Haha, I've often sniffed an airplane to diagnose the problem. Great job as always Nick! Impressive project to pull off.

This is a super interesting idea, I really do like how good projects from the early 1900´s can have a better research with today technologies

I love the style and pacing of this video. Solid designs and solid testing! Excited for more!

that is the next level. fusion of plane, heli, and drone.

Genius in engineering, I’m very impressed!

It's great to see your progress! It looks like you had some amazing sustained flights. Much better than my little glide. 😂 I never realized that the one airfoil acts like a wing during forward flight, but that makes sense now. That and probably the higher airflow for the bottom rotor (the one with lots of helpful virtual camber) gives something like a 36% decrease in power consumption at higher speeds. I'll hopefully get my third attempt at a cycloplane flying in the coming months; It'll be interesting to see if it has the same general flight characteristics as yours (hopefully excluding the exploding rotor). Good luck on future projects, I can't wait to see the cool things that you come up with.

Great job comparing their performance! Cycloidal rotor will need a lot of optimization to reach a propeller performance. So for me it looks interesting as a concept, but is far from be worth due its complexity and inherent multiple failure modes.

Because of the larger "rotor area/wing area" I feel like these could be more efficient, but because of the mechanical complexity will require more maintenance.

I found you again… The cyclo plane is really cool but I just watched your drone cyclo copter and I said do not give up you are not allowed… Well seriously this type of propulsion is the most beautiful of all you must continue. Like a majestic paddleboat in the South Mississippi River this is the most beautiful concept… I will not allow you to give up… Go go go yea… The coolest ever

Wider front wheels might have prevented that. But either way that first flight was successful even though the second one wasn't. Brilliant job

It'd make a decent vtol candidate, right? Because it has nearly infinitely variable thrust angles from straight up to straight forward, without having to pivot motors at all. Also, great work and thanks for sharing. Sorry it detonated, but... Science!

Honestly, it could be something else than the blades themselves: it could be all of the stuff built around to control their angle of attack. Nice work anyway, that's a lovely dev, thank you for the video!

I do not understand any of this but I admire your enthusiasm.

4:03 You may see propeller thrust but I see your subscriber trend

Very Nice. I don't have any practical knowledge of the cyclo rotor but I just learnt a lot from your video. Thank you very much.

Great video! That 'unexpected result' has got to be one of the funniest ever!

That method will increase the effect on a vertical wind power. Very interesting. Good work. Take care.

It's amazing to see a man like you trying to make a revolution! God bless you! I really hope you can make it!

7:21 the BUILD UP. the SILENCE. I’m dead hahaha awesome work

I like your jovial response to calamity and disaster Nicholas! And thanks for sharing this research. I'll be checking out your link to Jude Schauer and coming back to see what else you have been doing. Subscribed!

"Please work." *giggles. Immediately clicks subscribe*

I Love This! I'm almost done with mine, I can't wait to show y'all!

Usually one such rotor is divided into two. In order to arrange the blades in a checkerboard pattern. It is very difficult to make a blade that bends at the desired angle. It is difficult to make the blades herringbone. It is difficult to put the blades in a spiral..This is a challenging puzzle.

hi nicholas, i wrote to jude also, that this drive (like the voith-schneider prop on ships) gives different performance with number of blades, length of blades, length to breadth ratio of the blades. the voith-schneider played a lot in water. i imagine in air have other numbers

By not reading other comments, intriguing but rule of engineering thumb more moving parts creates higher risk of failure, this is why the basic fan, propeller is still used today in planes and ships.

2:16 that is what good experimenting will do. Love it, keep at it ! 3:40 that’s correct. Don’t base your work on comparisons. You will find different values of performance to be sure, as you are finding out. 6:50 try serpentine belts , toothed belts will rip apart if they jump the teeth, or over load the shafting, slipping a bit will let you bring it home at least .😊

I may be premature and giving a suggestion I flew RC helicopters back in the 70s we didn’t have gyros back then but we did have coged belts or timing belt, I think it will help you greatly. Keep up the good work my friend you have amazing ideas

A flatter/flat wing with ailerons will give you much better roll control, then you can use rudder for ground steering (without the roll) and banknyank for flight control.

I saw this rotor design in a old documentary video about helicopter history! If I remembered correctly I think it was from 1930 or something

7:45 lol at the frozen reaction during the rain of parts

"I need to take a break from Cyclorotors..." ...since its bad to end up like a homicidal maniac... "...but I learned alot..!" ...about my patience limits 😆 Good show, that spray of parts was truly epic... reminds me when I gave up on RC airplanes.

You do the stuff I imagine Samm Sheperd would do if he were still alive. I'm glad I found your channel.

This is Steampunk as hell and I'm here for it

You did a good job there, well done.

Reminds of that old black and white vintage video of the cycloroter that flew apart a everyone running away!

This looks awesome! Congratulations, and well done!

You're the much less pedantic Tom Stanton with a great repository of interesting projects! I'm sure you'll take off, if you can excuse that pun lol. When you come back to cyclo rotors again I'd really like to see a discussion on tip vortices in the vanes, it's something that a lot of people don't talk about and it seems a little bit harder to solve than the traditional tapered and twisted propeller. I have seen some cyclo rotors with disks bonded the frame but I'm wondering if that hurts the performance of the lower blade significantly.

