So you decided to take on Red Bull and crush them, what a badass the both of you are!

@grampafpv

16 күн бұрын

It's a totally different system. This drone can not stay flying as long as red bulls drone.

@TinyBearTim

16 күн бұрын

@@grampafpvthe speed record has nothing to do with flight time

@timmieskills

16 күн бұрын

Redbulls drone was never about getting a top speed world record? 2 different drones for 2 different purposes

@grampafpv

16 күн бұрын

@TinyBearTim read the comment I replied to.. keep up bro..🙅‍♂️

@TheMrMikeo

15 күн бұрын

@@grampafpv I think it can fly 7km at 350phh so it could in theory track the red bull car although the camera probably isn’t as good

The very idea of 9000W motor/battery power in a product that small is just absurd. Amazing work!

@harzerhexenmeister2709

17 күн бұрын

Its absolutely insane. I built fast drones myself but never Had anything over 4500W

What a beautiful video - Incredible engineering, clear explanations, and a father son project. Doesn't get much better than that! Great work both of you, a well deserved record.

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

... love your channel 👌

Think i found my new favorite channel. Having in depth technical description and great prodcution is rare nowadays, great to see the design process, would never have thought to test aerodynamics out of a window haha. Keep making videos this good, and analysis this engaging.

@Mike-Bell

18 күн бұрын

Wow, thanks! 🤩 more good stuff to come

@kay834

17 күн бұрын

@@Mike-Bell what is that 3d software? great video !

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

@@kay834 I use Blender. Open source and free

@sUASNews

16 күн бұрын

@@Mike-Bell My mind is bent at just how skillful you are with Blender, that alone is award worthy.

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

@@sUASNews thanks 🤩

Congrats to you and your son on breaking the record!

@Mike-Bell

18 күн бұрын

Thanks!! 😃

The left handed guy who uses a shorty pencil is the guy you should worry about.

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

😂

@mokoepa

17 күн бұрын

😂 😂

I feel almost vindicated seeing someone else do their rapid drone prototyping in Blender, and especially your line that; "Success is achieving both excellence in performance, and esthetics" is something I've cought a lot of heat over from the pure CAD guys. Amazing work all-round!

@manob2594

Күн бұрын

This is a very interesting take! I feel like engineering/product design is to often teached to go from a sketched based 2D straight into hard and traditionel software such as solidworks/ siemens NX surfacing tool of what ever is used. Blender could be this perfect in the middel. It's abusrd to think about the hours i've seen friends, colleageas including myself put into interrating very complex surface models just modifying splines and addapting surfacecontinuity. The best thing is I have blender installed a couple of months ago exact for this reason but do not seem to find the time or motivaction tot get into it. I this video shows exactly why I should.

I had a very uncomforable laugh at 12 hp in a 10" frame. The US Department of Defense is going to be giving this video a good number of views i think

@AndrewShaidurov

17 күн бұрын

Ukraine is here first 😏

@wiltse0

17 күн бұрын

That was my first thought, The military application is very obvious.

@ehjones

17 күн бұрын

Small drones are practically undetectable and inescapable at much more conservative speeds anyway. Being cheap, easy, high range and having resilience to jamming would be more important than 500kph+ speed.

@2MeterLP

17 күн бұрын

@@ehjones Against stationary targets, yes. However, this high velocity drone could also be effective against helicopters and some planes.

@pongmaster123

17 күн бұрын

@@2MeterLP no, because you forgot the payload.

The fastest father/son duo on KZread! And in the world! Congrats! Love your work.

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thanks! 😃

This is AMAZING! Congrats on the accomplishment… a good thing that you documented everything, which is a great thing to do in engineering. Great job once again!

@Mike-Bell

18 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!! 😃

congratulations To you and your Son

@Mike-Bell

4 күн бұрын

Thanks ☺️ always nice to get a comment from you

You are the luckiest father alive. What a blessing to work together with the son.

