Learn more about Wing drone delivery at: www.youtube.com/@Wing Testing the Limits of Delivery Drones: th-cam.com/video/YhNfeejuByI/w-d-xo.html Adam Savage Explores Wing’s Drone Engineering Workshop!: th-cam.com/video/_BXm6dTHvY0/w-d-xo.html
Love to see people that love their toys as much as their job, or should that be the other way around? xD Can I just throw out a couple of suggestions, like the 325i/350R from Star Citizen, I always thought that would make a great looking flyer, or the avro car? And finally how about a quad drone with only one rotor? Sort of using the principle of bladeless fans? That is after all what the Harrier is essentially. Anyway, love seeing this sort of thing.
The RC to aviation career pipeline is seriously strong. I had a friend in middle school who's dad had RC planes, we went flying with him a few times and now both of us are aircraft mechanics! RC is a seriously fantastic STEM hobby for young people, and something you can continue to stay active in for your whole life. If you go to any RC events, you'll see just as many 12 year olds as you will 90 year olds. It's fantastic.
I am an engineer and have never heard the Reynolds number explained that way, but I LOVE it. It is true intelligence to take something grand and complicated and unfold it so simply a child could understand. Doesn’t get much more weird than the Reynolds number, but this guy is truly intelligent.
Oh, this video gets so nostalgic for me. When I was a kid, I got super lucky, and my parents got me a rubber-band powered model of the wright flyer. It was like an assembly kit, and took so long to put all the parts together. But, it also had a proper rubber band system, powering TWO motors off one rubber band, at the same time. I ran that thing into the ground, and it taught me so freaking much about engineering, and was so exceptionally fun to work with.
The impressive thing about the Wright brothers and other early pioneers is: They were in uncharted territory with limited prior-science to guide them. They did the impossible and unthinkable with what tools were available (or they invented tools), which propelled mankind forward.
A trend I noticed reading about some breakthrough inventors like the Wright Brothers and Marconi: they had a unique balance of brilliance and ignorance, wherein they accomplished what seemed impossible because they hadn't been mislead by established knowledge, but also that lack of formal knowledge seemed to limit their ability to effectively refine their invention.
The Convair has always fascinated me. From when I was a kid (in the 70’s) I have had a book about the history of flight from the late 50’s(?) and it has a section and great photos of it. This was a real treat seeing this - thanks!
I JUST got into building RC airplanes at 33 after dreaming of it as a kid. I am so glad this video just released, we really need more people in the hobby. It's so affordable to get into right now compared to the past.
In 2003, when EAA built a Wright Flyer replica to fly on the Centennial of Flight, they noted the same thing, very pitch sensitive. Even in the picture capturing the first flight in 1903 shows the elevator nearly full up. Very interesting insight on the design of the Wright Flyer. Thanks for doing this!
2:37 I love this section, cause it reveals how consistent the two of the Wright brothers ideas on control remain even on small scale models. They believed that the only way to get a real plane that you could fly working was to make it unstable, as that allowed control.
The solution for Adam's fish tank airplane idea may be to use mineral oil instead of water. Does away with the need to seal or conformally coat the electronics (simplifying building the plane). It also has better radio penetration than water. More viscous than water though, so it may be a really slow flying experience. :D
For most of my life, i have been into cars and RC cars. To be honest, i have never really thought about delving into RC planes. But listening to this gentleman talk about his work and obvious passion for what he does makes me want to look into what i might have been missing all these years.
Want to get more involved in the RC hobby? Here are some helpful resources recommended by Adam Woodworth: Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA): www.modelaircraft.org/ The AMA is the leading organization for model aviation enthusiasts in the U.S., dedicated to safety, education, and advocacy. They provide insurance coverage for members, organize competitions, and advocate for model aviation interests with government agencies. Flite Test: www.flitetest.com/ This website is a fantastic resource for RC airplane and drone enthusiasts of all skill levels. They offer build plans, product reviews, tutorials, and a supportive online community. RCGroups: www.rcgroups.com/ This is one of the largest online forums dedicated to radio-controlled hobbies, including airplanes, drones, cars, and boats. It's an excellent place to find information, ask questions, and connect with other RC enthusiasts.
