@@mikeysmusicchannel9312 Lol...not at all. Thats the beauty of editing, There,s enough Oppression in the world, and cant do this, cant do that. Send it i say.
You dont realize how shitty the video feed is man, it is quite literally tv static. Its near impossible to see ANYTHING, let alone from how far he was. In fact, Ill bet he didnt even know there were trees.
@@awhahoo lol the thin branches of the tree is literally invisible in the analog fpv, even racing drones analog cam that flown 100 meters max can get blurry
10 years later I find out about this amazing human? We are stuck with a bunch of crap apps and content --- yet this should be required viewing. wOw!!!! thank you sir!!!
CM6774 lol no one likes north Korea enough to back them in a global conflict. it would more or less be a bunch of Western powers destroying a sad little nation.
Old video I know but.....EPIC. Doesn't matter that you never retrieve the glider, you gained a view very few humans get to see with their own eyes. Worth it.
David ... After so many great FPV years I still can't get enough of this video. This is the HOLY GRAIL of long range FPV. Again thank you for all you have taught us. Cheer and wishing you well - Aero FPV
@@jovie311 Haha last time I flew for vacation last year to Florida from Colorado and our airline says we get free onboard wi-fi. As soon as I connect to Wi-Fi, it is only free for checking on your flight status on the map of where you are and then if I want to do anything else such as browsing the web, it will cost you money. So it is definitely bullshit advertising. Free Wi-Fi just to check your plane status!
This was a real treat. Honestly one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen, because although you’re obviously an expert. You made this seem possible. Truly a beautiful video, narration, footage and editing, background music! Nailed it. -America
If I was terminal and had a few days left to live this is the way I would want to go, having that sunset and view close to the cosmos while plummeting down to earth would be incredible.
I'm not sure who's more ignorant. The people concerned about the few people that think the earth is flat, the actual people that believe the earth is flat, or the people asking if he found the plane.
@@gavmedia5674 actually there was a experiment done with lasers over a distance on a lake the laser hit higher on the other side indicating that the earth is curved
@@juling0483 Laser tests have proven only one thing. Accuracy is way off due to the spreading of the light over distance. I see visual proof of our flat earth everytime I look over the water from the Fylde coast UK over to the Isle of Man 60 miles away. No laser needed, just the zoom on my camera. Technology is the downfall of the globe.
+Jon Dor I just saw one of these things doing an 90 kilometre flight at up to 12000 feet altitude. Clearly there is nobody aboard to properly see and avoid, no flight plan filed, no transponder, no radio calls of position and direction. Recently I saw one very close to the approach to Brussels airport. I predict a tragedy, just a matter of time.
I have a severe fear of heights, and I can tell you, my legs got weak and my stomach cringed while the balloon was at maximum altitude. Terrific experiment!
Its mostly due to most actions cameras having fish eyes lenses like GoPros so using a non fish eye camera that is super small and light weight is very uncommon.
Well it has to do with pilot flying the plane. Fish eye lens gives wider area to see that is really good when piloting with camera and like SpydreX said there isint that many that are light enough for this intention. Of course you could swap the gopro lens, but even then these flat earthers wont get it that this planet is fucking huge compared to us and it would take little more than weather balloon and glider to get into space..
Did you notice because of the lousy lens, the 'curvature' actually goes the OTHER way too ? ( concave ) But the spinning round ball morons will still believe in this imaginary curvature even when that thing is just above tree top height ! Poor dumb fools !
you were great on flite test but this video is amazing, how legal i dont know but WOW i feel like i went to space. beautiful pictures. and its probably the closest ill get to heaven
But I thought the earth was flat... Definitely CGI! But seriously now: one of the most beautiful views of planet earth I have seen! My heart was thumping when the the balloon popped. It was such a captivating scene! Following the fall, to the regain of control and landing of the craft. Thank you for sharing!
Why I applaud your effort and this is very amazing, I can't help but wonder, as a commercial pilot. Do you need to get permission to 'launch' a weather balloon? If everyone starts doing this on random places (cause this is cool and it's getting more common) with airways pretty much over any house, could get dangerous :P Not that a balloon with a few grams of metal would bring down a full sized jet, there is still a threat. If by chance the balloon is sucked in an engine, or covers an essential piece of equipment like angle of attack sensor, pitot tube, RAM air inlet holes, things could turn ugly.
+Martijn Denecker In the US you need to follow FAA and FCC guidelines for payload, these rules have been around since the 1960's. As well as notify the closest ATC facility about your launch location, predicted flight patch, predicted landing area, etc...
Martijn Denecker I'm not sure if local atc notification is a requirement or courtesy and if it shows up in notams etc. 1600 of these high altitude ballons are released a day 365 days a year fwiw.
With the technical glitches sorted out (eg. whatever ground based problem there was) - it seems like you could potentially use some rocket boosters to get the plane even higher. Have you done another run with the same balloon/flight combo?
It was legal when he did it, its illegal now. So that's a no. And they weren't exactly so much technical glitches, as more of physical problems; the first problem was a physically snapped cable, and the second was that the balloon ripped out two of the lobes of his video transmitter antenna when it was released from the plane. Not sure how many lobes there were in the first place, but a typical one consists of 3 or 4.