Impressive project. What a sad ending

it's always great to see someone doing research like this. Great work!

Something new and weird is always good, even if it ends up in bits 😄

Looking forward to your upcoming videos. This is hyper cool stuff!

This seems very similar to the Voith Schneider Propeller. These are used on tug boats and have the amazing ability to maneuver the tug in any direction.

Fascinating concept. Thanks for building it!

Interesting project, may take years if not decades to perfect. 👍

Great video! this is an interesting project. I'm now wondering if these rotors could be built in/incorporated into a wing where the rotors "tuck in"/"rotate in" to the wing when/where they would be perpendicular to the direction of travel/where they are creating drag and not lift. I'll add this to the endless list of projects I want to get to.

You genius SOB ! Awsome!

cool idea ..fun stuff

Love the paddle steamer plane :D

I particularly like the part where you make a small confetti cannon in the parking lot. Literally LOL'd

This concept works very well under a tugboat in the Voith-Schneider cycloidal drive. That’s because the weight and strength of the components is not a restrictive factor. Your project is wonderfully fascinating, but will always be fragile, I fear. 🤜🤛

Very cool video!👍

The bird screaming when the plane broke was perfect lol 🐦

this mechanism is also used in some very unique tug boats as well. Could make a boat vs. a plane. :-)

I would consider experimenting with different shaped blades, e.g. with more curvature. Maybe inflatable would be good for easy changes making testing a lot faster.

You efforts are so useful and rewarding.

Great job on the project. In the slow motion shot it appears the right rotor exploded before the plane rolled to the left and caused the left rotor to hit the ground. Can you determine if it was a structural failure or did it hit something? I'm looking forward to your next adventure!

Sounds a lot more peaceful when it flies

you could make an amazing oscillating fan with this

I love your projects, thanks X3 for sharing it, I kind of impersonate the young experience ; ) and knowledgeable science, I enjoyed it thoroughly

Good job. That's amazing.

FASCINATING

The prop makes 3x more noise - but gives 3x more thrust ^^

Keep on going. Investmets are waiting for you

Admirable work-through of a funny idea!

When it spins. The flaps, even though position slim, causes wind vortex friction. Perhaps a quarter circle frame beam, could shield the return rotation of the fins from the drag of open exposed atmosphere. This only requires a rotate 1/4th circle frame.

Releasing the design on an open collaboration platform could actually gain you more subscribers.

2nd attempt to take of is gorgeous...

Very good engineering.

"Too Bendy" ?? Never heard that engineering term ! :)

I spit my coffee out at the satisfaction attained by pressing in bearings. Is that my dirty mind showing or did I really get the joke that was meant?

Beautiful explosion there :p

at 3:14 the cyclorotor sounded almost identical to a Huey, pretty freaking awesome lol

You rock,guy!!

This was educational, fun and created with care. Definitely worth a sub! So count me in!

I expect some of the efficiency tapering off is due to the motor running out of steam and torque at the high end

Impressive

Nice job Nick! Couldn't have done it witout Winklemans class...

I loved it 😁 Huge smile in my face right now. But I hated when the planet exploded.

Reinventing the propeller sounds as good as an idea as reinventing the wheel imo.

looks very smouthe and stabel

It was noted that at 7:28 in the video "catastrophic unscheduled disassembly", otherwise known as "re-kitting" was experienced. Further testing is indicated.

5:24 Noise can also be based on the shape of a propeller There are ways to quiet normal propellers but that's tedious and normal people don't want to do that

The props exploding like that probably why this design never took off lol.

The reduced noise feature alone will buy it's way on.

awesome!

1:25 The patents for the flying car are from Austria not Russia and the "Voith Schneider Propeller" comes from Germany. The patent was filed in 1927 but was mainly used in shipping

The next time you make this prototype, put your engine higher by about 6 inches.

So, traditional props have a speed limit, if you don't want the tips to produce a continuous sonic boom. With the cyclorotor, you could spin it up to mach 0.9, and then increase the length if more thrust is desired. That would be interesting to see.

Thanks very innovative and learn a lot from you!

This is amazing!!!

love the concept! but if I could ask for something: it would be really interesting to compare different numbers of blades on these, specifically three and six would be something i'd wish to see!

dude, quite impressive work! thanks for sharing... u r a freaking inventor! great stuff, keep it up! Cheers!

A vane like this, with a curved angle. More rotors, more blades. More offset to the 2 point no thrust positions. And with curvature it would minimize the actual surface area of no thrust at each point

Good idea.

@Nicholas Rehm Try using a notched belt so tension / slippage isn't so much of an issue. Besides the tension could torque the frame causing it to twist as more thrust is being applied.

Ojalá que sí veamos este diseño en un futuro cercano

Pros: High efficiency, low noise Cons: Instant parts confetti on any ground impacts

If the aerofoils were stiff enough in torsion, only a cam on one end would be needed, which could simplify the mechanism

Good research and experiment!+

7:20 is great.