Cloudless ULEP-1 Stratospheric UAV

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  • Опубликовано: 18 дек 2021
  • Next performance tests of our reliable stratospheric UAV. ULEP-1 is a HALE / HAPS demonstrator, Earth Observation platform with better resolution than VHR satellites and near-space research platform.
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  • @bphenry
    @bphenry Месяц назад +38

    Seems like maybe you should paint it bright orange before heading out in the snow. 🙂

    • @v037_
      @v037_ 3 дня назад +1

      oh hell naw, I don't want get kill confirmed by a bright Orange UAV

  • @codemaster442
    @codemaster442 2 месяца назад +13

    Epic flight! I am planning on doing this one day. surprised i haven't seen this sooner.

  • @peanuts2105
    @peanuts2105 29 дней назад +24

    Just imagine Concorde flew higher at mach 2, while people on board sipping champagne, wearing Saville Row suits

    • @Bhatt_Hole
      @Bhatt_Hole 8 дней назад

      Halo,
      what is means Saville Row suits?

    • @Stigstigster
      @Stigstigster 7 дней назад

      @@Bhatt_Hole Saville Row is where the most expensive tailors are in London.

  • @sirfred2678
    @sirfred2678 2 года назад +5

    Fantastic flight :) :)

  • @khh6243
    @khh6243 Месяц назад +5

    wow, awesome. too bad this wasn't on a 'cloudless' day.

  • @larryblanks6765
    @larryblanks6765 Месяц назад +3

    Great flight!

  • @rickr9936
    @rickr9936 5 дней назад

    Absolutely fantastic video- Thank you.

  • @rescuedrestorations
    @rescuedrestorations 7 дней назад +1

    Nice to see above the jet exhaust plume trails that spread out and block the sun. Thanks.

  • @ConsultingjoeOnline
    @ConsultingjoeOnline 4 дня назад

    Thats awesome. Do you notify the FAA when launching the weather balloon? Or just go to remote areas?

  • @zeDoSauRus
    @zeDoSauRus 5 дней назад

    what video transmission and control module did you use?

  • @najna91
    @najna91 Год назад +2

    heloo, można gdzieś się dowiedzieć o danych technicznych?

  • @carlosgarcialopez6402
    @carlosgarcialopez6402 2 месяца назад +29

    I couldn't stop thinking about the batteries at -60ºC

    • @andrzej3511
      @andrzej3511 Месяц назад

      So start thinking about a PIR foam container. This is the obvious solution to the issue of stratospheric temperatures.
      Judging by the moderate stiffness of the entire structure, the ENTIRE hull was made of this foam.

    • @pcka12
      @pcka12 Месяц назад +4

      @@andrzej3511 insulation only works until temperature has equilibrated on either side of it, & it has to be sealed against convection.

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 Месяц назад

      ​​@@pcka12 Have you never noticed that batteries have internal resistance? They heat themselves. Here, that might be a smart idea, pull Amps and drain that thing, to keep it warm.

    • @pcka12
      @pcka12 Месяц назад +3

      @@voornaam3191 now you mention it I do know that (strictly speaking) cells have an internal resistance, so that rapid discharge will create heating, quite how effective this might be I don't know, all of this relates the maxim 'a 10 degree Centigrade/Celsius increase in temperature doubles the rate of a chemical reaction' which is why electrical cells work so poorly at low temperatures - a factor very much effecting electric vehicles.

    • @andrzej3511
      @andrzej3511 Месяц назад +2

      @@pcka12 As the flight of this plane showed, somehow the battery did not freeze. And I bet dollars against peanuts that no one did any sealing of the battery. Why? Because the battery heats up when under load...
      And rather, the battery needs to be cooled rather than heated or particularly protected against frost. I am absolutely sure that PIR foam is a completely sufficient solution in this case.

  • @suburbangorilla5515
    @suburbangorilla5515 4 дня назад

    Shocking beauty.

  • @DSAK55
    @DSAK55 Месяц назад +7

    Would have expected the propeller to be larger given the altitude

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 Месяц назад +2

      I would expect no propeller at all. It can fly for a week, anyway. Why stay up any longer?

  • @k1ng401
    @k1ng401 19 дней назад

    Brilliant!

  • @cleisonarmandomanriqueagui9176
    @cleisonarmandomanriqueagui9176 3 дня назад

    Amazing

  • @Frickolas
    @Frickolas 23 часа назад

    We've seen solar panels put on the tops of wings, but I wonder how effective solar panels on the bottom of this airplane would be with all the light bouncing off of the cloud layer.

  • @monostripeexplosiveexplora2374
    @monostripeexplosiveexplora2374 28 дней назад

    that is pretty awesome

  • @kwd-2023
    @kwd-2023 18 дней назад

    Awesome!

  • @jeneilpringle215
    @jeneilpringle215 2 месяца назад +36

    How did you keep the Electronics and control surfaces from freezing up?