@elias4214

11 күн бұрын

And a son! Living their best live moments:)

From someone who can barely make a paper aeroplane, this is fascinating. Watching the design evolve to optimise the aerodynamics, airflow, and centre of gravity is amazing. It must have been so rewarding seeing it achieve such crazy speeds 😄

@Mike-Bell

18 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 😃

This is amazing! It's great to know, that you have used Blender to 3d model this incredible creation 😆

As an FPV pilot for many years, this gave me chills. Inspired!

i’m confused? just 24k views and 61.2k subscribers? for this level of production? truly underrated!!!

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

Thanks I value the concern 😊 and your comment. It more case of with youtube getting 3.7mill new videos uploaded each day that it really takes a lot to stand out above all that noise. But after a couple of years doing this I think this video is going to give me the catapult boost I have been waiting for. The subscribe rate on this video and type of story has gone nuts and is super high which is fantastic recognition for my efforts.

@hektoram

15 күн бұрын

Totally agree!!!

Wow. Amazing entineering and really well presented. Congratulations and thank you for sharing.

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

I loved your previous video's but this is something else. Love it, you are amazing.

@Mike-Bell

18 күн бұрын

Glad you like them!

This is an amazing video, thanks very much for creating it. Comgratulations to you both from KZN

Thank you for sharing your family project. Great video. I hope it inspires more father/son projects.

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

More to come!

Fantastic video, thanks for documenting your work!

In general, the idea of ​​such a device is not new,🤷‍♂️ it was already there, but you guys have brought the project to a really working fast state!👍 Thanks !

@redacted1946

15 күн бұрын

nobody said this was a new idea

This is so neat to see the wonderful engineering behind this. You guys are so cool. 😊

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thank you 🤗

Amazing work Mike and good video. You need to do more works like this. Keep it up❤

why did you not put the motorcontroller boards on each wing? seems like the perfect placement from behind the screen :D

absolutely amazing. loved the use of Blender, this has so much in it... look forward to seeing more!

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thanks a ton!

This is fantastic. Please do more breakdowns of future Peregrine development processes!

@Mike-Bell

18 күн бұрын

Certainly will be making more …

@tsungxu

18 күн бұрын

great to hear it. The need to distribute the PDB/motor controllers is something I've never seen on a hobbyist drone before. Also, you guys have the same heat gun as me, and good to see your solid Blender skills!

Learning breakdowns from you is awesome, please keep making more!

@Mike-Bell

11 күн бұрын

We will!

Great stuff, Mike. Excellent

The amp draw and ability of those batteries to discharge that fast is insane.

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

Sure is. Next version 200c batteries straight from the factory.

no one tells you the drawbacks of being an engineer. i have zero interest in drones or drone technology and yet.... air squid go brrrrrrrrrr!

@roxasparks

16 күн бұрын

Air squid yay!!!😂😂😂

I just built my first vertical frame and it flew away on me, it might be because my props are so close together as you were saying. Fascinating to hear more construction detail and the problems you had with your escs. also how you made your camera/nosecone and airshaper fascinating thanks a lot!

Excellent video! The animations were awesome and that definitely covered everything I would have liked to pick your brain about. It's always nice to hear about others design philosophy. Also I just have to mention some funny coincidences. I'm currently getting my mechatronics degree too, nice job Luke! The other one is that I had originally named my speed record project the peregrine falcon back in 2019. What are the chances?

Wonderful design, explanation and experience. So well deserved.

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

Awesome video! I particularly enjoy the animations. Well done Luke and Mike - dream team 💪

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thanks so much!

Incredible. The headaches and cost of prototyping and manufacturing on a cnc machine twenty years ago vs. the options of today has mind blowing potential.

@Mike-Bell

9 күн бұрын

That is so true. The power and capabilities of software and tools available today to anyone with drive and initiative is staggering.

What a tremendous accomplishment, Mike and Luke! Congratulations to you both on this amazing feat! You’ve created a thing of beauty, and I can’t wait to see the next iteration. Although I am not a trained engineer, I was able to follow your clear descriptions and appreciate the problems and how you were solving them. Simply remarkable. I am so happy for you both!

