The Bow and ArrowPlane
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2018
- Today Alex Stefan and Jeremy see if they can make an airplane glider out of an arrow shaft and shoot it from a bow!
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As an archer and an aviation enthusiasts I love this video. I have actually used dammaged arrows to reinforce wings in my builds.
itwaslikethatwhenigothere trying to figure out if my compound will work or if the crossbow will be the best
Mmmmmmm I’m doing this with my compound bow
You can also make pretty decent bows out of PVC pipe. You melt the limbs with a heat gun or stove and taper them out. Awesome vid like usual flite test! I've been inspired to give this a go now!
I have tried to in courage Flite test to do more with Rockets but for some reason they just won't...
@@unorec1983 im a little bit late to this, but using a crossbow would be better since you dont lose any velocity to newtons third law
I like how it would have flown further if they had just left it an arrow.
Hmm...might keep that in mind for the Skittle challenge.
Make really tiny wings and tail..so no drag...forget the control surface...then shoot! LOL
Probably! I hunt with a 90lb draw compound and have made shots at targets 300 feet away. Please note, I didn't say I HIT the target consistently at that distance, but the arrows did carry that far!
Similar to the flight distance challenge my tenth grade science teacher set up for us. Come up with something that will fly as far as possible which weighed under so many grams/ounces, no power to it, had to be thrown. Had a couple of boys team up to solve the problem. Most of us made something. I came in with a giant balsa wood biplane glider that was really nothing more that a few sheets of balsa wood , some putty on the nose for weight, and some 1/8" strips of balsa wood for the struts. It was about 2 1/2' to 3' long with an equal size wingspan. If I'd had a good wind, or any wind actually, I'd have probably done better, think I managed between 15 and 20 feet. These two, however, came up with one of the heaviest "designs". A baseball, unmodified. Yup, it "flew" further than my design, or any design. They certainly didn't get any style points for that since they didn't do anything, but they did meet the criteria. The challenge didn't actually say you had to make something, just come up with something.
90lb is pretty strong for a lady isn't it?
When the plane launched just prior to the end of the video and cheers erupted after landing, all I could think of was the phrase that Tom Hanks shouted in the movie Castaway: *"I...HAVE MADE...FIRE!"* :-D
Congratulations Alex (and team) on a superb build!!! :-)
Get Jörg Sprave's mind going on this.
Soon enough you'll be launching ANY plane.
Or put some holes in them
Yes yes yes
There are lots of planes that are launched with sling shots already. Lots of high speed wings for example that need speed to be controllable.
Including a full-scale 747!
its not the builds i watch for, its the camaraderie and the passion that gets me in every time
"a little" bit of dyhedral
thats at least 30 degrees
Crossbow, it’s perfect
Shut up takumi
rc car glider tow next??
Drive On YES!! DO IT!!
we have a HPI Savage 4.6 that we don't know what to do with.. just sayin..
Drive On do it glider tow with rc car that will be awesome
See old NASA footage of souped up Pontiac convertible with rollbar towing M2F1 into air on Edwards dry lake. I DO think you should DO it R/C. It's gotta good ignorance/mayhem factor built in. At least a 7 on the Stefan hysterical laughter scale.
Yeee haaaw that would be awesome!
I guess you could call it a Boeing arrow.
😠
noice
Or an Arrowplane
Good idea
@jasper frame's idea is better than the arrowplane pun
Will you guys be building a dirt pile at the new location?
LOL!!! YES excellent. Flite Test needs a dirt pile. With a bucket of dirt from the original dirt pile.
Ha you never know ;) not a bad idea eh? 😂
More likely they will build a Dirt Pile Plane!
As an avid archer I've got to say that custom made bow was the coolest part of this video, for me
Man, I'll try not to let this get sappy, but I'm a couple beers deep so brace yourselves...
Growing up, I was a total nerd, which is apparently cool nowadays, but where I grew up that was definitely not a term of endearment. Instead, it was more likely to get you shoved into walls and watching over your shoulder for the next unexpected and unprovoked aggression from someone who was at least 50lbs heavier than yourself. I love all things aircraft and R/C, and always have, and some of my best friends and best memories are all R/C-related in some way. My best childhood memories with my dad were going to the local fly-in on Memorial Day each year, and seeing all the amazing aircraft that we could never afford, but I wished and hoped I would some day have for myself.
Fast forward, and after years of studying and struggle and perseverance, I got two degrees in engineering, ending with a masters' in aerospace engineering. I now have a job for a great aerospace agency that has always inspired me, and yet... I see your videos and it brings a tear of joy to my eyes (I warned you this would get sappy...) And the reason is... never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined a channel dedicated to friends flying and testing the zaniest R/C aircraft would get so many viewers and see so much success. You guys are doing exactly what my closest friends and I used to do, building things for the love and fun of it, and trying to make it fly... and laughing the whole way whether it works or not! For me, watching your videos is a dose of nostalgia, laughter, and this wonderful warm feeling I get from seeing that dorks like me building wacky R/C aircraft are not only having a great time with it, but also getting so much love from other people enjoying it too! (850K subscribers... I mean... WOW!)
