You need to film whoever owns that truck calling their insurance company " No, really a baby flew into the back of my truck". Thanks for the laugh. You guys are awesome.
George Leite i actually had a hit and run with a deer when my car was parked and empty! 😬 the deer rad across four lanes of traffic barely missing two moving cars running into the parking lot. The deer slid across the hood of my car before doing a backflip into the windshield of the car next to me, the horns also punctured the side panel. The deer than got up and ran away. The only damage to my car was a trail of fur across the hood of my car, the car next to mine wasn’t so lucky!
My dad was a supervisor at Eglin in the mid 60s when the 1st SOW was experimenting with Skyhook, I believe on C-123s. When they did experiments like this, airmen could volunteer for an experiment and be given a day off as a reward. Well, my dad had this one troop who wasnt all that useful when he was there and he would volunteer for every test program they had. Which worked out OK cause he wasnt missed all that much. Well, Skyhook came along and this guy signed up to test it (tbh it sounds kinda fun, I might have done that too). They suited him up, sat him on the test range, flew in, snagged the cable and... the winch broke. For about 2 hours this guy was flopping around at 5,000' over western Florida being centrifuged vertically behind a C-123 while a couple of technicians pounded on the winch. They finally got him winched in and he got his day off - after a week in the hospital shifting his internal organs back into their original location. Apparently while in the hospital he was also cured of the "volunteer" thing...
I love flite test. It is the best channel for getting people inspired and believe me I am super inspired. Keep up the great work. Thank you very much for taking the time out of your busy lives to create content and introduce plethora of people into the hobby. Stay Safe
There was a similar project tried, if you trail a long rope behind you and fly in circles the rope will trace a spiral in the air, use a long enough rope and the center of the spiral will be effectively stationary, grab the end and winch up the package.
A few years ago there was a eagle that tried to "borrow" a couple of toddler's at a beach in new Hampshire, fortunately for the kids the eagle couldn't really carry their weight and dropped them after about ten feet.
Honestly, it would have been smarter to go with the line design instead of the balloon design. Baby steps instead of leaping straight to Fulton recovery system. Also did the van suffer any damage from baby strike?
That. Was. AWESOME! Some great action shots with plenty of laughter. In my mind, the obvious issue was of scale. A Skyhook is a balancing act. Poor Cabby was trying to skyhook an elephant, basically.
That's going to be fun explaining to the insurance company how that dent got in that black van. "Um well a doll baby hit it at high speed. how" ah well, .... it was tethered to a gigantic RC plane at the time...."
Really good video, as you have us accustomed to. I really think we need a "part 2" for this project. I want to see that baby save inside. Crazy part would be to get the baby inside the plane with the skyhook and the drop him again with a parachute.
@@SoCalTrooper no, we call d him Poops, and after working with him over years, he told me some stories, he was a character, he is now laid to rest next to my father at veterans cemetery.
Man, I've been eyeballing the Jackery stuff for a long time, probably the Explorer 240. Glad they're working well for you guys, I'm going to pick one up eventually for the utility. Fun video as well, but that's as-always! The sponsorship is kinda cool, this is one I'm actually INTERESTED in. GG!
Delivering the line “So unfortunately I had to kick his face off” in all earnestness while playing that clip was comedy gold to me. I legit had to pause the video. 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe an idea for a future video is make an aircraft carrier to a similar scale as the battleship, add arresting wires to it and arresting hooks to the planes and try to do an RC Carrier Landing.
If no one has mentioned it yet, the old cartoon Tailspin. Instead of dragging baby, how about pulling a sky surfing young bear that glides behind (RC controlled).
LMAO ..................that 'baby' bouncing off the ground behind Cabby was reminiscent of the motor boat scene in 'A weekend at Bernie's' .............too funny guys
make C-130 into AC-130 let me explain, so, there is the ac-130, with three different canons on it, a 25mm gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors, and a 105mm howitzer, for the gatling gun, use a airsoft machine gun, the bofors a nerf gun, and the howitzer a potato canon. :D good idea? *edit Also make a moving btr 80 as a target, maybe add a turret controlled by a separate controller, also control the AC-130 cannons with second control
I laughed so hard when he said "cut off the other wing tip". You guys are amazing. This was without a doubt the most perfectly amazing failure to date.
