My drone design to crush RedBull & the world speed record! | Guinness 

So you decided to take on Red Bull and crush them, what a badass the both of you are!

The very idea of 9000W motor/battery power in a product that small is just absurd. Amazing work!

What a beautiful video - Incredible engineering, clear explanations, and a father son project. Doesn't get much better than that! Great work both of you, a well deserved record.

Think i found my new favorite channel. Having in depth technical description and great prodcution is rare nowadays, great to see the design process, would never have thought to test aerodynamics out of a window haha. Keep making videos this good, and analysis this engaging.

Congrats to you and your son on breaking the record!

The fastest father/son duo on RU-vid! And in the world! Congrats! Love your work.

The left handed guy who uses a shorty pencil is the guy you should worry about.

I feel almost vindicated seeing someone else do their rapid drone prototyping in Blender, and especially your line that; "Success is achieving both excellence in performance, and esthetics" is something I've cought a lot of heat over from the pure CAD guys. Amazing work all-round!

This is AMAZING! Congrats on the accomplishment… a good thing that you documented everything, which is a great thing to do in engineering. Great job once again!

From someone who can barely make a paper aeroplane, this is fascinating. Watching the design evolve to optimise the aerodynamics, airflow, and centre of gravity is amazing. It must have been so rewarding seeing it achieve such crazy speeds 😄

Thank you for sharing your family project. Great video. I hope it inspires more father/son projects.

I loved your previous video's but this is something else. Love it, you are amazing.

Wow. Amazing entineering and really well presented. Congratulations and thank you for sharing.

Fantastic video, thanks for documenting your work!

This is an amazing video, thanks very much for creating it. Comgratulations to you both from KZN

I had a very uncomforable laugh at 12 hp in a 10" frame. The US Department of Defense is going to be giving this video a good number of views i think

What a tremendous accomplishment, Mike and Luke! Congratulations to you both on this amazing feat! You’ve created a thing of beauty, and I can’t wait to see the next iteration. Although I am not a trained engineer, I was able to follow your clear descriptions and appreciate the problems and how you were solving them. Simply remarkable. I am so happy for you both!

Thank you for sharing this detailed and impressive video. It gives such a beautiful insight into the whole project & engineering that went into it.

absolutely amazing. loved the use of Blender, this has so much in it... look forward to seeing more!

Beautiful explanation, thanks for taking the time.

This is so neat to see the wonderful engineering behind this. You guys are so cool. 😊

Amazing work Mike and good video. You need to do more works like this. Keep it up❤

Great stuff, Mike. Excellent

Wonderful design, explanation and experience. So well deserved.

Learning breakdowns from you is awesome, please keep making more!

Incredible work, you guys pulled off something really impressive here! Im very excited to see your next iteration

Amazing video, this was a joy to watch!

I just built my first vertical frame and it flew away on me, it might be because my props are so close together as you were saying. Fascinating to hear more construction detail and the problems you had with your escs. also how you made your camera/nosecone and airshaper fascinating thanks a lot!

Awesome father and son collaboration 🇿🇦🇿🇦

Good job! Very cool project!!

congratulations To you and your Son

wow, really amazing engineering.

10/10 Stunning achievement for both of you , and being able to keep it "in the family" and have FUN together as well as keep on learning , innovating and supporting is Mega Brilliant, Well Done

i’m confused? just 24k views and 61.2k subscribers? for this level of production? truly underrated!!!

Awesome work and i love the visuals

Awesome video! I particularly enjoy the animations. Well done Luke and Mike - dream team 💪

This is incredible Mike well done

absolutely incredible engineering

This is fantastic. Please do more breakdowns of future Peregrine development processes!

Mike and Luke, I'm sitting here in Joburg and so proud that you guys from my hometown have achieved this incredible milestone. Great videos from you both and have already shared the links with other drone enthusiasts. Also must add that I love the fact that you designed the drone with Blender. 👍👍👍. When I saw Blender I figured you'd move over to FreeCad but I was wrong.