I'm so happy to see your success with this channel, and enjoy watching your videos so much. I have it pretty good now, but I'm living one of my dream lives through all of you vicariously. You're all awesome, and even though I've never met any of you I still feel like you'd be some of my best friends in another life. Thanks so much for your channel and keep on bringing smiles to all of the other R/C nerds of the world!
Thank you for the kind words and congrats on what sounds like an amazing journey through aviation! Not sure where you are located, but you should make it out to Flite Fest one of these years... FF is just like this video, 'cept there are about 7000 people in on the project...You would love it. Hope to fly with you one day! Thanks for sharing your story. -Alex
Just get sober before you have to go to work.
Ditto man, I echo you thoughts almost exactly! FT is a joy to watch and my favorite channel.
I only likes it cuz it was so long, I didn’t read it, can someone sumorise this for me in a fee words plz
I like how Jeremy is in front of the camera more often now. He adds an all new personally to the main video crew. PS, it's also relaxing to watch someone that isn't hyper and screaming with excitement for the the whole video. ; )
I agree
I'd love to see a "scrap foam build off". 3 builders, 4 hours (or less), all the unused scrap foam you want. Cut offs, end pieces, you can use a glue gun, BBQ skewers and popsicle sticks only. Lastly, there can be one extra 15 minutes before launch to make flight adjustment then an winner takes all smash up derby.
Dear FliteTest. I have a challenge for you. You know those flexible pipes used with portable airconditioners and such? You take two of those and mount them parallel, about a meter apart, put some engine inside each one. Stiffen them up a bit, and use their bendyness with some servos to control it. Could you make that work?
1:03
"I've got BOWth my wings.."
I'M DYING
SwagLyfe lol I didn’t see that
STEFAN! God ble.... Go... God bles.... Bless y.... okay quarentine that man!
Wow ever wonder how relevant this comment nowadays?
Not certain it aged well or horribly, but age it certainly did.
Wright brothers: *spent a lot of time and effort trying to get airborne*
Flite Test: *attaches foam to an arrow and it flies*
As an archer and a pilot I was laughing my a** off. You boys crack me up. Looks like I’m off to the basement to find a knackered arrow and fire up the glue gun.............. :)
Wicked
You're on! I want my skittles :)
Husky Studios haha game on ;)
I love how you get a celebration out of every slight win
I could smash that distance with my 30 pound bow and an arrow without wings. Love your work boys keep it up
Very cool! now for the compound bow!
Oh this is NICE! Thansk for the video.
Maybe a suggestion for part 2, make a crossbow stand (maybe even with a ratchet) so you can really launch it and have some glide time.
But then again that might not be a simple build.
I wish I had friends like that to share the hobby with!!! Lucky guys.
I made one of these, and after a few adjustments and globs of hot glue it flew great! I hope to see more like this.
One flaw in the challenge ..... whoever uses the highest mountain wins ! For a "level playing field" , it needs to be a level playing field ! And you need to specify a minimum amount of wing area .... add VERY TINY wings to an arrow and it will go VERY FAR .
You should team up to make one with that cool dude who makes the rubber band powered/ folding rocket planes!
VTEC kickt in yooooo
Would love to see a challenge to launch a craft from a Trebochet - Most likely a re-inforced Goblin or similar (to withstand the G-forces)
3 parts to the challenge.
1 - Build an effective Trebochet.
2 - the craft needs to survive the launch, and should reach a suitable altitude that would encourage a panic state as it starts it's free-fall.
3 - operator only gets to control the craft from a certain height from the ground to recover and dive bomb a nearby target.
EXTRA POINTS: Do it with under Glide conditions - Competitor with longest glide wins after gaining control from freefall.
This was by FAR my favorite video on your channel! Please do more!! :D The whole taking garbage and making it fly is amazing and so much fun.
Plans? Making gliders from arrow shafts sounds like a fun build!
@ 6:12 Josh says enthusiastically: “ She cuts through the air like buhtta!”, and proceeds to demonstrate that the ground is not buhtta. :)
VERY CRAZY IDEA ! EXCELLENT !
I dont know why, but the whole sneezing episode thing at 9:20 made me lol.
Now I'm wondering if it would be possible to do a bow powered airplane. Like how some planes use a twisted rubber band for power. Maybe have an arrow with teeth along the top edge that turn a gear that then turns a propeller? Sounds like a good project for Peter? :D
Just for fun, you should minimize a wing that actually provides some lift. The tail should just be feathers! Just to see how far you can improve on arrow distance. You may have just re-invented the arrow!
