Learn more about Wing drone delivery at: www.youtube.com/@Wing Testing the Limits of Delivery Drones: ua-cam.com/video/YhNfeejuByI/v-deo.html Adam Savage Explores Wing’s Drone Engineering Workshop!: ua-cam.com/video/_BXm6dTHvY0/v-deo.html
Love to see people that love their toys as much as their job, or should that be the other way around? xD Can I just throw out a couple of suggestions, like the 325i/350R from Star Citizen, I always thought that would make a great looking flyer, or the avro car? And finally how about a quad drone with only one rotor? Sort of using the principle of bladeless fans? That is after all what the Harrier is essentially. Anyway, love seeing this sort of thing.
The RC to aviation career pipeline is seriously strong. I had a friend in middle school who's dad had RC planes, we went flying with him a few times and now both of us are aircraft mechanics! RC is a seriously fantastic STEM hobby for young people, and something you can continue to stay active in for your whole life. If you go to any RC events, you'll see just as many 12 year olds as you will 90 year olds. It's fantastic.
Oh, this video gets so nostalgic for me. When I was a kid, I got super lucky, and my parents got me a rubber-band powered model of the wright flyer. It was like an assembly kit, and took so long to put all the parts together. But, it also had a proper rubber band system, powering TWO motors off one rubber band, at the same time. I ran that thing into the ground, and it taught me so freaking much about engineering, and was so exceptionally fun to work with.
The Convair has always fascinated me. From when I was a kid (in the 70’s) I have had a book about the history of flight from the late 50’s(?) and it has a section and great photos of it. This was a real treat seeing this - thanks!
The impressive thing about the Wright brothers and other early pioneers is: They were in uncharted territory with limited prior-science to guide them. They did the impossible and unthinkable with what tools were available (or they invented tools), which propelled mankind forward.
A trend I noticed reading about some breakthrough inventors like the Wright Brothers and Marconi: they had a unique balance of brilliance and ignorance, wherein they accomplished what seemed impossible because they hadn't been mislead by established knowledge, but also that lack of formal knowledge seemed to limit their ability to effectively refine their invention.
@@jliller sometimes it's better when we don't know what we can't or shouldn't do. And often we learn much from those moments that follow. It's not often, but it sure has led to some amazing discoveries.
In 2003, when EAA built a Wright Flyer replica to fly on the Centennial of Flight, they noted the same thing, very pitch sensitive. Even in the picture capturing the first flight in 1903 shows the elevator nearly full up. Very interesting insight on the design of the Wright Flyer. Thanks for doing this!
The wing-warping mechanism seemed so quaint when I first learned of it, because it is so different from how airplanes subsequently developed. But now it strikes me that it may be a more eloquent and organic way to direct airflow. I could see having ALL of the control surfaces using warping.
I JUST got into building RC airplanes at 33 after dreaming of it as a kid. I am so glad this video just released, we really need more people in the hobby. It's so affordable to get into right now compared to the past.
Adam W. has imparted some really useful bits of aerodynamic knowledge in this discussion. Thanks! ... I've got some damselfly chuck gliders in one of my videos for those interested in bio-inspired stuff.
I am an engineer and have never heard the Reynolds number explained that way, but I LOVE it. It is true intelligence to take something grand and complicated and unfold it so simply a child could understand. Doesn’t get much more weird than the Reynolds number, but this guy is truly intelligent.
They're intense, watching people that are really good do 3D, I remember watching the acrobatic RC pilots building foam planes similar to the ones Adam mentioned early in the video. The things those folks could do absolutely blew my mind.
Since he has a real penchant for shaving off milligrams of unnecessary weight for indoor craft, he might want to revive the 1950's manly art of making microfilm airfoils instead of mylar.
