Looks like NASA got their flairs a bit more greasy than mine: kzread.info/dash/bejne/enh5tpWPpbefmqg.html

@sofiejensen3804

3 ай бұрын

One thing I noticed is that they say that they start the drop with full speed break to level out. I believe the virgin pod model does the same. kzread.info/dash/bejne/enh5tpWPpbefmqg.htmlsi=aoHC2XAjqSeVzoZr&t=90

@brsrc759

3 ай бұрын

Bro please do a video building an RC version of the motor in this video > kzread.info/dash/bejne/nKl-2NKllbDXl5c.htmlsi=jffcn7eRH7dGxnwu

@quartapound

2 ай бұрын

BUTTER! That just goes to show that... What does that go to show... You need more subscribers to get your R&D budget closer to NASA's!

better help is a scam. Stop taking sponsorships from them. They replaced most of their professionals with chatbots that just make things worse

@d.jensen5153

Ай бұрын

Be your own chatbot - is my philosophy.

@chexo3

18 күн бұрын

Seriously. Their “professionals” were dubiously qualified in the first place.

@ultra98000

14 күн бұрын

AND they sell your data

@jossepililugo9476

8 күн бұрын

Yeah and they also sell private information about you to advertisers

Food for thought:! The rotor wash from the quad is causing the initial instability since it is tailwind blowing against the control surfaces, causing it to use up altitude to get stable.

@pinkpanther8427

3 ай бұрын

makes sense. any idea how to fix it best?

@vinny5203

3 ай бұрын

longer string @@pinkpanther8427

@phlatulance

3 ай бұрын

@@pinkpanther8427 From the drone, 2 thoughts. Guide rod angled away from the drone, or towing it like a glider and releasing. Both have their own challenges.

@volkerracho7257

3 ай бұрын

Quick solution: Fly with a lot of forward speed during the drop

@matthewconnor5483

3 ай бұрын

@@pinkpanther8427 Maybe two long rods to guide it and then keep the drone moving so their isn't a column of toward wash for the aircraft to be traveling through.

Making delta-wing-shaped holes in the ground is something I excel at, so here's some painfully-obtained suggestions. Highly-swept deltas have vanishingly small inertia in roll, but a load of inertia in pitch and yaw. Their tiny wingspan also provides negligible roll-damping. This is a bad dynamics situation, so if they start to tumble, it's often game-over = flat spin/frisbee. Using aileron won't help you recover; it only makes it worse. We lob little 'shuttles' piggy-back off of model rockets using a catapult: if the release isn't clean and the delta starts to corkscrew, she's a gonner. The vertical tail on your seriously-cool 3D printed glider is way too small for the large yaw inertia, but that's an easy fix. Bear in mind that at high angle of attack, the fuselage is blanking off a lot of the flow to the tail, so folk tend to go with twin-tails. The high-frequency roll oscillation is what highly-swept deltas do as they're stalling. I call it 'wibble'. The vortices coming off each wing are battling it out over the centre of the upper fuselage. If you don't get the nose down sharpish, then one vortex will eventually win, causing the delta to roll right over. I've written some notes on this stuff on our website: www.aspirespace.org.uk/downloads/Winged%20rockets%20and%20boost%20gliders.pdf

@scott_aero3915

3 ай бұрын

very useful response!

@JaviRP97

3 ай бұрын

Really great content, Rick!

@madcatmk213

3 ай бұрын

lets hope Daniel sees this

@mythrillium2

3 ай бұрын

Is this why we don't really see delta wing aircraft used often, if at all? What you're describing exactly matches my experience with delta wing rc planes; supremely unstable, high speed required, be extremely cautious not to stall

@richardm.newlands2417

3 ай бұрын

Thanks William, don't know about 'expert', just been doing it a long time! The thing about Daniel's brilliant vids is that we get to see exactly what's happening from many camera angles, and even from the cockpit. Watching this video lit-up so many lightbulbs: "Hey, I've seen that glider behaviour before, but never that clearly." Daniel's footage of the glider dropping off the drone was a real eye-opener.

solar autonomous plane series continue when

@esk1m0

3 ай бұрын

He’s teasing us with this

@dontknow3886

3 ай бұрын

+1

@TylerKaraszewski

3 ай бұрын

Summer maybe, when there's sun in the PNW.

