I was suggested this video by TH-cam today. First exposure to Samms work. It's a testament to him that his work is still gaining itself exposure despite everything.
My RC club has been flying 'pizza box' planes for years. Not as large, but same design. Also, a home-made hand held hot wire cutter should work better for you than a hot knife.
Lolr0 Servos are just hot glued on there, they have a lot of surface area so it works well. I took the potentiometer out of the gopro servo's case (but it's still wired up, but dangling outside of the servo case) and used that pot to tune the direction and speed.
You're brilliant. This is a great concept. In a military application, I can see these being used in great numbers to absorb anti-aircraft fire and surface-to-air missiles. Deplete enemy fire, then move in the real hardware, and dozens of other possibilities. The super low cost is what makes these strategically valuable. And regular military drones are so expensive. Even the "cheap" ones. Very cool.
Anything can fly, given enough thrust. How controllable, and how efficient it is, is another matter completely. When in doubt, add more rockets. actually, add more rockets regardless.
Tyler Dickey I have built a flying “square” it was a rectangle cause the long side that was the wings I built accidentally 1/3 of a centimeter to wide cause I forgot about measuring correctly and didn’t notice till it was done but thecnicly if I shortened it a tiny bit yes completely possible and I have another plane that’s a square (this one is a square down to the milimeter) with a vertical stabilizer sticking out the top back it looks funny and flies well but if it turns to sharp it’s dead
This thing looks like a dude with good hardware and knowledge of aerodynamics said to him self "today I don't give a damn" and I love it! Awesome build keep up the good work :)
As kids - over 50 years ago - we used to make smaller versions of this out of paper. Simply fold the leading edge over to create weight at the front, fold afyselage into the centre, and add an optional tail and elevens by tearing and folding up the trailing edge. The addition of folded down wing end fins is better than making a folded up tailfin. It gives better stability and increases the flight length of the paper glider. They flew much further and for longer than paper darts made from the same A4 sheets. Airspeeds were slower, but they gave uscountlesshoursof fun. I won a paper airoplane dustance competition (launched from a nine storey building) with one.
***** Didn't know that. A quick search on YT only brings up the FliteTest one which was all wobbly and unstable. The "Park Shark" looks quite good though.
My friend and I flew circular "Nutball" airplanes for several years. I still have mine, and it flies quite nicely, does a lot of unusual looking stunts, is very stable... and always gets lots of attention. The "Nutball" is a great little airplane!
3:08 "Incorrect balance is the number one cause of scratch-build failure. It's just so unintuitive and basically completely responsible for how an airplane flies." Yup, that completely sums it up right there! Well said!
When I was 16y old, all the young pilots in my rc-club have built one of those. This kind of foam wasn´t invented then, we took styrofoam, reinforced with plywood back then. And nitro-engines, naturally. Mixing was done with a self made mechanical mixer. The name of the construction was simply "Das Brett". I am 50 now and still have mine in the cellar. It´s still in flying condition and equipped with a 6,5cc 4 stroke O.S. I guess on those planes only the lower side provides lift, there is a constant vortex on the upper side. It´s not really necessary to bevel the leading edge. It just shifts some weird up-down changes of the airstream on low angle of attack to higher speeds. "Das Brett" with a beveled leading edge in fact can be flown a bit faster without that funky behaviour.
+KaffiFlight thank you for you comment! I love hearing about how things used to be done. And though I'd hate to start an argument, I'd like to share my opinion based on my journey to understand aerodynamics as a pilot and academic: lift is not broken into an amount generated by the top or bottom, it is a much bigger picture of the churning and displacement of the fluid. The mechanics by which this happens is exactly the same on this flat plate or a normal airplane. The flow over the top surface just as much a factor as any other wing, though the wing loading is so low that efficiency is not very important.
***** Hm, well... I´d like to see some visuals about how the airstream moves in the upper side. Maybe one day you feel like sticking some threads on the upper surface and use cam to check whats going on. I believe the airstream is not linear there. Like on a KFM airfoil. With a beveled leading edge it might "come loose" some centimeters behind it, with a sharp edge, instantaneous on the edge. I was thinking about this some time of my life, but never tried to proove that. And I am too lazy now, lol. Well, I´d have to get all the stuff to start my OS engine or convert everything to electric and my contemporary RC gear... hm, naaa, this is a sacrilege. Well, I can imagnie, like on a KFM airfoil, there is a turbulent area, roughly shaped as a triangle, with the base side on the upper surface of the wing, and above it, the airstream goes on.
