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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Previous ground effect videos:
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This is art.
Ikr! Btw love your video's
I would like to see a model of the soviet version with the micro jets
Ok brit
Your vids are art toooo👍🏼👍🏼👌
You got that right!
The edit alone is so impressive on its own. The drone shots following the plane were so good it was easy to forget that it was a separate camera following along. Awesome!!!
its been 6 months since your last sloping video man, get out their! :)
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I came here to say the same thing. The airplane is cool but the filmography is epic. #PraiseTheCameraMan
The evolution of this thing, from your early days with that dollar tree foam board ground effect vehicle, and now to this.... it's astonishing. Great work to all involved. ThinkFlight is an amazing aircraft builder!
Ok
I think by removing a tad from the rear end of the middle wing you can reduce the nose down tendency during ground effect flying. I love it.
And now back to dollar tree foam board
Between the lighting and the perfectly steady camera, a lot of your shots look like a render from a flight simulator. Really amazing stuff.
I'm going to venture a guess here and say this was made with an omnidirectional camera. They oriented the shot afterwards.
Having offered that option, it may very well be that they just killed it and that's it. Great shots anyway!
Fantastic camera work all around.....bravo!
@@halfeld you can see in one of the shots that it is a mavic
@@chonk1221, I don't doubt their ability for a second!
Ik right
Damn Daniel, the B-Roll at the start is next level epic🔥
The footage looks like it is intended to attract venture capital - because is is.
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@@jensmeier8452 Schweizer😁👍
I am 56 years old and have been into R/C models since I was in Jr. High School. The video here, when this thing is kissing, but NOT actually touching the water- yet leaving visible trails in the water due to aerodynamics alone- is about the coolest thing I have ever seen in the hobby.... well, second only to $35,000 Turbines being turned into vapor as the hit they hit the ground vertically at +200MPH. ;-) NICE VIDEO!!!!!
That intro is just amazing. So stunned by that nice footage of that majestic aircraft. That glassy mirrow like water. Awesome. Thanks for those nice videos and the afford you put into. 🥰
Epic how far this has come. This is so inspiring!
I was just going to say the same thing. Amazing work!
@Ahmed Shah just like u
Next step ... Making it solar, and performing a 10h waypoint autonomous mission 😁😁
yesssss
Pulling the kayak behind.
will take to much time to recharge the battery using solar power
@@johnsmith-yj2cn no it'll actively use the sun's energy while it's flying
@@Bleeto i think if you cover the plane in solar panals itll fuck up the ground effect no sure but to my mind the extra weight would cause problems but maybe you could adjust the settings in the lidar not sure and fc ect
These are some of the best drone shots I’ve ever seen 🤯
Im still hoping for a human-carrying version colab with Peter Sirpol
This Beauty hovering and gliding above the smooth waters surface made my day! Awesome! Thanks Daniel.
Edit: who else took their headphones off to check if the alarm was going ? 10:54
yes, I paused the video thinking it was mine 🙂 haha
@@grim-upnorth haha me to!
Haha meeee
Totally mesmerizing.
Ok Sean
The next logical step now seems to be having it fly circles around the autonomous tugboat/canoe on an all-day mission
Airspeed sensor for throttle and lidar for elevator.
The total energy control loop doesn’t work in ground effect, it reverses.
Please please please put on an airspeed sensor and close that loop, you need it to run on the back edge of the drag/speed curve to gain the ground effect gains.
I'm no flight control expert, but I feel like using vertical speed data would be better for stability than using absolute altitude data. That way it can try to predict when the aircraft is going to get too close to the ground before it happens so you get less oscillation from the props needing time to spin up.
@@rubiconnn
After I just explained why you don’t use thrust to control altitude.
How do you measure vertical velocity without measuring absolute height?
How do you hold an absolute height by measuring vertical velocity?
I think it may further benefit from moving the existing LiDAR to the center and adding two more to the ends of the wings so it can automatically avoid hitting the water when turning.
It really is the best RC ever, not just a ground effect vehicle. I hope the major corporations see his and mass produce something similar. It would be so fun to have an FPV ground effect vehicle. You guys outdid yourselves with this one. It's also not only functional, it's a work of art! Watching it fly in the ground effect, is the most relaxing thing ever. Game changer!
I love seeing different members of communities come together to share skills for crazy projects like this. Some of the best content on UA-cam is skill-sharing colabs.
Man, GEVs have to be the coolest airborn vehicles ever! So efficient, as grateful as an owl flying just inches above the ground, the streaks on the water without the plane touching the water... God, I love it!
The float plane on the cover of RCM magazine September 1992 looks similar to your plane. I believe the plans were published in that magazine also.
Cant get over how good the whole first minute montage is... reallly wow.
Beautiful plane and cinematography! The collaboration in concept, building, code and presentation is exceptional!
The intro footage together with the atmospheric music gave me goosebumps. Overall, another unique video in a row with perfect combination of technical details, beautiful footage and great editing.