    • @scyonyc
      @scyonyc Месяц назад +9

      Silicon coating. Simple solutions.

    • @pcka12
      @pcka12 Месяц назад +2

      And the battery functioning?

    • @scyonyc
      @scyonyc Месяц назад +4

      @@pcka12 ceramic heater. Be creative bra🍻👌

    • @pcka12
      @pcka12 Месяц назад +3

      @@scyonyc your ceramic heater requires electricity to function?

    • @scyonyc
      @scyonyc Месяц назад +2

      Do you run on Solar panels?!

  • @j.jarvis7460
    @j.jarvis7460 21 день назад

    what is the wind like that high?

  • @marcindubiel8795
    @marcindubiel8795 2 года назад +2

    Łączność z kamerami on-line czy zapis? A jak radzi sobie szybując na dużych wysokościach?

    • @Cloudless1
      @Cloudless1  2 года назад +1

      Tutaj zapis, możliwa jest transmisja na żywo. Wszystko zależy od rodzaju misji. Radzi sobie wyśmienicie :)

  • @alialias3913
    @alialias3913 6 дней назад

    Is that large screen ?

  • @rocksnot952
    @rocksnot952 3 дня назад

    Nice model airplane.

  • @Workerbee-zy5nx
    @Workerbee-zy5nx Месяц назад +3

    Wow, from space to earth.

  • @lavericklavericklave
    @lavericklavericklave 24 дня назад +1

    what does this give you that a balloon doesnt?

  • @Kresnov
    @Kresnov 28 дней назад +29

    a flat earthers nightmare, love it.

    • @unrealmango
      @unrealmango 25 дней назад

      what 🤣🤣

    • @peterresetz1960
      @peterresetz1960 25 дней назад +2

      The Flat Earthers have many members from around the World.

    • @RUS38
      @RUS38 24 дня назад +7

      What are you even on about? That fish eye lens curve?🤣 LAMO that’s globehead’s nightmare

    • @RenoLaringo
      @RenoLaringo 24 дня назад +4

      Flat earthers make very nice dreams about fish-eye lenses mind you...

    • @TheRealRenn
      @TheRealRenn 22 дня назад +1

      Truly amazing how that globe spinning at ~1040mph below the drone had zero effect on the pin point landing.

  • @SolarWebsite
    @SolarWebsite 5 дней назад

    1:43 42 hPa? That's about 4% of normal atmospheric pressure here at the surface? That must make the aerodynamics interesting, I'm sure 😊

  • @Bajran_
    @Bajran_ 16 дней назад +1

    Dobra nazwa :)

  • @SQ9IWE
    @SQ9IWE 16 дней назад

    Do takich lotów trzeba miec juz nadajnik a-dsb ??

  • @lignatious
    @lignatious 13 дней назад

    such a wonder

  • @CosmicSlopVibrations
    @CosmicSlopVibrations 2 месяца назад +10

    Holy shit surprised this doesn’t have more views

    • @lowdt
      @lowdt 2 месяца назад

      becuase people still think earth is flat, belive that israel is defending itself and elections arent staged. this is a clowns planet. people like scientists in this video are the rare breed

  • @TheEragoon
    @TheEragoon 18 дней назад +1

    wonder how the GPS signal was lol

  • @alsaid9336
    @alsaid9336 6 дней назад

    كيف يمكن للبالون ان يحمل وزن الطائرة

  • @michaelwalsh7846
    @michaelwalsh7846 Месяц назад +7

    "Hey turn around" that's Earth where they are all killing each other!

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 Месяц назад +1

      They call it the Gun Hobby, or something like that. No guns, no killing, but they never got that copied. Stupid, huh?

  • @yxhankun
    @yxhankun Месяц назад +1

    love to do science.

  • @1966Hemi426
    @1966Hemi426 21 день назад +1

    That’s a tad over 400 ft.

  • @uwillnevahno6837
    @uwillnevahno6837 6 дней назад +2

    Where's the dome and the waters above flatheads?

    • @andreym325
      @andreym325 6 дней назад

      Where is earth curve?😂

    • @uwillnevahno6837
      @uwillnevahno6837 5 дней назад

      @@andreym325 literally in the video you flathead

  • @romeo5239
    @romeo5239 Месяц назад

    How did you communicate with it?

    • @Glitch_25
      @Glitch_25 Месяц назад +1

      It looks like the ELRS radio protocol

  • @travisfries
    @travisfries Месяц назад +1

    Looked like 900mHz antennas sticking out of the fuse.

    • @black_baron_net
      @black_baron_net 24 дня назад

      ☠BLACK BARON☠ For such high altitudes ... I presume mHz and not gHz. Well done Techies, communication and battery tech works ... even at -69°C👍

  • @AlemitoFilms
    @AlemitoFilms Месяц назад +2

    Cool video, unlike the bragging wannabe funny comments down here

  • @dipling.pitzler7650
    @dipling.pitzler7650 25 дней назад

    No permission needed for FL 600 ?

