I'm sorry,but until drones can run all day for 8 hrs with long range and carry more weight ,drones for consumer delivery is a dead end concept. it's cool but no one is going to pay a premium price to have a cheese burger or toilet paper delivered by drone.
@@cclaspill83 People pay premium prices for Door Dash to bring them McDonalds all the time. People buy water in bottles, too. I could see this filling a niche, especially since Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet and can afford to absorb losses for a while.
Great video Adam, the only thing wrong was it was too short, I could have listened to a couple of hours of explanations of their design philosophy and engineering. I wonder if they have ever done any work with Ryan McBeth and AeroMed? They are the other people at the forefront of drone delivery tech.
@@cclaspill83 Maybe not but that prescription you need in a hurry or that car part that you can't drive to the store for because the car is in bits? You are having a party, everyone has been drinking and you have no burger buns left? Besides, people already order Uber Eats, you are assuming this won't have price parity with those services and I think you may be surprised. This, should in fact be cheaper, no driver to pay and the fuel bill is a few cents worth of power.
This guy was AMAZING in his explanation! He's the definition of an engineer, taking a fully logical approach and not overselling a single thing. It was a pleasure to watch him explain this amazing system.
It's too bad it will never work. Drone delivery is as silly as personal jetpacks at this time. The public very much disproves of drone delivery service, as has happened with all the other drone delivery services from major companies with far more innovation and technology that wing could accomplish. They didn't last more than a year.
@@sqlevolicious Zipline (I'm assuming a competitor to Wing) does blood delivery between hospitals by drone in Rwanda. Mark Rober did an excellent video with them last year.
@@sqlevolicious in australia it's been working very well in a few cities for many years now. dont say it'll never work when it's clearly working amazingly well.
I love how Adam doesn't care about age or seniority. If someone is an expert in something then he treats them like an equal. Doesn't matter more than a freckle on a whale's ass to him that he's been in the industry since Gavin was in middle school. Feels kinda like my childhood collaborating with my current interests, if that makes sense.
That drop felt a lot like a Mythbusters scene. And it's fantastic to see an innovative company put so much care and attention to safety and quality. It's not as common as I'd like.
Quality? Most drones are built in China, so it's the quality you'd expect.. & they (drone companies) are concerned about safety enough to literally lock you out of the craft, not allowing you to fly, if you are in any area that they decide you're not allowed to fly.. that's some serious "safety over freedoms" stuff when you purchas a product & are literally forced not to use it in ways they deem unsafe. I don't see how much more "safety" concerns companies could address.. Maybe they should make them out of pillows to make scared & uneducated folk feel safe.
@@christopher4101 I didn't mean drone companies specifically. When I said "an innovative company," I meant someone who sees the potential of something futuristic like autonomous drone delivery and actually makes a proper effort to think things through, rather than get a bunch of investor money, realize it's too hard and retire to the Bahamas.
@beanamonster Yeah, I feel like you should learn more about drone companies. & not sure what kind of safety & innovation you want from little hobbyist drones. They are already highly innovative craft that (often) use several redundant systems in the IMU's etc to make them as safe as possible. For as low as 300$ you can have damn good quality drones considering the price point & the fact they are almost all made in communist China sweatshops. As far as people stealing money from investors in get rich quick schemes, that's in every industry & tbch i have never seen a drone company do that. Mostly because they don't need to because of where they make them & the (lack of) laws there. Tbch, considering all the variables I can think of, the drone industry as a whole already considers greatly the things you're saying they don't. So idk. I haven't seen it. Have a good day man👋👍
This is the kind of videos I want to watch on tested, filled with actual tests, technical details and discussion and less of the general consumer marketing fluff.
I get what you're saying but this is very much still a marketing video, just with a bit more technical detail. Gavin marked his video as sponsored and I would've liked to see Tested do the same.
@@Tumleren Marketing for whom? This isn't even a commercial product yet, they're in the R&D phase and early alpha testing with some stores in their limited area. Nobody can buy their service or product, nobody can order one of these planes. So I wonder how this is marketing at this stage.
@@gownerjones It's media exposure, so it's a form of marketing, or pre-marketing, it's generating awareness, interest and anticipation. I'm sure there might be investors out there that might see this video and reach out. But I also see your point, someone requesting the video be labelled as marketing is a bit too far. I don't think Adam intended this as a marketing piece but rather a look at some cool tech.
@@utha2665 And usually, marking a videos as sponsored means that a company has actually given you money to make the video. Maybe they paid Gavin but they didn’t pay Adam. Gavin is a professional cinematographer after all.
18:15 Adam makes the best case for a reboot. The slow-mo guys have done specials before, Kari and Tori are doing detergent commercials... I would love to bolster my young child's science and engineering brain with that program! C'mon it even hits as nostalgia. Pretty please 🥺
Many don't. I remember very much how confident the manager of then-Amazon-Prime-Air was at a conference presentation about officially segregating airspace. He didn't last too much longer there.
