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Project Air at Makers Central 2025 - 17th-18th May

Project Air at Makers Central 2025 - 17th-18th May

James Whomsley / Project Air will be at Makers Central 2025  I'm very excited to announce I will be attending Makers Central in a couple of weeks time.  The event...

Project Air at Makers Central 2025 - 17th-18th May

James Whomsley / Project Air will be at Makers Central 2025  I'm very excited to announce I will be attending Makers Central in a couple of weeks time.  The event...

Building a Dive-Bomber RC Plane

Building a Dive-Bomber RC Plane

Read what happened when I took an RC plane and modified it to carry two 3d printed flour bombs to see just how accurately I could drop them next to...

Building a Dive-Bomber RC Plane

Read what happened when I took an RC plane and modified it to carry two 3d printed flour bombs to see just how accurately I could drop them next to...

Building a High Speed Model X-15

Building a High Speed Model X-15

This is a rocket plane I built to see how fast it could fly. It uses one of the largest model rocket engines I could get to fly to speeds...

Building a High Speed Model X-15

This is a rocket plane I built to see how fast it could fly. It uses one of the largest model rocket engines I could get to fly to speeds...

Building the Worlds Largest RC Magnus-Effect Aircraft

Building the Worlds Largest RC Magnus-Effect Ai...

This is the worlds largest RC magnus-effect aircraft. A huge project that’s taken months of work just to see if we can actually get it to fly using these strange...

Building the Worlds Largest RC Magnus-Effect Ai...

This is the worlds largest RC magnus-effect aircraft. A huge project that’s taken months of work just to see if we can actually get it to fly using these strange...

The Genius Engineering of How Train Wheels Work

The Genius Engineering of How Train Wheels Work

The way train wheels work is a little more complicated than you might think. While working on the hovertrain video, we took a trip to Ecclesbourne Valley Railway to get...

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The Genius Engineering of How Train Wheels Work

The way train wheels work is a little more complicated than you might think. While working on the hovertrain video, we took a trip to Ecclesbourne Valley Railway to get...

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How to Build a Train that Hovers

How to Build a Train that Hovers

I built a jet-powered tracked hovercraft, a type of train that levitates to move along with almost zero friction. It works through using a system of electric fans to compress air...

How to Build a Train that Hovers

I built a jet-powered tracked hovercraft, a type of train that levitates to move along with almost zero friction. It works through using a system of electric fans to compress air...