This is a fascinating scaled-down study of ground-effect! We experienced this on a much larger scale in the KC-135 air refueling tanker. Whenever we had a very large receiver aircraft such as a B-52 or a C-5 Galaxy, our airplane would pitch nose-down slightly and airspeed would increase a few knots due to the reduction of induced drag from the other airplane’s wing. It had the opposite effect when the receiver aircraft departed, and at times was nearly violent if the receiver pilot wasn’t smooth with his exit. Thank you for this very cool experiment!!
Peter, in many wind tunnels like the ones used to test aerodynamics of cars and stuff, the fans actually suck the air in instead of blowing it out. This gets rid of pretty much all turbulence. If you decide to retry this then maybe you can take this into consideration. :)
@Caleb P if the fan was positioned behind the plane and the board to "suck air", i think the fan wouldn't be "pulling the plane" per say. The fan would be sucking the air all around it. The air would still be moving in the same direction as if it were being "pushed" or "blown". It would still hit the board and still generate lift. However, even if sucking the air is less turbulent than pushing it, as @KylePrupas said, sucking it into the board may still create too much turbulence for a steady "infinite flight".
@Caleb P Wrong. The air flow is what matters, not the location of the fan. If the wind is blowing directly at a wall and you stand in front of the wall, the wind in the middle of the front of the wall is nearly as still as the air behind it. And wind is just as much air being sucked into a lower pressure area as it is air being forced from a higher pressure area.
I love how this started out as an idea that required like 15 minutes and $15 worth of materials, and you just tried to run with that concept as far as possible. Great video!
The fact that William let Peter light all those candles is amazing. Especially when his house burned down back in 2017. I hope he's feeling better since the go fund me helped a lot.
@@HolywaffleMC No it was because of his laser cutter I'm pretty sure, he just mentioned that it was around the same time and forest fires were around him
One of the greatest minds of this generation. I like just hearing you talk and telling us what you're thinking and how you plan to work things out. Keep up the great work.
When you are walking behind the glider, you constantly monitor its position and flight path and make adjustments. That is what keeps it flying. With the fan and the ramp, there is constant airflow which would keep it aloft but nothing to control it or bring it back on course when it starts to veer off.
Why are all the youtube hobby creators in wills house? Is there going to be a youtubers house ever since Michael moved out? (I don’t know anything so sorry if I missed an announcement)
My own favorite kind of air, for having zero ground speed, was the air near the top of a ridge as I could trade horizontal for vertical air (and vice versa) at will. I guess the stretch would be to build a plane that would look for ridges. When pushing cardboard, the ridge tracks the plane.
Not sure how it took me so long to find this channel, but this dude is awesome! Good on you buddy! I'm a paragliding pilot in training, and often we use motors, either gas powered or electric to augment when we don't have ridge lift or thermal lift available. Here's a challenge... If you are up for it... A mousetrap or rubber band principled, pedal powered rechargeable paramotor setup. So charge up pre flight, launch, and recharge in flight! Possible?
I remember one time while at my grandma's place (she lives on the 9th floor) me and my cousin decided to throw paper airplanes out of the window because there was nothing better to do (pre-smartphone era). And we made some paper airplanes that weighed a decent amount maybe like 3-5grams easily. Then we threw one off of the balcony and it just started doing circles not even losing altitude. For some reason it was the funniest shit ever and i even pissed my pants when my cousin caught it after it went on for like 5 minutes non stop. Good times.
10:38 & 14:21 are the two best moments!!! ..I've found this video very much interesting....It deserves a part-2.....Slater Harrison from @sciencetoymaker actually rocks YT on flying the walkalong gliders by using just the palms of his hands.... ..Thank you so much Peter for this informative yet entertaining video.... . 👏🏼👌🏼👍🏼💙
@@heldhostageplshelp Just imagine a guy with a green suit, a green screen, bright lights, a hundred takes, and you got yourself a good low budget shot.
