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Can my AI-designed flying wing really fly 200 km? 🤖✈️
Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to answer one ambitious question: can artificial intelligence help design the ultimate efficient flying wing?
The result was the NX-2: a 3D-printed, high-aspect-ratio flying wing optimized using aerodynamic simulations and an evolutionary algorithm. After designing, building, and flight-testing the aircraft, I also built a custom thrust bench to find the most efficient motor and propeller combinations for long-endurance flight.
But bench testing is only half of the story.
In this video, we take the best propulsion setups from the thrust bench and test them in real flight using autonomous loiter missions, advanced telemetry logging, and Python post-processing to measure how much energy the NX-2 really needs to cover distance.
And the results were not what I expected.
During the flight campaign, the NX-2 was pushed close to its aerodynamic limits, leading to stall testing, flat spins, crashes, repairs, and a much deeper understanding of the real stall speed, maximum lift coefficient, and efficiency sweet spot of the aircraft.
The best setup reached around 0.32 Wh/km, improving the original configuration by roughly 32% in energy consumption per kilometer — or about 47% more theoretical range with the same battery.
So… was the AI right?
Based on the flight data, the NX-2 is no longer just a theoretical 100 km aircraft. With a typical 3S lithium-ion pack, the data suggests it could already reach around 120 km, and with a lighter endurance-focused setup, the theoretical range could go well beyond 200 km.
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What is the best propulsion system for an AI-optimized flying wing? 🤖✈️
In the previous video, we used AI and evolutionary optimization to design a highly efficient organic flying wing. But even with an optimized airframe, one critical question remained unanswered:
Which motor and propeller combination is actually the most efficient in the real world?
So in this video, we build a fully custom thrust bench from scratch to measure real propulsion performance using load cells, RPM sensor, current, voltage, and automated data acquisition.
Using a combination of aerodynamic theory, motor-propeller matching, and thousands of real measurements, we compare multiple motors and propellers to find the setup that delivers the best efficiency for endurance flight.
The results were… not what I expected!
We test:
5 different brushless motors
8 different propellers
APC, Aeronaut CAM, and low-cost options
Hundreds of automated thrust bench runs
And by the end, we identify a propulsion upgrade that could increase the endurance of the NX-2 flying wing by roughly 15%.
In the next videos, we’ll validate everything with real flight data and push the endurance of this aircraft even further.
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What happens if we let AI design a flying wing instead of a human? 🤖✈️
In this video I create a fully parametric flying wing, give it 16 design variables, and let an optimization algorithm search through thousands of possibilities to find the most efficient configuration.
The result is a surprisingly organic wing shape—very different from the one I originally designed.
So I built it.
Using aerodynamic analysis with AeroSandbox VLM, structural modeling, and Differential Evolution optimization, the AI eventually converges on a new design that appears to be ~16% more efficient than my previous wing.
We then 3D print the airframe, assemble the aircraft, and take it out for the first maiden flight to see if the AI result actually works in the real world.
In the next videos we’ll dive deeper into flight testing, efficiency measurements, and understanding why the algorithm selected this particular geometry.
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What if we took a wing shape that evolution has refined for millions of years… and turned it into an ultra-efficient UAV? 🦅
In this video I build a 3D-printed flying wing using a gull-shaped planform inspired by birds, then put it through CFD and flight tests to see if the theory actually works. We dive into lateral–directional stability, comparing a planar wing vs. the gull wing, and see how the new design delivers ~80% more yaw stability and ~75% more roll stability without sacrificing efficiency.
In the end, this project shows why the gull wing is such a powerful, convergent design solution in nature—and it sets the stage for the next step: using AI to simulate evolution and search for even more stable and efficient wing planforms.
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🛩️ Download the NX-1 (15% off for 10 days): cults3d.com/es/modelo-3d/artilugios/ai-optimized-fpv-flying-wing
📄 Project data & scripts (Patreon): patreon.com/cw/Neuronautics
💡 Whether you're into AI, FPV drones, general aviation, or just love pushing the boundaries of what's possible with code and creativity—this is for you!
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Get the files / support
🛩️ Download the NX-1 (15% off for 10 days): cults3d.com/es/modelo-3d/artilugios/ai-optimized-fpv-flying-wing
📄 Project data & scripts (Patreon): patreon.com/cw/Neuronautics
💡 Whether you're into AI, FPV drones, general aviation, or just love pushing the boundaries of what's possible with code and creativity—this is for you!
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#CFD #Aerodynamics #ReverseEngineering #FPV #FlyingWing #OpenFOAM #Dart250G #AI
From the early days of flying wing pioneers like Dunne, the Horten brothers, and Jack Northrop… to training neural networks and running thousands of CFD simulations, this video documents every step of the journey.
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