do a flight with her! Had a blast. 😁 -Zach

So, knowing that the intake position is not particularly sensitive to location, you might be able to gain some advantage by burying the centrifugal fans inside a wing with a top surface inlet and exhausts below/aft the wing. The low pressure may well contribute to overall lift. Thinking about this a bit more, over the course of the day, I would suggest you could have an upper surface inlet inboard, close to the fuselage, if there is one. You may require a fence outboard of the inlet in case the low pressure zone disrupts the outboard flow. The other thing you could do with this (and it could be impractical at this scale....) is to use the jet exhaust as a trailing edge jet, rather than as a propulsion system. This could act as a jet flap and encourage flow attachment when it would otherwise break away - boundary layer control. This has been tried on a few aircraft over the years - today the Shinmaywa US-2 uses a separate power system to generate flow for BLC on flaps, rudder and elevators. Another aircraft to look up is the british Hunting H.126 which was used to investigate these systems.

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Really enjoyed watching this one. I like seeing how creative you can be with these flying machines. Great job!

someone just tossed a $500 vacuum away cuz one battery was bad lmao. good find on your part. i got a dyson and its impressively quite yet powerful like you said in the intro. this should be an interesting video.

You are so smooth on the stick, those landings were all light as a feather

This was so fun and impressive. I was kinda dying at the asymmetric mount to get your center of gravity/lift to be right. Since you have a 3d printer, next time you do this and it needs 2 motors, just print an inverted flow unit so you can mount the motors on the left and right of center line for the craft (in forward direction)! But seriously, this was awesome and the bonus destruction at the end had me stunned!

If you match the desired speed of the airplane with the area of the inlet with a gradual (low loss) cross section reduction from the inlet bell to the impeller vs the same mass exiting the fan system you will minimize inlet losses and maximize available thrust. Keep in mind that the fan you are using was designed for high inlet velocities with no restriction. Create a ram inlet to maximize the aspiration volume and minimize the aspiration losses . Likewise, the outlet nozzle should do some flow straightening to get maximum impulse, and the area ahead of and outside of the nozzle should be tapered to allow the ambient airstream to gently return to fill the void created by the engine cross section avoiding turbulence rapid shear at the trailing edge. You end up with an aerodynamically efficient engine housing and an efficient energy transfer. Remember that an inlet to a fan that is "starved" will produce less net gain in pressure and therefore a lower exhaust impulse (MV2). Spend more of the energy compressing and accelerating the air to maximize the V2 component of the MV2 formula at the outlet. It will always be true that the M portion is the same for the inlet and the outlet. (conservation of matter) so look for lower V2 at the inlet (larger smooth intake) and highest possible V2 at the outlet. This all would be best achieved by placing the motor with its inlet axis the same as craft direction of travel and then using a bell housing around the motor outlet to collect and compress the air as it moves rearward towards the exhaust nozzle. Voila..electric jet engine. Forcing the air to spin around the volute (many times) instead of moving directly to the outlet with a single turn burns energy as friction and heat.

3:25 that outlet is looking pretty sus...

Impressive, it's flying so stable and smooth. And the sound sounds like a turbo jet engine 😅

Glad to see someone else make the point on vacuums. I've told people that the motor speeds up because it's doing less work, but people never believe me. Just like you pointed out moving the air is the load. If your not moving any air there's no load.

This isn't the usual sort of content I watch on YT yet I found this very interesting. Seems like there is more potential to be unlocked here. Great work!

Well done Daniel, it's a great video. I was thinking of going down the EDF route, as a new RC plane, but now I see that there's a whole lot I didn't think about... can't wait for the next video! 😮

Because It acts as a centrifugal compressor, build an afterburner, increase the thrust and burn some fuel ;)

Great project with wonderful engineering. Well done...Dyson would be impressed.