Tom Stanton's flywheel cycling experiment nears ten million views
With no new upload, his engineering archive brought in roughly 432,000 views across the week.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Supersonic Trebuchet
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Tom Stanton's most-watched regular video is close to a round number worth pausing over. Published in 2021, "Can Flywheel technology make cycling easier?" is approaching ten million views, with "Flywheel Battery" next in his all-time catalogue. Rotating machinery has had quite a run here.
There were no new uploads this week, but the archive was far from idle. "Supersonic Trebuchet" remains his busiest individual video for daily views, followed by "Super Capacitor Wind-Up Plane" and "Electromagnetic Aircraft Launcher". Between them, those titles offer a fairly good introduction to Stanton's interests: storing energy, releasing it and seeing what flies.
The trebuchet also contains a lovely reminder of how long a build can live in its maker's head. Stanton shows calculations dating back nearly six years, then footage of a wooden trebuchet he built aged 12. The finished machine is a new answer to a very old fascination.
Daily channel views are running noticeably above their usual level, although the subscriber count was unchanged over the week. Nearby in size, Evan and Katelyn had a particularly busy week and added subscribers. Stanton's viewing activity, meanwhile, came entirely without a fresh upload, with aircraft experiments and flywheel builds giving readers plenty to explore.
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