As of now it's completely illegal to fly non-los in the US. Its also currently illegal to drop things from weather balloons, yes, this is including an FPV aircraft.
dumb question incoming !: why is it that when the plane was at 30k feet it feels like when it will come back down that if you move a few inches into a different angled-direction that the plane might just come back to earth thousands of miles away? ps: in high school my science grades were below 55% - hope that explains my ignorance lol
It is kind of the opposite. if you have a slightly different angle when launching and if the path is maintained, you could potentially end up miles away from where you would've been u see similar circumstances but a different launch angle
It helps that the camera is fish-eyed, making the surface look very big. Even though you can see very far you don't move very far off. It seems like the world is small and the glider can move very far purely because your perspective shifts, while the glider itself stays quite slow. The same in a plane, you appear to be moving slowly if you look down, but when you look at the speedometer you go around 800-1050 kph, it's just the visual effect. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
A GPS autopilot would have been perfect, except when he got signal back and got oriented to where he drifted, he was way too far to get back anyhow. He said that in the video. The headwind wouldn't allow it, and thus the choice to turn the other way and just make the best of the flight footage.
It’s so amazing that u can send a camera up that high which allows u to see the curvature of the earth! Uts amazing footage from the edge of the earths atmosphere. I would love to be able to do that and get some footage like that. So far I’ve only flown my DJI drone a few hundred feet.
Plz... Space is not 20 miles... The Karman Line defines the boundary between earth's athmosphere and space. This Kalman line is 100km (60 miles) above sea level. So that guy just made 1/3 of his way to space (which is actually really impressive, but it's not space ^^). Also it is theoreticaly impossible to reach space with a baloon filled with helium or hydrogen (otherwise SpaceX would have done it long ago to send their satellite into orbit ^^) The thumnail is missleading. The video was taken with a very wide angle camera. Because of this, the image is very very distorted. With another camera the earth would have been a lot more flat :)
Stephen Comer I gota a nimrod 5.4Ghz downlink from my phantom and its like a guy makes it in his shed like some cottage industry - so it will be hard to stop from the equipment side. Its like those marketing stickers they place on public transport - if they simply call the number they find the end point. For the fpv flier its hard for them to spot the perpetrator in the same way... I mean you can be on your mobile phone piloting the bloody thing !!! so they would need to simply look at this video and talk to YT...Just before anyone gets any funny ideas you would stick out like a sore thumb having your Tx signal if they needed to up the ante..if we all fly responsibly that wont be needed its the other idiots I fear for. Watch this space we are all getting banned soon.
My two favorite parts: When the burst balloon fragments hang down around the camera like they are just hanging still in the sun. How unspectacular the landing. One eight millimeter branch bitch slaps it out of the stratosphere! I was so impressed by your project. Congratulations and thanks for sharing!
Amazed my the number of idiots gassing off about how this was illegal & irresponsible.... get your facts in order first! A little research will reveal the pilot got legal clearance to use the skies every time he did this (3 times i believe).
This is an Amazing video, but it is NOT the ones who do it legal you say David had clearance I don't know if he did or not But knowing him through his videos I'm sure he did the correct thing -Its the ones who don't care and try and copy things like this WITHOUT proper permission or experience in R/C that has caused all the trouble. It wont be long that most if not all FPV will be illegal or so restricted & fees attached for permits that no one will be able to enjoy it anymore. Once again the few stupid ones have messed up yet another wonderful thing for the rest of us I also seen a video were a 20 yr old male invaded the privacy of a yard two house down from his own (she was sun bathing) and the girl called the cops on him. This one was told to me by the officer who took the call where I live-3 young kids put a laser pointer on there quads and flying around at night shining it into windows of people homes! WTF!!! Its stupid crap like that that piss's me off bad!! & I know the people who make the laws are going to screw that up too. Sad to say but I think our days of FPV fun are numbered- AND Just to be CLEAR I'm NOT saying or calling anyone in this video or who posted comments here are the guilty or the stupid!
***** He need a transponder for Secondary Surveillance Radar. Additonal need He a HAM-licence for 1.2GHz and should know 962-1.213GHz MHz is DME a part of radio navigation for aviation world wide.
i simply said i "hoped" he had FAA clearance. i didn't say anything mean. Since he didn't mention it in the video or in the description i assumed he hadn't
@@explisid9510 NO GE USE IT TO MAKE THE EARTH LOOK ROUND WE ALL KNOW IT'S FLAT DON'T BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT 5G CAUSES CORONAVIRUS AND VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM
The fascinating thing is the lack of flutter from the balloon shortly after bursting because the atmosphere is so thin up there. Great video, great post.
What the fuck am I reading in the comments ?! Are there really people who believe that the earth is flat in 2016?? Is this a thing? I'm loosing faith in humanity.
Rubafix989 same with me... I feel bad for the people who believe the wrath is flat. Also did j know 5-10% of the USA thinks the earth is flat? It's a mess
Seriously go to 1:57 or around that time and try to draw a straight line. You can't cause the earth is round. Don't blame it on the camera lens. I fly these things and are very familiar with the cameras. Where the earth is round is not an effect.