2 Ideas. 1: Put the hand held cardboard on the end of a long rotating stick to replace the human element or 2: Think about the air flow you need as being more like a standing wave pool like surfers use on cruse ships. So the plain only gets a fast air boost when is getting low and can drift down when its too high. perhaps take some inspiration from a floor drying blower fan and get a flat laminar flow of air to flow only near the surface of your air ramp.
A dyson fan would have faster air speed at the edges and slower air speed in the middle, so if you build a small enough plane or a big enough dyson fan, it could work
WATERPROOF DRONE IDEA Peter your videos are fantastic, I love building things too! I recently got a mavic but I was thinking about flying in rain (dont) but then I thought of a way to "waterproof" a drone. Put an umbrella attached to the drone and maybe theres enough protection from the umbrella to protect the drone underneath it.
I love it !! At about 11:00 you invented a moth circling a flame. Brilliant ! Curious... how about rising or directed steam ?? I guess the plane would need waterproofing so it doesn't absorb too much. Krylon Clear Coat ? Or a healthy quad with a horizontal stick going out a few feet. Mount an EDF on the end of the stick pointing up at an angle. See if you can get the glider to surf the plume of rising air. Every time I watch one of your videos my head sort of hurts... keep up the good work. An imagination is a terrible thing to waste.
I don't know if you're still looking for some new ideas but i got one : BUILD A X-WING ! (or a vehicle from a movie :) ) ps: i love your videos and this one was really cool !
Awesome video guys, now a suggestion for a follow up video, Not sure if it’s been done before but Build an ultralight Rc glider using the lightest and smallest Rc gear available, then build an indoor slope in a hall or similar large indoor space complete with low turbulence fans, I would also love to see the same with the thermal test using multiple electric heaters also using a larger area with the same ultralight Rc glider 🙂👍
This is sick, I had an idea for how to weaponize one of these so I made a video about it. I think it goes really well with this video . I just uploaded it a couple of weeks ago :)
Really, all those candles and no sign of a fire extinguisher. Your experimenting did remind me of the huge fleet of paper airplanes I assembled while conducting my own r&d on staying airborne.
9:10 “I’m gonna try the four inch plane, hopefully it doesn’t burn or catch on fire” but he already new it wouldn’t because he is over voicing the video 🤔
To create true laminar flow, it's important to not direct the fans into the tubes, but rather at a 90° angle, to create a high pressure box behind the grid.
Peter: "lets add more candles"
Me getting a flashback to when williams house burned down: oh no
Ahmadh Hassan OH YEAH *kook aid man intensifies*
Ashton Lovell ruclips.net/video/QbDuBTWrU-o/видео.html
“We are going to burn Williams house down”
Me: NOT AGAIN!
*Peter : evil laughter*
m.ruclips.net/video/-NcMye98Vqk/видео.html
Bean
Peter: “I’ve seen this really stupid video on the internet” Me: Do you you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
Indeed
Monkey man is better then Thomas.
Is that video fake?
Lachlan Thomas do you you
mustang the kitten yes
7:30
"For our next trick we're going to burn William's house down."
"No, we talked about this."
9:52
"Uuuhh, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS!"
@Benjamin McLauchlan 😂😂
Yey
Wow
perfect
This is a fascinating scaled-down study of ground-effect! We experienced this on a much larger scale in the KC-135 air refueling tanker. Whenever we had a very large receiver aircraft such as a B-52 or a C-5 Galaxy, our airplane would pitch nose-down slightly and airspeed would increase a few knots due to the reduction of induced drag from the other airplane’s wing. It had the opposite effect when the receiver aircraft departed, and at times was nearly violent if the receiver pilot wasn’t smooth with his exit. Thank you for this very cool experiment!!
wtf a frickin air force pilot in the comments? thank you for your service
not really the ground effect tho, this is the effects of a blunt object in an airstream changing the airstream
"For our next trick, we're gonna burn William's house down."
"No!"
That's a big oof.
