There was some great glider stuff you did years ago that was excellent watching. I'd totally love to see some more of that. That build challenge you did with David was such a fun episode. Totally worth revisiting.
That build was a LOT more stable than I was expecting. How translucent is the mylar you used to wrap the formers for the donut ring? I was wondering if LEDS would be visible through the coating
Ahhh, "Flight of the Navigator" such an under rated film and featuring the great Pual (Peewee) Rubins as Max with a moniker last name because of the incident at an adult theater. 😊
This one is amazing! Great work Gents. If you could more fully retract the gear it would look even more amazing but so fantastically fun to watch. Thank you for the work.
That was awesome! What are the chanceabilities of making one similar, but turning the back of the plane into the front? The front would be fixed with a very short nose. Turn the circle wing around putting your lift up front. Keep the left and right horizontal stabilizers and short stationery rudder in the rear. The short wheel stance stays up front as well and the rear wheel becomes a much shorter tail dragger. Oh yeah, keep it silver. I think this would make for an even more alien looking spacecraft.
I would love to see a Big Klingon War Bird, I remember an episode log ago with a small Klingon War Bird, maybe it lends itself to edf's... Great Job guys
A weekly build-off of all the FT planes in order of release and then some flying challenge the team members have to do with their plane would be something I'd watch.
Would love to see a "Zepplin-esq" version of this.....leave front and rear open.....all engines and thrust inside......control surfaces on the outside. ( think hollow flying cigar ) Keep up the awesome dream
OMG 'Flight of the Navigator' .. Thankyou!! I remembered bits of the movie from childhood but didn't know the name of it...Yes Please do it.! Thankyou.
one of you made a comment during the video about the age of zeppelins . I say do a zeplin inspired ring wing ticking most of your control surfaces towards the inner part of it
Rigid airship, please. Make it so that mylar party balloons fit in between the spars and those will hold your helium. It doesn't need to be fully buoyant, I would bet. In fact, it might not really need lifting gas at all. And, if it doesn't float too much, it would be able to glide.
Could you take that orbit and change out the thrust. Instead of the props could you use something like the dyson bladeless fan? And a not an impellor but an ionic pulse thruster to move the air into the output?
it's flying so good! we'll done guys! I have suggestion about the next project... can you guys make the ship from the movie Internals... that big chip like ship😁
You guys should have an FL-XT kit build off to see who can build the biggest flying 1100kv motor build. These would need to be a similar lifting body to the flight of the navigator spaceship.
Ok, I would love to see you guys take another try at an X-Wing! You guys did a video a long time ago, but the plane didn't fly well. So an x-wing the flies like a plane (not a quad-copter).
That thing would look amazballs if you painted the circular wing spars black, wired it with LEDS then covered it in a semi transparent film. in fact set LEDS into the foam of the body then film over them so they are not visible unless lit
Couldn't you use a type of foam board that can be bent into a more organic circular shape with the use of a heat gun? Or would those types of materials be too dense or too heavy?
Could you guys do an informative video explaining the whole faa remote id situation and what it means right now? Keep hearing mixed things about being able to fly rc airplanes and not being able to. What does it all mean with the 250g weight limit? If i am flying under that, do i not have to worry about all of the new confusing stuff with the FAA?
@FliteTest How do you decorate the planes shown? What materials did you use to decorate? I just built my first tiny trainer glider out of two pizza boxes. Use your great plans! Put two pages on one A4 sheet to scale it down. Used same build techniques, though with uhu power glue (it's what I had). Used a little tape on some key areas to strengthen. Thinking of using a school (display or teaching) though would laser cut to avoid knife use. Glides well! Would like to fly it, but inner city UK so no go 🫤. THANKS SO MUCH for all you guys do.
There are a number of weird, sometimes-successful aircraft from the dawn of aviation from Italy, France, Russia and Germany Maybe make a Horten HO229 bat-wing fighter, some of the ridiculous Dornier flying boats, the Stipa-Caproni, Savoia-Marchetti S.66 twin-hull, the Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, etc.
