the sacrifice that plane had to endure was nothing short of.. valiant. haaaa. build more frankenplanes

When I very young, I would sit on my father's lap when we were flying the little piper cub, The airport we would land at was at the mouth of a very windy canyon. Dad would throw the stick to the left and the rudder to the right, we would settle to the ground moving backward, lol.... By the way, Dad flew PBY's during WWII, when he got his private license, he pulled the same thing, the instructor got out of the plane and signed off on the license on the spot.

@Philou-X8

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Hale, nice story

@oaktadopbok665

6 жыл бұрын

yeah nice story. also bullshit.

"I wonder if it changed the schematics of the logistical qualities of the scientific method" - Alex Zvada, 2017

Our planes LEGS are falling off! - TJ

Several years ago (1980's) I built a Goldberg Eagle 2. I installed a 40 OS, and built Fowler flaps and fashioned Horner wingtips out of a balsa block. I could fly stationary in a 5 mph wind, and backwards in a 10 mph wind. I loved that plane. Sadly, I crashed it in a slow-fly contest. Love your work and your passion. Lee

Flite test has changed but not commercialised, Ive been watching you guys for years and its amazing to see how the channel and community has grown around it. always good clean family fun, with such a big audience its really testemant to the quality of what you guys produce still. I had the same situation with the battery edjecting when I was flying my RC 182, did a loop, the battery ejected and it broke into many, many pieces!

That crash though!!! I laughed so freaking hard. Put some foam tac on there and boom good as new.

Stefan has the best laugh ever, very contagious!

Probably one of the best videos ive seen from yall, love how you didnt title the crash, i was so surprised and loved the anticipation of seeing the battery and gear fall off randomly. Just a moment of pause, and i knew after seeing the words battery, then the tiny dot on the screen frozen helplessly in mid air, that something was gonna happen! Top that off with it hitting so close to both of you and it was your favorite plane... my gosh.... isnt the hobby wonderful. I've spent these two past winter months building plane after plane...... getting the electronics.... setting up the transmitter.... its all building towards a awesome summer this year, cheers everyone.

When Valiant is having to much fun it has a fail safe to bring you back to reality, never have had as much fun in my chair than here... You've given me some stimulating fun games to use on the so west coast of O... since all we got is wind... Thanks

For a second I actually thought that plane was going to land itself. It seemed to fly better after the landing gear and battery had enough and ejected :) 👍🏻

Spoiler alert; the ending really "fell apart" ;)

Stefan and Alex's laughter is contagious, love watching you guys just play around!

My favorite plane to fly backwards is the Bloody Wonder. It LOVES to fly backwards. :D Thanks for being awesome!

Gotta say this is an excellent episode. Alex and Stephan, you guys are always entertaining. Props to all the flight test crew!

@jordanlynch8687

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Ivins haha. nice pun

Stefan is a nutcase. In a good way.

hey I can explain why it was flying weird when you had the camera on it, when the camera is high it raises the center of gravity that means that every time you try to turn the camera's mass makes the center of gravity go farther than one side of the fuselage. causing it to fly unstable. keep up the good work

You're killing it Alex with this format. Love it. As for the wind, it can really by your playmate. Next time try an AXN or Bixler or even an Explorer. Good job Alex.

@godarklight

6 жыл бұрын

It has the seem feel as the old challenges and josh+josh back in the day, the vlogs are better than the episodes :P

@MT-THNDR207

6 жыл бұрын

Christopher Andrews yes

My stomach hurts from laughing so much. That was hilarious, from the plane tumbling to the entire crash. What was the funniest part was how good the plane was gliding without the battery then how it suddenly dives down right in front of you guys.

“I CAN’T BREATHE!!!” - Stefan’s Catchphrase

Stefan: "I can't breathe!" 😂😂😂 None of us could!

I like these episodes, they show the true happiness of RC. Like today I just took my father, went to the fields and just did some flying. It's fun and happy.