100th like
@@blegh277 sick dude
Third comment
"WEEEE TALKED ABOUT THIS"
LOL, still remembered back then when his house burned down
Peter: Haphazardly attaches heating element wire to battery
William's house: I'm in danger
**chuckles** _im in danger..._
THAT IS HIS HOUSE, A LOT OF MONEY IN RUclips
Scott Collins acktually there was an electronic speed control between the two 😂
Meanwhile in another universe: "Damn it my house burned down again"
Goofy Science Nerd HQ
XD
Hehehe
MEANWHILE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSAL WHERE...
If only Michael Reeves hadn’t moved in with Offline...
That would honestly be the coolest crossover
Yea but backyard scientist is there
I've built a glider that drains my bank account by buying random stuff on Amazon!
Yet still lily x Mykull is cute
Yo hi old me
Peter: uses candles to make a plane fly
Satan wondering why hes trying to summon him
You do realize they made that exact same joke several times in the video, right?
He does knoe
Peter, in many wind tunnels like the ones used to test aerodynamics of cars and stuff, the fans actually suck the air in instead of blowing it out. This gets rid of pretty much all turbulence. If you decide to retry this then maybe you can take this into consideration. :)
@Caleb P why's that? If he recreates the tunnel, you'd just need to put the plank of foam in front of the fan, and the plane in front of the plank.
@Caleb P Exactly...
@Caleb P you've got a point. The point of the air blowing onto the ramp is to generate lift. If the ramps sucked inwards it wouldn't work.
@Caleb P if the fan was positioned behind the plane and the board to "suck air", i think the fan wouldn't be "pulling the plane" per say. The fan would be sucking the air all around it. The air would still be moving in the same direction as if it were being "pushed" or "blown". It would still hit the board and still generate lift.
However, even if sucking the air is less turbulent than pushing it, as @KylePrupas said, sucking it into the board may still create too much turbulence for a steady "infinite flight".
@Caleb P Wrong. The air flow is what matters, not the location of the fan. If the wind is blowing directly at a wall and you stand in front of the wall, the wind in the middle of the front of the wall is nearly as still as the air behind it. And wind is just as much air being sucked into a lower pressure area as it is air being forced from a higher pressure area.
Everyone: Stay at home
The Scientific community: We stay home together..
So this is "science for you"
You mean 99%
Josue Rodriguez ja
Mom!!! Don’t bother me and my friends while we are developing a cure for covid19!!
A Bit Of Gaming Talking of Folding@home?
I love how this started out as an idea that required like 15 minutes and $15 worth of materials, and you just tried to run with that concept as far as possible. Great video!
The fact that William let Peter light all those candles is amazing. Especially when his house burned down back in 2017. I hope he's feeling better since the go fund me helped a lot.
That dude's house burned down?!?!?!
@@thedyingmeme6 from the california forest fires in 2017
Did you build the plane with fire
@@HolywaffleMC No it was because of his laser cutter I'm pretty sure, he just mentioned that it was around the same time and forest fires were around him
He's rich man.. He had insurance. Do you understand how much he makes from RUclips alone?
One of the greatest minds of this generation.
I like just hearing you talk and telling us what you're thinking and how you plan to work things out.
Keep up the great work.
He looks like a guy who holds a world record for something really pointless
/rok
He hearted it lmao
Can we get an update on your trees? Are they well?
for something *looking* really pointless
I’m your 500th like
Candles: arranged in a circle
*bfg division starts playing*
*IN THE FIRST AGE*
When u realise Peter, Tom Stanton and Kevin the BackyardScientist all work together
*It's big brain time*
And jabrills
And William Osman
And Nigel from NileRed
exactly xD
And William Osman
4:37 Oh hey! It’s Florida Man, Backyard scientist!
And william osman is here so that's 3 smart guys are playing with paper planes and candles
10:12 that was the most polar express thing ive ever seen 😂
10:05 you can see tom draining his cheap rc car's battery for 27 minutes.
Hahaha the other video/channel.
LOL. I've watched it before this.
Peter: "that'll stop the plane from going too far down there and coming back up"
Plane: goes too far down there and comes back up
What am I missing? Backyard scientist, Tom Stanton and Peter Sripol in the same place. What's going on?