You guys continue to be amazing 💪. This Old Man from Washington NC enjoying with my coffee ☕. Y'all have really come a long way in building your dreams. ✈️🧔💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
A flying saucer with wings and wing tip thrusters. Kinda like that first Romulan warbird but round. The standard saucer is cool too. A center cylinder with a surrounding disk. Quiet, slow, display pieces that hover around over some display having shoots out with tanks and such. Two operators, a pilot and a gunner? Ground stations, they're boring but... why can't I plug a joystick directly into a transmitter, why not two?
the circular wings look like a tortoise or snail shell if you put some eyes on the front ;) very gracile i would even fly with a bigger version of it looks pretty safe
maybe like a magneticaly locking charging cable hanging on a spool underneath a plane. the magnet on the cable could lock onto the charging port on another plane and charge it in-flight.
That thing looks so freaky. Especially with the silver skin. Very impressive. Pretty amazing how such a symmetrical hoop can still produce lift. Would it be even better with a more "wing-like" profile to the hoop? Like, more bulge on top, around the top, and more bulge in the middle on the bottom "wing"? hmm Might make things funky and unstable. I suppose something to experiment with smaller models.
wonderful episode, although I think you should go back to the roots a little and make some small or medium model like a kit or a build to inspire the kids to make. .ah those good old days I sat up all night making your models
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Guys, Dr Dave nailed it, “If you can dream it you can build it”!!! Totally incredible design, flying art!!👏👏👏👏
There was some great glider stuff you did years ago that was excellent watching. I'd totally love to see some more of that. That build challenge you did with David was such a fun episode. Totally worth revisiting.
So cool! Awesome transitions! Please build a Wright Flyer with wing warping!
You all should try to make a flying DeLorean from "Back to the Future"
You certainly should have added LEDs inside the ring...... full on UFO look!
The transitions in this episode are top tier, great job FT
Wow, very cool! You should make the front gear retract like the Rutan Long-EZ, there is plenty of fuselage for it to tuck into.
AliANsE ArE REaL!🛸🛸
That build was a LOT more stable than I was expecting. How translucent is the mylar you used to wrap the formers for the donut ring? I was wondering if LEDS would be visible through the coating
I'd love to see you try make a flying aircraft carrier again.😄 Thanks for the videos!
i love your videos, im trying to buy a build your own plane and i just dont know what to choose for the power pack/battery etc.
Ahhh, "Flight of the Navigator" such an under rated film and featuring the great Pual (Peewee) Rubins as Max with a moniker last name because of the incident at an adult theater. 😊
I've said it before and I'll say it again, you guys are my favorite RUclips channel!
Is that a low temperature Mono- Kote like film you are using?
Awesome ship! Y'all should revisit the Heli-Carrier! But make it bigger!
Dude at this point you are the gods of foam planes
Build a SIMITAR! Although I may be biased. See the Simitar thread under flying wings in RC Groups!
This one is amazing! Great work Gents. If you could more fully retract the gear it would look even more amazing but so fantastically fun to watch. Thank you for the work.
Now that's just cool! Very nice build, guys.
Doing minis again would be awesome. Maybe some 3d printed versions as well?
That was awesome! What are the chanceabilities of making one similar, but turning the back of the plane into the front? The front would be fixed with a very short nose. Turn the circle wing around putting your lift up front. Keep the left and right horizontal stabilizers and short stationery rudder in the rear. The short wheel stance stays up front as well and the rear wheel becomes a much shorter tail dragger. Oh yeah, keep it silver. I think this would make for an even more alien looking spacecraft.
I would love to see a Big Klingon War Bird, I remember an episode log ago with a small Klingon War Bird, maybe it lends itself to edf's...
Great Job guys
I use drywall screws installed with a screw driver to hold various foam sheet’s together while the glue sets, remove after the glue cures!
A weekly build-off of all the FT planes in order of release and then some flying challenge the team members have to do with their plane would be something I'd watch.