The fact this is hard to comprehend from a physics pov makes it more interesting . You have to put a huge engine on a full scale plane to get it to fly with this configuration . I love the overpowered physics defying projects like this , humans are awesome!!! Where's the love button youtube , we have all been asking for it?
This could double as a flying airstrip...like, ya know, a flying aircraft carrier. When there's steel in the wing for balancing it, a smaller plane with a magnet could land on it in flight.
So you took some bits and pieces, cobbled it together and made it fly? Freaking awesome! People like you that think outside the box and achieve what the world says can't be done are the real Geniuses. I love how you take the concepts and science and apply that with such simplicity and straightforwardness and make something functional. Seems these days everyone is brainwashed into thinking something can't work unless it's complicated, expensive, has lots of built in failure points and takes a lot of work to do. I like how you prove that wrong as I do. Well Done mate! Love your experiments and concepts. Great presentation and info on your vids as well. Not into RC myself but I enjoy watching what you do very much.
I can’t believe that Samm is really dead. I watched the living video memorial set up for him and I simply cannot stop weeping like a baby. I don’t remember crying this much with so much sadness since I was a kid. He was not only a brother in Faith, but what he did here on earth was simply so incredible and unique. He still has so much to give! And now he’s dead. Peace to his beloved family and all of us who thought so very highly of unbelievable, unique Samm. I’m still crying like a baby because so many kids he lives will miss so much that could have come from him. Engineers will not become so because he’ll not be around to inspire. Samm. I know you’re in Heaven in a super special place reserved just for the giant likes of you... As for us who stay behind until we happily see you again, we’re only left without even knowing what to do... Samm, you’ll be missed incredibly much.
That's fantastic Sam! I had some very interesting "conversations" with a guy at my work who was studying Aero engineering... I told him you can pretty much make anything fly and he was like "you need to do simulations, calculations and a whole load of other 'tions!" Blah, blah, blah... Ok, There's making something fly and then there making and efficient aircraft... Still, you proved my point... I wanna build a flying board now! Lol....
Cool and easy build plane, 2 years ago we build a 3,8 meter Giga Wiesel foam flying wing, We normally fly it as a glider and have loaded it with a box with 24 beer, but also with a 26 cc gas engine on it. Good fun ;)
Excellent, we used to use for sale signs 20+ years ago with glow fuel engines. We cut them into a circle and put coloured LEDs that moved around in a rotating pattern so we could fly at night lol
R.I.P. Samm, I miss your amesome videos... Just got this one recommended for the fourth time and still watched it completely. I always loved watching your stuff.....
Samm you are going to be an important person in the future of aviation. I hope the ordinary life never pulls you away from following your passions and creating these inventions.
Great job. Seams leading edge should have a centered bevel or rounded even top to bottom. Bevelled just from top to bottom seems would take extra up elevator?
The gopro on a servo was hilarious! Tape a quad under it and launch from way up high. Strap FPV to it and go on a journey. What kinda power does that thing do? Think you could make like a manned ground effect glider?
Might get a bit dangerous and it's probably borderline enough push to get it gliding a couple inches downhill into a breeze...you'll figure it out. Can't wait to see it! I've always wanted to build an ultra light like some deranged third world country backyard engineer trying to escape the iron curtain.
Trust me, I'm impatient so I've been known for half-assing my builds just to get them in the air, but those loose servo leads flopping around gave me the willies! Screw it though, it works, lol! Other than that awesome job! Its amazing what can be made to fly from home depot.
is it more efficent to use winglets as verticle stabalisers than one big verticle stabaliser? i mean... the winglet/ stabalisers cancel out vortex induced drag and also less drag because of a smaller stabaliser as compared to one big stabaliser.
One large vertical stabilizer is more efficient as a vertical stabilizer than two separately. Winglets (or more specifically "non-planar wings" are also a very misunderstood topic. Winglets help reduce induced drag (caused by producing lift, the wingtip vortices are a part but not all of the picture). BUT: the same results can be achieved by increasing the wingspan by 45% of the winget height. A major design constraint is actually the maximum wingspan allowed in order to use smaller gates at the airport. Winglets increase the “effective wingspan.” So it’s aerodynamically similar to a longer wingspan and they actually increase the lift generated at the tips (by reducing the induced AOA). This increased lift at the tips and also the weight of the winglet’s structure are also structural design constrains (extra wing bending moments). But an increased wingspan which in turn increases the wing’s aspect ratio is more effective per unit surface area. There is no ‘best’ design, but rather a balance of factors to optimize for your specific constraints.. My source can be found at adg.stanford.edu/aa241/aircraftdesign.html under section 6.5 That said I think winglet type vertical stabilizers are a great idea too :) This planes wing loading is so small that planform efficiency isn't super important.
