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"Too last century" just because something is old doesn't mean it's bad.

"Eating food is too last several billions of years"

"blades are old fashioned, so THESE blades..."

I’m an aerospace engineer, fun fact: Turbines create thrust not lift. A wing’s curved shape creates lift as it moves through the air. Propeller blades have a similar shape for the same reason. Blades in a jet turbine also have the same shape, but they don’t use this to create lift or thrust. Instead, several layers of blades suck in and compress air, which is directed to the combustion chamber and nozzle.

This is just a cyclogyro (first patented in 1927). Works like a Voith Schneider propeller.

"Rotors are too last century, so this company invented a flying machine using a 94-year old rotor design"

It looks like the flying car we have all been anticipating.

glad to see the people in the comments are not taking this bullshit. Next level of not taking this bullshit is to stop consuming and interacting in these videos, don't go down your level people.

Those rotors are just a few years shy of their 100th birthday. This is as new and revolutionary as a vacuum train.

😂 they made a paddlewheel for the air

Imagine sitting in traffic turning on that feature and hovering over everyone

In the 70's, I had a "rotor blade", polystyrene plane. Awesome. 😊

Jet engines dont create lift. They provide thrust so that the wings with sufficient airspeed create lift Edit: Ladies and Gentlemen I thought it need not be said that this was a generalized statement as in general and civil aviation the primary lift generating component at cruise the wings generate the lift. Of course the thrust generating component has a force in the direction it is pointing, so if you direct your thrust downwards yes tour thrust will be producing more upwards force on the craft. This generalization is very common form of abstraction to simplify the model. Of course all models are wrong but some models are useful. It is general8zed at cruise in general and civil aviation where AOA is very small the thrust component is not producing much lift so the wings are the main lift generating component, so the statement engines don't create lift, the wings do that with airspeed is not entirely correct, it is also not flat wrong. Like how staing electricity takes the path of least resistance is wrong as electricity takes everypath with current proportionate to the inverse of resistance in said path; but that makes modeling complicated so we say electricity takes the path of least resistance, it is not entirely correct it is also not wrong.

This is a less efficient design than regular rotors.

Literally the first rendition of the first logically engineered flying car

The wheel is fuckin ancient but still going strong

Wheels are just too last millenium, let’s reinvent them

I love how quick the internet is to call out the BS these idiotic youtube short creators are

These personal flying vehicle videos never let you hear the actual sound.

Mama always said , if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Keep in mind wings still work when engines fail.

The wheel is several thousand years old and yet it's still everywhere

It's on cables and is being lifted by those cables. It's also based on an old design concept.

Helicopters have been working exactly the same way for decades

If “you read only one article and think it told you everything” was a person

Propellers are not "too old school," they are by far the better choice for low speed propulsion, particularly when takeoff distance is a concern. That is why they continue to be used in craft like the c-130. The wheel, a cornerstone of modern life, is millenia old.

this actually could pretty easily become a flying car without many transformations

My dad manufactures cf and in the 80s made a device that looked in all honesty like a reel to reel recorder. It had no regular fins just two pitched reels on opposite sides of a central body like a drone. The reels were surrounded by a belt that used a reverse gearing to compensate the reels. So the motor operated in the opposite direction in the center of the body. It was fully working with a coandra effect if I spelled it right. His idea was not about efficiency but rather flinging air out. He had everything weighted so it would act like its own gyroscope. All it needed was a system to shift the center of gravity and he said it would have moved in any direction. It did hover though and by the time I was old enough it was not operational. After writing this it makes me wanna build an updated version with him. Using a mercury ballast that flows into channels on any side could be a way to control direction.

It's still using airfoils for lift. Small, horizontal rotating ones but still airfoils.

is it me or this guy looks just like a real life woody from toy story

This idea looks way safer for personal flying vehicle

You know the military is already making a jet like this

So that's where my push lawn mower went!

Most things that fly around the earth have bird wings.

Looks like a fancy lawnmower

That thing is gonna make engineers cry and make it cost so much

Great idea until you ditch the mains cable and stick a half ton battery inside to keep it going..

this video is full of misinformation= "don't recommend the channel"

That kind of reminds me of the cylinder sails in recent ships

Bro that's like calling the A-10 completely insignificant

Limited design functionality and likely inefficient. Standard propeller has been used for so long because the are the most efficient. In regards to noise, less noise is produced because the “blades” are not creating “resonate pressure differentials” frame or stationary frame components. This can be corrected by offsetting the blade spacing. Auto manufacturers have been doing this for years to lower cooling fan noise. Also how you are you to control yaw? Yaw it typically controlled by increasing or decreasing motor speed. This change in interia allows for the craft to rotate about it yaw axis. However, in the design you have shown the rotational axis on the motor is perpendicular to that of the frame which would like yield a roll or pitch effect.

This idea is not New. The Principle is from ships. Its is called " Voith-Schneider Propeller " Namen after the german company that build it.

