New World Record RC Airplane Speed 548mph
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2021
- Strong Santa Ana conditions on Jan 19 2021 provided enough wind for Spencer Lisenby to bring the dynamic soaring speed record back to its birthplace of Parker Mountain, CA. Wind gusted to 65mph and temps were 45-50F. This flight beat the previous record set in 2018 at Bird Spring Pass by only 3mph. Filmed with a Gopro on my head while flying. Best viewed on a large screen with high resolution. Max acceleration estimated around 90-100G.
For more information on Dynamic Soaring check out:
www.rcgroups.com/dynamic-soar...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic...
Model is the Transonic DP:
dskinetic.com/transonicdp.aspx
and NO, the video is not fake or sped up...
548mph = 882kph
If you're looking for on-board video from a dynamic soaring flight check here:
• Dynamic Soaring - On B... - Розваги
It’s like trying to watch a tennis match while sitting at mid-court.
I'd say Table Tennis while smashing
Set the playback speed to .25 on your UA-cam settings
@@stevie1246 and the ball is going towards youre face
Quite efficient usage of free available energy ;) :D :)
oh, so the camera follows the plane?
I thought it is onboard camera and they didn't launch it yet
How in the heck can a human being control something going so fast so close to the ground manually? It is even more amazing to me that it doesn't just crash into the ground.
it's only minor corrections every loop; it's not entering and exiting multiple maneuvers, just the loop is established and keeps getting boosted. I noticed sometimes the loop ended up higher. the amount of control deflection to work safely at those speeds must be miniscule
Here's a video that happens to show the stick movements while DSing at 485mph. You can see the rythmic inputs on every lap plus a bunch of random corrections due to turbulence...Turbulent air is constantly trying to throw you off course...
ua-cam.com/video/XatM246UetM/v-deo.html
@@sll914 where do you buy a DS plane? kinetic has no buy opotion
@@danivanonplease email me -- spencer@dskinetic.com
its only a matter of time before one hits a human....also the jets are in the same league for danger.
Dear God just back the camera off a bit and stop getting us seasick
Holy shit!
Yeah the camera work was a bit much
I laughed at this comment after i finished vomiting
Apparently, we're watching the video from the camera attached to the pilot's head, hence all the back and forth, as he tracks the glider.
65mph winds, the road they are on is on a thin ridge with no protection no place up there to hide - so now spielberg here
Shit man, it took me a whole minute to realise what the hell was happening
@UA-cam Is Dying Painfully he's looking for thetumbnail pretty much
How did that thing go that fast ? I’m confused it looks like a glider and I don’t think it has any engine how is generating thrust ? Is it simply by wind speed ? Wtf
@@hemendraravi4787yes, it dips into a strong wind to gain speed, then goes out of it and flies back to the starting point to do it again
Who else is completely blown away by this?
*the pun*
if only I could see anything
"Wow, that's amazing! How does it land?!?"
"Oh, easy. Catch."
I can't comprehend stearing something going 548mph, incredible.
I can’t comprehend imperial
@@SkwareniiXazerty Two kinds of nations. Those that have been to the moon, and those who can't comprehend imperial
@@kylelanning5856 NASA used the metric system to get to the moon though, so not exactly the best example.
@@jetison333 NASA can also use and comprehend imperial. Funny how that works huh.
@@kylelanning5856 yeah they could, but they don't, because they decided its inferior. It is pretty funny how that works.
Remember, the highest groundspeed is happening on the downhill pass, just before the lull section. Also, factor in the windspeed at the uphill transition (+65mph). Getting close to supersonic. Great work.
That would be cool breaking the sound barrier with a glider.
@@billdonaldson7546 Unfortunately physics tells us that long and striaght wing going at transonic speed is really, really, really bad, and that 548mph is right at the transonic speed ~.7 mach. So the glider is unbelievably impressive already.
