The only glue that works well on PETG bottles is PL Premium Construction Adhesive. Other glues don't stick or they chemically break down the plastic and it loses strength. We use this glue to splice bottles together to make them larger for huge water rockets. It even holds pressure!
Hey Guys, super fun video! Jeremy, I love how far you are willing to push into things that seem to have a high chance of failure:) But that's totally the spirit of invention. It's great to watch someone creating from the viewpoint of possibilities rather than improbabilities.
Pressurize the bottles and use them for the wing spars, fuselage, and maybe tail surfaces (depending on sizes available). This will make them structurally sound. Use the packing tape with the filliments for support. To save weight if doing a small build. Use the thinnest bottles you can find, but use a lid from a 2 liter, as the thin water bottle cap lid is too weak. I never completely finished the build, but it looked very promising, considering. If you get tons of requests, I'll make one for you.
The moral of the story is anything that Sparks creativity and innovation is always a worthwhile project! Even if it is just laughing at yourself. Great video guys!
We knew cardboard with a bottle fuselage would fly just fine. Don't stop with the soda bottle plane though. Both of you should just work together to make one awesome plane. My thought would be to cut the nozzle and bottom off, cut down the side then use a heat gun and some flat weight (like books) and use straight parts of the bottles for wing skins and control surfaces. Flattening and folding the plastic could also make sturdier mounting locations or braces to make a part more ridged. Also kinda wondering about mounting an EDF inside a bottle exhausting out the nozzle. If you play around with these ideas then you should be able to start making some cool looking planes like your foam board planes but with soda bottles. Also you should make a soda bottle flying boat and float plane.
Yup, flat it completely and shape it...or cut top and bottom of the bottles, insert aerofoil shape mole and heat it into shape. I'm happy waiting to see that bottle plane will fly soon.
@@TheJttv Clothes iron would get way to hot even on the low setting, heat guns come in varying temps and some are adjustable and can be adjusted further by holding the gun further away from the target. We want to make it malleable not liquid.
You guys should look up the RQ-7B (shadow) that’s what I fly for my job in the Army. But I think the ailerudder concept could be useful when building your planes
I really like how y'all turned what was trash into something great. I liked your bottle planes, but the concept reminded me of when my great grandfather made a gas powered plane out of soda bottle plastic (the older stuff, so it didn't last unfortunately), scrap piano wire, and had carved scrap wood. He used to make models for a living, a lot of his work is in museums, and perfect details too. But it always made me feel better knowing that most of them was built from scraps of things that he found around the house. XD
Love Jeremy's comment at the end about the hobby is not all about just the flying. Still laughing. Kinda like that blind date; she really has a great personality. 😆
Josh, I noticed in your Bird of time review video you were going to buy lead shot bags for wing construction. Since this is an extreme recycling video I thought I'd share a recycling tip that I use. If you have walmart bags, old tube socks and a "tube of sand" from home depot laying around you can make a bunch of soft weights for wing sheeting instead of paying much more for lead shot bags. Just add enough dry sand to a walmart bag and roll it into an approximately 3" diameter log, place that log into another bag and roll it up, place into third bag and roll up. The rolling doesn't have to be tight, You want your logs to be soft and flexible. the multiple bags protect from sand leakage. Slide the triple rolled logs of sand into a tube sock and tie off the end of the sock. You can get a whole bunch of weights out of one $5 tube of sand from home depot, and the socks are really soft on the wing. The sand logs conform to curved surfaces quite nicely and you can make custom sizes and weights if you choose. Enjoy! Keep up the great work guys, you are all awesome and a boon to the hobby!
Pretty amazing job, guys! 😃 One idea about the bottle plane: cut the bottles to make plastic sheets. Then make the structure with cardboard and apply the plastic sheets over it. 😉
There is a working barrel shaped wing that you guys could have done. But it does require that the barrel shapes spin. It has to do with the way the air interacts with surface friction and such. Kind of a cool physics thing. There have actually been sailing ships that put these on and helped move them forward.
Total garbage (jk)... speaking of which, could you make a garbage can fly?! Oh silly me of course you could. he-he On second thought, that plane looks like it was made out of hot-dogs or those twisty hot-dog balloons clown use. lol
Love this kind of content! Keep it up guys! PS: Would love to see you guys do some sub-250g beginner builds. Up north Transport Canada has made it illegal for kids to fly RC over that weight.