I remember when they started talking about those horizontal rotors. Impressive.

One step closer to owning my very own Blade Runner Spinner.

60 years ago they would have said that this looks like a flying car!

They didn’t switch it because the old blades were too last century, they switched it so you don’t slice people into purée like a open blender going down the roadway.

Now we got to make these vectorable. That is sick tech.

Peterscripol already made an aircraft using KFC buckets, this isnt new.

Its a precursor to the Spinner (Flying car) from "Bladerunner".

Not a new idea, in 1910 the first attempts to use a Magnus effect propeller, and Flettner Rotors were used on some ships

Saying a propeller blade is "too last century" is like saying a wheel is "too last millennium"

Man that's pretty cool. Makes me have a bunch of ideas

Ahh, the squirrel cage rotor. Nice to see it used for more than a fan.

this design has been in existance since the first plane was born , no one used it because it was too complex and creates more points of failure , so thats why propellers are used today with the combination of wings

welp, here’s the first flying car prototype

“We’ll have flying cars in the future” Flying Cars:

It's a Voith drive (used on tugs) converted for drone configuration.

We were all RC enthusiasts. We did this back in the 80's with cardboard.

This is how flying cars will work

Now that seems like it could actually be a flying car at some point

Not a new idea, a working plane with "propellers" like these were made before WW2, but just never caught on. I remember in the early 2010's my school also making a working model as well.

The world’s coolest lawnmower.

The Coriolis effect is awesome.

Wheel was invented around 4000 years ago but we still use it. That’s 40 centuries.🙃

As a helicopter pilot.. the idea of letting, just anyone fly, scares me to no end. Imagine if car accidents could happen literally ANYWHERE! Its bad enough with them stuck on roads. And I'm not sure people realize that.. flying is a lot harder than driving.

Great concept 😊. Ignore the snarkies . They don’t see what’s happening here. 😢

Hmm... it looks like they adapted the Voith Schneider Propeller from ships to work on aircraft. Clever!

"how can we make this drone quieter?" "throw some wheels on it!"

Fun Fact: Cyclocopters have existed since the 1900s, so it's also literally 'so last century', but would've only worked well now because of computers actively controlling the blade angles as it rotates.

Is this just magnus effect again?

New my ass... Saw someone make one out of kfc buckets years ago.

This will be the predecessor of flying cars

Now we know where Santa bought his sleigh

C-130s still using props

Looks like a true off-road vehicle

"Too last century" wait until this guy discovers how many years ago the wheel was made

That company deserves the men's butts discount!

Satellites don't need blades They travel around the earth.... Time for zeppelins to be new 😂

That technology isn't new...

Watching civilians rediscover things the military has had for decades is fun.

Funny how flying cars in movies had the wheels fold outward and point down, and now helicopters of the future have horizontal rotors

It is indeed insane and unbelievable. It is certainly not more efficient. The general idea has been around a while. It just isn't worth doing. One problem is disc area. Generally speaking, moving a wide area of air slowly is better than moving a small area of air really fast. Those four wheels have a lot less area than a helicopter rotor.

Wow its the 1832 centrifugal fan without a cowling? A squirrel cage with less blades?

That thing looks awesome in flight

I love how a hundred-year-old design is insanely new, and he can't believe it actually works. Oh, so genius! TOOL.

what this thing call.....

It's been nearly 20 years since I basically had a dream about this machine. I say basically, because I'd recently, at that time, sold my beloved little standard cab shortbed 4x4 95 Nissan hardbody pickup. In the dream, I had decided to keep it and attached giant squirrel cage blowers to all four wheel hubs, and table legs to each corner of the truck, and I managed to make it take off and fly when I revved it to high RPMs in 5th gear. It was a fun dream for awhile. I never worked out the detail on how I'd isolated the orientation of thrust to be downwards. There was no housing diverting the flow, it was all open air like this thing, so I just chalked it up as a stupid dream. The dream ended as I was trying to figure out how the hell to land it safely, since every time I let off the throttle just a little, it began falling fast. I was getting worried when I woke from it. It's one of those dreams I've somehow managed to remember through all these years, so this video really excited me to see!

That thing looked incredible.... incredibly inefficient an underpowered

So this is how we get flying cars

Did I miss the part where the name of the device is mentioned? or the company name?

Cool innovation, but absolutely the wrong person to be presenting it.

That system of propulsion is called the "Magnus Effect". They have been many attempts at making an aircraft that uses the "Magnus Effect" in the past.

That's the coolest lawnmower I ever saw😂😂

"Propellers are just too last century" *30-06 has entered the chat*

A new means of turning birds and such, into confetti?! Sign me up, kind Sir!

I believe the blades are actuated blades as well. They change position as they move in a circular direction.

Paddles are not new get facts correct

"it's too last century". This is a fashion channel

I can't wait to hop on and ride the flying thingy that has four perfectly spaced choppers for my arms and legs!