  • @SpideyVids
    @SpideyVids Месяц назад +3

    Oh, look, we can see the curve of the Earth just like people flying on Concorde could so the Earth is definitely NOT flat!
    Who knew? 😂👍

    • @Vtarngpb
      @Vtarngpb Месяц назад +5

      With the right lens, and the right angle, even a telephone pole can get curves 😉

    • @SpideyVids
      @SpideyVids Месяц назад +3

      @@Vtarngpb
      The Earth still isn't flat.

    • @crissd8283
      @crissd8283 28 дней назад +2

      If you watch the video, sometimes the horizon is concave and sometimes it is convex. The curve you see is from the wide angle lense that distorts the image. While the earth is round, this observation is certainly not proof of the roundness of the earth

  • @mlentsch
    @mlentsch 13 дней назад

    how do you get clearance for that?

    • @techtinkerin
      @techtinkerin 8 дней назад +3

      Just do it early in the morning 😂

  • @tobyadog
    @tobyadog 8 дней назад

    LoRa is incredible

  • @jaquu
    @jaquu Месяц назад +1

    What kind of permission you need?

    • @pcka12
      @pcka12 Месяц назад +1

      To go above 400 ft?

    • @jaquu
      @jaquu Месяц назад +1

      @@pcka12 To enter controlled airspace and above.

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 Месяц назад

      Are you aware that not everybody has your German mentality? Like, it is against the rules, so you NEVER even think about it? That is very very German. You are like todlers: ah, what they do is not allowed by mommy and dead! OMG! Call the FOO!
      Man, they did crowd funding and they BOUGHT that airspace. Yes, billions and billions of bitcoins. Now it is THEIRS, they can legally go to the moon. All airliners and spy planes must ask permission to those two weirdo's. Has it ever occurred to you, this could be TRUE? Your government is strange enough for this. Watch your presidents. Same thing. You all are pretty weird. Just saying.

    • @pettz18
      @pettz18 Месяц назад

      that’s why he flys while it’s cloudy and also the landing is foggy.
      As simple as that

    • @jaquu
      @jaquu Месяц назад

      @@pettz18Please do explain a little more

  • @DJI_Silesia
    @DJI_Silesia 2 месяца назад +1

    Prodrone dostarcza anteny widzę :)

  • @kennethschultz6465
    @kennethschultz6465 16 дней назад

    solar panels on all the surfases up..
    it go way higher then 21 km..

  • @ChristianHungary
    @ChristianHungary 23 дня назад

    😉👍

  • @omarjassar4650
    @omarjassar4650 Месяц назад

    How can a propeller work in the stratosphere ??

    • @ivankoval3540
      @ivankoval3540 Месяц назад +5

      Fly is on ~21 km. Kármán line is arpund 100 km. Нe was the first person to attempt to calculate a theoretical limit of altitude for airplane flight. At approximately this altitude the atmosphere becomes so thin that aerodynamic aviation becomes impossible.
      upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Atmosphere_layers.svg/255px-Atmosphere_layers.svg.png

    • @omarjassar4650
      @omarjassar4650 Месяц назад

      @@ivankoval3540 so the propeller is spinning but not doing anything else

    • @ivankoval3540
      @ivankoval3540 Месяц назад +2

      @@omarjassar4650 Not. The propeller is spinning and doing good work as well as wings, but not so effective as on the lower altitude.

    • @black_baron_net
      @black_baron_net 24 дня назад

      ☠BLACK BARON☠ 1:44 Pressure Indicator

  • @jumpingjacks5558
    @jumpingjacks5558 3 месяца назад +2

    That was awesome to see. I'm not sure if you are from a different country than I am but to pull off a flight like this one would have to have all the "Okays" from the FAA

  • @jimydoolittle3129
    @jimydoolittle3129 29 дней назад +1

    With the altitude you have …. Why you need a propulsion system ?😝

  • @antonydecosta6262
    @antonydecosta6262 12 дней назад

    Thats where all my data goes ...up in the cloud.... Planes like these do cloud transfer

  • @radiof8
    @radiof8 2 года назад

    śmigło od spaliny do elektryka?

    • @Cloudless1
      @Cloudless1  2 года назад

      Testujemy różne rozwiązania, które są odpowiednie dla warunków "bliskiego kosmosu".

    • @bogumiw9404
      @bogumiw9404 Год назад

      Doskonała robota!
      A film powinien zobaczyć każdy płaskoziemca!

  • @noserly
    @noserly 2 дня назад

    Show this to flat earthers.