And not just them! It's some kind of science youtuber avengers thing!
You forgot William Osman and Michael Reeves
And jabrils
And Grant Thompson - The king of random!
@@solmesteren Grant Thompson passed away though...
This actually looks like it would be a fun thing to do in quarantine
I love how it went from "oh neat super light glider thingie." to "Caretaker isn't home, lets light all the candles and spread them out on the floor."
Those propellers look so cool in the air!
First Xd
I’m below someone who unironocally plays Roblox.
Sliding into your dms like 13:08
@@ceddyd wait, 69 years ago?
Yea
Peter: “.69 grams”
Kevin: smiles uncontrollably
Now this comment has 69 likes, what a coincidence.
Not anymore...
Honor dictates that I respond with "nice".
Nice
Flimsy Plastic 100th like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can we appreciate how much effort this guy puts in
Bruh he said he could succeed if he put more effort if he wanted to
Chandradeo balram
*Makes me want to be a engineer and make a similar channel to his lol*
probably its his job
No, we cant
@@Proger-sj8cj qqqq
The video title should be: Compilation of me almost burning down William Osman's house
When you are walking behind the glider, you constantly monitor its position and flight path and make adjustments. That is what keeps it flying. With the fan and the ramp, there is constant airflow which would keep it aloft but nothing to control it or bring it back on course when it starts to veer off.
Peter Sripol: Makes Flamethrowers
William Osman: House burns down
Connect the two together.
Oh no...
The backyard scientist also makes liquid metal throwers...
Oh yeah, it's coming all together.
Why does it make me so happy to see all those great and creative youtubers under one roof?
I wish they made more videos together
"Infinite flying airplane"
"Yeah it's not really infinite"
Nn
all he does is clickbait dude
It could be tethered, but then it becomes one of those wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men.
nothing is infinite and nothing can be infinite because the universe will end one day
@@john5311 stop I'm recovering from this type of depression
10:57 Looks like the plane disappears👻
10:09 if you look in the background you can see Tom Stanton filming his about super capictor cars
Wheres your profile from?
@@dove6069 it's giga chad
Why are all the youtube hobby creators in wills house? Is there going to be a youtubers house ever since Michael moved out? (I don’t know anything so sorry if I missed an announcement)
bump
I thought William moved in with Michael after his house burned down was it the other way around
i think peter made this at the last one and just took his time posting it
@@devan2462 michael reeves moved away into a streaming groups house, the one shown is William osmans
Imagine they all moved together for the covid quarantine lol
Peter:
When I say bigger ramp,
I mean BIGGER ramp
10:53 i for real thought the plane entered another dimension
Woah that so cool!
Woah that's cool
SAME I was so confused
Were the plane gooo?!?!.....
sameee!! I was like what???
My own favorite kind of air, for having zero ground speed, was the air near the top of a ridge as I could trade horizontal for vertical air (and vice versa) at will. I guess the stretch would be to build a plane that would look for ridges. When pushing cardboard, the ridge tracks the plane.
Not sure how it took me so long to find this channel, but this dude is awesome!
Good on you buddy!
I'm a paragliding pilot in training, and often we use motors, either gas powered or electric to augment when we don't have ridge lift or thermal lift available.
Here's a challenge... If you are up for it...
A mousetrap or rubber band principled, pedal powered rechargeable paramotor setup.
So charge up pre flight, launch, and recharge in flight! Possible?
I remember one time while at my grandma's place (she lives on the 9th floor) me and my cousin decided to throw paper airplanes out of the window because there was nothing better to do (pre-smartphone era). And we made some paper airplanes that weighed a decent amount maybe like 3-5grams easily. Then we threw one off of the balcony and it just started doing circles not even losing altitude. For some reason it was the funniest shit ever and i even pissed my pants when my cousin caught it after it went on for like 5 minutes non stop. Good times.
You gotta remember how it looked, make it again, and flex it on these guys
@@irinamargaritaabadiaavila4534 :D yea for sure im gonna remember something that happened while i was pissing laughing.