Now, about 4 mins in, I'm so relaxed that you decided to chill and enjoy the view n not stress about mebbe losing the cool machine that had provided you with nice high angle views of our world.
Don’t. It will fall at a high rate of speed and if something goes wrong it will slam the earth going over 100mph. That could kill someone. If it doesn’t burn up.
***** Actually you do, but it's small compared with the fish eye effect. If you know what to look for, pause the video at the correct point and you will see the curvature. Hint the fish eye effect is more close to the edges of the lense, so you will have a point where the fish eye effect is minimal, and where the effect should be showing a slight curvature in opposite direction, but it doesn't. And at that point you see the earth's curvature, though not perfectly.
Glitch Mob I'm sure there is some way to explain this video.. Maybe it's actually a video made by the government to make it seem like the Earth is round.. Just like any video from NASA like the moon landing they were fakes designed to hide the fact that the Earth is actually flat!
civilian drones like these are roughly the same weight at birds. the only time birds have taken out modern jet engines is when a flock of them flew through one. an individual drone produces no danger to the aircraft whatsoever.
+Ken Morton Lipos are pretty soft and get sliced in pieces easily. The part where they catch fire is not good, but if they go through a jet engine, I'm not sure that would be a huge problem. The only problematic piece would be the RC motor itself, which is a pretty dense piece of metal, but thankfully it's not that big. As for a foam plane damaging a full size plane, I think you're overweighting the risks. It's not impossible but I'm pretty darn sure it's much less likely than people think. A metal and carbon fiber quadcopter however, that's a different ball game. It would definitely damage a plane and a jet engine, guaranteed.
Martijn Denecker my kidding set aside, both yan-Deriction and you are doing it wrong if you're just talking about "drones". a 2kg foam plane with plastic propellor vs a 2kg metal or carbon frame quadcopter with the carbon blades that actually slice your finger, are so not the same thing in case of impact.
Jeweby Chewy coming from a globe tard that doesn't know what a fisheye lens is. What a bunch of idiots saying this is proof of curvature. Even if the earth were a globe, you are the one that looks stupid when you say that obviously distorted images are 'proof' the earth is not flat. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that you probably also believe everything you see from NASA.
I'm not a flat earther I think it's a little silly but overall not impossible based on their arguments but he is right this video wouldn't be sufficient evidence against it. It's close because this guy is independent and did this himself but the lense does make it not adequete proof for them which kind of makes sense. But still the arguments they use are hard to imagine. "Earth isn't a planet and that's why it's not spherical like everything else we can see with private telescopes" is something one guy said to me lol.
@@gamerachievements5087 Bruh, can you grasp the fact that the size of the curve would not fit in any wide angle view a camera or the eyes can see? Thats why you can only see it from far and even then it looks like a flat disc because you dont have eyes half the size of the planet to see the sides below and above it at the same time which would look like a globe, the only shape in all the galaxies that can move in any direction generating gravity pull and atmosphere.When flatearthers put a real photo of a square planet or a triangle looking one pigs gonna fly.. till then lets stick with facts which get boats,planes and cars to the destination daily...
when I told the flat earther that the earth is actually round, they didnt believe at me. I use Nasa as reference. but they still didnt believe in NASA. they said, that Nasa is a big conspiracy . Lol.. then I show this video to them, Now they are thinking that david windestal also a part of Nasa :v poor people. hahaha
Lol tell me something new... I have said years that they should sell their tinfoil hats for scrap metal, or put together go fund me campaign to buy a ticket for ISS or the fucking moon, do what David did here or just buy a fucking telescope, but no... There was some studies done on conspiracytards and what was discovered they are in constant "feel good" hormone trip, cause they think that they know something that no one else knows. Its literally a addiction for them and reason why they wont listen anything that wont reinforce their already deluded beliefs, guess same goes for religious nuts jobs, cause its not like they are willing to listen and comprehend ether...
I'm glad UA-cam recommended me this video, it's nice to see a real UA-camr in my feed amongst all the lame BS that UA-cam usually recommends that I could care less about, awesome video man, I've subbed to your channel.
7 years after this video was made UA-cam recommended this video to me and I'm very glad they did. This is incredible, amazing work.
because you buyed yourself a drone, thats why.
@@therealhomerj.simpson2372 How do you know that? I just bought a drone and this video became recommended.
Same here but I don't bought a drone. 😂
@@MrSmithFPV Me too
But maybe because you searched after a drone?
this is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
wait this comment was posted 2 years ago and has 174 likes but 0 replies really
Tesla Pigeon smh
guest nasa lied about satellites :p
STR8 go play imvu
ROBLOX a
And this was 7 years ago! The tech has advanced so much I cant wait for another mission like this
That’s so true
Unfortunately with all the new FAA rules put in place in recent years anyone who posted mission like this nowadays will be in trouble
So, just do it properly and request FAA flight window.
@@RichardAFPV If he's using meters it sounds like he's in Europe, so no US FAA there. Something similar probably. But maybe different rules.
@@mikeysmusicchannel9312 Lol...not at all. Thats the beauty of editing, There,s enough Oppression in the world, and cant do this, cant do that. Send it i say.