You guys should do a larger version of the twin sparrow, or an xl sparrow. Maybe using the electronic parts from the booming flerken.
y'all need a modest size little steel building for these bigger projects. love the design of the orbit
I would love to see the Sea Duck come back in some fashion.
That is outstanding, you need to cover it in LED's. Great work everyone
Would love to see a "Zepplin-esq" version of this.....leave front and rear open.....all engines and thrust inside......control surfaces on the outside. ( think hollow flying cigar )
Keep up the awesome dream
Whatever happened with the Iron Vulture from Tale Spin you guys were working on?
OMG 'Flight of the Navigator' .. Thankyou!! I remembered bits of the movie from childhood but didn't know the name of it...Yes Please do it.! Thankyou.
I'm really digging your Iron Giant, and great content!
I was hoping that you could help me find which box/ package has the wood screws, x-mount and smaller screws on the DH.98 Mosquito bundle
Please, do a Monster Spitfire build and fly video. That would be amazing to watch. Monster Series is great!
I would love to see a flerkin with a completely pointy knose. See if the speed and aerodynamics would improve.
Oh that was awesome!!!! It seems very stable in flight. Great job!!!
Reminds me of the box kites I flew when was much younger.
Did the landspeeder ever work with people in it?
Final chapters in completion of land speeder are in the works now. Really cool stuff coming up.
That Blender needs to be revisited. An XL size would equally be nice.
RC Battlefield with the mighty minis and the zepplin: part II
one of you made a comment during the video about the age of zeppelins . I say do a zeplin inspired ring wing ticking most of your control surfaces towards the inner part of it
How about having another go at the marvel shield carrier with landing on it
Best glue for foam is: FOAM FUSION
Cheers
Rigid airship, please. Make it so that mylar party balloons fit in between the spars and those will hold your helium. It doesn't need to be fully buoyant, I would bet. In fact, it might not really need lifting gas at all. And, if it doesn't float too much, it would be able to glide.
I was surprised just how nervous Bixler was to fly this, Yall crushed it!
Thank You!!! There were a lot of unknows 🤣
Could you take that orbit and change out the thrust. Instead of the props could you use something like the dyson bladeless fan? And a not an impellor but an ionic pulse thruster to move the air into the output?
You guys should become chiropractors with that snap at 2:35!
it's flying so good! we'll done guys! I have suggestion about the next project... can you guys make the ship from the movie Internals... that big chip like ship😁
That's awesome, could you get one of the drones to fly through the ring mid flight 🤔
You guys should have an FL-XT kit build off to see who can build the biggest flying 1100kv motor build.
These would need to be a similar lifting body to the flight of the navigator spaceship.
Reminds me of the Starfield star born ship
Ok, I would love to see you guys take another try at an X-Wing!
You guys did a video a long time ago, but the plane didn't fly well. So an x-wing the flies like a plane (not a quad-copter).
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I've made one, but would love to challenge you guys to build one (or a fleet) too!
Great Job! Next generation use 3 of pods and vtol no landing gear.
That thing would look amazballs if you painted the circular wing spars black, wired it with LEDS then covered it in a semi transparent film. in fact set LEDS into the foam of the body then film over them so they are not visible unless lit
Did you reverse the air foil on the lower half of the circle to have the lift the same as the upper half? It is an amazing site flying.
That was fantastic!
You should enlarge some more EZ birds, like the Hornet.
Wicked ship!! Flies beautiful :D How about an Arkanstol FPV game/competition? :D
I always wanted a R/C skydiver. With drones now aways it should be easier to do.
Make a flight of the navigator ship like my boy brought up..!!!!!💯🔥🔥
That Flew Awesome Guys... Woo Hoo...!!!
Couldn't you use a type of foam board that can be bent into a more organic circular shape with the use of a heat gun? Or would those types of materials be too dense or too heavy?
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG YESSSSSS PLEASE!!!!!!!
Love it guys, great job!!
