Epic Warbird Air Race! ⚡🤞 Giant DIY P-38 Lightnings. 

Check out the P-38 build video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UVboiF0TuRQ.html Also, the kit is available now: store.flitetest.com/flite-test-ft-p38-lightning-electric-airplane-kit-1460mm-flt-1069/p1059733

After watching FliteTest for years this has to be the most intense, beautiful video of all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wish my father was still alive to see this he was a 38 pilot stationed in the Pacific,he would have loved this!!!

"I see your shadow behind me!" "Yeah your'e going to see more than that in a second." YES

god I would love to be in that room learning from you guys.

Dude the sound of those things passing over gives me chills. Incredible. Awesome video, that looked like blast!

My Uncle Paul was a WW II combat P-38 Pilot and then moved onto P-61 Black Widows. I wish he could have watched this video. EXCELLANT Video and compliments to your skill and dedication to the hobby!

Uh oh. P-38 is my all time favorite plane...I was just flying one in VR in Il-2...this might push me over the edge into RC flying...

“You’re gonna see more than that in a second” DAYUM that competitive!!

I’ve watched every episode since the very beginning days and that might’ve been my favorite one of them all awesome job guys! I never leave comments but I had to for this one!

I was at Glacier Girl "Maiden Flight". I took WWII "Hump Navigator" Lt Col Norman Swersky to see it. We drove from Knoxville on a rainy day and as he was in a wheelchair were able to get a position in the front row. What a great sight and the sound of the engines starting was something I'll never forget. What a beautiful aircraft!!!

P38 is one of my favorite planes love building it in ksp

I love giant scale models, and adding the VR element to this made it truly incredible.

Not going to lie, that was a lot of fun to watch! Great video guys. My favorite part..."Not going to lie Stefan, that was a pretty sketchy launch!" Ask me how I know. ;P

My father got to make one of the windows for glacier girl.

With that mustache, Alex looks like he rather be flying a Messerschmitt 😆

2:16 on the right. For the love of god, please tell me that Tomcat is coming to the maker series DIY kits soon. I'd go nuts to have a foamie F-14 with working variable-swept wings.

More airplane races please, that everyone make his own personalized airplane and make a race, but make it difficult, put some drone gates.

In my view, you have posted the absolute best flying video on RU-vid. That was amazing.

Alright. New favorite episode! Also I guess the P-38 is my favorite WW2 fighter again lol. Seriously tho! John! Your design looks exactly like the aircraft! A true craftsman!

That racing was great to watch! Do more of that, with other warbirds and purpose built planes as well.

You guys are one of the best channels on RU-vid thank you

This just popped in for me to view. Wow. Beautiful models with stunning flying characteristics. The race was great. Seeing P-38s, even models, in flight is very special for me. My Dad was a P-38 pilot during WWII. He was based in England and thus flew in the European Theater. Thanks so much for a great, fun video.

Thank you for bringing these two beautiful aircraft home in one piece.

OK, this video embodies everything cool about RC... friends, film, flight, fight, fright, freedom, fun. The only thing better would be more of this.

Quality! One improvement I'd like to see, is foam spinners made from underfloor insulation blocks, turned on a drill with a ply base, easy to do, no balancing issues, but really add the the effect, awesome P-38's guys 😎

Absolutely my favorite video of all time. This was a fantastic build, great history, full story, and climactic ending that was very satisfying! Just so very impressed and excited to see more!!! Wow.

I’ve wanted to get back into RC so bad lately but being retired has strained my playtime budget. But now there is planes and equipment I can afford thank to you guys at Flite Test. My enthusiasm has returned ! I know you guys are really busy but I do have a suggestion for a great kit. It is the Polikarpov I-16. It is one great plane and I bet the model will fly as good as the real one Thank you for making an old veteran happy again👍😊

Props to John and Flite Test! A truly epic race and a great tribute to an awesome Warbird.

Could you guys do another airsoft battle with these? That would look so cool seeing a dog fight with these monsters of the sky.

Mr Overstreet, what you are doing with foamboard is magic. Respect. Bringing families together with STEM. Good for your community. Good for our world.

That was one of my favorite FliteTest videos ever! John's designs have really taken FliteTest to next level. Looking forward to future videos!

The guy who cheers and pats peoples backs has the most enthusiasm out of all of the guys. I say this cuz I rarely see him flying he is always excited just to watch.

