Today I Was Thinking Of The F-104

I’ve often thought of a bucketlist project of making a slow indoor flyer out of the worlds most improbable subjet, the F-104 Starfighter. There is this problem of driving past one every day on the way into Radical RC. Capt. Joseph B. Jordan, flying a Lockheed...

Fluid Dymanics of Drag – Boundary Layers

Excellent video showing in real experiments you can understand and see. Shows what the boundary layer is, what a stall looks like (if you could see the air) and vorticity. EXCELLENT! Part 1: Part 2: Notice also as the airfoil is inclining to higher and higher angles...

Amazing Inside Out Flipping Polyhedron Flying Machine

German automation company Festo has created an extraordinary helium-filled flying object that propels itself through the air by repeatedly turning itself inside-out. SmartInversion combines an extremely lightweight body….. Read all about it at...

Ryno Motors

At first I thought this was a fake viral video, however, it’s all true. Imagine a device that can go anywhere you walk, on the sidewalk, on the street, in an elevator or to the mall. Yet on only one wheel. It’s the on set of accelerometers and similar...