Engineers test a 5-lb Whisper turbine fan against a German Schubler electric ducted fan, measuring thrust and airflow. The Whisper consistently outperforms across 40-80 lb thrust levels, with carbon-fiber blades and fewer stators reducing swirl for straighter, more efficient thrust. The design principles could scale to air-taxis and larger aircraft.
And then that guy is the one that's going to go on and propel 1,000 to 10,000-pound aircraft.
All right, I'm in. I'm ready to feel the thrust.
So this is the low-thrust rig. We've got our 5-pound fan as well as a Schubler that's producing about the same amount of thrust.
This is the competing one? This is a really high-quality Schubler electric ducted fan made in Germany.
And you can see the swirl. Yeah, yeah.
Lots of swirl in it. These are carbon fiber blades. Far fewer blades and stators than what we do. Theirs is far more expensive than ours. Okay. So now you can barely, barely hear it.
Barely. Yeah.
And there's less of that swirl. It's more of like a straight line. For people who are not swirl experts, how important is that? If you think about the force, right? Any swirl is a deviation from just straight thrust.
Yeah.
So the less roll you have and the more just straight thrust you've got, the more efficient you're generating that force. That makes sense. So it's just pure shot.
All right, should we scoot down? We'll go.
Yeah, big guys. So this one is going to put out way more thrust. We start at 40 and then we're going to ramp up all the way to 70, 80.
Yes, bottom one again is a Schubler, but much larger. Why are you guys picking on Schubler so much? We're complimenting them. They're the best developer. Before we kill them.
As Whisper's turbine kicked in and again mercilessly dominated Schubler's, I had a strange urge to put my body on the line in the name of aviation progress. Or maybe just for fun.
It was glorious.
These turbines are meant to one day go on air taxis and planes and drones. And the military very much wants Whisper's technology so that it can fly things that see and hear near people without them noticing.