Has 100,000ft to decide where to land, still hits a tree...
You dont realize how shitty the video feed is man, it is quite literally tv static. Its near impossible to see ANYTHING, let alone from how far he was. In fact, Ill bet he didnt even know there were trees.
ShureLock but he still hit a tree bro
BRO HE HIT THAT TREE SO FUCKING HARD LMAO
@@awhahoo lol the thin branches of the tree is literally invisible in the analog fpv, even racing drones analog cam that flown 100 meters max can get blurry
Verytryn i mean, still hit a tree
next attempt: attach small rockets with a total of 3 stages and get yourself into a sub orbital trajectory with small rcs thrusters on the glider
***** sounds cooler
***** an ssto will have to be huge in takeoff size
Hopefully its possible...
i think we should make the gun powder and shoot the satellite to the space,because it's more simple and it's could burning well without oxygen.
was my first thought too when i saw the video.
10 years later I find out about this amazing human? We are stuck with a bunch of crap apps and content --- yet this should be required viewing. wOw!!!! thank you sir!!!
you should fly it to north korea
they would shoot it down though...
I hope it would not start WWIII LOL
CM6774 lol no one likes north Korea enough to back them in a global conflict. it would more or less be a bunch of Western powers destroying a sad little nation.
Tony Constance bad little nation*
aguyinasuit area 51
Old video I know but.....EPIC. Doesn't matter that you never retrieve the glider, you gained a view very few humans get to see with their own eyes. Worth it.
it is truly incredible that an average person can now get footage from freaking space! awesome video, David
Jon B Baca not space it's just high up in the atmosphere
This is still pretty far from being labelled as space.
I see plenty space up there…
Great video man. That is such a cool little machine.
WHAT KIND OF TRANSMITTER DO YOU HAVE? GEEZ!!!
Did you find the plane again?
Gavin Endsley yes... if not he wouldn't have had the footage. he had a gps tracker.
He has a FlySky from banggood :)))
@@sadigov lol
@@ezracer dragon link. The grand daddy of long range. Looking at R9MM or crossfire for my small drone. But ill prob still lose video
David ... After so many great FPV years I still can't get enough of this video. This is the HOLY GRAIL of long range FPV. Again thank you for all you have taught us. Cheer and wishing you well - Aero FPV
You are Crazy! I Love It!
Imagine his face when his plane connects to American Airlines wifi
Nobody connects to that Wi-Fi for free!
@@jovie311 woooosh
GET WIFI ANYWHERE YOU GO!
@@jovie311 Haha last time I flew for vacation last year to Florida from Colorado and our airline says we get free onboard wi-fi. As soon as I connect to Wi-Fi, it is only free for checking on your flight status on the map of where you are and then if I want to do anything else such as browsing the web, it will cost you money. So it is definitely bullshit advertising. Free Wi-Fi just to check your plane status!
@@Xiphactinus hold up
"about 10 minutes of gliding later, I'm getting ready to penetrate the clouds" ( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o)
Thats pretty long!
@@ihas8407 that's what she said
Don't judge!
This video is how i got into fpv and drone building.....im so grateful for your upload
this guy just flew an fpv plane into fucking SPACE - how the hell does pewdiepie have more subs than him?
+TheRoshan89
Earth's population is full of retarded flat earth flat heads idiots
+TheRoshan89 balloon he says it a few times lol, he flew the plane FROM space lol
Neither to nor from space, since space starts at 100 km of altitude. Still, nice job.
Because he's hilarious and produces quality stuff
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I still think this is one of the most amazing and legendary fpv projects and I would totally live to see a part 2 with the tech we have today :)
This was a real treat. Honestly one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen, because although you’re obviously an expert. You made this seem possible. Truly a beautiful video, narration, footage and editing, background music! Nailed it. -America
If I was terminal and had a few days left to live this is the way I would want to go, having that sunset and view close to the cosmos while plummeting down to earth would be incredible.
I'm not sure who's more ignorant. The people concerned about the few people that think the earth is flat, the actual people that believe the earth is flat, or the people asking if he found the plane.
spherical geometry really melted my brain
I assumed he was using telemetry given his comments. Of course, if it was a recording, he found his glider.
hahahahah, so true .
@@gavmedia5674 actually there was a experiment done with lasers over a distance on a lake the laser hit higher on the other side indicating that the earth is curved
@@juling0483
Laser tests have proven only one thing.
Accuracy is way off due to the spreading of the light over distance.
I see visual proof of our flat earth everytime I look over the water from the Fylde coast UK over to the Isle of Man 60 miles away.
No laser needed, just the zoom on my camera.
Technology is the downfall of the globe.
This will be illegal in a decade
+Jon For Much sooner I'm afraid.
+Jon Dor Why?
+Jon Dor I just saw one of these things doing an 90 kilometre flight at up to 12000 feet altitude. Clearly there is nobody aboard to properly see and avoid, no flight plan filed, no transponder, no radio calls of position and direction. Recently I saw one very close to the approach to Brussels airport. I predict a tragedy, just a matter of time.