Want to get more involved in the RC hobby? Here are some helpful resources recommended by Adam Woodworth: Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA): www.modelaircraft.org/ The AMA is the leading organization for model aviation enthusiasts in the U.S., dedicated to safety, education, and advocacy. They provide insurance coverage for members, organize competitions, and advocate for model aviation interests with government agencies. Flite Test: www.flitetest.com/ This website is a fantastic resource for RC airplane and drone enthusiasts of all skill levels. They offer build plans, product reviews, tutorials, and a supportive online community. RCGroups: www.rcgroups.com/ This is one of the largest online forums dedicated to radio-controlled hobbies, including airplanes, drones, cars, and boats. It's an excellent place to find information, ask questions, and connect with other RC enthusiasts.
Love Cool RC airplane stuff. All Andy Clancy designs (especially the Lazy Bee) are my favorite due to the cartoonish looks and their very slow acrobatic capabilities thanks for the fun! 🎉
The solution for Adam's fish tank airplane idea may be to use mineral oil instead of water. Does away with the need to seal or conformally coat the electronics (simplifying building the plane). It also has better radio penetration than water. More viscous than water though, so it may be a really slow flying experience. :D
Flying models is pure zen, the only thing better is sharing it with your kids! I am super fortunate to be a lifelong hobbyist and my son got the bug too!
The original Wright Flyer was ludicrously short coupled. There's a reason why the Wright Flyer III gained 7 feet in overall length over the 1903 original.
Watching Adam becoming instantly and completely enthralled by the idea of a desktop fish tank aerobatic model that could take off, loop, and land, may have been the best moment of the video.
2:37 I love this section, cause it reveals how consistent the two of the Wright brothers ideas on control remain even on small scale models. They believed that the only way to get a real plane that you could fly working was to make it unstable, as that allowed control.
I never thought much about that, but that is cool. I guess when you're trying to do something nature doesn't neccesarily "want" us to do, instability is likely neccesary. I think I'm thinking about that right, anyway. It's still fascinating to think about regardless.
For most of my life, i have been into cars and RC cars. To be honest, i have never really thought about delving into RC planes. But listening to this gentleman talk about his work and obvious passion for what he does makes me want to look into what i might have been missing all these years.
I've always been a surface guy myself. I've tried and I just need more practice on something reasonable, it's fun. I've been out of both for a while but I think maybe it's time to have another go
The Wright brothers were bicycle makers. They knew a bicycle was dynamically stable with the steering wheel in front (push it forward and the steer wheel tries to straighten out). Unstable with the steering wheel in back (push it backwards and the steer wheel tries to turn more). They incorrectly assumed the same would be true for aerodynamics, and put the pitch control surfaces out in front. If they'd realized hydrodynamics was the same as aerodynamics (fluid dynamics) and looked at ships, they would've known the control surfaces like the rudder should be in back to be stable. Paul MacCready (built the first man-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel) encountered this same problem when he took a contract to build a RC pterasaur for a TV show. It steered by turning its head (in front), which made it dynamically unstable. An animal immediately able to turn its head based on what it saw and how it felt could control its unstable flight. But it was impossible for a pilot controlling a little dot in the sky via RC. He ended up having to design a rudimentary flight computer which would make micro-adjustments to the head to keep it stable, independent of the commands via RC.
So the waist harness of the Wright Flyer, I didn't know about that but I'm trying to think through their thought process. I'm wondering if they were thinking it would be too difficult to control roll where hands and feet were already in use so they used the torso to control? I suppose I could just go look it up but maybe someone here already knows
Most of the Wright Brothers prototyping was through gliders, and even then it was typically to lie prone on the gliders and tethered kites to keep the balance low, and control with your body weight. Its likely that the Flyer 1 was designed off of that understanding, and provided a hip based control scheme to stay in theme
In the 80's my Dad helped get the Pogo off of a barge at the Navy yard in DC as it was on it's way to Silver Hill. He always said if he had known what his day was gonna be ahead of time he would have let me skip school and go to work with him.
I like your dad. He sounds like a good one. That seems like very reasonable thing to do, had he known. That would have been cool, and he wanted to share it with you.
