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Once upon a time, I turned those CO2 cartridges into mortars. I used a pipe just sightly bigger and put a small brad nail through a board I rested the pipe on. Drop the cartridge and when it strikes the brad at the bottom, it turns into a small rocket. It would add complexity, but maybe you should consider variable swept wings. You might even be able to have the sweep angle tied to the carriage you jettison. This would allow you to reduce drag and lift under thrust, but once gliding the wings would extend. It should reduce the effect of the plane rolling when it is under thrust.
Good video and F for the planes that kamikazed into the wall 😆. Here are some suggestions : Maybe by having the sled stop at the end of the runway it would waste less energy rather than using that energy in making the sled fly Also just optimising the release design as on a lot of shots an orange piege flew off while the plane was in the air A nozzle would help with the direction of gas and maybe adjustable wing elements especially at the rear could remove the high pitch up at the cost of increased weight I think an auto adjusting tail and wingtips could be feasible like with toy helicopters with a small wing/falt surface tilting blades but would require a lot of development Good luck if you make a part 2 or for other videos👍
Sam, it looks like the CO2 bottle is not producing purely linear thrust but due to imperfections in how it is pierced or an off centre hole, it is also producing yaw causing the secondary wing drop. The yaw plus the high AoA due to the high pitch power couple is causing it to spin. Perhaps some kind of nozzle screwed on to the CO2 bottle may help this.
I absolutely lost it when it smashed into the wall, and when it happened again, I laughed so hard I got lightheaded. The noise it makes and your gutted reactions are so perfect.
Could you design the puncturing spike to become embedded in and seal against the canister? Maybe with rear-facing "ridges" that could prevent it from being removed, similar to a bee stinger or a plastic rivet. Then you could have a hollow portion down the center that you could design into some kind of nozzle to direct the thrust and maybe use it more efficiently?
Because the initial CO2 cartridge is so far down, on the sled, under the plane, it creates a thrust lever effect on the planes centre of mass , making the plane pull up.
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This is awesome! I’ve experimented some with slingshot airplane designs. The hardest thing is finding a design that glides and behaves well at higher speeds. I’ve found a wing with a swept leading edge and straight trailing edge is the best middle ground. Those are also stronger than a straight wing. Edit: I thought of something else: your point of thrust needs to be right under the center of gravity. That’s why pop bottle rockets have a long stick, to balance it out and make them fly straight.
Genius mechanism allowing the motor to detatch. I've worked in private military tech/production for years. Ive been stewing around the idea of a field deployed rocket powered glider/yard dart. Install a small camera, servo to live target from the field. Load the cone or body with something that detonates on impact. I like your system and it gives me some ideas for application on what is in my head. The reality is drones have proven their place in the modern field. America is great at producing weapons that cost a fortune to often target one man. You can mix a stable rocket motor capable of easily launching a small glider or lawn dart design a mile plus. The components would be next to nothing as well as live video feed. You're pinned down by sniper fire, deploy a small desposable glider with live feed and impact explosive. The entire unit could be built for a 100 bucks easily and be made dummy proof. If you used an aluminum body and cone in a dart form the kenetic energy and velocity from just 10,000 ft with a small altimeter to detonate a squib in the cone causing the kinetic energy release would be incredibly devastating. I like what your doing keep up the good work.
By using a specific shape puncture pin, opening that it forms can be shaped into a pretty accurate nozzle. It would be similar to how metal forms during friction drilling, only here it will be from impact of the pin. Hopefully this will make thrust portion of this glider more controllable. The force from the canister can pull a linkage that moves the elevators on tail to give it directional (or rather angle of ascend) control. As the tank drops off, a rubber band would pull the linkage back, returning the elevators to neutral for a nice glide down. As a side note, welcome back after nearly a year! lol
To prevent the plane from rolling, add wingtips. These will prevent unwanted airflow from high air pressure from below the wing to the low pressure above the wing
You should aim the thrust closer to the center of mass, like on the F100 "zero length launch" experiment: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oImq1glnOds.html
You're probably losing a fair amount of thrust by under-expanding your flow, the pressure of the flow coming out of your "engine" is definitely higher than atmospheric, and really you want it to be as close as possible to atmospheric pressure at the end of your nozzle that way all of that pressure potential is being converted into kinetic energy and momentum for your plane. There's some maths involved, but if you probably want to design your nozzle for back pressure somewhere between 50% and 90% of the maximum. You get your max thrust at the high end of the pressure range, but you don't want to optimise your nozzle for 100% of the available pressure, because as soon as the flow starts you'll be out of your ideal range. I'd start by looking at rocket nozzle equations on wikipedia and see where that takes you.
Sorry to say that, but the outcome seems a total failure (on 100% of this video)! Hint: what about a more conventional approach using something more... conventional on the tail (V-tail is s**t) and no delta wings?
From that last slo mo, it looks as though there's still a fair bit of co2 in the canister after it leaves the metal extrusion, so it's still propelling but free to rotate upwards when it leaves it.
Wouldn't it make more sense to stop the sled on the alu track, rather thannhave it fly away with the plane, only to disengage in midair? The way it's set up now, the residual pressure in the cartridge extrapolates any movement the plane makes after take-off.
The problem is the hole punctured in the CO2 bottle is never regular. You need to incorporate the puncturing device into the plane then have the CO2 emitted via a predictable nozzle. You need a gasproofish nozzle system.
