Making a WOODEN Airplane Propeller!
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2023
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Way too cool to see a young lady just making her dreams come true with a lot of hard work!!
Hi, can you sand it please? I want to buy it. And how much money for one pcs? Am from indonesia..
This is fantastic, loving seeing the whole process. It's a long way from anything I fly.
The Manley, the myth, the legend!
Bro taught me orbital mechanics 😭
Hi Scott! Yesterday the NSF stream, today a Xyla video... Is there really only one of you?
Q: If you could make a decent GPTClone of yourself, would you unleash it on the internet?
LOL. Watch your stuff all the time bro. Glad to see you here. :)
Xyla, book this guy.
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That copy-lathe is the coolest machine I've seen in a long, long time.
Great idea! Simple as a penny - but so easy to use!
I wonder how were the propeller made before that machine ever made 😅
@@victorip7632I think slowly is the keyword
@@Yewtewba But also by the time propellers were being made in numbers that sort of machine would have already existed.
@@banaana1234 apparently the first was 1820. So yeah I guess so
Maybe I don't get out enough, but that lathe is just about the coolest thing I've ever seen.
I had to stop the video and show my wife. She thought it was cool and she's not a geek like me.
It was definitely very cool.
It's called a duplicator lathe.
@@KJ6EAD Thanks. It reminds me of the "Sketch-a-Graph" device I had many years ago. Same principle, really.
same, what an incredible low-tech solution
I love Xyla's ability to create such a focus on the "guest" of her collabs in such an organic way; Despite it being Xyla's channel, she's not hesitant to showcase selflessly the "guest" star. What a tremendously wholesome character trait. Bless you, Xyla!
That’s one of the things that makes Xyla so special
Xyla staring into your soul while sanding
She's been taking lessons from @Lord_Vinheteiro
Really? I figured she was making weird mouth shapes behind the ventilator
Nah, it was a silent cry for help. She was practically pleading to be rescued.
@@anon_y_mousse ... lol , i can guess how many hours of sanding there were
Xyla has perfected Zombie Sanding
Alaina's daughter appeared to be a skilled shop assistant in her own right. Somehow I got the feeling that the daughter was carefully watching the amateur, Xyla, to make sure she did not mess up.
Quite likely! 🔎
I remember in high school working with my dad in his scene shop at the University, where he taught stagecraft. I sometimes wondered why he asked me to do certain things instead of his grad students. Years later, when I actually asked my dad that question, he told me that it was because I had more experience than they did, and he was confident that I would do the job right, and the way he wanted.
In hindsight, that was a great bonding experience, although I don't think I appreciated it at the time.
@@shubinternet That is both a valuable event and a valuable memory.
The kid is the one who's _really_ in charge.
@@alonespirit9923 I think that is sadly something that has been more or less lost currently in our society. For generations community elders or parents in general would teach the next generation the skills of their trade or even everyday life skills in the process both groups learned respect for the other and the next generation acquired a certain level of responsibility and self sufficiency that can be lacking today. CZcams and the skills on offer are great but the self-sufficiency, responsibility, and intergenerational respect are not as easily developed without the more personal interaction of the past. Hopefully society as a whole can figure out how to restore something equally beneficial in the future.
Props Xyla! 👍🏻👊🏻
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I see what you did there.
Took me a second.
The propeller lathe is absolutely insane!! 🤯 It's like a steam punk 3d printer. Another fantastic video.
It looks like a desendant of a machine I saw in a video showing the harpers ferrey gun factory musium and used to carve rifle stocks.
17 years of highly tuned muscle memory. Can't beat craftsmanship like that.
That lathe is so cool!
the lathe which copies the blank is genius!
Safety wires on the propelor screws and the copy lathe machine are so simple yet genius ideas. Wow imagine how many cool genius inventions we have in this world around us that go unnoticed.
That's a good point about being unnoticed.
I work with presses everyday so to me they're nothing special but then someone shows off a press in a video or someone ask me about work and it's like alien technology to people who've never set foot in a press shop. I do still find it interesting learning about machines I've not worked with, new or old.
