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
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