Full scale R/C has already been done. September 11, 2001 is a prime example of two radio control full size planes. Just sayin... and Epstein didn't kill himself.
man.......if you guys had led out with a toddler running around. conveniently forgetting to mention the doll....that would have been golden....lol. good work guys. thanks for another awesome post
The baby was not at actual scale. It was like trying to skylift an elephant. Would love to see you guys try it again with a smaller doll. Love your videos keep up the good work and never give up.
I love you guys! I wish I got to do this tech, fixer, maker, thing we love doing for a living. I do get to live vicariously through you. Thank you guys! Keep up great work!
New challenge from Argentina: Aerial Refuelling!! Meaning the Fuel Plane must transfer a battery to the "out-of-juice" plane for it to keep going with the new battery. :-) Great video btw! As all of them!!
can try you towing a bowling ball and making giant foam bowling pins? that could be great game! (yes I imagined this while watching "baby" drag the ground...)
Imagine being a CIA operative who gets needs exfil and is being chased by two Russian soldiers and then when they Catch up to him hesuddenly stops and says “sorry boys but I got a plane to catch” and then gets pulled up into the air never to be seen again.
Interesting fact the first man pulled into the air, was my dads brother Lt. Alexis Doster he is shown in your first clip at 1.34 here is a 40 second clip ruclips.net/video/FRu6ZxFAVU8/видео.html if you go to the clip and look at the eighth comment it explains a little more. Dave Doster
That was hilarious! Great job nailing that van then into the tent, priceless. I am so glad you got that tent. Looks awesome by the way. Could you guys make a concorde? Love to see that.
With the skyhook, you should have the grappler in the rear. Have the hook attached to a small parachute (like the parachute for the little green army men or a little smaller). Use that as a bobber for fishing, then when you fly by the hook line it will grab the cord and real in the baby or anything else you would like to wench in. For the winch itself instead of foam use something like spool from sowing thread or fishing line it shouldn't flex in the middle. I hope this helps. Love the concept.
that was hilarious ! please try it again !!! its an awesome concept, just needs some tweaking, it was really fun to watch, you guys are amazing at what you do. Would be really cool to see the sky-hook baby inside cabbie when it landed !!
This was awesome guys. I am going through all your beginner videos now as I want to get started with RC. I have an idea for you guys to build, the air force once had a concept for a 747 aircraft carrier. I think you guys should make it happen and deploy at least 2 RC's from the "747" RC already in the air. Keep living your passions!
Good try! A little rough on baby, though she came through with flying colors. The USAF Special Recon Forces actually used a similar technique to retrieve downed pilots at sea. I remember seeing a film (that's right a film, not a video) when I was a C.A.P. cadet back in the 70's. This took place at Pease Air Force Base. You might go back into their archives and see what you can find. BTW I love your videos. They're always entertaining.
I flew the MC130 IRL. The way it worked was the whiskers opened on the nose. The pilot caught the line and the whiskers closed and a catch held the rope. The victim went straight up and then trailed behind the acft. The loadmasters had a winch with a weighted hook shaped like a little bomb. They hooked the line and winched the line up to a capstan and hauled the victim in. The navigator opened the forward escape hatch and hooked the line to the balloon and cut it. The system was retired in '96. All the MC 130Es and MC 130Ps that were capable of Skyhook have been retired to the bone yard.
Cabbie is a retrofitted c119 flying boxcar which was produced through the 50’s and prominently used in Korea. One of the goofier looking planes but still a pretty cool plane
Best thing I’ve seen in a while. If this doesn’t blow up your Chanel more I don’t know what will!! Great job!!! Unless you are the baby then probably should rethink a few things 😂😂
As a Flitetest viewer for the past 8 years... that landing was one of the best moments of all time
Best FT quote. "Unfortunately I had to kick his face off" 😂😂😂
That emergency landing was surprisingly graceful all things considered 🤣 was the van OK?