I agree the building is where the fun is! I will spend weeks designing and building and only flying it a few times b4 it end up on the wall or in the recycling bend, and then move on to designing and building something new.
Yup, anything can fly if you put your mind to it. Been playing a game called 'Simple Planes' and some of the stuff that manages to get up in the air is amazing and pretty strange. lol
Great episode, but you guys need a do-over! Materials must be pop bottle or soda can, more control surfaces! I want to see what Bixler builds when he’s forced out of folding boards! 👍🏼
I love this sorta stuff. Awesome that you can make something fly with basic materials you can get really easily and re-use things. Question, when are the plans for the corsair being released? I can't wait to see build that.
if you'd used a heat gun on the plastic bottle, you could have shaped the bottles better to shape. If you cut the bottles you can form / mould even better shapes and when it shrinks it become stronger.
This is a really interesting challenge. I think it deserves to be revisited by trying to build a plane using 90% recycled plastic bottles of any kind. There are a lot of different shaped containers out there. Pop rivets can hold parts together with precision. Cutting ,origami folds and thermoforming would make for all kinds of possibilities. All that plastic with LED lights inside would look really good at night. Oddly shaped translucent airplanes.
Not complaining at all because I love your videos, but if you put enough thrust behind anything, it will fly...said the one that designed the F4 Phantom.... :-)
This has become one of my favorite channels. Is it possible you all could make a video regarding creating the control mechanism. Ie: buying an rc plane and stripping the parts vs doing it from scratch and maybe using an Arduino or something similar for control.
Great job both of you. Sanding the plastic on the pop bottles might give the glue a better chance to hold things together... The plane created from pizza boxes reminds me of a either a Carl Goldberg lil' Satan control line or a Sig Wonder. Again - kudos to both of you!
I made pop bottle go up 100s of feet in a couple of seconds .. as water rockets. But a wing and RC on one too, as an, well, air shuttle. There still are other and better typed of glue than hotsnot... I made cylinders of 5 or more bottles with the ends cut off and PU glued together, and they held out 100 psi and more.
Maybe if you had put small holes in the bottles to allow the internal pressure to equalize, The air inside the building is much warmer and therefore less dense than the outside air which caused the bottles to collapse.
I have an idea for the pop bottle wings. Make an airfoil form from something hard, like wood. Then slip the 2 liter bottle over the form and use a hot air gun to shrink the bottle onto the form. Remove the bottle and repeat until you have enough sections to make a full wing.
Loved this episode! Crazy idea to do a rc plane solely out of bottles but it's a cool yet challenging project! KEEP IT UP GUYS!! PS: Can't wait for some Edgewater videos ;)
Cool Idea! I to would love to see it done again with a little more effert from one of the Flite Test crew no names! It's looks matched performance to the ☕ not coffee but tea
@FliteTest - It would be really helpful when you use terms like "undercamber" if you either explained them or put a definition up on-screen. I imagine there are plenty of people like me who don't participate in the hobby but enjoy watching your videos. Thanks and keep up the great work!
I'm glad Jeremy is on screen more often. And that Josh is showing up more again, too! I love seeing everyone on the crew.
Cut the bottles to use the plastic as sheets to make a wing and use the same plastic to make ribs or even use cardboard for the rest. Cool project.
3:41 Building a plane with the box before he’s even touched the pizza. Classic Josh Bixler.
the only thing better than pizza is flying!!
@@FliteTest - but can you make a (hard baked) thin'n'crispy fly? . . . extra points for a deep pan : )
@@FliteTest and COFFEE!....
@@patrioticbastard5935 boòooo
jk;)
Well, this plane could even deliver pizza in the box it was built from. ;)
Jeremy brings such a sense of joy and fun, kind of back to the original days
The awesome sound of the bottle plane, then the fall... Epic! Love your work!
The only glue that works well on PETG bottles is PL Premium Construction Adhesive. Other glues don't stick or they chemically break down the plastic and it loses strength. We use this glue to splice bottles together to make them larger for huge water rockets. It even holds pressure!
Tape is such a wonderful thing!
Hey Guys, super fun video! Jeremy, I love how far you are willing to push into things that seem to have a high chance of failure:) But that's totally the spirit of invention. It's great to watch someone creating from the viewpoint of possibilities rather than improbabilities.
