these were flight tests best years.

@ryanstreuli8667

4 жыл бұрын

Lol David was trying to avoid facial hair and look at him now 😂

@biko9824

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryanstreuli8667 David turned into a ‘chad’. Speaking of chad, you guys remember Chad Kapper too?

@excellenceinanimation960

2 жыл бұрын

@@biko9824 Yea, these were the good old days!

I counter this request. There are millions of videos of people just flying. I watch Flite Test for the information and the hosts' humor and character.

I just maidened my Alula having bought it after watching your video. Thank you all so much for putting together so many helpful videos, and in particular pointing me toward such an affordable, friendly glider!

@zacharycummins9465

9 жыл бұрын

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Disassembly is an excellent option - I travelled to the UK last month and had a couple of spare days during business, so I took my Alula in my luggage and spent 2 afternoons flying at an awesome slope soaring location I read about - the Uffington White Horse. If you have a windy location and any sort of hill (I use an overpass ramp locally) you can literally fly for hours!

Great review guys! I love how you take the planes out and actually put them through the paces! Those planes look like eagles flying!

Another great show! Flight test has been good, but adding David just put you guys over the top. The dynamic between the four of you makes for excellent viewing. Thanx guys keep up the good work

Definitely! I also like the mini preview in the beginning before the opening sequence.

After watching this video, i got an instant twitch to either buy or make one! They look so fun to fly, especially if it was windy! Love the videos! Keep it up!

thanks for being such an awesome show, you guys have inspired me to get into RC.

Great job for presentation David

I love my alula evo. With or without wind, on a slope or field, it is worth every penny. I've decorated mine to look like a hawk and its a blast to fly next to and mirror real hawks in thermals and over slopes.

Nice simplicity. Will have to try one of these sometime. Thanks for sharing

just ordered my alula and some stickers from you guys i like how it looks on the alula. great vid

please get that tricopter stuff together soon! I work at a childrens camp and am plaining on building one to get some awesome video this summer. having those videos would help so much! Keep it up FT!!!

Had a 10 minute flight on my Alula last week to about 200' high. Caught little thermal with a couple of birds just circling around with me as I kept climbing up and up and up. Too cool.

Review & Challenge, great idea! Looking forward to Josh's 'stache.

It looks like you guy's have so much fun!

There are only a few RC Air sites that I enjoy and FliteTest is #1 for just as you say "the information and the hosts' humor and character".

I saw this plane when it was in the development stage!! I had an old Foam Wing laying around about 2 years ago... naw make it 3, that a lot of folks used for combat. (it was supposed to be powered, but I always flew t as a glider) AND I had a dead arrow that was carbon. Made a boom with a vertical stab, and drilled a hole in one wing for a wooden dowel. Reinforced it with 1/16" plywood, and called it good! I could launch it up and over 2 palm trees on my cul de sac. probably a 50ft height. It was great! Flights were short though, 15 seconds top.

Ahh, Alula... I had one scratch build and even when it didn't glide as well as the original, it was still loads of fun:)

Alula Evo was some of the best money I ever spent in RC flight, a very versatile and relaxing mini DLG you can bring anywhere, fly anywhere even on holidays, bring mine all the time even on the plane.

great video guys have fun this weekend at the airshow

I managed to get my hands on the plans for the SALy, which is basically a balsa build of the Alula... I am SOOOOO wanting to make it!!

I really appreciate the info. I will definitely be remembering this for my next scratch-build. btw, I knew a guy in the USN we called Crank Shaft (Cruickshank).

You guys need to put together a FT scratch built version of this. Nice change from the usual too.

Awesome....prrfff Glad to see David in episodes. Would like to see Josh S do some flying. It inspires us newbies.

Please do a build video for the Alula.

I love that you guys keep the funny bits in ;) that fart was classic!

I remember hearing that the forward sweep in a wing is less prone to tip stalling than a rear sweep, but requires a sturdier build for a forward sweep. So as long as you know your geometry, a forward sweep is better than a reverse sweep when made from the same material. This could be why gliders use forward sweeps so often.

David kind of reminds me of andy kauffman from the show taxi. David you seem like one smart dude! Keep rockin!

Just had an evening watching a load of flitetest, just bought a similar one off ebay.

I love the Alula. It is one of my inspirations for getting into the hobby. And as soon as I stop crashing so much, I will have one! I also like the name, which means 'winglet', and is actually a bird's thumb. :¬)

Awesome intro. Simple but effective.

