Love to see Adam don his Mythbusters hat again - both literally and metaphorically! 🤠 A relationship I _(we!)_ hope to see bear fruit time and time and time again! 🤞🥹🤞
@@ShawnColeman01 I'll take it! However, it lives on in our hearts, having changed the lives of many! Evidence by all the comments _(at Tested)_ I've read who have said the show put them on a certain path and now have a related job. It ALSO lives on in Adam's mind and heart, as he still speaks fondly of it, and still happily does Mythbuster livestream Q&As on his _Tested_ channel. _(the man has a memory like a bear trap!)_
Indeed, mine also. The thing that got me is look at the small vortexes and the action that they produce. Now go look at a video of the planet Jupiter and the bands of storms that envelop that planet, they look real similar. Basically, this really shows me what the wind speeds must really be like on Jupiter.
Just consider now that those smoke vortices are literally occurring continuously around the entire 360 degree circle at the same time, forming what are essentially "smoke rings", but we only see these as "vortices" because the smoke, lighting, and camera are only setup to isolate a singular 2-d cross section at one arbitrary location within that greater ring structure. This is happening all the time, even if we don't have smoke to illustrate it. Cool thought next time you look at boring old fan.,,,🤯
One of the rare occurrences where the company is more interesting than the slowmo videos... I've seen a thousand slow motion videos by now. But I'd love to get food delivered by drone one day !
QUESTION: Has Wing crash tested the drone against other surfaces, like cars? While side and rear windows are tempered glass and likely to survive, the windshield is a sandwich of two thin layers of glass with a plastic membrane. It's possible the carbon fiber rods could slam through the windshield. and how fast do they have to go for their carbon fiber rods to tear through the aluminum body of the car? Without testing, we won't know for sure. Also, what do they have in the way of obstacle avoidance for both stationary and moving obstacles? I know it won't be flying at the same level as commercial aircraft. But a recent crash between a tour helicopter flying at night and a 1049-foot-tall radio tower in Houston recently points out how unpredictable the airspace can be.
How fast can these drones fly? Adam said "every second that you're hovering is many hundreds of meters that you could be flying", but that can't be right
Okay wow, the drone resisting being pulled out of the sky is seriously impressive. So is the rain/wind compensation, I had no idea drones could be that stable.
that was the sickest part in my opinion. it almost looks like its connected with a bungee cord or something, the way it just goes right back to where it was. so awesome, i cant wait for this to be more widespread
These ones got some pretty strong motors, but in general drones are pretty stable; not inherently stable, but they basically got an autopilot style system that takes the pilot's inputs (or pre-scheduled flight-plan or whatever for the automated ones), and then constantly monitor rotation and acceleration sensors and apply corrections nearly instantly to ensure the drone is doing what it is being told to do and not what the wind and other disturbances would have it do. Even for FPV drones like Vanover's, while there is a little less hand-holding, in general, he could let go of the controls and the drone would just continue at the exact angle it was even with buffeting winds, slightly damage propeller blades, a little bit of asymmetric accumulation of mud etc (there would be some added vibrations depending on exactly how badly it's being damaged or jerked around, but on average it would keep at it). ps: Don't go yanking, poking, or even grabbing drones in flight if you don't know what you're doing, even medium ones like Vanover's could chop your finger off, and depending on the disturbance it can be a little unpredictable how they react (even more so if there's damage to the blades/motors)
Dan still lives in the UK I believe, and I’d bet this was a rather spur-of-the-moment thing to film, as opposed to the more planned out usual videos where they Schedule it for Dan to be over in the USA
@@SamA-ok5id I doubt it since high speed video requires a ton of light. I mean they managed to film high explosives with some trial and error, im sure they could do welding.
Pending the SloMo guys getting around to it, see rctestflight where he compared props underwater in a design contest with lots of entries and there is some slow motion footage
@@IntrepidInfinity There's already other videos that talk about the science behind the propeller designs. There's also a new oval design that seems promising.
I think 5:29 might be even more interesting, how the chaos is immediately generated, and no consistent waveform is sent outwards. The complete opposite of laminar flow.
Ehh, not necessarily. I'm no corporate stooge but in my experience it really depends on the business. I would agree that, typically, the bigger the corporation, the more inefficiently it operates, and the more likely they are to be understaffed and/or treating their workers poorly. I've worked a lot of places, almost all entry-level positions, and typically, local or regional businesses do tend to have their stuff together while larger corporations tend to operate more inefficiently and/or don't treat their workers well. I live in an area with a lot of QuikTrips, a regional gas station chain, and starting pay is usually like $16 an hour. On the other hand, Chick-fil-a comes to mind as a large corporation that tends to have pretty well-staffed restaurants. I don't know about anyone else, but at every Chick-fil-a I've ever been, the kitchen is packed with workers, the starting pay is usually pretty good for entry-level, unskilled labor (definitely higher than the $12 min. wage in my state), and they get people through the drive-thru pretty quickly.