@FliteTest

6 жыл бұрын

I like how Alex handling his favorite plane crashing

Used to build M.E.N. Trainers from plans as the kit was out of production. Build one real lite, flew it with a .061. Could take off straight up, had to jerk your hand back as the plane would follow your hand up! Flew in lite wind backwards. But the we used to fly J3s, real J3s backwards. Thanks for the video!

Important lesson kids: When airspeed is below wind speed Mister Gust is not your friend.

The fun you guys had in this video really comes across 😂 pretty damn hilarious! Breaking that plane was totally worth it

gotta love your videos Alex and Stefan. You crack me up!!!

Two things. First, the best part of the video was the sound of the prop spinning after the battery was lost. Check that beginning around 14:17 to 14:18. You can hear the wind whipping past it, but there's also a subtle buzzing sound there that the GoPro is picking up. Second, anyone else notice that after Steffan put on Alex's shades that he looks like Frank John Hughes back when he was playing Guarnere in Band of Brothers?

that was a quite unexpected event, but it was so hilarious

Flite Test never gets old

Back in the early 70's I was on my boat in Lake Ontario and watched a See Bee try to land at the Island airport, he came down from about 500ft in a 45 knot wind over the end of the runway and ended up out in the lake almost 1 quarter of a mile from the runway

I have a super cheap fx803 piper cub. I am not an expert flyer like you guys are but a couple weeks ago I had my cub flying backwards in about 12 MPH winds. I had it flying backwards a couple feet per second at about half throttle while keeping the nose into the wind to keep it straight. It always flew too light in the nose so I added 2 BB's. Works like a champ!

In slope soaring, there is a need to penetrate into the wind to get to the lift - I always think of it as the need to fly your plane 'forwards and in' to avoid the 'upwards and back' on the slope...one of the reasons F-14, F-111 and Mirage G-8 and MiG-23 are popular slope jets - swing the wings to penetrate, and spread to get max lift. Fun though - actually, the Fieseler Storch (yup!) was famous for near VTOL performance in a headwind...and yes, Alex, its nose heavy :-)

LOL! I used to do this with my original balsa wood glow-fuel 3-channel trainer at Tempsford Aerodrome. On windy days when everyone else was sheltering it their cars, I was laughing myself silly making landing approaches across the runway, still facing windward, but approaching backwards! I often had to hold it still with the engine and use down elevator to avoid what happened at 13:00 while I ran to retrieve it. Good times! Thanks guys!! :o)

That was awesome!

Have y'all ever heard of the 'rotor' when describing how wind flows off a flat surface into a valley? That nice, high, flat-topped, dirt pile is dumping a rotor on your flying field. There will be rising air right next to the dirt pile and sinking air about in the middle of where you normally fly...with all kinds of associated turbulence. The building serves only to add to the messy air which was tossing your plane all over the place! Notice that it DID calm down well downrange...about where you normally turn base to final. I'd suggest that it's OK to fly there when there's little to no wind...but this experiment would've turned out MUCH better in a wide-open, flat, field like where I see you fly sometimes.

Flying backwards, i have seen it all now. Lol. I hope you guys dont call what you do work, because i can see you guys love what you do, and if you do something you love for a living tou will never work a day of your life. Very few people get to do what they love for a living. You guys are awesome. Thank you for the videos.

And this kids, is why you check your CRAP.

@gracklefpv8811

6 жыл бұрын

Lol I remember that

13:47 Damn! that's what happens if you don't check your ''C.R.A.P'' LOL! 17:22 The look on Stefan's face says it all LOL. Fun vlog flying in the wind with a r/c plane has it's positives&negatives but people still need to always give a try especially if you have a very reliable plane that you've a put tons of flights on IMHO.

This is my favorite plane in my hangar. You can fly it as a sport plane or let it "hang" like a powered glider when the wind kicks up. I stuff a 3200 mah in it and get amazing flight times. I did switch out the wheel pants for Timber wheels. Awesome VLog!

