Can a microwave power a plane? - Bang Goes The Theory - BBC One

[perrin275]

Nicola Tesla beat you to this....

[geiorgy360]

this is extremely dangerous and we needed several special permits, and heres the small child who is helping us :')

[MRESEL3000]

@goodgames Y u be a hater?

[BrainyLuke111]

HOW AWESOME I HAVE THE SAME PHONE AND MICROWAVE AS THIS GUY!

[Saitothesushi]

The only problem is if there is a blackout then your fucked.

[bestthealan]

You hook a Tesla Coil To the Antena ...you have the car he was said to have made

[MrHeyho112]

Im firing my microwave cannon!

[GOGORyanZZXX]

so is this wireless power?

[medoo400]

@GOGORyanZZXX yes and that's waht tesla harnesed from the sun and cosmic waves but he was killed for that...

[DarkoMFS]

@GOGORyanZZXX yeah.. wireless power, but now nearly efficient to be considered practical :) .. you're putting out 1KW to power a little heli which uses much less ..

[ThePeoplesGuru]

Imagine trying to get a patent permit for that.

"Could you repeat that?"

"Yes, it's a microwave death ray."

[fossil98]

Honestly, microwave radiation is ridiculously dangerous

[TheSaltysack]

fake

[bobcheese427]

Why do americans troll on all the bang goes the theory videos, fuck off if your not interested.

[killordie7]

i thought it was going to be like an f16 or something that would have been cool...

[hughesy94333]

And this is how chernoble was created kids :P

[Stryker9799]

@hughesy94333 not even close. chernoble was created by a nuclear power plant. this isn't even close to chernoble.

[BriskAxe]

Why does the BBC not allow certain videos to be viewed in the U.S.? =(

[kramcas2]

Nikola Tesla figured out how to do all this and make it work on a large scale for all the worlds people.

[repapips2004]

@kramcas2 Thats the reason why he got assassinated. Oil companies will gonna cry, and there goes their business.

[MrGabriel70]

am i the only one who thinks he seems like hes trying to hard to have an accent lol

[stupidintellect90]

@MrGabriel70 haha...it does sound a bit put on, but I'm guessing he grew up somewhere up north then moved away and started travelling, hence the subtle northern accent he has now. No need to thank me for my theory ;) I've got it....it's slightly Brummie, isn't it?

[rocket3989]

its called a herf gun....

[nicknktleung]

U LEARNT DT RIGHT???

[psycholunatic213]

cool now i can fly my plane wit a microwave i mean who doesnt right?

[MeusOrsa]

I still think death ray is cooler.

[mynameisdarthtater]

So you've got electricity making microwaves making electricity. Sounds a bit counter-intuitive to me.

[xXIornManiacXx]

That's a helicoper not a plane.

[RedCodeStudios]

i would put that microwave on an air plane and shoot it at a person oh wait they already have those on military planes and even in bunkers i guess you did not know that now did you.

[TheMaskedGoth]

i want to eat the pilot

[The1234cadillac]

Didn't Nikola Tesla do this when he was alive. Wireless electcity

[MartinJWillett]

@The1234cadillac This is incredibly wasteful. A kilowatt went into the air and a few milliwatts were extracted just a few metres away, despite using two really sophisticated antenna arrays. In comparison getting nutrition by inhaling the smell of meat roasting would be quite efficient.

[willywonk0]

Is it a good idea to microwave this? He doesn't even have a tinfoil shield to protect his nuts, because nobody likes roasted nuts.....

[daobagua]

The theory stands though. If you could convert heat into light (electromagnetic waves) efficiently and receive the light back into heat with reasonable efficiency. Then you could beam power into space. That would be cool. But I think if I were in space I would use the sun as a source lol.

[stupidintellect90]

I want to know if anyone has ever successfully made a corn pop into popcorn by cornering it with 3 mobiles calling each other, I tried it but failed.