The ethos of showing how the product handles failure reminds me of a meeting I went to recently where a representative of a fish farm company wanted to assure residents that their facility is safe and will not affect their future negatively. When asked "what happens when it fails." They answered very surely "It has never failed and will never fail"... To a certain mindset, that might sound reassuring at first glance. But what I heard then and there, and what I'm pretty sure a lot of other people heard was... "we have no clue what would happen if it failed, because we have never stress-tested it and we assume it will never find itself in situations we have not considered." Needless to say. I left that meeting so much less confident in the safety of their proposal than I ever thought was possible.
very true. My experience as an engineer taught me that everything will eventually break. The designers need to account for what could happen when any of the individual components of their design fails, and ensure that safety requirements are still met. This is sometimes formalized with a DFMEA study.. "design failure mode and effect analysis".
@@DeltaEntropy In IT "we’ve always done it this way” is probably one of the most worthless statements I've heard a client say during troubleshooting lol
This felt SO much like an episode of Mythbusters, with the build up, the science, even the voice over. If this was narrated not by Adam, but by the original voice actor, this would have been RIGHT at home in a episode. Format/feeling wise, oc.
@@CitrineSnakebest way to test the limit a product is to break it. It's not our fault it's also fun 😂😂😂😂. I used to build ambulances and when we had a new part design we tested the heck out of it lol
You guys are doing some really cool stuff. I flew RC for many years long before autonomous drones were a thing. The advancement of technology has been amazing. This would have been a dream job for me. I wish you great success.
A company that is open about its safety testing and standards and seems to go to exquisite lengths to produce a quality product. I look forward to them being industry leaders when drone delivery becomes day to day for most consumers
As a Cheif Remote Pilot in Australia i found this interview fantastic, im currently working towards BVLOS certification for our company and this interview really puts into perspective what im trying to do at work and we're just using off the shelf solutions.
I appreciate how much emphasis Wing put on safety. These things are really neat, but I'm trying to imagine what it might be like once there is a dense flock of them.
I live in a very rural area so things like this will probably never be a huge concern to me, but I have to give props that they are trying to think and build in safety for the absolute failure of these falling out of the sky and potentially hitting/hurting property or persons. I don't think they are quite there yet in that regard, but they are taking those edge cases as some of their main focus. Most companies would just want to race to market using loopholes to get the idea running and then develop while in service. I have to commend them for taking the long, drawn out, bureaucratic road towards the most minimal hazard risks possible.
@@Kelthor85 I'm inclined to agree. I could see it being great for rural america. But with only 1 package per drone, you would need a lot of drones just to carry like 1 cars worth of packages. I can just imagine that being chaos inside a city.
@@El-Burrito "Last mile delivery" is not meant to replace mass package delivery. It's only meant for rush jobs like food, medicine, repair components, etc. You'll still have things like Amazon or USPS trucks driving around.
5:50: The plane knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance sub-system uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the plane from a position where it is, to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is.
@@zackmollusc3522 It's a meme. They're quoting a segment of an Air Force training video on missile guidance. Do an internet search for "The Missile Knows Where It Is Meme."
Sorry if I did something wrong with my post. I probably should have said that if you like Adam and Gav, they did a collaboration with Bobby Fingers exploring the incident that took place in Busch Gardens in 1999, involving Fabio and a goose.
It would be beyond rad to see a sit down chat with gav talking about slow motion photography. The slow mo pipeline for mythbusters, how gavin got started and how digital photography changed the slo mo landscape, how much growth there has been as far framerate these cameras can shoot at. Also if there are myths/experiments from the show you wish could have been shot at a higher frame rate, it would be dope to see gav and dan help actualize that
Absolutely mind boggling, the amount of planning and trial/error that actually goes into these sorts of operations. Trailblazing, pushing the world forward. This is so cool and interesting, these are the kinds of people to surround yourself with 👍
This is like a chunk of my TH-cam subscriptions randomly mixed together. 😅 Seeing Adam, Gav and Alex in one video was truly unexpected. What a nice surprise in already great video.
I know, not just Tested and Slomo Guys, but Alex Zvada (extra camera work on this, he gets more coverage in the Slomo Guys video) is ex FliteTest, and Alex Vanover (FPV pilot) was a regular on Rotor Riot too. It’s a 4 in 1 combo from my subscriptions list!
I was skeptical when I first heard about drone deliveries, but seeing the clever engineering involved and the applications it can be used with these I suddenly get it being a viable service. I love the sky-hook pick-up, kinda tempted to see if I can put something together with my drone that can do something similar.
Indeed pretty cool of the CEO to publicly release improvised crash footage... for other companies, this would be considered a PR desaster, yet here we have an engineer going: "Hey, this will eventually happen anyways, so we'd better show we're ready for it". This is what good communication between a company and its customers, and also potentially affected third parties, should look like!
