WTF Plane Contest Entries
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2016
- In the order received, here are the 9 entries to the Weird, Technological, and Futuristic plane contest. Judging will be performed by selected members of the scratchbuilding RC community and announced within 2 weeks. Winners receive $100 store credit from TapePlanet.com or Spektrum DX7 transmitter plus several receivers.
- Наука та технологія
Awesome Ed! I thank you so much for all the videos you create ..... very educational especially for those of us whom are just starting the hobby and such.
The last couple of designs really look cool. Great innovations from all you people.
They were all cool, but I liked the Futuristic Biplane the most!
The design is called a Prandt plane. It is usually very efficient due to low induced drag.
Charles Liggetti Stratos - look it up. What a hero
+Frank Moore
G'day,
Buggar !
You beat me by a week !
I remember back when the Liggetti Stratos was a "promising" new Ultralight, back in the 1980s..; before (like a lot of one-off Home-Grown Radical Prototype Designs), it crashed and killed it's Designer/Builder/Pilot...
That used to happen a fair bit, back during the Golden Age (1976-84), when 2-Seat Ultralights were illegal, and everybody had to teach themself how to levitate..., as I recall it ; but we were all chock-full of Biggles-Fantasies back then, so it was an integral part of the "Death or Glory" side of the reasons for wanting to go flying with Lawnmower Engines....(!).
If you Title-Search YT for ; "The 8Hp, 1975, Red-Baron Skycraft Scout ; World's 1st Legal Minimum Aircraft." ...., you can see the particular Aeroplane which begat that Golden Age ....(it taught me how to fly when I was 17, in 1978, when I was it's 3rd owner & the last person to have flown in it..., today it hangs in a Transport Museum because I didn't crash it...[!]).
But, yeah, Vale...., Charles Liggetti, RIP....
Such is Life,
Have a good one...
;-p
Ciao !
Ya they always save the best for last . LOL !!!
Thanks, Ed, for taking the time, both with this contest and with all your videos. EA is largely responsible for getting me back into the hobby after many years away. For anyone who is thinkin' about getting into it, or those just getting started who haven't already, I highly recommend that you check out Ed's site and channel here on youtube. Great, great stuff. Anyway, was great to see some incredible ideas in the submissions for this contest. I definitely like the Pitcheron and the futuristic bi-plane, but the hovercraft plane was also right on target for the spirit of the contest, as is Mr Cuervo's mast-mount goodness. Clever. Good stuff throughout the video!
This is an underrated channel. I love people with ideas trying to test them.
Great stuff from all the contenders, but I like 9 the most, flies great.
Thanks for featuring these Ed! I had fun doing it. BTW MrCuervo's should win. That is the coolest thing I've ever seen :)
Amigo ED, eres mi inspirador. Ya he volado modelos de FoamBoard gracias a lo que he aprendido con los videos que publicas. Soy cubano y vivo en Cuba.
Sir, I am nothing but impressed with so many aspects of your UA-cam presentations. You are an amazing teacher with your tremoundous articulation of speach and design concepts with engineering facts to back them. You have a natural ability to speak and present things very concisely so that things are very well understood. What's even more important, is that you do not overstate things making it boring or quite un-entertaining for your audience. As far as your design concepts, I have to say that they are the most amazing ones on UA-cam. I am a professional jet pilot as well as mechanical engineer. I exercise both these disciplines on a regular basis to make a living. Even with my experience as a pilot and mechanical expertise, I will gladly admit that I am constantly learning from you. Whatever you're doing to continue teaching this hobby, please know that I am one of your biggest fans and I encourage you to keep up the great effort! Regards, GF
The first one was darn impressive. Very innovative. Never would have thought of that to control pitch. Even more impressive is that he got it to work!
Several really nice planes there. Kudos to all entrants.
I hope this isn't the one and only event. It deserves an annual appearance. Thanks Much
the last 2 ones are cool designs
Agree last 2 should be the winners for sure! Nice job guys!
+Todd Buffington
and the first one
That last one was wicked awesome!
Some great entries there. I have three or four favs in this video. The V-boom, the Blitz Mrk2, the Pitcheron, and Futuristic Biplane.