The impressive part is getting it back.
lol he's full flaps and the thing doesn't want to set down
He just flies it in circles until it vaporizes.
@@MrCarnutbill67 planes have a speed rating called Vne, or "Velocity, Never Exceed'. In Dynamic soaring, the shorthand for this is "Puff speed".
@@wayneledzian5342 The thing about limits and engineering, Ratings can always be pushed, but you'll never get an engineer to tell you how much you can get away with.
@@wayneledzian5342 Would that be the *poof* speed?
DSS is so crazy man, the fact that you can go this fast with no added propulsion is ridiculous, if someone told me and I hadn`t seen it on video or been at any DSS sessions, I`d probably call BS lol, it`s just nuts :D
Btw, the sound in person is insane..
Quite efficient usage of free available energy ;) :D :)
The amount of G-Force has never been so Huge!
The hamster inside wore a G-Suit.
About 120g
How the Hell does that thing stay in one piece at that rediculous speed???!!! It's almost traveling at the speed of sound! Especially in that small radius continued loop!
Crazy!!!
@@paulmurphy5244 Shit must be made of Vibranium
It should pull between 11-20Gs max
Are we just going to ignore the cloud shaped like a seaplane landing at 10 o'clock in the background?
Not now!
Damn! I was going to say that
Oh my goodness
WOW that's crazy I didnt see it until you pointed it out
cant see it... what time on the vid is it?
The sound it makes is absolutely insane.. I actually looked Spencer up after hearing a spacecraft engineer named Andrew Higgins mention him during an interview he was having where he was discussing the idea of using dynamic soaring of solar winds as a propulsion method for interstellar travel.. It was pretty mind blowing..
Fraser Cains interview with Prof Andrew Higgins snet me here. You guys are inspiring new concepts of interstellar travel using the similar methods of dynamic soaring but with the solar wind.
I saw that! Pretty crazy, huh?
I was there too
Same
Yeah seing how you can accelerate to 548 miles an hour using windspeeds that go up to 65mph, makes you wonder what you can do with solarwind speeds between 450 and 700 miles equator/poles not per hour but per second. But what i wonder most is what G forces you then can expect? Wouldn't that be beyond anything materials can handle? I mean if it's having the same speed difference that craft could go to 5000-6000 mps! Around 2% the speed of light! Still would take around 220 years to reach Proxima Centauri though. Sure you can use the same trick at the edge of the solar wind where interstellar winds take over but with that speed? Seems like impossible to me but i ain't a scientist.
Same
Note that the glider is called a Transonic. And for once, it's not hyperbole.
woweeee almost mach 1 speed there. i wanted to see how you slowed it down. maybe post that clip too :D amazing control
They're a little higher than sea level, so not as close as it might seem.
Mach 1 is 767 miles per hour.. define almost😂
@@aashisheapen8230 isn't it about 200moh away still, at sea level? That's another 30% or so faster. I get that "almost" is a subjective word. I wouldn't use almost too mean I'm 30% from my goal.
Hey dude just subbed to you looks like you have some good content
@@daniellemichael2619 Thank you so much. I have just been on youtube for 13+ years. not too long :D hahaha only 4600+ videos and increasing
Really should probably just hold the camera still at these speeds.
nope....holding the camera still is very much worse. There is great video with the camera on the pilots hat that shows the plane really well. The speeds are not this fast, but you see the plane very much better. Holding the camera still, you barely get to see the plane at all.
@King Joffrey When you're making a video the point is to show the subject matter. This didn't. That's not a complaint. It's a fact.
@@teejay3272 FWIW - This video was made primarily for my own use in documenting and analyzing the flight. Whether its entertaining on YT or not is a secondary concern. We've tried stationary cameras and trust me it doesn't work out to be any better. You have to pan way out to capture the entire flight path and then the plane is so tiny you can't even see it. Fisheye just distorts the image so much that it's useless. Unfortuately, DS is not an easy thing to film well and I'm more concerned about the flying than the filming...