Excellent engineering solution and application of air delivery and safety technologies. Good luck with your developments. Many people need this. Special thanks to Adam, Slow Geiss and all the participants of this project.This is interesting 👏👏👏
It's so awesome to actually get to see the testing to destruction phase. Being able to have the spar screws explained and then actually snapped as a demonstration is awesome
The design of the drones, which is a mix of airplane and helicopter, VSTOL style, is beautiful, slender. One of the things I liked about the movie TWISTERS was the drones they used. The engineering of the collapsible is elegant. The question is, obviously, the organization of the flight paths of these ideas of delivery via drones. Here there is a crucial factor, because they would fly over the population, over buildings and roads and highways. They would have to have a parachute system so that they could be deployed quickly. Also, I imagine the complication with insurance, the legal part in case of accidents. They will have to create new laws and regulations, to protect those of us who are below while the drones fly their electronic and invisible routes. Crazy video. And it is always fun to see the collaboration between SlowMo Guys and Tested.
@theslowmoguys to the RESCUE again... Love you guys! Only IF Mythbusters were BACK today... how cool could footage be.... I am thinking the two semi's smacking into each other .... since we are talking crashes. This is a Very Cool video about Wings, the Engineering around it and the uses.
I geniuenly love seeing these videos. Its awesome to see technology, science and good old fashioned nerding out like this... with bit of crashing for good measure
Thanks wings for sharing your development process. The bonus to you is public confidence in your service. The bonus to the future of drone/public entanglement is that you are adapting the safety compliance knowledge to the benefit of all. And an extra salute to your operation is that you don’t appear to have squandered investment funds on flash overheads and executive extortion.
Pretty cool the amount of detail that they're willing to show off as well! Though I guess it would actually be a societaly desirable thing if somebody steals all the safety secrets 😂
. I bet you and Gavin could just sit and talk for hours and hours about fun geeky stuff. Dan would be able to join geeking out over a few different things because we all know how extensive your knowledge must be simply from the show. And Wing. The build, design and flight is all fun and incredible but the programing... that has to be very extensive. Amazing work.
Fascinating! Interesting to compare the development and testing of these drones with the Archer Aviation Midnight EVTOL, which is effectively its full-size conterpart, albeit with tilting motors for forward thrust.
Would have been interested to see what it would look like crashing into a ballistics gel dummy. But I imagine that Wing wouldn't want that image floating around.
Every time you do a video with the Slow Mo Guys, it really feels like that "getting pulled out of retirement for one last job" cliche. One more time out on the field, doing the countdown, looking through slow motion footage. And the enthusiasm is contagious!
@@tested I totally subbed to that channel as soon as I saw it! ❤ Might be cool to showcase more of the talented crew you have working on the show behind the scenes. I know the viewers at home always dig that! 😎
@@graceshotdown I could be wrong, but this may have been the first time Adam and The Slow Mo Guys have teamed up or collaborated on a project. It's just a shame that it has taken so long, since they both respect the work of the other
I will now show this video to all the old people I know who talk about "the skies will be swarmed with drones if drone delivery becomes widespread" lmao love this video
Been a while since we've had an Adam Savage "In 3! 2! 1!" [woosh] [crash] "HAHAHAHA", and with all the terrible things on the world boy do we ever need it. This delivery system looks really neat! Hope to use it someday.
These are going to be a great source of free parts for hobbyists! I wish Adam had dusted off Jamies old net shooter to see if he could catch a drone in mid air.
There is a lot of fixed axis motors on those planes. I'd like to see some soft robot muscles tipping the motors once it gets enough power. I'm sure that would be a feat, but just imagine: as soon as the motors get enough power, the artificial muscles in them start to tilt them into flight mode. Once the vehicle gets somewher near target, the artificial muscles relax, and the whole thing goes back to hover mode. You could even think of a safety mode in which the artificial muscle would be pierced so it automatically gets to hover. Woudl be so cool.
The tech is is incredible. The care to ensure that the aeroplane is safe. Full marks. My concern, with use of this tech, is noise. One of these flying over my neighbours house would be fairly annoying. Having multiple deliveries would like living in a wasps nest.
Outstanding example of a company leaning into the future while keeping it's engineering and design firmly based in reality. Way to go guys! I really thought that unpiloted delivery could never wok. Not so sure now. I would invest in Wings. They really seem to have a plan... not a concept of a plan :)
I can't give you any specifics because its proprietary, but I'm pretty sure My Dad makes those carbon fiber tubes. And when I used to work there, we also made trolling motor shafts, garage door panels, and something called Sea Wall which are giant 40x2 foot sections which hook together a go around man made islands to keep the current from eroding the island away once its in place lol.
Frangible structures a fascinating. In German, we say "Soll-bruch-stelle" - intentional (engineered) breaking point. Those Nylon bolts are an interesting option.
