UPDATE: LARGE 1:8 SCALE AV-8B HARRIER VTOL PROTOTYPE (Designed and flown by Joel Vlashof)
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- UPDATE: LARGE 1:8 SCALE AV-8B HARRIER VTOL PROTOTYPE (Designed and flown by Joel Vlashof)
This amazing prototype was designed and built by Joel Vlashof. It is 1:8 scale. 6 KG flying weight. Powered by a 130mm EDF system from Schubeler in Germany. Onboard it has 2 x 6S lithium polymer flight battery packs connected in series. Stabilisation is provided by a kk2.1 flight controller with VTOL software.
Joel will be attempting to transition to traditional flight from a vertical take off soon...and a vertical landing. We wish him the best of luck.
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Very impressive. I was in the Falklands conflict. I watched the original demonstration. I wish it had not been necessary though. Great job from you.
Truly amazing! As one of the first batch of Harrier GR1 pilots on No 1 Sqn in 1969 (yes!) I doff my hat to Joel, a really great engineer. The movement of the aeroplane in the hover was so realistic - just like our first attempts at hovering at Wittering (no 2-seater or flight sim in those early days) groping around all over the pad on the first attempt. I’m looking forward to seeing Joel trying the transition to forward flight and then back to the hover. Joel please don’t try it in a crosswind or you may run out of aileron authority due to intake momentum drag. We had a little six penny wind vane on the nose in front of the cockpit to show us where the apparent wind was coming from. You needed to put in a boot of rudder to stick the nose back into wind - or die! Good luck Joel.
Thanks shavian
I'd just copied your reply for remamber, always nose into wind
@ryan lemons You Tube Channel!!! yes we did taxi run test on wett grass, now waiting for good weather conditions, alot of rain here in holland😅
@ryan lemons You Tube Channel!!! just say you have a big vacuüm cleaner😅
Peter J Mallia
Peter that’s very kind of you, and great to know we were appreciated. The Seventies were the time of Flower Power, peace and love (in the Western democracies at least). At the time many young Brits and other Europeans regarded us as unnecessary militarists to be derided. It took the Falklands to start to change all that and to open their eyes.
As a former Harrier pilot, I approve this message. Awesome work, Joel!
Wauw, very cool to have you here
Nice work Joel,,,hard to believe from the sound it's a EDF and not a turbine powering it. Kudos.
That is bloody awesome! I live a stones throw away from RAF Wittering where Harriers were once stationed (before David Camerons defense spending review ripped the guts out of it), so I am used to seeing these in their natural habitat, so to speak, and I can tell you, Joel, those hovering characteristics are spot on.
That is a major achievement, many model builders have spent many hours in pursuit of a true vectored nozzle Harrier
Said it before, will say it again. This is a fantastic piece of engineering.
TheSlugstoppa just like the real thing which us Brits have just retired tragic
The...
You said that before!
Pure genius! That is an awesome piece of work Joel. Looking forward to seeing it in full flight.
I didn't realise he was only using the kk2 for this that's crazy many thanks as always Dom :)
Yep just one kk2 board flashed to open aerow Vtol
Flowers were waving in 20 feet away from the thrust of the motors. Nice video!
Hats off recreating such a fiendishly difficult aircraft,and get it to fly!!!
Well done Joel. I have seen many attempts at this over the years but none have been anywhere near as successful as this.
Joel may all the gods of VTOL shower their blessings on you .... may you transition perfectly.!! ( i mean from V to H to V!!!)
Spectacular, impressive! To think of the awesome real Harrier development, the supreme technical problems they finally overcame, and then to think of all this miniaturized technology harnessed to this well-behaved beast, this is magnificent! One of the best RC flying models ever! :)
And that's how you nail a job interview with Lockheed Special Projects right out of college. Amazing work!
I'm a drone pilot and this is just........WOW !!
The ingenuity of some people is amazing. What an outstanding piece of work, well done Joel
WOW Great Job! Never saw anything like this in RC Scale! Hope we will soon be witnessing the first succesful transitiion from hovering to flight and back for landing! Thumbs up!
.... even sounds right!
You bet !!
Impressive! Nice progress, cant wait to see it in forward flight!
absolutely brilliant. Well done!!!!!!
Wonderful work in every context. Beautiful ship with hands-down the best sounding EDF I've ever heard!
I was waiting for it to blast off and break the sound barrier...
Nice design and thank you for sharing.
Well done joel, ignore the the dislike fools, they do not understand the tech involved.
Mind blown.. I was thinking whether someone had ever done this.. question answered. I doff my hat sir
You are on the cutting edge of amazing things to come in this wonderful hobby
If we dont get shut down by the FAA and CAA first, yes.
That is some incredible thrust from an electric motor!
Schubeler powerrrr
It even sounds like one, fantastic work Joel!
All I can say is Wow! Had this on my bucket list once before but this has given me me resolve
Outstanding......is an absolute understatement. Would love to get a hold of the detail behind all of that. That's fantastic! Well done.
Magnificent.. well done. I recall 20 years ago when the early turbines came out...so many UK modellers had a go at this aircraft and failed..
Awesome!! Great job Joel. Gotta see that transition though. That will be one of the coolest things Iv'e ever seen next to a real harrier flying! Keep it up, Best of luck!
Very impressive - it looks so stable!
Cant wait for next update
Joel, when that hits the market as a ARF, I will be one the first in line to buy.
Cool
That's one of the most impressive RC models I have seen
I like the sound, because the noise of the airflow inside that thing is so much louder than the ducted fan itself. Sounds really scale, like a downsized jet engine.