Awesome. Been looking forward to an update on this project
I love a collaboration that results in a finely engineered vehicle, the end product is beautiful. Well done guys
How is efficiency to payload ? Design goals achieved?
love watching it skim over the surface.
that is the premiss right? much more load capacity and efficiency when in ground effect?
love the tilting motors to get the air under the wing,
what if instead of rotating motor, you diverted it with a Flap that dropped in or had it permanently pushing under the wing. ?
Stellar! Amazing ship, awesome cinematography, excellent editing, hell of a video gentlemen! Bonus points for nipple blur. 🤣
I've always been obsessed with Ekranoplans. Really cool to see how well yours turned out. Out of curiosity, why did you not opt for scale ducted fans? I would think the greater static pressure would be something desirable for your tiltrotor configuration.
They are less efficient, have slower acceleration for the ground effect control loop, and just blow a hole in the water
@@rctestflight Thanks for the info! I've got no experience myself, so its all guesswork on my part. Good to know!
I wish Howard Hughes could have lived to see this, It would've made him cry like a baby
Absolutely Beautiful
I have never seen so cinematic shots of RC model before
Respect man
My favorite scent is the Charcoal. Native products are pretty good! 👍
This is absolutely hypnotizing
Yup.. indeed ground effect vehicles are some of the most efficient vehicles out there (when engineered properly)
10:56 my old wake-up alarm clock for work. I got shivers down my spine.
The anhedral reverse delta allows the centre of effort to move aft as the machine descends,
but recovers some pressure toward the tips as the wing gets closer to the surface, keeping the machine in trim.
Mostly these hybrid shapes of Alexander Lippisch's design exist to get around the patent
it isnt usual to have flaps on the mainplane
I am glad that similar projects exist on UA-cam
It's been incredible following this project, insane how far we've come since that first lidar altitude control video from ages ago.
I am only 2 minutes into this video and i had to stop and praise the camera work and editing on this video. Just stunning.
Now back to the rest of the video to learn about the craft itself.
Ground effect vehicles can hold large amounts of weight compared to conventional aircraft. I think it would be so cool if you were able to test how much weight it can carry
Love it when a plan comes together.
I thought it was computer graphics, not an rc plane.
The screen is so enchanting and beautiful.
I am amazed at how you filmed it so beautifully.
stared at it It's really great.💯👍👍👍
This has to be my most favourite project to product video on UA-cam. This craft is amazing! Thank YOU and Kevin for putting this together.
Awesome. Is there a chance that you make an in-depth video of the Ardupilot side of the project?
We are currently trying to make a 8 meter solar boat hydrofoiling with Ardupilot and the Lidar sensor and it could really help with this.
Woah, that sounds like a project we need to see.
good on ya for taking promotion from and actual ethical and useful company
Bro as someone who’s getting into video and been doing some photography, I have mad respect for the way this was all filmed, idk how you did it but it’s so good!💯
If you want to get rid of oscillations caused by altitude control, add some dampening to them. That is, add a -k*V component to throttle input, where V is vertical speed. With the right tuning, throttle corrections will not make the plane overshoot it's altitude target.
Congratulations, this is the most professional rc GE craft that i have seen. The combination of your teams skill sets has set a new standard!.
it's only the best because this is the V1!!!
Been following your channel for YEARS bro. YEARS. God bless.
If these ground effect RC planes were mass produced, they’d sell like crazy! Such an awesome idea!
Daniel is probably the only UA-camr whos ad sections I enjoy watching as much as watching the main video lol
@rctestflight I think if you coat the pontoons and underside with a hydrophobic paint you might have a much easier time taking off as there will be less friction from the water.
I'm really curious about this project. First of, very well done. It's a beautifully flying machine. That said, XFLR5 in stock form is not capable of calculating the center of pressure shift for a wing in ground effect. I am not certain, but this may be why your Ekranoplan is even capable of flying outside of ground effect. Typically, a Lippisch style "reverse delta" WIG will have a lifting tail and is only dynamically stable in ground effect. As the vehicle leaves ground effect it should tend to trim nose down and bring it back into ground effect. If designed this way, the use of an ardupilot and LIDAR shouldn't be necessary. I'd encourage you to play with Lippisch WIG gliders to experiment with the naturally trimming tendencies of such designs.
Of course, I could be missing something
I was thinking something similar.
I thought the idea behind this design was to ensure that the machine, once it had entered the ground effect, would be stable as long as the speed was kept up. No need to worry about altitude as it can never leave ground effect.
The only YT channel where I don't skip the ad placement. 👍
The build process is so over the top !
Some really beautiful shots on that still water... it almost doesn't even look real. Well done.
Very nice looking plane. The LIDAR is next level……..great work.
Those drone shots on that glassy smooth water amazing nice job cameraman drone pilot and the ground effect pilot amazing amazing doesn't even look real half the time and then you start skimming the water and totally it's alive. Love it keep up great content
you know what strikes me as being even more amazing them the ekranpplan, the videography of the flying footage, i don't know who was flying the camera drone but whoever it was has absolutely remarkable flying skills, that footage looked like something you would see on one of those high dollar discovery channel documentary's. i can't believe that some high tech aviation company hasn't come offered you an insane amount of money to come work for them.....
This might be my favorite RC vehicle ever.