Fun fact. The first public demonstration of manned flight in the Western Hemisphere was in Santa Clara California in 1905. (Wrights didn’t do a public demonstration until 1908 in France) A glider built by John Joseph Montgomery flown by a test pilot was dropped from a balloon from 4,000ft, flew a series of planned aerobatics and landed on target in front of a crowd of hundreds. A Hollywood movie was made about it. “Gallant Journey”
@ NOPE. All of the important problems of lift, stability, and control can be solved with gliders and soaring flight. The Wright brothers’ patent was for a glider. (Montgomery’s patent for the aeroplane was submitted at the same time as the Wright brothers’. )
The Wright brothers were bicycle makers. They knew a bicycle was dynamically stable with the steering wheel in front (push it forward and the steer wheel tries to straighten out). Unstable with the steering wheel in back (push it backwards and the steer wheel tries to turn more). They incorrectly assumed the same would be true for aerodynamics, and put the pitch control surfaces out in front. If they'd realized hydrodynamics was the same as aerodynamics (fluid dynamics) and looked at ships, they would've known the control surfaces like the rudder should be in back to be stable. Paul MacCready (built the first man-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel) encountered this same problem when he took a contract to build a RC pterasaur for a TV show. It steered by turning its head (in front), which made it dynamically unstable. An animal immediately able to turn its head based on what it saw and how it felt could control its unstable flight. But it was impossible for a pilot controlling a little dot in the sky via RC. He ended up having to design a rudimentary flight computer which would make micro-adjustments to the head to keep it stable, independent of the commands via RC.
So the waist harness of the Wright Flyer, I didn't know about that but I'm trying to think through their thought process. I'm wondering if they were thinking it would be too difficult to control roll where hands and feet were already in use so they used the torso to control? I suppose I could just go look it up but maybe someone here already knows
Most of the Wright Brothers prototyping was through gliders, and even then it was typically to lie prone on the gliders and tethered kites to keep the balance low, and control with your body weight. Its likely that the Flyer 1 was designed off of that understanding, and provided a hip based control scheme to stay in theme
I don't know if anyone else has noticed but what he made with the "X" wing airplane is actually an "X" wing fighter from Star Wars. I wonder if you could make a full size one with the wings retracted to make a standard wing but open up in flight to give different aerodynamic capabilities? So interesting, thank you for sharing!...
In the 80's my Dad helped get the Pogo off of a barge at the Navy yard in DC as it was on it's way to Silver Hill. He always said if he had known what his day was gonna be ahead of time he would have let me skip school and go to work with him.
Flying models is pure zen, the only thing better is sharing it with your kids! I am super fortunate to be a lifelong hobbyist and my son got the bug too!
Love Cool RC airplane stuff. All Andy Clancy designs (especially the Lazy Bee) are my favorite due to the cartoonish looks and their very slow acrobatic capabilities thanks for the fun! 🎉
Imagine walking on to a modern A380 passenger airplane and seeing the pilots hanging from the ceiling of the cockpit in wing warping harnesses!! Thank God for innovation 😂😂
Watching Adam becoming instantly and completely enthralled by the idea of a desktop fish tank aerobatic model that could take off, loop, and land, may have been the best moment of the video.
I recently visited the Lockheed XFV prototype at a museum in Lakeland Florida, it was the Lockheed competitor to the Convair XFY. It was crazy to see in person, as if one of the machines from that old Thunderbirds tv show suddenly existed in real life. I've never built one myself, but "tailsitter VTOL" is one of the existing configurations in RC autopilot systems like Ardupilot so making a fully functional RC model of one should be doable as long as you can solved the static thrust to weight issue.
I got to fly a replica 1902 Wright Glider. Your description of the flight characteristics was spot on. It was super twitchy in pitch and slowwww and side slippy in turns. Had about a one second delay for turning.
The original Wright Flyer was ludicrously short coupled. There's a reason why the Wright Flyer III gained 7 feet in overall length over the 1903 original.