The Slow Mo Guys, Wing, Adam Savage, The World Champion Drone Racer, and amazing shots. This should have gotten a million views in the first 5 minutes.
Considering none of that is communicated by the title AND it's released in the middle of the day in the US... makes sense they wouldn't have a ton of views yet.
And Alex Zvada formerly of "FliteTest"! What an amazing alignment of the "Stars". As a retired Aerodynamics Engineer, RC pilot and general lover of flight, the slow motion shots of the prop tip vortices is outstanding. And the different prop lengths is a very clever method for generating offsetting vortices for noise cancelling. Very cool!
@@volofly2011 Agreed! I love how the magic of The Slow Mo Guys in principle is just 'slow-spoon-feeding' for us to be able to grasp the information of the physics that are happening.
Seeing the guys hit it with water and a leaf blower, it'll be a dark day when the Wing Drones and the Boston Dynamics Robots meet at a bar and discuss their mutual desire for the extinction of humanity.
11:05 that sacrificial breaking design is seriously impressive. The white pieces /could/ have snapped as well if needed, but in this case only the little screws snapped. So it's still easily repairable. Simply genius design.
As a weather geek that became obsessed with vortex rings thanks to Physics Girl (get better Diana!) I’ve bough a few smoke machines, lasers, and made several large vortex “guns”. I’ve become obsessed with flow visualization. That is incredible footage. I could watch it all day long.
@@StreetComp I think its more of a PSA. Its good to know whose behind what. Like how many times Gav had to say "Simulation of very unlikely event". That was some lawyer talk. Someone told Gav to make sure he hammered home that these are "Safe".
@@mr.serpentarius3318 okay reasonable answer, im so tired of people being conspiracy theorists or believing some nonsense when they have zero evidence. I dont care even a tiny bit if alphabet owns wing when I’m watching a slo mo guys video. Delivery drones are like any new tech, some people are gonna be afraid, but they aren’t a danger at all and drones crashing is actually very unlikely.
"Awesome to hear, @CaseyGoff! Gav and Adam definitely bring the energy, but Alex adds that extra flair! It’s always a treat to see familiar faces back in action. Slow motion captures those epic moments beautifully, and we’ve been having a blast bringing back some of that nostalgia!"
Dude! Alex Zvada and Alex Vanover are OG. So fun to see commercial applications for the skills picked up ripping balls in bandos and flying rc for over a decade.
I don't really know if there's much of a future in this but Adam from Wing was such a joy to listen to! I love it when smart people have a passion for something and a chance to share with the world - they always get so excited about someone else learning what's happening and why
I have waited for a drone video for so long, thank you. It would be awesome so see an FPV drone fly through small branches in slow motion because every FPV pilot has done it and we never know why we crash or are able to continue to fly.
They've made over 400,000 commercial deliveries, and I also heard they made over 400,000 commercial deliveries. Pretty sure someone else mentioned that they made over 400,000 commercial deliveries. Not sure where I heard all that though 🤔
Wow, so many big names in this video! We got Wing (a pioneering aerial delivery company), Adam Savage (famed Mythbuster and special effects creator), Alex from FliteTest (probably the largest online community of R/C aircraft), and Captain Vanover (one of the biggest names in the FPV community). Absolutely awesome!
The close-up of the smoke being drawn into the propellers is soooooooo pretty. 6:29 Gavin yanking the drone's line is incredibly funny. Awesome multi-collab!
I still don't want a bunch of these damn things flying over my house. Luckily, I live out in the country so I'm probably out of range, at least for now.
This is got to be some of the most amazing footage of aero ever shot. The amount of info it's showing going from the 3 blade to 4 blade prop with the vortex' combining into one is pretty awesome. Understanding this stuff as well as mechanical and EM waves I feel is a key part to figuring out how the earth and even the entire universe works
Ugh this might just be one of my favourite videos ever. As an Aerospace Engineering student, my Capstone Project was designing/modifying an existing drone design to be able to VTOL while also using these special underactuated rotors that were able to change their trust vector (for even more control on the aircraft as well as only needing two rotor blades instead of at least 4) to be able to change the angle of the rotors themselves without needing any servos to change the angle of the propellers. My specific role was in the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) portion of project so using software to observe and predict the flow of air around the aircraft. Seeing those vortices and the flow around the propeller and such high speed is just incredible after doing the math and seeing it in software for the last couple years. Great video! Would love to see more on this stuff :)
I've been watching slow mo guys since I was 9 years old. I am now 23. Thanks for all these years of class videos! When I think of what became of so many youtube creators in the intervening years, the knowledge that you two are still producing videos and are very much still the best of friends is a source of great comfort. You are to us what the mythbusters are to you.
