6:55 might be the best thing on KZread. 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

Loved how kid laughs when the planes collide. Lol 4:55

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! 👍😀

That is one very smooth aircraft

Performs very well

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!

Pretty sure I'm gonna need one of these.

Pretty damn incredible!!!

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

This thing flies great! Next glider I build, I’ll try to sand that undercambered airfoil. It seems to work really well.

What is the approximate wing chord of this glider?

Would be cool to add some really light engine and some servos on this thing.

M.r joshuaw es posible this glider modificate for linshot catapul o ruber eangen. Porppel ?

nice flying

Amazing how stable that thing is! Wow!

Great... Can also try with catapult...

Muy buen planeador

Why does it recover so well? I’ve never seen an hlg like it

@joshuawfinn

4 жыл бұрын

It's a combination of the right CG, incidence, dihedral, weight distribution, etc. In short, just a really good design.

Nice sir

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

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

I have recently made f1d...weight is 2.20 gm..

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

@joshuawfinn

4 жыл бұрын

Give it a try, might just work

@habbi1974

4 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@joshuawfinn

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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?

@joshuawfinn

4 жыл бұрын

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!

@joshuawfinn

4 жыл бұрын

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!

It's my request , plz will you upload how to make it with raw materials

@Mkel.

4 ай бұрын

yo también quiero esoo

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.

@joshuawfinn

3 жыл бұрын

Ouch. Hit it with CA and get back in the air. Also consider gluing an earplug to the nose for some impact absorbtion.

@kenkingsflyingmachines2382

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@joshuawfinn

3 жыл бұрын

@@kenkingsflyingmachines2382 fair enough. If it gives you any more trouble, shoot me an email an I'll send a replacement fuse

Can you launch it with an elastic/line ?

@joshuawfinn

Жыл бұрын

Possibly. The wings aren't super strong so you would have to be very careful.

she's just beautiful !

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!

@joshuawfinn

Жыл бұрын

I've flown them indoors with a catapult. They do not disappoint, provided you don't overspeed them.

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.

@joshuawfinn

Жыл бұрын

I've found it to be a very forgiving airplane, as have many others. It's very versatile.

This is really impressive. Most FF gliders are picky about the launch. This one is as stable as my pennyplanes

@rossclements8874

4 жыл бұрын

Its awesome. You really can't mess it up. I actually tried a few times to botch a launch and it always recovered.

How to make this bri

@joshuawfinn

8 ай бұрын

Don't think your message all got posted.

Pity the build instructions are in Polish. It looks great.

@joshuawfinn

3 жыл бұрын

That's why we made a video of how to build it. :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/gI1ql7Sqn9bOn7g.html

@4:54... Geez. What are the chances of that happening!

google translate says the CG is 10mm aft of the spar.

@joshuawfinn

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I'm pretty sure I ended up further back than that

Looks like a Thermic B.

Planos? Iam from argentina

@joshuawfinn

19 күн бұрын

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.

@joshuawfinn

19 күн бұрын

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.

@alejandrohelvig4979

19 күн бұрын

@@joshuawfinn tanks

ไทย

But flies great...

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😂

@joshuawfinn

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure several have done that already. ;)

What...no tree magnet? No magnet, no tree tops.

@joshuawfinn

2 жыл бұрын

Indoor planes are weird about how they react to trees.

@jamesberwick2210

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuawfinn Yes, but once you fly it near trees, the magnet will find its way to the plane.