Thanks for stopping by!
FliteTest 👷🏼♂️
👌
Got you!!!!
Pressurize the bottles and use them for the wing spars, fuselage, and maybe tail surfaces (depending on sizes available). This will make them structurally sound. Use the packing tape with the filliments for support. To save weight if doing a small build. Use the thinnest bottles you can find, but use a lid from a 2 liter, as the thin water bottle cap lid is too weak. I never completely finished the build, but it looked very promising, considering. If you get tons of requests, I'll make one for you.
Pretty clean looking USED pizza boxes.
The moral of the story is anything that Sparks creativity and innovation is always a worthwhile project! Even if it is just laughing at yourself. Great video guys!
12:02 Wow. That is me
your work is inspiring. Thank you for sharing. Hope to fly with you one day! -Alex
wow terkenal di flite test
Thanks. I am very happy to be on the flitetest video. Thank you :) and greetings from Indonesia
@ryan lemons no. Twin pusher prop. I just using twin 2826 2200kv motor
That is awesome! what material did you use if I may ask?
Thank you flitetest for being flitetest
We knew cardboard with a bottle fuselage would fly just fine. Don't stop with the soda bottle plane though. Both of you should just work together to make one awesome plane. My thought would be to cut the nozzle and bottom off, cut down the side then use a heat gun and some flat weight (like books) and use straight parts of the bottles for wing skins and control surfaces. Flattening and folding the plastic could also make sturdier mounting locations or braces to make a part more ridged. Also kinda wondering about mounting an EDF inside a bottle exhausting out the nozzle. If you play around with these ideas then you should be able to start making some cool looking planes like your foam board planes but with soda bottles. Also you should make a soda bottle flying boat and float plane.
Yup, flat it completely and shape it...or cut top and bottom of the bottles, insert aerofoil shape mole and heat it into shape. I'm happy waiting to see that bottle plane will fly soon.
Nah use a clothes iron when flattening the bottle
@@TheJttv Clothes iron would get way to hot even on the low setting, heat guns come in varying temps and some are adjustable and can be adjusted further by holding the gun further away from the target. We want to make it malleable not liquid.
@@Zankaroo You could use a Mono-Cote iron, their heat ranges are lower than a regular iron.
Danny Hampton, I was also thinking an EDF would make an appearance, seems like a perfect application! How about it Flite Test, how about a redo?
You guys should look up the RQ-7B (shadow) that’s what I fly for my job in the Army. But I think the ailerudder concept could be useful when building your planes
12:01 i'm from Indonesia too, and i use every plan that you have made, this is amazing
I really like how y'all turned what was trash into something great. I liked your bottle planes, but the concept reminded me of when my great grandfather made a gas powered plane out of soda bottle plastic (the older stuff, so it didn't last unfortunately), scrap piano wire, and had carved scrap wood. He used to make models for a living, a lot of his work is in museums, and perfect details too. But it always made me feel better knowing that most of them was built from scraps of things that he found around the house. XD
Aaand this is why I love flitetest!
I learned a lot about Josh and part of his origin story. It was cool and gives hope to kids to dream big.
Love Jeremy's comment at the end about the hobby is not all about just the flying. Still laughing. Kinda like that blind date; she really has a great personality. 😆
Josh, I noticed in your Bird of time review video you were going to buy lead shot bags for wing construction. Since this is an extreme recycling video I thought I'd share a recycling tip that I use. If you have walmart bags, old tube socks and a "tube of sand" from home depot laying around you can make a bunch of soft weights for wing sheeting instead of paying much more for lead shot bags. Just add enough dry sand to a walmart bag and roll it into an approximately 3" diameter log, place that log into another bag and roll it up, place into third bag and roll up. The rolling doesn't have to be tight, You want your logs to be soft and flexible. the multiple bags protect from sand leakage. Slide the triple rolled logs of sand into a tube sock and tie off the end of the sock. You can get a whole bunch of weights out of one $5 tube of sand from home depot, and the socks are really soft on the wing. The sand logs conform to curved surfaces quite nicely and you can make custom sizes and weights if you choose. Enjoy! Keep up the great work guys, you are all awesome and a boon to the hobby!
Pretty amazing job, guys! 😃
One idea about the bottle plane: cut the bottles to make plastic sheets. Then make the structure with cardboard and apply the plastic sheets over it. 😉
There is a working barrel shaped wing that you guys could have done. But it does require that the barrel shapes spin.
