Flying a Plane Powered by AIR
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I’ve Been Watching You Since the Air powered car video back like 4 years ago and I’m so excited for your air planes to actually FLY
FYI, the link in the description currently returns a 404 for me
Did Integza channel credited you or ask you something about the air engine?
Hey a tip for your air storage: people that build water rockets have perfected splicing plastic bottles together for high pressure use. The channel US Water Rockets has some good videos about bottle splicing. You could save some weight and make larger chambers fairly easily.
Good to see you here!
I love it when cool engineering YouTubers watch each other’s videos!
Yeah I remember gluing 1.5L bottles together to make a 4.5L water rocket 12 years ago. 120psi is quite the limit though
Check out KegLand Oxebar Mono PET Keg – a 10 liter plastic keg. I don’t know if it can handle 120 psi, but worth experimenting with.
That sounds like a good idea if it can take the pressure. There’s a lot of weight in the bottom of the bottles and fasteners. Also, here in the US we have 3-liter soda bottles. Fuse a couple of those together and you’ve got 50% more capacity in probably less weight.
That’s just amazing Tom !
Omg how has no one replied to this comment yet?
YOOO, colab please
What exactly was amazing, could you please explain
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Id love to see if you could somehow use the wings as extra air tanks
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe there is some lightweight tubing that he could route through the holes… as long as it could hold pressure.
You probably need as round a shape as possible to maximize volume per unit surface area, since the surface needs to be strong and therefore heavy
@Brandon Ltubing would be heavy, very high surface area per volume.
Dang! Love the perseverance and quality!
Don’t know why I’m surprised to see you here😂
i didn’t expect the legend to be here
I love perseverance and ingenuity
LOL wow, this really IS a small world!
Yes. What he says. Perseverance
Love it. You could probably reduce drag significantly if you make a small fairing to cover the gap between the wing roots and allow the air to flow around the centre piece.
Agree. Packing tape would seal the gap just fine.
Two tips. 1) I have been recycling PET diet coke bottles into printer filament for some time. My first step is to smooth out the iconic shape by pressurizing it to 70psi with a little water and heating it slowly in an oven. I’ve successfully shrunk, elongated in a form, and reformed the bottoms into a smooth dome. You may want to consider doing the same, giving you more volume at the same weight. Coca Cola published that their 2 liter bottles are rated for 150 psi, so if you only need 70 some experimentation might be warranted. I would love to see what you come up with. 2) Secondly, you could replace the tail rod with a pressurized fluorescent tube protector and make the plane a flying air tank. The water rocket people use them as pressure tanks as well, so there is a lot of data and technique to start with!
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Awesome stuff, including recycling the bottles, what a great idea!
if the bottle was full of water before you put it in the oven and still completely filled afterwards, there would be no increase in volume
maybe the sides contracted a little?
Thats an amazing flight! Well done!
You should try this sort of project out! Id love to watch it
Nice to see you here
Cool
So glad to see the accumulation of your research unfold into this marvelous flying machine! Great work!
To pressurise the entire wing or to put helium in the wings might be worth a try, molding a “winglike plastic bottle” sort of. Maibe the “winglike plastic bottles” could be bigger and actually replace the bottles. Quite a job to test the weight/power ratio, but with 2 meters wingspan its a decent amount of volume that might be worth testing anyway. Nice work btw its really cool