Use, “lime dust,” like the kind used on grass for football games to contrast your lawn target. It will make it easier for all to see in the videos and would make a more defined image in you video broadcasts. Making the lawn target is an excellent idea. I hope you guy’s continue to make great videos for the young at heart. I wish their was this kind of tech when I used to build models and fly.
Dropping a platoon of parachute army guys could also be used for this big new target thing, too, to see how many land within the zone to get the most points
Are posts with links to other UA-cam videos not allowed? If true, I only found a video with some Aussies dropping a bunch of army guys with a Flite Test plane plus a video where they dropped two RC paragliders on a whim at a flight festival in, I think, VA
C-47s converted to gunships received the designation of AC-47s and were called "Puff-the-Magic-Dragon" in Vietnam. They were excellent for busting up Vietcong truck convoys. 7.62 and 20mm Gatling guns chew up trucks quite well.
That's a tall order, but it's possible. 3d print or buy gearboxes to be used with tiny motors. Maybe rc car, they have reverse so maybe you can traverse with this, and use the steering servo for gun elevation.
Having a bombardier was so AWESOME!!! Flitetest feels like it's getting back to it's roots. Doing fun stuff just because, but I miss the swede. He was so much fun with Flitetest. These big planes have been so much fun to watch.
Awesome video! Really like how the fruit ball " stuck " the landing. How about an 8 or 10 pound shot put ball ? Or a similar weight paper mache ball filled with a colored powder
Dude! You guys are on a golf course, right? Wouldn’t it be awesome to do a bombing golf challenge? Like, actual golf balls dropped from planes trying to get to the green and then putting it in OR maybe putting could be running up the engines when the ball is on the green to blow it in the hole. Could be amazing!
Yes, they own the golf course, but last I remember, it is still used as a golf course part of the time. That didn't close down right when they bought it, but I don't know when it will finally close down
airsoft wont do enough damage from that far away on foam board. If they flew a balsa and tissue skinned plane like the old school style then yeah they could do enough damage from 200 feet away.
Even RC bomb drops are a challenge! Wonder how hard it would be to do a “Nordon” style bomb drop. Imagine having a flight controller that uses telemetry to set up your plane and project the trajectory of your ordinances drop into your camera. Obviously that would be a huge software challenge, but fun to fantasize how it could be achieved small scale
Love the 3D-printed/music wire solution for the landing gear! Someone is clearly a Harry Potter fan, modeling the release on the bludger chains. I simply can't wait for the plans!
First, this has become a hardhat required project. An accidental drop of 10 pounds could be lethal. Second, it's fireworks season, make a bomb run through a flack barrage.
If you know your airspeed at 400ft, you can easily determine the distance from release to impact, and build a better sight that’s looking that much ahead. Pull trigger on crosshairs. I can see this developing into a competition with different bomber models and points to bullseye. Great video guys Heck, thinking about it more, every plane in the competition has a flight board to ensure same altitude. Why not go all out, and during a competition run, a single fighter from the opposing team tries to interfere with the points-bomb run Standardized bombs with a mixture of talc and lawn feed that explodes on impact
@@NathanMN it has sooooo many possibilities as a team FPV sport. Imagine this. The same team on defense that has a single fighter in the air for each offensive bombing run, also has a FPV anti-aircraft gun near the bombing target. Jesus. You could feasibly, due to the size of the bombers, have a single FPV turret gun on each bomber. All FPV operators would be done via Flite Test’s ground stations.
@@NathanMN Well the problem with that is that the angle of attack they fly at is going to be different with payload weight and wind speed. If they were to fly level with that 10 pound weight the plane would sink like a rock.
@@adamhale6672 That's why I specified angle of bank, not angle of attack. The reason being if the camera is fixed to the fuselage pointing directly down, it will only be useful when the wings are level. If the aircraft is banked at all, the camera won't be pointed where the payload will drop. So the "bombardier" can ensure it's level before dropping it.
This is by far the most entertaining video on you tube.... Great good job gentleman.... Need one that brakes open full of something fun. Paint ..or baby powder.. Black powder and primer...