Honestly didn't know how much John Overstreet does, above designing awesome FT Aircraft!! Kudos John!! I'm DYING to build the P-47.... I'm a Disabled Veteran, and my hands, although they work.... COULDN'T cut a Scratchbuild well at all. I even messed up a Baby Blender!! 😞😖 I'd love a Speed Build Kit of it, but can't afford one anytime soon. Not giving up hope though. 👍 Carmine ✈🚂🚙

For 0ver 40 years into all types of RC. Now I just fly race quads and sometimes my Typhoon H or my P4. Love all your videos! You have a great team and all the personalities fit like a glove. Kudos to all you do!!

This was the video that inspired me to build the FT P38 with my father. Thank you guys for the awesome model and kits.

Wow guys, just wow! I’ve been a fan a long time and this is easily the most exciting video you’ve done! Bravo! It’s worth noting I’m a huge Fpv plane guy and could feel my heart racing right along with yours. I hope to see more giant scale Fpv racing. Pan and tilt in the cockpit? 😉

Gentlemen, with the FPV, action cam shots and the drone chase plane, you had me locked in!!. The last time I felt that intense about a plane film?...Top Gun!! "Transferring the shake to the legs!!!" Classic!😉

This is the most beautiful RC warbird video that i have ever seen. I live in Brazil, far far away from you, and guys the only thing that I want to say to you is thank you. You've made my day!

That has to be one of your best videos. Been following y'all since almost day 1. With your passion it's hard not to twist and turn with FPV. I've said before just ain't right for y'all to be having so much fun. Love what you are doing for our Hobby. ✈😃💝

I remember squadrons of these flying over head. the sound was awesome.

The passion you folks have for your work is priceless.

Wow , fantastic, the sound of those motors , best ever.

I would love to see more air races. Not only the P-38s look amazing in the air but the first person view and the racing element pushed it to the next level guys!! So hyped for what is coming next

You guys should design a De Havilland Mosquito, it's my fathers favorite ww2 plane and a truly beautiful aircraft.

Well done. And I'm pretty sure that they found several P-51's under the ice in Greenland also. The flight was mostly P-51's. But an amazing recovery none the less. I think Life magazine did an article on this with lots of great pictures. One of my favorite stories. The P-38 Lightning was truly the best Prop fighter ever built. Dead on accuracy.

2:12 wow that’s a lot of planes behind ya

Guys that was the greatest video of friends enjoying the hobby!! Thanks to John and you all to drawing some of us back into the hobby and I've enjoyed it with my sons! The next generation. Still building on my A10, you got me want excited again. P38 is also my favorite plane. I'm telling myself 1 at a time. Keep it up!

Reminds me of the laughs and excitement that Josh and David "the swede" had with the 400th episode giant twin and spit .. you must resurrect those models to race again!

You dudes are friggin awwsumm!!! I love all the "radio" chatter. The FPV and drone footage was amazing! I don't know what else can be done to make this hobby more realistic than it already is. Maybe a machine that can shrink humans down so we can fly in the plane?

You guys just raised the bar. The rest of the RC aircraft community just ran their hands through their hair and sighed in exasperation.

The sound that these larger scale aircraft make is more than incredible... It's awe inspiring! Imagine for a moment if you will, Marlon Brando's voice saying "The horror... the horror". Now, change that up a little, and imagine him saying "The sound... the sound..." _______THAT is how the sound that these larger scale aircraft make me feel. I would never have imagined that anything couldn't have made me feel like that when I started making these entry level planes.

That was brilliant, looked like a lot of fun. Anyone else notice there was no high fives at the end?

Alex made excellent use of ground effect to lighten the wing loading and gain speed! That racing was awesome! Maybe your best video yet! Thanks.

how is nobody talking about the sound those planes produced? those birds sound awesome on a low pass

The P-38 was always my favorite warbird, even though it's often overshadowed by the Mustang. And I remember reading about the Lost Squadron as a kid and their efforts to recover the planes, so epic! Great videos! Loved the B-17 bombing runs against "flak". Would love to see you fly 2 or 3 of them in formation on a "real" bomb run! 😃

"You're gonna see more than that in a second" - Josh :p

OK, that was MULTIPLE LEVELS of awesome!... the builds, the videography, the editing, the camera angles, the music, the intensity of the racing, the chase drone! I felt like I was watching MythBusters or something.