I think the real danger here is that Wing will be very successful and eventually get sold to a much less safety oriented owner. Thanks to Wing, Adam and Gavin for bringing this to the public eye in this way! Can't wait to have something important flown to my driveway, though for now, I'll plan to get lunch on my own.
I want to say thank you for not putting any music on top of your dialogue track while you were talking to him. We could hear everything nice and clearly. I'm not sure if the slomo folks added the music to their video part since they did do that in their video of the collab. For example, that last crash we could barely hear your exclamations since the music was playing on top of the scene. And just like in the big plane world, prior planning prevents piss-poor performance. I am happy to see Wing going through all the testing for things even if said thing only happens one time out of many many millions.
The Mark Rober YT Channel has a great video from a year ago "Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything" spotlighting Zipline a company which also does drone delivery. Theirs is a slightly different approach.
Zipline is a functional one that is actually supposed to work with a specific and viable purpose. When you think of delivery companies like Wing, thing of The Hyperloop, or Solar Roadways.
Learn more about Wing drone delivery at: www.youtube.com/@Wing
Watch The Slow Mo Guys video here: th-cam.com/video/5yaAFLpLmVg/w-d-xo.html
I'm sorry,but until drones can run all day for 8 hrs with long range and carry more weight ,drones for consumer delivery is a dead end concept. it's cool but no one is going to pay a premium price to have a cheese burger or toilet paper delivered by drone.
a MythBusters Style Tested video... MORE PLEASE
@@cclaspill83 People pay premium prices for Door Dash to bring them McDonalds all the time. People buy water in bottles, too. I could see this filling a niche, especially since Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet and can afford to absorb losses for a while.
Great video Adam, the only thing wrong was it was too short, I could have listened to a couple of hours of explanations of their design philosophy and engineering. I wonder if they have ever done any work with Ryan McBeth and AeroMed? They are the other people at the forefront of drone delivery tech.
@@cclaspill83 Maybe not but that prescription you need in a hurry or that car part that you can't drive to the store for because the car is in bits? You are having a party, everyone has been drinking and you have no burger buns left?
Besides, people already order Uber Eats, you are assuming this won't have price parity with those services and I think you may be surprised. This, should in fact be cheaper, no driver to pay and the fuel bill is a few cents worth of power.
This guy was AMAZING in his explanation! He's the definition of an engineer, taking a fully logical approach and not overselling a single thing. It was a pleasure to watch him explain this amazing system.
It's too bad it will never work. Drone delivery is as silly as personal jetpacks at this time. The public very much disproves of drone delivery service, as has happened with all the other drone delivery services from major companies with far more innovation and technology that wing could accomplish. They didn't last more than a year.
@@sqlevolicious I hope to see you eat your words, respectfully.
@@sqlevolicious Zipline (I'm assuming a competitor to Wing) does blood delivery between hospitals by drone in Rwanda. Mark Rober did an excellent video with them last year.
@@sqlevolicious Did this company not last more than 1 year?
How do you know that?
The guy mentioned that they've already done 400,000 deliveries.
@@sqlevolicious in australia it's been working very well in a few cities for many years now. dont say it'll never work when it's clearly working amazingly well.
Just hearing Adam yell "3.....2....1..." brought back some childhood memories!
OMG yes!
Yup! Saw Gavin's video first and love how he mentioned that as well. Really did feel like a classic Mythbusters shot.
bro straight up. brought me back to when id force my parents to watch mythbusters with me, naturally they became big fans.
Damn now i have to rewatch Mythbusters :D
And the immediate laugh after impact, classic Adam.
It's always lovely when 2 of my favorite channels get a chance to play with each other... Tested and Slow Mo Guys is just *Chef's Kiss*
I love how Adam doesn't care about age or seniority. If someone is an expert in something then he treats them like an equal. Doesn't matter more than a freckle on a whale's ass to him that he's been in the industry since Gavin was in middle school.
Feels kinda like my childhood collaborating with my current interests, if that makes sense.
Also, Alex Vanover is an amazing world class pilot that hangs with the rotor riot crew, like a triple threat for me lol
That drop felt a lot like a Mythbusters scene.
And it's fantastic to see an innovative company put so much care and attention to safety and quality. It's not as common as I'd like.
I was going to say the same thing! Morning coffee and a hint of Mythbusters? Yes please :)
They do it all the time. Just after the first few lawsuits...
Quality? Most drones are built in China, so it's the quality you'd expect.. & they (drone companies) are concerned about safety enough to literally lock you out of the craft, not allowing you to fly, if you are in any area that they decide you're not allowed to fly.. that's some serious "safety over freedoms" stuff when you purchas a product & are literally forced not to use it in ways they deem unsafe. I don't see how much more "safety" concerns companies could address.. Maybe they should make them out of pillows to make scared & uneducated folk feel safe.