@@tahoma6889 I don't see anywhere in the law where it states you cannot remotely drop a lawn dart from any particular altitude. You can also change the name. Elon Musk built a flamethrower and called it "not a flamethrower" and sold thousands legally. Just change the name from lawn dart to "pointy Sky dropper"...
Another great one, love the C-47! I don't know how your laws are, but you need a golfball cannon! It also does salutes with no golfball, Independence Day mine fires every year. Family business, American Cannons, Mr. Boyer is awesome. Hope to get up that way soon. Cheers!
You guys need a bunker to stand under with 2"s of plywood sheeting the roof, similar to a dug out, I don't want to see you guys get hurt. That is a killing machine. Stay safe my friend, 👍❤
Love these recent videos. Really hoping Top Gun Maverick gets some more interest in aviation, would love to see you guys do a series of naval jet builds and reenacting of scenes when that movie drops!!
Flite Test is awesome! Love what you do. I'd like to see you drop a sealed liter of coke half full and allow the Mentos to mix in with tumble or spin aerodynamics on the liter bottle as it falls. The impact explosion should be epic esp. if you add some red food color!
The bombsight idea is truly awesome! But the one huge difference between this sight and the real life bomber bombsights is the fact that the real sights were fine tuned to hit the target from whatever altitude the aircraft was at. This sight was just mounted downwards and you're not going to have any precision with that. But still a for effort!
I have been a big fan of flite test for a long time, I have built almost all their diy planes, bought plenty of their parts and I have loved flying rc for a long time now, but I am finding all their new recent videos are just for shock factor which is very cool, but... flite test used to be easy for anyone to do and their videos would inspire me to build. But now all their videos are monster builds and really just not do-able for most people. I am hoping that they will circle back around to inspire me to build new planes and come up with new diy projects.
Good stuff! I just recently watched your video where you airdropped an rc truck and I really want to do that but the truck will be strapped onto a barge and its all on rails so it slides out the back of the plane like butter when i activate. The plane will drop the barge w/ the truck, itll parachute into water, the barge will continue the journey on water, reaches a spot and drops off the truck onto land, truck drives through woods and finds clearing, launches tiny whoop out of the back of the truck! So 4 RC vehicles in one, plane, boat, truck and whoop.
I was driving through California rice fields the other day and Schweitzer Ag-cat biplanes were crop dusting. You guys need to build some crop dusters and spray water or dye on the grass/ground. Points for accuracy and coverage without too much overspray!
velocity and altitude could be compensated by having another servo tilt your sight so you could drop when the cross-hairs are on top of the target, instead of guessing like shooting skeet/trap. GPS/LORAN more accurate for SOG vs Altimeter/Peto tube? Some type of visible scale in the fpv sight indicating the azimuth
That's my dream as well. I run an aeronautical engineering club as well as work for the summer as an engineer on missile programs at the company that makes most of the US's missiles. I've wanted to team with my school's rocketry and guidance clubs to make a guided missile, but the FAA is pretty stingy about air launched rockets. That being said, we have the commercial licensing and can apply for a waiver, so maybe it's worth a shot.
You guys continue to be so awesome with your videos. This Old Man from North Carolina been following since almost day 1. Always looking forward to your next video. ✈️😎💖
Hey guys, great job on that last drop. I had an idea for you guys. You can use one of those things they use to mark football fields or a seed spreader with chalk or something similar and mark the bullseye with that. It would look soo good. Keep up the great content guys.
There seems to be a rather serious case of "Magnus Effect" on the released ordinance. Perhaps a way to incrementally "dial-in" the sights is in order? Or perhaps a streamer dragging along behind like a kite tail?
I would recommend holding together the drop mechanism with something else like a rubber band or other material and have it be able to be cut/unlatched with a servo so the servo doesn't have as much tension, that's all, great video though!
Since the people of FlightTest are doing high altitude bomb dropping, i recommend building the B-17 Flying Fortress or the SBD Dauntless for the next build model.
Mimicking an old style bomb sight by having the camera angle change to account for speed and altitude could be a fun project. A flight controller could provide most of the needed info for adjustments.