@@sll914 u ever think about putting a small cam on that thing??? That would be an awesome video!!! Honestly i couldn't follow the video. It may not be the most UA-cam friendly video for b people but your accomplishment is awsome. I give you props my friend!!!
@@sll914 understanding that it's not a priority, it'd be really cool if one day all the compromises of filming this are worked through, and good video is made
Nice job guys. For anyone who hasn't stood by in person during a DS flight, it's a lot more spectacular than what the video shows....and the video is amazing. I've seen gliders turned into carbon fiber dust is a split second when the pilots timing is off by a split second. Just to get the plane back in one piece is a test of skill.
I continue to be amazed by your teams progress. Dynamic soaring is absolutely nuts!
This looks pretty scary :o) Nice stick skills! Well done.
I'm watching the video thinking " Jesus how drunk am I ??"
Im 50 and been around RC all my life. This is the most insane variant I have seen yet! Bloody awesome.
glad to see you back at this!
cant wait to see how much faster you can go
While I understand the physics behind dynamic soaring, what I can't fathom is how you control it going that fast. That's got to be some serious concentration.
same, how do you steer something going so fast you can barely see it
Full scale pilot here that's flown RC a few times (definitely not doing this) with the same question.
My speculation is that you don't have a closed-loop mindset (as in "closed-loop controller" from engineering, not the looping maneuver... wish there was another word!) like controlling any typical maneuver, where you're watching deviations and correcting them on the fly. It's too fast for that. But rather, after enough practice you have the muscle memory with your thumbs of how to fly one of those circles, and if you notice one go a little bit wrong, you adjust for the next time around. And you get in a rhythm/groove with their cyclical nature, making small adjustments each next one.
I'd love to get a real answer here from those who fly DS.
@@FlyNAA I think it's like you say, muscle memory developed thru lots of practice. After a while you learn to recognize deviations from the desired path earlier and you can fix them immediately. Beginner DSers usually have one point in the circuit (top turn) where they make corrections and over time you add more and more points in the circuit where you recognize and correct issues. The ultimate goal is to develop so many points along the circuit that your corrections become constant and small.
@@FlyNAA All the while trying to find the sweet spot
VERY LITTLE CONTROL IS NEEDED JUST MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE LOOP WITH BANK AND A LITTLE UP A PLANE WILL HOLD THE SAME COURSE DO TO THE BUILT IN STABILITY UNLESS AN EXTERNAL FORCE IS APPLIED ANY DEFECTION OF THE CONTROL SURFACES JUST SLOWS US DOWN
In the groove Spencer. Your an amazing pilot. Congrats!
Pretty cool that the fastest RC plane is a glider WITHOUT a motor!
Those complaining about the moving video. With it held still you STILL wouldn't see a damn thing. You'd need 4k video at 120fps to even get a chance of capturing some good frames.
That was the coolest UA-cam Video Ive seen this year. This is headed straight to 1 million
Just waiting for the day we get a rc plane faster than the speed of sound
Honestly, probably won't be too long, this is about mach 0.9 or something
Uhh bruh we already have one
We have many...they are common...
Transonic area is very nasty. Drag increase rapidly near mach 1 and so does other areodynamics. It will be extremely hard to reach mach 0.9 or above.
@@PaleOrchid maybe it's possible with some other design
That was sensational flying Spencer! So cool to see the world record back at Parker Mountain where ds was discovered. Congratulations!
Thanks Eric! Hope you are doing well...
@@sll914 Yes all is very well, thanks for asking. From memory, you occasionally get stronger santa anas than this? So stoked for you!
Why do I want to back away from the screen while watching this?
Because when the plane going 548 mph, slips and comes right at you through the screen, it's gonna cut your damn head off clean....LOL
@@kenyablonsky I saw a clip where the thing augered into the ground with a THUMP loud enough to reverberate across the mountain range
Great work guys, had an absolute blast watching this !
