✈️ Flying a 14 foot B-52 Bomber Made out of FOAM! ✈️
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- At Flite Fest this year Ben Harbor and fellow Flite Testers scratch built a giant B-52 bomber. He left it with us when he went home so today we are going to take to the sky and see if it can still fly.
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Ooh! Build a X-15 rocketplane and airlaunch it from this B-52!
John Doe was going to suggest the same thing
I agree
@@christopherleveck6835 That would be awesome!!! Can't beat an X-15 for sheer speed :-)
@@christopherleveck6835 Sure there ISS has a high relative ground speed, BUT it has zero% of the aerodynamic qualities, structural integrity, mission capability, or design intent of an "aircraft". The ISS is basically a giant marble on a track powered solely by it's initial impulse compared to the SR-71.
@@christopherleveck6835 Wow, I never thought about it needing thrusters before. Learn something new everyday!
I worked on the B-52G back in the 80's. My job was flight controls, landing gear, windows, etc. We did all the maintenance that just shy of depot level. It was interesting to see the wings on your BUFF flex like they did. This is behavior is actually a pretty damn close to what the BUFF would do. The wings of the BUFF were made to flex up to 32'! What was impressive about that is that fuel leakage from the wing tanks was practically nil. That old girl was engineered correctly!
I spent a total of 6 years working on the BUFF and it holds a place that is near and dear to my heart. I have a ton of stories about the old girl!
cool story.
Barksdale??
Lonnie Mathis I was just about to comment the same thing. I worked buffs for about 4 years. This didn’t look sketchy at all. I was at Barksdale.
@@BLUEYENKO Yep, I was at Barksdale Airplane Patch from 1981 to 1987. I was in 2nd FMS, Repair and Reclamation shop.
Lonnie Mathis I was there 88-91 then crosstrained to F-16 Avionics.
AWESOME!!! The real B-52 has a lot of wing flex also. It can be unnerving at first.
You fellows have the most gifted drone videographers. Doing a barrel roll around the b52 and having the camera focused on the b52 the entire time is amazing.
Very nice Airplane, thumb up
Why 1 thumb when you have 2 :)
Aeroplane
Yes
@@designertags2011 hahaha
Amazing model. I flew off a SAC base, but not BUFFs. I flew smaller jets at Blytheville AFB which was built on a swamp. After a B52 would take off, the 24" X 50' concrete slabs on the runway would move around and make the runway unusable for us for several minutes until the runway settled back down. The only thing you guys missed on this model was that Boeing built the BUFF with a high angle of incidence so that the plane climbed out at 2 or 3 degrees nose DOWN. The pilots would unstick the plane off the runway then push the yoke forward and the plane would climb out nose down. With the bicycle gear it would allow a flat approach and landing. Truly an amazing model of an amazing plane that the Air Force plans on flying for an unheard of 100 year life cycle. Keep up the great work guys. Love your channel.
Flexibility in the wing is required. Check out the design history of the B-52 to validate this. Beautiful aircraft!
I’ve said it many times before...you guys have so much enthusiasm for this hobby....I’m always smiling when I watch flite test videos...love you guys.
I was a crew chief for a B-52G. This brought back so many memories for me. I heard about the vertical stabilizer of a D model flying off. I suggested this build about a year ago. Impressed that it happened. EPIC flight!
It needs a smoke system running thru the engine pods to complete the effect.
And a speaker
RC Scale Chemtrails! 😂😂😂
“Four burning, six turning”
@@Timbobjr Not quite, the B-52 superseded the B-36
@@TheObsessedGardener The EDF's already make a nice sound
You should have an airsoft battle with the b-52 and a Mig
Post-flight combat analysis assignation of kill points using optical LASER weapons tracked/adjudicated via LIDAR - Boss! In 3D? Arrrghh....
That would be such a slaughter! almost impossible to fly evasively with a flying BUS... and it is virtually impossible to make that thing crash with softgun pellets^^
@@Cherrypopperland Electronic scoring of epic Gladiatorial ariel grappling tournaments! (saves on repairs, can enter multi-round one-on-one tournaments).
