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@glike2

Жыл бұрын

Can you please post a weight breakdown? I left some design tips for version 2 drawing on my few decades of structural and aeronautical engineering background.

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Жыл бұрын

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@christopherleveck6835

Жыл бұрын

You need a greater angle on your dihedral and or the polyhedrals and I can't tell if you're detail is set right or not but it should be 100°. Both those things will make a huge difference.

@RWBHere

Жыл бұрын

I hope that April has been taking flying lessons by now. Thanks for the videos. 🙂👍

@youtuberschannel12

10 күн бұрын

You should've went with a flying wing design.

I saw a true master composite layup guy doing sailplane wings once, and he added so many different tape strips/yarn/pinstriping tape to the layup sandwich that seemed to have no effect on the final wing. Most of them were there just to make cleanup and trimming easier! It's a real dark art, and a lot of the art is just about making it faster and easier on yourself with less work afterwards and less waste.

Imagine registering an RC craft.

I would love to see a beginner series on a fiberglass and foam plane by you. You make it look easy but it is a pretty deep set of skills.

@itscaptainterry

Жыл бұрын

This!!!!

@nic9172

11 ай бұрын

And keep that intermingled crap about his wife out of it

@Wings_of_foam

7 ай бұрын

They sounded like a high school couple. Why would he include that?@@nic9172

@lu4414

5 ай бұрын

​@@nic9172 I found it to be fun and entertaining.

Great content! Look forward to seeing more exploration flights and ultra light weight powered gliders. 👍🏼😊

Really enjoyed the second story line! Nice one, April!

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

So she’s “Thinking of flight”?……ok, that was bad. Honestly, including your wife’s interest in flight is a great addition to your channel. Keep encouraging April…she’s an inspiration to many.

@bashkillszombies

Жыл бұрын

Only libertarians who want mail order brides.

@christopherwharton6022

Жыл бұрын

Was it good, or was it great?

@nic9172

11 ай бұрын

It was annoying as fuck. I was coming here to see the intricacies of the construction of the plane, not his Asian war bride goofing off in an airplane. The fact that it was mixed in made the whole video trash

Good format and build. And great seeing you and your wife so happy.

Your craftsmanship is a pleasure to watch.... exciting about the piloting potential!

You need to catch it. Very impressive build. Maybe dial it back 20% so you get the wind penetration up by adding weight. A lighter larger sub 250 glider would be impressive indoors.

Came for the interesting RC exploration, stayed for your wife's awesome adventure into becoming a pilot. That's amazing. High flights and happy landings to you both.

I'm so happy to see April taking an interest in your hobby!

One of your best videos so far! April is so natural on cam which is not easy to many. And I bet, especially with your severe health scare, that she really is a supporting star. And yes, thanks soooo much for working on the ePOXy prounouncation. Takes a strong person to change his ways this much;)

I'm thrilled to see old school balsa ribs in your preview for the next step. Film covered open balsa structure is hard to beat on the low end of the speed range for a super light airframe. Integrating higher performance structural materials (anything from spruce to carbon fiber) where it can contribute the most (spars!) will allow for larger aircraft. Side note: in my experience, sailplanes dependent on dihedral for roll (no ailerons) a big rudder is necessary to be effective. Really enjoyed the vid and CONGRATS to your wife on taking on the flying bug! I'm eagerly anticipating the next vid.

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

Old school is new school!

So majestic!

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

Sailplanes man, just.... yeah

Could you please consider a video on your foam wire cutter? That stepper motor setup is fascinating... Love your work, as always!

This was a very enjoyable video to watch. The interspersion of the wife's flight segments with the build information made this both informative and entertaining. Nice job editing.

Loving the video. I am a pilot myself and I know how she feels! Love your models as well. Great skill!

I love so much that your wife is enjoying the flight experience. You go April.

Very impressed with your 2m+ build of a 249g automous winged drone. Not only does it have smarts to self navigate, you managed to reenforce the wings, etc. with fibreglass. Had expected to be just bare foam, or foam wrapped in a heat-shrink film. When saw the teaser photo, had thought this to be a pitcheron design with servos mounted near CG. Thought I was doing good building a 1.2m wing this past summer that was ~230g. I bow to you, clearly have a super power when it comes to designing/building unique RC models. BTW: Regarding April's flying interests, I'd highly recommend starting with learning to fly in a sailplane. It's the purest form of flight. Besides for most more complex aircraft when it comes to learning to pilot, it seems 80% of learning involves what to do when the engine, or something related to the engine quits working as expected. This not an issue with a sailplane. ;)

3:35 I liked seeing the repair on the crack here, a simple hole to relieve the stresses and stop the crack in its course. Such an appropriate fix for a glider

Very enjoyable seeing someone with the skills , knowledge and perseverance take a idea and make it fly. Subbed😊

@2:09 "Smoking betty" please share in your next video how it works. I see 4 stepper motors guiding the bow. very cool!

Thanks for taking us on another fun and personal journey. Learning lots, and its keeping my dreams alive.

This is awesome! And its always great to see new people get into flying!