Is there some sort of mid air tennis match that we aren't aware of that they're watching with that camera?🤔
I don’t even see how a foam carbon fiber covered wing could stand up to these forces. Off the charts...
i think it's just CF. servos begging for mercy
I was thinking the same. The g forces must be amazing. Would love to have a sensor record the max g load.
@@aafjeyakubu5124 Max G recorded on the predecessor to this aircraft was 120G, which is the maximum the sensor could record. They routinely cruise at 80 to 100 G continuous turn. It is covered in this presentation from 2017 ua-cam.com/video/nv7-YM4wno8/v-deo.html
@@harryspeakup8452 I honestly didn't think I was going to watch the whole video. I was wrong. Unbelievable!
the wings on these are so strong, a grown man can stand in the middle while the sides are beeing supported on each side.
However this came to my mind: Imagine u were a pilot back in ww2 and seeing this thing flying by 😂
I would piss myself
Toward the end of the war the p51 could achieve speeds of 400mph ish, thats high altitude with little air resistance. Down at that altitude in the video id say it could do 350, which is still terrifying
even the me262 is scared
Me262s max speed is 540mph at that altitude now that ur saying imagine but let’s imagine how they would have felt seeing super fast machines which weird buzzing noise and those huge 30mm cannons it must be real scary
@sll914 Congrats and super happy Parker holds the record again. Seeing this makes me want to get back into it. I had one of your early 60". This sport is luck to have an engineer like you pushing boundaries! Never stop and post more videos!
Great achievement guys! Love the sound as it rips in and out of transonic flight.
*wing clips the cliff*
guy 100 miles away: "oh hey, free plane"
Wing clips an arm
Look you dropped your arm.
That sound it makes...it’s AWESOME!!! I love it!
Wow, that was awesome, congrats! I had some great hang gliding flights from Parker Mountain 1985-1987 when I lived in the Antelope Valley.
Is it true about the hang glider that launched off parker and flew to Long Beach violating Van nuys and lax airspace and was arrested when he landed?
That story was going around back then
What is the wing spar made of? Any details on the build of this plane?
Isn't it surprising that a dynamic soaring glider has the world speed record, not turbine jets?
Hats off to the pilot and camera operator for their excellent job!
their a video of a jet doing 700mph
@@justincase7686 700kmh...
not just any RC speed record. The fact that its just a GLIDER makes it even more nuts!
In the hobbyist segment, such is faster than any RC aircraft with a motor. Even those with jets or small booster rockets are still slower. If you want faster remote piloted aircraft you'd have to look to something government owned, which then tends to be military aircraft or drones.
Problem is more that you have to see and control it. Flying circles needs rudder deflection and rudder deflection creates drag. So hard to get supersonic that way.
Put stub wings onto a rocket will easily get you supersonic, but it will more or less fly in a straight line and might be out of sight soon. There are numerous supersonic hobby rockets out there.
Man, this is sick ! Congratulations !
When steering the plane straight ahead for a second means it immediately flies out of sight.
Wow! The camera was moving even faster!
The pilot wore the camera on his head.
I like the vid where the exact moment the guy launches his glider, he says "Oh, no! I forgot to turn it on!!" Then down the hill he went. And it was way down, too.
top clip
It took me a minute and 11 seconds to realise they was filming one plane going around in circles and not multiple planes doing a flyover
How is mesuring the speed with the speed gun. When the glider pass the up hill or up and down hill? Use a gps sensor inboard can be better?
We measure as the plane travels up the hill. Yes down the hill would be approx 600mph already.
Very impressive stick skills to keep this thing from just smashing into the mountain side
Congratulations! That was incredible!
And to all the clueless commenters...of course it's hard to watch! It's a relatively small object, moving at an insanely fast speed! What part of that don't you understand?
No one could make a pleasant to watch video, of something like that.
