For those of us that worked on the development of the B2 Spirit over 40 years ago... especially the scaled model and wind tunnel testing... congrats to Freewing for making a beautiful RC to grace our skies.
damn you nailed it Patrick! You typed like a 13 year old girl in caps demanding attention and tried to make it about you and your supposed history that nobody cares about... nice work
Same. Doubt there will ever be a more beautiful plane. You might like some of the artsy photos I've shot. Can't link here cos YT won't let me but search for "dario impini area71"
That's awesome. I loved how they stayed true to the original form. Many times they cheat a bit for better stability which makes sense but wow, beautiful plane!
I think they did cheat a little. Notice how the split aileron/ spoiler was partially deployed on both sides when flying straight. This would gives it some innate directional stability at the cost of efficiency.
Nice flying! Congrats on the maiden. Really smooth take off! Had to turn the sound off aftet a while. The little nitro buzzing around didnt do justice to the B2. 🤣
I'm always amazed at how you guys get these exotic RC aircraft to fly when the real things are inherently unstable and require many onboard computers to enable them to fly! Great work.
Flying wings aren’t inherently unstable, but they have very bad stall & spin recovery characteristics. Horton and Northrop’s original designs were all manually piloted.
@@enginerdy The N-9M and YB-35 had prop shafts above the wing that had fairings under them that were essentially vertical tails. The YB-49 had 8 vertical tails, 4 above and 4 below the wing located on the inside and outside of the engines. So, the Northrop wings probably did have some yaw stability. All three used clamshell drag rudders near the wingtips for yaw control. Since the hinge line of them is swept back, leaving them partially open adds to the yaw stability. As one wingtip moves ahead of the other, the drag on it increases while the drag decreases on the one that’s lagging. It works, but drag is not a very efficient way to stabilize an aircraft. It’s also not good to mess with the airfoil shape at the wingtip.
Great decoy. If I were the US Air Force I would buy 3000 of these, a send five in front of any real B2 flight. With the right paint and tuning, I'm sure you could make the radar return exactly, the same. Of course the range and speed would be different. Maybe you could load a batch of them onto a refuelling plane, then dump them out the back door, as soon as the B2 is done getting it's top up.
The full size B-2 is fly by wire and does not use cables and mechanical mixers like most of the earlier flying wings did to activate the various control surfaces such as combinations of aileron, rudder, elevator, and even flaps to a degree. In order for all that to occur it does require the use of a computer. Jumping to our present day computerized R/C equipment, doing the very same computerized mixing operations is a relatively easy task that requires just setting up the different servos on the model to move the correct amount and in relation to each other through menu screens on the transmitter.
@@jerryg.5923 That answer is a bit besides my point: I do understand the "fly-by-wire" argument, but it is more than that: Between the pilot input and the flying surfaces are black boxes, which are computing what the plane has to do according to the pilot input and that is not 1:1.THAT is what I thought is the problem with an RC model as well. Hope I clarified my question.
@@stevehislop Sorry I was actually answering @Rhyme and Reasons question. No there aren't "Black Boxes" between the pilot and the control surfaces there is a flight behavior computer and it is part of the fly by wire system. You are correct the input is not 1:1 but that is the full size A/C, as far as the model is concerned since it is a model and there have been model flying wings around for decades that have flown quite well. Back in the day we mixed the control surfaces using mechanical levers and sliding servo trays. Today we can do that same thing just with programming on the transmitter just by going through some menus and setting it all up. Even though it looks like a B-2 it is not a shrunk down B-2, the model has been no doubt designed from the ground up to fly like any other R/C flying wing. It still would follow the same center of gravity center of pressure as any other model to produce stable flight. What ever inherent instabilities found on the full size aircraft aren't necessarily going to be present in an R/C model that has been designed correctly. If you properly place the center of gravity and the center of pressure properly you can make a stop sign fly by R/C, yes it's been done.
What a thing of Beauty! A totally beautiful aircraft! AND, she's so quiet, with the fans internal there isn't another modern RC out there that is as beautiful as this! I want one SO BAD, the B-2 Spirit is already an aircraft that stuns just by the way she looks, and her performance is just as graceful, when the new 6th Generation FIghter aircraft comes out, I wager it will be just as stunning, I can barely wait, but for now I guess I will have to make due with scale models of the aircraft. thanks for sharing the inaugural flight with us!
