200 MPH+ control line *ORANGE MONSTER HIGH SPEED PULSE JET*
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- 200 MPH+ control line ORANGE MONSTER HIGH SPEED PULSE JET
Once a year I film control line pulse jets at the BMFA Power Nationals. I'm glad it is only once per year because it is terrifying to stand this close to a projectile doing 204 MPH! That being said it is 100% safe as the control line is regularly measured and stress tested so there is zero possibility of it breaking. You will notice that there is fencing around flight area to prevent the trolley or aircraft leaving should the worst happen...and also to prevent any members of the public accidentally straying into the area.
Filmed at the British Model Flying Association (BMFA) Power Nationals ('NATS') event 2019 using the Panasonic AG-UX180 4K pro camcorder by Dom Mitchell of 'Essential RC' UA-cam channel.
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Kitne rupees
Lmao
Control-line seems a slowly dying art and such a special side of aeromodeling. This is awesome to see. And a pulse jet is definitely an added treat!
I did control line flying back in the 80's and what you said was being said then. Yet I see many people still fly control line
@@leokimvideoI agree I’ve heard it as well. If you look at most mainstream rc magazines, ads, hobby shops, etc, very rarely is control line highlighted. I’m aware that people still do it, I’ve seen it at fly-ins and once in a blue moon at the field, but it is rare and I do feel it’s dying down as most young people head towards rc and rtf models.
@@Fantastiko13 With all the rules on RC now, I think it will make a big come back. I think RC has been shot in the foot.
Still at least one practitioner here in Ottawa, Canada. My dad introduced it to me 32 years ago, and I'm about to start a build with my ten year old.
I do control line sometimes; just round and round mostly - but you are connected with the plane and that is special. There are guys here who fly competition CL aerobatics, but I never could fly precise aerobatics. And pulling out inverted 6 feet from that cold hard tarmac.... 😢
I sometimes add a cheep Rc (Chinese) system to operate the throttle. With the newer phone type radio there is no interference issues. To anyone thinking of trying CL; a larger plane (not a jet!!!) circles slower, 5 or 6 seconds per lap on 55 or 60 foot lines. Keep looking at the plane and you won't get dizzy (you do get used to it, and i and 74yrs old btw). And you can certainly use a RC engine, just peg the throttle (1/2 to start with). Oh, and for an easy "trainer" flying be sure the plane is nose heavy, no further back than the leading wire (even on the leading edge of the wing will usually work!). Enjoy! Jim
You know what would be fun?
A game of jump rope: Life or Death edition.
COMMENT OF THE DAY. Hilarious. Have a good weekend David. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
I'm in!
Yeah also with a metal braided rope do it will slice your feet off 😂
Musical buzzbomb. People sitting in chairs in a circle with buzzbomb flying just overhead. When the music stops, buzzbomb dives. Last person conscious gets to fly 2nd round.
But my favorite is called the "Clothes Dryer". A 100 ft. tall ferris wheel with no seatbelts and no pivoting seats. I know, I know. You're probably thinking, "Who would wanna ride that?" And I say Everyone!! Because if you land in a seat, your second ride is FREE!!!
@@jayrenner665
No no no. I had the art of fusing stupidity with physical injury down pat.
I had an SL70 once. For some idiotic reason, I decided i was going to make a jump out of an aluminum portable picnic table. I remember about 50 ft before the jump and waking up with some old guy staring at me and dust floating all arond. Some pebbles implanted in my chin.
Only difference between boys and men is the price of their toys.
True 🤣
You almost got it there.
And we like that difference
And the time it takes to recover from injury
Bet that guy couldnt walk in a straight line after all that spinning.
Yea , I think so
I used to fly those jets. It's not so bad, really.
XD XD
@@morterforker69 yep, same. You're focused on the model it doesn't make you so dizzy
@@FaTeDev_com What kind of fuel did you use? We used a 50/50 mixture of nitromethane and propylene oxide. Sometimes threw a little benzene in there too. We consistently got over 200MPH, often hitting around 210.