It flies spanwise, now mount the motor on the short side and see if you can get it to fly that way. Or, get some friends and see who can get a flying door flying on the smallest motor, or make a biplane flying door....the ideas and challenges are limitless.
Getting your face a little close to the prop there with the battery plugged in. That's how my uncle lost the lens in his eye back in the 60's with my grandfathers gyro-copter. All we was doing was turning the prop by hand when he hit the compression stroke of one of the cylinders. The motor kicked over and the prop sliced his eye open.
Oh that's terrible :( You're totally right, it's no joke. I was careful to set up all my failsafe correctly etc. but this thing could definitely decapitate.. I have some very unique experience in a Piper Super Cub and in the NTSB history you can see that a few decades ago in Alaska "The passenger deplaned and walked into the running engine's propeller" (one fatality)
Lol I've never seen anything like this before! Really well done! It just goes to show that a real expensive kit isn't needed to have some rc fun. I imagine that battery was pricey but the rest of the build probably wasn't a whole lot. Great video man! Thanks for sharing!!!
thanks for posting. here's a very very very late observation. due to the motor Location, the thrust Line does Not intersect the model's center of Mass. cheers
did you See the words "THRUST LINE". Look It Up, if you need to expand your vocabulary. the THRUST LINE does NOT intersect the center of mass. cheers static.rcgroups.net/forums/attachments/2/9/6/3/9/7/a5988257-224-bixler%202%20motor%20angle%20correction.jpg?d=1375236281
It's a servo with the potentiometer removed from the case (physically but not electrically). Normaly that pot is connected to the servo arm shaft and it is used to determine the servo's position. With it removed the servo will spin continuously and the speed and direction can be set by turning said potentiometer.
I've been so frustrated trying to find the right CG for my build following MikeysRC F117, I just can't get the thing to fly :/. I followed the plans as closely as I could but I think my foam board had slightly smaller dimensions so the CG marked on the plans doesn't work for me
Wait, this door is 2-2.5 sq. meters size, single side. Solar panel on it would give around 300-400 watts. How much power does it require for steady horizontal flight?
what are the basic components to make it fly? like 1 Motor, 2 servos and what else to control it, please? Could you please write it down with name of parts
It would be cool to go out on a really calm day, set off a bunch of smoke bombs in a line, and fly through the cloud to see how big the wingtip vortices it generates are.
My dad who was a Navy Hellcat mechanic in 1944 used to tell me that "you could fly a barn door if you could get enough power on it."
Lol NASA guys say the same thing😂👍
Heck, you could fly a piece of cylindrical metal without any airfoil and with enough thrust it will still fly.
in thrust we trust
RIP Samm..you will be missed.
Read you post. Thought you were joking. Looked it up. Now I'm ill.
Please don’t day it’s for real. Noooooo!! Are you for real????? I’m going to get sick here, please no!!!
damn.... huge loss
I’ve known this but how?
I was suggested this video by TH-cam today. First exposure to Samms work. It's a testament to him that his work is still gaining itself exposure despite everything.
My RC club has been flying 'pizza box' planes for years. Not as large, but same design. Also, a home-made hand held hot wire cutter should work better for you than a hot knife.
you should paint it like Aladins carpet😂
Truly a missed opportunity
Hanz Jürgen I
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You spelled it wrong.
paint like a real door with knob & fly it in circles after a storm it'll freak alot of people, oh no its another twister coming.
It won't fool anybody.
Paint a cow. Remember "Twister"?? We have cows!!!
@@sourkraut6248 now get furniture & peices of a home they'll think it a tornado if flown in circles😅😅
the whole world of rc plane enthusiasts missed you dear Samm brother.R.I.P.
Happy Monday everyone :)
Thank you mate ;)
Lolr0 Servos are just hot glued on there, they have a lot of surface area so it works well. I took the potentiometer out of the gopro servo's case (but it's still wired up, but dangling outside of the servo case) and used that pot to tune the direction and speed.
can you please get to making a video about the dual emax plane? if it has the new 2205s motor's it would have killer thrust
Samm Sheperd Happy and Monday do not belong in the same sentence.