Looking forward to watch a video about the blown wing concept of yours. Quite interesting. I wonder if it has been done in the past in the rc world. A couple of interesting examples in the "real" world would be the US2 amphibian and the Hunting 126. Great job on your part (promoting and building!) congratulations to the participants, very interesting concepts. Very inspiring.
That last one sort of reminds of the Night Raven in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere. Top efforts there, I still can't work out the first one with the tall tail controls haha. Great competition :)
Yes, for what it is worth I believe 1st and 2nd places are obvious - No. 9 followed by No. 8. Great competition Ed!
COULOMB I was working on a blown wing concept 2 years ago but didn't build a model, can't wait to see your next version of this STOL
All very unique in design, but I myself would have to go with the Biplane. Keep up with the good work and maybe one day these designs will be available for sell.
oh man love the inspiration from the community the biplane gets my vote.
I'd buy that last one in kit form if it had integrated wheels, also the pitch wing design before it. Both very interesting designs.
Mr. BIll's pitcheron is my favorite with futeristic biplane a very close 2nd.
Fun stuff ED, wtf contest...you got folks thinking..Salute. Miggy
I really love your vids ed
Number #8 and #9 were absolutely the best for me
I'll try not to get any Beatles song stuck in my head, but number 9 is awesome. Number 8 would be my second place vote.
All entries are awesome,. However I would go for the Solitaire or the Pitcheron.
Ed, as far as your design, make it a twin boom and lower the pusher motor centered between them. that should help with your down thrust problem.
4 and 8, nice desings.
Nice work by all, I am a bi-plane guy so #9 would get my vote with #8 a close second BUT they are all good efforts!
For me it's Mr Cuervo RC with its split elevator. This concept opens interesting ways to break it down for transportation. No more fiddeling with horizontal and vertical stabilizer.
warped wing control and then the biplane. All entries are cool.
Great job to everybody! Some of these unconventional aircraft fly better than most of my conventional airplanes! :D
my vote would be for the last 2, i really like the 6th one with its wings doing the work ( reminded me of one of the park flyers with the carbon boom ).. pretty neat.. good luck to all who entered.
I like 9, 8 were can you find out more of flight one futuristic biplane, thanks for the awesome videos you produce
Ya did balance the outtakes, right? Of course you did.
Strange flying machines! ÷)
#9 gets my vote. That thing is wicked.
the last 2 are my favorite
All great planes... but the last one definitely stands out, atleast to me
cool! i like the bi plane.. i like the funkyairbrake pitching plane.... like the canard too.. looked like a good flyer.. and the simi ducted lifted tail was a cool concept the pitcheron was weird
heyyyyyyyyyyyy you're back! youtube has been a little dull without your videos.
that pitcheron plane was pure magic XD
Like the contruction tutuorials, thanks for sharing.
What is the lightest plane you can build with this type of wing using 5 dollar store foam?
Thanks
Alex
#1 is most WTF, but not using your particular acronym. If it was keeping to the more common definition it would get the pints for sure.
Pitcheron one is the one I like, as I thought such a control scheme could be used in a full 90° tilting boom quad-rotor. The support booms for the quad would be winglets, so how it works should be fairly obvious. Vertical flight config would be the usual quad motor power mix, but forward mode mix would be that of the "pitcheron", elevator, and differential power for yaw.
first place goes to the first plane in the video second place is the biplane. My reasoning is because the first one flies using a futuristic lift mechanism versus the typical wing. the biplane was second because it was it's just a flying wing with two wings but all the other planes essentially used the same technology we've always used.
It's 2020 now and that RC SORIA TM lifted tractor, SEMI-DUCTED PROP is the best thing someone has came to a low hover VTOL Ai-17 build...🤳🛸 Once again using your described explained footage of this type of design, ..✨😏🤳✨🏆🎗️🥇
First !!!!, Mr cuervo, person of flight, trevor are the most wtf to me. Honors to mr bill da pilot, that one seems to fly like a dream
Sorry i don't enter in the category my mistake Aniyah great video.
you had me at "F" = "Funky!"
i know the drawing is way over, but choosing between radio and a world of tape membership is pretty much a no brainer
That last plane wins by miles!
