How Large Can a LEGALLY Unregistered Drone Get? ...And April Explores Being a Pilot
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Can you please post a weight breakdown? I left some design tips for version 2 drawing on my few decades of structural and aeronautical engineering background.
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You need a greater angle on your dihedral and or the polyhedrals and I can't tell if you're detail is set right or not but it should be 100°. Both those things will make a huge difference.
I hope that April has been taking flying lessons by now. Thanks for the videos. 🙂👍
You should've went with a flying wing design.
I saw a true master composite layup guy doing sailplane wings once, and he added so many different tape strips/yarn/pinstriping tape to the layup sandwich that seemed to have no effect on the final wing. Most of them were there just to make cleanup and trimming easier!
It's a real dark art, and a lot of the art is just about making it faster and easier on yourself with less work afterwards and less waste.
I would love to see a beginner series on a fiberglass and foam plane by you. You make it look easy but it is a pretty deep set of skills.
This!!!!
And keep that intermingled crap about his wife out of it
They sounded like a high school couple.
Why would he include that?@@nic9172
@@nic9172 I found it to be fun and entertaining.
@@nic9172God forbid a man loves his wife.
So she’s “Thinking of flight”?……ok, that was bad. Honestly, including your wife’s interest in flight is a great addition to your channel. Keep encouraging April…she’s an inspiration to many.
Only libertarians who want mail order brides.
Was it good, or was it great?
It was annoying as fuck. I was coming here to see the intricacies of the construction of the plane, not his Asian war bride goofing off in an airplane. The fact that it was mixed in made the whole video trash
Good format and build.
And great seeing you and your wife so happy.
Great content! Look forward to seeing more exploration flights and ultra light weight powered gliders. 👍🏼😊
Your craftsmanship is a pleasure to watch.... exciting about the piloting potential!
Really enjoyed the second story line! Nice one, April!
Glad you enjoyed it!
3:35 I liked seeing the repair on the crack here, a simple hole to relieve the stresses and stop the crack in its course. Such an appropriate fix for a glider
You need to catch it. Very impressive build. Maybe dial it back 20% so you get the wind penetration up by adding weight. A lighter larger sub 250 glider would be impressive indoors.
I'm thrilled to see old school balsa ribs in your preview for the next step. Film covered open balsa structure is hard to beat on the low end of the speed range for a super light airframe. Integrating higher performance structural materials (anything from spruce to carbon fiber) where it can contribute the most (spars!) will allow for larger aircraft. Side note: in my experience, sailplanes dependent on dihedral for roll (no ailerons) a big rudder is necessary to be effective. Really enjoyed the vid and CONGRATS to your wife on taking on the flying bug! I'm eagerly anticipating the next vid.
Old school is new school!
Imagine registering an RC craft.
@2:09 "Smoking betty" please share in your next video how it works. I see 4 stepper motors guiding the bow. very cool!
One of your best videos so far! April is so natural on cam which is not easy to many. And I bet, especially with your severe health scare, that she really is a supporting star.
And yes, thanks soooo much for working on the ePOXy prounouncation. Takes a strong person to change his ways this much;)
Came for the interesting RC exploration, stayed for your wife's awesome adventure into becoming a pilot. That's amazing. High flights and happy landings to you both.
I'm so happy to see April taking an interest in your hobby!
This was a very enjoyable video to watch. The interspersion of the wife's flight segments with the build information made this both informative and entertaining. Nice job editing.
I love so much that your wife is enjoying the flight experience. You go April.
Loving the video. I am a pilot myself and I know how she feels! Love your models as well. Great skill!
My favorite Chanel on UA-cam! Merry Christmas Buddy!
Same to you!
Great work again! I'm happy that the channel is letting you and your wife explore such new and exciting things for her!
No way! That glider that TF's Wife flew in is the same model as the training gliders at my gliding club in Australia, the ASK-21. I guess they really are widespread!
i noticed at 3:58 that you have metal bars on your window. i think that means you live in california. i hope nobody breaks in and steals your awesome planes :)
amazing work as always... 250g limit is a joke... I've built 80" .52cu glow kadet seniors at about 3.5kg, that is another level of fun... its still legal in my country thankfully
It is quite silly, I agree.