Wow, loved seeing Alex flying FPV in amongst the wing drones! What an amazing shoot! @Gav any idea if anyone has ever put a phantom (and somehow the trigger mechanism) on a fpv cinelifter? (Can’t imagine the insurance needed for that!!! 🤯).
That guy waving the leaf blower at the drone has such little sibling "I'm not touching you!" energy it's hilarious. On a more serious note, do these drones have transponders? I know there's a huge debate in the drone community about that right now, but for _autonomous_ drones, I'm firmly in the "let's please keep good track of these things" camp.
I loved the explanation of how the stacked vortices reduce noise, I'll never cease to be amazed with how good and how bad Gavin can be at explaining things!
2:40 They really need to add a backboard to the string fork receiver, to avoid the string from wrapping around the pole on windy days. Plus it'll increase reception time.
I'll be honest, just the design for the drone picking up a package in that little autoloader thing is such a simple design that I never would have thought of. What a genius solution to a complicated problem. These guys might have this whole thing nailed down ngl...
Lol! When you were talking about "how amazing" it is that the drone can deal with a little bit of wind and rain, I was thinking "Anyone who actually knows anything about drones is laughing so hard, right now!" Then Alex Vanover appears. 😂
"LOL, @karmakazi219! Right? Gotta love those moments when the pros show up and set the record straight. Honestly, capturing drone action in slow motion has given us a whole new respect for those skills-it’s wild what they can pull off!"
We have wing available here in Australia and have used it many times to get food and drinks delivered. Always so much fun to watch the package come down in your backyard and just go pick it up.
Just want to comment saying I've been watching your videos for about 10 years now, and i really appreciate all the great entertainment and education you've given us over the years. Especially right now, i really appreciate the normalcy these videos bring.
I'm honestly just impressed by the blade strength. In the crash, that one blade on the right was bent over 90 degrees away from plane, and held at that angle for a bit of time, and then appeared to return almost completely back to plane again. I was totally expecting to see some broken blades, but it's like they're made of rubber.
How do yet run these legally with the visual line of site requirement? Were they able to get an exception!? The requirements seemed impossible. Maybe they did it!
Throwing rocks? The only reason this works in Cali and Australia is the stricter regulation on firearms. None of those drones survive a flight over a rural area.
I felt this video was lacking focus in storytelling. The thumbnail was about the vortex of the propellers, but the main story of the video was about how great the drone-delivery-company is. Adam Savage felt squized in, as he was only pushing the trigger for the drone-dropping device. This video was all over the place with so many story-threads.
@@Raccido Well, you're right but in my opinion it was informative and I learned a lot about the future of package deliveries, therefore it's an ok video!
The one thing I appreciate about what you do, especially in situations like this, is how 99.9% of the world would never even begin to think about this sort of thing, but you show how much cool stuff is out there that we are missing for one reason or another. The levels of technology on display are insane, and even 10 years ago I wouldn't have believed this stuff was real footage.
Wing has been operating in Australia since 2019, starting in Canberra, the nation's capital city. In 2021 they opened a second site in Logan (where I live), Queensland, near the state's capital city, Brisbane.
It's weird how when things slow down their sound somehow becomes this calming music. I wish I could be so in touch with the universe as to hear that all the time
I imagine the title and thumbnail will be changed soon to call out Adam specifically, but right now all there is it @tested in the title and it was a nice surprise for him to nonchalantly roll by on a One Wheel in the intro.
Wow, I didn't expect to see Alex there! Didn't think that I would ever get crossover between my viewership of The Slow Mo Guys and FliteTest in this crazy way.
So great to play with you guys again!
Love to see Adam don his Mythbusters hat again - both literally and metaphorically! 🤠
A relationship I _(we!)_ hope to see bear fruit time and time and time again! 🤞🥹🤞
@@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Mythbusters living on as a shadow.
@@ShawnColeman01 I'll take it!
However, it lives on in our hearts, having changed the lives of many! Evidence by all the comments _(at Tested)_ I've read who have said the show put them on a certain path and now have a related job.
It ALSO lives on in Adam's mind and heart, as he still speaks fondly of it, and still happily does Mythbuster livestream Q&As on his _Tested_ channel. _(the man has a memory like a bear trap!)_
"Guys"...Where was Dan???