Just from the juxtaposition of the Wright flier and the aerobatic quad wing I started to wonder, what would happen if you enclosed the wings and turned the whole thing into a box wing structure? I imagine it would have a sort of ducted fan effect. Probably wouldn't help the aerobatics but I'm not really up on aerodynamics.
I see it. And it's a compliment. Also, I tried to find some modern person doing an example of the ancient Persian / Darius style beard with the almost tube like appearance - and shockingly nobody has done that. At least that I could find. I would figure that somebody would have at least tried that on their beard.
The wing-warping mechanism seemed so quaint when I first learned of it, because it is so different from how airplanes subsequently developed. But now it strikes me that it may be a more eloquent and organic way to direct airflow. I could see having ALL of the control surfaces using warping.
The parallels you get from quad-copter flight using the same principles, but the same axis....... My brain is broken is the best way possible. I get X-Wing vs TIE fighter vibes.
Scientists discover and explore that which exists and engineers conceive of and create that which does not yet. Also "If you're not having fun you are not doing it right."
Reminder that some countries require a license to fly RC planes that are not toys. Canada has the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) with limits on some levels.
Want to see a blimp version or airship version- possibly with printed on solar panels, for a record time flight - Were you would send it up and somehow like a man of war catch a air current. or climb then glide- then climb and glide.
One of my old friends was a aerodynamics engineer and he eventually married a lovely lady, who happened to be a fluid dynamics engineer. Let me tell you, don't EVER invite a couple like that over for dinner. You might as well invite a couple who only speaks latin 😂
If the original managed to fly with the materials and heavy, underpowered engines of the time I'm sure a modern RC version should fly. It might not be the easiest to control given the short cord but if you can get the COG right it should just about work.
I mean if you get the chance I'll always say go see the original at the air and space museum in Washington DC. But for those of you who are better able to get to Chicago there is a replica on display that was built for the 100th anniversary of the wright brothers original flight. Replica was built with the same kinds of materials and techniques that the wright brothers would have had. The only significant change was they had a engine that had a slightly better power to weight ratio to make it safer.
That RC Wright Flyer is awesome! I need one! Love the channel and am so glad we get to continue learning from Adam well past Mythbusters! I watched every episode growing up and would not be where I am today without it. Shameless plug though - we just finished a short film about the Wright Brothers and are hoping to get the word out there! It's based on the summer of 1901 when they start going small scale and testing airfoils like it's mentioned in the video. Check out the trailer if you are interested! th-cam.com/video/ruISi7YldwA/w-d-xo.html
Flight has come a long way from the first unpowered flight to the steam engine for aircraft With the strength of one horsepower for its 13-pound weight.
Fun fact. They were able to get lift so quickly after takeoff becasue they used a catapult system (almost similar to an aircraft carrier) they had a tower with a weight thay ran a pully line down the track
I really hate videos with someone in the thumbnail making that face. Its a blatant attempt at manipulation and im surprised its something adam would do at all let alone often. I assume its because adam doesnt choose the thumbnails
Relatively speaking, the engines on the RC would be probably be more powerful than the engines on the original Wright Flyer and the weight could be relatively lighter. So what you're really just doing is testing the aerodynamics.
Hello Adam, I absolutely loved Mythbusters and hated to see it end. There was one myth in the last season that you got wrong. In the "shooting fish in a barrel " Mythbusters you made a common mistake, you used live fish in a barrel of water. What it is actually referring to is fish PACKED in a barrel, the way many goods were transported in previous centuries. So shooting a fish packed in a barrel of salt is a very easy target.
Jamie, please look through best of pterasuaur rc models, then show how it's done. I realise could be a long term project but. Years ago bbc? Did one, had wrong bloke chuck off cliff and wrecked. Stupid time money constraints.
Learn more about Wing drone delivery at: www.youtube.com/@Wing
Testing the Limits of Delivery Drones: th-cam.com/video/YhNfeejuByI/w-d-xo.html
Adam Savage Explores Wing’s Drone Engineering Workshop!: th-cam.com/video/_BXm6dTHvY0/w-d-xo.html
this timing is perfect for Wright Brothers Day
Uploaded on December 17, the 121st anniversary of their first flight!