+Jon Dor I think it's illegal as of TODAY with the new drone regulations that just came out (Dec 14, 2015).
than217 Fucking government...
also the earth is flat. i checked it myself with with a straight edge in my backyard.
jcoronet2000 The Earth is not FLAT DUMBASS
jcoronet2000 Hah! You sir, just made my day!
Ho-Oh Hunters calm down, it was a joke
Lol
swagy doge gaming RBLX and more do I have to say this again? It was a joke!
Nice fisheye camera
349 Flat-earthers disliked this video
God Of Stealth im just waiting for them to start opening there mouths
Where mouths?
Nathan fish eye
Here mouths
Why would they? And why does it even matter?
Your awesome .... Now if the military was doing that project... About a million bucks later... Good job and hope it goes perfect next time.
Ken Munn 8
Lmfao dude darpa is doing this
Nice flight! Too bad for the equipment problems, but it's definitely a great go.
Check out flite test.
I hope you took the clouds on a few dates first
nah, just straight to penetration
Wtf
Next time, drop a nokia to destroy the planet ;-)
nigga why do you think that the guys from nokia were captured to work for the north korean nuclear institute?
Lol
ahahah
Lmao XD 😂
LOL
Great video! I clicked when I read the title, "Space Glider" and it was worth it. Great commentary throughout. Well paced and visually stunning!
David Windestål
can we have another Space FPV video?
this one was great but it was incomplete.
Can we have another one?
Thank you.
Fantastic! Well done.. I worked in Electronics for 35 years as an ISR Tech.... Great Job!!! Thank You!
that was very peaceful friend,i enjoyed the music and scenery thanks for your hard work.from texas
I say: Time for a recall David! An Inav controlled plane with rtl, i would love to see if it would be capable of returning home from that height.
Such insane footage
I have a severe fear of heights, and I can tell you, my legs got weak and my stomach cringed while the balloon was at maximum altitude. Terrific experiment!
still that was amazing
to see the edge of space.
very well done loved it.
There images are so beautiful. Well done, good work!!
I don't like it when people do this with fish eye lenses, it makes it look higher than it really is.
Its mostly due to most actions cameras having fish eyes lenses like GoPros so using a non fish eye camera that is super small and light weight is very uncommon.
Well it has to do with pilot flying the plane. Fish eye lens gives wider area to see that is really good when piloting with camera and like SpydreX said there isint that many that are light enough for this intention. Of course you could swap the gopro lens, but even then these flat earthers wont get it that this planet is fucking huge compared to us and it would take little more than weather balloon and glider to get into space..
Joe Anthing there's a reason for that... you know right.
Soundscrap yup, to make sure viewers keep falling for the "curvature" that they "see" lmfao but in reality the horizon never curves, never
Did you notice because of the lousy lens, the 'curvature' actually goes the OTHER way too ? ( concave ) But the spinning round ball morons will still believe in this imaginary curvature even when that thing is just above tree top height ! Poor dumb fools !
I saw this video back in 2014, and came here today to visit this masterpiece. This was such an amazing work, hope you make another mission.
Hi! Do you have a DVR recorded live video feed? I am interested of the quality.
you were great on flite test but this video is amazing, how legal i dont know but WOW i feel like i went to space. beautiful pictures. and its probably the closest ill get to heaven
+Dave Harvey Yea I say screw flite test and their dumb antics. He needs to be on his own again and do stuff like this again.
you mean to the firmament
to heaven? lol I got bad news for you buddy..... it ain't real.
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+marcus ll prove it.
Now you should use a stage 2 rocket.
Yep. And launch it somehow from the maximum altitude the balloon can take it too
But I thought the earth was flat...
Definitely CGI! But seriously now: one of the most beautiful views of planet earth I have seen! My heart was thumping when the the balloon popped. It was such a captivating scene! Following the fall, to the regain of control and landing of the craft. Thank you for sharing!
Why I applaud your effort and this is very amazing, I can't help but wonder, as a commercial pilot. Do you need to get permission to 'launch' a weather balloon? If everyone starts doing this on random places (cause this is cool and it's getting more common) with airways pretty much over any house, could get dangerous :P Not that a balloon with a few grams of metal would bring down a full sized jet, there is still a threat. If by chance the balloon is sucked in an engine, or covers an essential piece of equipment like angle of attack sensor, pitot tube, RAM air inlet holes, things could turn ugly.
+Martijn Denecker In the US you need to follow FAA and FCC guidelines for payload, these rules have been around since the 1960's. As well as notify the closest ATC facility about your launch location, predicted flight patch, predicted landing area, etc...
+Zane Krempel Oh ok. Good. I hope they include this and the new UAV/drone regulations in future pilot training.
Martijn Denecker I'm not sure if local atc notification is a requirement or courtesy and if it shows up in notams etc. 1600 of these high altitude ballons are released a day 365 days a year fwiw.
UA-cam algorithm:
"you have been waiting seven years and you didn't know. The time has come. Open your eyes"
2017 ,this is still GOAT FPV footage ever
Very cool. Excellent job. Love the high altitude near space flight, free fall and re-entry through clouds. Glad you found it
Love Mother Earth ;-)
Decent vid, shows the scale of what we live on. Any dislikes are just weird..
Thanks for that, amazing!