Forward-swept wings channel that air over the control surfaces to make them more effective, making the plane more agile, and capable of flying as slow as a straight-winged plane. However, since there is still no air cushion build-up in front of the wings, the plane can still fly as fast as a swept-back winged aircraft

Mine is inbound Wednesday, somehow I missed the FT video on this, otherwise I'd have bought one sooner. I am searching for the ultimate early morning camping plane, this should do the trick, no sound, no complaints from anyone.

excellent , thank you. enjoyed it very much. keep them comming

It is definitely not unbreakable. In fact, with the stock battery, the nose WILL break in time, but usually not during the first crash. A piece of carbon spar slit into both sides of the nose will cure the problem. What the review didn't address was the most common mod made by the Alula buyers, that is to move the servos forward, to the nose. This setup can balance the plane at a much lower AUW. However, for sloping only go with the stock setup. Btw. there's also a nice ballast compartment.

Longitudinal stability is affected by the relationship of C.P. to C.G, not whether it has been moved forward or backward or whatever. Forward sweep is destabilizing in roll, backward sweep increases lateral stability.

Great review guys. Love my alula, cant believe you guys think its expensive! Bang for the buck its hard to beat. No props to break, no motors or esc's to cr@p out either i hope you guys put up some more footage with it

If you are going to continue to do episodes on gliders (which I would love to see), could you also do an episode on how to build a bungee launcher? I've seen videos of people using them, actually a few people used them to launch an RC plane, not just gliders, and I would love to see you guys build one and show how to use it properly. I don't know how. It seems like a better way to get a longer flight out of a glider when learning.

These look like great fun. Since you got me into foamboard, Let's build one.

Nice. I love my Alula.

I want to see how David mounted his throwing peg into the wing please! How did you do it? Thanks guys!

great video

Like the new added Camera angle guys :)

epic turn with the mustache can't wait

It might have come down to the pilot as to who won, but David said that his plane was about 10 grams heavier than Bixler's and that would allow him to penetrate still air and turbulence better and keep his airspeed higher. Also, could you please go over the concept of "center of pressure" and what wing-sweep dose to it more? I have always thought back sweep allows the plane to go faster while forward sweep causes instability.

very nice episode!! I loved it!! Wouldn't it be AWESOME to have a scratchbuild depron-alula!!!!!! please try to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David is a Bossss!!!

Nice, they did better than I would've expected.

you guys should review the dream flight libelle

Nice one guys, I have the Dream Flight Weasel for slope soaring and have to say the build quality of these are great. You think they are classed as expensive but you get what you pay for with these......they fly sooooooo well :) Oh Dream Flight are busy with new designs at the moment so I'm keeping an eye out for their new stuff.....all top secret but if anything to go by their past and present planes, it's going to be good! ;) More Gliders and Slope Soarers pleeease flitetest :)

You know a scratchbuild alula style would be the best seller! Please do one for the budget pockets guys

I think David should do a second take on the forward swept wing thing. Josh Scott could do some illustrations of spanwise flow, and Bixler could make some funny hand gestures to demonstrate wingtip vortices. Chad could be vertical instability. You could make it a musical number! (Remember Rocket Plane.)

When a straight-winged plane accelerates, a cushion of air starts to develop at its leading edge. This is the primary cause of drag, and is why straight-winged planes can't fly as fast as swept-wing planes. Planes with swept-back wings are able to fly faster because the sharper angle of the wings allow the cushion of air to slough off, thereby reducing drag. However, planes with swept-back wings have higher stall speeds than straight-winged planes.

Alula is the the forward swept part of the wing on a bird, how birds get the long solid glides.

Yessssss more Sailplanes!!!!

wow I have only ben flying fore like a year or two and almost most of my ideas come frome you guize thanks!

Hey guys you touch on this briefly. I'm new to flying but not to rc. I thought a forward swept wing was inherently unstable? The center of pressure is in front of the cg is no good. What gives how does this thing fly? Birds have are similar and have no rudder as well. Help, explain this please

7:00 LOL nice throw!

Hey flitetest I thought of a episode concept where Josh Scott buys a AXN Floater Jet and try's to convince everyone it's better than the Bixler and they compete in a series of challenges and at the end do some air to air combat between the AXN and the Bixler...

I'm new to this channel but if you guy's haven't done the carbon cub ss you should check that out it is a lot of fun

Yes. Good posts.

I have 2 DLG an ELF(mosquito class ) and a Topsky2.0. Never thought of an ALULA as a DLG always pictured it as a slope trainer. I have to buy a kit now ...

David, Can you please do a quick review of the Aurora 9? I always see you using it and i'd like to hear what you think as I'm looking to purchase one as I upgrade to 2.4Ghz. A video or just a nice comment response would be great! Thanks!

it would be cool if you guys could create a flying wing glider like the versa wing but like SUPER BIG and unpowered..

Build a life-sized glider version of David with an Icarus motivated spin? - ha ha / on the serious side, nice work!

You guys should make some more slope soaring videos with rc wings

I have on of these but got board throwing it so put a blue wonder with a folding prop to get more flight time

Have you flown / reviewed a radio controlled flapping bird yet? I can't remember the correct spelling of it ( Ornithopter I think?)