Fun fact. The first public demonstration of manned flight in the Western Hemisphere was in Santa Clara California in 1905. (Wrights didn’t do a public demonstration until 1908 in France) A glider built by John Joseph Montgomery flown by a test pilot was dropped from a balloon from 4,000ft, flew a series of planned aerobatics and landed on target in front of a crowd of hundreds. A Hollywood movie was made about it. “Gallant Journey”
@ NOPE. All of the important problems of lift, stability, and control can be solved with gliders and soaring flight. The Wright brothers’ patent was for a glider. (Montgomery’s patent for the aeroplane was submitted at the same time as the Wright brothers’. )
Scientists discover and explore that which exists and engineers conceive of and create that which does not yet. Also "If you're not having fun you are not doing it right."
The parallels you get from quad-copter flight using the same principles, but the same axis....... My brain is broken is the best way possible. I get X-Wing vs TIE fighter vibes.
Imagine walking on to a modern A380 passenger airplane and seeing the pilots hanging from the ceiling of the cockpit in wing warping harnesses!! Thank God for innovation 😂😂
Want to see a blimp version or airship version- possibly with printed on solar panels, for a record time flight - Were you would send it up and somehow like a man of war catch a air current. or climb then glide- then climb and glide.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed but what he made with the "X" wing airplane is actually an "X" wing fighter from Star Wars. I wonder if you could make a full size one with the wings retracted to make a standard wing but open up in flight to give different aerodynamic capabilities? So interesting, thank you for sharing!...
I was a lifelong aviation buff, from the time I was very little. But I never had the resources to actually get into RC or anything. So when I earned my private pilot certificate there was a number of things I learned that I found fascinating. For example, the way the CG of a conventional aircraft is forward and the horizontal stabilizer actually pushes down. I always imagined it was lifting, but once you understand it makes perfect sense. Adverse yaw, trim, there’s so much to learn just to fly an airplane. Perhaps this is why there are so many homebuilt airplanes, you can’t fly planes without developing some connection to how they work, and that can lead to the desire to build them.
Just from the juxtaposition of the Wright flier and the aerobatic quad wing I started to wonder, what would happen if you enclosed the wings and turned the whole thing into a box wing structure? I imagine it would have a sort of ducted fan effect. Probably wouldn't help the aerobatics but I'm not really up on aerodynamics.
If the original managed to fly with the materials and heavy, underpowered engines of the time I'm sure a modern RC version should fly. It might not be the easiest to control given the short cord but if you can get the COG right it should just about work.
I recently visited the Lockheed XFV prototype at a museum in Lakeland Florida, it was the Lockheed competitor to the Convair XFY. It was crazy to see in person, as if one of the machines from that old Thunderbirds tv show suddenly existed in real life. I've never built one myself, but "tailsitter VTOL" is one of the existing configurations in RC autopilot systems like Ardupilot so making a fully functional RC model of one should be doable as long as you can solved the static thrust to weight issue.
I got to fly a replica 1902 Wright Glider. Your description of the flight characteristics was spot on. It was super twitchy in pitch and slowwww and side slippy in turns. Had about a one second delay for turning.
Lots of good lessons in here about any job: Keeping your technical skills when you also have to be at meetings. Cutting extraneous material. You have to practice and you have to fail.
The twin fuselage hover plane reminds me of the heavier than airships described both by Jules Verne, and of similar air ships described by George Griffith in his 1894 book "Angel of The Revolution A tale of the coming Terror". The hover propellers giving the craft/ship faster ascending speed than a traditional aeroplane would have. Fascinating stuff. I always enjoy your videos. Have Fun, Carlos.
I see it. And it's a compliment. Also, I tried to find some modern person doing an example of the ancient Persian / Darius style beard with the almost tube like appearance - and shockingly nobody has done that. At least that I could find. I would figure that somebody would have at least tried that on their beard.
I was watching the Expanse, in season 2 noticed that Adam is one of the scientists on the ship that gets dismantled by the proto-molecule, and the dismantling itself reminds me of kid that scatters and divides all the Legos of the model on the floor, but in this case the kid is the molecule and it's doing it in 3d🙂
Reminder that some countries require a license to fly RC planes that are not toys. Canada has the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) with limits on some levels.
Exceptional video, please keep up with these! I have built and (somewhat successfully) flown a few foamboard RC builds - I absolutely loved it but haven't been keeping up with it. Adam, it would be amazing to see you venture into this...