If I were in the shop with you guys, I'd be moving towards the bombardier having trim control of rudder, and the sight itself. Cheap to set up. A longer approach should work. Goal being too get the sight on target aiming at bullseye, adjust sight trim, until you can get a SPAM loaf into a kiddie pool from 100 feet. After all, tons of SPAM flew aboard the aircraft during the war.
How about dropping a lot of those little poppers that explode on contact. Strafe targets on the ground. Should look nice towards evening. Outstanding job guys.
Use, “lime dust,” like the kind used on grass for football games to contrast your lawn target. It will make it easier for all to see in the videos and would make a more defined image in you video broadcasts. Making the lawn target is an excellent idea. I hope you guy’s continue to make great videos for the young at heart. I wish their was this kind of tech when I used to build models and fly.
I still want to see you make a firefighting plane. Drop some water on a BBQ pit. It'll be cool.
Can we signal-boost this?
ooh yeah, that would be fun to watch.
Oh good idea
They did that a long time ago, like 8 years?
@@biko9824 I've been through the old videos and I never saw it. Can you link it please?
Now we need a Paratrooper drop from the C-47! Dropping mini-chutes
it would be really cool if you could figure out a way to drop a line of army-men paratroopers.
They already did a few years ago
Dropping a platoon of parachute army guys could also be used for this big new target thing, too, to see how many land within the zone to get the most points
Are posts with links to other UA-cam videos not allowed?
If true, I only found a video with some Aussies dropping a bunch of army guys with a Flite Test plane plus a video where they dropped two RC paragliders on a whim at a flight festival in, I think, VA
@@meribor in the video where they dropped the men they had a target set uo
I'll try looking for the video again, but search didn't bring it up
That Fruit by the Foot crater was epic! Thanks for dropping our ball and making our dreams come true. Nice job as always!
Hello
Hi
@TKOR .... dents by the foot. Hmmm? I wonder if BIX replaced his divot
When I saw the froot by the foot ball it made me want to eat it but I would save it for more videos
Hi
love the vids! I was hoping you could make an AC 130 in the future with controllable turrets!
C-47s converted to gunships received the designation of AC-47s and were called "Puff-the-Magic-Dragon" in Vietnam.
They were excellent for busting up Vietcong truck convoys. 7.62 and 20mm Gatling guns chew up trucks quite well.
Yes do that please. I have had the controllable airsoft turret. idea for a year now.
Turret's that shoot
That's a tall order, but it's possible. 3d print or buy gearboxes to be used with tiny motors. Maybe rc car, they have reverse so maybe you can traverse with this, and use the steering servo for gun elevation.
Having a bombardier was so AWESOME!!! Flitetest feels like it's getting back to it's roots. Doing fun stuff just because, but I miss the swede. He was so much fun with Flitetest. These big planes have been so much fun to watch.
You need a bowling ball? Hit up the thrift stores, they always have bowling balls.
Play it again sports
They go to one not there
Just make sure you don't get a sticky, red one
America doesn’t have thrift stores but they have a similar store called goodwill
What if they carpet bomb them
You guys bring a lot of joy into my life.
Thanks for the video.
Awesome video! Really like how the fruit ball " stuck " the landing.
How about an 8 or 10 pound shot put ball ?
Or a similar weight paper mache ball filled with a colored powder
Dude! You guys are on a golf course, right? Wouldn’t it be awesome to do a bombing golf challenge? Like, actual golf balls dropped from planes trying to get to the green and then putting it in OR maybe putting could be running up the engines when the ball is on the green to blow it in the hole. Could be amazing!
Once the whole golf course is closed, perhaps, bc that would likely destroy the putting green
@@meribor Well, they own the golf course and don't use it for golfing anymore, so I think that they're good to go.
Yes, they own the golf course, but last I remember, it is still used as a golf course part of the time. That didn't close down right when they bought it, but I don't know when it will finally close down
You should make a big B-17 Ye’ old pub and franz stigler’s bf-109 and do a reenactment of their encounter
Finally! Someone who knows History!
@@natagunmaker6785 thanks
@@noobly2306 Your welcome
Dude that exactly what I thought the story you are talking about is great
Tell the pub to get me a beer
Even a foam rc C-47 ROCKS!!! BEST plane ever!! THANKS FOLKS!