It has to do with the way the air interacts with surface friction and such. Kind of a cool physics thing.
There have actually been sailing ships that put these on and helped move them forward.
Man this episode was “trash” ;) just kidding but you get the point.
Arf. And here's a second arf. ;¬)
seriously, I counted no less than 5 sponsorships in this video
Total garbage (jk)... speaking of which, could you make a garbage can fly?! Oh silly me of course you could. he-he
On second thought, that plane looks like it was made out of hot-dogs or those twisty hot-dog balloons clown use. lol
I thought it would fly like garbage xD
Oh the jokes people make...
I’m in love with josh’s design 😍
Yeah me too i would reali like a build video for it
Awesome video! If you put the bottle in boiling water first, you can pre-shrink the plastic so it wont react to the extreme temp changes so much.
Hi Josh, please measure the cardboard fuselage and how did you install the electronics? Pleaseeee!
Josh, you are such an inspiration. I hope to someday be the caliber of man that you are
Wow.. 12:00 handmade from Indonesia .
All RC Planes, if you actually fly them, eventually crash so why not get the crash part over with first. That's FliteTest and that's why we love it.
Extremely very good idea. More of this please!
Love this kind of content! Keep it up guys!
PS: Would love to see you guys do some sub-250g beginner builds. Up north Transport Canada has made it illegal for kids to fly RC over that weight.
Man that sucks i live in the us out in the country so i can fly anything i just dont have anything to fly but i fell your pain
Am i the only one who wants to see them try again with the purely pop plane?
Have Josh design it
Put more than 2 hrs of effort into it
it's really doable, described a potential "how" in another reply.
Yea im sure it could fly..just dnt put the gopro at the noose
Cut the bottles open this time to make some pretty irregular sheet. Wooden wing spars are allowed.
i haven't watched this channel in along time. oh the things ive missed omg
13:38 was one of the coolest sounds I’ve ever heard
I agree the building is where the fun is! I will spend weeks designing and building and only flying it a few times b4 it end up on the wall or in the recycling bend, and then move on to designing and building something new.
Love the videos would love to see the Blue Angels C130 RC version with the rocket assisted take off like they used to do at the air shows
Use a heat gun to deform the plastic bottles more. You could probably do some significant wing sculpting.
Your exuberance is refreshing and you gave me very practical information.
Yup, anything can fly if you put your mind to it. Been playing a game called 'Simple Planes' and some of the stuff that manages to get up in the air is amazing and pretty strange. lol
Great episode, but you guys need a do-over! Materials must be pop bottle or soda can, more control surfaces! I want to see what Bixler builds when he’s forced out of folding boards! 👍🏼
I love this sorta stuff. Awesome that you can make something fly with basic materials you can get really easily and re-use things. Question, when are the plans for the corsair being released? I can't wait to see build that.
You guys are awesome. I love you videos and I have nothing to do with rc planes or anything like this.
Make a buzz lightyear figure fly
if you'd used a heat gun on the plastic bottle, you could have shaped the bottles better to shape. If you cut the bottles you can form / mould even better shapes and when it shrinks it become stronger.
This is a really interesting challenge. I think it deserves to be revisited by trying to build a plane using 90% recycled plastic bottles of any kind. There are a lot of different shaped containers out there. Pop rivets can hold parts together with precision. Cutting ,origami folds and thermoforming would make for all kinds of possibilities. All that plastic with LED lights inside would look really good at night. Oddly shaped translucent airplanes.
I love seeing you guys make everything fly!!!!!👍👌👍👌
You guys have changed my life!
Hey guys I live right around canton and think it’s cool that you guys do this stuff locally. Keep up the good work
I love how you have a crap load of faygo bottles. Faygo is awesome
I love the sound in the last
Yes! Coffee, coffee and ummm. More COFFEE!!! I thought I was the only one living off of coffee.
6:45 Me when I realize mom is going to say no
With enough power and the proper CG you can make anything fly. Literally anything.
I thought the thumbnail was clickbait, but man! These guys did it!!! 😱😱
Not complaining at all because I love your videos, but if you put enough thrust behind anything, it will fly...said the one that designed the F4 Phantom.... :-)
This has become one of my favorite channels. Is it possible you all could make a video regarding creating the control mechanism. Ie: buying an rc plane and stripping the parts vs doing it from scratch and maybe using an Arduino or something similar for control.
