DIYer reuses KFC buckets as wings for his homemade airplane
What's better than eating a bucket of fried chicken? Using the empty bucket to propel your homemade airplane. In a recent video, YouTuber PeterSripol demonstrates the Magnus effect using a foam RC plane with KFC buckets for wings. If only the Wright brothers had lived near a KFC.
According to David Grossman for Popular Mechanics: "The buckets are using the Magnus effect, first discovered in 1852 by Gustav Magnus. It's the same principal that's used when you are shooting basketballs or throwing curveballs. But it doesn't just apply to sports. As Peter Spriol note in the video above, the Magnus effect is "creating a differential pressure from the top and the bottom of the buckets." Air flow is moving faster to one side than the other, creating a spin."
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Alexis Gajewski is a manufacturing writer and editor with nearly 20 years of experience covering the people, practices, and technologies that keep industrial facilities running. For more than a decade, she served as Senior Content Strategist for Plant Services, creating content for plant managers, engineers, and maintenance professionals on a variety of industrial topics.
During her tenure, Alexis worked to develop the brand’s digital strategy and helped launch and produce Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast. She also created The Lighter Side of Manufacturing, a weekly blog that explored the inventive and sometimes humorous side of the industry.
Alexis co-founded Influential Women in Manufacturing, a recognition program that honored 49 women in its first two years, earned an industry award for Best Product Launch, and received a proclamation from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and a commendation from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth.
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