So fascinating to know that so many of the goofy failed aircraft designs i've seen over the years from the dawn of aviation where actually real technologies so radically ahead of their time, they simply didn't have computers to control them or materials to make them fully operational. Theory is important, but computational ability and materials are forever the gateway to application when dealing with complex technologies.

Quiet, compact, and capable of heavy lifting- all while presumably being able to survive a power-off landing? Yeah. That does sound good.

Absolutely brilliant concept, can't wait to see how this developes.👍🇬🇧

"My Apologies to the Fan for using the Rangers for an Example". Me: 😂🤣 Love this Guy!

Fascinating, as always. Thanks!

Excellent vid again, thumbs up without thinking.

Would be interesting to see theoretical efficiency calculations compared to helicopters, tilt-rotors, e-vtols of other configurations...

Good vid. Very informative. And it explains all the old footage of early planes and their mad designs.

How I have waited for this one!

Nice technology, we can surely improve that!

Thank you very much for this video. You have combined worldspanning history and modern technological advancement into a short, understandable and captivating lesson. very well done.

There are so many inventions and ideas that need to be revisited. We have so much more ability to accomplish things with the knowledge and materials we have to work with.

I was cursing myself when I was getting mechanical engineering but now I started to love it

Quality stuff as ever, thanks, ^oo^

Your videos are awesome, thank you.

Thank you for this summary!

Never thought about this until now :)

I had never heard about any of this. Thank you. Liked and subscribed.

Great showcase, thanks

I love your channel man! Keep it up 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Excellent! This kind of aircraft is truly new if they can be commercialized 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍

As a former helicopter mechanic, I got a chuckle out of the "It's not used because it fails to generate lift if it fails to spin". I seem to recall a similar issue with rotary wing aricraft. On a more serious note, I'm wondering if something could be designed in to allow "auto rotation" similar to a helicopter?

Interesting technology! I wonder how it reacts in the mountains, where downdrafts happen as cold air falls from the Rockies. It may not be as susceptible to the downdraft pressure? Capable of gaining altitude to travel through the mountains.

One of the bigger difficulties with making a flying car is making something that will run on land and air. And I think this thing could fix that. Or at the very least give us a direction to go.

Beautiful

Looks interesting for limited future use.

I like the flight time and range number of this vehicle.. starting to get up to useful figures. Looking at the final renderings, would it not be better to have the Cyclos further apart in the airframe? It would, in my understanding, provide more stability, as well as a better and more responsive moment arm for maneuvering the craft, right?

I would love a private one. Honestly this would make "flying cars" a reality.

IS GREAT IN THESE YEARS THAT WE LOOK AT OLDER TECHNOLOGY'S WITH THE COMPUTERS AND CUTTING EDGE LIGHTER BUILDING MATERIALS THESE TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN SHELVED DESERVE ANOTHER LOOK AND COULD BE A DRIVING FORCE IN THE FUTURE. GOOD SHOW HATS OFF

Thank you for the content!

I'm writing a book including Magnus-effect vehicles. This was very helpful.

Looks like a good idea. I dont particularly like the way it looks however , if it's lifting capacity , durability in weather conditions , power consumption , computer controlled navigation and safety features in case of failure are sufficient enough to safely transport a family of 4 to a destination of at least 100 miles at an altitude of of at least 200-300 ft above any given tree top and doesnt cost $250,000 then Let's get this thing going.

Outstanding report & concepts. My only hope is, when this technology is developed for consumer use- a method of communication safety will be foolproof, as some of the same people who have not mastered the simple task of using blinkers while driving cars will be navigating above our homes & our heads.

Let me tell everyone on this platform and how happy I am finally someone had a chance of thinking outside the box and created something new

Does this concept work under water? Maybe I should, ask does it work in different atmospheric densities.

the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'

Wasn’t entirely clear what the advantages of this system are. Is quietness the only advantage or is there an efficiency advantage as well?