[Aslapacrosstheface]

The trouble with this technology is you get far less on the receiving end than you put in. The microwave uses 1000W, whereas the helicopter gets, oh... 20?

[QuaDrifter]

He looks like Ali G O_o

[p3rUvIaNSoLdI3r]

I'm sure that building all that bullshit is way more expensive than to just simply buy a pack of batteries. mayb that's why no1 uses microwaves to fly stuff o.0

[xxwookey]

@Frostydean15. It looks like the funnel intercepted the microwave channel built into the machine that normally channels the microwaves fro the magnetron to the space with your food in it.

[Farstand]

I'm sure that rechargeable Li-ion battery clearly visible inside the helicopter didn't have any role to play in the experiment. Why didn't he just wire up a voltmeter to show that a voltage was being generated. Also the whole 'this is illegal' and doing it in a quarry was a bit overboard plus what do you think the effect of his words such as 'totally illegal death ray' and 'don't you do it' will have on the average teenage lad with access to an old microwave from the dump? ,,, leaping lizards

[airplanes66]

@Farstand im sure the recargable li-ion battery had nothing to do with it asim also sure it dosent exist. the white and blue plastic inside the front clear plastic dome thing is the curcuit board,any thing else in the motor. also he couldnt have connecteda wire if there was a battery involved as ive owned a similar one and there is one conection for power to helicopter. the battery is normally mounted on the outside and the underside of the helicopter not inside. he has to say that its illegal.

[Afrotechmods]

Amazing video. Well done BBC.

[Designandrew]

mobile phones dont use microwaves they use radio waves wtf

[jwilliams575]

like the mythbusters 

[rmhoman]

how can I figure out the length of wire for the LED "Trick"?

[candr]

Back in 87" there was a test useing a real aircraft (unmanned) with a 4.5 meter wingspan was tested jointly by U.S. and Canada. The idea was to place an aircraft at a constant 10 mile height to be used as a relay for communications in a limited area. You might find it under the title of "SHARP" (Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform) seemed to work pretty good.

[TeamYankee2]

oh yeah.. that looks really safe!!

[boxa888]

CMON GIVE NIKOLA TESLA CREDIT! HIS system would have given us wireless power 100 years ago, and more better than microwaves, i put up info if you have not heard of tesla, resonance is key!

[FROSTYDEAN15]

how did he change the microwave output and focus it?

my idea is kind of simmerler except is glove mounted a big glove but stil..

[asshatnowhere159]

im setting my microwwave from stun to kill

[91RB]

wow

[TheGeorgevt]

Microwave death ray!!! Hellz YEAH!!

[youknowhow123]

A helicopter is not a plane...

[mishal1234567]

Superb.....

unbelievable.....

really,

it rockz...

[FrostyWithAMullet]

lmao microwave cannon... xD

star trek in the making xD

[mxdsij]

sweet

[hurculepoirot2]

LOL utterly illegal to make a microwave cannon i wonder why

[paulbottomley42]

@hurculepoirot2

Heh, I wonder how many people were actually deterred from wanting to build one by that warning.

I know I wasn't >_>

[SuperRiguy]

@paulbottomley42 Did ur nuts fall off lol

[lestube001]

and now he cant have kids.

[VivaCutiePie19]

How can i explain how stupid that statement is?

[pheppi]

I love these vids.

[NinjaBOB9989]

lol.. that kids gonna wake up next week with 2 heads and 9 finger per foot.

[afairclough328751]

ok dont lock your bike up il just rob that later hehe :p

[BGDPPL]

ok cool trick

but that wasnt a plane, wasnt even a toy plane

and am i the only person that wants to see it fry something?

[SteelFluff]

no your not, i want to to.

[jurasofish]

I want to as well :)

[J0hnnyH4ck3r]

@BGDPPL how about we stick someone's head in front of it!

[Ilikeporkpie]

@BGDPPL Yes.