Very interesting cnc hot wire? cutter. Never seen something like this before.
So majestic!
Sailplanes man, just.... yeah
I used 4 of those same batteries in my electric quad I made last year - works amazing and get around a 70km range.
April is delightful! The clip of the baby @9:05 is adorable.
Really nice-looking build and even with its aero shortcomings, you did a decent job on the aerodynamics. The bottom line is, you did it. Congrats.
Fantastic video! I love how several topics were split up along the video, it's really easy to not lose attention with that layout
This guy: quietly forms 1gm drone from aerogel, lands on the ISS
I saw a true master composite layup guy doing sailplane wings once, and he added so many different tape strips/yarn/pinstriping tape to the layup sandwich that seemed to have no effect on the final wing. Most of them were there just to make cleanup and trimming easier!
If you do it enough it definitely pays to spend the time doing it cleaner.
What’s the difference in RC planes and drones? Because I have never heard of a weight limit or needing to register RC planes?
Technically you’re breaking the law if your plane is over 250g but it’s not really enforced
No difference per the FAA. Same rules apply. If you fly informally, you'll probably not be bothered. If you fly with an AMA club you'll need to meet all the new rules.
Was super looking forward to this video once I saw your teaser photo. Flight duration and range will always be best with fixed-wing, and sailplane-style airframes may be able to improve it further with thermalling capabilities.
If there’s “Crop Circles” in the desert, are they still called crop circles?
nope, out there they are called OHV tracks
I'm sure not only me would appreciate if a list of the parts//materials use to build .. as always thanks for the videos and such !
I'm also about to build a CNC hotwire cutter; cutting the parts by hand is rather difficult. Great video!
Thanks 👍
Very impressed with your 2m+ build of a 249g automous winged drone. Not only does it have smarts to self navigate, you managed to reenforce the wings, etc. with fibreglass.
Had expected to be just bare foam, or foam wrapped in a heat-shrink film.
When saw the teaser photo, had thought this to be a pitcheron design with servos mounted near CG.
Thought I was doing good building a 1.2m wing this past summer that was ~230g. I bow to you, clearly have a super power when it comes to designing/building unique RC models.
BTW: Regarding April's flying interests, I'd highly recommend starting with learning to fly in a sailplane. It's the purest form of flight. Besides for most more complex aircraft when it comes to learning to pilot, it seems 80% of learning involves what to do when the engine, or something related to the engine quits working as expected. This not an issue with a sailplane. ;)
So there we have it, a plane lacking an onboard system for battery voltage is more dangerous than a plane over 250g with voltage display that can be safely brought home without crashing into something or someone.
This is fantastic!
If you revisit this again, let me know how I can help you out. We got our laser up and running too.
What was your wingspan in the end?
Awesome to watch April get some experience with various aircraft. Cool she wants to be a pilot!
82". I need to close our deal out for you brother!
so many RC channels these days. You guys just earned my sub because of the relationship with you wife, and how she is apart of your videos!
1. cut holes in foam to lighten. 2. Use lighter fibreglass at wing tips, heavier inboard.
for the next iteration you should try a Prandtl wing design (NASA Prandtl-D, for example), which would eliminate the need for a tail surface.
With a drone that only weighs 250g, it should be pretty easy to bring it down via parachute. Especially since the comparatively huge wing area could probably act as enough of a parachute for a safe landing, as long as you "give them enough encouragement" to stay perfectly flat. I'm thinking about a small "pilot parachute" that attaches at 3 or 4 points. Sadly even the little bit of extra weight would make your wing span less competitive for the record length you are going for. But maybe it would also be possible to fold the tail up by 90°...
The 90' solution like they use in free flight is a great zero extra weight option.
This is such an amazing channel.... I'm hooked!
Are there plans for that CNC foam cutter somewhere?
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The topgear type intros are awasome
This is the first time I am seeing your channel. Loved it at the first minute. Greeting from Europe
Your in-flight video from the other drone is just awe inspiring, as usual.