And to think this was 7 years ago. Like dam good job
Planning on doing this again sometime ?
Blown away! That was incredibly ballsy, I definitely couldn't have kept it together like you did when the balloon was still tethered.
With the technical glitches sorted out (eg. whatever ground based problem there was) - it seems like you could potentially use some rocket boosters to get the plane even higher. Have you done another run with the same balloon/flight combo?
It was legal when he did it, its illegal now. So that's a no. And they weren't exactly so much technical glitches, as more of physical problems; the first problem was a physically snapped cable, and the second was that the balloon ripped out two of the lobes of his video transmitter antenna when it was released from the plane. Not sure how many lobes there were in the first place, but a typical one consists of 3 or 4.
As of now it's completely illegal to fly non-los in the US. Its also currently illegal to drop things from weather balloons, yes, this is including an FPV aircraft.
Well that fucking sucks.
To say the least ;)
dumb question incoming !: why is it that when the plane was at 30k feet it feels like when it will come back down that if you move a few inches into a different angled-direction that the plane might just come back to earth thousands of miles away?
ps: in high school my science grades were below 55% - hope that explains my ignorance lol
the earth is stationary. they dont teach that in school. you are smart. do some research
It is kind of the opposite. if you have a slightly different angle when launching and if the path is maintained, you could potentially end up miles away from where you would've been u see similar circumstances but a different launch angle
It helps that the camera is fish-eyed, making the surface look very big. Even though you can see very far you don't move very far off. It seems like the world is small and the glider can move very far purely because your perspective shifts, while the glider itself stays quite slow. The same in a plane, you appear to be moving slowly if you look down, but when you look at the speedometer you go around 800-1050 kph, it's just the visual effect. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
Norm Hahaha good one
this is what I've been asking myself but scared to ask because people will call me dumb lol
Use a GPS autopilot next time, APM would be a good choice
He had a GPS/SMS tracker installed in it, so he would be able to call up the coordinates of where it landed.
Rutger de Haan My point is to use the automatic return to launch feature so at least the plane could fly back to the launch vicinity y itself
It's a great thing to do anyway
a good choice for the plane to fly itself straight into the ground, 200km from launch
A GPS autopilot would have been perfect, except when he got signal back and got oriented to where he drifted, he was way too far to get back anyhow. He said that in the video. The headwind wouldn't allow it, and thus the choice to turn the other way and just make the best of the flight footage.
It’s so amazing that u can send a camera up that high which allows u to see the curvature of the earth! Uts amazing footage from the edge of the earths atmosphere. I would love to be able to do that and get some footage like that. So far I’ve only flown my DJI drone a few hundred feet.
Fish eye lens !
I still see this as one of the most inspiring videos on UA-cam.
Nothing is impossible with a little enginerding.
Fantastic, thanks for this, I really enjoyed watching. Cheers.
That was cool ,I really enjoyed it.
So Are you getting set up for a maned mission yet?
I am watching it after 8 years when GoPro hero 9 is rocking the world. Great video brother 💕
Future: we can get our own footage of space!
Sorry to dissapoint you the the future is just staying home..
@@promaster6438 could be worse, it's not like the Bubonic Pla... ahh crap.
Absolutely stunning.
When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was fake
Gepic GB i thought it was clickbait
Gepic GB same here m8
Why ? space is only about 20 miles up or so.
Oh, ONLY 20 miles. Thanks for that.
Plz... Space is not 20 miles... The Karman Line defines the boundary between earth's athmosphere and space. This Kalman line is 100km (60 miles) above sea level. So that guy just made 1/3 of his way to space (which is actually really impressive, but it's not space ^^). Also it is theoreticaly impossible to reach space with a baloon filled with helium or hydrogen (otherwise SpaceX would have done it long ago to send their satellite into orbit ^^)
The thumnail is missleading. The video was taken with a very wide angle camera. Because of this, the image is very very distorted. With another camera the earth would have been a lot more flat :)
Best video I have seen on UA-cam, and I have seen a lot of videos. You did what many of us believed was not possible.
hey David! can you make diy version?
YES!
Wow, I need to get my FPV gear before it's illegal. Thanks for the video.
Yeah, "the powers" are trying to force a lot of good folks to become fugitives. We're still gonna fly though!
I agree!
Stephen Comer I gota a nimrod 5.4Ghz downlink from my phantom and its like a guy makes it in his shed like some cottage industry - so it will be hard to stop from the equipment side.
Its like those marketing stickers they place on public transport - if they simply call the number they find the end point. For the fpv flier its hard for them to spot the perpetrator in the same way... I mean you can be on your mobile phone piloting the bloody thing !!! so they would need to simply look at this video and talk to YT...Just before anyone gets any funny ideas you would stick out like a sore thumb having your Tx signal if they needed to up the ante..if we all fly responsibly that wont be needed its the other idiots I fear for. Watch this space we are all getting banned soon.
My two favorite parts:
When the burst balloon fragments hang down around the camera like they are just hanging still in the sun.
How unspectacular the landing. One eight millimeter branch bitch slaps it out of the stratosphere!
I was so impressed by your project. Congratulations and thanks for sharing!
you NEED to remake this!