@@johnd.ingleson799 still a flying bus VS an acrobat, it's like tying one leg to your arm and running 300m against hussein bolt🤣
MMaXX M they should drop airsoft bombs
what you need to build now is a Convair B-36 bomber.
I approve this. But make it the early one sans the jet pods.
even if he scaled it the same size as this 53 it would be huuuuuuuge lmaooo
Make a nuclear powered b36
No a b47 stratojet
I love the excitement and passion you guys have. I’m 31 and only just bought my first plane because you guys made me realise it didn’t have to be an expensive hobbie. Thanks heaps Flitetest from Australia
It's not excitement it's ors Paid actors
Great job!!! My Father was a B-52 mechanic. He's worked on every one in service up to 1986. FYI.... The real B-52 wing flexes up to 13 feet at the tip while in flight. That's the reason for the tip gears.
Awesome, now can you make a foam board private jet? That way I can fulfill my dreams of flying to the Bahamas!
Thanks
Rob
Dude, did you see the one Peter Stripol made? 😂
@@MCsCreations No - Link?
@@johnd.ingleson799 This is the last one: ruclips.net/video/fqdtz3tJkbY/видео.html
But it's his third airplane... I guess. There are LOTS of videos of them in his channel! 😃
I'd love to see a Cessna Citation.
@@MCsCreations yes buddy I did see Peter's, but that is not a private jet that is some crazy flying contraption 😂😂🤘
Great job and congrats on a successful first attempt. I was an airframe inspector on B52G and H models, the wing flex was designed in for not just survivability but it made it a very stable bombing platform as well, in flight the wings curve up and backwards and have a 6" incidence for added lift. On the ground the tip gear wheel is either on the ground or above your head depending on the fuel load, quite and aircraft and I feel privileged to have worked on them.
Great flight! Wings "flapping" is actually what the real jet does. If they didn't flex, they'd break. :) I was in a KC-135 refueling a Buff and it looked like it was going to shake apart! The engine nacelles were moving all over the place.
But with all that flexing in the real B-52 wouldn't you have to worry about metal fatigue?
The B-52 is one of the most beautiful airplanes ever. its amazing that you build it with foamboard and to see it fly. thank you guys
👍😍😇💯💪🫂
I've been watching this channel for years but never subscribed, but that landing you just pulled off finally convinced me. Absolutely beautiful.
I'm fortunate enough to be able to say that I see the real deal overfly my home almost daily. I LOVE THIS!!
Flite Test my Mans, longtime subscriber (yeah!), There is an X-Plane by the designation X-15 that is a rocket powered hypersonic plane air launched from a B-52. Now obviously how the BUFF is right now is a little sketchy, but it is a fantastic size for launching a brand new....say it with me now!
ROCKET PLANE!
If y'all feel up for it, It would make for a great episode a little down the line!
And bring back Dave for another duet, as well as the mad scientist laugh when the rocket engine ignites!
I've been with you guys since the Swede was a regular, but I will admit I took a bit of a break from the channel. But this episode was awesome. Y'all were awesome. Josh Bixler, thanks for the save with letting me borrow one of your controllers at the 2018 Horizon Hobby Festival in Monticello, Illinois. I'm glad that you all are living by Faith and living the American Dream. Keep flying!
I just continue to be impressed at how generous you guys are with the credit and glory every time you have someone on your channel. You are true servant leaders, and I have so much admiration for everything you do. You also have the best job I can even imagine. Thank you so much for what you do!!!!
Kudos to the drone flyer who flies around this thing mid flight.
Some black paint inside the engine cowlings would be a nice touch
These big builds you guys do are amazing and watching them fly is more so. Someday it would be cool to see you guys build a scale spruce goose the same size as this b-52.
By making an exact cad model , you can simulate the flow around the plane at various velocities using Fluid mechanics software like Ansys. It will also help you reinforce the plane where necessary by finding out stress distribution. Anyway congrats.
