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.

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.

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

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL - and I have followed for YEARS! KEEP GOING.. you are TOP quality!

I feel like I'm watching the future of combat - drone vs. drone. The part where the collision happened, the "plane" crashed and then the copter drone came down and slammed the "corpse" on the ground was priceless!

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

Did you try even smaller nozzles to see if it increased thrust more?

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! 😮

Looking forward to seeing this progressed. I watched the earlier attempts and Kevin T.’s video covering the speed week & his own attempts. Exciting stuff!

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.

Small correction - the Dyson engineers did the engineering.

The dyson hair dryer doesnt only pull air from the duct, it uses the venturi effect to pull more air through another opening. that's where all your efficiency went!

Love it. Nice experimenting, especially rotating the intakes

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

Cool project! Worked amazingly well. I wonder if any gains might be had if you line them up to get a little compound thrust by pointing the outlet from the front motor towards the inlet of the rear motor. Not up close but in the thrust path to give it a little forced induction.

Cool project! I would look into making the housing have an increasing size, like what it typical on turbochargers.

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!

i love how you open things its, beautiful

If I remember correctly, the material used in the latest Dyson impellors is a composite of PPS specialty polymer compounded with 30% or 40% glass fiber reinforcement. Plain resin isn't strong enough for the forces endured at extreme RPMs. Should make for exciting high speed explosions though.

13:00 I'm not sure but I would say that most of the difference would come from the orientation relative to the moving air. In a static test, where there's no airflow this would have no effect (right?)

This channel kept popping up in my feed and I'm so glad I watched it this time! Fun and just technical enough.

LOL, a screenshot at 4:07 is definitely tee-shirt worthy😄

Cool to see! I actually did the exact same thing you did to the two motors. The only difference was that i wanted to design the "snail" so that the area inside of the snail does match the area that the motor outlet has from beginning to a certain point at any point around the motor. So the inner area of the snail rises parallel to the area of the outlet while you go "arround" the motor...if that makes any sense. I did this to have the same airpressure everywhere inside of the snail. I couldn´t finish it sadly. My CAD skills are still not good enough to make this happen :(

Maybe you can make something akin to a jet engine: You set the impeller in the middle and let the exhaust of the impeller get redirected from all sides, basically creating a sort of bell shape that tapers off towards the end. Then you take a sort of trumped shaped inlet, so when the aircraft flies, it generates static pressure infront of the impeller, so it acts like a compressor. No idea about how aerodynamic that would be, but that is how I would do it, personally.

That was an awesome video and love the work you do! Actually looking forward to seeing some of the prototype designs you showed off at the end of the video there!

This video was suggested by RU-vid. It earned an instant sub after looking at some of your other video titles. Ingenious work!

You could replace the snail flow-director with the same kind of flow director used in centrifugal-flow jet engines, which redirects the air all around the centrifugal flow and directly backwards.

it isn't that hard to ditch the snail shape for an axial shape and get a better aerodynamic profile. you could also check a multi-stage dyson turbine. it might increase both ejection velocity and flowrate. specially for a motorjet engine ;)

I think the backwards intake position was only working well because you designed the intake smoothly, so there will always be smooth airflow, but relative to flying the intake was causing turbulences which it immediately sucked in. one interesting thing is that suction force acts before explosion force, because the vacuum is dragging on the prop blade first acting on the molecules that stick to the surface of the blade, and mainly helps to overcome the inertia moment but its soon outruled by building up thrust (to which it is converted in a stream). I believe it is possible to harmonize and make a plane the works only by pull, however I dont know exactly how that would be, the thrust would have to feed its own intake instead of producing thrust

Your videos are fantastic! Excited for the next one!

Id have a look at the Dyson hair driers if you can get them cheap, they're axial flow I think. Id also like to think 2 of those fan and motor units (compressors) mounted vertically staggered in a fuselage and a 60 degree swept wing would make a pretty fast aircraft... Like a tribute to the EE Lightning 😍

Great video. Since the Dyson can create such a huge pressure differential, I'd be curious to see what a nozzle might do to increase thrust

Really inspiring how much you channel has grown and that your getting sponsors now like crazy. You never changed your style to clickbait and I respect that a lot.

You explain everything so nice. You are a great teacher. Thank you

What a cool project, didn't think there was any way those tiny motors would have enough thrust!

I wonder if a "flow multiplier" like in bladeless fans would improve thrust over a simple nozzle.

Multi stage and thrust vectoring up next! Enjoy seeing how your projects workout and the thought process behind them.

The flared intake pulls air from all round. I guess you were hoping for the koanda effect to add lift/pull, but I think ram pressure overrides that. Replace flared intakes with a straight, sharp edged tube , so it pulls only from Infront. Ideally also fair the outside edges, but not so vital with the airodynamics of that beast. Possibly a stator to true up the intake would help, but not sure

The intake at 6:11 looking really suspicious after you made it pink ;)

I beg you, please calibrate your FDM printer

Dude, the stuff you're doing is seriously cool! Also love all the boat stuff.

