$1 DIY Airplane | FT LongEZ 

Build video available now on our Tech Channel! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wkpov7xwSXk.html

Just found your channel the other day, and since all my work is foam and hot glue, my son and I made a sparrow chuck glider in a couple of hours with stuff we had around the house. When I said goodnight, he told me I was a "better than normal dad" because I made the plane with him. Just had to say thanks for the experience and fantastic plans. Now off to buy a stack of foamboard........

Give it 5 years and Flite test will be the biggest RC platform in the world.

If you buy the materials from the dollar store and use our free plans, this airframe can be built for $1!

Getting this, not for me, but to build as a chuck glider for the kid next door. you guys opened the wonder of rc flight for me, now I will pay forward.

False advertisement! The glider is actually $1.25! Counting the nose ballast.

Looks like a cool little airplane. What I love most about this video; all your videos in fact, is your sincerity.

Thank you for incorporating the old school Flitetest music in with the new videos. I lOVE it! I don't know what it is, but it makes the videos feel more FliteTesty. Lol

I like that the term "special blend" is used with the waterproof foam board. Makes me think there might be some coffee in there somewhere. lol

Classic FliteTest at it's best! Wow! This video kinda takes me back to when I was first starting out! Feels good to think back to the basics!

Been watching this channel for about 4 or 5 years now. Love how you've grown and your team. Love you guys, wishing you all the best from Trinidad and Tobago.

honestly it blows my mind how passionate these guys are towards the hobby. keep it up :D

The Long-EZ (and it's variants) is one of my favorite airframes ever. Glad you made an RC one!

Plane looks awesome. You guys are so polite and informative. Keep up the great work guys.

Your positive attitude makes me want to spend my whole paycheck at your business. A++ fella's !

Awesome and thoughtful video for new pilots ! Really enjoy being subscribed to this channel 👍👍 now off to buy one of your kits😀

8 long years of watching you guys and I'm still entertained. Hello from northwest Ohio.

Congrats on 900k. Love you guys.

One of the most positive channels on RU-vid; makes me want to get into the RC building!

This looks fun!I love your channel I just got into the hobby a couple months ago but I have not flew a rc plane yet so I am saving my money to buy one and make one!Thank you for all the help! Edit:Thank you flite test I have never been hearted before so I am very happy cheers!

Both versions look like a total blast! :) Looking forward to seeing the next one of the A-10 and THAT SWEET P-40!!!

In one night you have convinced me to try to build an airplane out of a folder and some cardboard slivers. I might say the plane isn't pretty BUT she glides off of my works roof top for very long time!! I love the DIY print outs you guys have offered us! Needless to say I have printed off some plans and im off to the Dollar tree and my daughters and I will be spending the weekend building a few planes!!! Thank you and keep up the amazing work!

Its really amazing how much effort you guys put to get people into the hobby!! Love what you guys do!! :)

Man, I woke up this morning swearing it was already Sunday. Last night I built my first little foam board plane and I can't wait to try to build this LongEZ next!

A well trimmed Canard makes an excellent first airplane because they essentially never stall the main wing when the CG is set just a bit forward. That means you never lose roll or yaw control. The forward surface stalls and that drops the nose, preventing the main wing from stalling.

Wow! Fantastic job on the plans, guys! Very nicely done.

Great idea! I always have more fun if I build it and then fly it! Thanks for posting!

I want one it flies beautifully

Great video. You guys make me smile. I wish nothing but good will onto you guys!

My 12 year old son and I built the LongEZ as a chuck glider and were super excited to fly it. We spent 3-4 hours building it from scratch over 2 days. After completing it we immediately went outside to fly. It flew great! We managed to fly it about 4 times before the front wing broke off. With a little tape we were back in the air for about 10 more flights before the other front wing broke off. The wings are now hot glued and reinforced with tape. It still flies great!! I would suggest that the design be modified to allow a replacable front wing since the plane is a belly lander it tends to take all of the punishment. Our next LongEZ will be modified so we can replace the wing.