@@geraskatinas1846 and you would also need to replicate the conditions, guess thats a no go
Legendary pre smartphone moment.
I love how grown ass adults can make a living by burning candles underneath paperplanes now
Infinitely better than twitch thottery
It's called applied science...people have been making a living studying and utilizing it way before the internet
@@zerosaber257 I think the late great TotalBiscuit put it best when he said "if your content is less interesting that cleavage, that's on you"
"Were summoning the Demons of Flight"
-Peter Sripol, 2020
10:38 & 14:21 are the two best moments!!!
..I've found this video very much interesting....It deserves a part-2.....Slater Harrison from @sciencetoymaker actually rocks YT on flying the walkalong gliders by using just the palms of his hands....
..Thank you so much Peter for this informative yet entertaining video.... . 👏🏼👌🏼👍🏼💙
I want to see a room full of candles, that glider would probably fly infinitely 💓
This would’ve been so interesting with a Schlieren photography setup
Everyone: Isolate yourself and stay away from others
William Osman's house: You can't get a virus from corn
He got covid lol
@@finnianohara3491 wut
@@hyperfluff_folf yeah like right at the start him and caretaker got it
king999art wait what
Johannes Röring ruclips.net/video/iO5CWmRjjsk/видео.html yeah here's the link to the video he made about it
RIP skyking
just a guy with a couple screws loose.
wonder if a canard configuration would help the nose-down tendency
Im glad youtube recommendation brought me here.
So many Geniuses altogether in one video.
Backyard Scientist.
William Osman.
Tom Stanton.
Peter Sripol,etc.
Since this is at Williams house does this mean camera man John recorded this?
who's this guy at 2:10 though? have i just missed out on some youtuber?
Ryz it’s probably cameraman John since there’s a camera by him
He's called tom stanton
Brae Jordan G-CDJK They guy behind Tom
Who knows, its been a while since Camera Man John has filmed any videos for Will, but also who knows when this was recorded
No One:
Fans of Peter Sripol: I'm gonna blow all this cold air right onto those "cool" planes. ;)
rip, didn't get hearted :)
Major rip
You like how all my fav science RUclipsrs hang out together
Re exploring and re experimenting..
Good video guys. Very educational.
🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾
13:00 This would be a cool idea for miniatures for low budget movies that want to show planes flying.
Like real low budget and dedicated to miniatures lol
@@heldhostageplshelp Just imagine a guy with a green suit, a green screen, bright lights, a hundred takes, and you got yourself a good low budget shot.
“We’re gonna burn Williams house down”
William: Deja vu I have been in this place befor
e
@@kommandant.357 a
@@yann7572 sports
@@vendetta_rossa _it's in the game_
plane: keeps falling into the fire
peter: *p a n i k and yoink*
plane: JUST LET ME DIE-
All my favourite youtubers in the same place
so many of my fav youtube guys here !!
7:30 i literally exhaled my lungs when you said this i laughed so hard
I love how all the greatest minds on youtube are are all coming together
Here is a question to consider: Do you have centralized air conditioning and heating? Did you remember to turn it off?
So many of my fave youtubers in one video 😳
2 Ideas. 1: Put the hand held cardboard on the end of a long rotating stick to replace the human element or 2: Think about the air flow you need as being more like a standing wave pool like surfers use on cruse ships. So the plain only gets a fast air boost when is getting low and can drift down when its too high. perhaps take some inspiration from a floor drying blower fan and get a flat laminar flow of air to flow only near the surface of your air ramp.
Next William Osman video: My house burned down again.
Peter: Has house party with all his friends.
Corona Virus: Am I a JoKe tO yOu?!
I think this was recorded a while back, some people are saying around the same time as flying roomba
They also were drinking corona beer too!
"Sky King Air" Fly free, sky king. Your doing loop-de-loops with the orca's now.