Lol "do you want some tape or a high quality transmitter?"
Ikr
Ed please can you make a Spectre with collapsible wing? I dunno how to do the spar. Cheers man, great vid
I'd go for the last two planes as well
So nice
The last one looks like the biplane jet fighter in ace combat 3, gets my vote for sure
I'm unable to see any of the original videos because I watch UA-cam on iOS and also unable
To find the video by searching by the text in the intro to the video (particularly #9). Please add links in the description.
Tim Adams, they've built one, actually 2 of them. One gas and the other electric. Just look through the weird aircraft in U-Tube. It's in there.
BRO, YOU ARE ONE OF THE COOLEST GUYS I HAVE EVER SEEN ONLINE AND I HAVE BEEN ONLINE SINCE 1991 --- I WISH YOU THE BEST. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON TODAY. MAY YOU BE BLESSED WITH HEALTH ALWAYS!!!
I don't know how anyone can doubt that Mr Bill da pilot's Pitcheron is number one! Unless you pick number 9 (or number 2... or ANY of the others...)
It was a wise move to state "Judging will be performed by selected members of the scratchbuilding RC community".
I know that I would hate having to choose just 1... I might, maybe, could, actually, sort-of choose just one but I'd absolutely hate to imply that the others weren't as good - because they all show great great ideas... actually implemented.
Hoorah to all of them and a hearty thumbs up too!
The Pitcheron looked like it flew way more smoothly than I expected with the entire wing being used as a control surface - obviously a lot of thought went into it.
Trust me, all my planes win the 'WTF' prizes :D 'WTF, how did this even fly?'
Number 9 and then 8!
One looks like a klingon bird of pray, and another like romulan warbird. Now, wait, there's an idea...
#8 My Favorite
the bi plane was great strong design.
For me it's between the Pitcheron and the Futuristic Biplane. The Pitcheron is something that I can't say I've ever seen before, only maybe dreamed of whereas the biplane seems to mock a "box-wing" type design. So Pitcheron gets my vote!
Why would anyone NOT choose the DX7? They’re kinda uncommon, at least for me. Can’t find one anywhere!
hi, I wanted to know more about the Blown Wing Concept plane. So if u have any kind of documentation or video, it would really help me in my project. thanks.
Hi sir ! I have calculated 11" chord and 39" wing span for a plane weighing nearly 1000 gm. And also calculated its WCL...… do you think it takes off???
Aircraft #1, by Mr. Cuervo, was a copy of one of several designs patented by Charles De Rouge of France between the late 1920's and 1940's. He called them elytroplanes, after the greek word elytro, the stabilizing fore wings on some types of flying insects.
The particular model in the video built by Mr Cuervo was almost an exact copy of De Rouge's 1937 model except the model had ailerons on the wing instead of having steerable 90 degree outward half-rudders on each of the wingtips of the original manned aircraft thus, the model would not get the benefits (if any) of what De Rouge proposed to be a benefit of that particular elytroplane design which he claimed was "self-righting" in nose dives and "self-coordinating" in turns.
In some other designs, De Rouge did away with the articulated rudders and made the tall boom flaps unsynchronized yet controllable in their opening and closing in relation to each other. In his earliest flying version, the boom for the flaps was nothing more than flaps atop a round thin pole. In other types of De Rouge's elytroplanes, he did away with forward flaps on an aft boom and placed a canard like aileron wing high above and forward of the cockpit almost vertical of the prop.
Anyways, food for further experimenting if anyone was curious of the design.
last two work for me but the piviting wing planes seemed unstables
and it is the blitz mrk2 twin boom
I took the tape and I had a brownout with them,Probably because it was too close to the spectrum radio
# 8 gets my vote
1st Mr Bill, 2nd Place Trevor
DX7 Wrektum? Keep it!
$100 prize credit fot tape. Its missing an extra 0 or two imo
Pitcheron
Anyone know how this guy is doing? It's been forever since he has posted any videos. I hope he's just busy and not dead. I've made all of my rc foam board planes from watching these videos and even a bunch for my friends. .
