Worlds First Autonomous Ground Effect Vehicle/Ekranoplan? RCTestFlight Collaboration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2021
- A collaboration with RCTestFlight centered around the amazing opensource autopilot known as ArduPilot
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Current name suggestions:
GroundMaster
Project Pelican
RAGE Flyer (Remote Autonomous Ground Effect Flyer)
GEAR (Ground Effect Autonomous Rover)
New AGE Flight (Autonomous Ground Effect)
Allabor
SkyFish
GEF/ground effect flier
Pelikrano
Foam Finch
Gryphon
Air Skate
StyroPel, pelican/Styrofoam
Karatil
Project Petrel: Walking on water
Mr. Percival
The Manta
Riding The Wind
Prometheus
E-Beast
eDrone-eplan
Arduplan
Wave Glider
AGV
The Pelican
Water skimmer 1
AquaStrider
The Striderdrone
Eunace
Sailfish
Rising Sun
Pelikran
Foam Skipper
SeaFoamSkimmer
Loosed Goose
The Albatross
PelicoGlide
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I’ve always wanted to get into R&D and engineering but was always told I’m not good enough or too old. However watching you guys developing these working models fires my interest, so thank you for doing what you do for us normal folk, that are stuck and pigeon holed in standard 9-5pm routine. Great content please keep experimenting! Hopefully one day some kid will be inspired enough and eventually get the break they deserve...
Phil, you are the reason I made this channel. Let me go cry for a little while....
I was part of a semiconductor engineering design team. The company offered to help employees achieve college degrees. To get in the program, I had to get my department manager to agree. I was in my 40's. I filled out the paperwork and took it in to the manager. He refused to sign. His words: "I'd lose a good layout designer and get a bad engineer". Fuck him. You pursue your dreams. I didn't, and now I sit around watching youtube videos.
Regrets much?
Get yourself new friends. I've never been told anything that negative about something I wanted to explore. Bizarre.
Millennials are exhausting. The math on all of this is very simple. Women complicate things. Men shouldn't be hemming and hawing like this and needing so much moral support. Grow a pair dude. I went back to grad school at 45 to get my Industrial Design degree. Take the entrance exam and go. Simple. th-cam.com/video/JdwyAcJ8j2U/w-d-xo.html
Awesome work! Can't wait to try it out!
Can't wait to see you and Sebastian make this a total success.
@@thinkflight Make them easy to mass produce and they could be used to fly a grid over water for search and rescue. Put solar panels on top to extend the run time.
@@greggv8 Solar is on my mind too....
Autonomous Hat Trick - Ardupilot Edition. The Elektroplan delivers solar rover to a small island beach, occupied by Daniel and Sebastian, while being filmed by solar wing, with a PT gimbal fixed on the wing. Within the rover are the necessary materials to complete the human mission on the beach: A bottle opener. The only human interaction during the mission is to watch the perfect, HD video stream of their success and subsequent brewskie-fueled celebration, or to watch the demise of countless hours and a sizable monetary investment, once again, in glorious High Definition and stunning sobriety.
@@GhostRyderFPV Uh, how did you know where this was going?
"Gryphon" Ground effect on. Plus the cool-sounding name of a mythological creature that could fly.
Hmmmm that has a nice ring to it.....
My vote's for this one!
thumbs up for Gryphon
niiiiice, also its chunky like a Gryphon, when compared to birds- regular planes
@@Blend3rman I'm with you on this one 👍
Love the fish jumping at 8:14 😃
Great eye!
5:21 even 20 years later I'm still going back to that book, I can't believe how much information they were able to pack in such a small volume. As a kid that was possibly the most influential book in my RC career.
As a flight control laws engineer, I am truly amazed. Such a clean work and result. The design process, the methodology... Achieving such a good behavior of the natural aircraft. Then the implementation... Amazing!
Thank you, I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to say such a nice thing and pushing me forward!
@@thinkflight Thank you for these videos man, can't wait to see that altitude control. That will definitely allow you to explore all the augmented manual flight capibilities and do some very nice things.
If I understood correctly, for the final mission before the autopilot waypoint mode, you were manually adjusting your thrust and trim to enter ground effect and then just staying in it with a thrust loop with airspeed right?
@@EnegeNG "No comment." Still...if you're Boeing, Lockheed Martin and of course the US Federal Government you need to take note as flying into or around the entire Southeastern United States just got a lot more economic as *"time is money."*
@@georgedoolittle7574 Sorry, but i have no clue of what you are talking about. And I have nothing to do with these companies.