I love this mix of technical precision with organic woodworking craft. I would love to understand how the original prop templates were made! Also something about watching you fill in those stamped numbers with pencil was just deeply satisfying.
it is almost funny to see how the process jumps from crafting, to machining back to using a hammer to stamp in the numbers and filling it by hand. It is well: signing of the work making it "official", so the most "hands on" part is the most sacred part of the process as it confirms with the makers knowledge, experience and judgment that this is now a propeller.
That's a fascinating question about how the templates were made. My guess is they were carefully handcrafted, with measurements being taken at every moment.
I’ve followed Culver Props for years, so happy to see this crossover!
Apparently quite a few pilots follow Culver Props... literally!
Wow.!! I love Culver Props they are the best.!! And u did it yourself helping Top.!! Sending love.!! 💞
Been watching Alaina for years, ever since the Experimental Aircraft Channel made a video highlighting what she does.
As an A&P myself, I can say that what she does is Masterclass workmanship. I've even seen a few of her props out in the wild on a couple occasions. I love that she makes each one custom by hand for the aircraft, and it's not just some mass produced prop, churned out on a CnC.
Next step is to build a whole plane Xyla 😅
Well, she's been hanging out with Peter Sripol, so it's possible she shared ideas..
I could probably do that, assuming origami ones count.
That lathe is incredible, the way it uses the top piece as a guide to carve the bottom piece.
Woodworking and aviation - the perfect combination for the channel!
Flying behind a prop you've helped make must be a thrill.
Great work. I love the quote from Alaina “we are ether going to make a beautiful propeller or Great Wall art”. thanks for sharing.
This. This is why I love CZcams (and your channel). I've had my license for nearly 30 years and somehow have never seen the process of making a wood prop. Thanks for this!
I have made hand carved wooden blades for a wind turbine. Seeing them spin in the wind was already pretty cool. Flying a wooden prop that you made yourself must be infinitely cooler. Great work!
I really liked seeing the “saw” that carved/cut the propeller blade by tracing the outline. Cool concept!
Good to see Culver Props is still doing well and training the next generation of craftsperson. Thanks for the great content, it is always a good day when Xyla drops a new video!
I literally couldn’t hold my excitement in when i saw the lathe, it’s so cool.
She’s given us Ladies Who Launch (rockets) and now Ladies Who Lathe (airplane props)
Absolutely "wonkedy" is a word! The lathe reminds me of the mechanical functioning beauty of a 1860(ish) barrel riffing lathe. 😊
Great video!
Reminds me of a French TV program on people who built their dream vehicle. One couple built a single-engine plane INSIDE their house: I think it was fuselage in the living room, tail in the kitchen and wings in the garage. They lived like that for three years... but once they'd finished it and got it certified, they decided they BOTH wanted to fly and started on a second one!
First time since finding her channel a new video's come out -- been bingeing on the back-catalogue the last week-or-so, great to see something brand new!
You will be lucky to see half a dozen or so videos from her per year. I am one of her biggest haters and she knows it.
@@kameljoe21 Who cares? If it's half a dozen of great videos like that, why not just enjoy them?
@@jonasholzem2909 Because she asked everyone via a community post if she should buy a plane or build a shop and the votes where a huge margin to build the shop to create more videos and she bought a plane.
Then she got evicted from her place and moved in to a shed and called that a shop video build. She said this directly to me about how it was a shop video when it was not. It was a saw stop which was donated to her if I am not mistaken.
She started this channel and blew up during covid and then now collects monthly salary from 911 people who support her for 3 dollars or more per month. If we are going by the low price she likely walks away with 1500 or more after they take their cut and she pays her taxes if she even does that. She added around 100 new people up from the the plane ride video with Simone.
At this rate she no longer has to work hard to make a living on top of the ad money she might get and any brand deals she has or will get.
I clearly do not know why anyone who pays money would ever allow people to stiff them.
Keep in mind we are not giving her 3 dollars a month to sit around on her ass doing nothing while she is off living her best life. The condtions most people do is to give her money to help support her in doing these videos. Not to take advantage of people. There are a lot of creators who have been doing this. I mean a lot of creators who do this and they make 10s of thousands of dollars a month.
I can give you one example Stuff made here makes around 13.500 on the low end at 5 dollars a month and 2700 plus people and still has not uploaded anything for 5 plus months.
You want people to respect these people. FFS this is never going to happen.
I am done supporting people. Pulling all my funding and no longer going to support anyone who does not upload stuff.