Great film, and great teamwork and perseverance... Well done on the record!

Truly amazing video! Tanks for that!

Well done! Well done! Absolute mind blown!

This is amazing! It's great to know, that you have used Blender to 3d model this incredible creation 😆

You are the luckiest father alive. What a blessing to work together with the son.

Incredible achievement!!!

Beautiful! Congratulations

Truly phenomenal! Bravo to you and your son, very inspiring video, beautiful work, and completely bonkers! Just WOW!!!

Excellent video! The animations were awesome and that definitely covered everything I would have liked to pick your brain about. It's always nice to hear about others design philosophy. Also I just have to mention some funny coincidences. I'm currently getting my mechatronics degree too, nice job Luke! The other one is that I had originally named my speed record project the peregrine falcon back in 2019. What are the chances?

Great video and many congratulations on this incredible achievement

Great job! 👍

Besides your world record and your engineering skills … your storytelling is marvellous! Thank you for sharing your design process.

Your video is so much better, nice explaination. Insane skills

This has absolutely blown me away in terms of how effective your designing and surfacing was of v2 without doing aero computation. Eagerly awaiting v3!

As an FPV pilot for many years, this gave me chills. Inspired!

Beautiful engineering 👍🏼

This is just incredible on an engineering scale and on many other levels.

Amazing project

great job guys!

no one tells you the drawbacks of being an engineer. i have zero interest in drones or drone technology and yet.... air squid go brrrrrrrrrr!

Great explanation. Love the iterative design approach.

Absolut hervorragend👍👍👍😀. Meinen Glückwunsch.

Recently joined the SA fpv community, half-way through UCT mechatronics, I guess what's left is Guinness Record to match Luke hahaha. Amazing video💯😂

Well done guys, this is awesome to have local guys pushing the limits like this, very inspiring! Did you ever consider running CFD on the model, and do you think that would have helped the design direction?

why did you not put the motorcontroller boards on each wing? seems like the perfect placement from behind the screen :D

Awesome! Amazing to see the use of Blender for design! Open Source FTW! What OS you are using? Just curious...

Congratulations on building such a beautiful machine! Would be interesting to explore how durable your design/build is with the goal of characterizing operational lifespan and maintenance/repair costs. I'd expect optimizing these would present a entirely new set of engineering challenges. Of course, understandably, you and your son might instead prefer to focus efforts on just going faster.

very, very cool! how are you doing the control mixing? i.e. converting from torque commands to motor thrusts? if by any chance you have a mixer that outputs something like 95% of max thrust + some small differential consisting of roll/pitch/yaw components -- there is something better! using a QP solver you can find the thrust commands giving max forward thrust while still satisfying torque inputs. for such small problems the solution can be found in fractions of a millisecond, even on tiny processors. If you haven't yet done so this might get you another couple kph! get in touch if you wanna know more, i have done something extremely similar at work :)

Greetings from an Arkansas engineer/aviation enthusiast, Mike! Congratulations on your success and I loved your excellent presentation. I'm really looking forward to seeing your CFD-optimized revision-- no doubt you'll be able to make some solid improvements there! My money's on much longer trailing edges for the struts, 'bulbing' the nose a bit and trading the fin for basically a long cone, ha. If you don't mind some input, I do have a couple other thoughts for where one might look to keep pushing the boundaries from where you're at now (though I've no doubt there was a great deal of consideration already given to some of these that didn't fit neatly into your video). First one is weight. Frankly, you guys have already done pretty well with this one-- not a lot of fat to trim, there, but I'd be giving serious thought to how I could start cutting grams off this thing ('Do I *really* need all four motor screws? Could I make my fuselage lighter by carbon-wrapping a vase-mode version of it? Could I make my cables shorter so I'm not carrying all this copper?) Second is aerodynamic cleanliness. There's something here which may not become immediately clear from your CFD simulations. These models do not always do an excellent job at modeling either surface roughness (such as print layer lines) or the transition from laminar to turbulent flow across your model. You're really gonna want to be sure your craft is aerodynamically smooth! To give an example, it's fairly common for sailplanes to have leading edge wipers to remove bugs and dirt from their wings while in flight. These devices make about a 5% difference in performance. Your application, being small, is low reynolds numbers, which means you have the potential to promote more laminar flow across your airframe if you can design for it carefully! Again, I'd love to see a polished carbon fuselage for this. Finally-- props. For me, I'd be giving a hard look at these. No easy shortcuts here, but off the dome, questions I might have: 3 blades for more power without tip transonics? Custom prop pitch and profiles optimized for my flight profile? I would also bet good money that carbon props would perform better than injection-molded ones (less weight, higher stiffness). Vacuum-infused ideally, but forged carbon may be nearly as good and cheaper. Easy composites has excellent videos for this, as does TechIngredients. I'll be more than happy to answer any questions regarding what I've written, should it be of interest. I'd love to see this thing hit 500kmh(550?). Again, well done and congratulations on the win!