I purchased a box of arrows from a sporting goods store they are perfect wing spars.Have been using the same box of shafts for several years. Even if you total the plane strip off foam and rebuild the plane. These were fairly inexpensive arrows black composite shafts, the end that you thread the tips to has an plastic insert with a 4-40 threaded hole. 4-40threaded rod available from LHS or home center connects two shafts together for wing spars or keel beam in fuselage. Leave a gap between the two shaft ends and bend the threaded rod add dihedral
to the two shaft spar. I like arrow shafts..
reminded me of airplane golf! go for round 2?
Cerebral Dad I loved the FTGGNEAL as a frisbee golfer
Brian Scidmore I subbed to u will u sub to me
Cerebral Dad yes please do another glider golf one!! Was awesome! Fun to play when you go play disc golf and glider golf, it's alot of fun.
This is the flite test I know and love! Building crazy planes and flying them. So much better than the reviews
Please put an engine on that glider and see how well it flies. Would like to see if it would make a good DIY motorised glider build. Thanks for the fun video ;-)
thats cool, even without the bow, put a motor on that puppy and thats gotta be a go-er, love it
You're gonna need a bigger bow...
High forces over a small distance give a very high acceleration on launch which will have a tendency to rip the wings off so they've got to be strong. Batteries especially need to be secured very tightly!
See? This is why I love gliders over powered. It never gets old...
Ok. This is more like it. That sincere enthusiasm. And, back to basics. Good. Keep it up. I'd still like to see some new videos on flying reasonably priced drones like the DJI Phantom 3 or 4. I just know you'd try to push it to the limit. And, that'd be great! Please!
Pushing the boundaries of bow and arrow flight,that bow was nicely made from Hickory.
With catapult launched gliders (CLGs) you balance it (as you did) for a flat gliding flight. Typically one will launch the glider so that the speed of the plane will be greater at launch than at gliding speed.
At a higher speed a plane that has lift will curve up into a stall if launched with level wings, and either dive into the ground or fly in a series of stalls.
Free flight CLGs are often launched with the wings at an angle to the ground so that rather that going into an upward arc the plane will fly in an arc between perpendicular to the ground and parallel with the ground: this will give you height, but rather than stalling the plane will level out into a glide.
A few tips for gliders: first, when they are that small, I recommend that you remove the paper from the top of the wing and sand it into a sort of airfoil, and that will improve the glide ALOT. Also, the wing leading edge should be swept back slightly so that the wingtip has a smaller cord than the wing root and thus decreases tip losses like vortices. And lastly, instead of a barbecue skewer going over the top of the wings, try cutting a dihedral brace from plywood to go IN the wing where the center join is. And lastly, technically because lift:drag ratio is always equal to the glide ratio, a heavy plane could glide very well if it were very low drag.
Heavier plane = greater lift needed to stay airborne = greater coefficient of lift for any given velocity = greater induced drag = worse L/D
Precisely! Which is why I said "if it were very low drag". For example, the NXT Stream DLG has such a low drag airframe that it has almost the exact same glide ratio at 220 grams as at 600 grams. I believe at 220 its sink rate is 28 cm/sec, and at 600 its sink rate is 30 cm/sec
L/D and minimum sink are totally different.
Low weight will give low minimum sink and LD can be maximized with ballast to give a longer distance flown v height lost.
Right. Well I don't wanna get into an argument. You are right on all accounts; I misspoke. My main point was simply that, generally speaking(at least in my experience) light-weightness has VERY little to do with how a glider glides. That's all. You can check out some of the glider vids on my channel if you wanna see my gliders. Nothing fancy, just balsa DLGs. :) cheers!
More money more problems
FT guys: OMG, its flying! I cant believe its flying, this is a child hood dream
Peter: well that was uneventful
That's the kind of irresponsible mashup of 2 hobbies I like to see . Love it ;)
Guillows makes a rubber band launch glider where the wings fold so it can go faster up to altitude and when it slows they unfold and glides. This project needed folding wings.
Was going to study but couldn't stop watching your video.
You should plant cottonwood trees along your property line, you'll have a fully operational windblocker within a few years.
Maybe try it with a crossbow or a ballista instead of a normal bow? That’s sort of what you were making with your leg. ;)
And this whole idea is cool; it’s a catapult or rail launch at the hobby scale! Could we be seeing an OS2U in the near future?
Hold on a sec... did you take into account the benefit the elevated launch point gave you ? Either way, keep these coming.. AWESOME stuff !!
Crazy idea here, B-1 lancer type wings. but for the opposite effect, Wings closed for take off (reduced drag better pitch control on takeoff and greater transfer of momentum) open wings using a snubbing servo to allow for maximum lift through all airspeeds of the flight.