Have you guys ever tried spraying open cell foam into the wings to give them strength, without adding too much weight? Always wondered if that'd work in preventing flex
you guys laughing is one of the most uplifting things I have ever heard!
Awesome flying. You guys still amaze me with the projects you share. Just no way you should be having so much fun while working. Waiting for your next video. Love your passion. ✈😃💝
Speechless... I think you guys should do a bunch of paratroopers coming out of their. With there Parachutes being red white and blue for the men & women in the service. Yes I know it's a bomber but still would be nice to do that in there honor.
Buff's were Bomnbers NOT troop transports. Needs about 25 to 50 'Snakeyes'
Slim Pickens riding the bomb down with his hat in the air!
You asked what I would like to see.
And its bombers
That is so cool. I was a SAC (Strategic Air Command) engine mechanic on them (C and D models) during the Vietnam War 🇻🇳 and (G and H models) during the cool war. I had the pleasure of running them up after maintenance. My first 8 engine run was when I was 19. I see you chose to do a G model. FYI, the real ones wings moved 11 feet and they will slip out the sky in a steep bank. Good job.
Maj Kong: "Did you say Wing Attack Plan R?"
"That's how it decodes."
"Goldie how may times have I told you boys I don't want no horsin' around on the airplane."
Best B-52 movie evar!!
I'd actually seen one at McGuire AFB in New Jersey the year prior to seeing Dr. Strangelove with my parents. I was eight years old in '64. I keyed-in on the flying scenes but I could _not_ figure out that lady in her bathing suit. I eventually grew-in to an understanding about what Gen. Turgidson was up to.
The best landing I have ever seen
Mmmmm!. Vulcan b2, same scale!. With a blue steel missile glider!. Great vid guys.
When it the plane banks in the video, it looks like a real plane. Pretty amazing. Humm. Could it bigger?
OUTSTANDING....... TRULY OUTSTANDING...... MASSIVE SALUTE TO THE PILOTING
Brian
London
That classic music effect the moment the wheels touch ground... Never gets old.
I want to build a personal jet from that foam. 😂
having refueled hundreds of BUFFS in the air, the wings look so right airborne!
Do a b-36! Six turning four burning!
Now THAT would be truly EPIC!!!
Four burning, two turning, two smoking, two choking.
@@christopherleveck6835 Yes a B-1 would be great, or possibly an F-111. I can just see these guys making a swing wing out of foam board!
@@christopherleveck6835 That, sir, is funny, I don't care who you are.
Alex when I found this channel there were 2500 of us and I still haven't flown it's the family feeling that's kept me here
Josh can literally land anything!
Can he land a submarine?
@@cascadeflims7261 *Impossible...*
Would love to see a DC-3 Spooky gunship shooting tracers out one side. They where the first Gun ships produced for ground support and Spectre was the follow on with the C-130 Air frame.
After watching the flight of the B-52 I've got to say that the builder/designer guy who didn't take it back to California did an amazingly accurate job of scaling the plane. Granted, I'm all about making the actual landing gear as accurate as the real gear (Yes, including retracting the same way! Its possible I know!)
I loved this. My father was a bomb navigator on B-52's before he retired in 1973.
Can you make a lok head sr71 black bird spy plane
Trend-Theory330 it’s Lockheed
Trend-therely I totally agree
The foam board couldn't hold the awesomeness of a Lockheed SR71 Blackbird.
took me forever to figure out your dumbass meant "Lockheed"
YES! The BLACKBIRD!!!
1:07 Holy crap that sounds amazing
I could listen to that all day
🎥 Great aerial shots ✈✈✈✈✈
Has anyone made an RC Hindenberg?
How about an actual brick with everything held on with the 'Handyman's Secret Weapon', duct tape?
What can be said?
Another Amazing Project from Flite Test and the community members.
Can a Xplane be built in foam board for a air drop from the B-52? Would love to see that.