@@christopher4101 I didn't mean drone companies specifically. When I said "an innovative company," I meant someone who sees the potential of something futuristic like autonomous drone delivery and actually makes a proper effort to think things through, rather than get a bunch of investor money, realize it's too hard and retire to the Bahamas.
@beanamonster Yeah, I feel like you should learn more about drone companies. & not sure what kind of safety & innovation you want from little hobbyist drones. They are already highly innovative craft that (often) use several redundant systems in the IMU's etc to make them as safe as possible. For as low as 300$ you can have damn good quality drones considering the price point & the fact they are almost all made in communist China sweatshops. As far as people stealing money from investors in get rich quick schemes, that's in every industry & tbch i have never seen a drone company do that. Mostly because they don't need to because of where they make them & the (lack of) laws there. Tbch, considering all the variables I can think of, the drone industry as a whole already considers greatly the things you're saying they don't. So idk. I haven't seen it. Have a good day man👋👍
This is the kind of videos I want to watch on tested, filled with actual tests, technical details and discussion and less of the general consumer marketing fluff.
I agree
I get what you're saying but this is very much still a marketing video, just with a bit more technical detail. Gavin marked his video as sponsored and I would've liked to see Tested do the same.
@@Tumleren Marketing for whom? This isn't even a commercial product yet, they're in the R&D phase and early alpha testing with some stores in their limited area. Nobody can buy their service or product, nobody can order one of these planes. So I wonder how this is marketing at this stage.
@@gownerjones It's media exposure, so it's a form of marketing, or pre-marketing, it's generating awareness, interest and anticipation. I'm sure there might be investors out there that might see this video and reach out. But I also see your point, someone requesting the video be labelled as marketing is a bit too far. I don't think Adam intended this as a marketing piece but rather a look at some cool tech.
@@utha2665 And usually, marking a videos as sponsored means that a company has actually given you money to make the video. Maybe they paid Gavin but they didn’t pay Adam. Gavin is a professional cinematographer after all.
18:15 Adam makes the best case for a reboot. The slow-mo guys have done specials before, Kari and Tori are doing detergent commercials... I would love to bolster my young child's science and engineering brain with that program! C'mon it even hits as nostalgia. Pretty please 🥺
This would be so amazing 🥹
I would dearly, dearly love that, but in the meantime there's nothing wrong with a MythBusters box set of DVDs for the kids (and kids at heart)!
Mark Rober, as a regular cameo, would be nice too!
What about Jamie?
"MYTHBUSTERS! In slow mo"
I enjoyed the fact that the CEO acknowledges the regulation and challenges associated with drone delivery and is willing to talk about it.
The propaganda worked!
Many don't. I remember very much how confident the manager of then-Amazon-Prime-Air was at a conference presentation about officially segregating airspace. He didn't last too much longer there.
The ethos of showing how the product handles failure reminds me of a meeting I went to recently where a representative of a fish farm company wanted to assure residents that their facility is safe and will not affect their future negatively. When asked "what happens when it fails." They answered very surely "It has never failed and will never fail"...
To a certain mindset, that might sound reassuring at first glance. But what I heard then and there, and what I'm pretty sure a lot of other people heard was... "we have no clue what would happen if it failed, because we have never stress-tested it and we assume it will never find itself in situations we have not considered." Needless to say. I left that meeting so much less confident in the safety of their proposal than I ever thought was possible.
There are few more dangerous statements than “it’ll never happen” and “we’ve always done it this way.”
very true. My experience as an engineer taught me that everything will eventually break. The designers need to account for what could happen when any of the individual components of their design fails, and ensure that safety requirements are still met. This is sometimes formalized with a DFMEA study.. "design failure mode and effect analysis".
Reminds me of a certain unsinkable ship.
@@DeltaEntropy In IT "we’ve always done it this way” is probably one of the most worthless statements I've heard a client say during troubleshooting lol
"It has never failed and will never fail"... Isn't that a quote from Jurassic Park?
I will never get tired of Adam's child-like glee when any sort of destructive testing takes place lol
This felt SO much like an episode of Mythbusters, with the build up, the science, even the voice over. If this was narrated not by Adam, but by the original voice actor, this would have been RIGHT at home in a episode. Format/feeling wise, oc.
Thanks for coming by, hanging with the team, and breaking a few of our planes! For Science! 🥽
It's not every day that you have a company THANK you for BREAKING their stuff! 😂
@@CitrineSnakebest way to test the limit a product is to break it. It's not our fault it's also fun 😂😂😂😂. I used to build ambulances and when we had a new part design we tested the heck out of it lol
You guys are doing some really cool stuff. I flew RC for many years long before autonomous drones were a thing. The advancement of technology has been amazing. This would have been a dream job for me. I wish you great success.
Have you seen the drone use in africa,sends off with catapult to deliver blood to clinics,they come back caught in net
For science!
That 321 took me straight back to mythbusters days!
I'm positive Adam felt like he was back on the Mythbusters set.