One of my old friends was a aerodynamics engineer and he eventually married a lovely lady, who happened to be a fluid dynamics engineer. Let me tell you, don't EVER invite a couple like that over for dinner. You might as well invite a couple who only speaks latin 😂
I mean if you get the chance I'll always say go see the original at the air and space museum in Washington DC. But for those of you who are better able to get to Chicago there is a replica on display that was built for the 100th anniversary of the wright brothers original flight. Replica was built with the same kinds of materials and techniques that the wright brothers would have had. The only significant change was they had a engine that had a slightly better power to weight ratio to make it safer.
The airfoil tests that the Wright’s did are one of the coolest things about their story. They knew they had to go small scale! But even before they busted out the wind-tunnel, they fastened airfoils to a bike and rode down the street to create their own wind. Their ingenuity was awesome. Shameless plug - we made a short film recently about this experiment and their tests in 1901! Check out the trailer if you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/ruISi7YldwA/v-deo.html Huge fan of the channel! I would not be where I am today without watching mythbusters every waking moment of my childhood. Thank you!
This isnt a critique on adam or the model talk but theres one detail i felt a need to point out. Theres no historical proof that the wright brothers had the first working plane. They had the opportunity to prove themselves and confirm this for weeks and instead chose to keep their plane hidden under lock and key while their competition was continuing to perform test runs that had media present. With that said, the Wright brothers are famously known as the first patent trolls. They spent their entire lives trying to destroy anyone that set foot in the air without their permission and refused any mercy even up to the moment their gravestones were made. half the problems legally in aviation history are the result of their shenanigans 😅
Learn more about Wing drone delivery at: www.youtube.com/@Wing
Testing the Limits of Delivery Drones: ua-cam.com/video/YhNfeejuByI/v-deo.html
Adam Savage Explores Wing’s Drone Engineering Workshop!: ua-cam.com/video/_BXm6dTHvY0/v-deo.html
this timing is perfect for Wright Brothers Day
Uploaded on December 17, the 121st anniversary of their first flight!
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Thanks for inviting Adam to come hang out and talk airplane design! ✈️
Let me know if you ever need another engineer on any of the teams you are in charge of!
Love to see people that love their toys as much as their job, or should that be the other way around? xD
Can I just throw out a couple of suggestions, like the 325i/350R from Star Citizen, I always thought that would make a great looking flyer, or the avro car? And finally how about a quad drone with only one rotor? Sort of using the principle of bladeless fans? That is after all what the Harrier is essentially. Anyway, love seeing this sort of thing.
The RC to aviation career pipeline is seriously strong. I had a friend in middle school who's dad had RC planes, we went flying with him a few times and now both of us are aircraft mechanics! RC is a seriously fantastic STEM hobby for young people, and something you can continue to stay active in for your whole life. If you go to any RC events, you'll see just as many 12 year olds as you will 90 year olds. It's fantastic.
Adam REALLY knows his stuff. Especially details of what the Wright's did. Wow!
Oh, this video gets so nostalgic for me. When I was a kid, I got super lucky, and my parents got me a rubber-band powered model of the wright flyer. It was like an assembly kit, and took so long to put all the parts together. But, it also had a proper rubber band system, powering TWO motors off one rubber band, at the same time.
I ran that thing into the ground, and it taught me so freaking much about engineering, and was so exceptionally fun to work with.
The Convair has always fascinated me. From when I was a kid (in the 70’s) I have had a book about the history of flight from the late 50’s(?) and it has a section and great photos of it.
This was a real treat seeing this - thanks!
The impressive thing about the Wright brothers and other early pioneers is: They were in uncharted territory with limited prior-science to guide them. They did the impossible and unthinkable with what tools were available (or they invented tools), which propelled mankind forward.
A trend I noticed reading about some breakthrough inventors like the Wright Brothers and Marconi: they had a unique balance of brilliance and ignorance, wherein they accomplished what seemed impossible because they hadn't been mislead by established knowledge, but also that lack of formal knowledge seemed to limit their ability to effectively refine their invention.