Awesome! Absolutely going to build this one!

Great great design and do you know what is greater? It's how you making it easy and fun for others to indulge in some outdoor activities, flight test ... you rock!

This channel needs to be a TV SHOW!!!

You guys are brilliant! Very inspiring!

Dang it!!! Now I need an A pack and new batts. I love Flite Test!

Long - EZ ... still my fave after all these years... any size will do!! Aaaaaa'd baaaa that ferrrr a daaaallarrr!!

Good to see a traditional FT video.

I absolutely love this stuff

I love it! Sweet flying plane. Don't forget that balsa chuck gliders are also very easy to build and fly so well that even from a simple hand launch, they can float away out of sight in a thermal. Speaking of which, a balsa Long Ez would be epic!

Fantastic, guys! Really awesome! 😃

I love this design!!!

I am so, sooooo ready for that A-10 video to come out.

A family of over 900,000 great people! We sure are a big ole' happy family aren't we :D I love you all!

"A little bit more longer distance" - Alex

Can't wait for the plans to be released!!!

I love all of your guys videos I want to get into this hobby

Looks like you guys got the RC version flying really well. I love that it can be built as a chucker or RC and that it's only one sheet of foam! Winner winner chicken dinner. Congrats Alex on your first RC airplane kit. Can't wait to build and fly one. What is the ETA on the new FT Radial motors?

You guys are so awesome! You saved my life with quarantine

COOLEST THNG I'VE SEEN ONLINE IN A LONG TIME!!! R E A L L Y impressed!!!

Sweet video you guys are awesome I had my local hobby store order the long-ez kit from you guys keep building them I'll keep buying them

"building something that defeats the laws of gravity" Don't you mean "building something that perfectly abides the laws of gravity?" LOL :P

Alex / JB - very Kool vid - hopefully this will spawn more new starters into the hobby. And globally we need more to be able to have a voice and keep flying. Feet on the ground, heads to the sky.

900k subscribers! Congrats FT!

Already bought mine yesterday!

great little plane

Love you guys. Thank you for this.

Canard looks so awesome and sporty.

A return to Flitetest roots - excellent.

Love this thanks

Sweet! I have plans for a vari viggen (another Burt Rutan design) so this’ll be an awesome addition!

Oh wow. That is so neat. Rutan stuff is amazing.

My respect goes to you guys are a motivation for a lot o peoples I'll be doing some projects with my kids

That's really cool!

We got the profile EAA glider at a airshow. Still can't believe how well it flies!

This could be an amazing fpv platform! You won't have to worry about the propeller in the view, and, great for raceing!

Congrats on 900K!

Brilliant!!!

You guys are awesome, I love your videos

Bet that would make a good elastic band powered plane too!

you guys are so cool i wish roto riot did for fpv drones even just a little bit of what you guys do. this will be me and my sons next project. thank you

I love flite test from Brazil

You should throw some shade toward the man - Burt Rutan. Burt built the full size, then Josh scaled it down to a chuck glider, then Alex modified it to RC. Awesome video, guys. Keep it up!

Saw quite a few requests for interesting aircraft builds, any chance of other Rutan designs, like the Quickee. Would be a very unique challenge. Built one from a St Croix model kit and flies surprisingly well as long as the cg is on par.

You should use a 2 point y bridle and a tow line and tow the chuck glider up..

Cool. 6:30. I built a FT alpha as a chuck glider for a class i am teaching.

DANG I GOTTA WAIT 3 DAYS TO BUILD IT !!! WORTH THE WAIT... I LOVE FLITE TEST

Great video and idea i wonder how a RC glider version would handle a slope or high start/bungee launch

Please make the A-10 a speed build kit! But if you don't you guys are still awesome, best RC company ever

That's sick

I love y'all guys content/vlogs!! I'm a fpv quadcopter flyer & the more I watch y'all guys, & y'all keep coming out with cool easy/ready 2 build wings/planes; that I'm abt 2 get 1, too, lol, & have the best of both🌎 like u guys!!👍👊😜😎thanks & Always, H😀ppy flying Team Flight Test!!👍✈🚁🚀😀

Paper aeroplane is a fantastic recommendation, well done.