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Thanks for inviting Adam to come hang out and talk airplane design! ✈️
Let me know if you ever need another engineer on any of the teams you are in charge of!
Love to see people that love their toys as much as their job, or should that be the other way around? xD
Can I just throw out a couple of suggestions, like the 325i/350R from Star Citizen, I always thought that would make a great looking flyer, or the avro car? And finally how about a quad drone with only one rotor? Sort of using the principle of bladeless fans? That is after all what the Harrier is essentially. Anyway, love seeing this sort of thing.
The RC to aviation career pipeline is seriously strong. I had a friend in middle school who's dad had RC planes, we went flying with him a few times and now both of us are aircraft mechanics! RC is a seriously fantastic STEM hobby for young people, and something you can continue to stay active in for your whole life. If you go to any RC events, you'll see just as many 12 year olds as you will 90 year olds. It's fantastic.
I am an engineer and have never heard the Reynolds number explained that way, but I LOVE it. It is true intelligence to take something grand and complicated and unfold it so simply a child could understand. Doesn’t get much more weird than the Reynolds number, but this guy is truly intelligent.
Oh, this video gets so nostalgic for me. When I was a kid, I got super lucky, and my parents got me a rubber-band powered model of the wright flyer. It was like an assembly kit, and took so long to put all the parts together. But, it also had a proper rubber band system, powering TWO motors off one rubber band, at the same time.
I ran that thing into the ground, and it taught me so freaking much about engineering, and was so exceptionally fun to work with.
The impressive thing about the Wright brothers and other early pioneers is: They were in uncharted territory with limited prior-science to guide them. They did the impossible and unthinkable with what tools were available (or they invented tools), which propelled mankind forward.
A trend I noticed reading about some breakthrough inventors like the Wright Brothers and Marconi: they had a unique balance of brilliance and ignorance, wherein they accomplished what seemed impossible because they hadn't been mislead by established knowledge, but also that lack of formal knowledge seemed to limit their ability to effectively refine their invention.
RC flying is a gateway drug for aviation, be it engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, or flying. Im a product of that, too.
100% 🙌
Except ots now being regulated even stricter than actual aviation.
The Convair has always fascinated me. From when I was a kid (in the 70’s) I have had a book about the history of flight from the late 50’s(?) and it has a section and great photos of it.
This was a real treat seeing this - thanks!
omg those rc indoor aerobatic flights are amazing and super pretty/artistic. It's like a gymnastics floor routine for RC planes.
I JUST got into building RC airplanes at 33 after dreaming of it as a kid. I am so glad this video just released, we really need more people in the hobby. It's so affordable to get into right now compared to the past.
Seeing Adam learn things still is so endearing
Jack black lookin healthy
In 2003, when EAA built a Wright Flyer replica to fly on the Centennial of Flight, they noted the same thing, very pitch sensitive. Even in the picture capturing the first flight in 1903 shows the elevator nearly full up. Very interesting insight on the design of the Wright Flyer. Thanks for doing this!
Cool - Thanks for sharing!
2:37 I love this section, cause it reveals how consistent the two of the Wright brothers ideas on control remain even on small scale models.
They believed that the only way to get a real plane that you could fly working was to make it unstable, as that allowed control.
The solution for Adam's fish tank airplane idea may be to use mineral oil instead of water. Does away with the need to seal or conformally coat the electronics (simplifying building the plane). It also has better radio penetration than water. More viscous than water though, so it may be a really slow flying experience. :D
neat!! my avatar is my fusion 360 scale DC3 that I made of foamboard, it has flown a few times
So far, all my rc airplanes have had a bias towards earth.
Sims like RealFlight are a great tool to help with that 👍
Hey this is going to be nice to see
Very nice video thanks ❤
For most of my life, i have been into cars and RC cars. To be honest, i have never really thought about delving into RC planes. But listening to this gentleman talk about his work and obvious passion for what he does makes me want to look into what i might have been missing all these years.
Do it! It's an awesome and very addictive hobby.