@@jliller sometimes it's better when we don't know what we can't or shouldn't do. And often we learn much from those moments that follow. It's not often, but it sure has led to some amazing discoveries.
Seeing Adam learn things still is so endearing
In 2003, when EAA built a Wright Flyer replica to fly on the Centennial of Flight, they noted the same thing, very pitch sensitive. Even in the picture capturing the first flight in 1903 shows the elevator nearly full up. Very interesting insight on the design of the Wright Flyer. Thanks for doing this!
Cool - Thanks for sharing!
Anything will work as an RC airplane if you have enough thrust 😁
The wing-warping mechanism seemed so quaint when I first learned of it, because it is so different from how airplanes subsequently developed. But now it strikes me that it may be a more eloquent and organic way to direct airflow. I could see having ALL of the control surfaces using warping.
"Pathological need to break the Z axis" - I liked that :D
I JUST got into building RC airplanes at 33 after dreaming of it as a kid. I am so glad this video just released, we really need more people in the hobby. It's so affordable to get into right now compared to the past.
Adam W. has imparted some really useful bits of aerodynamic knowledge in this discussion. Thanks! ... I've got some damselfly chuck gliders in one of my videos for those interested in bio-inspired stuff.
I am an engineer and have never heard the Reynolds number explained that way, but I LOVE it. It is true intelligence to take something grand and complicated and unfold it so simply a child could understand. Doesn’t get much more weird than the Reynolds number, but this guy is truly intelligent.
omg those rc indoor aerobatic flights are amazing and super pretty/artistic. It's like a gymnastics floor routine for RC planes.
They're intense, watching people that are really good do 3D, I remember watching the acrobatic RC pilots building foam planes similar to the ones Adam mentioned early in the video. The things those folks could do absolutely blew my mind.
Since he has a real penchant for shaving off milligrams of unnecessary weight for indoor craft, he might want to revive the 1950's manly art of making microfilm airfoils instead of mylar.
Want to get more involved in the RC hobby? Here are some helpful resources recommended by Adam Woodworth:
Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA): www.modelaircraft.org/
The AMA is the leading organization for model aviation enthusiasts in the U.S., dedicated to safety, education, and advocacy. They provide insurance coverage for members, organize competitions, and advocate for model aviation interests with government agencies.
Flite Test: www.flitetest.com/
This website is a fantastic resource for RC airplane and drone enthusiasts of all skill levels. They offer build plans, product reviews, tutorials, and a supportive online community.
RCGroups: www.rcgroups.com/
This is one of the largest online forums dedicated to radio-controlled hobbies, including airplanes, drones, cars, and boats. It's an excellent place to find information, ask questions, and connect with other RC enthusiasts.
His instagram account is 100% worth a follow!
neat!! my avatar is my fusion 360 scale DC3 that I made of foamboard, it has flown a few times
Adam Woodworth is such a great pilot and builder. 🤘🤠
Love Cool RC airplane stuff. All Andy Clancy designs (especially the Lazy Bee) are my favorite due to the cartoonish looks and their very slow acrobatic capabilities thanks for the fun! 🎉
the ultimate flying RC challenge is making a functioning RC Quetzalcoatlus, the largest pterosaur. bonus points if its an ornithopter and full-size.
So far, all my rc airplanes have had a bias towards earth.
Sims like RealFlight are a great tool to help with that 👍
Same here 😂
I find that when you stay on the ground, that's just one less thing you can crash into 😂😂😂
The solution for Adam's fish tank airplane idea may be to use mineral oil instead of water. Does away with the need to seal or conformally coat the electronics (simplifying building the plane). It also has better radio penetration than water. More viscous than water though, so it may be a really slow flying experience. :D
Jack black lookin healthy
Flying models is pure zen, the only thing better is sharing it with your kids! I am super fortunate to be a lifelong hobbyist and my son got the bug too!
The original Wright Flyer was ludicrously short coupled. There's a reason why the Wright Flyer III gained 7 feet in overall length over the 1903 original.
incredible
Watching Adam becoming instantly and completely enthralled by the idea of a desktop fish tank aerobatic model that could take off, loop, and land, may have been the best moment of the video.