A company that is open about its safety testing and standards and seems to go to exquisite lengths to produce a quality product. I look forward to them being industry leaders when drone delivery becomes day to day for most consumers
Gotta love Adam’s energy in everything he does!
Its infectious 😆 🤣
Terrific. Thanx to Adam, the Tested Team, Wing, and The Slo-mo Guys. Fascinating future 💙🌻💙
18:00 Adam geeking out over Gav’s camera is so awesome to see
As a Cheif Remote Pilot in Australia i found this interview fantastic, im currently working towards BVLOS certification for our company and this interview really puts into perspective what im trying to do at work and we're just using off the shelf solutions.
I appreciate how much emphasis Wing put on safety. These things are really neat, but I'm trying to imagine what it might be like once there is a dense flock of them.
I live in a very rural area so things like this will probably never be a huge concern to me, but I have to give props that they are trying to think and build in safety for the absolute failure of these falling out of the sky and potentially hitting/hurting property or persons. I don't think they are quite there yet in that regard, but they are taking those edge cases as some of their main focus. Most companies would just want to race to market using loopholes to get the idea running and then develop while in service. I have to commend them for taking the long, drawn out, bureaucratic road towards the most minimal hazard risks possible.
To be honest, I don't think drone delivery should exist other than in emergency situations, or possibly very rural areas.
@@Kelthor85 I'm inclined to agree. I could see it being great for rural america. But with only 1 package per drone, you would need a lot of drones just to carry like 1 cars worth of packages. I can just imagine that being chaos inside a city.
@@El-Burrito "Last mile delivery" is not meant to replace mass package delivery. It's only meant for rush jobs like food, medicine, repair components, etc. You'll still have things like Amazon or USPS trucks driving around.
5:50: The plane knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance sub-system uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the plane from a position where it is, to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is.
What the hell do you mean? At any moment, there are an infinite number of places it isn't and only one place where it is.
@@zackmollusc3522 It's a meme. They're quoting a segment of an Air Force training video on missile guidance. Do an internet search for "The Missile Knows Where It Is Meme."
Micro Digital Turbo Encabulator!
are you saying using a 100 words to describe something very simple to seem smarter? no offence
@@HankHillspimphand none taken! Search for "the missile knows where it is" :)
Thank you for the video. Amazing engineering all around of this aircraft! A special thanks to Wing for sharing their thoughtful testing and use cases.
Thanks for watching!
Dame I didn't think back in middle school id ever see GavinFree and Adam Savage working together.
Sorry if I did something wrong with my post. I probably should have said that if you like Adam and Gav, they did a collaboration with Bobby Fingers exploring the incident that took place in Busch Gardens in 1999, involving Fabio and a goose.
Sometimes the best PR is proof of controlled chaos. Kudos to all for creating truly amazing content!
For a split second, that plane realized its dream of being a Transformer.
It would be beyond rad to see a sit down chat with gav talking about slow motion photography. The slow mo pipeline for mythbusters, how gavin got started and how digital photography changed the slo mo landscape, how much growth there has been as far framerate these cameras can shoot at. Also if there are myths/experiments from the show you wish could have been shot at a higher frame rate, it would be dope to see gav and dan help actualize that
Best collaboration ever, of all time. We need more!
More to come!
Seeing Wing's plane in forward flight would be cool, especially if they put a wall in the way.
Real people making cool things and being real about it. We need more of this these days.
Absolutely mind boggling, the amount of planning and trial/error that actually goes into these sorts of operations. Trailblazing, pushing the world forward. This is so cool and interesting, these are the kinds of people to surround yourself with 👍
Captain Vanny!!! Hell of a FPV pilot!
I hope you team up with those slowmo bros many many more times. Love you guys.
Us too!
Engineering done right; thank you for highlighting them!
Thanks for watching!
This is like a chunk of my TH-cam subscriptions randomly mixed together. 😅 Seeing Adam, Gav and Alex in one video was truly unexpected. What a nice surprise in already great video.
I know, not just Tested and Slomo Guys, but Alex Zvada (extra camera work on this, he gets more coverage in the Slomo Guys video) is ex FliteTest, and Alex Vanover (FPV pilot) was a regular on Rotor Riot too. It’s a 4 in 1 combo from my subscriptions list!
I was skeptical when I first heard about drone deliveries, but seeing the clever engineering involved and the applications it can be used with these I suddenly get it being a viable service. I love the sky-hook pick-up, kinda tempted to see if I can put something together with my drone that can do something similar.
So cool, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Wing is going to go far with their vision and dedication to making a safe useful service for delivery 👍
Failure is always an option. Love the design ethic.
Indeed pretty cool of the CEO to publicly release improvised crash footage... for other companies, this would be considered a PR desaster, yet here we have an engineer going:
"Hey, this will eventually happen anyways, so we'd better show we're ready for it".
