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Among my favorites are his Star Wars-inspired projects, which so far have included a giant AT-ACT playhouse and a full-size TIE Silencer ships. Inventor and madman Colin Furze has built some pretty wild stuff over the years. Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Design, fan, Geek Art + Craft, jet, jet engine, Rolls-Royce NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet is cleared for final assembly You can check out more of Kurt’s aviation-inspired fans, gifts, decor, and furniture over on his website.
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We’re looking forward to seeing the finished fan once it’s installed. The fan is headed to the Rolls-Royce North America headquarters in Reston, Virginia, where it will be permanently installed as the centerpiece of the office. Kurt went so far as to build a custom wall switch for the fan, using aviation-inspired designs and incorporating the iconic Rolls-Royce logo. Rolls wants it to spin at a fairly slow speed so people can admire its design, but its builder assures us that the motor could be cranked up to about 10 times the speed shown here. You can check out a little footage of the fan spinning at a low speed in the video below. Each of the fan’s 18 blades measures a whopping 45″ long, and there’s a 23″ diameter conical spinner at its center. In order to ensure that the fan spins smoothly and in balance, each blade was precision-cut using a CNC waterjet machine. Kurt Eldrup of Phighter Images and Aviation Flying Furniture fabricated the fan’s blades to replicate the look of Rolls’ lightweight carbon composite and titanium CTi fan blades, and will ultimately be painted to match the look of the real jet engine (as shown below). Commissioned by jet engine maker Rolls-Royce, this gigantic fan measure an amazing 113 inches in diameter. Now, the artist behind these awe-inspiring fans is back, and he’s showing off his biggest build yet. The company behind the aircraft, Horizon, is currently working on a 1:6 scale version to begin testing its systems and software, and plans to have a half-scale machine built by the end of the year, with production beginning as early as 2024.Ī couple of years back, I came across some unique ceiling fans designed to look like the fan blades from a jet engine. Without passengers or cargo, the Cavorite X5’s range gets bumped up to a much more impressive 1000 kilometers or 625 miles. The EVTOL has seating for 5 people and enough space for cargo to match. With an LS V8 engine onboard and a relatively modest battery system, the Cavorite X5 can achieve cruise speeds of up to 350 km/h, traveling as far as 500 kilometers while carrying cargo. The plane takes on those very characteristics too, with its unique ability to hover vertically before flying like a normal plane. The Cavorite X5 comes named after a fictional super-material first mentioned in H.G> Wells’ 1901 book The First Men in the Moon, which, when cooled, can cancel out the effects of gravity.
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It sports the aesthetic of a sleek stealth-bomber, and comes with wings that, get this, split open to reveal multiple fans underneath (yes, wings with FANS!) These fans help the EVTOL take off and land vertically (like a helicopter) on a landing pad, and the outer covers close shut to turn the X5 into a wing-based aircraft that can hit speeds of up to 350 km/h (217mph). Just on face value, the Horizon Cavorite X5 looks like an absolute sci-fi wet-dream. However, Canada’s Horizon Aircraft has a pretty interesting aircraft with a hybrid power system and a patent-pending wing design. It’s an incredibly tricky maneuver that’s fuel-intensive, and it becomes doubly complicated when you’re trying to make the entire aircraft an electric machine. Science fiction would have you believe it’s pretty easy to have an aircraft that takes off vertically like a helicopter, and then suddenly sprouts wings and thrusters which let it fly like a jet.