😂
Ok guys, I really wanna know... Is there a baby-shaped dent in the back of the truck....?
Or a truck shaped dent in the baby?
@@lilhrabinator2283 hahahaha
Also possible baby shaped hole in the rear window.
Yea i also kinda want to see the aftermath of baby truck
@@lilhrabinator2283 olokk(onkkkkjkokooo9oko Ookkoooko k
You need to film whoever owns that truck calling their insurance company " No, really a baby flew into the back of my truck". Thanks for the laugh. You guys are awesome.
George Leite i actually had a hit and run with a deer when my car was parked and empty! 😬 the deer rad across four lanes of traffic barely missing two moving cars running into the parking lot. The deer slid across the hood of my car before doing a backflip into the windshield of the car next to me, the horns also punctured the side panel. The deer than got up and ran away. The only damage to my car was a trail of fur across the hood of my car, the car next to mine wasn’t so lucky!
Are we going to ignore the fact that the baby SLAMMED INTO THE FORD F150
Yea OMG.... Great Point.... I hope the baby is ok.
I loved that... Tree, truck, tent... boom..
Oh it's fine.... walk it off baby..
it's a ford, the truck probably blew up on impact
everyone be talking about how baby hit the truck but not baby hit the ground.
Josh: “All right give me a knife. I’m going to cut off the other wing tip.”
Andres: “What?.... We have hot glue!”
Flite Test: lets do skyhook.
Toy Baby: “I’m Batman!”
Yes!!!!
Nice crossover dude
Lolol
When you think about it, this is essentially a stork in reverse. ;-)
This was epic, and I’d love to see you guys fix the winch and have another try.
Maidening my first drone tomorrow. 😬. Wish me luck.
Footage will be on IG - @ollieflying
Good luck bro
you got it if its a five inch give yourself about 10 times more room then you think you'll need. they go way faster then you'll think
Good luck 👍
Good luck man🙃
@@switchflip9550 Great advice! My first flight was in my tiny backyard and lasted about 10 seconds 🤣
My dad was a supervisor at Eglin in the mid 60s when the 1st SOW was experimenting with Skyhook, I believe on C-123s. When they did experiments like this, airmen could volunteer for an experiment and be given a day off as a reward. Well, my dad had this one troop who wasnt all that useful when he was there and he would volunteer for every test program they had. Which worked out OK cause he wasnt missed all that much. Well, Skyhook came along and this guy signed up to test it (tbh it sounds kinda fun, I might have done that too). They suited him up, sat him on the test range, flew in, snagged the cable and... the winch broke. For about 2 hours this guy was flopping around at 5,000' over western Florida being centrifuged vertically behind a C-123 while a couple of technicians pounded on the winch. They finally got him winched in and he got his day off - after a week in the hospital shifting his internal organs back into their original location.
Apparently while in the hospital he was also cured of the "volunteer" thing...
I love flite test. It is the best channel for getting people inspired and believe me I am super inspired. Keep up the great work. Thank you very much for taking the time out of your busy lives to create content and introduce plethora of people into the hobby. Stay Safe
Baby hits the tree, baby hots the van, baby hits the tent. You guys have way too much fun. Thanks for sharing!
"the baby clipped a tree" *gets f*cking smashed into the back of a van and is ignored*
Oof
Really thou
There was a similar project tried, if you trail a long rope behind you and fly in circles the rope will trace a spiral in the air, use a long enough rope and the center of the spiral will be effectively stationary, grab the end and winch up the package.
Amber Alert
Minerva, Ohio
Infant last seen being taken by large foam aircraft resembling "Cabbie" from Planes 2. If seen, please call 911 immediately.
Lol
To funny!!!
XD
Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha
lol
World News: A toddler got swept up and carried in the air by a kite.
Flite Test: Hold my beer...
That kinda poped into my head 😁 glad the kid was ok not so sure about this baby tho 😂
I thought the same thing!!😂😂
Damn, you beat me to it, lol.