@_BL4CKB1RD_

3 ай бұрын

I will

@oscarzt1652

3 ай бұрын

in the summer when there is sunlight probably

My father worked on the NASA Space shuttle. He was a mechanical engineer. He worked on the vibrations in the rocket turbo pumps and the heat shielding. He worked all his life trying to make a circler wing aircraft. The advantage of them is the huge speed range they can fly at. The one big trouble is "dutch roll" you can see the same effect in early lifting bodies. That is why NASA had to add the small wings. My father sent letters back and forth to Alexander Lip push the famous German aerospace scientist. The father of the Delta wing on the F,102 and F-106 and all other deltas. A brilliant man

The main reason I believe the shuttle designs don't work well is because the design of the space shuttle was made for hypersonic flight. Even while landing, the shuttle was moving very fast. Theres just not much lift in that design to get stable flight at low speeds. This is challenging stuff though. The one thing I might recommend trying is maybe a adjustable wing? So u could get more speed at a dive, and more lift while gliding... Kinda closer to an old fighter plane like the F-111 for example. Might be worth a shot!

@cyberfunk3793

3 ай бұрын

Or try first with some traditional wing design modelling some known airplane and only try the delta wing stuff after succeeding with that. Longer steady glide path with less emphasis on the last second pull up.

The drop from a weather balloon at the edge of space is going to be epic! 😜

@phlatulance

3 ай бұрын

There was a guy in Canada that did this a while back and it was pretty amazing. Had an automated return system. Sadly it was lost in the mountains.

@Aviator747a

3 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKR20NerqtGsmdI.html

@davidcatanzaro1019

3 ай бұрын

David Windestål also did this

@gwheyduke

Ай бұрын

That's an awesome idea !

For anyone building flat foam wings.... Add another strip of foam on top of the leading edge that is 50% chord or a bit less. And round the leading edge. This creates a KF airfoil (KFm-2) and it will fly way better.

Falling with style

Is it just me...or does seeing the "drop" give you the willies? ooof! So cool though! Keep em coming!!!!

@nadigaming1074

3 ай бұрын

play warthunder in first person

i bet the down wash of the drones blades is messing with the shuttles center of drag. its like throwing a dart backwards.

Dream Chaser's 2017 test flight used a three-point rig that released the vehicle while in stable forward flight. Your lifting-body planes spend half their decent just getting to stable flight, so a Dream Chaser styled release might benefit your tests.

One thing that would be super cool to do and very useful for a landing would be having a sensor measuring AoA. I know this because I've made the eletronics for it in the past but never managed to put it on something flying. Maybe my next plane will have it. With 3d printing capabilities, making a sensor like that would be very easy. Cheers for the great content mate!!

Sweet! Happy to see the shuttle back. I printed the last one and it has been fun.

Sometimes when confronted with destructive and yet iterative testing - it can help to have some "pre-iteration" done where you map out your experiment and have several test samples ready to go on test day.

I love, love, love when you show footage of you building anything!

really excited to see you revisit this concept.

I work on the actual dream chaser so I'd love to see that one finalized!

I love the way you keep testing at it and working

KZreadrs really gotta stop taking money from better help

I'm here for exactly this kind of projects! MORE ITERATIONS! :D

You could 3d print some little kerbals as crew. Best test pilots in the business!

@davefb

Ай бұрын

Watching those "landings", I feel a little Steve Austin (Bruce Peterson) would be more appropriate..

Love this project. Please keep it up!

I'm always late to the show. My only experience with gliders was a little circuit board I made for a friend who flew model gliders, it would beep a piezo if a servo movement drew the power rails below a preset limit, this way it would start making a noise before the batteries went flat.

I remember sending you a email maybe 8 or so years ago with our own foam board design. One of my fave channels mate.

My favorite series!

I've been waiting for this for a long time

Rotor wash for sure is the biggest issue, you should do a short mission that moves from point A to B (then releases the plane) and have the quad move back to A. Like 10m movement and have the plane drop at the end of that point, at least you would only have the instantaneous wash and not the built up loiter wash.

I've been bingeing all your videos for the past couple weeks. I hope Spring brings a bunch of new content.

You need a far bigger vertical stabilizer. That should stop the spiraling

That landing at time 7:07 was excellent. Moving the CG back sure helped.👌🖖 Looks like the 3D printed plane needs a larger vertical fin, maybe even one under the tail to help tamp down the roll oscillations. You could even add a rudder with a gyro to help.

this is a really fun video!!! a lot of these designs you came up with look like f-zero machines

sounds really cool

Good effort. Amazing. Love watching your iterations.