Yet another outstanding and extremely entertaining video! Thanks Daniel!👍👍

Next the bladeless Dyson fan?

That pink tip lol

Amazing video !! Really enjoyed watching it ! Keep up the good work guys

Watching you smash apart a vacuum violently just after watching NileRed delicately procure a tiny vial of cherry flavour from paint thinner is quite jarring.

OK now connect the exhaust of one centrifugal fan to the intake of the other one

I absolutely luv this and definitely gonna give it a go

You’re a mad genius. Extremely satisfying watch!

In motion, I'm wondering instead of a tuba shaped inlet if a more conical would reduce drag while still providing a smooth laminal flow Also due to lack of fan speed control, it'd be interesting to see if controlling the nozzle diameter could control speed/thrust

These shots in the end are CRAZY! Very cool project!

Brilliant idea for a project!! Well done. If you do a lot of 3D printing - which it seems you do :) - one trick for connecting FDM prints is to “glue” them together using the same plastic spool used to print them. There’s a dozen different ways to do this…but my favorite is to use a cheap $35 3D printer PEN, and feed a length of your spool through it. You can then just sand off any of the excess to give you a seamless connection that few would be able to tell was “glued together.” Keep it up!

I’m always impressed by Dyson stuff, especially what little I’ve heard from people that have worked on it .

cool video mate, i liked the additional clips at the end XD

That was almost as much fun to watch as it must have been to make. Very interesting concepts being brought to reality.

Crazy. Great job and piloting

First time watcher. Brilliant video. Loved the sense of humor and slick into to the sponsor. Witty and soaked with interesting techy detail. A+

Amazing footage. You really deserve much more publicity. Great content 🙏🏽😎🤙🏽

This was great to watch thanks for sharing

YOU ARE KILLING IT! Freakin love your work

I love the park at the end with a racing drone crashes into the foamy airplane when explodes every word that has happened to me before it’s fun😂😂😂

for the next plane, remote controlled start, could work. also setting up the vacuum motors like jet engines could help with the stability, as well as ducting the intake could help with the thrust issues.

Awesome video, thanks from France

Very nice content!!! I can imagine this was a ton of work i appreciate it

You are doing this world a great service sir! You do 'would that shit work' stuff IRL and share with us other nerds on RU-vid 10/10 ❤

Put a smile in my face. Hilariously well done!

And some rather incredible drone flying, doing loops around another craft

Woud love to see you use one inpeller to power a dyson bladeless fan which would probably provide a lot more thrust-to weight ratio. Jetoptera is actually using this technology to power the drones they are developing. Down the road you could rotate the dyson fans in fligt to take-off vertically and then fly horizontally.

You taught me something new thank you

Awesome project and love your presentation too!

That was great ! I really enjoyed the video .

You are a genius, Daniel, love your work

it would be interesting to see how much you could change on just building around the dyson motor to improve flight performance such as the output diameter. You could also run small direct tubing from the exhaust holes on the motor into the snail to try to increase thrust

Has anyone ever told you that you kinda look the engineer version of logic? Great video as always, really like that you tested multiple factors and explained everything so well

You’re a legend keep it up mate!!!

I've aways through about using vaccum cleaner as RC plane thruster (and also if you could do one with hair dryers) but i think you shall try to shape your engines, not as a turbocharger, but as a reactor. I mean put it with the compressor facing the air flow and attached under the wings (like a passager plane) or half way in the fuselage like a fighter jet. Maybe the second will reduce the drag. In any case well done you've realised one of my childhood mad experience

Awesome, pretty cool, very impressive, After quickly checking out other episodes I had to subscribe.

Excellent Engineering. Very Interesting. Well Done. Thank You.

I like it. Great job dude...!!! It sounds like a small airliner. Pretty neat.

That‘s one lit project! Love it ✌🏻🤩😎

The Factor meals looks okay and loving your clips.

Sometimes those sharp edges at the inlet help the compressor to achieve a slightly wider compressor map. Uses the disturbed boundary layer to achieve a cheap port shrouding effect via forcing more flow towards the center of the wheel

Can't wait for the follow up!

that was some fun rapid unscheduled disassembly at the end ^_~. and man that dyson motor is insane.

This was really cool! Cheers Bro!

You are a certified genius love this plane

I've heard of vacuum motor powered hovercraft, but this is a new one. I actually copied and 3D printed that impeller design, but in the end, I was too scared to actually put it on a brushless. I just knew that the forces would tear it apart and send plastic shrapnel everywhere.

Super cool. Thanks for sharing.

Love to watch your channel Daniel. Well done. Your plane is flying very stable, most probably due to to gyroscopic motions generated by the blower. Thanks for the video. Will you think about producing some of the assembling kits relating to your previous projects for sale on RU-vid, amazon, or, on your own websites. Many of my friends are interested in the auto pilot boats, surface effect crafts and planes, and they don't have time to figure out where and what to buy these amazing devices.