@@EnegeNG as someone who lives on the leeward side of the Ocean in Coastal Carolina I'm always interested in logistics over water and not just land. Overcoming "friction loss" obviously which this does "for those who have no idea"(totally clueless?)
Anyhow glad to see the work moving forward on this a uniquely Russian creation during the Cold War. Right up there with going back to the Moon apparently.
Great work! You definitely earned a sub and thumbs up from me.
this is one of the coolest things i've seen in a while.. good job man!
Those shots of it cruising above the water with the behind it looked beautiful! It has that sort of feeling like when characters in movie are discovering something.
I'm impressed by the paint job. It almost looks like a professional design.
I took inspiration from some graffiti I found.
Lol
These haven't been in the news for a while now. It's nice to see one flying again.
Dude, you absolutely NAILED IT!!!! First time I've ever seen someone nail one of these from a scratch build (or other wise). Congrats Comrade !!
Spectacular job explaining ground effect vehicles for any novice to understand, and sharing the effort it took to get one to work autonomously. I love the vivid colors of the ekranoplan.
Aloft of Love !
Thank you for such a clear explanation of "ground effect"!
Glad it was helpful!
this is awesome on so many levels, from aviation to kind strangers, to phenomenal design and building to caspian nod! congratulations
Yeah dude awesome work subbed and a big thumbs up. Look forward to seeing future projects.
Your work paid off. This is excellent
The name should be "The Pelican" of course. I live in Florida and it is fascinating to watch the Pelicans using ground effect, so perfectly. Endlessly just gliding inches above the surface of the water.
Sadly, our cows here in Switzerland don't use Ground Effect...they have an effect on the ground though, since they chew through the grass as if it was nothing! 😜
(absolutely loved travelling Florida btw!)
Funny … but you don’t get to name it,,,,,
Great project! Great script, great camerawork, etc. I wish more TH-cam videos were this good. I also like the concept of steering by speed differences between motors.
Great video! Not just the build itself and the science behind it all, but also its filming and aesthetics.
Pelikrano!
Awesome, can't wait to see where this is going?
Beauty TF, unreal stuff.
Oh it's going places :). Can't wait to implement RCTestFlight's work onto V2. Thank you for the compliment and the name suggestion was added to the list of possibilities.
@@thinkflight Why don't You start on V3 right about now? Now?? NOw??? NOW???????????
Nup, Ahahaha,,forget Pelikrano, twas taking the piss outta, Sick anyhow, whole concept TF,,,, Is Go There Mate!
Hey nice video. In the pic of the 3 pelicans, they are actually flying like most soaring birds and open ocean long distance sea birds, with the most lift happening the closer in you get to their shoulders, where they have fore and aft concave, lateral concave, as well as top view template concave. Just a massive inner section of lift, joining in with the body at the shoulders, with a massive refined fillet blending it all together. That way the lift is were it takes the leverage of the birds muscles, way less energy and effort to keep its self in flight for long periods of time and flight. Next the pelicans in the photo aren't that different in height. The one on the right is just much closer to the camera. But all three of them are actually surfing that ocean wave. So let's say, in dead wind, surfzone waves like this one, are traveling somewhere around 5mph and push an air wave above them, which give the sea birds a form of means of travel.
They combine that with the added help of ground effect the closer they get to the ocean surface. They also alternate the concave in their wing span from that pocket near their shoulders, all the way out to their wing tips depending on the needed articulation to stay in trim to the air wave. Those tips are actually accelerating the air flow as those last few feathers flex. Like when you kick with swim fins. The tips of the fins are bending into the water flow and allowing you to thrust water backward and yourself forward. Albatross use their wing tips to actually barely touch the wave going extremely fast in air surfing the open ocean swells. And the prandtl theory says that tip vortex can either be drag or acceleration on a manmade plane, depending on the design of the wing tip. Next. On your model, the twin vertical stabilizers can have an extremely positive added behavioral characteristic if you give each one about 2 to 3 degrees of toe-in towards the nose. It creates an auto correct feature to the performance characteristics. I'm at 5:20 now I'm going to watch the rest of the vid. Also on those hydrofoil speed boats. Their engines need to be mounted in the front of the boat, like a common prop plane. The props can be in the back, but all that weight in the motor needs to be in front. Wow, great work. Excellent flight
Brilliant - love the design. Good luck with future development!
Awesome Work, and the amount of detail you put in your design is inspiring to see!
would love to see some efficiency tests (battery duration) for identical missions at differing altitudes! Great build.