Watch some Flite Test stuff, their build kits are great.
Want to get more involved in the RC hobby? Here are some helpful resources recommended by Adam Woodworth:
Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA): www.modelaircraft.org/
The AMA is the leading organization for model aviation enthusiasts in the U.S., dedicated to safety, education, and advocacy. They provide insurance coverage for members, organize competitions, and advocate for model aviation interests with government agencies.
Flite Test: www.flitetest.com/
This website is a fantastic resource for RC airplane and drone enthusiasts of all skill levels. They offer build plans, product reviews, tutorials, and a supportive online community.
RCGroups: www.rcgroups.com/
This is one of the largest online forums dedicated to radio-controlled hobbies, including airplanes, drones, cars, and boats. It's an excellent place to find information, ask questions, and connect with other RC enthusiasts.
There are several wright flyer Rc kits. I’m personally updating the “great planes wright flyer” kit to more modern tech!
17:03 rolling harrier cheat code
Fun fact. The first public demonstration of manned flight in the Western Hemisphere was in Santa Clara California in 1905. (Wrights didn’t do a public demonstration until 1908 in France)
A glider built by John Joseph Montgomery flown by a test pilot was dropped from a balloon from 4,000ft, flew a series of planned aerobatics and landed on target in front of a crowd of hundreds.
A Hollywood movie was made about it. “Gallant Journey”
Thanks for that info! Interesting.
Powered flight vs. falling with style.
@ NOPE. All of the important problems of lift, stability, and control can be solved with gliders and soaring flight. The Wright brothers’ patent was for a glider.
(Montgomery’s patent for the aeroplane was submitted at the same time as the Wright brothers’. )
The Wright brothers were bicycle makers. They knew a bicycle was dynamically stable with the steering wheel in front (push it forward and the steer wheel tries to straighten out). Unstable with the steering wheel in back (push it backwards and the steer wheel tries to turn more).
They incorrectly assumed the same would be true for aerodynamics, and put the pitch control surfaces out in front. If they'd realized hydrodynamics was the same as aerodynamics (fluid dynamics) and looked at ships, they would've known the control surfaces like the rudder should be in back to be stable.
Paul MacCready (built the first man-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel) encountered this same problem when he took a contract to build a RC pterasaur for a TV show. It steered by turning its head (in front), which made it dynamically unstable. An animal immediately able to turn its head based on what it saw and how it felt could control its unstable flight. But it was impossible for a pilot controlling a little dot in the sky via RC. He ended up having to design a rudimentary flight computer which would make micro-adjustments to the head to keep it stable, independent of the commands via RC.
So the waist harness of the Wright Flyer, I didn't know about that but I'm trying to think through their thought process. I'm wondering if they were thinking it would be too difficult to control roll where hands and feet were already in use so they used the torso to control? I suppose I could just go look it up but maybe someone here already knows
Most of the Wright Brothers prototyping was through gliders, and even then it was typically to lie prone on the gliders and tethered kites to keep the balance low, and control with your body weight.
Its likely that the Flyer 1 was designed off of that understanding, and provided a hip based control scheme to stay in theme
I don't know if anyone else has noticed but what he made with the "X" wing airplane is actually an "X" wing fighter from Star Wars. I wonder if you could make a full size one with the wings retracted to make a standard wing but open up in flight to give different aerodynamic capabilities? So interesting, thank you for sharing!...
Luke Skywalker: I have an X-wing.
Adam Woodworth: No, THIS is an X-wing.
I'd love to see him inspiration from some of the early flight attempts that failed, except making the necessary changes to make them capable.
I liked the bit where Adam was talking.
"Pathological need to break the Z axis" - I liked that :D
In the 80's my Dad helped get the Pogo off of a barge at the Navy yard in DC as it was on it's way to Silver Hill. He always said if he had known what his day was gonna be ahead of time he would have let me skip school and go to work with him.
Adam Woodworth is such a great pilot and builder. 🤘🤠
The simplest solution is to do like they did in the past. Catapult!
Make the silver dart rc, Alexander Graham Bell's airplane.