@Mike-Bell

18 күн бұрын

Thanks Maud. I always look forward and enjoy your comments and loyalty.

Awesome father and son collaboration 🇿🇦🇿🇦

Great film, and great teamwork and perseverance... Well done on the record!

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

Mike and Luke, I'm sitting here in Joburg and so proud that you guys from my hometown have achieved this incredible milestone. Great videos from you both and have already shared the links with other drone enthusiasts. Also must add that I love the fact that you designed the drone with Blender. 👍👍👍. When I saw Blender I figured you'd move over to FreeCad but I was wrong.

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

Hi Jerome thanks for sharing the video. We are both ex Joburg. Blender has proven excellent for this project and is a must for animations. Blender is awesome. What is your filed/software used?

Thank you for sharing this detailed and impressive video. It gives such a beautiful insight into the whole project & engineering that went into it.

@Mike-Bell

15 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Beautiful explanation, thanks for taking the time.

@Mike-Bell

8 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Recently joined the SA fpv community, half-way through UCT mechatronics, I guess what's left is Guinness Record to match Luke hahaha. Amazing video💯😂

My university drone team may be attempting this record next fall. Been doing some research, and I want to commend your component selection! It's been really hard finding any configuration that performs higher in thrust simulations.

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Luke and I will follow your progress if you post the outcome online

10/10 Stunning achievement for both of you , and being able to keep it "in the family" and have FUN together as well as keep on learning , innovating and supporting is Mega Brilliant, Well Done

@Mike-Bell

15 күн бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Truly phenomenal! Bravo to you and your son, very inspiring video, beautiful work, and completely bonkers! Just WOW!!!

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

Incredible work, you guys pulled off something really impressive here! Im very excited to see your next iteration

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Us too!

This has absolutely blown me away in terms of how effective your designing and surfacing was of v2 without doing aero computation. Eagerly awaiting v3!

Great video and many congratulations on this incredible achievement

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

absolutely incredible engineering

Besides your world record and your engineering skills … your storytelling is marvellous! Thank you for sharing your design process.

@Mike-Bell

15 күн бұрын

Wow thanks 😀

This is incredible Mike well done

Awesome! Amazing to see the use of Blender for design! Open Source FTW! What OS you are using? Just curious...

Good job! Very cool project!!

@bdfybdfy100

6 күн бұрын

I asked you a question on Quora. Please read. Sorry, I sent a message. I did not find any of your other contacts.

Amazing video, this was a joy to watch!

@Mike-Bell

18 күн бұрын

So glad! and your comment is a joy to see 😊

wow, really amazing engineering.

Awesome work and i love the visuals

@Mike-Bell

13 күн бұрын

Im glad you enjoyed it ⏩

This is just incredible on an engineering scale and on many other levels.

Great video and great achievement! So what sec and battery did you end up using?

@Mike-Bell

2 күн бұрын

We did not list the battery and ESC’s because both were dissapointing. We used the Dogcom 1500mah 160c batteries but they weren’t great, so Bonka next time. And APD ESC’s but they also weren’t great. A lot of duds we had to put through their paces and they popped before we filtered out the duds and APD won’t acknowledge they don’t filter out the duds in their quality control.

such a humble choice of title! I mean you can never know if there isn't a faster drone on another planet

@Mike-Bell

5 күн бұрын

😂

Well done guys, this is awesome to have local guys pushing the limits like this, very inspiring! Did you ever consider running CFD on the model, and do you think that would have helped the design direction?

@Mike-Bell

9 күн бұрын

Thanks Mike. Up till this point the level of technology is such that big gains have been possible through iterative exploration. But from here on the gains will become smaller and harder to achieve and require more sophisticated optimisations and we are running wind tunnel simulations for further speed improvements. And we have product manufacturers who are interested in supplying us with optimised components to go faster. If you have CFD skills I would be interested to know how you would approach this.