You guys should make an AA gun with air soft to battle this plane
Yes, fpv AA gun. Goal, do damage.. each time they try for the bullseye, means more damage they must compensate for. Make a team game of it.
airsoft wont do enough damage from that far away on foam board. If they flew a balsa and tissue skinned plane like the old school style then yeah they could do enough damage from 200 feet away.
@@paddington1670 preciated balsa wood 🪵
Instead of airsoft use model rockets🚀
@@thecommentary6899 I was thinking bottle rockets. Which would be near impossible to have accurate, but mannn would it look awesome lol
Get a baseball wheeled chalk liner and outline the rings. You can even color chalk it..... red bullseye, black, blue, white inside to out.......
Even RC bomb drops are a challenge! Wonder how hard it would be to do a “Nordon” style bomb drop.
Imagine having a flight controller that uses telemetry to set up your plane and project the trajectory of your ordinances drop into your camera. Obviously that would be a huge software challenge, but fun to fantasize how it could be achieved small scale
I would love to see you guys make a VTOL airplane with the rotating wings, like the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey.
That would be sick!
Love the 3D-printed/music wire solution for the landing gear! Someone is clearly a Harry Potter fan, modeling the release on the bludger chains. I simply can't wait for the plans!
The C-47 looks amazing at that scale!!
First, this has become a hardhat required project. An accidental drop of 10 pounds could be lethal.
Second, it's fireworks season, make a bomb run through a flack barrage.
If you know your airspeed at 400ft, you can easily determine the distance from release to impact, and build a better sight that’s looking that much ahead. Pull trigger on crosshairs. I can see this developing into a competition with different bomber models and points to bullseye. Great video guys
Heck, thinking about it more, every plane in the competition has a flight board to ensure same altitude. Why not go all out, and during a competition run, a single fighter from the opposing team tries to interfere with the points-bomb run
Standardized bombs with a mixture of talc and lawn feed that explodes on impact
Also, put a level bubble so it's visible on camera to show the bank angle.
@@NathanMN it has sooooo many possibilities as a team FPV sport.
Imagine this. The same team on defense that has a single fighter in the air for each offensive bombing run, also has a FPV anti-aircraft gun near the bombing target.
Jesus. You could feasibly, due to the size of the bombers, have a single FPV turret gun on each bomber.
All FPV operators would be done via Flite Test’s ground stations.
@@NathanMN Well the problem with that is that the angle of attack they fly at is going to be different with payload weight and wind speed. If they were to fly level with that 10 pound weight the plane would sink like a rock.
@@adamhale6672 That's why I specified angle of bank, not angle of attack. The reason being if the camera is fixed to the fuselage pointing directly down, it will only be useful when the wings are level. If the aircraft is banked at all, the camera won't be pointed where the payload will drop. So the "bombardier" can ensure it's level before dropping it.
Golf Rule: Replace your divots!
Wow, that crosshair marker is just about spot-on from what I'm seeing in this production video. Good build!
Make mini paratroopers and trooper drop mechanism and drop them from 300ft. It would be mega Pog
Great video! Keep it up! I’ve been watch you guys for years.
That was crazy cool. Love watching all the wild things you guys come up with.
How could anyone dislike this video? This was one of your best! Great job guys.
This is by far the most entertaining video on you tube.... Great good job gentleman.... Need one that brakes open full of something fun. Paint ..or baby powder.. Black powder and primer...
What a coincidence! I'm just finishing 3d printing out my rc C-47!
Drop an old school lawn dart see how far it goes into the ground.
That would be unlawful.
@@tahoma6889 I don't see anywhere in the law where it states you cannot remotely drop a lawn dart from any particular altitude. You can also change the name. Elon Musk built a flamethrower and called it "not a flamethrower" and sold thousands legally. Just change the name from lawn dart to "pointy Sky dropper"...
Soooo epic!!!!! That plane is insanely powerful I love it!!! And that dropping mechanism is genius!
David rocked that landing gear. Excellent design form and function. Great addition to the team and love seeing him get more and more comfortable!