I love that you called out the heli pilots skill level. Loved that little note (:
250g including helium? Or after it’s added?
After hahaha caught me!
What? YOU designed the Nano Goblin! I freaking love mine. That plane is a beast.
Yeah it turned out well! RMRC really went all out on proper execution, I could not be happier.
I got my ppl (single engine land) last may, best decision I have ever done. tell the wife, go for it.
Hello Think Flight, amazing video as always! One quick question, what kind of hardware do you use for the autopilot? They must be very small to fit in that fuselage. I want to build light weight autonomous airplane, so I'd appreciate if you could tell me what you used. If you have already showed them on another video, would you tell me which one?
In this case I used an MRO Control Zero, but this could easily be done with any of the 20x20 5g autopilots available by companies like Matek, Diatone etc.
Helicopters are incredibly more difficult to fly than planes. You can think of flying a plane as 10x harder than driving a car, and flying a helicopter as 10x harder than flying a plane. I have a private pilots license for planes, and later took a single student flight in a helicopter. That being said, I think flying a helicopter would be a lot more fun and interesting in the long term, and getting muscle memory for the twitchy helicopter controls definitely requires a lot of practice. I also suspect the career aspect for professional pilots probably weighs in the favor of becoming a helicopter pilot.
I love everyone of your videos im learning so much while enjoying myself
Very enjoyable seeing someone with the skills , knowledge and perseverance take a idea and make it fly. Subbed😊
Nice! Yep, more dihedral needed for rudder/elevator only.
That machine is so light and so simple, really beautiful.
Thanks Think Flight, for showing us how large an unregistered drone can get!
In the US at least, DRONES aren't registered, drone PILOTS are.
April is great ! Thanks.
Curious on your take on V-tail being up vs. down configuration?
down has better control, but poorer durability.
Great to see April's increasing interest in becoming a pilot. The future of R/C is 250grams, thanks for exploring the envelope of what is possible which in the oppressive restriction.
Great video. I probably will follow your fiberglass techniques. 😅
Really nice to include your whole family!
The wing balance stripes were done so tastefully I thought they were cosmetic 😁
Could you please consider a video on your foam wire cutter? That stepper motor setup is fascinating...
Love your work, as always!
This makes a good point. The restriction is weight, not size.
Learn to fly, get a ppl, it'll change your life! When I got my license in 1982,the world changed for the better. And in the US it's so easy to get.
Congratulations for the great work!
Please, Could you tell me where to find information on the web about the polystyrene cutting cnc that I can glimpse at 2:01 minutes of your video.
Thank you very much!
Semi-hollowing out the wing cores, using a d-box spar instead of strips on top and under, drilling lightening holes in the outer wing panels and pulling out as much epoxy as possible before bagging the wing should do the trick on extending the wingspan further. And as you say, for a v-tail and no ailerons you need more dihedral. Looking forward to see version 2!
Also, why not a pure wing as you'd get way with the same amount of servos (2) but gain a bit more in overall rigidity from dropping the boom and pod? Too thick and heavy compared to high aspect wing?
Nice video. Our idea of 'stiff enough' is clearly different lol. But then again, I'm a member of the BHPFC, so anything that doesn't break at cruise conditions is fine for me. Anyway, you can definitely shed some weight from the wing spar, leave out the fiberglass, and lighten the tail a bit. That does mean you can only fly in super calm conditions and it won't survive any landing harder than a perfect one, but you can do it if you want to.
What airfoil did you use? I suppose an AG...? Pretty good airfoils, if you expose the foam it might transition a bit earlier, causing slightly less drag.
Edit:
Glad your wife enjoyed the flights. I had a day of glider flying for my birthday two years ago. It was way too hot that day - in the cockpit it felt like 45 + °C. So yes, I got sick. I don't think I would have been sick if it was cooler. Also, on my very first flight, the winch cable broke, so that was funny.
AG08 for this one. Probably could have gone thinner, the wing was plenty stiff.
Seemed like there was potential for lightening holes throughout the wing, to shave more weight, but not sure how it'd be done pre-vacuum bagging.
Also makes me ponder whether my young childhood days of balsa and doped paper gliders would be lighter for same given size.