So sad to see you all selling yourself out to the scammers from the doomsday cult of climate change and advertising for them
Adam just riding by in the intro was perfect.
lol
It was and something so Adam
I sort of thought that it would go, "Hello, I'm Gav"..."and I'm Adam", as though there was nothing wrong or out of the ordinary.
He just suddenly pulled up on his board mid-intro and Gav went "well guess we're working with Adam Savage now" lol
The smoke vortex shots blew my mind. I had no idea
Indeed, mine also. The thing that got me is look at the small vortexes and the action that they produce. Now go look at a video of the planet Jupiter and the bands of storms that envelop that planet, they look real similar. Basically, this really shows me what the wind speeds must really be like on Jupiter.
I did (multiple aerospace engineers in my fam) and I still loved it!
Just consider now that those smoke vortices are literally occurring continuously around the entire 360 degree circle at the same time, forming what are essentially "smoke rings", but we only see these as "vortices" because the smoke, lighting, and camera are only setup to isolate a singular 2-d cross section at one arbitrary location within that greater ring structure. This is happening all the time, even if we don't have smoke to illustrate it. Cool thought next time you look at boring old fan.,,,🤯
made me wonder why propellers don't use winglets!
Thanks for coming out to our test site and capturing the amazing slow mo shots, Gav! You're welcome back anytime :)
Thank you for sponsoring TSMG
One of the rare occurrences where the company is more interesting than the slowmo videos... I've seen a thousand slow motion videos by now. But I'd love to get food delivered by drone one day !
QUESTION: Has Wing crash tested the drone against other surfaces, like cars? While side and rear windows are tempered glass and likely to survive, the windshield is a sandwich of two thin layers of glass with a plastic membrane. It's possible the carbon fiber rods could slam through the windshield. and how fast do they have to go for their carbon fiber rods to tear through the aluminum body of the car? Without testing, we won't know for sure.
Also, what do they have in the way of obstacle avoidance for both stationary and moving obstacles? I know it won't be flying at the same level as commercial aircraft. But a recent crash between a tour helicopter flying at night and a 1049-foot-tall radio tower in Houston recently points out how unpredictable the airspace can be.
nice add
How fast can these drones fly? Adam said "every second that you're hovering is many hundreds of meters that you could be flying", but that can't be right
Okay wow, the drone resisting being pulled out of the sky is seriously impressive. So is the rain/wind compensation, I had no idea drones could be that stable.
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Not too surprising with that many props! Also looks like they are made of foam so probably have a fantastic thrust to weight ratio.
that was the sickest part in my opinion. it almost looks like its connected with a bungee cord or something, the way it just goes right back to where it was. so awesome, i cant wait for this to be more widespread
These ones got some pretty strong motors, but in general drones are pretty stable; not inherently stable, but they basically got an autopilot style system that takes the pilot's inputs (or pre-scheduled flight-plan or whatever for the automated ones), and then constantly monitor rotation and acceleration sensors and apply corrections nearly instantly to ensure the drone is doing what it is being told to do and not what the wind and other disturbances would have it do. Even for FPV drones like Vanover's, while there is a little less hand-holding, in general, he could let go of the controls and the drone would just continue at the exact angle it was even with buffeting winds, slightly damage propeller blades, a little bit of asymmetric accumulation of mud etc (there would be some added vibrations depending on exactly how badly it's being damaged or jerked around, but on average it would keep at it).
ps: Don't go yanking, poking, or even grabbing drones in flight if you don't know what you're doing, even medium ones like Vanover's could chop your finger off, and depending on the disturbance it can be a little unpredictable how they react (even more so if there's damage to the blades/motors)
Sure, sudden yank releases the cable...sounds like thieves just need a winch to slowly wind it in, then. Or hold it steady for a net.
Where's Dan???
This just doesn't feel right without Dan!
We don't want the covid era back where there was no dan, even with the time machine
Dan still lives in the UK I believe, and I’d bet this was a rather spur-of-the-moment thing to film, as opposed to the more planned out usual videos where they Schedule it for Dan to be over in the USA
@@thankgodforcornwallhahaha exactly, I get lockdown flashbacks when the video starts and Dan isn't in it 😅
Maybe he didn't want to make an ad
@avinotion dahm so salty. MayB he had military duties?
i cannot express to you enough how wonderful that smoke vortex footage is
Video idea: can you film welding?
im also in favor of this idea. being able to see metal liquefying at high speed sounds like a good watch.
would they run into exposure issues doing this?
Only under a stealth-sponsorship arrangement, apparently.
Great idea!!
@@SamA-ok5id I doubt it since high speed video requires a ton of light. I mean they managed to film high explosives with some trial and error, im sure they could do welding.