This reminds me of the guys I used to watch flying RC gliders in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

I love me some windy flying, it’s really good practice!

best ft episode ever, certainly the funniest!

I havn't laughed that much at an rc related video in a while!

I totally love the video!!!!!!

Awesome video as always! The simple storch would be perfect for that! It can fly backwards in a light breeze 🤪

That was a blast to watch. LMBO!

Its like your surfing the wind! haha really enjoyed this one guys! Had a blast watching!

haha guys, you are killing it :-D! epic flying, fun. love it! i wanna see you put your beloved Valiant together and back into the air where she belongs :-)

Stefan is the most funniest person on youtube, that dude is AWESOME !!!!!! Well done guys.

I want a picture of the plane fixed in the next VLOG. I love the repair ability of these planes. Before and After pictures would be great to show the community what is possible. It makes getting into the hobby a low risk proposal....

For what it's worth, in the mid-60s I was flying a Cessna 172 through Cajon Pass in California. The wind was so strong on my nose that while my airspeed was 120 mph, the 18-wheelers below were outrunning me while they were climbing the hill. I was at 75% power, too. Had I reduced power, there's no doubt I'd have been going backwards.

@matte1402

6 жыл бұрын

raymondkoonce My grandfather tells a story from his college days of flying backwards in a Luscombe out in western Kansas. Him and two other light aircraft were doing touch and goes without making any turns. Take off, climb out, power back and start drifting backwards, drop the nose and land. Repeat. This was on some dirt road out in the country that the wind was blowing straight down.

Thats a lot of fun. U guys got the best jobs.

Gotta get one of these for a fly-anywhere-anytime airplane.

When the center of gravity is as high up as it was with the camera, it basically becomes a Eurofighter. You do 180 rolls fast, but lots of positive elevator can throw it of balance. The Eurofighter was purposely made like that though.

Nice one guys. Yup, I am often flying in the wind and flying backwards. I actually enjoy it more than normal flying :-)

that is fricken awesome

Too much fun! Love it

@MT-THNDR207

6 жыл бұрын

jonathan kohl u can never have too much fun.

By adding weight far above the wing, you cancelled a lot of the planes stability. The fuselage provides enough weight under the wing to produce a pendulum type effect making the plane very stable. like dihedral. By camera that high destroys that pendulum effect and cancelles A lot of stability. Basically like adding anhedral.

lol lovely video guys

@Omkharche

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Ramy How are you doing?! 😍😄

The best is to get into enough wind you can soar your plane. Just kill the prop, use the wind to get your height, then just fly, fly, fly... Batt lasts forever.

This reminds me of the Maiden of my Carl Goldberg Extra 330. I had no idea how it would fly cause it was the maiden, the motor was salvaged so I had no idea if it would work well or the mixture settings, and the only day I had to fly the wind was 20 gusting to 45. I got out to the field and there were some folks there but nobody was flying. It took me like 10 minutes to get the motor started cause it kept stalling, probably a damaged or clogged high speed needle. Anyway, finally figured out it would keep going at full throttle so I got it started, pointed it into the wind and gave it the stick, and it lept up into the air, flying backwards and up like a rocket, and I got maybe 5 minutes out of it before it went dead stick, and in spite of everything I floated it in with the wind pounding on it from every direction, and not a scratch. Only then did I realize I had an audience, and they cheered. Lol. Love flying.

Now that looked like fun

The Timber blows this away ! !

*Oh mah gawd!* - Alex

great video. you guys are having such a good time :)

It looked like the Valiant's head got decapitated and was hanging by a vein. Lmao.😂😂

That is freaking hilarious!

EPIC!!!

how can anyone dislike this vid,you guys are great together,that was so funny

To be honest I didn't realize this was something unfamiliar to most! :P I frequently fly in very unsuitable winds (blame a lack of self-control) with rather underweight scratchbuilt foamies, and some days "flying backwards" is synonymous with "giving up elevator". Cool to see it being done with a decent-size scale RTF though.