I was going to mention battery life. The whole point of the WIG is energy saving. The KM and Lun both use 8 engines to get out of the water, then turn 6 of them off.
Why ?
@@tonywright8294 it would let you know the most efficient altitude for the vehicle to maximise WIG effect, as @mellocello has pointed out. If you're not in WIG effect, or in a less efficient height for it, you're wasting power. If you're not actually in it you may just as well fly the plane at any altitude.
Best implemetation so far. Very well done! Subbed and thumbed up :)
Thank you sir!
Awesome engineering from end to end. Wow!
Congratulations!!! Very well!
Was waiting for the boat to hit a wake, and radio hopping off the boat.
lol, me too!
Fascinating. You nailed it! I wonder if fully realized, this combination of a small surface-effect platform, combined with autonomy has a practical application in the real world. Really a niche within a niche, for people with very specific taste, on a certain day. Love it.
Pretty much the perfect description of WIGs lol
@@thinkflight I was thinking more along the lines of small WIGs, more in line with vital cargo like medicines.
@@GhostRyderFPV Yeah form Canada to USA medication run like in The Simpsons lol
Wow, this is awesome and I look forward to seeing more.. BTW that lake looks fantastic.
This is mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing!
This is so cool! I’d love to buy a good ground effect seaplane! It makes for awesome footage.
"Sliver" - because that's about how much space there is between the craft and the ground in flight...
Excellent job!
I'm amazed about how well and stable it flew. :)
What a beatiful project! I just sit and enjoy in awe of what you have done!😊
12:03 Look mom! No hands!
Jokes aside, this is pretty awesome stuff! I love human ingenuity!
Wow! Amazing work designing something so beautiful and functional WHILE filming and documenting it all!
Much more to come!
Truly totally awesome! Great engineering, creativity, and even the paint rocks!
AWESOME BUILD!!!!!
I can't believe a prototype worked this well. Unbelievable.
I've only ever seen one or two of these ground effect planes and both were in videos on TH-cam. Very rare and very cool.
GE is perhaps in a revival, I think it is fascinating. I came across your early attempts and then this. What impresses me is your structured, methodic work applying your findings with theory to reach your goal. This is science at work.
Hey don't accuse me of doing real science! Lol
@@thinkflight Sorry, you are guilty as charged, theory, simulation and empiricism hand in hand ;-)
Would be interesting to graph the speed vs the amount of current draw on the battery, as it goes in and out of ground effect. Well done presentation. Subscribed.
It is coming for sure.
Yes, had the exact same thought. How much more efficient is ground effect mode versus normal flying?
I might be very wrong about this, I have almost no experience at all, but it seems to me, because it's so small and light, that it needs to be much closer to the water, for it to actually use the ground effect, than what is shown in the video. It looks like it's just flying on its own and not using it at all?
@@shuffleducky7803 Was thinking the same thing. What is the max height for a craft this size to be in Ground effect? It must not be much if ground effect is as I understand it to be a compression of air underneath the crafts wing and the surface of the body it's flying over.
At a constant speed, I would love to see a graph of height vs motor amps.
Rarely seen such a humble guy with such an extraordinary craftsmanship and perception of the complexity of this
Those shots at the end are absolutely incredible. I hope this can become a full scale plane one day!
SWEET! Now I can start ordering my coke fresh directly from Columbia!
Coming soon to shores near you lol
@@thinkflight 😆
I was only thinking this at the beginning! My thoughts were 'I think I remember the Russian's doing this not necessarily doing this for efficiency, but for anti-radar detection? 🤔'
So here I am now wondering who in that circles would watch this? Then I started wondering how stable it would be across rough seas? Like 3m waves? Does it maintain its "pocket of air" if wave amplitude differential doesn't exceed the wavelength.... Could this be possible?
I'm gonna do some more research on Ekranoplanes
@@Jarmezrocks they just use submarines.
was thinking of the same thing.
I realllly enjoyed this video! Excellent work! How about E-krane ?
Perfect outcome, good luck with your future missions with RC test flight;-))
Awesome.
Your WIG Craft looks a bit like a mix of the Beriev-Bartini VVA-14 (the aerofoil looking fuselage, and two pontoons) and the KM (the tall horizontal stabilizer).
Absolutely amazing.
epic can i use small part in new comp
Yup
@@thinkflight thanks i will leave attribution !
Nice work on the project and video. I'm wondering what the actual efficiency gain is in ground effect? Would it double your range? More? Less?