I'd like to propose a petition to have Adam Savage in every Slow Mo Guys video going forward, thank you
+1 to that!
With his own coat engineered by him
Agree esp if that keeps them from making bullet, explosion related video
@@Wing +1
Yep ❤
It's nice to see Alex (Zvada) again - good to see he's doing great since his Flite Test days.
I thought it was him.
well it's good to see you again! Thanks for the kind words :) 👋
@@Alex_Zvada think you might be on my old hobbyking tshirt i'm wearing atm. "you cannot fly this plane" one
Came here to make this comment! Very happy to see him again!
@@Alex_Zvada Glad to see you again, Alex! Warm Greetings from Sunny and Rainy Nigeria!
I still want to see underwater slow-mo of a speedboat propellor
that would be amazing
Pending the SloMo guys getting around to it, see rctestflight where he compared props underwater in a design contest with lots of entries and there is some slow motion footage
third
With air bubbles for detail!!!
rctestflight has you sort of covered.
Edit: I should have read earlier responses 🤔
Omg, so many important people together. Slowmo guys, rotor riot, flight test, mythbusters 😮
It was an honor to host everyone at our test site 👍
@@Wing The honor was ours!
Damn I really love watching that autoloader. That is a nice mechanism
lol thanks! It's a non-powered mechanical device with no moving parts made by a pretty amazing team. We love it too, but we're def biased :)
@@Wingit reminds me of the mail drop and pickup systems used by rail companies a century ago!
A bit like the Cold war Skyhook program.
I was interested in the clip and release mechanism.
It's like a mini Fulton recovery system.
I'm not going to lie, that smoke shot was insanely cool to look at high
4:39 Smarter Every Day will love this shot I just know it
Yeah I'd love a deep dive from him into those reduced noise propeller blades
thought exactly the same lol
@@IntrepidInfinity There's already other videos that talk about the science behind the propeller designs. There's also a new oval design that seems promising.
I think 5:29 might be even more interesting, how the chaos is immediately generated, and no consistent waveform is sent outwards. The complete opposite of laminar flow.
"Optimised Workflows" is such a polite euphemism for understaffing
Ehh, not necessarily. I'm no corporate stooge but in my experience it really depends on the business. I would agree that, typically, the bigger the corporation, the more inefficiently it operates, and the more likely they are to be understaffed and/or treating their workers poorly.
I've worked a lot of places, almost all entry-level positions, and typically, local or regional businesses do tend to have their stuff together while larger corporations tend to operate more inefficiently and/or don't treat their workers well. I live in an area with a lot of QuikTrips, a regional gas station chain, and starting pay is usually like $16 an hour.
On the other hand, Chick-fil-a comes to mind as a large corporation that tends to have pretty well-staffed restaurants. I don't know about anyone else, but at every Chick-fil-a I've ever been, the kitchen is packed with workers, the starting pay is usually pretty good for entry-level, unskilled labor (definitely higher than the $12 min. wage in my state), and they get people through the drive-thru pretty quickly.
your pfp had me for a moment there
Well of course, they're a google subsidiary!
No, you aim to have the staff you need. Unless you are running a charity. As a customer you don't want to pay for unoptimized operation.
It's really not.
That four-blade two-length prop is producing fujiwhara vortices. Awesome.
yeah, the shot of the two vortices are my pick of the top highspeed clip of the vid.
I could watch a 15 minute video of nothing but Gav trying to yank that drone out of the sky 🤣
The Slow Mo Guys, Wing, Adam Savage, The World Champion Drone Racer, and amazing shots. This should have gotten a million views in the first 5 minutes.
Considering none of that is communicated by the title AND it's released in the middle of the day in the US... makes sense they wouldn't have a ton of views yet.
And Alex Zvada formerly of "FliteTest"! What an amazing alignment of the "Stars".
As a retired Aerodynamics Engineer, RC pilot and general lover of flight, the slow motion shots of the prop tip vortices is outstanding.
And the different prop lengths is a very clever method for generating offsetting vortices for noise cancelling. Very cool!
@@Dyanosis Algorithmically, I completely agree, but I still just find it sad considering the shite content that gets views compared to this nowadays.
@@volofly2011 Agreed! I love how the magic of The Slow Mo Guys in principle is just 'slow-spoon-feeding' for us to be able to grasp the information of the physics that are happening.
At 11:49 that is Adam Savage's laugh, I've watched enough Mythbusters to recognize that anywhere!
Adam’s savage levels of enjoyment while watching things be destroyed will always be my favorite.
He's actually still only 10 , he just looks older.