Yes!!!! BOMB SIGHTS!!
Drop a whole army of parachute troopers on the target!
Another great one, love the C-47! I don't know how your laws are, but you need a golfball cannon! It also does salutes with no golfball, Independence Day mine fires every year. Family business, American Cannons, Mr. Boyer is awesome. Hope to get up that way soon. Cheers!
That first bounced landing brought back some great memories of The Tim Conway show from back in 1970. 😂 Well done!
Since you got the bullseye you need to have a competition dropping different color lawn darts
That would be unlawful. But I get it..
You guys need a bunker to stand under with 2"s of plywood sheeting the roof, similar to a dug out, I don't want to see you guys get hurt. That is a killing machine. Stay safe my friend, 👍❤
Rest Easy Grant❤❤ O.G King of Random.
you guys seriously need to make a massive model airliner sometime.
Love these recent videos. Really hoping Top Gun Maverick gets some more interest in aviation, would love to see you guys do a series of naval jet builds and reenacting of scenes when that movie drops!!
Fantastic flying, guys! Great job!!! 😂
Stay safe there with your families! 🖖😊
Flite Test is awesome! Love what you do. I'd like to see you drop a sealed liter of coke half full and allow the Mentos to mix in with tumble or spin aerodynamics on the liter bottle as it falls. The impact explosion should be epic esp. if you add some red food color!
Nice vid great to see more content 😃
This video deserves a million likes 👍
Flying under the bridge with a GIANT airplane would make for a epic video!
Beautiful! Next evolution: add a buddy box to the setup, so the bombardier has the plane for the drop.
Can’t stop watching very cool thanks love people who are into fun gonna join your podcast wanna be involved
Good afternoon everyone!!
The bombsight idea is truly awesome! But the one huge difference between this sight and the real life bomber bombsights is the fact that the real sights were fine tuned to hit the target from whatever altitude the aircraft was at. This sight was just mounted downwards and you're not going to have any precision with that. But still a for effort!
I'm going to make my first plane tomorrow!!!!
Enjoy
Cool
@@Idkwhatnameyt ikr
@@lewismcgarry1349 thnx :)
@@VirKap99 no problem :D
Do a viatnam battle field air support with the c130 armed with airsoft guns
I have been a big fan of flite test for a long time, I have built almost all their diy planes, bought plenty of their parts and I have loved flying rc for a long time now, but I am finding all their new recent videos are just for shock factor which is very cool, but... flite test used to be easy for anyone to do and their videos would inspire me to build. But now all their videos are monster builds and really just not do-able for most people. I am hoping that they will circle back around to inspire me to build new planes and come up with new diy projects.
Good stuff! I just recently watched your video where you airdropped an rc truck and I really want to do that but the truck will be strapped onto a barge and its all on rails so it slides out the back of the plane like butter when i activate. The plane will drop the barge w/ the truck, itll parachute into water, the barge will continue the journey on water, reaches a spot and drops off the truck onto land, truck drives through woods and finds clearing, launches tiny whoop out of the back of the truck! So 4 RC vehicles in one, plane, boat, truck and whoop.
You fellas have come a long way since trying to make a cinder block fly. That is one of my all time favs.
Dave is the star of this channel.
You guys need to see if you can find a Vet who dropped bombs with that kind of site and give them the chance to drop for you.
They can also teach you.
Buenísimo gente , saludos desde España!!!!
I was driving through California rice fields the other day and Schweitzer Ag-cat biplanes were crop dusting. You guys need to build some crop dusters and spray water or dye on the grass/ground. Points for accuracy and coverage without too much overspray!
Make an F1 car fly!! 🏎
Hey guys make a safety parachute for an airplane
Plz do that
I would like to see a Norden bombsight on a massive B-17 and drop paint bombs (either powder or liquid)
That was cool!!! Now try a small pumpkin!!
So cool, you guys are living the life 13 year old me imagined! 😎
Y'all should make the B-18 Bolo bomber, it is a pretty simple looking build sort of resembling the C-47
Nice video! Y’all should make a massive night vapor, that’d be really cool
Awesome content thanks for the upload.