Maybe some of the new structural heavy duty foam board and quad parts to build a giant disk. For that joke that became an "issue" and now is actually a festival out in Rachel Nevada..... Just a thought.
I like to see you guys make the U.S.S Enterprise from star trek.
@H.M.S Nelson shush up
They did it!!
USS enterprise from star trek is cool but the Aircraft Carrier might be better
Unbelievable , That Buff sounds like the real deal ! COOOOOOL !
You guys are doing some great things! I would love to see a huge model of that super large Russian cargo plan. That would be epic! I wonder what the limits are for size in a foam board plan?
Stefan singing in deep-voice was the best part of the video. Don't get me wrong, the plane was cool and Josh did a pro's job landing her... But that singing though!!!
You guys definitely need to "carpet bomb" something, it's what B-52's do
Did you mean Việt Nam
Vũ Nick ask the cong commies how they feel about that
Drop firecrackers
You guys should make a giant ac-130 if you haven’t already. And that plane flys just like a bomber it’s unbelievable! Keep up the awesome work guys
Yo ima keep asking, AC-130 with remote controlled airsoft shooting out of the left side at ground targets
I'm always more impressed with the quad pilot footage.
Everybody gangsta till the sky starts speaking flite test
david ames everybody gangsta til the kv-2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2 speaks
Yep
oh no!
Looks great in flight. Having a video drone as a chase vehicle makes it that much better, with so many camera angles.
That was great.. Nice job guy's.. Before you fly it again, reinforce the wings..
Most planes with massive wings are designed to flex instead of being rigid. It helps to absorb the load on the wing, as apposed to a rigid wing which would require much more bracing to keep from snapping
For the next flight of the B-52, how about an Immelmann turn or a split S maneuver! Keep doing what you do, dudes!
And I’m sitting here with my PowerUp Dart
That was awesome! Those wings were flexing so much I thought they would snap in half.
Make a plane that drops paratroopers LIKE SO THEY WILL SEE IT
Like FortNight?
@@johnd.ingleson799 More like a C-47.
That was very cool!
You guys need to bird the Black Bird. The stealth reconnaissance military plane
7:53 makes me like multi motor planes a lot more. That was a great startup song
Drop some baby drones out of it, 5 or 10 minis and they fly off.
OK I should read post more slowly... I read it quickly and thought you said drop baby's out of it!! 😂😂😂
@@beaudidlyno1 lol
IIRC, the real B-52s had wings that would flex a total of 30 feet at the tips.
Also, while we're asking for dream builds, can I put in for a Ho-229? Most beautiful plane ever (IMHO)
I swear, this would look like a Cessna in the sky,
They certainly got the unique nearly flat angle of attack during takeoff and landing correct. Unlike a large commercial airliner.
Hey guys, im subbed, and am building my first tiny trainer. I got it into a Chuck glider and im saving money to buy the power pod pack. Thanks for everything yall do
I just reviewed your B-52 monster, and it was, for me, and all of you, a joyous foolingaround. (did I invent a new word?) Anyhow, it was a triumph. The only thing missing was my old, now very old, underbody APS radar dish, now a fixture. That proclaims just how old this bird is.... I only saw one bird crash, in 1991, at Diego Garcia, because of an electrical failure which killed the fuel pumps, caused by...I forget. Thank you for being flying maniacs. You're loved.
At full throttle it sounds like the real one too. B-52 screams
you guys are sooooo awesome
NO! PUT TOY SOLDIERS WITH PARACHUTES IN A GOLF COURSE!
I splice a couple pop sticks into wing (vertical) sort of like spar on my modified scale down
30" wing scout...The wing form a crease from 10-15 crash into tree, bushes, cartwheels..ect :-P . It works like a charm becuase the pop sticks are VERTICAL and has more gluing surface
INTO the FOAM. Quick , simple and effective. I Do that to all my new builds now.