"Adam's savage?" As in Adam Savage? ;)
@@davidgannon5388 I do believe, sir, that that is indeed the joke.
You clearly don't get out much.
Is that why myth busters wouldn't touch anything to do with the twin towers demolition?
Tested and SlowMo Guys together is such a great combination. I'll just be here impatiently waiting for more collabs between ya'll.
Sounds great to us too!
@@testedplease sir can I hav some more
Seeing the guys hit it with water and a leaf blower, it'll be a dark day when the Wing Drones and the Boston Dynamics Robots meet at a bar and discuss their mutual desire for the extinction of humanity.
Our days are numbered...😮
hopefully they will still be frangible!
Excited for when you learn about Predator drones
*Spot grabbing a Wing drone's wench cable with its freaky robot arm and being pulled up to the sky and flying off into the sunset*
Where can I sign up as a collaborator and/or informant? I would warmly welcome our drone overlords if that be their aim.
11:05 that sacrificial breaking design is seriously impressive. The white pieces /could/ have snapped as well if needed, but in this case only the little screws snapped. So it's still easily repairable. Simply genius design.
As a weather geek that became obsessed with vortex rings thanks to Physics Girl (get better Diana!) I’ve bough a few smoke machines, lasers, and made several large vortex “guns”. I’ve become obsessed with flow visualization. That is incredible footage. I could watch it all day long.
Since this doesn't seem to be part of the marketing: Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet! This video was essentially sponsored by Google.
Thank you.
Your comment is an oasis in a sea of Wing-marketing bots.
So you mean something evil is happening in this video? Or are you just providing a public service message
@@StreetComp I think its more of a PSA. Its good to know whose behind what. Like how many times Gav had to say "Simulation of very unlikely event". That was some lawyer talk. Someone told Gav to make sure he hammered home that these are "Safe".
@@mr.serpentarius3318 okay reasonable answer, im so tired of people being conspiracy theorists or believing some nonsense when they have zero evidence. I dont care even a tiny bit if alphabet owns wing when I’m watching a slo mo guys video. Delivery drones are like any new tech, some people are gonna be afraid, but they aren’t a danger at all and drones crashing is actually very unlikely.
Adam Savage and Slow Mo Guys … 🛠️ + 🎥 = Awesome!!
Never a bad time.
Alex was great at his time with Flite Test too
So much fun!!
glad to see they're collaborating more. if only it could become a regular arrangement.
I LOVE Gav, I LOVE Adam, BUT ALEX WAS A HUGE BONUS!!!!!!! I've missed him since Flight Test days.
"Awesome to hear, @CaseyGoff! Gav and Adam definitely bring the energy, but Alex adds that extra flair! It’s always a treat to see familiar faces back in action. Slow motion captures those epic moments beautifully, and we’ve been having a blast bringing back some of that nostalgia!"
It's quite impressive to see the thoughts being put into developing delivery drones,these guys definitely have a very strong product!
that ropeyanking resistance shite was seriously impressive just like that autoloader thingy..
absolutely fantatic stuff!!
Dude! Alex Zvada and Alex Vanover are OG. So fun to see commercial applications for the skills picked up ripping balls in bandos and flying rc for over a decade.
I don't really know if there's much of a future in this but Adam from Wing was such a joy to listen to! I love it when smart people have a passion for something and a chance to share with the world - they always get so excited about someone else learning what's happening and why
I have waited for a drone video for so long, thank you. It would be awesome so see an FPV drone fly through small branches in slow motion because every FPV pilot has done it and we never know why we crash or are able to continue to fly.
Wing hasn't been abandoned yet? Sure felt like the writing is on the walls when I was in their office last month
They've made over 400,000 commercial deliveries, and I also heard they made over 400,000 commercial deliveries. Pretty sure someone else mentioned that they made over 400,000 commercial deliveries. Not sure where I heard all that though 🤔
@Dysiode i guess the question is we're those 400k deliveries... profitable?
What a crazy crossover for me. Flite test. Rotor riot. Slomo guys. Rotor riot. And adam savage
Wow, so many big names in this video! We got Wing (a pioneering aerial delivery company), Adam Savage (famed Mythbuster and special effects creator), Alex from FliteTest (probably the largest online community of R/C aircraft), and Captain Vanover (one of the biggest names in the FPV community). Absolutely awesome!
The more I hear "very unlikely" the more I expect to be a regular occurrence.
The close-up of the smoke being drawn into the propellers is soooooooo pretty. 6:29 Gavin yanking the drone's line is incredibly funny. Awesome multi-collab!
I still don't want a bunch of these damn things flying over my house. Luckily, I live out in the country so I'm probably out of range, at least for now.