This is a very special kind of madness!
That thing is going about 250 mph!
I remember building these back in the late 60’s to early 70’s. These things where so super fast and hard to handle. It almost pull my shoulder out of the socket. I had made a special fiberglass wrist forearm brace just to be able to hold on. When I first got into them my father knew people still in the navy who came up with some small jet engines to mess with. I took a old bathtub 1920’s and kustom made a frame suspension designed along the lines of a Jaguar car. I ended up getting arrested for speeding down our street doing 167 mph. The noise that my jet engine put out was unreal. I was really into engineering had 5 degrees. If I wasn’t old and broken down these days. I would still be creating off the wall stuff.
Lester Miller wish you had some pictures!
Keep doing it! What better things have ya got to do? I'm disabled but I still tinker. ;) it's how I stay sane without work.
You did 167mph down a street in a bath tub? God there's some gullible people on here 🤣
I had 10 degrees and did 200mph down my street in a sink , it was powered by a homemade nuclear reactor.
@@Doug791 That's nothing...I had a cardboard box with an SRB off the space shuttle running cooking oil from my local chippy. I was clocked at 13000mph leaving my drive and went into orbit by the end of the road. 😉
I saw this once at a model Aviation event back in the seventies. These guys are the true Maniacs of model Aviation. When I first heard that pulsejet start up and I'd never heard one of these before and my reaction was '' what the hell is that''!? Watching this guy go round and round as fast as he could in a circle was awesome, and even a little scary.
Best fuel to noise ratio in the whole modeling business!
It's so expressive beyond words to watch this man spin around at such an expressive speed yet have such masterful control of the Aircraft.
Finally! A pulse jet that’s not just bolted down to a workbench
"Phew!" "I'm dizzy just watching that craft going 204.4 m.p.h.!" "That was intense!"
4:27 Starting up
MVP
How high were the people who invented this? I had a control line P51 mustang when I was like 8 years old. If the prop didn’t cut ur finger off when trying to start it, the spinning in circles would make you puke. Great times Dad, great times.
Run them non stop until motor melted plastic housing and the rubber bands, and the motor would fly out the front of plane.
Cox?
Tom da Silva
Oh yes. 0 to 8 zillion rpms in a split second. Lol
@@MrCarnutbill67 , Ha... I think, to have had the same Mustang, around 1966... I think those motors were called "Baby Bees"... I had another motor, separately, a "Golden Bee", that could support inverted flight... If my memory does not betray me... Cheers, man!
Those were the days..
CHEESE AND RICE!!!
That is, LITERALLY, a speeding bullet at 204 plus mph.
I flew control line models as a kid but NOTHING with that kind of velocity! I fear I'd be puking going around in circles at that velocity!!
Good Job, Sir!!
this is reasonably insane
When the start-up crew has to run for cover, that's a hobby worth it! Love it, i miss the 70's, the smell of cox fuel, and dad.
Back in the late 60's, I had a pal who was really into control line flying. My father was an aero modeller in his youth, whose passion was gliders. Dad would pour scorn on control line flying, saying you could make a brick with an engine whizz round on the end of a string, if powerful enough.
Man I wish I had all the time I spent trying to fly one of these back!!
You did a great job!
People don’t realize how hard these are to fly especially on along wire like yours!!!
Great job!!!!
Yeah, Monoline is hard to control!
Thanks for your great videos. Good to see the pulse jet speed models close up.
Fist Dyna Jet I ever saw fly was at Disneyland when it first opened in Tomorrow Land. VERY LOUD and FAST. Got me into stunt flying later on.
Fark! From not starting to 204mph in 0.001s!!!! Love it!
Not quite sure whats going on but u know its a very, very British thing to do!! Love it.
I watched a u-control pulse jet about 40 years ago and was amazed at the noise, let alone the speed. I think the younger generation will not follow in the footsteps of these gentleman and the sport will disappear.
I’m 41 still I think control line is stupid
As the eletric planes are growing up and these low costs when compared to combustion engine model planes, combined with noise restriction laws in many countries, possibly this finest hobby is nearly to disappear in a couple of years...