Luke Skywalker: I have an X-wing.
Adam Woodworth: No, THIS is an X-wing.
2:37 I love this section, cause it reveals how consistent the two of the Wright brothers ideas on control remain even on small scale models.
They believed that the only way to get a real plane that you could fly working was to make it unstable, as that allowed control.
I never thought much about that, but that is cool. I guess when you're trying to do something nature doesn't neccesarily "want" us to do, instability is likely neccesary.
I think I'm thinking about that right, anyway. It's still fascinating to think about regardless.
For most of my life, i have been into cars and RC cars. To be honest, i have never really thought about delving into RC planes. But listening to this gentleman talk about his work and obvious passion for what he does makes me want to look into what i might have been missing all these years.
Do it! It's an awesome and very addictive hobby.
Watch some Flite Test stuff, their build kits are great.
I've always been a surface guy myself. I've tried and I just need more practice on something reasonable, it's fun. I've been out of both for a while but I think maybe it's time to have another go
Hey this is going to be nice to see
The Wright brothers were bicycle makers. They knew a bicycle was dynamically stable with the steering wheel in front (push it forward and the steer wheel tries to straighten out). Unstable with the steering wheel in back (push it backwards and the steer wheel tries to turn more).
They incorrectly assumed the same would be true for aerodynamics, and put the pitch control surfaces out in front. If they'd realized hydrodynamics was the same as aerodynamics (fluid dynamics) and looked at ships, they would've known the control surfaces like the rudder should be in back to be stable.
Paul MacCready (built the first man-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel) encountered this same problem when he took a contract to build a RC pterasaur for a TV show. It steered by turning its head (in front), which made it dynamically unstable. An animal immediately able to turn its head based on what it saw and how it felt could control its unstable flight. But it was impossible for a pilot controlling a little dot in the sky via RC. He ended up having to design a rudimentary flight computer which would make micro-adjustments to the head to keep it stable, independent of the commands via RC.
There are several wright flyer Rc kits. I’m personally updating the “great planes wright flyer” kit to more modern tech!
I'd love to see him inspiration from some of the early flight attempts that failed, except making the necessary changes to make them capable.
I learned so much thank you.
Very nice video thanks ❤
So the waist harness of the Wright Flyer, I didn't know about that but I'm trying to think through their thought process. I'm wondering if they were thinking it would be too difficult to control roll where hands and feet were already in use so they used the torso to control? I suppose I could just go look it up but maybe someone here already knows
Most of the Wright Brothers prototyping was through gliders, and even then it was typically to lie prone on the gliders and tethered kites to keep the balance low, and control with your body weight.
Its likely that the Flyer 1 was designed off of that understanding, and provided a hip based control scheme to stay in theme
In the 80's my Dad helped get the Pogo off of a barge at the Navy yard in DC as it was on it's way to Silver Hill. He always said if he had known what his day was gonna be ahead of time he would have let me skip school and go to work with him.
I like your dad. He sounds like a good one. That seems like very reasonable thing to do, had he known. That would have been cool, and he wanted to share it with you.
Fun fact. The first public demonstration of manned flight in the Western Hemisphere was in Santa Clara California in 1905. (Wrights didn’t do a public demonstration until 1908 in France)
A glider built by John Joseph Montgomery flown by a test pilot was dropped from a balloon from 4,000ft, flew a series of planned aerobatics and landed on target in front of a crowd of hundreds.
A Hollywood movie was made about it. “Gallant Journey”
Thanks for that info! Interesting.
Powered flight vs. falling with style.
@ NOPE. All of the important problems of lift, stability, and control can be solved with gliders and soaring flight. The Wright brothers’ patent was for a glider.
(Montgomery’s patent for the aeroplane was submitted at the same time as the Wright brothers’. )
Flight is a form of juggling with things that don't fall as fast as balls.
Scientists discover and explore that which exists and engineers conceive of and create that which does not yet. Also "If you're not having fun you are not doing it right."
RC flying is a gateway drug for aviation, be it engineering, maintenance, manufacturing, or flying. Im a product of that, too.