7 years ago David FPV'd a plane on the edge of space... And here I am with occasional signal issues flying at the park 😂 epic footage 👌🏼👏🏼
The same thing occurred to me. Signal range 20 miles!!! All-be-it straight up. Doesn't seem possible.
Great job 👍🏻
du bist doch überall!
;D Du anscheinend auch ;)
+katzenklo muss ich dir rechtgeben :D
Musik ist keine Lösung
Amazed my the number of idiots gassing off about how this was illegal & irresponsible.... get your facts in order first! A little research will reveal the pilot got legal clearance to use the skies every time he did this (3 times i believe).
This is an Amazing video, but it is NOT the ones who do it legal you say David had clearance I don't know if he did or not But knowing him through his videos I'm sure he did the correct thing -Its the ones who don't care and try and copy things like this WITHOUT proper permission or experience in R/C that has caused all the trouble. It wont be long that most if not all FPV will be illegal or so restricted & fees attached for permits that no one will be able to enjoy it anymore. Once again the few stupid ones have messed up yet another wonderful thing for the rest of us I also seen a video were a 20 yr old male invaded the privacy of a yard two house down from his own (she was sun bathing) and the girl called the cops on him. This one was told to me by the officer who took the call where I live-3 young kids put a laser pointer on there quads and flying around at night shining it into windows of people homes! WTF!!! Its stupid crap like that that piss's me off bad!! & I know the people who make the laws are going to screw that up too. Sad to say but I think our days of FPV fun are numbered- AND Just to be CLEAR I'm NOT saying or calling anyone in this video or who posted comments here are the guilty or the stupid!
***** He need a transponder for Secondary Surveillance Radar. Additonal need He a HAM-licence for 1.2GHz and should know 962-1.213GHz MHz is DME a part of radio navigation for aviation world wide.
i simply said i "hoped" he had FAA clearance. i didn't say anything mean. Since he didn't mention it in the video or in the description i assumed he hadn't
you should desighn a latch that detatches the glider as soon as there isnt tension on it
WHY DID YOU USE A FISH EYE LENSE. ARE YOU WORKING WITH NA$A.
He used it to get a wide angle view ...
@@explisid9510 NO GE USE IT TO MAKE THE EARTH LOOK ROUND WE ALL KNOW IT'S FLAT DON'T BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT 5G CAUSES CORONAVIRUS AND VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM
Shut up, bot
DUDE, U ROCK! MORE.. MORE.. WE WANT MORE ;-)
Wonder how legal thia was haha
The fascinating thing is the lack of flutter from the balloon shortly after bursting because the atmosphere is so thin up there. Great video, great post.
The wild wild west of fpv. The beginnings.
wow, do you need permission to do this, couldnt a plane smash into it.
My thought exactly
@@sebastiensadler3433 well he should have found a place without planes routes nearby
What the fuck am I reading in the comments ?! Are there really people who believe that the earth is flat in 2016?? Is this a thing? I'm loosing faith in humanity.
Rubafix989 same with me... I feel bad for the people who believe the wrath is flat. Also did j know 5-10% of the USA thinks the earth is flat? It's a mess
Rubafix989 yeah, large sects of humans are under that impression.
Seriously go to 1:57 or around that time and try to draw a straight line. You can't cause the earth is round. Don't blame it on the camera lens. I fly these things and are very familiar with the cameras. Where the earth is round is not an effect.
Rubafix989 😂😂😂😂
I wouldn't say "large", it's just a bunch of lunatics (but they are growing).
Now, about 4 mins in, I'm so relaxed that you decided to chill and enjoy the view n not stress about mebbe losing the cool machine that had provided you with nice high angle views of our world.
that was awesome dude :)
i wanna do something similar in the future with my quadcopter
Don’t. It will fall at a high rate of speed and if something goes wrong it will slam the earth going over 100mph. That could kill someone. If it doesn’t burn up.
hehehehe he said penetrate!
Enrique Lagartija You would be a blast at a comedy club eh?
Enrique Lagartija oh yeah... and penetrate isn't a weird.... it is a word!
& you are a minion #13:40
Lol I read it and 5 seconds later he said it
hehehehe you also said!
Only if there was no clouds
Apple tech/fun twenty one pilots is trash
MoparMilan I saw you fixed that buddy it's you're not youre
no rain without clouds bruhbruh
Oxidon "bruhbruh" you're a special kind of stupid!
that's cute how the image suddenly cuts out with the sunshine then comes back while it's in space, pretty nice trick 1:34
Flat earth my ass
***** I believe he's implying the earth is round....
***** Actually you do, but it's small compared with the fish eye effect. If you know what to look for, pause the video at the correct point and you will see the curvature.
Hint the fish eye effect is more close to the edges of the lense, so you will have a point where the fish eye effect is minimal, and where the effect should be showing a slight curvature in opposite direction, but it doesn't. And at that point you see the earth's curvature, though not perfectly.
Glitch Mob I'm sure there is some way to explain this video.. Maybe it's actually a video made by the government to make it seem like the Earth is round.. Just like any video from NASA like the moon landing they were fakes designed to hide the fact that the Earth is actually flat!