This is what good communication between a company and its customers, and also potentially affected third parties, should look like!
It’s just an ad showing one very very specific low risk scenario (dead drone falling on concrete). Don’t trip over yourself to praise them, yeesh.
Been working and researching this problem for 15 years. Good to see the attention to it.
Excellent engineering solution and application of air delivery and safety technologies. Good luck with your developments. Many people need this. Special thanks to Adam, Slow Geiss and all the participants of this project.This is interesting 👏👏👏
Adam's laugh is so iconic you even can hear it in slow motion. 😁😁😁
It's so awesome to actually get to see the testing to destruction phase. Being able to have the spar screws explained and then actually snapped as a demonstration is awesome
I think delivery drones are a cool concept, like there are some super amazing use possibilities for stuff like this
Really love the attention to safety these guys are doing
The design of the drones, which is a mix of airplane and helicopter, VSTOL style, is beautiful, slender. One of the things I liked about the movie TWISTERS was the drones they used.
The engineering of the collapsible is elegant. The question is, obviously, the organization of the flight paths of these ideas of delivery via drones. Here there is a crucial factor, because they would fly over the population, over buildings and roads and highways. They would have to have a parachute system so that they could be deployed quickly.
Also, I imagine the complication with insurance, the legal part in case of accidents. They will have to create new laws and regulations, to protect those of us who are below while the drones fly their electronic and invisible routes.
Crazy video. And it is always fun to see the collaboration between SlowMo Guys and Tested.
Super cool video about a wonderful process!
@theslowmoguys to the RESCUE again... Love you guys! Only IF Mythbusters were BACK today... how cool could footage be.... I am thinking the two semi's smacking into each other .... since we are talking crashes. This is a Very Cool video about Wings, the Engineering around it and the uses.
Man I miss seeing Gavin in RT/AH, glad slowmoguys is still going
Gavin and Geoff has a channel called Regulation Gameplay
I hope Ray is doing well too.
@@black_rabbit_0f_inle805 Very well, he stream's full time on twitch and has for over 9 years now.
@@black_rabbit_0f_inle805 He's got a successful Twitch and TH-cam channel.
@@black_rabbit_0f_inle805 Ray's been doing well since he started streaming, like 9 years ago
Very cool! Destruction is always more impressive in slo-mo. Side note: Adam's laugh when things break is a highlight of any video.
I geniuenly love seeing these videos. Its awesome to see technology, science and good old fashioned nerding out like this... with bit of crashing for good measure
Thanks wings for sharing your development process. The bonus to you is public confidence in your service. The bonus to the future of drone/public entanglement is that you are adapting the safety compliance knowledge to the benefit of all. And an extra salute to your operation is that you don’t appear to have squandered investment funds on flash overheads and executive extortion.
Always makes me happy to see Gavin!! Great video guys.
Look for more Gavin on the channel!
thanks Adam for giving us these nostalgic moments!
Very interesting episode and drones.
I love the channel 💚 thanks crew, for all of the great content!
Science Humans are absolutely incredible
The collab we needed!!!
These kinds of videos really are the best.
Gavin!!
Also, I love that Gav just shows up in his lab coat 😂
We are all starstruck by Gav, and get goosebumps when the coat comes out!
Wow! There is some seriously cool engineering going on out there! What ingenuity!
The little boy who delights in seeing things crash is alive and well in you.
this was lovely to watch! and it was also very fun to imagine a future full of delivery drones
one of my favorite videos
It's nice to know that Adam still cackles just the same way when things break :)
Thanx for understanding the urgency ❤
Pretty cool the amount of detail that they're willing to show off as well! Though I guess it would actually be a societaly desirable thing if somebody steals all the safety secrets 😂
My two favorite creators of all time! Adam and Gavin.
. I bet you and Gavin could just sit and talk for hours and hours about fun geeky stuff. Dan would be able to join geeking out over a few different things because we all know how extensive your knowledge must be simply from the show.
And Wing. The build, design and flight is all fun and incredible but the programing... that has to be very extensive. Amazing work.
Super cool!
OOOOOOOooo GREAT MUSIC!
So great seeing Adam back intentionally breaking stuff! My happy place!
Fascinating! Interesting to compare the development and testing of these drones with the Archer Aviation Midnight EVTOL, which is effectively its full-size conterpart, albeit with tilting motors for forward thrust.
Oh my gosh its Gavin! I havent seen him since RT ended, glad to see he's still doing well.
OMFG YAY! I’m guessing this was filmed awhile ago and Gav after his wedding finally had time to get you guys the footage!
Are you guys flying over NJ by any chance?? Just asking for a friend..😂😂😂😂😂😂
i love seeing adam literally bouncing with excitement as he nerds out over structural "fuses"
Love TSG, always watch their collabs when I can. Was totally unrelated just looking for videos on this channel and saw this got put up today.