Pizza box wing. Then cut the Dew bottles at the appropriate places to make a tube type fuselage. And pizza box for vert and horz stabs.
Great job both of you. Sanding the plastic on the pop bottles might give the glue a better chance to hold things together... The plane created from pizza boxes reminds me of a either a Carl Goldberg lil' Satan control line or a Sig Wonder. Again - kudos to both of you!
You guys killed it with the super mario sound on the crash! What a laugh :D Greetings Brothers.
I made pop bottle go up 100s of feet in a couple of seconds .. as water rockets. But a wing and RC on one too, as an, well, air shuttle. There still are other and better typed of glue than hotsnot... I made cylinders of 5 or more bottles with the ends cut off and PU glued together, and they held out 100 psi and more.
13:44 lol, the laugh fits perfectly with the mario sound.
Idea: fill the bottles with water before hot gluing to prevent warping or burning through the plastic.
You guys are over grown boys!!!!! This is awesome!!!!!! 👍👍👍😆😆
Awesome builds! when are the chuck glider plans by John Overstreet coming out
With that much camber you needed a much steeper angle of attack for the main wing, and maybe twice as much power.
I need a turtorial on this plane.
It made me smile, a win !!
Nice video. I want to build a quadcopter. How much thrust dose it need? Double the weight of the drone or more?
Maybe if you had put small holes in the bottles to allow the internal pressure to equalize, The air inside the building is much warmer and therefore less dense than the outside air which caused the bottles to collapse.
This is the content I live for!
Can you make a F-14 Tomcat with moving wings?
That would be cool
When are we going to see the f15 that was in the background? The f14 also looks dope.
Gotta make that bottle plane fly! I love it!
2:58 taking off the cap will make it easier to flatten bcs air pressure
I have an idea for the pop bottle wings. Make an airfoil form from something hard, like wood. Then slip the 2 liter bottle over the form and use a hot air gun to shrink the bottle onto the form. Remove the bottle and repeat until you have enough sections to make a full wing.
Also there used to be groups back in the day who made .25 nitro combat planes from cardboard and Coroplast.
You should try that as well. Look up SPADs
I would love to see you guys make a giant stuka , I am a WW2 nerd so to see a giant stuka would be amazing
with a heat gun, a vice and two wooden planks you could have flattened the bottles perfectly
Good old building fun love it guys
Is the twin engine EDF foam plane on the desk a new design i see?
Why did I doubt myself when I thought it wouldn't fly? Oh yeah. It's flitetest.
You guys should put pontoons on the mini arrow
This is awesome it really shows you can all most fly any thing
Great work guys. Thanks.
Another great video. Really enjoyed this idea too
Josh- it’s ok my man, we all live off of coffee! 😂
Now you guys need to do some micro planes built powered with brushless tinywhoop motors.
Try a channel wing with 2 channels per wing half, one pushing, one pulling. Thrust vectoring for control, lify without airspeed.
*lift
Use inboard for lift and tail control, reverse outboard for critical inboard+ airspeed bonus vs reverse aerofoil outboard.
Channel wing a suppressed british invention. Full sized 4seat aircraft flies at running speed, 11 mp/h.
Loved this episode! Crazy idea to do a rc plane solely out of bottles but it's a cool yet challenging project! KEEP IT UP GUYS!!
PS: Can't wait for some Edgewater videos ;)
WoW
Love it whenever Josh is building. Where can I dl the beard beanie plans?
Those are pretty good ideas but what if you cut the bottles in half and used the ring to create control surfaces
What i love about flite test is that thay dont clickbait
Mario tune was epic😂
BTW Josh is damn creative.......
Cool Idea! I to would love to see it done again with a little more effert from one of the Flite Test crew no names! It's looks matched performance to the ☕ not coffee but tea
@FliteTest - It would be really helpful when you use terms like "undercamber" if you either explained them or put a definition up on-screen. I imagine there are plenty of people like me who don't participate in the hobby but enjoy watching your videos. Thanks and keep up the great work!
I really think you guys should revisit the pop bottle plane build. I want to see one fly
Really enjoy this content and channel
you guys should build the DRACO bush plane
I haven't looked, but have you guys made a Spruce Goose?