Thanks . this video reminded me it's time to change my furnace filter

Interesting, but i do focus more on bladeless engine(s), because you can simply tilt them for VTOL and when the engine dies (or loses power), the aircraft does have still a number of "wing"areas for gliding down more safely.

This is really cool 😎

Would it be possible to build a cyclorotor using UPenn Modlab's swashplate-less cyclic control ?

Thank you for another great video! I would love to see a video about alternative energy carriers to batteries. Power-to-gas will be a big thing in energy storage, but what has a chance to make it into aviation? Airbus seems to be into hydrogen, but the low volumetric energy density seems like a big impediment. Metanisation would be a great alternative if there was an effective way to grab CO2 out of the atmosphere. Amonia seems like a good alternative since you just need (renewable) energy, nitrogen (from air) and hydrogen (from water) to make it and the energy density is decent. Also you can run it through a fuel cell to get electricity. What is your opinion about amonia for electric aviation?

you earned a new sub,good explaining is apreciated

já gostei desse sistema , vai dar uns ótimos veículos pra usar basta mais uns ajustes e alterações que vai ficar bom agora a questão é quem vai ter isso e pra que será usado.. :\

I see a platform that could finally make the dream of a flying car a reality....

is it possible to make the gyro big enough to cover the whole ship?

Can it glide if there is a machine failure?

It's like a van you could back up to any window I wonder if it has any military applictions?

so what about magnetically charged gyros or magnetic railing like a maglev but using magnetic thrust on the gyros.? could be combo magnetic rail and gaussing recharge. so why can't the vibrational energy be used to create offset torq through a drive shaft or something?

Are you going to make the next video on the engineering and mechanics required of the Cyclocar as you say at the end of this video? :)

Good job...

How I see this: A square wheel was invented long time ago. There were many attempts to build a square-wheeled bicycle and all of them failed. But modern technology finally allowed to build one! Using carbon fibre composite frame and unconventional suspension, the engineers created a model with 5 kg payload capacity. Yes, it still barely moves but it has such a high potential and has some advantages on difficult terrain.

More videos on this please is it more efficient?

With so many surfaces, could it ever be nearly as efficient as a helicopters disk?

See the "entothopter" too - very similar, but it DOES give lift if the engine fails.

Cool. Flying cars are coming.

great video!

Nice video

Amazing

Very interesting

They should design it with the blades on each side pointing outward, it would give it more stability, control, and thrust.

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Genius!

Like a paddle boat

Lots of moving parts. How well does it glide? Best of luck!

