You can see the 2-D DIY deuce lying flat under the 3-D customized, doped, cut-out and built units on the left. On the right the DIY deuce is airborne a split second after it’s ‘finger flicked’ by inventor Michael Gaudet.
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This scintillating video shows Dylan hot-wiring the Skyaak Ultra-Glow guts. He has placed a ‘pod’ against the disco light so you can see how the pod sucks up the LED light. This discovery lead us to invent the idea of inserting a tiny replica Skyaak inside the shaft so as it travels back and forth, [...]
I think that is the coolest thing about the DIY deuce is that no matter how fast it flies, it seems to behave itself. This is due to the stabilizing effect of the ring-wings that is enhanced by the corkscrew motion.
Convert your PC to a Skyaak vending machine! Try out the Skyaak DIY deuce for [...]
“Why does Skyaak fly?”
I asked Aerospace Engineer Dr. David Simpson, Head of the Institute for Aerospace Research at the National Research Council in Ottawa this question. He wrote me back a very thoughtful response which said in part, “The overall advantage of this aerodynamic approach (using two ring-wings riding in tandem on an inner shaft: [...]
It’s fairly difficult to capture images of the Skyaak DIY deuce in mid-flight because it goes so fast. What I’ve done here is grab a series of frames from a recent video and lined them up ‘flip-book’ style just to give you an idea. This shows the beginning, just the first second or so (maybe [...]
My friend Tom popped over on the weekend to check out the Skyaak DIY deuce. Tom has been a Skyaak fan ever since we tossed a Model 3 around last summer and he was curious about the little DIY version.
After about 15 minutes, we had both built a DIY deuce…Tom decided to keep his plain [...]
Sometimes things actually do go according to plan! Yesterday I built a box and packed up the latest prototype Skyaak Ultra-Glow …just a working name, will change…to send it flying off to Astral Media, headquarters of Z Tele in Montreal, PQ. I have been speaking with Genevieve Paradis, the Feature Director at Z Tele for [...]