"Hold my transmitter"
A few years ago there was a eagle that tried to "borrow" a couple of toddler's at a beach in new Hampshire, fortunately for the kids the eagle couldn't really carry their weight and dropped them after about ten feet.
Honestly, it would have been smarter to go with the line design instead of the balloon design. Baby steps instead of leaping straight to Fulton recovery system.
Also did the van suffer any damage from baby strike?
That last line is super cursed.
Awesome that this dropped the same day the baby getting skyhooked by the kite did.. thankfully the 3 year old landed safely
"Guys.. That was super sketchy and pretty dangerous....."
"Just have Josh read a PSA about how safe we are on the end."
"SOLD"
That. Was. AWESOME! Some great action shots with plenty of laughter.
In my mind, the obvious issue was of scale. A Skyhook is a balancing act. Poor Cabby was trying to skyhook an elephant, basically.
That's going to be fun explaining to the insurance company how that dent got in that black van.
"Um well a doll baby hit it at high speed.
how"
ah well, .... it was tethered to a gigantic RC plane at the time...."
I actually lol'd.
Really good video, as you have us accustomed to.
I really think we need a "part 2" for this project. I want to see that baby save inside.
Crazy part would be to get the baby inside the plane with the skyhook and the drop him again with a parachute.
actually worked with the gentleman that invented the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system
Are you familiar with Raven Ind. involvement?
@@SoCalTrooper no, we call d him Poops, and after working with him over years, he told me some stories, he was a character, he is now laid to rest next to my father at veterans cemetery.
@@FeWolf My father was a ballooning engineer and worked on this system in the early 60s
@@SoCalTrooper awesome
I'm actually good friends with Robert Fulton's grandson, he is my rc flying bud. I'm sure he'll get a kick out of this video!
7:58 "unfortunatley im not a very good pilot" -josh
also josh: *flies almost everything at flitetest perfectly*
flying... Crashing.. piloting. You know that they say. If your not breaking parts. Then your not trying. lol
The end of Thunderball. Can't believe they didn't reference that.
In a scene from the John Wayne movie “The Green Berets “ if memory serves correctly as well.
@@10beers53 It was before I was born too but I still know of it. The Bond films are on Amazon Prime even.
I just watched that last night. He got picked up by a B-17.
@@randyeller8139 Yep, it was The Green Berets, released in 1968. I actually saw it in a theater.
@@DougsterCanada1 It was both "Thunderball" and "The Green Berets".
I enjoyed it a lot! But the most I appreciated was the very last announcement at the end about safety. Thanks for adding that.
This was more like an episode of "MYTH BUSTERS" ..lol
I've always thought the skyhook thing was a real hoot, glad you all decided to check it out and do a video!
hey flite test can you guys build a antonov 225
Yes that would be doozy
Yes
16:52 it almost like cut the wing tip off just to plug the new sponsor. That was awesome!
no kidding when your shirt says "random happens"
Baby smiling in the wind. Gorgeous
Bring back baby for a post mission interview wearing an eye patch.
Man, I've been eyeballing the Jackery stuff for a long time, probably the Explorer 240. Glad they're working well for you guys, I'm going to pick one up eventually for the utility.
Fun video as well, but that's as-always! The sponsorship is kinda cool, this is one I'm actually INTERESTED in. GG!
Watching this on my break at work and dying laughing when the baby starts bouncing off things 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Delivering the line “So unfortunately I had to kick his face off” in all earnestness while playing that clip was comedy gold to me. I legit had to pause the video. 🤣🤣🤣
Someone happens to glance up, sees flying baby being pulled by plane... lol
A "Karen"! LOL
That final sequence was by far the best and most scary thing this channel has done for a while.
Maybe an idea for a future video is make an aircraft carrier to a similar scale as the battleship, add arresting wires to it and arresting hooks to the planes and try to do an RC Carrier Landing.
Loved it! A lot like the old FT videos where they had to troubleshoot and problem solve together. I really liked the PSA at the end, nice!
Still waiting on the flying flushing toilet
Thanks for bringing back the Flite Test sketch factor.