Would have been interested to see what it would look like crashing into a ballistics gel dummy. But I imagine that Wing wouldn't want that image floating around.
Yeah, where is Kentucky Ballistics when we really need him? Another test would be for Wing to deliver some 4-bore ammo to Scott.
For me, its Adam’s laugh after whatever was to happen, happened. That’s what takes me back to Mythbusters.
Every time you do a video with the Slow Mo Guys, it really feels like that "getting pulled out of retirement for one last job" cliche. One more time out on the field, doing the countdown, looking through slow motion footage. And the enthusiasm is contagious!
Appreciate that, thank you!
The slow motion footage at the end of this video is so satisfying.
@theslowmoguys is amazing!
@@tested I totally subbed to that channel as soon as I saw it! ❤
Might be cool to showcase more of the talented crew you have working on the show behind the scenes. I know the viewers at home always dig that! 😎
@@graceshotdown I could be wrong, but this may have been the first time Adam and The Slow Mo Guys have teamed up or collaborated on a project. It's just a shame that it has taken so long, since they both respect the work of the other
Amazing.
I will now show this video to all the old people I know who talk about "the skies will be swarmed with drones if drone delivery becomes widespread" lmao love this video
Crazy beat at 18:35
Been a while since we've had an Adam Savage "In 3! 2! 1!" [woosh] [crash] "HAHAHAHA", and with all the terrible things on the world boy do we ever need it. This delivery system looks really neat! Hope to use it someday.
Like being back at the old Navy Yard. Fun!
Heck yeah, Vanny! I thought the drone footage looked too good to just be some guy from the company who can FPV 😂
These are going to be a great source of free parts for hobbyists! I wish Adam had dusted off Jamies old net shooter to see if he could catch a drone in mid air.
There is a lot of fixed axis motors on those planes. I'd like to see some soft robot muscles tipping the motors once it gets enough power. I'm sure that would be a feat, but just imagine: as soon as the motors get enough power, the artificial muscles in them start to tilt them into flight mode. Once the vehicle gets somewher near target, the artificial muscles relax, and the whole thing goes back to hover mode. You could even think of a safety mode in which the artificial muscle would be pierced so it automatically gets to hover. Woudl be so cool.
The tech is is incredible. The care to ensure that the aeroplane is safe. Full marks.
My concern, with use of this tech, is noise. One of these flying over my neighbours house would be fairly annoying. Having multiple deliveries would like living in a wasps nest.
Outstanding example of a company leaning into the future while keeping it's engineering and design firmly based in reality. Way to go guys! I really thought that unpiloted delivery could never wok. Not so sure now. I would invest in Wings. They really seem to have a plan... not a concept of a plan :)
I can't give you any specifics because its proprietary, but I'm pretty sure My Dad makes those carbon fiber tubes. And when I used to work there, we also made trolling motor shafts, garage door panels, and something called Sea Wall which are giant 40x2 foot sections which hook together a go around man made islands to keep the current from eroding the island away once its in place lol.
Imagine being that CEO, reaching out to someone you've admired for over 2 decades. And you get free slow motion footage to give your engineers too.
Frangible structures a fascinating. In German, we say "Soll-bruch-stelle" - intentional (engineered) breaking point. Those Nylon bolts are an interesting option.
I think the real danger here is that Wing will be very successful and eventually get sold to a much less safety oriented owner. Thanks to Wing, Adam and Gavin for bringing this to the public eye in this way! Can't wait to have something important flown to my driveway, though for now, I'll plan to get lunch on my own.
nice to see the slow mo fotage was shared lol.. I mean i wouldnt suspect otherwise from either adam or gavin.. , but some people dont share footage.
10 out of 10 on this video.
Yes!
I want to say thank you for not putting any music on top of your dialogue track while you were talking to him. We could hear everything nice and clearly. I'm not sure if the slomo folks added the music to their video part since they did do that in their video of the collab. For example, that last crash we could barely hear your exclamations since the music was playing on top of the scene.
And just like in the big plane world, prior planning prevents piss-poor performance. I am happy to see Wing going through all the testing for things even if said thing only happens one time out of many many millions.
Wait until he starts an air-taxi company ... Tyere will be seatbelts, and probably parachutes too ! 😁 Hello future 👍👍👍
Can't wait to see large scale drones flying around with shipping containers under them! 😍
The Mark Rober YT Channel has a great video from a year ago "Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything" spotlighting Zipline a company which also does drone delivery. Theirs is a slightly different approach.
Absolute magic what Zipline does, and how are literally saving lives. Glad to see other companies making this a reality.
Zipline is a functional one that is actually supposed to work with a specific and viable purpose.
When you think of delivery companies like Wing, thing of The Hyperloop, or Solar Roadways.
@@robinmoore3649 Boring company territory?
@@robinmoore3649 Na Wing is out there doing scaled deliveries with Walmart, definitely deserve some respect on their name.
Love a collaboration piece :)
Right?!!