100% 🙌
Except ots now being regulated even stricter than actual aviation.
The parallels you get from quad-copter flight using the same principles, but the same axis....... My brain is broken is the best way possible. I get X-Wing vs TIE fighter vibes.
Imagine walking on to a modern A380 passenger airplane and seeing the pilots hanging from the ceiling of the cockpit in wing warping harnesses!!
Thank God for innovation 😂😂
17:03 rolling harrier cheat code
If he figures out that desktop aerodrome he will sell a lot of them - I know I would buy one if I could afford it
Want to see a blimp version or airship version- possibly with printed on solar panels, for a record time flight - Were you would send it up and somehow like a man of war catch a air current. or climb then glide- then climb and glide.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed but what he made with the "X" wing airplane is actually an "X" wing fighter from Star Wars. I wonder if you could make a full size one with the wings retracted to make a standard wing but open up in flight to give different aerodynamic capabilities? So interesting, thank you for sharing!...
Make the silver dart rc, Alexander Graham Bell's airplane.
I assume Adam now has 1,000 .5 mil carbon fiber rods.
I was a lifelong aviation buff, from the time I was very little. But I never had the resources to actually get into RC or anything. So when I earned my private pilot certificate there was a number of things I learned that I found fascinating. For example, the way the CG of a conventional aircraft is forward and the horizontal stabilizer actually pushes down. I always imagined it was lifting, but once you understand it makes perfect sense. Adverse yaw, trim, there’s so much to learn just to fly an airplane. Perhaps this is why there are so many homebuilt airplanes, you can’t fly planes without developing some connection to how they work, and that can lead to the desire to build them.
Okay, I need a "fish tank" airplane for my desk at work...lol🤘🤣
I liked the bit where Adam was talking.
I have read that with modern techs they could put an outhouse in space.
I wonder how aerodynamic Superman is...because he is real!!!!
Just from the juxtaposition of the Wright flier and the aerobatic quad wing I started to wonder, what would happen if you enclosed the wings and turned the whole thing into a box wing structure? I imagine it would have a sort of ducted fan effect. Probably wouldn't help the aerobatics but I'm not really up on aerodynamics.
Yes, yes it could, I had a 12" one about 15 years ago. Been wanting to try building a micro one ever since...one of these days...
Very cool project!
The simplest solution is to do like they did in the past. Catapult!
My main take away from this vid: X-Wings make sens... literally.
If the original managed to fly with the materials and heavy, underpowered engines of the time I'm sure a modern RC version should fly. It might not be the easiest to control given the short cord but if you can get the COG right it should just about work.
Dude, a VTOL Vapor looks super fun. I need to dig mine out of the garage
ofc it can - it barely flew at the time because of the power-weight of engines back then, modern engines can make a literal brick fly.
I recently visited the Lockheed XFV prototype at a museum in Lakeland Florida, it was the Lockheed competitor to the Convair XFY. It was crazy to see in person, as if one of the machines from that old Thunderbirds tv show suddenly existed in real life.
I've never built one myself, but "tailsitter VTOL" is one of the existing configurations in RC autopilot systems like Ardupilot so making a fully functional RC model of one should be doable as long as you can solved the static thrust to weight issue.
When Adam Woodworth talked about the plane in the fish tank (27:00), I could totally see Adam Savage's face say "ooooohhhh, I want one!". Me, too!
I got to fly a replica 1902 Wright Glider. Your description of the flight characteristics was spot on. It was super twitchy in pitch and slowwww and side slippy in turns. Had about a one second delay for turning.
@23:00 This is where the canard of the Wright Flyer would work well. With the horizontal in front, the wash would not have as strong of effect.
Aviation! Fantastic discussion. Wonderful guest. Brilliant.
Speaking of Convair, there was the Convair Submersible Seaplane
Can you imagine how hard it must be to land that Convair in real life or am I missing something about the way it lands
You aren't. The difficulty landing it was one of the reasons it never proceeded past the prototype stage.
Lots of good lessons in here about any job:
Keeping your technical skills when you also have to be at meetings.
Cutting extraneous material.