Well played mate. Thats probably the best maiden flight i've seen on youtube, nice to see a you nailed the landing.So glad u didn't collide with the angry white blowfly who was up with you at the same time!!! Bet you enjoyed the beer when you got home.!! Murray.👍👍👍
It can fly without gyro? On only gyro? Could you demonstrate how channels are configurated and what aileron will move? For example how it support up/down - what ailerons they move. And how it do rudder? What ailerons will move? I see that it has air breaks, but does it have flaps?
There are no flaps. There is a very good explanation of how the elevator/ailerons work in unison with the drag rudders on another you tube channel. Installed gyro is on all the time and set at the factory.
Badas* bird sir, I'd love to have one of them someday. Can I ask how much it cost you? Like to see the preachers procedure before flying n controller settings ect. I am assuming it has a RC gas engine n electric servos? I have a 5k helicopter thats never been flown due to I can't find someone to walk through the training phase n even how to start it with out loosing fingers. I got a DJI Mavic 2 drone a couple years ago n absolutely love it. It wasn't hard at all to fly once I got over the jitters of maybe having it fly away. Laugh I actually had that happen to me during a night flight with my high leds lights. I run becons on it n a GPS bug. Marco Polo I think it's called? Worth every penny for it. I luckily found it a 1/2 mile away from my woods n meadows. I think a planes radar may have messed it up as my smart controller kept flashing like it was pkup by the sweep of radar. I am a ole paradog myself, n love flying. Just be nice to have someone that knows what they're doing with my first flight of my Raptor helicopter. How long does a gallon of fuel stay goodvfor, as its 13 yrs old but still sealed? I subscribed to your channel n will check it out asap. Thanks for sharing your new bird, as that is so damn cool. I actually know a guy that flew B2 wing during both Gulf Wars while we were just advanced 11Bs, cough... You obviously are extremely well gifted flying.
For those of us that worked on the development of the B2 Spirit over 40 years ago... especially the scaled model and wind tunnel testing... congrats to Freewing for making a beautiful RC to grace our skies.
That landing was like silk! Great maiden
Flew much better than I’d have expected.
Well done! Thank you for sharing, and thank you for your support of our aircraft.
I WAS ACTUALLY IN ENGINEERING AND WORKED ON THE B2 BOMBER FROM 1982-1999..."AWESOME AIRCRAFT"👍
damn you nailed it Patrick! You typed like a 13 year old girl in caps demanding attention and tried to make it about you and your supposed history that nobody cares about... nice work
Maidened without the clear vertical stab?! BOSS. Nice landing too
Theres fly by wire ones out now. So no need for it. But you do need experience
Absolutely beautiful flight and landing. Well done John. Peace.
Still an Sr-71 fan myself. But this was a beautiful bird. Great flying!
Same. Doubt there will ever be a more beautiful plane. You might like some of the artsy photos I've shot. Can't link here cos YT won't let me but search for "dario impini area71"
That's awesome. I loved how they stayed true to the original form. Many times they cheat a bit for better stability which makes sense but wow, beautiful plane!
I think they did cheat a little. Notice how the split aileron/ spoiler was partially deployed on both sides when flying straight. This would gives it some innate directional stability at the cost of efficiency.
Love the landing gear!
An excellent maiden flight. Well done pilot.
Brilliant first flight. I wish you many more happy Landings, with this amazing aircraft.
Nice flying! Congrats on the maiden. Really smooth take off! Had to turn the sound off aftet a while. The little nitro buzzing around didnt do justice to the B2. 🤣
Flies really good
Nice job. May all your landings be as smooth as that one.
That was awesome. First one I've seen so it was my maiden flight viewing as well. 👍
Impressive, both the plane and pilot.
Thank You for the flight, many thanks to you and Jack Northrup !
Congrats, John! You flew it beautifully!
Respects to the pilot, very neat landing and beautiful model
Super cool! And he flew it without the aid of a computer like the real one needs.
Uhhhhh.... On board gyro and opentx controller would count I think
RC Chaser Nice flight of the B2 Bomber, Grate landing too, Grease Landing
That was one sweet FIRST flight and landing, good show!
Nice air craft. The elevons works better than I would have thought. Impressive! Congrats.
Beautiful aircraft and nice hat, Go Canes !
That's awesome. Congrats on enjoying your extended childhood. 👍👍👍😂
Have watched every video on this that has come out. Have to say, nice job! Your landing was the best I've seen.
Great looking plane. Happy flying..
Nice flying!!! Well done John!!!!!
Excellent maiden flight, holmes
Couldn't have gone any better ! Great skill as well ! Thanks for sharing !
That was a really sweet landing.
Impressive design and execution. So quiet - just like the real thing.
Beautiful playing in a beautiful flight great photography in a perfect landing I’m in love
Looks sharp and real
Wow what a Teddybear plane! Prefect landing!