Plz do reviewsfor some of the other dream flight dlg's

Hal'alula' Love it! Nice one Mr Scott XD

07:03 You must have been brewing that 1, for at least five minutes hey Josh. Rofl Brother!

7:04 josh farts lol

@brianbryan6636

7 жыл бұрын

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You could, but it's not necessary unless you move the servos to the nose - for a lower AUW.

The first plane I ever got was from Craigslist in a lot of a bunch of other stuff that included a rubber-band rope sling-shot style launch system thingy. Does anyone know anything about these? I imagine that style of launch setup would fling these planes pretty high up. Good episode test pilots!

I'd love to see you guys make and fly an RC Pterodactyl glider like in the movie "Wargames"!

lololol i can't stop laughing fuck that fart was funny as hell!!!!

As much as these are good models you would be better to use a hot-wire cut EPP model as the nose will brake off these in no time. Cut foam is lighter and tougher if you use filament tape and contact gel adhesive. Bungy launch is also heaps easier way to do this. You could do a scratch build hot-wire video, perhaps .. Cheers.

Plz can you do reviews on the rest of the dream flight dlg's

I have had HOURS of fun with my Alula, just make sure you build it light and tape the nose well, otherwise they are prone to tearing off.

Oh, it's environmentally friendly too. Even the parts bags that holds the hardware for the plane comes in a biodegradable bag. That certainly can't be as cheap as your standard bag.

Hey guys should try to make an Alula Clone it's actually pretty easy to make one but I would like to see what you guys can come up with?

Will there be a pusher type of swappable sometime in the future?

Lol, nice. Anyway, I wrote another comment in reply to the one you replied to that explains how forward-swept wings work. Did you happen to see that one too?

i know its asking a bit but can ya do a kit tri or quad copter i so want one but has no skill for building and i love the ones david has.

He's incorrect, forward swept wings move the center of pressure (yes) but it moves it forward making the aircraft less stable but greatly increasing aileron effectiveness (and thus faster roll rate).

When will you do a swappable forward swept glider like this one? Thanks

Mentioned this on another vid. Can you guys do a build along for discus glider like this?

@stewjw

9 жыл бұрын

***** They do still make it I just bought one. Its now called the Allula Trek. I bought it since it easily breaks down so you can put it in a ruck sack. I made a mistake with the clevis so watch out for that. Its a quick and easy build.

@stewjw

9 жыл бұрын

***** Good to hear you are still flying them. I'd planned on getting one for quite a while. I wanted something portable. I've yet to fly mine I only finished putting mine together last night. I put some vinyl tape on the exposed edges. I didn't get very creative with customisation I just used the provided decals.

@stewjw

9 жыл бұрын

***** There is a glider I really fancied getting but its not portable and thats the Zulu with its droperons. Its another American design but the Chinese have made a nice EPO version of it.

@stewjw

9 жыл бұрын

***** I also went through the expensive composite glider phase. I went through in a short period a 2 x Blaster 2s and a Blaster 3 (plus replacement accessories), a couple of MicroFlohs, Elf Mini and another model I've forgotten the name of. This was hurting my bank balance so I gave up on gliding for a while. I'm just getting back in to again with relatively cheap models. Flying Wings are very durable I still have two of those which are still flyable and a couple of powered ones,

No way! Josh has to do episodes with....Josh, Josh and mustache.... lol.

I love slope soraing the Alula...

Do a build video for the alula

I have a power 32 bl motor from eflite.....how big do I need to scale the mustang?

What did David use for the DLG type launch? How did he do it?

Could you put a small rocket motor on them for a launch?

I really would like to see a foamboard version of this I could build

One complaint I have with the alula is that it seems a little weak where the wing attaches to the body (at the front edge). Mine hasn't torn yet, but the gaps between the cells in the foam seem to be getting bigger, so I've been flying it a lot less while I try and decide how I should fix it.

@wwmoggy

8 жыл бұрын

you can glue the wings if you don't need to take it apart . I used a 3/4 inch tape on the wings top and bottom

@nwimpney

8 жыл бұрын

+Moggy Catermole the weak spot is not actually the wing joynt, which i did glue. It is right at the base of the wing, where it meets the pod at the front.

Where's the picture of Bixler's stash? Lost oportunity to not put it in the video.

If I am not misstaken, this is the first time Josh loses a challenge?.. For how long has Josh's new facebook profile picture be his profile picture, @Josh Scott..? I noticed some hills in the landscape behind your base, in another episode. Would you try slope soaring there with these Alula's? Regards

if you really listen to your viewers then do a build vid on that sweat camera mount on the viggen that spins

@franciscoangeles4234

9 жыл бұрын

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@troykneeee7104

9 жыл бұрын

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