The amp draw and ability of those batteries to discharge that fast is insane.

Amazing job…keep it up

In general, the idea of ​​such a device is not new,🤷‍♂️ it was already there, but you guys have brought the project to a really working fast state!👍 Thanks !

I wonder if drag could be reduced by placing the props on long thin shafts angled inward to the central body. That way, the motors would be in the central body. You wouldn't have the drag of the pods, and the "wings" would be replaced with thin shafts. Since each shaft is along its line of thrust, there's no need for the cantilever strength of the "wings".

Awesome design, execution and performance, Mike Your Bambu printer may be able to print STEP files, which will behave like very fine mesh STL files, although that depends on the slicer. Great to see South Africans setting records. Netjies gedaan.

I wonder what cool smooth videos you could get!

Incredible. The headaches and cost of prototyping and manufacturing on a cnc machine twenty years ago vs. the options of today has mind blowing potential.

Here before this blows up. What am amazing feat of engineering, so glad to be here!

Love your work. So cool 😎

Amazing video, Mike. So insightful!

My university drone team may be attempting this record next fall. Been doing some research, and I want to commend your component selection! It's been really hard finding any configuration that performs higher in thrust simulations.

Maybe tow steered composites and custom aerostructurally optimized geometry of frame and motors for v4? In my experience, ADFLOW is a lot faster and more accurate than airshaper and it can do shape optimization

I am in the process of designing a drone and quadcopter for atmospheric measurements, I am intrigued on how you designed the latching mechanism to connect the top piece to the bottom!

Superb !!!

What in the world? I somehow stumbled upon the coolest and best-presented RU-vid channel I have seen in years. Well done!

Nicely done, congratulations! :)

Wow that was Awsome and inspiring

cong dr, im watching in turkey. nice project

Can ye bois add color codes for the different measures. Ideally also reserve green/yellow/red if any value diverges from normal operation 10%/20%/30% or something better, that you know of.

Congratulations!

Great video and great achievement! So what sec and battery did you end up using?

Needs to take advantage of the Area Rule. (See differences in body shape between F-102 and F-106 jets). Spinners on the props will help reduce drag inducing turbulence, and could be landing gear. Potential to move those speed controllers in to the printed sections of the arms, to reduce cable mass.

Thank you for such a well spoken and informative video. I am not the sharpest crayon in the pack but I was able to follow along well. Congratulations on your world record!

This blew me away! Is the 3d model accesable to public?

Congrats. Cool, great design. Could I ask, why have you used Blender for CAD modeling and not smth. specific?

07:30 ... APU inlet ,this good idea!👍

Only at the end did I realize I watched the entire video with my jaws open!!! I don't fly my collections. They are for display and drooling over. If it possible to get the STL or STEP files to build one for my collection?

congratulations on the record gentlemen! well deserved! , also wanted to say whenever i see something like this it makes me think about what kind of tech governments could implement into a project like this with unlimited funding & huge teams of people working on them , i would not atall be suprised to learn if they already have drones that can reach over mach 1 or more

😮 that is amazing

Damm thats awesome!

Very well done!