If you have a wide wing you lose alot of energy on take off and you dont get full speed from the bow but you glide slower and "farther" but if you have closed wings, less drag you can fly at incredible speeds for a long distance but with limited lift most of the time these are called "arrows" when we shoot them out of a bow.
Fellas ! Nice vid !
Make one of those ancient massive spear/ arrow launchers .. you know . Wooden wheels and whatever .. each make a glider .. furthers wins
hit your second hand stores like goodwill, and buy golf clubs made with carbon fiber shafts usually around $ 3.00, i used them to build planes, gliders. good luck, ron
I turned a bolt into a glider and fired it a few times from a crossbow that I made using a sinew backed ash prod that can shoot 1,000 grain bolts 400 yards. It was scary. The hickory bow you were using was a bit too whippy tillered. Bring more bend in towards the handle.
Thank you for the dry fire warning! I hate it when people do that :)
Well played, Jeremy Longbow. Huzzah!
And this is why I love flitetest
This is real entertainment. It is educational and just fun to watch!
I am loving this current phase of "turn cheap Walmart toys into planes" :)
There's one problem with the challenge.
You went up a hill and you didn't set any rules for that. I think I could throw a simple paper plane further than that as long as the mountain is high enough.
Awesome plane flite test
The fun just never ends!
Challenge accepted. My arrowplane will have no wing, just feathers for a tail an no servos or RC gear. So, in other words, it will just be an arrow and therefore will fly much further than yours ;)
That's exactly the way Wright Brothers flew for the first time :)
Perhaps a crossbow would work better? Ideally a compound one...
Or, maybe a slingshot? That wouldn't be as novel though
you could totally use this as a slope soaring plane, even a powered glider if you put an EDF in the V in the center
Damn...the good ol'days are back..keep it up guys.
Pure entertainment!!! Flight Test gang ROCKS!!!
"The ancient sport of bow & arrowplanes" - you gotta admit: Alex is the master of weird wordglobulations! ^_^
about time the notifications started again!
The sneezing had me on the floor laughing
You paid $20 for THAT! Jeeze! I thought Wal-Mart were supposed to sell cheap!
Perhaps for a future build you can draw inspiration from this concept to make a plane launch system like they use on Aircraft carriers.
Add a motor to it next! I wanna see how it flies!
Maybe have it start as an arrow and then the wings and stuff deploy, like Aang's staff in Avatar or like the javelin missile Petersripol did! I feel like that would look really cool, and might make firing it easier
A compound crossbow would make it a lot easier to launch, but a smaller glider might yield a better result, like Uncle Rico chucking a lawn dart.
Wouldn't a compound bow shred the plane to pieces with the amount of power they have?
You guys have the coolest job ever
When I was about 7 I had a slingshot glider. The wings folded back for launch and the swung open with a rubber band. A swing wing glider, might be an idea you could use.
pra mim é o melhor canal de aeromodelismo ! estão de parabéns! aprendo muita coisa aqui, mesmo sem intender inglês.
Fantastic episode!
Now make a plane that can fire arrows in the air and play darts😙 PS keep up the good work!
That first arrow shot physically hurt
Maybe for the build-challenge you can make the plane follow a two (or more) turn slalom course to avoid the 'arrow' shot winner? :-)
I turned a bolt into a glider and shot it a few times with my one of my crossbows. It's quite a bit more powerful than your Walmart bow.
Oh man! You should try to do a foldable wing one! just like the rocket powered planes you know...
I’m up here cheering and my wife comes up stairs “what’s happening..... o”
I love these videos I’m making a ballista challenge excepted
Old toy. Little plane fired from catapult with folding wings. The wings are elastic band powered and snap out after the plane is shot. Used to fire one of those about the same distance and it cost less than 50p.
Search for guillows folding wing glider.
I have one in the garage lol!
Aren't there paper planes which go further anyway? Still 11/10 awesome!
Have you ever played Kerbal Space Program? You can make planes in that game, it also has a great modding community and is pretty simple to pick up.
'Duck's fly together' lol
Nice arrow plane dude.
The Smithsonian Institute's National Air and Space Museum used to sell the 'White Wings' you build it paper airplane sets and those used a simple slingshot to launch with. Apparently there is a website that still sells the White Wing "kits" but Norton has the website flagged for phishing, so if any of you decide to go there enter at your own risk.
You need a crossbow and a launch mode for the elevator to compensate for the huge speed difference between launch and gliding. IMO
You could tape little paper wings on a regular arrow and shoot it correctly and go farther. Also you went 182 ft because of the starting height. Apples to apples we need to know how high the starting point was from where the plane landed. Imo you should have to go farther than a normal arrow can go before the challenge even begins.
You need folding wings for the launch...
We had catapult gliders with folding wings in the 1960's that would survive the launch from a 45 lb pull longbow.