Wrong... A little creativity to settle the camera or highlight the plane would have gone a long way. Nevertheless, incredible feat!
So is it gonna be wing planform, or swept wings to push further into transonic speeds?
How long before you hit Mach 1? Is that achievable or are there limits imposed that preclude it?
What they aren’t showing is the 2 F-22’s that showed up 15 minutes later looking for a subsonic Russian MiG.
I am surprised it doesn't break apart.
I am also curious as to the G forces ?
And whether it is carbon fiber ?
( AND - if you're going to all this trouble and doing a world record thing and videotaping it for broadcast - one might think that a person would bring a camera with a mic WIND SCREEN. )
In order
-some designs have been known to shatter once they exeed there desighned speed envelopes.
-The G's for ghis flight have been calculated at between 60-100+G's
-Yes it is built verry heavy and very strong out of carbon fiber. +-10lbs
-The camera is a gopro straped to the pilots head, if it weren't it would be even harder to follow whats happening (its been tried)
Real question... How does he fly/control it? Is it attached to a line like the RC cars the do speed runs in a circle?
wow, this is insane! Congrats on the achievement !
Absolutely amazing! Would you be willing to loose a few words about the setup of the plane? Like what kind of servos do you use, how much throw on the control surfaces and what kind of radio. That would be very interesting.
881,921Km/h = 548mph Information for rest of the World ;-)
Or is it 548,000 mph. . . just kidding 😁
Yes except England we still use mph mostly 😂😸😂
What do you use to measure the speed?
Congrats! Is there a way to install one of those pen cameras inside the fuse peeping out the side or wherever?
ua-cam.com/video/3FZG90qqlaE/v-deo.html
When that Russian gamer logs onto your Flight Simulator server and has 5 million ping
Amazing, steady as a rock! I am well and truly impressed. Fastest moving object on the earth!!!!! (without engine)
How did this work? Was it powered? What is it made of?
Keep those records coming Spencer proud of you man
Congratulations! I no longer think that dynamic soaring appropriately describes this type of flying. Dynamic, yes, but soaring? Any suggestions? Also, pat on the back for your hand, thumb/eye co-ordination. The stress on the airframe must be incredible! Congratulations, again. I truly am in awe!
about 120G s if I read that right
At this point it feels like we've found a glitch in fluid dynamics and we're just exploiting the hell out of it.
@@StaK_1980 120 G's is incredible. 1Kg turns into 120!!. Some mighty fine engineering as well as physical dexterity for flying at these incredible speeds. Like your handle, I live on the same island as the devil.
@@Hyperious_in_the_air Glitch, or very smart engineering. Magic!!!
Keep up with the development and one day we may hear the sharp crack of the aircraft's passage as it achieves supersonic flight.
That crackle you hear on every pass is the upper surface of the wing going transonic.
@@crustygrognard7403 actually, I think that may be the sound of flow separation. it's moving so goddamn fast and has such a high angle of attack that it might be causing vacuum regions to form on the top side of the wing for milliseconds before collapsing from the outside pressure.
Almost like how a propeller will produce cavitation when spun too fast.
@@Hyperious_in_the_air I was wrong, it wasnt transonic. The local airflow on the upper surface of the wing was in excess of mach 1.25 ua-cam.com/video/nv7-YM4wno8/v-deo.html at 35 minutes in there is a plot of the airspeed over the wing.
How do you keep track of it in the air?
Can someome explain me the physics behind this? So strong upslope winds and then? Does the wing act like a sort of spring that releases the energy build up or how does it work?
glider takes advantage of shear over the top of the peak. ever seen time lapse video of a cloud or fog near a mountain top? the fast moving air blows over the top and there is a cushion of higher pressure still air where the fog curls under its self on the leward side of the peak. the glider moves back and forth across this shear boundry and picks up speed in the fast moving air then turns into the still air to climb back to the peak to turn back into the fast air. Its called dynamic soaring.
