Cool... Looks like a 30's Flash Gordon Rocket ship. 😎

Hey there Mr Gordon you need to figure out how to get some sparks to shoot out the back to look just like Saturday morning 1934 at the $0.05 theater. 👍😀👍

@juanalejandrosegura5857

Ай бұрын

Iba a comentar lo mismo!!!

Thats one of the coolest RC ever.

Thanks for sharing, fantastic model

Living proof that given enough power and a skilled pilot at the controls, you could make a washing machine fly.

@robertrussellmd

Ай бұрын

Given the slow speed flight characteristics of this model, light weight construction, clever aerodynamics and as you mentioned very skilled piloting are combined in this project. I cannot imagine maintaining orientation during rolling maneuvers with symmetrically shaped and colored craft. Respect!

@robertkeddie

Ай бұрын

Well, there's this TV advert from more than 12 years ago - kzread.info/dash/bejne/mJ6Ax7KcldCweqw.html

@combatbuff

Ай бұрын

A flying washing machine they call that a helicopter

This is a profound lesson in aerodynamics. If the drag is low and the volume is large, why do we not see vehicles like this in General Aviation?

I'm totally here for this awesome theme song!

I want plans. I need plans! Really really need plans!

I built one of these with a glow engine 30 years ago, it was a blast.

"GO FLASH, GO!"

A very old design. I can remember seeing one powered by a Cox TeeDee in the '60s. Great to see one flying again.

@mikentx57

22 күн бұрын

I remember seeing this in a magazine in the 70’s

Wow! I second what everyone else is saying. Such a cool design, so unique and far from anything I’d come up with and it flies! 👌

Outstanding!

That was WONDERFUL to watch! Great video.

Perfect song for the vid!

Very cool

This has to rate as one of the weirdest, most inspired RC planes ever! As an RC enthusiast and Flash Gordon fan, I take my hat off to you🎩

Gordon's alive, go flash go👌👍

Flash Gordon. You’ve only got 14hrs to save the earth..

I like my toast just a little darker, ThankX that was great !!!!

I remember seeing the plans for this in a Model Magazine. Either Model Airplane News, or Flying Models. I always wanted to build it...

@Wingman4l7

Ай бұрын

I think it was Model Airplane News. This model looks familiar and I had a subscription to that one for a few years, but never the other magazine.

super ottimo !! gran maestro!!💯

lifting body with perfect control very cool

Somewhere, Buck Rogers is smiling.

Wonderful aircraft. Smooth piloting. Thanks for sharing 👌

That is fantastic, exactly what I have been working on.

Love it. Whish it were a kit!

@Workerbee-zy5nx

Ай бұрын

Design your own, life ain't all foamy. 😉🤣🤣🤣🤣👌

@FatGuyFliesRC

Ай бұрын

@@Workerbee-zy5nx Great point, if only I had the time to. But yes making anything from your brain is far more satisfying.

@Workerbee-zy5nx

Ай бұрын

@@FatGuyFliesRC 🤓👌

I saw this airplane at SEFF several years ago. I didn’t see it fly, but I thought it was really cool! Turns out it flys great!

thats proper funky.well done mate.

Wow,cool Beans.

Has anyone ever built a propellor which contains the battery? I suppose the internal volume of a propellor wouldn’t be much. But some four-blade props are pretty big. Maybe the blades could be stamped out of a lithium-foil laminate.

Wow! Tha lbs so coo! Thanks for sharing ❤

Lifting body at its best.

Just how unique can one get!?.. .

Awesome !!

Cool! Now do Planet Express?

the whole model is a lifting body. amazing design.

That’s pretty dang cool!!! 👍🙋‍♂️🖖🏻

how does it even fly?? Brilliant!!

Martian Spaceship from Model Builder Magazine, August 1991.

Superb!!!

This is badass - There is no wing - except for the body of the thing. Of course you have control surfaces but THERE IS NOT WING. Most of the crash proof rc planes use rubber bands but this body shape naturally mitigates lateral shear forces. I guess if you slammed this into a brick wall you could destroy it but crashing onto asphalt, no way. You should use hinged props and perhaps use a tubular support frame within the bulbous body but this idea is BADASS. With a small adjustment to body shape you could probably get this to fly 250km easy.

@gimbal-geek

Ай бұрын

if you look closely it has rib fins on the body...without these it would be impossible to fly

Incredibly stable in roll, considering there is no wing!

LoL!!!! Awesome !!!!

Not much for carrying a load, but she's a flyer!

Flash Gordon will be proud . Verry nice model .

@marce152

Ай бұрын

Iit's too bad that he can't use Queen's theme song to Flash Gordon. That would have been cool .

@samuelcruz9258

Ай бұрын

@@marce152 100 % de acuerdo.