Flying models is pure zen, the only thing better is sharing it with your kids! I am super fortunate to be a lifelong hobbyist and my son got the bug too!
Love Cool RC airplane stuff. All Andy Clancy designs (especially the Lazy Bee) are my favorite due to the cartoonish looks and their very slow acrobatic capabilities thanks for the fun! 🎉
I wonder how aerodynamic Superman is...because he is real!!!!
Adam REALLY knows his stuff. Especially details of what the Wright's did. Wow!
Imagine walking on to a modern A380 passenger airplane and seeing the pilots hanging from the ceiling of the cockpit in wing warping harnesses!!
Thank God for innovation 😂😂
Yes, yes it could, I had a 12" one about 15 years ago. Been wanting to try building a micro one ever since...one of these days...
Very cool project!
Speaking of Convair, there was the Convair Submersible Seaplane
My main take away from this vid: X-Wings make sens... literally.
Watching Adam becoming instantly and completely enthralled by the idea of a desktop fish tank aerobatic model that could take off, loop, and land, may have been the best moment of the video.
I recently visited the Lockheed XFV prototype at a museum in Lakeland Florida, it was the Lockheed competitor to the Convair XFY. It was crazy to see in person, as if one of the machines from that old Thunderbirds tv show suddenly existed in real life.
I've never built one myself, but "tailsitter VTOL" is one of the existing configurations in RC autopilot systems like Ardupilot so making a fully functional RC model of one should be doable as long as you can solved the static thrust to weight issue.
I got to fly a replica 1902 Wright Glider. Your description of the flight characteristics was spot on. It was super twitchy in pitch and slowwww and side slippy in turns. Had about a one second delay for turning.
The original Wright Flyer was ludicrously short coupled. There's a reason why the Wright Flyer III gained 7 feet in overall length over the 1903 original.
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Flight is a form of juggling with things that don't fall as fast as balls.
incredible
Can you imagine how hard it must be to land that Convair in real life or am I missing something about the way it lands
You aren't. The difficulty landing it was one of the reasons it never proceeded past the prototype stage.
I have read that with modern techs they could put an outhouse in space.
Just from the juxtaposition of the Wright flier and the aerobatic quad wing I started to wonder, what would happen if you enclosed the wings and turned the whole thing into a box wing structure? I imagine it would have a sort of ducted fan effect. Probably wouldn't help the aerobatics but I'm not really up on aerodynamics.
ofc it can - it barely flew at the time because of the power-weight of engines back then, modern engines can make a literal brick fly.
the ultimate flying RC challenge is making a functioning RC Quetzalcoatlus, the largest pterosaur. bonus points if its an ornithopter and full-size.
I learned so much thank you.
Didn't know Darius the great was into model planes.
He was into loads of things
He was great.
oh
I see it. And it's a compliment. Also, I tried to find some modern person doing an example of the ancient Persian / Darius style beard with the almost tube like appearance - and shockingly nobody has done that. At least that I could find. I would figure that somebody would have at least tried that on their beard.
Looks like a Temu Jack Black
@MADmosche but way cooler than Jack Black
Can you really call it knife edge when you still have the same wing area? :)
The wing-warping mechanism seemed so quaint when I first learned of it, because it is so different from how airplanes subsequently developed. But now it strikes me that it may be a more eloquent and organic way to direct airflow. I could see having ALL of the control surfaces using warping.
If he figures out that desktop aerodrome he will sell a lot of them - I know I would buy one if I could afford it
The parallels you get from quad-copter flight using the same principles, but the same axis....... My brain is broken is the best way possible. I get X-Wing vs TIE fighter vibes.
Have you been to New Jersey in the past couple weeks?
Scientists discover and explore that which exists and engineers conceive of and create that which does not yet. Also "If you're not having fun you are not doing it right."
Reminder that some countries require a license to fly RC planes that are not toys. Canada has the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) with limits on some levels.
Want to see a blimp version or airship version- possibly with printed on solar panels, for a record time flight - Were you would send it up and somehow like a man of war catch a air current. or climb then glide- then climb and glide.