@@midship_nc thx i understand it now :)
i also just got the talk of the guy flying recommended where he explained that. I now wonder if anyone does that in the Alps where we have lots of Föhn and winds reach well above 100 km/h at the crest.
@@peppi0304 yeah I have been thinking about grandfather mountain here in North Carolina. They have similar winds in the 100-130km/h range on a regular basis.
Awesome flight!! A quick thought, maybe a directional mic with a top of the line wind covering could bring out some beautiful nuanced sounds. Thanks for sharing! Hopefully I progress to this level at some point.
I agree Its like music but i think they already have a good mic. I mean you can hear then talking in 65mph wind
Was filmed with a GoPro by the pilot. GoPro makes it really annoying (and expensive) to add an external mic these days.
It's not meant for the general viewer. He records for his own personal use.
question from a super basic r/c pilot, wondering, do you set this up with dual rates, and have a metric shit ton of negative expo in the 'warp speed' setting?
Yes you need low rates for high speeds and and higher rates for slow speeds and landing but no expo needed.
It's been over 2 years since this mighty record.. Any update on any newer attempts at upping this further?
Got up to 564mph in February...
m.ua-cam.com/video/GCVK3w5DHbk/v-deo.html
How much G-forces did the wings have to sustain at those speeds? Also, how was the plane able to pick up speed without the use of an engine (propeller, rocket, or anything else)?
I looked at the website... the latter question made more sense when I watched the video of dynamic flight.
The Camera was going for a World Record too.😂🤣
Man what kind of G forces is this thing hitting. Its amazing how it stays together with so much wing loading on a 2m wingspan
90 gs
@@mike3000ization incredible!
The wing was not cheap :) He did a presentation on the problems they faced building a plane that don't explode.
dozens
Love that sound, truely awesome! (and terrifying) Thank you for sharing.
This absolutely blew my mind! The fastest remote jet plane is not as fast! So I dug deeper into the physics of this and that is mind blowing as well.
I didn't even know dynamic soaring was a thing, might have to get a rc plane now xD
Be prepared to shell out several grand to get one similar. 😉
@@wordreet As I've never flown a plane I think I'll just start small and learn to fly before I try something that does 880km/h :O
@@KalLanPIDT Good luck my dude, trainer planes can be had pretty cheap and are easy-ish to fly. You can buy ones with stabilisation electronics built in, or just go for cheap and basic. But I do recommend trying an RC simulator first. I did 8 years ago, and it helped me to start.
@@wordreet Great tip, I can crash without losing anything but patience hehe thanks :)
@@KalLanPIDT Go spend $150 on a carbon cub s2 from Horizon Hobbies, that will get you everything you need to fly,extra batteries are like 6 bucks, it gets you flying, I started there last year, now I own several large planes and a simulator... lots of fun
Holy shit it flies so fast to the point my eyes couldn't see
Congratulations! Awesome achievement!
The only thing more amazing than the fact that this works, is that somebody actually managed to go faster than this. That thing is ripping through the sky so hard!
I'm amazed at how that thing holds up to the extreme g force 😲
Maybe most of it's weight is in it's wings. In that case extreme g force (as I estimated ~70g if it went perfect circles, otherwise more than that) doesn't involve extreme stress, because the support is evenly distributed over it's entire surface.
@@Zilahi-Branyi_Laszlo Exactly, they had to put weight on the wing at the time they were always breaking the wing in half at high speeds. Highly recommended talk: ua-cam.com/video/nv7-YM4wno8/v-deo.html by Spencer (the pilot in this video).
He said it was a carbon fiber epoxy, and it's doing over 100g's, easy.
Looks like a 3 second Clip that is looped and speeded up every round :D
Exactly what I thought. It doesn’t feel right how the video was. And I know that modern avionics in rcs are amazing but to go 540mph with only a glider and no jet engine is impossible to comprehend
@@3Dmaker12 Look up dynamic soaring, it's not the only one of it's kind.