I wonder if some type of ground launch system wouldn't be better? Catapult or rocket motor? This way you are already in forward powered flight and then convert to gliding under full control?

SO VERY COOL! Great job on the whole process

Great video. Some negative washout in the wing tip will help. Then if you can incorporate a wing tip with dihedral

@glenmiller1437

3 ай бұрын

Ya, I'm in agreement. Something needs to be designed into the wing/lifting body to so that it naturally seeks stability. I don't know if there is enough "wing" here to do what you suggested, but I think that's the right idea.

Wonderful, well done Dan

I went through some of this waaaay back experimenting with Deltas and other flying wings. First, most of those models looked like they need much taller vertical stabs. At such low Reynolds numbers and short coupling, a small vertical doesn't have the authority to keep it pointed in the right direction with all of that wing wash spiraling up at the tail. The fact they never really achieved stability shows that. CG is also super sensitive at small scale like this, so there's a lot at play. I love your videos and you do awesome work so I commend the work involved to iron out the bugs!! 👏👍

You make enough new airplanes that it might be cool for you to make a wind tunnel to test them in and fine tune the controller. Might make for a nice build video and help get more successes out of these builds.

Bro is bootstrapping the next Lockheed Martin and he doesn't even know it

@cho4d

Ай бұрын

ikr? casually developing glide bombs

@lamarw7757

Ай бұрын

@@cho4d ikr is one of dumbest sayings ever.

Great video!. For some reason I started watching it after I first woke up and it turns out it was a really good way to get my brain ready to face the day. Maybe because of how you include all your experiments, not just the good ones? I'm going to try adding your videos to my morning routine and see if it helps. Thank you!

Would love to see you try a skydiver / belly-flop system like the SpaceX Starship.

@edheadgaming8411

3 ай бұрын

RCTF could team up with BPS.apace to make that happen!

Would it help to have the glider much further away from the drone before the drop. That might minimize the amount of turbulent roll it experiences from the quad copter?

This is my favourite channel on KZread and today I learned I want even subscribed. It just always shows up in my feed.

Good to see you back at this project - I enjoyed your previous attempts. I suggest perhaps some simple calcs up front to see if a simple tube with delta wings can be aerodynamically stable and at what speed. You'd think the shuttle would be as simple as you could go but I think you can go simpler.

I'm a big fan of vertical wingtips, they look old school and for paper airplanes as a kid, seemed to help stabilize roll

Totally digging the Easter Shuttle 😀

I also have a strange attraction towards high wing loading rc gliders so keep up! ;)

Would love to see a scale Venture Star. And as always, awesome vid!

Looks epic

I ALWAYS love your lifting body videos!!!

Well, try Portugal :D That will help you with the mental health thing about the weather! Anyway...! You pulled a nice one on the shuttle! 👌👌👌👌

love your spirit

try adding features to improve the low speed stalling situation... like humps in the leading edge, which funnel more air across the surface. also, placing the antennas in front of the leading edge didn't do the airflow any good, since they cause irregular pressures

Please please please make a autonomous POWERED high speed shuttle glider go waypoints! That would be so awesome!! Love your approach and passion!!

Thanks

I've loved watching you since you were a kid. You really maximize the possibilities of RC hobby grade equipment and open-source automation capabilities. A few small tweaks to your development goals and you could have a multi billion-dollar Defense/Defense Research company using your current skillset to shift the cost structure of short-range anti-drone air defense and front-line guided munitions. Not kidding.

Thank you so much for all your inspiring content!! Love all your rc stuff tests and your awsome voice over! maybe you should consider using an more proven design geometry for your tests, especially for software relating tests. I think the multiplex funjet design for example could be an option as a really nicely flying glider and its made out of EPP ;) please keep on going and best wishes from germany!

Nice idea. Well done

I have the same interest. Find it really fun and neat. Also love the space shuttle. Also, (kind of?) similarly, the idea of the Aliens drop-ship also interests me. I believe the excitement of the drop in Aliens was of course for movie excitement, but technically speaking, they could do something like that on purpose to conserve fuel on re-entry for use during re-ascent.