Your in-flight video from the other drone is just awe inspiring, as usual.

Very interesting cnc hot wire? cutter. Never seen something like this before.

Fantastic video! I love how several topics were split up along the video, it's really easy to not lose attention with that layout

Great work again! I'm happy that the channel is letting you and your wife explore such new and exciting things for her!

Was super looking forward to this video once I saw your teaser photo. Flight duration and range will always be best with fixed-wing, and sailplane-style airframes may be able to improve it further with thermalling capabilities.

Your videos are great! Thank you for sharing.

I really like your storytelling style of editing with the 2 storylines interlaced and different perspectives of the same scenes, good stuff! Subscribed.

Thank you so much for what you guys do! You inspire a lot of people

THX for pursuing the sub-250 idea!!! It had been on my mind ever since that new drone rule came up. 👍 for more attempts - will be even more so a definite follower!

This is wicked awesome, I love your lightweight glider ! Enjoyed this whole video!

I used 4 of those same batteries in my electric quad I made last year - works amazing and get around a 70km range.

No way! That glider that TF's Wife flew in is the same model as the training gliders at my gliding club in Australia, the ASK-21. I guess they really are widespread!

Really nice-looking build and even with its aero shortcomings, you did a decent job on the aerodynamics. The bottom line is, you did it. Congrats.

I love that you called out the heli pilots skill level. Loved that little note (:

April is delightful! The clip of the baby @9:05 is adorable.

Stunning plane. Looking forward to future developments.

I love everyone of your videos im learning so much while enjoying myself

My favorite Chanel on KZread! Merry Christmas Buddy!

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

Same to you!

This is such an amazing channel.... I'm hooked!

Reminds me of an 80" flying wing I built using an HS522 foil. It used 2s indoor gear for propulsion. Didn't quite have enough twist in the wing but thermaled fantasticly. Initial cg test flights didn't go well, lol. It was probably 15 years ago but it weighed way less than your typical Gentle Lady. I still have it but haven't flown it in a while.

This is so awesome! You guys are amazing!🎉

Great video. I probably will follow your fiberglass techniques. 😅 Really nice to include your whole family! The wing balance stripes were done so tastefully I thought they were cosmetic 😁

This is the first time I am seeing your channel. Loved it at the first minute. Greeting from Europe

That machine is so light and so simple, really beautiful.

congrats on the growth! :3

April is great ! Thanks.

Thanks Think Flight, for showing us how large an unregistered drone can get!

@winstonsmith478

Жыл бұрын

In the US at least, DRONES aren't registered, drone PILOTS are.

Great to see April's increasing interest in becoming a pilot. The future of R/C is 250grams, thanks for exploring the envelope of what is possible which in the oppressive restriction.

This makes a good point. The restriction is weight, not size.

Nice! Yep, more dihedral needed for rudder/elevator only.

definitely an interesting one, can't wait to see what you come up with

beautiful build

This is fantastic! If you revisit this again, let me know how I can help you out. We got our laser up and running too. What was your wingspan in the end? Awesome to watch April get some experience with various aircraft. Cool she wants to be a pilot!

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

82". I need to close our deal out for you brother!

your week beats my year well done

Good job on the sub 250G UAV, I think it has merit , I would like to see a follow up video on it. You guys today have it so nice if you want an autopilot all you have to do is buy one and you have a plethora of autopilots to select from and there are super light weight GPS's with high data refresh rates. Back when I first started building UAV's I had to build our own autopilots and I used hand held Garman 12 GPS's.

Nice work! Very interesting both the glider and seeing what your wife's glider flight was like. If I was taking her for an introductory flight, I would have had her on the controls as much as possible! And have a decent lesson too. Some instructors just keep most of the control themselves sadly...

I'm sure not only me would appreciate if a list of the parts//materials use to build .. as always thanks for the videos and such !

Stellar content! I would love to see more details on the hardware and autopilot setup. Did you make that CNC hotwire yourself?

@leighhutchins5058

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I was interested in “smoking Betty” too. Looks like a double ended Maslow cnc. More info please!?

I'm also about to build a CNC hotwire cutter; cutting the parts by hand is rather difficult. Great video!

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

what a beautiful plane, cant wait for a part 2

I like the way you do the spar slots.

I got my ppl (single engine land) last may, best decision I have ever done. tell the wife, go for it.

Awesome video , story from the wife was a nice to follow

Very cool!

1. cut holes in foam to lighten. 2. Use lighter fibreglass at wing tips, heavier inboard.

Really good video from both of you 👍👍

amazing work as always... 250g limit is a joke... I've built 80" .52cu glow kadet seniors at about 3.5kg, that is another level of fun... its still legal in my country thankfully

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

It is quite silly, I agree.

So inspiring! Please provide more details in upcoming videos. What is your take on flying wings for a sub 249g construction? Would it be a way to save weight and use it for larger wing area/stronger build?

love you videos man, love RC, i want your foam rig!

Absolutely love your Chanel

If there’s “Crop Circles” in the desert, are they still called crop circles?