This may be off topic, but someone might find it interesting.Over unity electric generator. By AMA. Segment 1: 1 motor with bar connected to it standing vertically. Circular disc connected to bar that has magnets embedded in it surrounded in high permeability material to focus magnets outward pushing force in an upwards direction from top of disc. Segment 2: Hollowed out cylindrical Bar of material horizontally positioned. Flat hollowed out ring shaped material with openings around its outer top flat edge. Magnets surrounded in high permeability material embedded in these openings. Magnets positioned in openings around ring are in at least 1 of 2 configurations either all N magnetic field pushing out or N,S,N,S all around it. Just depends on whether your going for Piston structure or spinning structure explained below & whether you want it to be DC or AC current. Place these all along the cylindrical bar connected to it solidly, except at far ends of bar. At both ends of bar place ring of material that can be magnetically repelled in specific locations. (magnetically repelled in specific location is in reference to outside of ring area that faces away from center of bar)(Other side of same ring facing in towards center of bar is capable of being magnetically repelled all around) Ring must be connected solidly to bar. points of repulsion on these rings is off set from each other on each end of bar. 3 Hollow ring structures with small square bars protruding from each. Ring structure has all magnetic repulsion on inside of ring shape & can rap around the main bar so that the bar wont be causing friction on things as it moves back and forth or spins. 1st positioned around far left of bar, 2nd position at center of bar (be sure to leave enough room for magnetic structures to be able to move back and forth without hitting it) & 3rd positioned on far right of bar. Tube structure is constructed in two parts that fit together on top of each other length wise over main structure. Tube structure has 3 square openings for the bars that the Ring structures that are connected around the main bar keeping it from causing friction on structure, to slide into. This tube structure is designed with material that does not block magnetic fields. Perhaps some type of transparent material glass or other. At both ends of the tube structure there is a built in circular groove that will house a round disc. The ceiling/floor/left side/& right side of groove has openings for small magnets to be embedded in it, so that the pushing force from magnets is pushing in towards the edge of disc that goes in this spot. There is also 4 openings located on the top, bottom, left & right positions of the open groove. Small magnets are placed in these spots so when round disc is in position these magnetic fields will hit sideways keeping it from generating friction against structure. Far Ends of bar has Cap structure that screws over tube halves holding them together. Cap structure also has 4 points on inside top, bottom, left & right that have openings. These openings have small embedded magnets in them that exert there pushing force outwards (sideways) so it will keep disc in position, generating no friction against structure. Cap is made of material like tube so it does not block magnetic fields. (Note: These magnets in groove and cap structure are only needed for piston design. If Disc is directly connected to main bar so as it spins the bar spins, magnets are not needed here). The disc has ring around it (ring of material goes around outer edge and folds over front side & backside a small distance) that is repelled by magnetic fields so the 12 small magnets will keep it lined up but it will be able to spin without causing friction on structure. The disc has openings on it's flat side that face inside of tube and magnets surrounded in high permeability material are embedded in this disc. The disc has small bar that is connected to it's center that goes all the way to the other end of bar structure through the center of the hollowed out bar and connects to disc on other end. Disc on other end is set up the same but magnets embedded in it are off set in comparison. As first disc spins the magnetic fields will push against specific spot on disc connected directly to bar, pushing bar in other direction, once bar is fully pushed over, further spinning of disc will then align the other sides magnet to push it back. Tube structure also has half moon shaped protrusion on inside and on both halves so when tube is connected they line up to make a full ring shape on inside of tube, these half moon shaped protrusions have at least 1 small round opening on it's side in middle of curve that faces away from center of bar. The opening has a small magnet embedded in it so magnetic force is repelling out sideways away from center of bar. The protruding ring is positioned to line up slightly further in towards center of bar then the ring of magnetically repelled material connected directly to bar. This way when bar moves right or left it is magnetically stopped after a short distance. Copper coil setup: Copper coils are wound in at least 1 of 2 ways. Either coiled in circles next to each other (Like if you wound coils around a cylindrical bar) or laid out in a row as if wire was on flat table going up then bent to go down & back up until it formed a flat rectangle of wire bending up and down and then the entire structure folded around tube. Copper windings are then lined up perpendicular to magnetic fields on outside of tube. Ends of copper coils are connected into separate construct that will allow electrical current to flow somewhere else. Circular construct is built like a stand that goes around the outside of motor segment. Circular construct has flat ring of high permeability (magnetic field shielding) material that has small openings that will allow magnetic fields through specific locations. Top of circular construct has groove to allow the horizontal bar to balance on. Circular construct can also be placed on other end of bar so it is balanced. The motor segment is positioned so the disc connected to the bar that is connected to the motor is lined up so the disc passes under the horizontal bars disc that is at end of horizontal bar. The high permeability material keeps the magnetic fields in disc from hitting into the disc that spins or pushes the horizontal bar until just the right moment when the impact will cause the disc in horizontal bar to spin which will perpetuate the piston motion in the horizontal bar. More horizontal bars of the same design are built and positioned around the motor segment in a circular horizontal fashion all the way around. The bar connected to the motor can be increased in length to desired height (As much as motor can handle) and more of the exact same setup is repeated higher and higher up, maximizing the over unity potential of the construct to ridiculous proportions. :D Current from the horizontal bars is diverted to power the motor as needed and all other current is diverted to power my game console or the world. :) Interesting variation to this design would be to connect the spinning discs on far ends of horizontal bar to main bar that magnets are connected to so the magnets spin instead of getting pistoned back and forth. So long as moving magnetic fields are perpendicular to copper wires it should work. By AMA

There must be very hi angular accelerations when the blade is rotated which would create enormous stresses in the blade. What rotational speeds have been achieved?