A dyson fan would have faster air speed at the edges and slower air speed in the middle, so if you build a small enough plane or a big enough dyson fan, it could work
WATERPROOF DRONE IDEA
Peter your videos are fantastic, I love building things too! I recently got a mavic but I was thinking about flying in rain (dont) but then I thought of a way to "waterproof" a drone. Put an umbrella attached to the drone and maybe theres enough protection from the umbrella to protect the drone underneath it.
glider:*Slowly lowers to ground*
also glider DISAPEARS
10:56
There's a step there, kinda hard to see.
Oscar Rhoades I know just a joke
I get it's a step but it legit looks like it just phases through the ground, lol
Glider: HELP! This guy keeps chasing me!
"and for my next trick im going to burn Williams house down!"
I can't imagine, how much time you spend for make this video. I like it 👍
I love it !! At about 11:00 you invented a moth circling a flame. Brilliant !
Curious... how about rising or directed steam ?? I guess the plane would need waterproofing so it doesn't absorb too much. Krylon Clear Coat ?
Or a healthy quad with a horizontal stick going out a few feet. Mount an EDF on the end of the stick pointing up at an angle. See if you can get the glider to surf the plume of rising air.
Every time I watch one of your videos my head sort of hurts... keep up the good work. An imagination is a terrible thing to waste.
it the wings of the plane when one of the wings move the plane will move to another direction.
My thoughts exactly...stiffer plane may work
It may also make the effect of turbulence worse
abbreviation of ohio is just oh.
"so where do you live"
"oh"
"huh"
"oh"
"yes"
I don't know if you're still looking for some new ideas but i got one :
BUILD A X-WING !
(or a vehicle from a movie :) )
ps: i love your videos and this one was really cool !
Peter. You've done it!!!!
Figured out how to fly into the wind, in an unpowered glider, forever.
Awesome video guys, now a suggestion for a follow up video,
Not sure if it’s been done before but Build an ultralight Rc glider using the lightest and smallest Rc gear available, then build an indoor slope in a hall or similar large indoor space complete with low turbulence fans, I would also love to see the same with the thermal test using multiple electric heaters also using a larger area with the same ultralight Rc glider 🙂👍
This is sick, I had an idea for how to weaponize one of these so I made a video about it. I think it goes really well with this video . I just uploaded it a couple of weeks ago :)
Yo just checked it out
Yeah its pretty cool, should make one like his
Ha , he shoukd tothat to this one , but with like a knife
Alan (in every one of Peter's videos): "...you suck."
"Due to fatigue or tiredness"
...
If you think about it, it means that he'll never be tired, because he's tired of being tired.
Vary cool. I love updraft pressure dynamics 😀🛩️👌
Really, all those candles and no sign of a fire extinguisher. Your experimenting did remind me of the huge fleet of paper airplanes I assembled while conducting my own r&d on staying airborne.
I wanna be in that house too :(
This video should be titled:
how to make your own
budget 'Flight Simulator'
at home
Why are you hanging out with the backyard Scientist
Good point
cause he's a scientist too
Holy Moly! You guys all chill together? Must be nice to have a big brain from lots of scientific fields together! :)
You gotta appreciate the effort Peter puts into his projects!
I'm too lazy to cook a proper meal.
10:37 *loads shotgun with malicious intent*
8:34 *You’v don’t this before haven’t you?*
9:10 “I’m gonna try the four inch plane, hopefully it doesn’t burn or catch on fire” but he already new it wouldn’t because he is over voicing the video 🤔
comedic effect
Peter: airspeed for altitude
Paper plane: weeeeeeeeee
To create true laminar flow, it's important to not direct the fans into the tubes, but rather at a 90° angle, to create a high pressure box behind the grid.
6:24 time see. this drumer boy is same face
"it's still turbulent tho"
Well that's kinda how turbulence is made, when it hits objects such as a hill...
he was talking about the wind how its choppy
No, I think that’s called a major air aviation accident - get the NTSB involved
10:36
My satánic brother at 3 a.m.
I'm desperate to see this done successfully, just a constantly flying glider in a space in the living room. Such a beautiful idea!!
I've been watching your videos for years now and im beating myself up over the fact that I only just subscribed