Love the bombardier fpv feed, just need to fine tune it and have a bullseye contest.
velocity and altitude could be compensated by having another servo tilt your sight so you could drop when the cross-hairs are on top of the target, instead of guessing like shooting skeet/trap. GPS/LORAN more accurate for SOG vs Altimeter/Peto tube? Some type of visible scale in the fpv sight indicating the azimuth
A level flight indicator too. As flaps could pitch nose up/down changing sights azimuth
Lol! That Fruit By The Foot made one heck of a hole lol. And it's still good lol.
That looks like a new contest where viewers and others ccx an compete for prizes. Great good.
Or Insert parachute to plane such that it launches autometically whan damaged by bullets or another plane😀😁🤗
TKOR! been watching since creating mini metal foundry
Drop a load of snap peas.
Huge Fan btw!!! 👋🏼
Been asking for a bombers view for years and this was great
AHAH! The bullseye on the field revealed as I was on my way home from Edgewater!
I love to watch your videos they a really fun!!
I also like the water idea as already added but do a lake scoop with the plane before dropping on the BBQ ?
Get loads of toy plastic paratroopers and drop them at the same time, that would be soo coool
You guys should a do a guided middle that gets drop out a plane that would be my dream And can you also if you can make a ac130
That's my dream as well. I run an aeronautical engineering club as well as work for the summer as an engineer on missile programs at the company that makes most of the US's missiles. I've wanted to team with my school's rocketry and guidance clubs to make a guided missile, but the FAA is pretty stingy about air launched rockets.
That being said, we have the commercial licensing and can apply for a waiver, so maybe it's worth a shot.
You should attach a model rocket to the plane like a missile, or make working torpedoes to drop from a corsair
I have a idea,Can you install a parachute to plane 🛩️ which one button press launch it .helps when your plane misbehaves in mid air👌✨✨👌
You guys continue to be so awesome with your videos. This Old Man from North Carolina been following since almost day 1. Always looking forward to your next video. ✈️😎💖
Hey guys, great job on that last drop. I had an idea for you guys. You can use one of those things they use to mark football fields or a seed spreader with chalk or something similar and mark the bullseye with that. It would look soo good. Keep up the great content guys.
Awesome, would be nice a multicrew fpv flight with gunners, bombardier and pilots
Good Saturday afternoon to you all in the USA from Wellington Somerset in the UK
Thank you good sir
There seems to be a rather serious case of "Magnus Effect" on the released ordinance. Perhaps a way to incrementally "dial-in" the sights is in order? Or perhaps a streamer dragging along behind like a kite tail?
I would recommend holding together the drop mechanism with something else like a rubber band or other material and have it be able to be cut/unlatched with a servo so the servo doesn't have as much tension, that's all, great video though!
Since the people of FlightTest are doing high altitude bomb dropping, i recommend building the B-17 Flying Fortress or the SBD Dauntless for the next build model.
You guys should make "Teachers" Skyly and the Sanka mk b from "The Sky Crawlers"
You guys should drop a bunch of those tiny bouncy balls😀
Mimicking an old style bomb sight by having the camera angle change to account for speed and altitude could be a fun project. A flight controller could provide most of the needed info for adjustments.
If I were in the shop with you guys, I'd be moving towards the bombardier having trim control of rudder, and the sight itself. Cheap to set up. A longer approach should work. Goal being too get the sight on target aiming at bullseye, adjust sight trim, until you can get a SPAM loaf into a kiddie pool from 100 feet. After all, tons of SPAM flew aboard the aircraft during the war.
How about dropping a lot of those little poppers that explode on contact. Strafe targets on the ground. Should look nice towards evening. Outstanding job guys.
Awesome, you guys should do a huge Boeing 747 and Space Shuttle.
Ohhh man you find a new way to dig golf hole !! 🤣
The new bullseye sounds like an invitation to revisite the guided bomb drop you guys did a long time ago!
I would like to see these guys recreate the iconic Top Gun flying upside down over another plane.
*Glue fins onto old (Or new) CO2 cartridges and drop a load of bomblets.
4th of July fireworks from a plane. However you guys interpret that would be awesome!