  • @marcidannafpv
    @marcidannafpv 2 месяца назад

    😮😮😮❤👍👍🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

  • @st939
    @st939 29 дней назад +1

    This must be CGI, it's showing a round earth 😁😁

  • @user-gm7if5zv6e
    @user-gm7if5zv6e Месяц назад +1

    Кто заметил что в определенные моменты горизонт становится абсолютно ровным?

    • @GlennBeer
      @GlennBeer 3 дня назад

      The curve may be an artifact of the lens.

  • @Dynamitry
    @Dynamitry Месяц назад

    Antennas from Poland detected!

  • @Steve-sh9lj
    @Steve-sh9lj Месяц назад +2

    Was the done over American airspace? If so how did you obtain clearance for such altitudes

    • @voornaam3191
      @voornaam3191 Месяц назад

      Bean dear, seen dad, drone dead. You "gorfot" a question Marx. Hello, you can EDIT your typo.

  • @RenoLaringo
    @RenoLaringo 24 дня назад

    Ooh what a nice ball...

  • @Bonewerkz
    @Bonewerkz 22 дня назад

    And the motor acts as charger generator at whilst decending from the stratosphere...?

  • @be2the4out
    @be2the4out 20 дней назад

    looks pretty 'flat' to me :P

  • @deron616
    @deron616 6 дней назад

    Nie dobrze , na ujęciu ze zwolnienia balonu, widać ze ziemia nie jest ani kulisa ani płaska tylko WKLĘSŁA😮😮😮!!!! No to, żeście teraz chłopaki namieszali 😂😂

  • @a-nw7fk
    @a-nw7fk 2 месяца назад

    На такой высоте атмосфера разряжена, лопастям винтов незачто зацепиться, какой толк от него

    • @pcka12
      @pcka12 Месяц назад +5

      If the wings are working, why not the propellor?

  • @baldrickscunningplan6154
    @baldrickscunningplan6154 2 месяца назад +3

    Once you go flat.
    You never go back.

    • @sgtjonzo
      @sgtjonzo 29 дней назад +1

      usually because the meth addiction takes over

  • @psychiatry-is-eugenics
    @psychiatry-is-eugenics 21 день назад

    .

  • @mans4104
    @mans4104 22 дня назад +1

    I can not see any star.

    • @Bonewerkz
      @Bonewerkz 22 дня назад +1

      This is the stratosphere,not the outer space. There are several km of air between.

    • @mans4104
      @mans4104 22 дня назад +1

      @@Bonewerkz So...? , I can see the srtas from the ground .
      The reazon I can not see the stars is ther Sun light is too strong.

    • @evolicious
      @evolicious 16 дней назад

      @@mans4104 you need to learn how a camera works

    • @mans4104
      @mans4104 16 дней назад

      @@evolicious I know how a camera works.Was a trick question related to the moon landing.

    • @techtinkerin
      @techtinkerin 8 дней назад

      No, you still need to learn how a camera works 😂

  • @620ironwolf
    @620ironwolf Месяц назад +3

    They used a gas propeller on an electric airplane... I wonder the thought process behind that?

  • @Michael-oy3pz
    @Michael-oy3pz 19 дней назад

    Look the earth is flat 😂😂😂

  • @pistipisti9122
    @pistipisti9122 5 месяцев назад +3

    Flat!

  • @vincentyapmankeong3034
    @vincentyapmankeong3034 4 месяца назад +6

    Flat earth Real Yes

    • @josephinebennington7247
      @josephinebennington7247 Месяц назад +2

      How far to the edge? Why has no-one been there, filmed it and proved it?

    • @SpideyVids
      @SpideyVids Месяц назад +1

      @josephinebennington7247
      Exactly, they see the curve but they just can't admit it and blame the camera lens for bending a straight line but there was a guy who sent up a balloon with two Go Pros equipped with lenses that show straight lines as straight lines and curves as curves and the Earth was still curved much to Flat Earthers' chagrin.

    • @Omsip123
      @Omsip123 Месяц назад +2

      Grammar Real No

    • @Manfred-ml1oq
      @Manfred-ml1oq Месяц назад +2

      😂 lol nope

    • @caturlifelive
      @caturlifelive 25 дней назад

      😮

  • @henriks5008
    @henriks5008 Месяц назад

    Fake! Earth si flat!

  • @MalawijaSMITH
    @MalawijaSMITH 17 часов назад

    Boże co to za ulep znowu?!

  • @lostinthedesert6149
    @lostinthedesert6149 18 дней назад

    The fisheye lens elastic horizon effect.
    Is it a ball from the inside
    Is it flat
    Is it a ball from the outside
    Is it all horseshit

  • @georgka74
    @georgka74 20 дней назад

    In the old days the " space" was begining At 100 km.... but today its at 20 km... hahaha....

  • @siribiriz
    @siribiriz 7 дней назад +1

    Nice definitely proves my suspicions of how flat the earth truly is ❤🥏