Incredible achievement!!!

Beautiful! Congratulations

@Mike-Bell

15 күн бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Congratulations on building such a beautiful machine! Would be interesting to explore how durable your design/build is with the goal of characterizing operational lifespan and maintenance/repair costs. I'd expect optimizing these would present a entirely new set of engineering challenges. Of course, understandably, you and your son might instead prefer to focus efforts on just going faster.

Great explanation. Love the iterative design approach.

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Great to hear!

very, very cool! how are you doing the control mixing? i.e. converting from torque commands to motor thrusts? if by any chance you have a mixer that outputs something like 95% of max thrust + some small differential consisting of roll/pitch/yaw components -- there is something better! using a QP solver you can find the thrust commands giving max forward thrust while still satisfying torque inputs. for such small problems the solution can be found in fractions of a millisecond, even on tiny processors. If you haven't yet done so this might get you another couple kph! get in touch if you wanna know more, i have done something extremely similar at work :)

@redacted1946

15 күн бұрын

its simply the mixer in betaflight. there will always be a small loss of power as the pid controller with airmode enabled can only be active and stabilize the quad if it dials back from full throttle on at least one of the motors. this is why its most efficient to make the quad as aerodynamic as possible at the angle of attack its going to fly at and a good tune. since the drone doesnt fly completely straight forward but very slightly tilted up any drag on the body will push the body up and the pid controller will cut power to the bottom motors to compensate.

great job guys!

Your video is so much better, nice explaination. Insane skills

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Glad you think so!

What in the world? I somehow stumbled upon the coolest and best-presented KZread channel I have seen in years. Well done!

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

Wow, thanks!

Greetings from an Arkansas engineer/aviation enthusiast, Mike! Congratulations on your success and I loved your excellent presentation. I'm really looking forward to seeing your CFD-optimized revision-- no doubt you'll be able to make some solid improvements there! My money's on much longer trailing edges for the struts, 'bulbing' the nose a bit and trading the fin for basically a long cone, ha. If you don't mind some input, I do have a couple other thoughts for where one might look to keep pushing the boundaries from where you're at now (though I've no doubt there was a great deal of consideration already given to some of these that didn't fit neatly into your video). First one is weight. Frankly, you guys have already done pretty well with this one-- not a lot of fat to trim, there, but I'd be giving serious thought to how I could start cutting grams off this thing ('Do I *really* need all four motor screws? Could I make my fuselage lighter by carbon-wrapping a vase-mode version of it? Could I make my cables shorter so I'm not carrying all this copper?) Second is aerodynamic cleanliness. There's something here which may not become immediately clear from your CFD simulations. These models do not always do an excellent job at modeling either surface roughness (such as print layer lines) or the transition from laminar to turbulent flow across your model. You're really gonna want to be sure your craft is aerodynamically smooth! To give an example, it's fairly common for sailplanes to have leading edge wipers to remove bugs and dirt from their wings while in flight. These devices make about a 5% difference in performance. Your application, being small, is low reynolds numbers, which means you have the potential to promote more laminar flow across your airframe if you can design for it carefully! Again, I'd love to see a polished carbon fuselage for this. Finally-- props. For me, I'd be giving a hard look at these. No easy shortcuts here, but off the dome, questions I might have: 3 blades for more power without tip transonics? Custom prop pitch and profiles optimized for my flight profile? I would also bet good money that carbon props would perform better than injection-molded ones (less weight, higher stiffness). Vacuum-infused ideally, but forged carbon may be nearly as good and cheaper. Easy composites has excellent videos for this, as does TechIngredients. I'll be more than happy to answer any questions regarding what I've written, should it be of interest. I'd love to see this thing hit 500kmh(550?). Again, well done and congratulations on the win!

Beautiful engineering 👍🏼

Congratulations!

Thank you for such a well spoken and informative video. I am not the sharpest crayon in the pack but I was able to follow along well. Congratulations on your world record!

Truly amazing video! Tanks for that!

@Mike-Bell

15 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it!