They mostly exist to subsidize suburbs and rural areas. Just check out the news reports about the noise in Australia where they operate
In all my years watching your channel, that first vortex shot was the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
Gavin just casually getting me invested in wind vortices on a wednesday afternoon 😂
13:04 that "woo" from the drone after getting the shot gives it that extra touch to the video.
12:48 ONE PIECE??
I immediately went to the comments as soon as I've heard that, I salute you brother
This is got to be some of the most amazing footage of aero ever shot. The amount of info it's showing going from the 3 blade to 4 blade prop with the vortex' combining into one is pretty awesome.
Understanding this stuff as well as mechanical and EM waves I feel is a key part to figuring out how the earth and even the entire universe works
Wow those slow mo vortex clips are unreal!
44 CLUB
Can't wait for more Slomo Guys x How Ridiculous collabs!!
Seeing Alex from FliteTest was a surprise. So glad he's still flying.
Damage to the vehicle is minimal, but the thing it hits is gonna be speared like a fish lmao
Ugh this might just be one of my favourite videos ever.
As an Aerospace Engineering student, my Capstone Project was designing/modifying an existing drone design to be able to VTOL while also using these special underactuated rotors that were able to change their trust vector (for even more control on the aircraft as well as only needing two rotor blades instead of at least 4) to be able to change the angle of the rotors themselves without needing any servos to change the angle of the propellers.
My specific role was in the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) portion of project so using software to observe and predict the flow of air around the aircraft.
Seeing those vortices and the flow around the propeller and such high speed is just incredible after doing the math and seeing it in software for the last couple years.
Great video! Would love to see more on this stuff :)
Alex! Holy eff! I was wondering what happened to him! OG Flite Test!
5:00 this guy is a magician with that Phantom he got
Alex and Vanover! Flitetest and rotorriot vibes!
I've been watching slow mo guys since I was 9 years old. I am now 23. Thanks for all these years of class videos! When I think of what became of so many youtube creators in the intervening years, the knowledge that you two are still producing videos and are very much still the best of friends is a source of great comfort. You are to us what the mythbusters are to you.
I thought that looked like Alex from FliteTest. Cool seeing him do something like this and how "hobbies" have real world applications.
Might be the first time ive seen a drone not wobble like crazy on liftoff or hover. Broke my brain for a second.
Adam's intro is the most Adam thing I think he's ever done and it's awesome
8:35 Of course Wing has some dude flying FPV… HOLY FORKING SHIRTBALLS It’s Alex Vanover!
Wow Alex Zvada !! Always wondered, but so happy to see you working in the industry!
Man, that autoloader is super cool.
Wow, loved seeing Alex flying FPV in amongst the wing drones! What an amazing shoot!
@Gav any idea if anyone has ever put a phantom (and somehow the trigger mechanism) on a fpv cinelifter? (Can’t imagine the insurance needed for that!!! 🤯).
I was wondering where Alex went, glad he's still in the RC world sorta lol
That guy waving the leaf blower at the drone has such little sibling "I'm not touching you!" energy it's hilarious.
On a more serious note, do these drones have transponders? I know there's a huge debate in the drone community about that right now, but for _autonomous_ drones, I'm firmly in the "let's please keep good track of these things" camp.
I loved the explanation of how the stacked vortices reduce noise, I'll never cease to be amazed with how good and how bad Gavin can be at explaining things!
Holy cow. I've been seeing these for MONTHS, glad i know what they are now
2:40 They really need to add a backboard to the string fork receiver, to avoid the string from wrapping around the pole on windy days. Plus it'll increase reception time.
The way some drones are being used is terrifying. Delivering packages is one thing, dropping ordnance is another.
technically still delivering ''packages''.
not really, we have done basically the same with airplanes and many other inventions
Frankly delivering packages also sounds annoying as hell given the noise drones make. I would not want to live in a city filled with them
@@daniellowe6116 Yeah imagine when every package and food order is delivered by drones. Id rather live in the middle of a busy highway
@@daniellowe6116 would be surprised if you could hear the sound of a drone in a major city... they loud af as is.
I'll be honest, just the design for the drone picking up a package in that little autoloader thing is such a simple design that I never would have thought of. What a genius solution to a complicated problem. These guys might have this whole thing nailed down ngl...
What a nerd's dream! Not just working with Adam Savage, but getting to visit his workshop and be regular co-workers!!!! :O
Lol! When you were talking about "how amazing" it is that the drone can deal with a little bit of wind and rain, I was thinking "Anyone who actually knows anything about drones is laughing so hard, right now!" Then Alex Vanover appears. 😂
"LOL, @karmakazi219! Right? Gotta love those moments when the pros show up and set the record straight. Honestly, capturing drone action in slow motion has given us a whole new respect for those skills-it’s wild what they can pull off!"