Super coooooooooooooooool
I used to be into RC years ago. Its amazing what you guys are coming up with these days.
You're brilliant. This is a great concept. In a military application, I can see these being used in great numbers to absorb anti-aircraft fire and surface-to-air missiles. Deplete enemy fire, then move in the real hardware, and dozens of other possibilities. The super low cost is what makes these strategically valuable. And regular military drones are so expensive. Even the "cheap" ones. Very cool.
1000 DEGREE KNIFE VS AIRPLANE
coulda had 66m views and a years income if I just had that title..
Samm Sheperd lol
This is great and has me thinking if you can fly a rectangle, can you fly a cube/rectangular prism? Like a box kite?
Anything can fly, given enough thrust. How controllable, and how efficient it is, is another matter completely.
When in doubt, add more rockets. actually, add more rockets regardless.
Tyler Dickey this has been done years ago...n the plans are free
Boxes fly amazingly well, I've built quite a few micro sized ones over the years. They're a real head turner too.
Tyler Dickey I have built a flying “square” it was a rectangle cause the long side that was the wings I built accidentally 1/3 of a centimeter to wide cause I forgot about measuring correctly and didn’t notice till it was done but thecnicly if I shortened it a tiny bit yes completely possible and I have another plane that’s a square (this one is a square down to the milimeter) with a vertical stabilizer sticking out the top back it looks funny and flies well but if it turns to sharp it’s dead
No, you can't.
This thing looks like a dude with good hardware and knowledge of aerodynamics said to him self "today I don't give a damn" and I love it! Awesome build keep up the good work :)
Rest in Peace Samm
R.I.P. Samm 😔
As kids - over 50 years ago - we used to make smaller versions of this out of paper. Simply fold the leading edge over to create weight at the front, fold afyselage into the centre, and add an optional tail and elevens by tearing and folding up the trailing edge. The addition of folded down wing end fins is better than making a folded up tailfin. It gives better stability and increases the flight length of the paper glider. They flew much further and for longer than paper darts made from the same A4 sheets. Airspeeds were slower, but they gave uscountlesshoursof fun. I won a paper airoplane dustance competition (launched from a nine storey building) with one.
Giant flying rectangles? It's like Atari games all over again.
Nice video.
What about a circular or rectangular wing? Never saw that well executed.
Aren't circular planes rather common? At least in the RC club of my home town they were used as introduction to building with foam.
*****
Didn't know that. A quick search on YT only brings up the FliteTest one which was all wobbly and unstable. The "Park Shark" looks quite good though.
thees a big balsa circleplane hanging up in my lhs with a glow motor, dont know if it flies any good though.
The nutball is a very common circular wing plane.
My friend and I flew circular "Nutball" airplanes for several years. I still have mine, and it flies quite nicely, does a lot of unusual looking stunts, is very stable... and always gets lots of attention. The "Nutball" is a great little airplane!
3:08 "Incorrect balance is the number one cause of scratch-build failure. It's just so unintuitive and basically completely responsible for how an airplane flies." Yup, that completely sums it up right there! Well said!
proof that a even a brick could fly given enough thrust.
KelevraSXT flite test did that
I know. but that's an old saying. that's why they did it. lol. I believe the pilots for the f-4 phantom would say this all the time
When I was 16y old, all the young pilots in my rc-club have built one of those. This kind of foam wasn´t invented then, we took styrofoam, reinforced with plywood back then. And nitro-engines, naturally. Mixing was done with a self made mechanical mixer. The name of the construction was simply "Das Brett".
I am 50 now and still have mine in the cellar. It´s still in flying condition and equipped with a 6,5cc 4 stroke O.S.
I guess on those planes only the lower side provides lift, there is a constant vortex on the upper side. It´s not really necessary to bevel the leading edge. It just shifts some weird up-down changes of the airstream on low angle of attack to higher speeds. "Das Brett" with a beveled leading edge in fact can be flown a bit faster without that funky behaviour.
+KaffiFlight thank you for you comment! I love hearing about how things used to be done. And though I'd hate to start an argument, I'd like to share my opinion based on my journey to understand aerodynamics as a pilot and academic: lift is not broken into an amount generated by the top or bottom, it is a much bigger picture of the churning and displacement of the fluid. The mechanics by which this happens is exactly the same on this flat plate or a normal airplane. The flow over the top surface just as much a factor as any other wing, though the wing loading is so low that efficiency is not very important.