Great job, congratulations, can't wait to see the transition phase...
I would not even know where to start. What a fantastic project.
Even kinda sounds like a real Harrier. Awesome job.
Mr Dom it feels good thinking that fellow did the right thing, didn't push it ,nor show off for camera! By all I can see one day a nice jet will be flown by A smart good Pilot Rushing gets my self so bumbed out
What a nice
Leafblower
Watching you evolve.
Great that you're succeeding.
Good fortune to you bud.
Following your progress.... can't wait for final.
Sweet, nice job, awsome engineering and dam that's a lot of thrust from an EDF, amazing that it's all working with a VTOL mix, considering the need for bleed air to run the puffer as well as the thrust vectoring.. awsome setup, I can't wait to see it transition to wing lift and back to a hover👍👍
THAT is quite impressive :) Very well done!
pretty cool. can't wait to see it go from hover to full flight and back. that would be simply awesome.
EXCELLENT JOEL, Who would want a Drone when you could Purchase one of these Instead!! I am not as good when making things But I do see things that could make some Money...And this I Think could do so...I wish you many Happy hours of Pleasure flying this HARRIER...Malcolm..
So cool it almost doesn't look real. Great video.
That is great. Awesome job sir
That is seriously good well done that man
When you believe in the big problems with the prototype! is it awesome to see a model fly so stable - good man!
Fantastic job !... Congratulations...
Bravo!I Hope to see You soon !Great Job !!!!!☺😇
Wow really great take off
Fantastic, Well done, IMPRESSIVE.
Огромная уважуха тому, кто смог осуществить вот такой проект сввп. У автора просто прекрасные мозги! Уважуха и 10000 пальцев вверх!
Fantastic! That is what I call engineering skills!
I can't wait to see the horizontal flight and the transitions
Amazing, great job. I looking forward for this to go main stream.
Excellent work so far. Good luck getting her moving forward. 👍🏻
WELL DONE !! There's a lot of work in this.. and it's been well spent.
I can hardly wait to see your 'plane transition to normal flight.
Keep up the good work :-)
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There was a guy called Mike ? who attempted this more than twenty years ago with no gyros and an OS 91 vrdf with a fan as far as I can recall, It was a gallant attempt but as far as I know he never quite achieved both hover and forward flight together. Well done Joel
good luck Joel...... with love from India
very impressive,hope to see it up and running with the bugs worked out,but seeing how this project has progressed so far i'm sure joel is on it and we'll see and hear a thing of beauty in the air!! keep up the good work.
Wow this is serious stuff , congratulations !!!
That Harrier model is super impressive!
A superb achievement! The comment by shavian208 - a pilot of full-size Harriers - says it all. Well done . . . .
I am very impressed, awesome job.
Thats frekin awesome joel, nice job!
Amazing achievement. Best wishes for the transition.
very impressive, Best one yet!
At last someone has done it. It’s been a bit of a Holy Grail, this one. Looking forward to the next vid with canopy, etc. I hope the air intake is sufficient to power the model with the canopy in place.
tallandhandsome29 sorry for the canopy, made a new mold to close the canopy;) kind regards, Joel
VJM Aviation Very good effort. Good luck with everything. I hope it works as you wish.
There was an "incident" during the hand over of the first Harriers to the US Marines.
A Marine pilot to mimic the factory pilots takeoff routine of going vertical ten feet, raising the gear, pitching up then thrusting away. The Marine pilot got as far as pitching up, then he crashed tail first (no injuries). There's been a standing order not to try it or face court martial.
Brilliant work.
Thank you for that video....that is so cool....and the sound is fantastic....OMG...
Grote klasse Joel, een van mijn favorieten op Realflihgt, FS, en jij vliegt hem echt
That is the most amazing RC plane i have ever seen!
Great job so far!!
Cool! Biggest problem now would be to get an RC controller that can smoothly control the nozzle transitions.
Can be done by the kk2 board
Great looking project and hope it works out for the best.
Absolutely brilliant! I've never seen a model Harrier do this! New SUB!
Wow this is serious stuff congratulations
Really great and without puffer fans!
Fantastic! (I must admit I'd have been tempted to do all the early tests in the field next door - the one with all the very tall, soft grass...) What a great achievement! :-)
The man of r/c invention/improvement!
Awesome effort, a real build!
Wow! What a great accomplishment.
That's really good, well done.
I'm well impressed Joel.
The Harrier is said to be one of the most demanding planes to for and yet you are flying a scale model, by remote control.
I love the plane and I did buy a turbine wheel from a SR1 Sea Harrier when they were scrapped. My intention was make it into a large clock.
It Very Good, RC - AV-8 B. Harier Aircraf Scale Model and Prototype by : Joel Vlashof, ... Bravo.
Truly amazing great job you should be very proud!
Tomi, I never understood why you stopped being the red ranger! Congratulations on the work.
Amazing...well done, Joel! ::applauding::
Fantastic achievement! Would love to see this in production one day.
Very cool. Nice Job
this is an amazing video , i wish you get professional video shooters to do the video work, am 100% sure you are gonna attract a lot of greater minds
That's quite incredible. It looks so stable too. It's a really fantastic build that one. Cheers for making the video 👍
Great job. Can't be easy to get this to work. The real one was probably easier.
Good luck with the future, we heard the last fly-by of the Harriers right over our houses. We were always seeing them on approach to RAF Holbeach range. Miss that sound.
amazing work! Congrats!!