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.
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.
@@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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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
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...)
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
Josh, first, you are an artist. 2cnd Cabby can handle more batteries. parallel up them lipos. 3rd, things get outta hand, but safety first, fun, eh... first.
I'd love to see the full safety debrief and what specifically you are going to change moving forward, especially around low flybys with very large planes.
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
From my memory of that being done during WWII the had spars drooping from the tail of the airplane with a loop tide between them that led into the winch inside the plane and the loop was to capture the balloon and tether rope . The other was to drag a grappling hook to snag a loop strung between to poles with a tether hooked to a sling to pick a person . Both were used during WWII , Korea , and Vietnam to pick up downed pilots and other personnel . Yes through Korea and Vietnam it was mostly by helicopters but the same ways were still used even by them .
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!!
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
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. 🤣🤣🤣
that was awesome even if it was only half successful. a few thoughts to help, if you have space and battery power spare put a blinking light on the Gremlin and a stronger spool in Cabby. So next flight it should work
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
I remember seeing a report of a decade or two ago where this happened accidentally. A kid flying a kite was told by his parent to hang on real tight because it was a big kite and the wind was strong. A twin engine turbo aircraft flying low on a landing approach snagged the kite line, did not break it, and the kid went flying for quite a ways. Can't remember from the report if he was badly hurt but I do remember it facilitated the need for an engine tear down as the strong line was tightly wrapped around a propeller shaft and caused some damage.
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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
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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
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.
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 🤣
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.
"the baby clipped a tree" *gets f*cking smashed into the back of a van and is ignored*
Oof
Really thou
Best FT quote. "Unfortunately I had to kick his face off" 😂😂😂
That emergency landing was surprisingly graceful all things considered 🤣 was the van OK?
😂
Flite Test: lets do skyhook.
Toy Baby: “I’m Batman!”
Yes!!!!
Nice crossover dude
Lolol
As a Flitetest viewer for the past 8 years... that landing was one of the best moments of all time
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!
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.
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
Josh: “All right give me a knife. I’m going to cut off the other wing tip.”
Andres: “What?.... We have hot glue!”
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.
hey flite test can you guys build a antonov 225
Yes that would be doozy
Yes
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!
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.
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.
Awesome that this dropped the same day the baby getting skyhooked by the kite did.. thankfully the 3 year old landed safely
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".
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.
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!
"Guys.. That was super sketchy and pretty dangerous....."
"Just have Josh read a PSA about how safe we are on the end."
"SOLD"
Baby hits the tree, baby hots the van, baby hits the tent. You guys have way too much fun. Thanks for sharing!
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.
That final sequence was by far the best and most scary thing this channel has done for a while.
Bring back baby for a post mission interview wearing an eye patch.
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.
Still waiting on the flying flushing toilet
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
no kidding when your shirt says "random happens"
Baby smiling in the wind. Gorgeous
Someone happens to glance up, sees flying baby being pulled by plane... lol
A "Karen"! LOL
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.
Watching this on my break at work and dying laughing when the baby starts bouncing off things 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I enjoyed it a lot! But the most I appreciated was the very last announcement at the end about safety. Thanks for adding that.
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?
You need to make an RC blue angels airshow. that would be AWESOME
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.
16:52 it almost like cut the wing tip off just to plug the new sponsor. That was awesome!
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
Thanks for bringing back the Flite Test sketch factor.
"Unfortunately I had to kick his face off to keep the plane from burning up." I hate when that happens.
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!
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!
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.
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!
I think at 19:52 you broke someone's car window:)
I was thinking that too
@@SuperPete0815 HAHA:)
This is BY FAR my favourite episode!!!
FLITE TEST IS BACK!!!!
"Operation Baby Yoink"!
That product placement is perfect timing with the hurricane that just passed over my house, still don't have potable water.
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...)
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!
Girlfriend: Come over
Me: Sorry I am flying R/C planes
Girlfriend: My parents aren't home
Me: 18:16
This deserves a Sky Hook 2.0. That was so close! The hooks just got hooked up.
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
Baby managed to hit the tree, the truck AND the tent, three objects that were really far apart in a very large field.
Id love to see you guys attempt this again! Maybe with an Action Man Doll or something? :)
The skyhook is in the battlefield 4 campaign and it is one of my favorite scenes in battlefield history!
18:16 yoink
I read this comment just at that point XD
12:46 glasses off!! Such a pro move josh 😎💯🔥
Should have used lazer baby
Yea
Why is everyone in my subscription list just Low-key torturing baby dolls
@@krioulai lol
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.
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
Naked Snake will be so proud with this RC Fulton Recovery System
I had to scroll way too down for first metal gear comment
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.
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.
Teamwork makes the dream work? Wow - that's amazing!
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!
Josh, first, you are an artist. 2cnd Cabby can handle more batteries. parallel up them lipos. 3rd, things get outta hand, but safety first, fun, eh... first.
I'd love to see the full safety debrief and what specifically you are going to change moving forward, especially around low flybys with very large planes.
I hate to admit How cool it looks when one of those things catches on fire.
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
This is 1 of 3 of my favorite episodes. Other ones are cabby build and sea duck planes.
This will be my new favorite Video by far from the flight test crew.
Gives a whole new meaning to Baby Snatching!
Yes! Just the kind of entertainment I needed since it’s pouring rain and depressing
My favorite thing every week is seeing a new video come out. Keep up the good work
You guys need to revisit this in the future!!
babies are so head heavy... i like how he picks something up and instantly finds its cg!
edit: do you think he done that when he first held his son?
Haha, you guys do this right after that child was picked up by that kite. This is comedic timing at its best!
Love it!!! Laughed my butt off watching baby get the ride of it's life!!
This is such an awesome idea! Love your videos and projects guys!
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.
I'd say do over and than make the baby skydive.
Loving the episode guys!
From my memory of that being done during WWII the had spars drooping from the tail of the airplane with a loop tide between them that led into the winch inside the plane and the loop was to capture the balloon and tether rope . The other was to drag a grappling hook to snag a loop strung between to poles with a tether hooked to a sling to pick a person . Both were used during WWII , Korea , and Vietnam to pick up downed pilots and other personnel . Yes through Korea and Vietnam it was mostly by helicopters but the same ways were still used even by them .
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!!
This was awesome guys. I really like these types of vids. A history lesson along with a really cool experiment. Poor baby.
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
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. 🤣🤣🤣
Fulton surface to air recovery system great job guys I love it
That was the delivery of a "bouncing baby". Well. done guys.
"Big gopher? . . . nope, just Josh doing baby's flyby." : )
OK that was an awesome first attempt. You guys have to do it again.
that was awesome even if it was only half successful. a few thoughts to help, if you have space and battery power spare put a blinking light on the Gremlin and a stronger spool in Cabby. So next flight it should work
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
I remember seeing a report of a decade or two ago where this happened accidentally. A kid flying a kite was told by his parent to hang on real tight because it was a big kite and the wind was strong. A twin engine turbo aircraft flying low on a landing approach snagged the kite line, did not break it, and the kid went flying for quite a ways. Can't remember from the report if he was badly hurt but I do remember it facilitated the need for an engine tear down as the strong line was tightly wrapped around a propeller shaft and caused some damage.