My first thought would be to increase the vertical stabilizer. I have designed quite a few model airplanes myself, but never for this part of the flight envelope - so I may be wrong. However, this was my first thought.

@johngoscinski1995

3 ай бұрын

100%

a small solid fuel rocket engine in the back of the foam shuttle would be great along with cameras

Use a longer tether to stay out of more prop wash and it will start flying sooner... that release cost too much altitude with the dirty air just below the drone. You can see it clearly everytime. Very cool.

I'll come back to watch later, but I'm expecting the "Aerodynamics of a flying brick"

Love this

Lawn Dart LOL Just kidding, very interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. Going to print one for myself to play with. 👍🏼😎

I would want a small sensor that could sense air and calculate ANGLE OF ATTACK or AOA. Modulating this to near 1.00 just prior to touchdown would yield the flight you desire. But it would need a computer to sense air, direction, altitude, etc. Then you could program it for the ideal flight.

Yoo that Dream Chaser at the start looked sick! Shame it didn’t fly. Space Shuttle is awesome too!

Very cool!

Love the videos!

future air shuttle carrier? great vid btw

ALWAYS a JOY!

Really like high speed landing when they work.

Hi. Would drpping from a plane yield a better result? Seemed like downdraft from the quad was affecting it on release. Just wondering. I'm no engineer.

try putting some winglets on. Also you might want to sharpen the forward strake leading edge and you need more or a flat top than a rounded one for lifting bodies to work best.

Hey Daniel I think your vertical stabilizer is in the wake of the delta wing during spinning and cant stabilize it. Try a downward facing one or winglets (up and down). That should help.

Due to your efforts on building the solar plane back then. I'm getting ready to start my rc fixed wing career. What about you creating a tutorial about ardupilot, waypoint missions, your experiences, fpv gear and handling? would much appreciate it.

Maybe if it starts more horizontally it will fly better. Hook up the launch rail at something like a 30 deg. angle to the drone's level flight. Fix remote controlled clamp(s) on the rail that hold the glider in that position and release it from that angle.

Have you seen the RC delta jet "Inferno"? Afaik, the designer built that if he ever lost jet power, it could still be able to glide to safety. I think he mentions it in an interview.

Try launching a radio control Shuttle shape from an Estes model rocket. Worked for me, after a few decades. You just told me to make it work on Otto Pilot. Game changer.

yay new video

"that's not flying, that's just falling with style" 😂

I wonder if the downdraft of the lifting drone is setting it up for failure giving it less altitude to work with. I like the idea of dropping from forward flight where it starts off in a stable mode out of the gate. Probably would make things more predictable and tunable.

you could also launch that rocket with an em sling up into the sky then glide down, why no vertical stabilizer fin, maximum passive stabilization is a must, passive stabilization over active control

you could try to shoot it up with a model rocket on a launch craft and disconnect it on the upper arch, so you have airspeed and altitude. nice video daniel!

The ending shot is why i just printed my m-jet sprint out of tpu so when i take it pn creeks i dont punch a hole in the hull.

haha, holy crap thought about this glider that you did years ago earlier today, (because Dreamchaser is soon to launch, watched a video about that today) any whooo this was a neat surprise!

Hmm. Are home-made wind tunnel tests an achievable idea? Since a big issue here was repeatability, maybe there's something in between CAD and real life that could provide further data. It sounds hard to build a homemade wind tunnel that can do that, but Daniel and builders like him have shown that home engineers can do all kinds of tough projects.

So, one thing to consider is that the oscillation may be a result of over speed and not over tuning. You very easily could be exceeding the max speed limit of the aircraft, causing it to become unstable.

this is cool! i enjoyed this lol

A disc launched glider might be interesting to try!

try putting the vertical stabilizer on the fin. not the center. the blunt nose prevents some of the air going to the vertical fin, rendering it useless. hence why nasa put theirs on the wingtip.

Dihedral angle in the wing is the solution for roll axis stability.

Great video

Something to think about:! Full scale the release is done from a forward flying aircraft. The tailwind from the quadcopter is probably a cause of instability.

maybe you couldhalf power it with a rc fan to gain a bit more airspeed while diving (i know it would ruin the whole "glider" thing but it would be cool to see it fly longer!)

Love your videos. Sixty acres are my fav to fly :)

I need a steep hill to test this software! Seattle: I gotcha, bud.