I can see the king pinching those sticks ;)

Horsepower is everything in an airplane

Whoa, wild dude…

Very cool. I love it.

GORDON'S ALIVE?!!

that's cool and a smooth flyer. i'd like to build a rigid airship but i have to come up with some ideas.

Sick! I want one

Very cool! Takes you back to the '50s matinees.❤ The model has gotta be gyro stabilized in the roll axis, though. Right? Or is it pure pilotage?

@gimbal-geek

16 күн бұрын

no gyro

Buck Rogers lives !

Lifting Wing Body thinga-ma-jig !!!??? YES????

Flash Gordon is alive !

Looks amaing . Proves with enough skill and smarts . Even a brick can fly

Now, if you could just add airshow smoke...!

awesome

Finally!

Ming is jellous..! 🎉😅❤

ahh ahhhhhh he saved every one of us

Do a Planet Express next.

E P I C ! ! !

FWIW: I have seen a couple photos of these things, but this is the first video.

At last an airplane without those useless wings!

You CAN'T crash. Gives me some great ideas.

The next ufo video on youtube

Do you have some lifting body action happening, or is it just a case of adding enough power to make it fly regardless.

@gimbal-geek

Ай бұрын

Fins on the body

who needs wings to fly

The adventures of Flash Gordon. That's the one they flew all the way to Mars through the ATMOSPHERE. 😆

MUSIC FROM FLASH GORDON THE MOVIE. PERFECT FOR THIS VIDEO!!!@

cool

This is so AWESOME!!!

Sept. 5th of this year? Yah, right.

@gimbal-geek

Ай бұрын

UK date format so 9th May

yes, that thing actually floes, bcs the "wing" loading is extremely low....lol!

The Martian Maggot! Almost.

All it needs is sparks coming out the rear.

an AR under 0,5 and an AoA around 25 degrees...or more, some electric motor with thrust beyond the weight...this works, sure! the plans are dound on several free online pkatforms...it,s actually quite an old design! nice someone built it again...the problem for a real size airpkane working on such vortex lift is the very low wing loading or very high power rate( as in fighter airplanes...) but all that technical detailing is not really important...it was an icon and is a nice toy...when you want to make it stable put the battery or tank on the very bottom...and keep the rest as light as possible, it.s just a hollow blimp anyways...

Where may I purchase The Spaceship?

@gimbal-geek

Ай бұрын

you can't, it has been built form scratch

This doesn’t happen until September 2024, you’re watching the future!

@gimbal-geek

23 күн бұрын

uk time format

Presque un hélicoptère

Does it use any kind of active stabilization? I'd imagine the thing is very unstable in roll axis

@gimbal-geek

Ай бұрын

no gyro whatsoever, John is a very experienced and capable pilot. the body has rib fins to help it stable but that's it

@linecraftman3907

Ай бұрын

@@gimbal-geek very impressive, John is a great pilot

@herryrachmad333

Ай бұрын

@@gimbal-geek other word, the wide body as a wing ? i woud like to build one and with foam/polyfoam, but i dont know it will fly or no, may i know the wide and lenght the model and also the total weight with the ilpo battery includ .....thanks for share the amazing model

impossible to tipstall

I think it was 6-5-2024....? ...lol...... how does this fly ?

@gimbal-geek

29 күн бұрын

no definitely the 9th...it's a lifting body design

Hawk Men ... DIVE!

what is the name of the model?

@gimbal-geek

Ай бұрын

spaceship

@PushparajAmeen

Ай бұрын

@@gimbal-geek thank you

helium airship rc? should float without any prop power. yep foil balloon should be enough.

@gimbal-geek

Ай бұрын

No helium

Does it fly knife edge?

@gimbal-geek

26 күн бұрын

No it's 3 channel no alierons just rudder and elevator

@zefkosta

26 күн бұрын

@@gimbal-geek try mixing elevons.

@gimbal-geek

26 күн бұрын

@@zefkosta has a 1 piece elevator so not possible

Wewll done indeed John!!

Is it a lifting body or helium-filled?

@gimbal-geek

Ай бұрын

no helium

@andrewallen9993

Ай бұрын

Hydrogen. As when they crash and burn they are safer for passengers than a Boeing 737 MAX!

This is a very old design, probably free flight as originally drawn

@tonywright8294

Ай бұрын

Thinks it’s called windbag

@tonytek1

Ай бұрын

RC Martian Spaceship Aug 1991 Model Builder Magazine. Was on front cover.

@farmer7229

Ай бұрын

a smoke system would really set it off

@davidnewbrook8628

Ай бұрын

⁠Definitely the Windbag, the plans were available through the Aeromodeller Plans Service.

that's just awesome!

I want one bad! how?

A very old design. I can remember seeing one powered by a Cox TeeDee in the '60s. Great to see one flying again.