@@kameljoe21 You're clearly obsessed and don't sound healthy, maybe take a break from her channel, might do you good.
@@heartsky Take a break, its not like she uploads that often. Some people watch all of the creators videos from early on. While many come and go just for one video. Those of us who have been here a very long time tend to know a lot more than you one timers who could care less. She went out of her way to piss off her viewers by the actions she did and she is not gonna get away with it. She knows for a fact that I am a hater and because of that I will likely stick around for years and make sure she knows it. This will be years of enjoyment to which people like you will respond and I will get a kick out of it.
Xyla is the only CZcamsr who casually goes from joining circus to making wooden airplane propeller
And all the content is totally lit!
You're literally in all the channels i watch. Last i saw you where on mxr plays
@@Rickster621 I see em a lot too.
I'm here because of bulletproof dress 😅
There is one more ;)
that lathe was awesome!
also, this video reminded me that i actually know how to do safety wire. i haven't actually done it in 10 years or so, but i technically know how to do it.
I made a display prop for my hangar in the same exact manner using my amateur rendition of Jablo densified wood with Douglas fir, then hand formed brass leading edge protectors and soldered them in. There's a local guy with a prop lathe that let me borrow it, and while it does so much of the hard work for you, there's still a ton of work left to do. It's another example of 90% complete with 90% left to do. For anyone doubting the resilience of wood as a prop material in the modern world, MT Propeller is still using wood cores for their high performance composite blades, and a lot of the top tier British WWII fighters used Jablo/Rotol wood props. We started our journey into the skies with wood props, and they're still just as effective today.
I'm a life-long aviation enthusiast (66 years old) -- my dad was an engineer who worked in aviation since the 1940s. I've never known how wooden props were made before this video. It was both profoundly informative, and also very, very fun. THANKS!!!
Do you like the Wright Brothers?
One of those times you watch something being made and it makes so much sense that is how it is done you nearly feel stupid for not realizing it.
Loved the whole thing and lovely little plane in the end.
The expression in your eyes as you’re sanding! 🤣
Awesome to see there’s still customers out there in need of a prop. 👏🏻
That pantograph lathe is SO COOL! Maker/Aviation crossover content best content 💯
There's no pantograph there for scaling, just a 1:1 duplicator lathe.
The 4 bar mechanism of the duplicator *is* a pantograph.
Pantograph doesn't mean 1:1 or enlarge or reduce, it means 4 bar mechanism.
@@myotherusername9224 I agree with the definition but didn't see more than three bars in use. If there are four, I'm wrong and offer a weasely conditional internet apology to the OP for my arrogance. 🙄
This is like an episode of how it's made with two of the coolest people ever!!! Thanks for creating this awesome video.
That pattern following cutter is a thing of engineering beauty. As simple as it needs to be.
You can’t beat the smell of a wood shop. Great video. Thank you.
Xyla just living her best life sanding ;)
Loved this!
Xyla your deadpan stare into the camera during sanding had me choking on my coffee. Loved every bit of this video, and that lathe!
this is AMAZING! They’re preserving an art form with a new generation!
Thats super dope, her grandfather passed and she was like hey, im taking over and keeping this going and is doing a great job.
Fun video! I like the prop backside to be black so you don't see it in flight. I like some white at the front of the prop tips so when running on the ground you see this white arc and know its running.
Xyla uses the belt saw like a heart surgeon.
That prop lathe kinda reminds me of a key cutting machine to a degree. Super cool process overall, and a fantastic art form. Thanks for bringing us along!
What a fascinating process, I wonder how the first propeller ever made without the guide and that machine which help making the propeller profile. Crazy engineering and craftsmanship.
This might be one of my favorite videos. from the wood working shop to the brilliant lathe (seriously, so cool!) to the scratch made plane the whole thing just kept getting better the longer I watched.
I am amazed that wooden airplane props are just boards "Glued" together 🤯
Wood is an amazing material. The combination of flex when needed and rigidity when needed at a relatively light weight (depending on the variety) is hard to replicate.
@@TheBigburcie Wood is essentially a natural plastic. It's a fiber bound by lignin, which is an organic polymer, just like most plastics are some fiber (glass or carbon) bound by a different polymer. And when you laminate wood by gluing boards together you eliminate the natural weakness of wood, because it wants to split along the grain. So yeah, it's not hard to replicate at all, if anything it's really really bad compared to modern materials.