@@EZ4U2Say11 That is a constructive comment. Thanks for informing us.
I have one that was made in Germany that has a carb on it about 13 inch long haven't tried to start it yet was a gift from a friend I'm only 46
@@Dbassman999 wow and it only took you 4 years to troll the comments section
Pulse jets are the muskets of the thrust world. Effective but takes a minute to get em going. Imagine hearing the call “scramble the pulse jets”!
Slowed down footage was good, sounded more like the V1 flying bomb!
Same basic jet technology so no surprise. Just awesome watching this thing in action and actually quite terrifying but these guys obviously knew what they were doing and are very safety conscious. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
My granfather who was in his 90s used to tell me about scram jet model aircraft he played with as a child. Never seen one thanks for sharing
First time i see a plane doing the tethered thing....yesterday was the first time ever i came across the concept of tethered racing.
From watching the first 6 videos on it i had gained a little understanding and was aware that 'something was being launched by someone equipped with a precision launching device (a brush in 3 videos) with the something rapidly accelerating to a speed of over 200+ mph becoming a blurred something'
Luckily the 7th video covered the preparation for racing the 'somethings', which turned out to be cars, that were the result of some high quality workmanship.
I had one when I was about 7yrs old it had a 15 ft cord and it was 100% powerd by me after about a minute of spinning around in circles the entire world just kept on spinning it was fun !
I had one of those too. Great memories
AC Cobra in the background @ 3:33 Might be a kit. Still cool.
Loved watching the two old geezers try to run when they got it started!
To be fair they were both hunched over trying to start it for a while, I’m only 30 and I know I would struggle to run properly like that
Really cool example of the doppler effect!
For those unaware..... those pulse jets are real ear busters and this video does not begin to reveal how very loud they are.
Notice that ear protection is wisely being used .
Edit: The speaker at the end of the race declares 204.4 MPH and not as I wrote (by heart) 204.04, then:
204.4 MPH to which it corresponds
:
328.945 Km / h (if the speed is declared in land miles)
378.55 Km / h (if the speed is declared in nautical miles)
For Clarity.
Zola
204.04 mph which correspond to 328.37 km / h ( land miles )
very impressive.
tnx for this video Dom,
Cheers!
@Karl with a K It Is powered with a pulsoreactor... Not with a set of solar sail!
идиотам давно пора отказаться от счисления в ослах и улитках и перейти на метрическую систему, измерения должны быть простыми и единообразными.
Great video. Pulse Jets are awesome! First time I saw one in the late 70’s no fence. Nuts. After that they always put one up. Not sure it would stop a 200mph run off….. but at least it made you feel better watching
That is BONKERS. I will admit, as a RCer, it doesn't especially fun - but I can't help but respect the sheer skill it must take. I could barely SEE the thing until it ran out of fuel! :P
For the size those pulse jets are impressive, a friend of mine had one that topped out at 197 mph a few years ago but couldn't break 200. Definitely a cool hobby.
The first 40 years of childhood for men are the most fun...😁👍
Holly crap! That was climactic,
0 to 200 in .5 sec, awesome
Excellent
Holy crap that's fast, that was the funniest thing I have seen for a while. I got dizzy sick when I flew my son's Cox P51 plastic Mustang after I bought him that one Christmas, and I was nowhere near spinning that fast.
A Pulse Jet ?? Too Cool!! Thanks Guys
Hey Dom. England sure is a land of eccentrics. ;-)
Many years ago the old engineer at the local mill asked me to see if I could rouse up a better set of plans for a model pulse jet whilst on holidays in Britain. (He had almost burned down his garage with his first home brew attempt!) Spent a day traipsing around the model & bookshops in London with no success. Nowadays you'd just Google it . :-)
Indeed. How times have changed. Almost makes life too easy. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
The internet HAS made SOME THINGS _much_ easier!
Lol, the things men do for fun...
Yep.....hi!!