I'll slice a couple pop stick ( 2" long) into the tops sheet of wing.ect ( at wing joint)
Even with diehedral ( it dosnt have to be perfect, no one will see it.)
The model still flies GREAT. it has red or clear packing tape patches all over it....and holes
from the tree's branch sticking into it..It look like a patch up war bird :-P.
I tested it....wazooo of snap rolls :-P
I love that model..it's on a 2200 mah 3s on 2208 1400KV. So it's on the heaver wingload.
but it cuts through the wind better for a smaller model. i can fly it in 10-15 wind.
I get great power to wiegth ratio and over 12-15 mins of evasive flying flight time.
i practice doing aerobatics with it...that's why I crash it all the time.
I can also fly it a park..if I wanted it. Even thou it's slight over 350 grams
it's under 200 grams less the battery. A little more than one sheet of foam.
I also crash my modify 44" cub :-P.....I used 1mm plywood as doublers for the entire front end. I went in NOSE FIRST.( batteries went out.lmao) Nothing happened to the nose..Just a couple of crease behind the plywood/landing gear. It's FIELD TESTED :-P
You can get 1mmplywood from the dollar store.
It's a decent size 4 channels trainer only on a 2212 1000kv. It'll do all the basic loop and
rolls too...practice doing cuban 8, emuman. split S, snap rolls, 4 pionts rolls, inverted..ect
over 850 grams AUW :-P . It would go bullistic on the 2218.
FOam board models are great. Cheap, effective, fun. On a balsa model the entire front end
would had exploded into hundreds of pieces...Even if I had to build new cubs ( I have plenty)
That's why i bash is as JosH suggested . it's under $5 . i used pre coloured cub yellow foam boards :-P
Concorde at that size. What could go wrong?
Something like this? ruclips.net/video/0KkSZGZlVsU/видео.html There is also a video of a 10 meter Concord that just maidened a few days ago out there.
You should have a battle B-52 and A-10 ft warthog. Thumbs up if they should do it
Yep
*buys massive space to build bigger better*
6 months later: gets plane too big to take out in one piece
Thanks to Ben and you Crazy Guys,the theory is proven..I say take it to the next step..You have shown how effective the curved foam can work(for realism),and with INAV,GPS,etc,etc..Build an edf,realistic version..not one everyone can afford,but one that inspires....I built a 60 in. wingspan powered glider a cpl of yrs. ago thanks to you all..It flew a few times and not so great,except....for one flite that stretched several acres. Which is why I still have it and know it will fly again...The inspiration and knowledge from you all and many others are why this Hobby is the BEST!
Do the "Dr. Strangelove" cene - Cowboy riding the bomb! -
😂😂
Wait!!!!!!! Today's episode wasn't sponsored by a phone app, or a game, or anything. You just did it for us. That's great. Today's episode is made possible by the fans. Good to see you get back to your roots.
Will there be a video about this year's Flite Fest, like there was in past years?
You guys and gals are awesome! The aerial camera work is just spectacular !!!!!!!
Fix the Rudder, actual aircraft has larger relative rudder for a reason...
This is the flitetest I like. Fly super big crazy stuff like the good days
Fun fact: there is currently a b-52 flying overhe-
The 52 without the tail, lost it in combat! The 52's wing flex's a many many feet!
Where can I buy this 4200 mm plane I don’t see it on the website
Absolutely brilliant. Great to see such an amazing project get a second life. 😁👍🏼👍🏼
Need to make it drop some bombs (m-80’s).
I mean it is a bomber after all...
Paintbombs.
7:50 you need to make an orchestra out of motors XDXDXD
XD
Week 2 of asking for the battleship to be turned in an aircraft carrier
Guys. Love the videos. Have you ever thought of making a foam plane with adjustable wings? Like a B1 bomber or f18 tom cat. Would be so epic!
7:48 Music to my ears😍😍😍😍
Awesome Guys . Great times & Memories.
Where is all the flitefest footage for 2019? I can't find any of it.
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The song at the end, it brought tears man, tears.