Loved it laughed and laughed

I was flying an over-powered Ares Gamma Pro in the wind the other day and I was able to do loops without going upside down. It would go strait up, wings level, then fly backwards, then drop down and forward all with the plane in an upright position. It was crazy!

Haven't laughed that hard in a long time. 😂

Got those rotors coming off the dirt pile, and the compression waves off the building. Try it away from any upwind obstructions, and it'll fly backward Really Good. (I used to fly my ultralights in the desert backwards every afternoon, on the desert - when the winds would come up! Sometimes it was hard to pick a landing behind me!) Haha!

You should make a tricopter frame for the gremlin

@owenwilkins6563

6 жыл бұрын

JamesCalMar yes that would be so awesome!

@owenwilkins6563

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Kezar ah, good point. That's unfortunate. Maybe it's possible to flash triflight to the gremlin fc? I don't know, but it might be worth a shot.

And the Valiant was like "I will kill you all for your insolence!" great vid guys!

Even more fun in full scale. Drop me a line if you're in Wisconsin on a windy day :)

@ulaB

6 жыл бұрын

As long as you don't drop your engine during flight, I'm in, Keegan :)

A few years ago at elvington the 1/4 scale guys were vtol flying with biplanes and going backwards. At that point flying was suspended for a few hours

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...I laughed, I cried. Pure fun, FT-style 😜

"You can kinda steer with the rudder." - Alex

@vroomandboom893

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alex for that piece of long forgotten aviation info

@FliteTest

6 жыл бұрын

Guys if you need flight wisdom... I have it :) - Alex

@trfpvVT

6 жыл бұрын

That made me laugh so hard

@kailenswisher9828

5 жыл бұрын

Out if context that seems really obvious

The ideas are so cool and fun Keep up the vlogs

The first time I flew my UMX Pitts S-1S biplane it was super windy and it made it very easy to land thanks to the headwind and AS3X. When I finally flew on a calm day it took a lot more effort to land safely.

Cool vídeo!

I can't wait to hopefully come to ff east 2018! You guys are awesome

Good video!!

Thats awesome. Reminds me of effective translational lift on helicopters a little bit.

Planes with wings above the center of gravity are a lot more stable, you probably changed the CG to above the wing. Fighter planes have the CG above the wing so they can roll and maneuver better.

I love this channel

That was amazing 😂😂😂

Yup. Been there, done that. In a Cessna. At 13,000 ft. Smooth as glass until we went back down to land. Lowest groundspeed I've ever had on landing. Also the worst turbulence I've ever encountered.

I flied backwards alot with high winds and its so much fun 😄

You guys have probably enjoyed going back inside the building and having a cup of hot chocolate after shooting the video ! ^^

I would assume putting a heavy GoPro on a pole like that up so high it would raise the center of gravity making turns extra sensitive. You also probably simultaneously got a 40 mile per hour wind gust

Alex: "You can steer with the rudder" Me: ya don't say?

Freakin Love u guys

New from Horizon Hobbies: "The Valiant VTOL" Yeah Alex, welcome to MY world...I live in a part of SoCal called the Inland Empire, where the winds out here commonly foil my flying plans. When I absolutely cannot resist the urge to fly in the wind, my flights look very similar to what's in this video. 💨 😑

If you avoid flying in wind you are missing out, so much fun. I flew backwards on my third flight ever. Although my plane (an AXN) virtually fly's itself anyway.

I have an old Bixler II with bog standard power on a 2200 3s that I love to fly in high winds. The wing section is thin and the airframe not too draggy so it penetrates well but you can also slow it down and fly it backwards. The wings flap like a bird in the worst turbulence though!

Nice gentle breeze... The plane did fine until Stefan did the Acro thing...! :o Thanks for posting! Happy New Year to all...!