Micro R/C Sailplanes: Drifter and Bird of Time
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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Hey Josh! Great to see Ross went to visit you in GA, in addition to drafting the Micro Drifter and Micro Bird of Time. That’s a fabulously productive way to expand your Covid pod! 😉🤙
I've tried! Now I just need to be a bit more productive and actually finish the BOT for release
Anxiously awaiting the release so I can order one of each. Together
@@konstantkrash Hopefully by mid to late October it'll be done. It'll be worth the wait :)
@@rossclements8874 no doubt worth the wait. I am just impatient. I'll just have to fly my sla yellowjacket some more. Next up? Maybe a little warm liner based on that racerstar motor. New wing should fit the body just fine.
@@konstantkrash warm liners are a hoot! Just get ready to need to go faster! It gets expensive and addicting lol
Those are great planes to fly here in South Ga. Trees, trees and more pine trees in our area. F/F, my real love, is more than tricky here.
as someone obsessed with sailplanes, balsa building, and micro rc planes, this just fits the bill. very beautiful. cant wait for this to come out as im 100% ordering!
Order link is in the description! :)
The Mini Bot is finally here! jhaerospace.com/product/micro-bot/
Thanks for posting, Josh; will look forward to watching after finished for day. Blessings; Johnny :-)
Nice Flying. Keep it up
These are nice little sailplanes! Great work Ross!
beautiful would love a small FPV model like those.
We could not see any of these airplanes flying thank you though look like a lot of fun
Nice shot of the sky.
look like great small sailplanes that would be a nice platform to throw one of my small cox engines on.
Hi. I Love Your videos but please invest in a microphone. In a lot of your Videos I can hardly hear what you are saying. Greetings from Slovakia
Nice BoT. I've just finished a micro BoT, which weighs 49g, and has a 36" span, that makes the body teeeeeny! Actually, I had to lengthen it slightly to fit the r/c gear.
It flies beautifully, but finding the right conditions is hard. It's too light to slope soar, and my farm is too hilly for a bungee launch. I'm going to try drone launch, next, on a baking hot, windless day...
I think yours is probably a better size.
I've also got the plans for a 144" BoT, but haven't yet plucked up the courage to build it!
Nice. Even at 48" span the gear is a tight squeeze. It's a fun airplane.
Le petit Joshua ..........👍
La relève ...........👍💌🇩🇿
Don't get me wrong: this are without any doubt brilliant lookung and cute RC- sailplanes that makes obviously a lot of fun to fly.
But "micro" I'd expect them to be much smaller. Wingspan of 10" or so is what I call micro.
Anyway thanks for sharing and respect for the built of this planes, they look and fly great!
You do realize that the original BOT has 118 inches in wingspan? - I would say this qualifies as a micro.
@@WriterDude67 I didn't knew the wingspan of the original, thank You.
118" (pretty much 3m) in original, I'd estimate the wingspan of that to slightly above 40" or 1 meter.
For me that does qualify to "mini", but not to "micro". I'd expected a "micro RC sailplane to have less than 20" wingspan.
(but don't get me wrong: what I see qualifies without any doubt for a beautiful made and fun to fly "mini" plane.)
Very nice!!!!!!! Loved this video - great flying - lots of fun! :-) :-)
Let's see... I have an Aleda cat launch glider, 2 rocket gliders, and a fire feather to complete from J&H plus a Mini-Sinbad from Red Jensen that is 85% built. Perfect time to start building a Mini-BoT! LOL!
It's a disease. Only building more can help!
Really digging that Bird of Time.
Its a sweet flying airplane! It indicates lift better than anything I've ever flown.
Its finally available! jhaerospace.com/product/micro-bot/
always beautiful!!!! go on!!!
Oh, I see them on your web site as “comming soon”.....Ok , I’ll wait a bit, Are they ready yet!
ok, Are they ready now?
That's weird...the Micro Drifter page comes up just fine for me. The internet is weird...
I wish I had the patience to make something like this!!
Jump in, the water's fine! Laser cut kits make it a lot easier than it used to be!
joshuawfinn thanks, I’ll give it a try!
