Crow: the easiest to build F1N chuck glider ever, and it flies great!
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- Buy the Crow here: jhaerospace.com/product/crow-f1n/
Build instructions: • F1N Crow hand launched...
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6:55 might be the best thing on TH-cam. Flying with family is great. Always makes me smile to see your kids flying with you.
They are little now, but give them a few more years and I bet they are going to be some serious competitors.
After 6:53 I added some Six Million Dollar man action sound effects to all of Josh’s throws in my head. Very entertaining.
Wow, I think I am in love! That flies like an absolute dream. While some of that will be down to your expert trimming skills, it is obviously a fantastic design.
I bought one... it really is brilliant! Outdoors is fun.
it flies beautifully
Funny thing... my brother Bruce built one similar to this more than a month ago as a catapult glider- we’ve yet to have video and publish it. It is nice indeed! Great video, Josh! 👍😀
Loved how kid laughs when the planes collide. Lol 4:55
Performs very well
That is one very smooth aircraft
Pretty damn incredible!!!
Pretty sure I'm gonna need one of these.
How well balanced is that@ awesome Joshua! Just imagine if u caught a thermal! U'd be getting sore necks waiting for it to come down!! Love the slowmo! It just sat there !👍👍👍👍👍😊😊
This thing is the easiest indoor glider I've ever flown. I can confirm that I tried to kill it in every terrible launch I could think of and it always recovered. Its sink rate is slightly higher than the Cat's Meow, but its easier to get a slightly higher launch with it than with a flapped glider. The Cat's meow did between 1 and 3 seconds better, but that was with me launching the Crow. With a competent launcher, both could get a few more seconds. We had lots of fun with this thing!
This thing flies great! Next glider I build, I’ll try to sand that undercambered airfoil. It seems to work really well.
I got similar results with my crow, but I cannot take it to any flying site due to the COVD-19. I am very happy with my crow and I recommend a super Cat's Meow or a Sweepette if you are really serious about F1N
Would be cool to add some really light engine and some servos on this thing.
nice flying
Amazing how stable that thing is! Wow!
WOAH. it is so perfect it's almost unbelievable. I want to build one with foam plate... I know it is not the same at all, but I have nothing to lose (I may get into that 12-15g range but it will destroy at the first launch) hihi
Give it a try, might just work
@@joshuawfinn will the airfoil shown in the polish PDF instructions work? it is kinda "suggested", with no major details (just a cross section)... or is it a specific, well-known one? sorry bout the headache I might cause with my english :D
greetings from a fan from Argentina!
@@habbi1974 yeah if you can replicate that airfoil it will work wonderfully. I need to ask Mariusz which airfoil it is. I think it's an F1A section designed for zoom launches.
Great... Can also try with catapult...
What is the approximate wing chord of this glider?
Waaah! The tailboom broke on throw number 2. The first flight looked like Josh's (sorta-kinda), but it suddenly put its nose up and stopped flying and spun in.
Ouch. Hit it with CA and get back in the air. Also consider gluing an earplug to the nose for some impact absorbtion.
@@joshuawfinn It wasn't the nose-in, it broke as I threw it. I imagined I was emulating you, but in reality, I'm a lot older, my shoulders don't have a lot of range, and I don't throw things in general with any accuracy. So as I spasmodically jerked my arm forward I overpowered the very light tailboom. I bought a couple of carbon fiber tailbooms when I purchased the kit in some kind of prescient fugue...I have no use or plan for them. Until now. Excellent idea about the earplug.
@@kenkingsflyingmachines2382 fair enough. If it gives you any more trouble, shoot me an email an I'll send a replacement fuse
Try to launch sideways ....in same pattern ,actually you are launching straight up 80 degress...try same launch for 180 degree at you waist level...will create lot of difference.
Nice sir
Man - if I had one I'd be so tempted to put a hook on it and do a catapult launch....even if it is an indoor glider!
I've flown them indoors with a catapult. They do not disappoint, provided you don't overspeed them.
M.r joshuaw es posible this glider modificate for linshot catapul o ruber eangen. Porppel ?
It's my request , plz will you upload how to make it with raw materials
yo también quiero esoo
Hi Joshua,
Many years ago I built a chunk glider called zuiback or something close. It was in a magazine. Everything was sharp angles with the airfoil a flat sand in thirds. No rounding. 15” wingspan, 5” center sections with 2.5” tips. Very simple. It was so easy to trim and I actually had a ten minute flute with a thermal over a central Florida ball field. Have you ever run across anything similar?
Oh yes. Probably my best (and worst) was hand launching a tiny 8" glider and watching it disappear directly overhead 7 odd minutes later. It never drifted throughout the observed flight. Just kept climbing higher and higher straight up. Another time I launched a peanut scale Goon racer into a thermal and it landed less than 100 yds away--almost 16 minutes later!
Oh yes. Probably my best (and worst) was hand launching a tiny 8" glider and watching it disappear directly overhead 7 odd minutes later. It never drifted throughout the observed flight. Just kept climbing higher and higher straight up. Another time I launched a peanut scale Goon racer into a thermal and it landed less than 100 yds away--almost 16 minutes later!
Creo que es muy lindo los videos y te enseña a corregir todos los errores que el modelo pueda presentar en verdad 👍 sos un genio entusiasta del hobby te felicito co
lega te aprecio un montón y te sigo en cada video que sacas mucho éxitos
Why does it recover so well? I’ve never seen an hlg like it
It's a combination of the right CG, incidence, dihedral, weight distribution, etc. In short, just a really good design.
I have recently made f1d...weight is 2.20 gm..
If a ballerina could fly, this is what it would look like...so graceful!!!
It looks like a glider that can be built, and still fly, despite my less than professional efforts.
I've found it to be a very forgiving airplane, as have many others. It's very versatile.
she's just beautiful !
Nice
Muy buen planeador
Pity the build instructions are in Polish. It looks great.
That's why we made a video of how to build it. :)
th-cam.com/video/NY65RqoshoU/w-d-xo.html
Can you launch it with an elastic/line ?
Possibly. The wings aren't super strong so you would have to be very careful.
google translate says the CG is 10mm aft of the spar.
Thank you. I'm pretty sure I ended up further back than that
This is really impressive. Most FF gliders are picky about the launch. This one is as stable as my pennyplanes
Its awesome. You really can't mess it up. I actually tried a few times to botch a launch and it always recovered.
But flies great...
Looks like a Thermic B.
@4:54... Geez. What are the chances of that happening!
How to make this bri
Don't think your message all got posted.
Planos? Iam from argentina
Plans used to be available however this model is extremely difficult to scratch build because the wing airfoil is very detailed and requires at minimum a high quality hotwire cutting rig, preferably a CNC hotwire.
I should add, there are several models that are suitable for scratch building such as Mikhail Yashinskiy's designs as well as the various flapped F1N designs from Serbia and Poland.
@@joshuawfinn tanks
Move over Michael Jordan, we got a new mr Hangtime, mm hmm. Just goes and goes.
Imagine launching that 25dollars into a thermal, ending up 300km further😂
I'm pretty sure several have done that already. ;)
What...no tree magnet? No magnet, no tree tops.
Indoor planes are weird about how they react to trees.
@@joshuawfinn Yes, but once you fly it near trees, the magnet will find its way to the plane.
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