*****
Hm, well... I´d like to see some visuals about how the airstream moves in the upper side. Maybe one day you feel like sticking some threads on the upper surface and use cam to check whats going on. I believe the airstream is not linear there. Like on a KFM airfoil. With a beveled leading edge it might "come loose" some centimeters behind it, with a sharp edge, instantaneous on the edge.
I was thinking about this some time of my life, but never tried to proove that. And I am too lazy now, lol. Well, I´d have to get all the stuff to start my OS engine or convert everything to electric and my contemporary RC gear... hm, naaa, this is a sacrilege.
Well, I can imagnie, like on a KFM airfoil, there is a turbulent area, roughly shaped as a triangle, with the base side on the upper surface of the wing, and above it, the airstream goes on.
Wow, this video became very ironic because of a certain airplane manufacturer that is now infanous for this...
I don't know what is more incredible, a flying door or the drone piloting.
The fact this is hard to comprehend from a physics pov makes it more interesting . You have to put a huge engine on a full scale plane to get it to fly with this configuration . I love the overpowered physics defying projects like this , humans are awesome!!! Where's the love button youtube , we have all been asking for it?
Do you know what I see in most of your videos (including this one)? Freedom. Love it, dude. 😊
Rest in Peace
This could double as a flying airstrip...like, ya know, a flying aircraft carrier. When there's steel in the wing for balancing it, a smaller plane with a magnet could land on it in flight.
So you took some bits and pieces, cobbled it together and made it fly? Freaking awesome! People like you that think outside the box and achieve what the world says can't be done are the real Geniuses.
I love how you take the concepts and science and apply that with such simplicity and straightforwardness and make something functional.
Seems these days everyone is brainwashed into thinking something can't work unless it's complicated, expensive, has lots of built in failure points and takes a lot of work to do. I like how you prove that wrong as I do.
Well Done mate! Love your experiments and concepts. Great presentation and info on your vids as well. Not into RC myself but I enjoy watching what you do very much.
It's cool, but the world never said this couldn't be done. Quite the opposite. The "flying door" is an adage in aerodynamics.
loved it :D
I wanted to see both of u collab
But he left us 😕😕
I can’t believe that Samm is really dead. I watched the living video memorial set up for him and I simply cannot stop weeping like a baby. I don’t remember crying this much with so much sadness since I was a kid. He was not only a brother in Faith, but what he did here on earth was simply so incredible and unique.
He still has so much to give!
And now he’s dead.
Peace to his beloved family and all of us who thought so very highly of unbelievable, unique Samm.
I’m still crying like a baby because so many kids he lives will miss so much that could have come from him.
Engineers will not become so because he’ll not be around to inspire.
Samm. I know you’re in Heaven in a super special place reserved just for the giant likes of you...
As for us who stay behind until we happily see you again, we’re only left without even knowing what to do...
Samm, you’ll be missed incredibly much.
Sorry, my spelling and autocorrect is awful, but that’s what happens when things come from the heart.
Absolutely Awesome!!! Good drone flying skills too.
CleverCam thanks!
That's fantastic Sam!
I had some very interesting "conversations" with a guy at my work who was studying Aero engineering... I told him you can pretty much make anything fly and he was like "you need to do simulations, calculations and a whole load of other 'tions!" Blah, blah, blah...
Ok, There's making something fly and then there making and efficient aircraft...
Still, you proved my point... I wanna build a flying board now! Lol....
Cool and easy build plane, 2 years ago we build a 3,8 meter Giga Wiesel foam flying wing, We normally fly it as a glider and have loaded it with a box with 24 beer, but also with a 26 cc gas engine on it. Good fun ;)
One of my first fans that I featured (he hasn't posted in a year, wake him up! th-cam.com/users/terminatord4
Sam
Samm Sheperd couldn't find him =( great videos though
Excellent, we used to use for sale signs 20+ years ago with glow fuel engines. We cut them into a circle and put coloured LEDs that moved around in a rotating pattern so we could fly at night lol
Flys surprisingly well. And props to the quad copter pilot (no pun intended) that was good work keeping the plane in view.
Would adding gyro stabilization make it fly smoother?