You have to practice and you have to fail.
Ok wow, thatś super fascinating - With this video I learned more about aviation today than before in my life. Thank you both very much 👌🏼👏🏼
Many thanks for watching!
I would buy one
The twin fuselage hover plane reminds me of the heavier than airships described both by Jules Verne, and of similar air ships described by George Griffith in his 1894 book "Angel of The Revolution
A tale of the coming Terror". The hover propellers giving the craft/ship faster ascending speed than a traditional aeroplane would have.
Fascinating stuff.
I always enjoy your videos.
Have Fun,
Carlos.
Can you really call it knife edge when you still have the same wing area? :)
Didn't know Darius the great was into model planes.
He was into loads of things
He was great.
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I see it. And it's a compliment. Also, I tried to find some modern person doing an example of the ancient Persian / Darius style beard with the almost tube like appearance - and shockingly nobody has done that. At least that I could find. I would figure that somebody would have at least tried that on their beard.
Looks like a Temu Jack Black
@MADmosche but way cooler than Jack Black
I wonder if you could do the flying tie interceptor by making part of the panels finned so you get lots of little lift?
I was watching the Expanse, in season 2 noticed that Adam is one of the scientists on the ship that gets dismantled by the proto-molecule, and the dismantling itself reminds me of kid that scatters and divides all the Legos of the model on the floor, but in this case the kid is the molecule and it's doing it in 3d🙂
Reminder that some countries require a license to fly RC planes that are not toys. Canada has the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) with limits on some levels.
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Adam literally controlled an RC submarine inside an aquarium, the pill camera. I'm surprised he didn't bring that up in the conversation.
Have you been to New Jersey in the past couple weeks?
Exceptional video, please keep up with these! I have built and (somewhat successfully) flown a few foamboard RC builds - I absolutely loved it but haven't been keeping up with it. Adam, it would be amazing to see you venture into this...
One of my old friends was a aerodynamics engineer and he eventually married a lovely lady, who happened to be a fluid dynamics engineer.
Let me tell you, don't EVER invite a couple like that over for dinner.
You might as well invite a couple who only speaks latin 😂
I really hope there's footage somewhere of the Matrix model makers and their foam planes
I mean if you get the chance I'll always say go see the original at the air and space museum in Washington DC. But for those of you who are better able to get to Chicago there is a replica on display that was built for the 100th anniversary of the wright brothers original flight. Replica was built with the same kinds of materials and techniques that the wright brothers would have had. The only significant change was they had a engine that had a slightly better power to weight ratio to make it safer.
I want a fish tank plane in my office!😮
The airfoil tests that the Wright’s did are one of the coolest things about their story. They knew they had to go small scale! But even before they busted out the wind-tunnel, they fastened airfoils to a bike and rode down the street to create their own wind. Their ingenuity was awesome. Shameless plug - we made a short film recently about this experiment and their tests in 1901! Check out the trailer if you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/ruISi7YldwA/v-deo.html
Huge fan of the channel! I would not be where I am today without watching mythbusters every waking moment of my childhood. Thank you!
lets try!
looks good anyways!
I mean, you can build a flying RC lawnmower....
Adam, i challenge you to dive deeper into RC aerobatic airplanes. Almost anything is possible.
I love this!...lol🤘🤣
You can make just about anything fly in RC. It's about power to weight ratio.
Amazing!!!! Now, finish the RAPTOR!!! lol
When Adam Sandler came up we were all thinking - where is this going?
This isnt a critique on adam or the model talk but theres one detail i felt a need to point out.
Theres no historical proof that the wright brothers had the first working plane.
They had the opportunity to prove themselves and confirm this for weeks and instead chose to keep their plane hidden under lock and key while their competition was continuing to perform test runs that had media present.
With that said, the Wright brothers are famously known as the first patent trolls. They spent their entire lives trying to destroy anyone that set foot in the air without their permission and refused any mercy even up to the moment their gravestones were made. half the problems legally in aviation history are the result of their shenanigans 😅
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Anyone having seen this guy lately? NJ?
I think the model Wright flyer flew longer than the real plane