"when you laminate wood by gluing boards together you eliminate the natural weakness of wood, because it wants to split along the grain"
except that in this case, the grain goes in the same direction in every layer, so how does this eliminate the weakness of wanting to split along the grain ?
" it's really really bad compared to modern materials"
Wood is bad? How so ?
@@myotherusername9224 it's heavier than say carbon fiber or glass fiber polymers, it can experience water damage if the finish is damaged. It does go in the same direction every layer, but they aren't perfectly aligned and wood glue is stronger than lignin, so it binds them better.
12:39 That lathe is amazing
Super cool how they create these props. Each step demonstrated meticulous and ingenious craftsmanship. I also liked the safety wiring when they installed the completed prop on the customer's plane. And then they flew it!
Seen a couple of vids with Culver and the job she does is just mind blowing!
Seeing you visit and do what you do and everything: amazing and wholesome! Did the prop perform good with the plane? I'd expect it to but still...
Tht lathe is mesmerizing for sure by the way. Only thing I kinde missed is the surface process, it's so satisfying to see the propeller gets is surface finish and final elegance.
I so much enjoyed this video. Thanks for being you. Joy and creativity combined.
I understand Xyla's fascination with the lathe! That's so cool!
Oh! Nice! That’s so great to keep some these skill alive.
That whole video, prop making to flying looked like so much fun. That prop is a work of art.
well, that was *fantastic*. Thank you for showing us such a great business that puts their heart and soul into continuing such a great tradition. Can't get better than old-school woodworking tools making a prop !
Props to you for such an awesome video ! 😉
That lathe is awesome!
i love that lathe wow. what a cool machine 😩
That lathe was really cool to see in action!
This was the coolest episode of, anything, I've seen in a long time. She's brilliant. And her husband is a lucky man.
So glad to see you back Xyla!🎉
One of the secrets to excellent lockwiring is to not use the pullout on the lockwire pliers. I start a lockwire by hand-wiring a few turns and then, keeping plenty of tension on, hand turn the pliers. You should end just short of the second hole as the same process on the tail will take any last slack out of the lockwire. I was a technician on fighters in the Australian Air Force and thought I was quite a good lockwirer until a more experienced bloke showed me these and some other tricks.
I love all things engineered (I share this love with both my sons as well) and this was just a joy to watch. I had no idea how a wooden propeller was made and while I’ve seen some amazing (and large) lathes for both wood and metal, I have NEVER seen one quite like this. I loved watching every second of this video from grabbing the wood planks to taking flight. Keep it up Xyla!
Awesome project, would have loved to get more technical information about that particular prop you made and why it works well for the plane you've put it on, including discussion of the size, profile, etc.
skill, talent and fun, actual girl power at its best...respect!
What BIG eyes you have mydear. 👀
This is incredible ! it is really cool that there are still people doing this, and extra cool that it is a small company like this, and not some cnc/robot arm just churning them out.
That takes some serious balls to fly, let alone, MAKE YOUR OWN PROP!!! Balls the size of planets! that's a compliment! I'm an Aussie, Xyla
That must have been fun getting a classic design up in the air like that =D
I read the video title and exclaimed, "Oh, she needs to go see Alaina!" Then, lo and behold - two of my favorite makers in a colab video! Too much awesomeness! Now I think you need to go spend a week with Ashley Harwood and learn how to lathe a bowl or something. (She has a very Zen vibe to her...)
Such a coolio video! I've never seen anything like this before! I'm an engineer, and this was super duper cool on the geek factor scale (and any other scale for that matter), thanks so much for sharing!!!
The eternal complaint - "I don't have quite as much room as I need."
I love to see old craftsmanship still alive and kicking. Yes kids you still need math.
That's exactly what I was thinking too😂
You can relearn math as it's necessary throughout your life though
@@Noahmadic it's still good to have a foundation though to begin with
There are few greater things a man can enjoy in life. This is definitely one of them. Thank you ladies! Amazing build! I hope to do something similar some wonderful day. That is literally the very essence of what dreams are made of. PEACE! ;)
This is so cool! I'd always assumed wooden props were steamed and twisted. I could watch that copy lathe work for hours!
Hand made has always that prestigious aura that industrial made objects will never have.