Two cameras --> 3D video --> virtual reality headset !
user255 sounds like a recipe for some serious sea sick
great idea with that spinning GoPro, makes the shots so more interesting and alive
R.I.P. Samm, I miss your amesome videos... Just got this one recommended for the fourth time and still watched it completely. I always loved watching your stuff.....
The servos are shivering
Why the 3 holes in the vertical stabiliser?
Great job btw!
+Green Silver small attempt to bring the CG forward
Did you think it would help?
Kirby no he did it for the Hindenburg
I want your laser cutter SOOOOOO bad!!! Did you buy it or make it?
Belongs to the school I went to. Would love to have onr
Too bad :(....
Nice video!
Did you think the plane was flying a bit high alpha???
Samm you are going to be an important person in the future of aviation. I hope the ordinary life never pulls you away from following your passions and creating these inventions.
just in time thanks ordinary life has been keeping me away
Best air-to-air video I've ever seen to date.
Very entertaning.
Great job. Seams leading edge should have a centered bevel or rounded even top to bottom. Bevelled just from top to bottom seems would take extra up elevator?
I'm interested to know what cnc do u have please make a videos how to build if it is dyi
The gopro on a servo was hilarious! Tape a quad under it and launch from way up high. Strap FPV to it and go on a journey. What kinda power does that thing do? Think you could make like a manned ground effect glider?
Ooo now that's a good idea
Might get a bit dangerous and it's probably borderline enough push to get it gliding a couple inches downhill into a breeze...you'll figure it out. Can't wait to see it! I've always wanted to build an ultra light like some deranged third world country backyard engineer trying to escape the iron curtain.
Now we want a detailed DIY tutorial of this. And costs of materials and electronics needed. Thanks!
Awesome and also the quad pilot did a very good job filming it fron the air!
Trust me, I'm impatient so I've been known for half-assing my builds just to get them in the air, but those loose servo leads flopping around gave me the willies! Screw it though, it works, lol! Other than that awesome job! Its amazing what can be made to fly from home depot.
is it more efficent to use winglets as verticle stabalisers than one big verticle stabaliser?
i mean... the winglet/ stabalisers cancel out vortex induced drag and also less drag because of a smaller stabaliser as compared to one big stabaliser.
One large vertical stabilizer is more efficient as a vertical stabilizer than two separately. Winglets (or more specifically "non-planar wings" are also a very misunderstood topic.
Winglets help reduce induced drag (caused by producing lift, the wingtip vortices are a part but not all of the picture). BUT: the same results can be achieved by increasing the wingspan by 45% of the winget height.
A major design constraint is actually the maximum wingspan allowed in order to use smaller gates at the airport. Winglets increase the “effective wingspan.” So it’s aerodynamically similar to a longer wingspan and they actually increase the lift generated at the tips (by reducing the induced AOA). This increased lift at the tips and also the weight of the winglet’s structure are also structural design constrains (extra wing bending moments). But an increased wingspan which in turn increases the wing’s aspect ratio is more effective per unit surface area. There is no ‘best’ design, but rather a balance of factors to optimize for your specific constraints..
My source can be found at adg.stanford.edu/aa241/aircraftdesign.html under section 6.5
That said I think winglet type vertical stabilizers are a great idea too :) This planes wing loading is so small that planform efficiency isn't super important.
mom! there is a flying door at the field!
Underated xD
It flies spanwise, now mount the motor on the short side and see if you can get it to fly that way. Or, get some friends and see who can get a flying door flying on the smallest motor, or make a biplane flying door....the ideas and challenges are limitless.
Love the videos. I honestly learn more from these then i do in class.
Getting your face a little close to the prop there with the battery plugged in. That's how my uncle lost the lens in his eye back in the 60's with my grandfathers gyro-copter. All we was doing was turning the prop by hand when he hit the compression stroke of one of the cylinders. The motor kicked over and the prop sliced his eye open.
Oh that's terrible :(
You're totally right, it's no joke. I was careful to set up all my failsafe correctly etc. but this thing could definitely decapitate..
I have some very unique experience in a Piper Super Cub and in the NTSB history you can see that a few decades ago in Alaska "The passenger deplaned and walked into the running engine's propeller" (one fatality)
Impressive Samm. The on-board camera was a nice touch too : )
Lol I've never seen anything like this before! Really well done! It just goes to show that a real expensive kit isn't needed to have some rc fun. I imagine that battery was pricey but the rest of the build probably wasn't a whole lot. Great video man! Thanks for sharing!!!