That landing!!!
I’m right with your buddy first flights are always a nerve wrecker but always wonderful well usually
I'm always amazed at how you guys get these exotic RC aircraft to fly when the real things are inherently unstable and require many onboard computers to enable them to fly!
Great work.
That’s all you ever hear is how inherently unstable the aircraft is , yet this gentleman is flying it like a boss
Gyros do work when set up correctly..
@@txkflier yeah, and modern 3-axis flight stabilization has come a long way. That said, a wing like this isn't exactly EASY to fly either I'd wager.
Flying wings aren’t inherently unstable, but they have very bad stall & spin recovery characteristics. Horton and Northrop’s original designs were all manually piloted.
@@enginerdy The N-9M and YB-35 had prop shafts above the wing that had fairings under them that were essentially vertical tails. The YB-49 had 8 vertical tails, 4 above and 4 below the wing located on the inside and outside of the engines. So, the Northrop wings probably did have some yaw stability. All three used clamshell drag rudders near the wingtips for yaw control. Since the hinge line of them is swept back, leaving them partially open adds to the yaw stability. As one wingtip moves ahead of the other, the drag on it increases while the drag decreases on the one that’s lagging. It works, but drag is not a very efficient way to stabilize an aircraft. It’s also not good to mess with the airfoil shape at the wingtip.
Duuhammm That landing is what I call my "Go-Home" landing.. just don't get a better one the same day! 😉 Really nice flight.
What a nice plane! And flown very well!🤝
This is an RC airplane I'd like to have. Super Awesome!
That was beautiful.
Great landing.
I hate seeing 1st flight crash landings.
I'm glad this was the case.
Wow great first flight!! Well done 👍🏻
Absolutely Awesome flight and was so happy with its scale looking appearance wishing you many many happy flights my friend in the US from Andrew
GOOD JOB AND CONGRATS !!!!
Outstanding, just Outstanding
Nice job, I like how me manned up and flew it without the rudder!
Really Greased that landing!
Great decoy. If I were the US Air Force I would buy 3000 of these, a send five in front of any real B2 flight. With the right paint and tuning, I'm sure you could make the radar return exactly, the same. Of course the range and speed would be different. Maybe you could load a batch of them onto a refuelling plane, then dump them out the back door, as soon as the B2 is done getting it's top up.
Very cool.. nice toy
You are in Miami I use to live in Miami lakes. Love the flight, and fantastic landing. fantastic.
Well flown John, Jeff in LA USA
first B2 video where the B2 has not oscillations love it.
Butter landing.
Absolutely gorgeous...Great flight
Nice maiden
Great maiden flight !
One of the best maidens I have seen. Very well done John. Greetings from Oz.
Amazing really. A wing profile and design that would have been the best kept secret in the history of secrets so many years ago. Now public domain
Awesome model! With the huge wing, it would look great doing an aileron roll. A loop would look neat, too!
Check out Cleetus McFarland video. He rolls it like a f16.
Nice flight don't think that vertical stabilizer does much I seen them fly on and off the gear doors help stabilize on takeoffs and Landings
Great Job!!
Very nice landing John, well done.
Nice job!
Hello vraiment très bon VOL bravo .... atterrissage superbe ... A plus Stéph de France.
Nice flight ✈️
By the second flight, I would be mixing in differential thrust and abusing the yaw flaps. Ever seen a B-2 do a knife edge flat spin???
Super cool
A fine performance, indeed
I thought I read that without computer assist the B2 flying wing is uncontrollable. So how is he able to achieve such stable flight with this model?
I thought the same. Looking forward to the answer.
The full size B-2 is fly by wire and does not use cables and mechanical mixers like most of the earlier flying wings did to activate the various control surfaces such as combinations of aileron, rudder, elevator, and even flaps to a degree. In order for all that to occur it does require the use of a computer. Jumping to our present day computerized R/C equipment, doing the very same computerized mixing operations is a relatively easy task that requires just setting up the different servos on the model to move the correct amount and in relation to each other through menu screens on the transmitter.
@@jerryg.5923 That answer is a bit besides my point: I do understand the "fly-by-wire" argument, but it is more than that: Between the pilot input and the flying surfaces are black boxes, which are computing what the plane has to do according to the pilot input and that is not 1:1.THAT is what I thought is the problem with an RC model as well. Hope I clarified my question.