Uh, odd question by why couldn't the new propeller go on her plane? i missed that part
Good question!! My plane is certified but the prop is experimental so it can only go on an experimental aircraft
@Xyla Foxlin ah legal red tape? That makes sense
That copy lathe works like a key duplicator. Awesome! And so is this lady and her kids!
That lathe is easily the coolest thing in this video!
Rooting for a Lathe-Night series with you and other lady builders! 😉👍🏼
That lathe is so fucking cool! Great to see how an expert works in their element.
Your abilities never cease to amaze me. And, how impressive is Alaina?!? Thank you for introducing me to so many strong, intelligent, remarkably capable and talented women working in spaces traditionally reserved for men. I think that supporting all of you, and recognizing and acknowledging your contributions to these various fields, in any way we can is morally imperative. This was so amazing to watch. Thank you!
This whole process is freaking badass!!
Thanks Xyla !!
Safety Wire!!! The bane of my existence in the hydraulic shop and doing brake hubs lol.
Few more years and you'll get those twists done perfectly lol
Awesome video
the machine to cut out the propeller was incredible to watch in action
oh and balancing props is so important... learnt that from my RC days but had it much easier
as we only had to think about horizontal balance and the prop was plastic so easy to trim... still a great feeling when the prop was steady on the balancer
really cool airplane
Wow. That is truly impressive. When you said lathe, I was thinking straight bores into the wood. But the lathe just blew my mind. It's like those tracing pens we used as kids to trace from one sheet of paper to another. But this lathe traces the prop and cuts out another in its likeness. That is amazing. Everything about it is an intricate artform. The way she cuts those boards which look so seemingly effortless - to the balancing. Y'all did a phenomenal job. I also love the beauty in the way the prop bolts are secured. Thanks for making and sharing this video Xyla.
I see so the rollers on top of my planner where not spares for the bottom, feel kinda dumb now. Love stuff like this nothing more than learning an art from the artist themselves...keep up the hard work :)
Also love seeing kids in a workshop especially when you can tell they have skills and know the process
Xyla truly is a wood-dweller
Hello Xyla, fellow Ohioan and Aviator here, I am proud of all you do with talent, skill, creativity, ingenuity, ambition, intelligence, sense of humour/whimsy, beauty, bravery ~ you are Nature’s true force.
~Mark
She is awesome!! Does beautiful work! Our wood prop on our Pietenpol is a 72-42 Falcon. (65 HP Pietenpol, NX48MC) Aha---my friend Scott! Too funny. Small world!! Never met Tim and Joylani but went back and forth a lot....awesome, gifted couple. So tragic. Great video!
A delight to follow along from the secrets of the source to the prop in use. A wonderful trip and very nice to be in your presence as you go. Also great fun, yes... sanding can ummm... take a while!
My great uncle Leo Kaplan & my Dad made wooden propellers. My dad is 100 & on the 18th this month will celebrate his 73rd anniversary with my mom.
Used to have a prop with a clock in it in my room as a kid.
Thank you Xyla.
Love the choice of music at the end, not to mention the B&W segment... gave a great feel to showcasing the first flight of the new prop.
That lathe might be the coolest tool I've ever seen. It's like a giant key duplicator... but for propellers.
A totally woderfull video. That duplicator lathe is a work of art and function. A modern CNC machine could do it but wouldn't have the soul that machine has. Thank you for a great story.
So good to see people using proper PPE when working with hazardous materials. The number of times I've watched people on CZcams sand carbon fiber or use noxious chemicals without a respirator is too damn high.
Also this was a really cool process to watch!
This is amazing. Xyla entrances me; my concentration on her vids is something I typically don't do all the time with other content makers, but she captures my attention almost every time I watch one of hers. She's a force of nature somehow. I don't know how she pulls together so much of her apparent energy. I know it must take tons of effort but she makes it look effortless. And nice!
I'm an old geezer, but in my almost forgotten youth I was a lot like her. So I really get it. Hats off, Xyla.. you're pretty awesome. 👍🏻
I have a "retired" J-3 prop from a plane my Dad used to fly. I had no idea how a wood prop is made, Thank you.
My compliments to the video creator. You have given an old retired guy in the Philippines great joy. Thank you for posting this excellent CZcams and bringing back some happy memories from my younger years.