@@joshuawfinn Absolutely. I always enjoyed building, far more than I enjoy the new foamies, but cutting ribs was a chore. Kits with die cut ribs often had crushed edges from old and blunt dies, so you ended up having to cut your own anyway.
Laser cutting makes it so simple, not only to build, with nice clean edges and accurate fit.
Love that micro BoT - perhaps a micro RO-8 next?
I've definitely considered the RO-8. I actually got to fly one of the successors of the RO-8, built by Dick Odle himself. Really sweet airplane.
@@joshuawfinn The RO-8 was my first RC glider build back around 1984-5. Had a ball with it, but it didn't survive college. With the step on the fuselage you could do a pretty respectable hand launch for a 2-meter glider, should be great at half size. I have an original kit in the garage, will fly one again someday...
Transparent coverings on small gliders? Saving weight/losing planes?
I've never left one up there! ;)
When the mini BOT is ready I’m in
The Mini Bot is here! jhaerospace.com/product/micro-bot/
Sweet. Thanks
Hmmm I have a J Lupperger "Bird of Daylight Savings Time" Bought as a short kit from John.. Decades ago .. of 1.5 m ..60 " span.
Seems virtually identical to yours.. except for being a bit bigger. Mine weighs ~150 gms. However the avionics are 25 yr old 'small'. Which is to say neither small nor overly light by moderne standards ..even has a 4 round cell flight pack . There is a ~50 gm weight penalty due to this .
Mine is NOT a floater tho... its' a speedy rascal. Which is curious given it's Clark Y airfoil.
So is Yours !
Suspect a Drela airfoil would dramatically improve things.
I also have an original Full size Wanderer and it IS a floater.. despite having ~8 ounces of Avionics to carry around. Dunno If due to it's size or if it's a better design. Ooohh ! I've only ever flown a Wonder Woman "invisible" Model (doculam) Once..... a lesson well learned
The full size BOT is not a floater by any means. It wasn't designed to be. The little one, however, is much floatier than you're thinking. It is in fact probably the best floater I've ever flown, able to stay up in lift that wouldn't keep my CX5 in the air. It doesn't have a lot of range though, probably a function of being tiny. The Drifter is decently floaty as well. Its main strength, though, is that it's so nimble.
@@joshuawfinn Thank you.. So.. in your view, if / when I upgrade the avionics in My 60" hand launch 'Bird of Daylight Savings Time'....
reducing it to a 100gm weight, it too will become a floater ?
Skeptical at this point ...but certainly worth the try
@@barenekid9695 it definitely has the potential. 100g is a ton of weight to a 60" plane. Bear in mind that 100g is almost 50% of the flying weight of a current top of the line 60" DLG.
You need a follow drone and a good microphone. We can't see or hear well... Nice planes though
Who’s making/selling the kits for these?
I am. Click the link in the description and it'll take you to our website. :)
The Mini Bot is here if you are still interested! jhaerospace.com/product/micro-bot/
Order entered! WhooWho!
Thanks!
@@renewhitaker1410 awesome, enjoy!
why is the music so loud? you cannot hear the folks talking. Such big jumps in volume put me off watching
I wouldn't mind having a bird of time.
Working on it! Hopefully sometime in October.
@@rossclements8874 What size surgical tubing would you use for a high start on these ?
@@johnhubbard3399 use 1/16" square rubber from fai model supply. You can get 16ft lengths from peck polymers, or 1/4lb-10lb boxes from fai model supply. Buy some extra rubber, it does degrade in the sun and will eventually break. We used about 15 feet of rubber and 75 feet of line.
@@rossclements8874 Awesome thanks
The Mini Bot is here! jhaerospace.com/product/micro-bot/
Are you going to be selling this one?
The mini bot is available here, and the drifter is on the site too. jhaerospace.com/product/micro-bot/
Ok I want a micro Bot.
The Mini Bot is here! jhaerospace.com/product/micro-bot/
Real balsa planes, not that foam rubbish.. Please buy a better Microphone...