Anything will work as an RC airplane if you have enough thrust 😁
One of my old friends was a aerodynamics engineer and he eventually married a lovely lady, who happened to be a fluid dynamics engineer.
Let me tell you, don't EVER invite a couple like that over for dinner.
You might as well invite a couple who only speaks latin 😂
I really hope there's footage somewhere of the Matrix model makers and their foam planes
I want a fish tank plane in my office!😮
Ok wow, thatś super fascinating - With this video I learned more about aviation today than before in my life. Thank you both very much 👌🏼👏🏼
Many thanks for watching!
lets try!
looks good anyways!
I would buy one
If the original managed to fly with the materials and heavy, underpowered engines of the time I'm sure a modern RC version should fly. It might not be the easiest to control given the short cord but if you can get the COG right it should just about work.
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I love this!...lol🤘🤣
I mean if you get the chance I'll always say go see the original at the air and space museum in Washington DC. But for those of you who are better able to get to Chicago there is a replica on display that was built for the 100th anniversary of the wright brothers original flight. Replica was built with the same kinds of materials and techniques that the wright brothers would have had. The only significant change was they had a engine that had a slightly better power to weight ratio to make it safer.
You can make just about anything fly in RC. It's about power to weight ratio.
I mean, you can build a flying RC lawnmower....
Amazing!!!! Now, finish the RAPTOR!!! lol
Okay, I need a "fish tank" airplane for my desk at work...lol🤘🤣
When Adam Sandler came up we were all thinking - where is this going?
Anyone having seen this guy lately? NJ?
Yes it can I have one
I think the model Wright flyer flew longer than the real plane
target is moving too slow for intercept. Suggest we get out and walk
That RC Wright Flyer is awesome! I need one! Love the channel and am so glad we get to continue learning from Adam well past Mythbusters! I watched every episode growing up and would not be where I am today without it. Shameless plug though - we just finished a short film about the Wright Brothers and are hoping to get the word out there! It's based on the summer of 1901 when they start going small scale and testing airfoils like it's mentioned in the video. Check out the trailer if you are interested! th-cam.com/video/ruISi7YldwA/w-d-xo.html
Adam literally controlled an RC submarine inside an aquarium, the pill camera. I'm surprised he didn't bring that up in the conversation.
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Flight has come a long way from the first unpowered flight to the steam engine for aircraft With the strength of one horsepower for its 13-pound weight.
Indoor Precision Flying of RC Planes - th-cam.com/video/d2qPFtG3a2o/w-d-xo.htmlsi=byCzfev05_-X35J2 ... crazy cool!
Fun fact. They were able to get lift so quickly after takeoff becasue they used a catapult system (almost similar to an aircraft carrier) they had a tower with a weight thay ran a pully line down the track
The Wright brothers came in the wright time . If they didn't make it ..may we still in the ground or with propelers planes .
I really hate videos with someone in the thumbnail making that face. Its a blatant attempt at manipulation and im surprised its something adam would do at all let alone often. I assume its because adam doesnt choose the thumbnails
Relatively speaking, the engines on the RC would be probably be more powerful than the engines on the original Wright Flyer and the weight could be relatively lighter. So what you're really just doing is testing the aerodynamics.
Will Jamie ever show up on this channel as a guest?
No, Jamie is very happily not on camera these days.
lol "if you build enough planes that dont work youll learn how to make planes that do work".
boeings made a lot of planes.
Hello Adam, I absolutely loved Mythbusters and hated to see it end. There was one myth in the last season that you got wrong. In the "shooting fish in a barrel " Mythbusters you made a common mistake, you used live fish in a barrel of water. What it is actually referring to is fish PACKED in a barrel, the way many goods were transported in previous centuries. So shooting a fish packed in a barrel of salt is a very easy target.
Jamie, please look through best of pterasuaur rc models, then show how it's done. I realise could be a long term project but.
Years ago bbc? Did one, had wrong bloke chuck off cliff and wrecked. Stupid time money constraints.
Jamie? Do you mean Adam?
He talks about rc planes being the seed yet companies liie this destroyed the hobby and is the reason for more regulations