You can clearly see the gliders route change so your 3 second loop theory is busted.
What material is this glider made of?
It is molded carbon fiber...
@@sll914 Thanks
Great flying!
Oh my goodness!! My jaw was on the floor the whole time! How do you get the wings from buckling? This is an amazing glider! Good job to everyone who was involved in this set up. 👏
I was annoyed for a minute because I thought this was a troll video playing in a loop lol. Holy crap that’s fast !!
Exactly! Took me a minute to realize.
How is it gaining speed??
Wind on the way up and gravity on way down in a circle?
I've seen loads of videos of RC planes (mainly warbirds/airliners and such) coming apart at way less speeds. This thing is amazing!
Wished the camera man kept the camera steady instead of whipping it back and forth like that. Can barely see the plane as is without him moving it
It was filmed with my Gopro on my head while flying...
How's your neck?
(jk)
When I was watching I kept wondering if you had some genius cameraman that was good at tracking it visually. Thanks for the comment, it answers my question. The pilot knows better than anyone where the plane is. ;-)
@@nakul1830 Tennis anyone?
giphy.com/embed/3o6fJ73ZboJ0tqnqwg
@@sll914 Could consider running image stabilisation on this video, although I'm not sure if it will pick up the plane on the downhill leg
Funny thing is I was amazed by the camera operator being able to track the plane so well, only to find the comments all about how they think the camera operator was the problem! I was also struck by how much quieter this plane is from previous ones even while going faster. Did you find and fix some previous source of drag? The winds that day in the City were nuts. You guys must have been ready to drop everything to catch this rare opportunity. Congratulations! Please make a video documenting the whole thing. I want to know all about the project and your plans.
Melinda Green ... never knew Dynamic Soaring existed until now. At first I thought this must be fake (speeded up video with normal speed sound). Then I watched his 2017 video. I’m impressed by this as much as Elon’s starship. Truly amazing engineering
@@douginorlando6260 It's crazy amounts of high-tech and artistry. I mean they're building to perform at a constant 100 Gs. I think they even have trouble getting paint stay in place. I was near a similar plane once and I have no desire to do that again. It's truly frightening. Safety aside, one twitch and you plow into the hill. At 800 feet per second I would also worry about losing it in the sky.
Amazing work, well done!!!
One wonders what the max G load is in those turns; got a way to measure it??
No accelerometers on this flight but we've maxed out a 120G sensor in the past. Estimated 90G max on this flight.
W O W - Amazing - You have big balls - Congratulations!
How does one control such a fast rc plane, a motorless one, nonetheless.
www.hitecrcd.com
www.mks-servo.com
You can try it in a simulator. I'm not very good at it, but a couple hours of practice and you could start to get the hang of it. A lot of it is just timing the elevator inputs.
Practice. Takes a long time to go that fast
@T Hebert I think that would only work with ground based optical positioning systems like how they use for those super fuckin stable Drone flight demonstrations the *ETH Zürich* keeps pumping out every once in a while. Everything else - like commercially available GPS positioning systems for model aircrafts, at those speeds and this close to the ground, would most likely lead you to a fine for littering the ground with shrapnel.
Congratulations, truly mind-boggling!
Amazing. Congratulations!
And release! World's furthest glider...
maybe I'm brain damaged here but I couldn't even see the glider just the camera kept going back and forth so I couldn't keep watching it.
Needs a larger ipad or monitor, i could not see on phone
Play at .50 speed, you'll see it.
The pilot had the go pro strapped to his head so all that whipping back and forth is the pilot keeping an eye on the glider as it accelerates
2:01
How do you maneuver to bring it back?
How do you track the speed? Laser or radar would only work head on, the rest of the time is at an angle. Or do you just take the peak time every time it comes around? What is the actual "air speed"? At those speeds I would have thought you'd rip the wings to shreds.