How did Flite Test determine the the lift??? 👍✈️👍
Could you guys do an informative video explaining the whole faa remote id situation and what it means right now? Keep hearing mixed things about being able to fly rc airplanes and not being able to. What does it all mean with the 250g weight limit? If i am flying under that, do i not have to worry about all of the new confusing stuff with the FAA?
Cool. Although I wish they focused more on consumer builds
Back to the older one part videos awesome
Needs a handle on the back so you can use it for an air scooter like those underwater scooters.
Why didn't you use a lifting airfoil on the circular wing?
Pretty awesome. I love seeing how excited you guys get when these crazy planes work!
Never gets old. :)
@FliteTest How do you decorate the planes shown? What materials did you use to decorate?
I just built my first tiny trainer glider out of two pizza boxes. Use your great plans! Put two pages on one A4 sheet to scale it down. Used same build techniques, though with uhu power glue (it's what I had). Used a little tape on some key areas to strengthen. Thinking of using a school (display or teaching) though would laser cut to avoid knife use. Glides well! Would like to fly it, but inner city UK so no go 🫤. THANKS SO MUCH for all you guys do.
That was a Great movie!
There are a number of weird, sometimes-successful aircraft from the dawn of aviation from Italy, France, Russia and Germany Maybe make a Horten HO229 bat-wing fighter, some of the ridiculous Dornier flying boats, the Stipa-Caproni, Savoia-Marchetti S.66 twin-hull, the Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, etc.
Amazing video lots of love
Does it have to fly tail heavy? Looks like a big Pacifier
Amazing😃👌 I think Skunk Works at Area 51 is going to have to pay you money for this aircraft design.
Do Lone Star's flying Winnebago 😁😁
Does the aura work for quads too?
Now I have to find Flight of the Navigator and rewatch it after all this time!
Don't know if you've done it before but how about an actual flying saucer?
You guys continue to be amazing 💪. This Old Man from Washington NC enjoying with my coffee ☕. Y'all have really come a long way in building your dreams. ✈️🧔💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
Congrats 👍
A flying saucer with wings and wing tip thrusters. Kinda like that first Romulan warbird but round. The standard saucer is cool too. A center cylinder with a surrounding disk. Quiet, slow, display pieces that hover around over some display having shoots out with tanks and such. Two operators, a pilot and a gunner? Ground stations, they're boring but... why can't I plug a joystick directly into a transmitter, why not two?
WAY too Cool guys !
You guys need a crane to lower big modles over the balcony...
When are you going to make another video about the hovercraft
Hover craft is coming back brother! Exciting episodes ahead. :)
Hope Josh is feeling better! He was looking really green in the title pic
does the flite test shop ship to nz?
the circular wings look like a tortoise or snail shell if you put some eyes on the front ;) very gracile i would even fly with a bigger version of it looks pretty safe
you should try make a way to in-flight charge another rc plane.
maybe like a magneticaly locking charging cable hanging on a spool underneath a plane. the magnet on the cable could lock onto the charging port on another plane and charge it in-flight.
It would be cool to have another Star Wars project again
How about y’all resurrect one your first giant builds? I’m thinking… the fowl flyer? 😉
How can i find out the cg 🤔
This is amazing
I want to see Cleatus McFarland drive the speeder around the freedom factory.
We do to! Maybe we can help make that happen :-)
That thing looks so freaky. Especially with the silver skin. Very impressive.
Pretty amazing how such a symmetrical hoop can still produce lift. Would it be even better with a more "wing-like" profile to the hoop?
Like, more bulge on top, around the top, and more bulge in the middle on the bottom "wing"? hmm
Might make things funky and unstable. I suppose something to experiment with smaller models.
So it’s a ducted fan with a wing around it?
wonderful episode, although I think you should go back to the roots a little and make some small or medium model like a kit or a build to inspire the kids to make. .ah those good old days I sat up all night making your models
Now it's time to go with a faster motor. 😁
Mount some full auto nerf guns to a plain. And strafe a nerf battle. I think that could be fun.