How many pounds of thrust does this setup produce?
what was the smaller plane that was filming ? it looked more like a bug buzzing around .. lol
how do you do that (in video 2:29)please say
Your video use in fpv drone name
Please
Nicely done -what were you using as the chase plane ?
thanks for posting. here's a very very very late observation. due to the motor Location, the thrust Line does Not intersect the model's center of Mass. cheers
The motor is right in front of the center of mass
did you See the words "THRUST LINE". Look It Up, if you need to expand your vocabulary. the THRUST LINE does NOT intersect the center of mass. cheers
static.rcgroups.net/forums/attachments/2/9/6/3/9/7/a5988257-224-bixler%202%20motor%20angle%20correction.jpg?d=1375236281
What is that wing cam mounted on? a kitchen timer? I really like those shots, would be a good build video if you showed that.
It's a servo with the potentiometer removed from the case (physically but not electrically). Normaly that pot is connected to the servo arm shaft and it is used to determine the servo's position. With it removed the servo will spin continuously and the speed and direction can be set by turning said potentiometer.
How could you not like this thing.I love it
That quad chase footage is awesome! Love the spinning GoPro too that’s a cool idea. Only just found your channel and loving the crazy projects.
why did you put holes in the vertical stabilisor(rudder?)
love love your scratch builds
They look great
I've been so frustrated trying to find the right CG for my build following MikeysRC F117, I just can't get the thing to fly :/. I followed the plans as closely as I could but I think my foam board had slightly smaller dimensions so the CG marked on the plans doesn't work for me
So sick! Original and awesome build.
the Pulfrich Effect works on the spinning camera if you cover your left eye!
Wait, this door is 2-2.5 sq. meters size, single side. Solar panel on it would give around 300-400 watts. How much power does it require for steady horizontal flight?
It would require much less power if my wing planform was more efficient. A large high aspect ratio flying wing with solar panels does sound fun
what are the basic components to make it fly? like 1 Motor, 2 servos and what else to control it, please? Could you please write it down with name of parts
It would be cool to go out on a really calm day, set off a bunch of smoke bombs in a line, and fly through the cloud to see how big the wingtip vortices it generates are.
Love the work and content you produce.
Do you use an 3 axis stabiliser on the controls or is it all hand flown? Great video though
+SailingBlox 100% manual
are the holes in the back from weight reduction attempts? (CG) or was that to cause some kinda drag for stability?
+Borg Quads attempt to save weight. There is tape covering the holes
Whats that rotating camera mount? Its pretty cool.
Looks like a continuos rotation servo...but not 100% sure. I'm a noob
Normal standard servo that I opened up and modified.
Samm can you tell us about the laze cutter ? is it open source ? cheers
where did you got the parts
How do you go about deciding what size your propeller should be?
The motor manufacturer should list the appropriate propeller size, ESC size and battery voltage and current rating
what kind of tool do you using for that
The flying rectangle ate the mini quad...Awesome
That is EASILY the biggest self propelled flying rectangle shaped piece of insulating foam in the world.
Great job! What did you do to prevent the wing from folding?
Nothing. It's all one big lifting surface so there isn't much torque at the middle
I love these homemade rc projects! Your videos have inspired me to start building my own.
What motor did you use on this project? Your amazon link goes to a multistar lipo not the motor.
are you going to use this plane's material to make another plane?
Which power does your Laser have?
If you make another one , consider twin motors with differential thrust for a little yaw control .
where did you get your laser cutter from?
Nice! And for the next project..... a flying kitchen sink! The flying door concept is great.
loved it all. amazing. best bit was when all the esc wires just came away from board
The drone operator got excellent skills
what is that cockerel noise at 6:50?
one of the guys filming
A what point do FAA size / weight restrictions kick in?
55lbs
Very cool!! Need to try this too, maybe a bit smalller for easier transport. :-) BTW How did you do the air-to-air chase video?
Friend flew his drone
Okay this is just awesome. I think larger scale rc planes have a certain grace to them.
Can you make a box fly?
He probably can.
That’s easy
Cut make a wing formation in a bix shape
Add a skeleton structure in the middle to hold the motor
Somehow add control surfaces
Profit??
julio lausell
yeah,thats game sharp,spot-on,bang on the money,flawless executed!
awesome video dude! i love the GoPro mount idea!