...in the absence of regular sex.
@Vox Deus married man doing the naps thing
I grow vegetables for my family:-) and with them. Good for the collapse that’s happening and restructure of America that most don’t see...
Cheers from a Leftist Sewer
Olympia WA
And we are proud of it😂😄
Undeniably impressive but deadly. Thanks for the surprise again.
Control line RCs are actually good for excersizing, it is like running, arm exersizing, and body exersizing all at ONCE!!
3:35 nice cobra!
have you seen that prius behind it? Nice prius dude!!
Great 1960s memory at Sepulveda Basin: some badass DynaJet dude with this tattoo on his person: THOU SHALT DRAG 😎😸
I had always assumed the BMFA would be all about radio control. I barely saw any at the NATs, it was all control line and free flight. What a bunch of crazy old nutters who aren't happy unless there is a significant element of danger, my kind of people.
There was LOTS of control line activity including combat, carrier landing, aerobatics and this....although they were telling me the number of people joining is minimal. I was lucky to catch this action. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
@@EssentialRC I'm new to fixed wing. They let me have a go at Weston Park. I saw some electric 3d models rigged up for control line, might try that. I've yet to be convinced it's more than a gimmick but looks fun enough to give it a go for shiggles.
From my point of view as a comparative young un' the adherence to IC engines and custom build balsa makes it a bit inaccessible. Control line needs an electric foamy or two if they want new people.
Fraser Steen I think the nationals has had its day, likewise the BMFA
@@johnwalpole8142 I don't know about that but the membership does need to learn to make itself ok with advances in new technology that are making the hobby much more accessible. Mavic pilots are new bretherin, not enemies ruining it for the rest of us.
Wow. I feel like the slowed audio around 7:30 could be a trigger for PTSD.
I know it's all about the planes, but that Cobra in the background at 3:31 to 3:40 😍😍❤
My Uncle Mike Hoyte was big in the jet class. He built kits modified engines. That looks like one of his sidewinder kits. I flew them in a couple of meets. It is like having a tiger by the tail. We ran them on nitro mixed with benzene.
I worked with Bill Capinjola many years ago, long before he bought the pulse jet company. Sadly he had passed when I looked him up a few years ago...
In the 1980's I recall flying in combat competitions being annoyed we had to use mufflers. Seemed ridiculous in comparison of the sound of the jet speed planes.
Good fun.
Editing is a wonderful thing. For those of you who don't want to be bored by watching setup and fueling, move to 4:51 in the video. That's when they actually start flying. The flight stops at 5:27... then there is more boring stuff until they replay the flight in slomo from 7:01 to 8:48. Seriously, this video would have been awesome if edited down to 2 minutes. Great flight. Just don't need all the stuff that 90% of viewers don't give a crap about. The other thing you can do is move your cursor to the timeline. Look for the first large hump and the second small one...then watch another video.
That was crazy!
Thank you
I could tell that thing was going to be a rocket! Good show.
I was scared to death of those control line cox planes when I was a kid.....and still am. I wouldn't stand within a half mile of one these pulse jet things.
Crazy stuff, would make me dizzy holding on to that.
you got me going in circles around and around we go.
4:34 look what the guy does in the car goes perfect in that moment with the jet sound 😂😂😂
The Schmidt's duct - the official name for a pulse jet engine - is a simpliest jet machine ever, no moving parts inside, only fuel, a spark plug and an initial air stream to open up this needle valves and a lot of fun and trust to weight ratio !
Sorry, but it's the ramjet that's the simplest jet machine. Schmidt's duct is just one type of pulsejet that uses an intake valve, although there are indeed valveless pulsejets that are almost as simple as a ramjet.
What a bunch of crazy nerds. I love it.
Do this near London & folks in nursing homes would be diving for cover !
Holy smokes! It's way faster than I thought.
Thanks for filming and sharing. Interesting to see the mix of comments, I fly RC, FF and Control line. I have always flown control line combat, insane fun and spectacular to watch. I was involved running combat at this years nats and we had 60 entries in total.