Voith-Schneider drive this is the Voith-Schneider system for ships, mostly used with port tugs

Would this make a quieter drone camera?

it was mentioned earlier in the video.. but what if even ONE of the gyros fail? sure they have wings but if the motor controlling the wing angle breaks, you are screwed. Love the concept but I'd imagine safety would be a big concern

Wrap some rubber around the edges, and you've got yourself a flying car. This is the future, right here. Also, I love the way you say "perpendicular".

Noise would be an interesting issue also and would affect future faa approval

This is the only propeller sysem that makes sense.

Check out the Ezekiel Airship which flew in 1902. A full-scale model is in a Pittsburgh, Texas, museum.

Hi this is great, would like to descuss the technology gap in years on the LUGWA Vtol

Ill wait the real break through technology, as seen on the nebuchadnezzar ship in the Matrix movies ;)

hmm base on wiki, the lift force of magus effect scale with the cylinder radius square while scale with cylinder length linearly. assuming the mass of the rotating surface is 2*pi*radius*cylinder_length*surface_thickness*density_of_surface_material. For the same equivalent mass, a low aspect ratio thin rotating disk will have much higher lift than a thin rotating cylinder. IE: twice the radius will give you 4 times the lift, while twice the cylinder length will only give you twice the lift. And since mass scale linearly with either radius and cylinder length, it's better to have a thin rotating disk. Of course induce drag will be higher due to the low aspect ratio, but it's a trade off between drag and lift. But it's kind of weird all these magus effect lift device all design as thin cylinder instead of thin disk, greatly reduce the magus lift effect.

Muito massa!!

Thanks, what was the name of the one at 1:52 the R/C model one???? I have seen it before..... Laurie

Thats the fucking Future! No longer driving to work!

turn it on it's side, stick it under a boat and call it a voith schneider propeller. i love those things.

Genial!!

You can get rid of most of the stability surfaces if you add dihedral to the rotors

Getting close to making ufo for the masses

What if you incorporate turbo units on the ends to direct all that unwanted air into an exhaust jet pointed backwards increasing thrust

How will it avoid going into an unrecoverable spin if a motor fails?

very smart

Keep innovating to perfection to avoid monopoly like the old times.

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Without a doubt.

We used to throw are wood rulers in the air at school they flip around in circles float thru air

I wonder the pro's and cons compared to a conventional propulsion system

I recommend to have a look at the company CycloTech.

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aliens watching our evolution be like "dammit just give them the antigravity so they'll stop making ships that looks like toilet paper rolls."

Cycloidal propellers have been used in shipping for almost a century now. Same thing as these cyclorotors but oriented vertically on the bottom of the ship. They are especially common on tugboats because they allow near instant 360 degree thrust direction control the more distributed flow makes the boat resistant to capsizing compared to a to a tug equipped with azimuth propellers. Promotional video for the Voith water tractor system: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtOlg8d5rqnWe4k.html

Would like to fly a car with this technology

I like it

Actually it is just a Voith Schneider propeller, like the one you can find on some highly maneuvering boats, but with a much higher rotating speed because the air density is 830 times less that of water. And... the Voith Schneider propeller is a *very* complex piece of mechanics. I strongly doubt its air applications could be as efficient as helicopters, even with advanced computer-driven technology.

I really love how they get drones and they try to create a new platform for transporting people but it's still basically propeller helicopter