- Дизайн у экрана классный, выглядит красиво, необычно!
Such a cool vehicle 👌🏼 add some long range FPV on a nice warm day and you got epic goodness. Well done lads 🔥
I love how this culmination of work has become. I want to see it actually become apart of our every day life.
Those drone shots at beginning are so sick.
3:05 was impressive to see a prop version of thrust vectoring with only two props.
5:10 fish slapping the surface too 🔥🔥🔥
Impressive and cool to watch, start to finish. Wouldn't be surprised for you guys to be asked to head up a rapid prototyping department at a aircraft design company.
Daniel's videos just get better and better, I am so here for it
That thing is on rails! It's so smooth it looks like it's CG. Hell of a job with the chase photography and the edit.
That is one of the coolest looking RC vehicles I've ever seen. So smooth and graceful. Well done!
This has to be one of the most graceful, beautiful things I've ever seen. Simply majestic.
That opening sequence is killer!
...And I REALLY love these ground-effect (and related phenomena) based videos! AWESOME content guys
We needed to see more of the action on waves. The first objection to use of GEVs is that weather shuts them down: they need glassy water only. This contradicts statements from those with experience flying some of them, who say they can easily go half span high, or even full span or more for shorter durations if it's a type 2 or 3 GEV.
One thing I've seen others do for tests of models is use the wake from a boat to test its handling in choppy waters.
It's also interesting that videos of the real thing show that they're not particularly afraid of wing-tip strikes. Sometimes perhaps using it for yaw.
For larger models, see the 1950s Chase/Stroukoff YC-134. Upgraded C-123 with BLC for STOL performance and waterproof strengthened airplane hull. With two flat "Pantobase" skis instead of a step. On Skis it operated from pavement, unimproved ground, sand, snow/ice, water. The skis can be semi-retractable into the underside.
If it's got power for more than a few seconds of flight above GE, then getting from displacement to the "step" or skis, isn't a problem.
A fine-looking craft to be sure.
I think maybe it’s a seaplane if it can fly above ground effect. But using ground effect for cruise is cool regardless.
beautiful creation, by more forward sweep you can improve flight characteristics and increase efficiency by slim wings without increasing wingspan too much
Whoever did the those b roll drone shots did an excellent job
SO HYPE 10/10 the start was soo cool
What an absolutely beautiful project. Your friend is a true artist and craftsman. Your bit was pretty good too.
Good job! I'm actually from a city (Derbent, Russia) where lives real monster Ekranoplan in the World. Welcome!
You can see the effort that went into this work of art. Bravo
I'm really curious about the real world benefits you found flying in the ground effect.
Like were you running the engines at 70% normal flight, but only 40% ground effect?
That is one side of it. The other side is you need less wing for the same lift, resulting in less drag... therefore higher speed for the same power
@@halfeld that would also be great to see. Speed vs Power inside and outside ground effect.
Thanks for pointing that out
As for the challenges for WIG vehicles, the main issue is the power needed to go from displacement to planing speeds using the same powerhouse required for flight. It is less of an issue if one takes off and lands on a runway, but that takes away from the liberty of landing in unstructured environments.
@@WarlordSh4Dow my pleasure! Such an interesting topic! Thanks to rctestflight and Think Flight for the journey too. I hope I get to balance entertainment and technical content as well as they do in my channel. Both are great sources of inspiration.
Viewers of this channel will enjoy following the development of this concept as well:
ua-cam.com/video/imJpOjjduGI/v-deo.html
Wow! Such skill and talent. Keep on going, you have a bright future ahead.
That thing is spectacular... Looks like it flies great.. Love the colour scheme. Amazing footage flying over the Glass lake..
Its great to follow entire progress of this project and see such great result
if you had 2 more lidars on the plane with an accelerometer you could get a lot more accurate pitch and roll data so you can deal with taller waves
Some look-ahead capability for obstacles and roll and pitch compensation would be neat. I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the planning, but probably cost and software issues to work out.
This looks like it would be in a Star Wars movie great job!
theres something really beutiful about how this plane flys. Great work you guys and awsome b-roll
Some stunning photography in this video.
you guys knocked it out of the park with this one... epic video shoots too
This is a great series, loved the improvements that have been done. And the general ideas that came together to make this (:
One leaving from that park on SLU near the airport, to 125th in Lake City or Kenmore. Another to the Bellevue side of 520.
The production quality of these videos has increased dramatically but the channel maintains it character. I love it!
"If it looks right, it flies right"
And this thing flies really well
Your cinematography is on point
That machine is a work of art, I gotta say. Amazing collab, and some great modeling skills by ThinkFlight.
The plane looks great!
Awesome work! The drone shots following it are insane, too. you almost forget its a separate aircraft.
I'm waiting for the kit. I stink at scratch build. I just love the design. It looks like it would float across the sky. So if you're listening Kevin RTF Kit wanted. Thanks for the video and information about your Ground Effect plane.
That’s a beautiful creation
Man, those tracking shots are super super nice
ochuchu how cool it looks! It is going steadily and thoroughly. It was awesome!
I came for the ground effect vehicle... but stayed for the body care commercial. That was truly hot.