If no one has mentioned it yet, the old cartoon Tailspin. Instead of dragging baby, how about pulling a sky surfing young bear that glides behind (RC controlled).
They literally already did that. It was great
@@lanasmith4795 but did they tow an RC sky surfer behind? Like dragging the baby?
LMAO ..................that 'baby' bouncing off the ground behind Cabby was reminiscent of the motor boat scene in 'A weekend at Bernie's' .............too funny guys
make C-130 into AC-130 let me explain, so, there is the ac-130, with three different canons on it, a 25mm gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors, and a 105mm howitzer, for the gatling gun, use a airsoft machine gun, the bofors a nerf gun, and the howitzer a potato canon. :D good idea?
*edit Also make a moving btr 80 as a target, maybe add a turret controlled by a separate controller, also control the AC-130 cannons with second control
Fun idea! But would be concerned about the weight.
This is BY FAR my favourite episode!!!
FLITE TEST IS BACK!!!!
"Operation Baby Yoink"!
12:46 glasses off!! Such a pro move josh 😎💯🔥
I think at 19:52 you broke someone's car window:)
I was thinking that too
@@SuperPete0815 HAHA:)
"Big gopher? . . . nope, just Josh doing baby's flyby." : )
Is there a baby-shaped dent in the back of that van now?
Some bumpy ride for poor baby! It was one technically difficult job to pull off - well done guys!
"Unfortunately I had to kick his face off to keep the plane from burning up." I hate when that happens.
I laughed so hard when he said "cut off the other wing tip". You guys are amazing. This was without a doubt the most perfectly amazing failure to date.
You should do a
real-scale airplane that’s remote control
Thad be cool
tho then they can steal actual kids
As if that's even physically possible... Or legal...
@@olliepackman199 Of course it's physically possible
@@Geerice not with foam I doubt
Haha, you guys do this right after that child was picked up by that kite. This is comedic timing at its best!
Someone’s gonna see this comment and wonder how it has so many likes, and will have no idea what it originally said
This. ASAP.
Full scale R/C has already been done. September 11, 2001 is a prime example of two radio control full size planes. Just sayin... and Epstein didn't kill himself.
@@groundzero6662 true I guess. Just did a little research and there is full scale. Still think it would be awesome .
@@groundzero6662 technically drones are full scale R/C
5 and a half feet mate
man.......if you guys had led out with a toddler running around. conveniently forgetting to mention the doll....that would have been golden....lol. good work guys. thanks for another awesome post
Girlfriend: Come over
Me: Sorry I am flying R/C planes
Girlfriend: My parents aren't home
Me: 18:16
The baby was not at actual scale. It was like trying to skylift an elephant. Would love to see you guys try it again with a smaller doll. Love your videos keep up the good work and never give up.
18:16 yoink
I read this comment just at that point XD
I love you guys! I wish I got to do this tech, fixer, maker, thing we love doing for a living. I do get to live vicariously through you. Thank you guys! Keep up great work!
almost kills one guy "i almost killed all my friends" :.( Saddest thing ever
Thousands of new flyers watched this video, very bad example of flying RC.
New challenge from Argentina: Aerial Refuelling!! Meaning the Fuel Plane must transfer a battery to the "out-of-juice" plane for it to keep going with the new battery. :-) Great video btw! As all of them!!
can try you towing a bowling ball and making giant foam bowling pins? that could be great game! (yes I imagined this while watching "baby" drag the ground...)
Nate Saint's bucket drop is a lot cooler to pick up things by plane from the ground. Would love to see the bucket drop next!
Id love to see you guys attempt this again! Maybe with an Action Man Doll or something? :)
Love it!!! Laughed my butt off watching baby get the ride of it's life!!
Imagine being a CIA operative who gets needs exfil and is being chased by two Russian soldiers and then when they Catch up to him hesuddenly stops and says “sorry boys but I got a plane to catch” and then gets pulled up into the air never to be seen again.
Teamwork makes the dream work? Wow - that's amazing!