I pick a ultralight plane dam near the same as number 7 on the list and like to know if anyone can tell more on it.
I forgot about this contest... ughhh
RC controller or tape?
Let me think ....
Well, if you already have a radio...
Hey are you a airline pilot
4:44 - "This flying hovercraft... definitely fills in the F in WTF"
Um... you did WHAT with that plane? You do know what the F in WTF stands for... right?
I thought the judging would be at FF16
maybe its my headphones but your audio isn't a crisp as it usually is. just an fyi.
hey buddy whatever happened to your hand just been curious for a while now??:)
Search his videos. He explains in one that it was a pyrotechnics accident.
HEY ED I TRY AND TRYED TO GET MY SPACEBALLS EAGLE 5 FLYING BUT THE EDF KEPT COMMING UNDONE HOW DO YOU HOOK A EDF IN YOUR SQUARE TUBES??
Look at the FuglyJet build video, good luck
Make a dch dash 8 aircraft
Come back ED it's been too long!
How can I participate?
I believe the deadline for this contest has ended. But you can always tinker with a design on your own. I know this video sparked my interest in a WTF design.
これはひよつとして外国版ポンコツ号ジローか？
Where did Ed go???????????????/
WTF,,,, want to fly?
why was 7 included? It doesn't fit any of the criteria.
Admittedly, I hesitated to submit it for this contest because it does not visually look like anything terribly unusual, other than the dual h-stabs. Whether or not it was fit for this contest depends on your interpretation of the criteria. Weird, innovative, or technological does not necessarily have to mean visually different. Most of the obvious criteria are met, in that it is built using EA methods, including multiples of the fuselage and Armin wing, and it flies exactly at it was designed and intended to fly (slow and exceptionally stable), demonstrating the required takeoffs and landings (and many more additional since the entry video was made). Between the dual h-stabs and the tail gear mounting, and its assembly/disassembly, it includes design characteristics that are reasonably unusual or "weird".
That said, I did not at all expect my 2nd ever foamboard scratchbuild to win any contests, but not expecting to win should never prevent one from competing, and so i put it in. As an entry, it is included in the video (unfortunately linked to the original out-of-focus video i shared with Ed unofficially some time ago, rather than the much better overview and flight videos officially submitted for the contest, but no biggie). Regardless, participation in this has yielded a number of firsts for me, so I don't care whether I come in first or last. It was a win in terms of experience and a great, great learning experience in many ways.
And finally, regarding some of the other entries, the creativity of people never ceases to amaze me. Well played by those who actually went with the visually weird and futuristic, and to those who pulled out old tricks in entirely new ways. I'm not at all ashamed to say that I thoroughly enjoyed getting my nether regions handed to me in this contest. =)
I'd love to see a full build video, I thought it was a real nice plane which flies beautifully with some features I may try putting in to my future builds. May not have been the weirdest but it was my favourite of the bunch
Thank you. The videos sent in for this were actually my first foray into making and posting videos on youtube. Unfortunately, I didn't actually get the camera out till it was already built, so i don't have footage from the build process. There is an overview video on my channel though, if you haven't already seen it, along with the flight video from which the clips were pulled (his link is to an older video, as mentioned, when my camera focus wasn't working right). You could probably get a decent feel for how it was actually built from that overview video. I will say one thing though. While it worked out for the short term, I don't recommend attempting 1" folded tube fuselage for the tail booms. They were a PAIN to put together and really don't have the structural integrity to handle hard landings. I've since reinforced both of them with craft sticks and its much better now, but I'd definitely go with something a little more rigid and resilient for those, or maybe build them a little differently, if i had to build it again. ;)
I bet $100 on tape to not win xDDDD
U fucked up on the pusher ...bi engine on the wing is.what it needs it will never stall
Thank you sir for the inspiration, after two attempts (thanks to your instructions) i finally got one build and here is the second fly (maiden flight was rough but as you will see in the link it still needs some adjustments) the wind was 8-10mph. Length 30 inches / wing span 36 inch with 1inch surface control.
again thank you for the instructional videos
ua-cam.com/video/0JZPO6brMMY/v-deo.html
gg WTF plane What The Fuck Plane