@@stevehislop Sorry I was actually answering @Rhyme and Reasons question. No there aren't "Black Boxes" between the pilot and the control surfaces there is a flight behavior computer and it is part of the fly by wire system. You are correct the input is not 1:1 but that is the full size A/C, as far as the model is concerned since it is a model and there have been model flying wings around for decades that have flown quite well. Back in the day we mixed the control surfaces using mechanical levers and sliding servo trays. Today we can do that same thing just with programming on the transmitter just by going through some menus and setting it all up. Even though it looks like a B-2 it is not a shrunk down B-2, the model has been no doubt designed from the ground up to fly like any other R/C flying wing. It still would follow the same center of gravity center of pressure as any other model to produce stable flight. What ever inherent instabilities found on the full size aircraft aren't necessarily going to be present in an R/C model that has been designed correctly. If you properly place the center of gravity and the center of pressure properly you can make a stop sign fly by R/C, yes it's been done.
@@jerryg.5923 That is a very fine answer, that I can understand and as an engineer appreciate very much.
Thank you from Germany.
What a thing of Beauty! A totally beautiful aircraft! AND, she's so quiet, with the fans internal there isn't another modern RC out there that is as beautiful as this! I want one SO BAD, the B-2 Spirit is already an aircraft that stuns just by the way she looks, and her performance is just as graceful, when the new 6th Generation FIghter aircraft comes out, I wager it will be just as stunning, I can barely wait, but for now I guess I will have to make due with scale models of the aircraft. thanks for sharing the inaugural flight with us!
That was probably the best Freewing B-2 maiden I’ve seen (other than that noisy glow plane). It looked to me like the drag rudders were open too far.
That thing looks soooooo damn cool!
Great landing and an impressive video.
Impressive.
Well played mate. Thats probably the best maiden flight i've seen on youtube,
nice to see a you nailed the landing.So glad u didn't collide with the angry white blowfly who was up with you at the same time!!! Bet you enjoyed the beer when you got home.!!
Murray.👍👍👍
Maravilla de avión, felicidades 💯💥👍👌
Very nice buddy 👍 good job on your flight ✈️
First serious crash, that thing will be a confetti show! I know you can glue it back together LOL.
Really neat!!!!!!
It can fly without gyro? On only gyro? Could you demonstrate how channels are configurated and what aileron will move? For example how it support up/down - what ailerons they move. And how it do rudder? What ailerons will move? I see that it has air breaks, but does it have flaps?
There are no flaps. There is a very good explanation of how the elevator/ailerons work in unison with the drag rudders on another you tube channel. Installed gyro is on all the time and set at the factory.
Flaps on a wing?
That would be called hard nose down elevator.
Very nice, how many years of experience do you have?
Badas* bird sir, I'd love to have one of them someday. Can I ask how much it cost you? Like to see the preachers procedure before flying n controller settings ect. I am assuming it has a RC gas engine n electric servos? I have a 5k helicopter thats never been flown due to I can't find someone to walk through the training phase n even how to start it with out loosing fingers. I got a DJI Mavic 2 drone a couple years ago n absolutely love it. It wasn't hard at all to fly once I got over the jitters of maybe having it fly away. Laugh I actually had that happen to me during a night flight with my high leds lights. I run becons on it n a GPS bug. Marco Polo I think it's called? Worth every penny for it. I luckily found it a 1/2 mile away from my woods n meadows. I think a planes radar may have messed it up as my smart controller kept flashing like it was pkup by the sweep of radar.
I am a ole paradog myself, n love flying. Just be nice to have someone that knows what they're doing with my first flight of my Raptor helicopter. How long does a gallon of fuel stay goodvfor, as its 13 yrs old but still sealed? I subscribed to your channel n will check it out asap. Thanks for sharing your new bird, as that is so damn cool. I actually know a guy that flew B2 wing during both Gulf Wars while we were just advanced 11Bs, cough... You obviously are extremely well gifted flying.
Wow! Amazing.
When are they, or any other's planning an SR71?
How do you adjust rudder w no vertical? Or yaw. Just curious how it works. Apparently just like the real.
excellent
Great job thanks! Battery? Flight time?
Look at the 57 Chevy ! What bomber ?
You can only fly such a wing with a lot of computersoftware, that's what they said when this plane was new.
Awesome
NICE!!!
awesome!!!!!
He took off and flew the entire flight with the drag brakes deployed?
amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
I thought this shape was unstable and had to be controlled by a fly-by-wire computer???
The real plane does use a full fly by wire system. At near mach one with a full load of fuel and munitions it is not easy to maintain stable flight.
That is cool..
That is cool
Worth every bit of your SSA money!
Very cool rc! But the yelling at the end about blew my ear drums thru my headphones, a little heads up would be nice