We have wing available here in Australia and have used it many times to get food and drinks delivered. Always so much fun to watch the package come down in your backyard and just go pick it up.
I've watched interviews with your neighbors who are a lot less excited about your deliveries
@@Dysiode they really aren’t that loud or frequent. Old man yells at cloud etc
Thanks for ordering! 😎📦
Just want to comment saying I've been watching your videos for about 10 years now, and i really appreciate all the great entertainment and education you've given us over the years. Especially right now, i really appreciate the normalcy these videos bring.
Adam Savage and Alex Vanover in the same video? Awesome!
I'm honestly just impressed by the blade strength. In the crash, that one blade on the right was bent over 90 degrees away from plane, and held at that angle for a bit of time, and then appeared to return almost completely back to plane again. I was totally expecting to see some broken blades, but it's like they're made of rubber.
As an owner of an FPV drone, LOVED that footage.
How do yet run these legally with the visual line of site requirement? Were they able to get an exception!? The requirements seemed impossible. Maybe they did it!
So cool to see Alex from the old Flitetest videos working at Wing!
11:01 That looks like a spaghetti snapping
The fluid dynamics constantly happening around us is wild.
I'm really impressed by the amount of thought and engineering put into these delivery drones.
Today it's people stealing packages from your front door, tomorrow it's people throwing rock at drones that never even make it to your door lol
Throwing rocks?
The only reason this works in Cali and Australia is the stricter regulation on firearms. None of those drones survive a flight over a rural area.
@@timh.6872 Yeah good point, being Australian I literally didn't even thing of guns lol. That'd be much more effective than rocks!
1 million upvotes for mechanical design on that auto-loader, no moving parts either? you're giving me goosebumps engineers!
Reminds me of the old school sky hooks, only much safer and more controlled
I would suggest they put some kind of covering over the post that holds that pick up mount... something shaped like a bowling pin.
I felt this video was lacking focus in storytelling.
The thumbnail was about the vortex of the propellers, but the main story of the video was about how great the drone-delivery-company is.
Adam Savage felt squized in, as he was only pushing the trigger for the drone-dropping device.
This video was all over the place with so many story-threads.
The vortex was the only part that was actual slow-mo guys content. The rest was a very long ad for Wing.
@@Raccido Well, you're right but in my opinion it was informative and I learned a lot about the future of package deliveries, therefore it's an ok video!
The one thing I appreciate about what you do, especially in situations like this, is how 99.9% of the world would never even begin to think about this sort of thing, but you show how much cool stuff is out there that we are missing for one reason or another. The levels of technology on display are insane, and even 10 years ago I wouldn't have believed this stuff was real footage.
I want to see a FPV drone flying and filmed in high speed with smoke to see the vortexes and props in action.
Those hills bring back memories of Tehachapi... and I'm happy to enjoy the greenery of Florida. 23 years in the desert was more than enough.
9:37 Is that Alex from FliteTest?
Gav's ethereal explanation is always a pleasant surprise
Cool to see what Alex from Flight Test has been up to. :)
Wait, Alex! I remember you from FliteTest!!
2:53 i wonder if thats really a good thing ...
For the most part, it definitely isn't.
You're posing the right questions.
Wing has been operating in Australia since 2019, starting in Canberra, the nation's capital city. In 2021 they opened a second site in Logan (where I live), Queensland, near the state's capital city, Brisbane.
Every part of this was equally cool and amazing!
It's weird how when things slow down their sound somehow becomes this calming music. I wish I could be so in touch with the universe as to hear that all the time
I imagine the title and thumbnail will be changed soon to call out Adam specifically, but right now all there is it @tested in the title and it was a nice surprise for him to nonchalantly roll by on a One Wheel in the intro.
Hearing Adam shout the countdown was a nostalgia time machine
Yay! Alex from Flite Test!
Wow, I didn't expect to see Alex there! Didn't think that I would ever get crossover between my viewership of The Slow Mo Guys and FliteTest in this crazy way.
It looks like Wing is trying to hire as many people who have worked in TH-cam as they can. Previously with Rotor Riot and Flite Test
I had no idea Alex was over at Wing! Takes me back to the early FliteTest days!
holy extended advert, batman
@@pookage if only there were an extension that let you skip Blocks of Sponsor content 😁
the whole video is sponsored content @@Dysiode
yea, I like rc stuff and even this was a bit too addy for me.
@@Dysiode My point was that the entire video was an ad - the only way to skip it would have been to not watch it!
Alex from Flite Test! Legend!
Always a good day when a new video is up