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

nope, out there they are called OHV tracks

The topgear type intros are awasome

Hello Think Flight, amazing video as always! One quick question, what kind of hardware do you use for the autopilot? They must be very small to fit in that fuselage. I want to build light weight autonomous airplane, so I'd appreciate if you could tell me what you used. If you have already showed them on another video, would you tell me which one?

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

In this case I used an MRO Control Zero, but this could easily be done with any of the 20x20 5g autopilots available by companies like Matek, Diatone etc.

What? YOU designed the Nano Goblin! I freaking love mine. That plane is a beast.

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it turned out well! RMRC really went all out on proper execution, I could not be happier.

Your videography is top notch!

Helicopters are incredibly more difficult to fly than planes. You can think of flying a plane as 10x harder than driving a car, and flying a helicopter as 10x harder than flying a plane. I have a private pilots license for planes, and later took a single student flight in a helicopter. That being said, I think flying a helicopter would be a lot more fun and interesting in the long term, and getting muscle memory for the twitchy helicopter controls definitely requires a lot of practice. I also suspect the career aspect for professional pilots probably weighs in the favor of becoming a helicopter pilot.

I love such projects ! Just beautiful

Seemed like there was potential for lightening holes throughout the wing, to shave more weight, but not sure how it'd be done pre-vacuum bagging. Also makes me ponder whether my young childhood days of balsa and doped paper gliders would be lighter for same given size.

can you make a wing from just the mylar filled with air? like remove the foam after the covering has hardened, maybe some internal spars..

Respect = GREAT PRESENTATION

If you add a 3x1 millimeter carbon fiber spar and put it on edge the wing will not Bend at all. I did that with to UMX radian wings 45.5 inch wingspan

Nice video. Our idea of 'stiff enough' is clearly different lol. But then again, I'm a member of the BHPFC, so anything that doesn't break at cruise conditions is fine for me. Anyway, you can definitely shed some weight from the wing spar, leave out the fiberglass, and lighten the tail a bit. That does mean you can only fly in super calm conditions and it won't survive any landing harder than a perfect one, but you can do it if you want to. What airfoil did you use? I suppose an AG...? Pretty good airfoils, if you expose the foam it might transition a bit earlier, causing slightly less drag. Edit: Glad your wife enjoyed the flights. I had a day of glider flying for my birthday two years ago. It was way too hot that day - in the cockpit it felt like 45 + °C. So yes, I got sick. I don't think I would have been sick if it was cooler. Also, on my very first flight, the winch cable broke, so that was funny.

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

AG08 for this one. Probably could have gone thinner, the wing was plenty stiff.

Amazing video bro

Awesome build!

so many RC channels these days. You guys just earned my sub because of the relationship with you wife, and how she is apart of your videos!

What gets me about drone registration is that I can hold a heavy drone-shaped-object in my hand in front of me but the FAA wants me to register the thing if it can be in that exact same place but not held by my hand. The FAA regulating airspace below the top of my head seems silly at best. Your plane construction is great and I hope the wife keeps on flying - it's a terrific hobby.

@vaakdemandante8772

Жыл бұрын

No, they want you to register heavy objects that you want to fly above other people's heads and property. If a drone falls to the ground and does damage the authorities need to be able to identify to whom it belongs. I don't know the exact wording of the law but would bet you can own as many heavy drones as you like without registration but need to register them before you fly them.

With a drone that only weighs 250g, it should be pretty easy to bring it down via parachute. Especially since the comparatively huge wing area could probably act as enough of a parachute for a safe landing, as long as you "give them enough encouragement" to stay perfectly flat. I'm thinking about a small "pilot parachute" that attaches at 3 or 4 points. Sadly even the little bit of extra weight would make your wing span less competitive for the record length you are going for. But maybe it would also be possible to fold the tail up by 90°...

@thinkflight

Жыл бұрын

The 90' solution like they use in free flight is a great zero extra weight option.

Once aviation gets in your blood it is there for life! enjoy! Now vtails on gliders seem like a great idea but they take a lot of tuning to get them right. You may have to consider some differential on the throws or just go with a conventional tail. Yes more dihedral on the outer panels will help with the stability. Careful you may get hooked on rc gliders .

I'm pretty sure there was not point to the carbon since you glassed the whole wing. Enjoying the video of course. Enjoyed the mylar technique you demonstrated.

I love the shop work. I love the story of April exploring piloting. Jumping back and forth between the two stories, though, I did not dig.

Coulda saved a few grams by going single skin on the wings. The mylar mostly adds tensile strength so the bottom skin adds most of the strength you get from it. If you’re smart about it you can make the ribs foam, in sections, like they do in human powered planes.

So there we have it, a plane lacking an onboard system for battery voltage is more dangerous than a plane over 250g with voltage display that can be safely brought home without crashing into something or someone.

Great video. Beautiful little plane. Love the f-117 endorsement by the little dude

Recently heard some great things about Depron foam -- rigid (needs little carbon fiber reinforcement), and lighter than EPP -- but I don't know how it'd hold up to vacuum bag building techniques.

What drone did you use for chasing the glider? Beautiful shots!