This level of detail will have to wait, at least on my end, until I get V2 done up. My primary goal was to get a working model to RCTestFlight, fortunately I was able to squeeze in that final day and go for the Auto mission once myself. The standard answer is 40% in efficiency but that is a generic figure, not airframe specific.
Excellent design prototyping and test work. That is a very cool new tech aircraft. Keep us updated.
This was beautiful, thank you for sharing.
You created an amazing float plane buddy :D
Thanks man long time subscriber!
@@thinkflight Big thanks buddy. I am actually surprised how stable that video came out of your plane. very relaxing and calm. in fact, one of my projects that i want to do currently is to 3D Print a one person small boat, then add my Electric paramotor 30kW motor (60kg of thrust) and I was thinking, if I added 3D Printed wings on my 3D Printed boat, I might be able to build myself a single seater ground effect boat plane :) Currently working on boat designs and am hooked on a simple one. Now i have to complete it, slice it and 3D print it, Join it and test then comes the most interesting part after its floating tests are done.
by the way I saw RC Test flight video too. maybe we 3 channels can collaborate on this concept. I love going big and sit in my test machines hahahah. no more RC now.
This is very interesting. How does one know if the vehicle is flying or under ground effect?
Presumably it requires more energy for the former but am not sure what dynamic differences are noticeable between the two.
Great job, kudos. Love it, totally stable in flight, and scoots well. Looks like a joy to fly.
I don't think anyone could really improve on the design and enginuity that went into this project. Great job sir!
Would have been good to do a comparison between the same waypoint mission performed in ground effect and out of it to see how much efficiency is gained.
It was not the goal this time, more so just to prove the concept and hardware, but there is a list of things for RCTestFlight to do and me on V2.
"Loosed Goose" as homage to Spruce Goose and the birds in the research. "Loosed" as in set free from the human control.
A bit clunky..
Was lots of fun for me to watch this video and took me back to the days of testing ‘trim in ground effect’ on MD-11’s and 90’s at Edwards AFB.
Magnificent engineering. Kudos! Bravo Zulu!
It looks like you made a wide wing floatplane. A true ground effects vehicle would not be able to take off and rise above a few feet from the surface. Maybe try adding weight?
That's not true though. It was specifically designed for flying in the ground effect, just because it can rise above it doesn't mean anything
Vehicle name:
Polywiggle - Polystyrene, W.I.G, Gets Lofted Easily
That critter is quick! The view back at the boat up on plane brought it home. Thanks
you're amazing! I love what you did and how you documented it.
Drug runners around the world "Like" this.
Sssshhhhhh
How is this a "ground effect vehicle" and not just an airplane, flying in ground effect?
It's specialized for ground-effect, instead of being specialized for free-flight.
Beautiful work and design!
way to go, I am very happy for you and the success of this test.
I love seeing these but it wasn't as cool as Peter's one. His was cool AF and I think flew lower and actually in the ground effect. U kinda had a low flying plane.
Still cool though.
Just fly lower imo.
Awesome just awesome! Thanks for this!
This is really awesome. Great work, great documentation.
Nice to see this plane brought forward ...great history for original buffs
I love your design process! I loved entire video. Grat job!
Awesome design fabrication and production of the video with the miami vice style effects
It's the most beautiful modeling job I've seen in recent years -- really good work -- really good.
this guy knows his stuff and always has good things to watch
Enjoyed the whole process and testing...Great!
This is amazing,it looks like the plane can do both,really fly and Ekrano!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Excellent content! Loved seeing test flights at AMAAC Field and the beautiful morning glass off of Bernasconi Beach.
Absolutely Brilliant ♡ Well done ♡
This was absolutely a great video! Ground effect is rad!
This is awesome! Definitely subscribed, this is really inspirational, thank you!
Your test vehichle is already amazing.. Never thought it could surf on concrete so well
fantastic job, well done!!
that is jus so brilliant amazing you might just have something there keep up the great work wonderful vid for those who can really appreciate it of the work you did
Really amazing, I can forsee a lot of applications. Tremendous potential . Congratulations.
Your efforts cannot be underestimated... Great work.. Amazing..
Nice work! Very impressive!
Nice designing testing and building! Awesome project!
impressive work... well done!
Nice work! That is very smart and impressive! :)
This is really cool! Great work!
Awesome project! Well done!
Fascinating video of a ground effect aircraft 👍
Fantastic buddy, really impressed.
That was one of the best RC planes I have ever seen. What a great job you did. I recommend Sea Spray as the name for that plane.
Very interesting Project! Well Done!
Awesome work 👍
Fabulous build R/D and demo..
Such an inspiration, awesome!