Peter Sripol is a popular YouTuber whose projects range from human-carrying quadcopters to fire trucks with flamethrowers—very creative and funny. He first made a name for himself at FliteTest.
Then, at the opposite end of YouTube Land is a nasty genre of videos about paper airplanes that fly forever—suspended between two fans or flying around in thermals over stoves or candles—all completely fake, mind you. The people who make these videos have some CGI skills and total moral deficit. To enhance the gullibility of their viewers, they dispense “helpful” hints. Can you imagine that there are people so morally compromised that they encourage kids to enthusiastically start making a project that is doomed to failure?
So back to Peter. In his video, he first dismisses the hoaxes, then experiments to see if it is possible to use real physics to make a self-sustaining glider. He starts with walkalong gliders and…well, just watch the video. Amazing!
Many YouTubers “liberate” other people’s ideas without any thought of attribution, but—gentleman that he is--Peter Sripol gives a shout-out to sciencetoymaker at the end.
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