Should have used lazer baby
Yea
Why is everyone in my subscription list just Low-key torturing baby dolls
@@krioulai lol
My favorite thing every week is seeing a new video come out. Keep up the good work
Interesting fact the first man pulled into the air, was my dads brother Lt. Alexis Doster he is shown in your first clip at 1.34 here is a 40 second clip ruclips.net/video/FRu6ZxFAVU8/видео.html
if you go to the clip and look at the eighth comment it explains a little more.
Dave Doster
That was hilarious! Great job nailing that van then into the tent, priceless. I am so glad you got that tent. Looks awesome by the way.
Could you guys make a concorde? Love to see that.
I'd say do over and than make the baby skydive.
Loving the episode guys!
With the skyhook, you should have the grappler in the rear. Have the hook attached to a small parachute (like the parachute for the little green army men or a little smaller). Use that as a bobber for fishing, then when you fly by the hook line it will grab the cord and real in the baby or anything else you would like to wench in. For the winch itself instead of foam use something like spool from sowing thread or fishing line it shouldn't flex in the middle. I hope this helps. Love the concept.
This will be my new favorite Video by far from the flight test crew.
This is such an awesome idea! Love your videos and projects guys!
This deserves a Sky Hook 2.0. That was so close! The hooks just got hooked up.
The skyhook is in the battlefield 4 campaign and it is one of my favorite scenes in battlefield history!
Yes! Just the kind of entertainment I needed since it’s pouring rain and depressing
that was hilarious ! please try it again !!! its an awesome concept, just needs some tweaking, it was really fun to watch, you guys are amazing at what you do. Would be really cool to see the sky-hook baby inside cabbie when it landed !!
I guess I had suggested this idea to you 5 years ago. Glad you did an episode on it!
You guys need to revisit this in the future!!
This was awesome guys. I am going through all your beginner videos now as I want to get started with RC. I have an idea for you guys to build, the air force once had a concept for a 747 aircraft carrier. I think you guys should make it happen and deploy at least 2 RC's from the "747" RC already in the air. Keep living your passions!
The sheep was just chilling out, chewing his grass, doing sheep thing. Suddenly, he is airborne, and I feel terrible for laughing as hard as I did.
Omg I’m dying laughing right now!! My favorite episode ever. Glad no one was injured.
Good try! A little rough on baby, though she came through with flying colors. The USAF Special Recon Forces actually used a similar technique to retrieve downed pilots at sea. I remember seeing a film (that's right a film, not a video) when I was a C.A.P. cadet back in the 70's. This took place at Pease Air Force Base. You might go back into their archives and see what you can find. BTW I love your videos. They're always entertaining.
This was awesome!!!!!!!! Hope to see Cabbie back again!
I flew the MC130 IRL. The way it worked was the whiskers opened on the nose. The pilot caught the line and the whiskers closed and a catch held the rope. The victim went straight up and then trailed behind the acft. The loadmasters had a winch with a weighted hook shaped like a little bomb. They hooked the line and winched the line up to a capstan and hauled the victim in. The navigator opened the forward escape hatch and hooked the line to the balloon and cut it. The system was retired in '96. All the MC 130Es and MC 130Ps that were capable of Skyhook have been retired to the bone yard.
Gives a whole new meaning to Baby Snatching!
Naked Snake will be so proud with this RC Fulton Recovery System
I had to scroll way too down for first metal gear comment
This was awesome guys. I really like these types of vids. A history lesson along with a really cool experiment. Poor baby.
Fulton surface to air recovery system great job guys I love it
bouncing off the truck was hilarious!
Cabbie is a retrofitted c119 flying boxcar which was produced through the 50’s and prominently used in Korea. One of the goofier looking planes but still a pretty cool plane
Best thing I’ve seen in a while. If this doesn’t blow up your Chanel more I don’t know what will!! Great job!!! Unless you are the baby then probably should rethink a few things 😂😂
You need to make an RC blue angels airshow. that would be AWESOME
Came across your channel today with the RC cockpit. Of course I had to subscribe!! Loving it!
That product placement is perfect timing with the hurricane that just passed over my house, still don't have potable water.