Participating in all forms of model flying is saddens me that all aero modelling is suffering, the average age at my popular RC club being about 60 years old and I wonder at the age of 40 what aero modelling will be when I am in my 60s. Lets hope we get more people coming into the hobby, channels like this help with this greatly.
Thanks Mike. I hope the same. Cheers Dom, (Essential RC)
Ive never been so bored with an anti climax
I have a red Dynajet pulse jet with several spare petal valves. I bought it for £5 in 1970 and have never fired it up. I believe the German Doodlebugs worked on the same Brauner principle
V1: Same principle, same kind of noise
I flew control line planes many years ago, they were fun because their speed allowed doing stunts with them. Going around in a circle without being able to do nothing else because of the speed, to me would not be fun.
Forkin awesome reminds me of when the smart kid showed foghorn leghorn the ropes ondat one episode great job better than a drone
wicked!!!
That was awesome, great video! I like the sound that came with your slow-motion segment....the engine sounded something like a Gary Newman song!! Thanks for posting.
this is the most crazy RC plane I've ever seen
I was thinking FPV drone is dangerous.....
Oh my gosh totally awsome
What Da !! that was insane !! you could hardly see it man that was quick Amazing flight there and great spectacle
Nice! You guys should market this! I would buy one.
total crazzy !! Ilove it!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Holy crap! Two hundred and four mph!! What ever happened to those little , one cylinder Balsawood, prop planes with the glo-plug?
Absolute mad lads! =)
Even at 0.25x playback speed it's fast.
Yep. That looks like a lot of fun ...
The centrifugal force must be enormous!
Probably about rips his arms off.
Guy in the middle in white needs a medal.. how didnt he fall over.. id be well dizzy
o0SmokinGun0o
Well that is where your astronaut’s training came in handy. You can’t imagine how hard these planes where to hold onto. It was very important how much fuel you put into it also. Too much fuel and you could loose it running in circles for to long.
Are people still flying control-line airplanes ? I used to fly some when i was a boy, I was glad i moved on to RC. At least then i could sit in my camping chair and fly however i wanted hahaha. I always got a bit sick from flying in circles, still loved doing it though.
Unbelievable...Ive seen Pulse Jets but never a CL one. 😷😵😲
Control line pulse jet... crazy
Imagine one of these buggers snapping free and picking you off. Flown head height too. No throttle either it would seem. I think I trust being around RC more.
It would be badass if an RC plane actually broke the sound barrier and created a sonic boom
That is crazy..I've seen tether cars but not planes.let alone one with a pulse jet...wonder why they don't use a pole thingy like the cars .
Daymn that is fast!
That's cool. Do a pulse to a ram jet. Go supersonic!
Are you making a RC version of this Pulse Jet. Wow! Is that faster than a Jet Cat powered model?
About 1952 our U control club used 3 circles graded by an industrial public road scraper that left small irregular dirt piles outside the circle. A Dynajet speed plane was about to start. It was Sunday and a young couple with a small 6-7 year old son in their Sunday church clothes were standing close to the plane just outside the circle. We cautioned them to move back as we were on our way to hide behind our cars. They said they were ok as they'd seen these before. After the takeoff and several laps they couldn't be seen. A closer look showed them flat on the ground behind the dirt piles.
So they'd been hit?!
@EssentialRC No, they had been terrified and dropped to the ground. We never wanted to be near it either. UA-cam just showed me a modern RC Delta wing pulsejet. It looked like it was going about 300 mph and I think RC ships like that are dangerous. These jets are as loud as a full size jet, louder that present day airline turbofans.
How much weight is on the wire at the center when that thing is at speed?
Super speed!!!
People do this!? Love it!
Lethal toys are the best!
cool sunset speedohmmeter
4:51 my heart will go on 😂😂
The description says the fence is "to prevent the trolley or aircraft leaving should the worst happen..." How is this tested? I doubt many pulse jet builders are willing to let go to test the event safety barricades.
Only Dizzy Bat champions need apply.