I really like your storytelling style of editing with the 2 storylines interlaced and different perspectives of the same scenes, good stuff! Subscribed.
Thanks for taking us on another fun and personal journey. Learning lots, and its keeping my dreams alive.
What material do you use and where do you buy it? Have you DIY your cutting machine or also bought? Thanks
If you add a 3x1 millimeter carbon fiber spar and put it on edge the wing will not Bend at all. I did that with to UMX radian wings 45.5 inch wingspan
Your videos are great! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for what you guys do! You inspire a lot of people
Stellar content! I would love to see more details on the hardware and autopilot setup. Did you make that CNC hotwire yourself?
Yes, I was interested in “smoking Betty” too. Looks like a double ended Maslow cnc. More info please!?
Recently heard some great things about Depron foam -- rigid (needs little carbon fiber reinforcement), and lighter than EPP -- but I don't know how it'd hold up to vacuum bag building techniques.
With every gram counting I wonder if you could have had more wiggle room using a carbon fiber layup instead of fiberglass. I wonder too about the extra effort to mold the wings as hollow carbon fiber shells + spars and omitting the foam core.
8:23 wow that terrain is so weird compared to england! where did the flight take place?
Which program you use for the design of the wings and where do i buy the machine that cuts the wings (hotwire something)?
Thanks in advance :)
Leave the heavy motor and drive battery out and rubber launch it. Add a few solar cells to the wing surface. Use the autonomous thermalling software. Would be very interesting to see how far that setup could go. Maybe ESP32 power it, mostly in sleep mode, and only use servos very very lightly.
what if you add acetone to the foam after u sandwich bag it ,my point is that the acetone will eat the foam and you will be left with a fiberglass shell that should be strong ,but light.
This 250g limit is an optimization challenge that should include airfoil shape, chord length, going beyond all the foam dead weight while avoiding wing buckling. Duel fuselage to better span load could minimize the wing buckling. Aeronautical and structural engineer experience informed my opinion.
Dual forward fuselage with a canard between them is a potential better design for this challenge
THX for pursuing the sub-250 idea!!! It had been on my mind ever since that new drone rule came up. 👍 for more attempts - will be even more so a definite follower!
Try an aerogel foam wing molded in place around a single carbon-fiber spar tube while inside an ultra-thin carbon-fiber sheeting present in the shape of the airfoil.
Great video.
A question: what is the distinction between an electric powered R/C glider and a drone based on a glider with electric propulsion? I had to think about this myself and my first thought is that a drone has a mission, other than just flying. Such as a camera for realtime video, or delivering coffee, which might imply a data link. But is that correct?
And does it mean that a hobby R/C plane now has to be registered?
technically either has to be registered but the latter has the facilities necessary to further make legal the registration of the craft (remote id cuz computers onboard like ardupilot)
What size motor dog you use for that? I purchased some of the smallest rc electronics I could find to experiment with some rubber powered rc conversions. So I'v been very interested to learn about small power plants. Not all the tiny cheap bangood motors come with specs so it'll be a guessing game while I figure it out
Do you have a video on the foam cutter you use
I think in the uk the limit is 20KG and must be lower than 400 ft and fly no further than 500m form the operator
What drone did you use for chasing the glider? Beautiful shots!
how much flight time did you get & with which battery please reply
This is wicked awesome, I love your lightweight glider ! Enjoyed this whole video!
what software were you using at 2:06?
You know, if you embed the carbon fiber strips vertically, they will add meaningful strength to your wings. Possibly enough to forgo fiberglass for packing tape covering?
can you make a wing from just the mylar filled with air? like remove the foam after the covering has hardened, maybe some internal spars..
Really cool. Can we install a front camera (day and night) in the nose and one under the bottom for viewing purposes?
Having the view literally on your face with fpv and being able to fly around the block with my drone was the best too bad battery’s never last long
Coulda saved a few grams by going single skin on the wings. The mylar mostly adds tensile strength so the bottom skin adds most of the strength you get from it. If you’re smart about it you can make the ribs foam, in sections, like they do in human powered planes.