😮 that is amazing

I wonder what cool smooth videos you could get!

Here before this blows up. What am amazing feat of engineering, so glad to be here!

Amazing job…keep it up

@Mike-Bell

3 күн бұрын

Thank you, we will

Maybe tow steered composites and custom aerostructurally optimized geometry of frame and motors for v4? In my experience, ADFLOW is a lot faster and more accurate than airshaper and it can do shape optimization

This blew me away! Is the 3d model accesable to public?

Congrats. Cool, great design. Could I ask, why have you used Blender for CAD modeling and not smth. specific?

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

Thanks. I am a retired architect and have an Autocad Sketchup Revit Lumion background so Blender is a natural follow on. My primary need is animation so Blender is a must. Besides Blender is fantastic software. It can do pretty much all things 3d. What is your field/ software?

Awesome design, execution and performance, Mike Your Bambu printer may be able to print STEP files, which will behave like very fine mesh STL files, although that depends on the slicer. Great to see South Africans setting records. Netjies gedaan.

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Dankie. Flippin lekker om SA bietjie te showcase. Blender doesnt work with STEP files unfortunately but it is perfect for the animation I make and it makes fantastic drone designs too.

@pseudotasuki

16 күн бұрын

Yup, Bambu Studio does support STEP. That's my go-to format when working with designs that have tight tolerances. Plus they're much easier for others to reverse-engineer.

@pseudotasuki

16 күн бұрын

​@@Mike-BellYeah, Blender works exclusively with meshes. STEP is for CAD.

@cs9260

6 күн бұрын

What CAD program do you use in addition to Blender? Great work and dankie for sharing.@@pseudotasuki

@pseudotasuki

6 күн бұрын

@@cs9260 Autodesk Fusion.

Wonderful video, a maker nerds dream. What CAD program do you use in addition to Blender? Baie dankie!

@Mike-Bell

5 күн бұрын

Thanks. I used only Blender because its blerri blilliant 😁 Jy is welkom

Only at the end did I realize I watched the entire video with my jaws open!!! I don't fly my collections. They are for display and drooling over. If it possible to get the STL or STEP files to build one for my collection?

Love your work. So cool 😎

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

Amazing!

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Thanks!

Awesome project! Looks like a fun one. Curious if you have done the math for what impact a carbon fiber exterior (or any alternative) could have on weight. The shell sure looks pretty light already.

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

The low hanging fruit development areas are still batteries and aerodynamics so thats the next version. And interestingly induced drag is near negligible at 500. You pay the price of weight in battery drain and manoeuvring. The angle of attack of 1 degree is all you need for body lift. It’s basically a wingless VTOL. I’ll be explaining this in the next video. So weight savings will increase speed because of a longer speed boost but not induced drag savings. Weight will get serious attention in version 4🤣 And when we get serious competition. 🤙🏻

Well done! Well done! Absolute mind blown!

Great job! 👍

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

Thanks!

I wonder if drag could be reduced by placing the props on long thin shafts angled inward to the central body. That way, the motors would be in the central body. You wouldn't have the drag of the pods, and the "wings" would be replaced with thin shafts. Since each shaft is along its line of thrust, there's no need for the cantilever strength of the "wings".

This video is awesome! But I suggest changing the Thumbnail to something cooler like nightflying with the green light! Very dramatic scene and super cool!

@Mike-Bell

16 күн бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

Amazing video, Mike. So insightful!

@Mike-Bell

17 күн бұрын

Glad you think so!

Absolut hervorragend👍👍👍😀. Meinen Glückwunsch.

cong dr, im watching in turkey. nice project

Amazing project

Proud of your team!

Wow that was Awsome and inspiring

@Mike-Bell

14 күн бұрын

So glad to hear that! There will be more to come

Nothing better than a father and son venture 🎉

Very well done!

@Mike-Bell

15 күн бұрын

Thanks Rowan 🤙🏻

Will you release the 3d files behind the drones design or will you sell it as a product?