Electric Powered Styrofoam Plate Airplane

I am often asked to build a powered aeroplane and I wanted an excuse to buy a 'super capacitor' so I built another one of my chuck gliders and glued an electric motor from a vibrating toothbrush on the front. The propeller is made from a strip of aluminium cut from a drinks can. I charged the capacitor for about 5 minutes using 2 AA batteries before each flight. This gave it enough power to cross my garden with a slight climb in it's flight path. I don't think it would do well in windy conditions and would probably do better indoors. A proper propeller would improve performance significantly. I have grouped these styrofoam plate gliders into their own playlist here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB03ITop_TpKAtz3FxxFOc7R The original basic glider video is here https://youtu.be/3jScgJGBfpQ?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB0nZItxE_78EJP0F99Ghaki Rubber Band Power version is here https://youtu.be/e50XT5npqfE?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB0nZItxE_78EJP0F99Ghaki Different propeller version is here https://youtu.be/CGoNRQamdcs?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB0nZItxE_78EJP0F99Ghaki The width and length of the plane were just based on what the biggest section was that I could cut from the plates. The coffee stirrer is 17cm long. Each wing is 15.5cm long and 6cm wide. The tail is 12cm tip to tip and 3cm wide The main components are: Styrofoam plate Wooden coffee stirrer Short length of solder or similar as a balance weight You would get better results buying a proper propeller for small electric planes online. Rubber power Plastic jewellery bead for the bearing Short plastic tube - mine came from a hand wash bottle pump Paperclip Electric power This motor came from a vibrating toothbrush or you might try a pager motor. I have lot's of old Oral B Pulsar toothbrushes that I have saved over the years. However I would not buy the toothbrush just to get the motor, they are expensive toothbrushes and you can get better more powerful motors for much LESS money if you buy online from somewhere like eBay or Amazon. I suggest you search for "3.7V Coreless Motor" Helpfile - Simple Supercapacitor charger https://youtu.be/tdOc62ZOSUI?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB1wNvirrwAn69eo_pM0tdEM SuperCapacitor - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor The supercapacitors I used came from Maplin Electronics. I am not endorsing these products I am just answering the questions people have asked. http://www.maplin.co.uk/c/components/capacitors/super-capacitors Here's an eBay link for a 2.7v 10F supercapacitor I bought that cost me £5.66 for 2 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251694354652 Here is a great video demonstration by Electric Experiments Roobert33 of Capacitor and superCapacitor https://youtu.be/ZgozrScGN8U Tools - Hot Glue Gun Hobby knife Related playlists and videos My helpfile here shows you how to remove the vibration weight from the toothbrush motor https://youtu.be/rAkSnCSv0Lk Here is a great little plane made by random person https://youtu.be/UazGpGIw3NI Aircraft playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB0nZItxE_78EJP0F99Ghaki Styrofoam Plate Gliders https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB03ITop_TpKAtz3FxxFOc7R Supercapacitor planes https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB1wNvirrwAn69eo_pM0tdEM Filmed using FujiFilm FinePix S4800 Edited using Serif MoviePlus Starter Edition My Channel page https://www.youtube.com/user/GrandadIsAnOldMan Oldest videos https://www.youtube.com/user/GrandadIsAnOldMan/videos?flow=grid&view=0&sort=da Most Popular https://www.youtube.com/user/GrandadIsAnOldMan/videos?sort=p&flow=grid&view=0 Newest videos https://www.youtube.com/user/GrandadIsAnOldMan/videos?sort=dd&view=0&flow=grid Playlists https://www.youtube.com/user/GrandadIsAnOldMan/playlists?flow=grid&view=1 I have thousands of videos on YouTube, to find one try my search guides https://youtu.be/ceBSOoOHcgw or https://youtu.be/Zj4UgwkwYRk My "GrandadsOtherChannel" channel is generally where I will host the videos that give extra detail or longer versions of the videos I post on my main channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2mp_L8RoxMyw3ewwSecZ6Q Facebook https://www.facebook.com/grandadisanoldman/ Merchandise - Check both of these links if you are interested as the prices will vary and the shipping charges will be different. http://www.redbubble.com/people/grandadiaom/portfolio http://grandadisanoldman.cottoncart.com/

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