Excelente!!!

900k strong guys!!!👍

A possibly very good modification would be using KF airfoils for wings, canards and stabilizers. I will give it a try when I get some depron. Good job guys. I like what you are trying to do.

This is a good idea

I really REALLY RESPECT how MissionStatement kinda set video up and glad to hear it I will do what I can to Help complete that U DONT HEAR ENOUGH OF HOW THIS HOBBY CAN BE A FAMILY ACTIVEITY

The Boulton Paul P.100 was a design for a tail first fighter produced in response to an Air Ministry specification for a manoeuvrable fighter. Specification F.6/42 called for a fighter with a high rate of climb (4,500ft/ min to 20,000ft), good acceleration and good manoeuvrability. Boulton Paul's first design was the P.98, a tail first pusher that was judged to be over-weight. This was followed by the P.101, a staggered biplane with cantilevered wings and the cannon carried within the spats for non-retractable main wheels. After both of these projects were rejected by the Air Ministry, Boulton Paul submitted two designs with lower project numbers. The P.100 was another advanced design. It was a tail-first aircraft, with shoulder mounted canard wings just behind the cockpit and low mounted swept back main wings near the rear of the aircraft. The vertical tail surfaces and rudders were at the tip of the swept back wings. The pilot sat in the nose, with a good view from his all round vision canopy. The P.100 had a tricycle undercarriage. In case of emergency the pilot escaped from the aircraft by jettisoning part of the lower forward fuselage and dropping down out of the aircraft. The P.100 was to be armed with either one 47mm cannon, with a 20mm cannon on either side, two 20mm cannon with a 40mm cannon on either side, or four 20mm cannon. The P.100 was expected to have a top speed of 298mph at 17,000ft and 435mph at 18,000ft. In September 1942 all of the designs submitted to F.6/42 were examined at the RAE, and all of the Boulton Paul designs were dismissed for being too futuristic. VIA FLIGHTSOM.COM FS2002/FS2004 Boulton Paul P.100. This was an unbuilt project for a ground-attack aircraft to a draft Air Ministry specification (unnumbered) of March 1942. The P100 was the most advanced and unorthodox of the many designs the aircraft industry responded with. It had a canard - pusher layout to give the pilot the best possible view and would have had an armament of 40mm and 20mm cannons along with bombs and rockets. Two kinds of models (clean / with missile) are included. By Kazunori Ito. www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib.php?searchid=73355893&page=35

In the Netherlands, this brown FT foam board can be had for € 3, which is still an awesome deal!

Its Sunday. Florence has arrived. I need these plans to keep me busy today =)

Burt Rutan was my inspiration for a long time.

I'm a new Sub and freaking love your channel!!!

Congrats on 900k

You Guys should try to make an RC airplane that has NO CONTROL SURFACES and just flies off of weight shift in side the fuselage/wing roots.

Have you thought about using elastic bands to power a prop for something like this? I remember when I was a child my dad brought home a couple of super simple balsa wood planes with elastic powered props. Might be something fun to try. Perhaps get a little extra distance out of the glider?

Love this channel! Totally new to RC. My ultimate goal is to use FVP to explore the woods. What would be the best thing for that?

Would be awesome to see how to make the chuck model do loops and boomerang maneuvers

I love you guys you are awesome sir and so your team

Sweet. Someone with more knowledge than me (or you guys +FliteTest !) should design an EDF version with an intake on each side like the F4 phantom! Might be a simpler beginner EDF

Do a demolition derby with those😁

only reason i can fly is because of FT!!!!! Thx guys!!!!