Dee Jay the earth is inverted, flat, and round in this video. the fish eye lens is not conclusive
Dee Jay You realize people, people I know personally, have sailed around the globe, right?
***** wow man, just wow haha.
***** totally man, thanks for showing me that
Brock Tompkins check out this flight
***** cheers man
;)
Air hogs tryed something similar but wasn't as good as this.
Very cool... Slightly risky though, ... Could take out a jet engine with it unfortunately...
civilian drones like these are roughly the same weight at birds. the only time birds have taken out modern jet engines is when a flock of them flew through one. an individual drone produces no danger to the aircraft whatsoever.
+yan-Deriction negative, the Lipo battery that power these suckers are very dense, I would recommend for you to rethink your logic
+Ken Morton Lipos are pretty soft and get sliced in pieces easily. The part where they catch fire is not good, but if they go through a jet engine, I'm not sure that would be a huge problem.
The only problematic piece would be the RC motor itself, which is a pretty dense piece of metal, but thankfully it's not that big.
As for a foam plane damaging a full size plane, I think you're overweighting the risks. It's not impossible but I'm pretty darn sure it's much less likely than people think.
A metal and carbon fiber quadcopter however, that's a different ball game. It would definitely damage a plane and a jet engine, guaranteed.
+yan-Deriction Youre kidding right?
Martijn Denecker my kidding set aside, both yan-Deriction and you are doing it wrong if you're just talking about "drones".
a 2kg foam plane with plastic propellor vs a 2kg metal or carbon frame quadcopter with the carbon blades that actually slice your finger, are so not the same thing in case of impact.
Is this David from flite test?
Yes
TO THE EDGE OF SPAAAAACE
Aaand the UA-cam Algorithm brought us here, again!
You 2?
***THE EARTH IS FLAT***
Wat?
+ForkInTheRoad the earth is not flat and ur mom is fat
Your ass is flat
David, I hope you will attempt this again sometime. This is fascinating to watch, one of the best of your very good videos. Thank you so much.
The earth is so flat, god damn
+shamanhealer2012 Nice sarcasm
im actually serious....Level plane>spinning ball
Spinning ball > Level plane?
+shamanhealer2012 lol I thought there would be at least one 'flat earther' in this comments section, and here you are! :p
Yep! Gotta drop some knowledge on my bros!
for the flat earth believers
Jeweby Chewy They use fish eye camera. Da fuck do you expected?
Jeweby Chewy coming from a globe tard that doesn't know what a fisheye lens is. What a bunch of idiots saying this is proof of curvature. Even if the earth were a globe, you are the one that looks stupid when you say that obviously distorted images are 'proof' the earth is not flat. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that you probably also believe everything you see from NASA.
I'm not a flat earther I think it's a little silly but overall not impossible based on their arguments but he is right this video wouldn't be sufficient evidence against it. It's close because this guy is independent and did this himself but the lense does make it not adequete proof for them which kind of makes sense. But still the arguments they use are hard to imagine. "Earth isn't a planet and that's why it's not spherical like everything else we can see with private telescopes" is something one guy said to me lol.
@@gamerachievements5087 Bruh, can you grasp the fact that the size of the curve would not fit in any wide angle view a camera or the eyes can see? Thats why you can only see it from far and even then it looks like a flat disc because you dont have eyes half the size of the planet to see the sides below and above it at the same time which would look like a globe, the only shape in all the galaxies that can move in any direction generating gravity pull and atmosphere.When flatearthers put a real photo of a square planet or a triangle looking one pigs gonna fly.. till then lets stick with facts which get boats,planes and cars to the destination daily...
when I told the flat earther that the earth is actually round, they didnt believe at me.
I use Nasa as reference.
but they still didnt believe in NASA. they said, that Nasa is a big conspiracy . Lol..
then I show this video to them, Now they are thinking that david windestal also a part of Nasa :v
poor people.
hahaha
Lol tell me something new... I have said years that they should sell their tinfoil hats for scrap metal, or put together go fund me campaign to buy a ticket for ISS or the fucking moon, do what David did here or just buy a fucking telescope, but no...
There was some studies done on conspiracytards and what was discovered they are in constant "feel good" hormone trip, cause they think that they know something that no one else knows. Its literally a addiction for them and reason why they wont listen anything that wont reinforce their already deluded beliefs, guess same goes for religious nuts jobs, cause its not like they are willing to listen and comprehend ether...
Well this isnt really a good example, since there was a fish eye lense
NASA are KNOWN liars - so that makes you ( and most other fools in here) STUPID ( without rational or independent thought processes )
alot, but more better than who's still believe that earth is flat, nigga
+Rian Hidayat more better
yeah i come back every year to watch again... best youtube video !!!!
so the earth is in fact round 😂
A complete shame you used a fish eye lens to distort reality
Reality is that the earth is curved, get that through your empty flat brain.
@@sqlevolicious Prove it.
That's what I thought unable to prove it
RJ then prove that its flat, take me to the edge.
This is a classic video now, one of the first videos I watched getting into the hobby.
I'm glad UA-cam recommended me this video, it's nice to see a real UA-camr in my feed amongst all the lame BS that UA-cam usually recommends that I could care less about, awesome video man, I've subbed to your channel.