When are you going to make some german models?

My grandpa was a mechanic for the P-38 and B-25's His favorite story was about a ride in a Lightning right before it got destroyed, which happened a lot. Cheaper than shipping home. Why there are so few left. Awesome job on the build

Guys, that was awesome! It was like best action movie! I was thrilled till the last moments :D Best greetings from Poland.

This show won a subscribe. The P-38, and Flying Fortress are a couple of planes I liked as a kid, and the race was great.

I wonder if there's a company that makes retractable landing gear for these planes, that would amp up the realism. Love all the vids, keep 'em coming.

I got to see the Glacier Girl fly for the first time after restoration! I'm from Corbin, KY and remember watching it take off the first time after she was rebuilt!

Imagine a team effort of 2 teams who play opposing nations doing a combined obstacle course [photo-reconnaissance, strafing, dive bombing (with or without ground emplacements), then followed by high altitude bombing, then dive bombing and finally a team dogfight] using either highly visible lasers, airsoft or paint balls. Each team [squadron] would have to score so many points in each phase of the game, so many points per segment based on successful actions [photo-recon would require one taking good high quality images of selected objectives to 'send back to HQ' so the score would be based on quality and accuracy of images] and photo recon would be first because the course would 'of course' get messed up with each successive phase. Hits would be registered either by onboard sensors [like 2 pieces of sensitive foil inside the body for airsoft, external cameras or drones for paint ball, and either internal photo-diodes, internal cameras, or drones for lasers (foam would have to be translucent for laser)] or by drones and placement of hits, or number of hits would register points within a fixed time limit since it is highly unlikely they would be knocked out of the air [especially when knowing no laser you could get to work inside would knock them down AND such a powerful laser would be too dangerous for such a game]. Both strafing runs and bombing runs would probably be best done with some kind of water balloons or paintball type devices. In between each physical attack on the course(s), there would be pauses to go in and count the number of points per team, possibly reset any moved or damaged props/targets, and possibly wipe off the last team's paint so as to reduce confusion [if each team is attacking the same course instead of two identical courses being built]. I find the idea most intriguing even if you stop there, but to enhance the course difficulty, you could add night mission, AA and search lights to make the mission more difficult for those who prove to be expert at day missions. It could become a full time permanent event some place with multiple teams registering as teams, with rules such as the size of a paint-bomb/torpedo [to keep the need for accuracy within a fixed and repeatable scope], the caliber of paint balls [although I think they are relatively uniform, some will behave differently than others so it could be seen as cheating unless in some form of 'unlimited' class people accept a wider scope of design differentiation] and each team would have a set period of time to complete each section of the course, followed by a set period of time to replace batteries and check for any structural/electrical issues between stages, and penalties for either failing to maintain their fleet [careless/lazy piloting and maintenance crews, after all, lose wars too!] as well as penalties for attacking either before or after the time limits [large lighted pylons would be around to make sure all people knew when the mission was opened [green, most likely] and closed [red, most likely] as well as some form of horn or other sounding device to reinforce the message that the time has begun or ended. Tournaments could get really popular in time and possibly televised internationally! (~_^)-b

This is one of the coolest videos I have ever seen for anything RC. FANTASTIC!

Alex: Ah, I see your shadow behind me! Josh: Yeah, you're going to see a lot more than that in a second! FT Crew: OooOooooOooh! 😂😂😂 Me: I definitely want to see more Air Races! This has to be my favourite episode so far! Fantastic job FT Crew!

That's just good stuff right there. I was excited watching it, so I can imagine how pumped you guys were.

Make something form the movie Midway Like an aircraft carrier for the planes to land on

You've out done yourselves with this one. FANTASTIC, NEXT LEVEL, EPIC

You guys need some scale props for the store.

That 360 cam footage was completely awesome. Would love to see more of that. Maybe even some raw 360 footage where we can control the camera angle in the playback or even use VR kits and mobile VR headsets to check it out that way. Fun video. Thanks guys. As always you rock.

Idea for a vid, try land a drone in one of your planes

That seriously felt like a real air-race. Please do this again. I would love to see this with a couple of those F-14's you have on the wall.

4:07 -- RE: "Frozen and encapsulated in ice" -- SO! Not hard to find where the Captain America origins story began, hm?

Performs like a p38 lightning. The p38 lightning is legendary. Nice work. You guys should be really proud of yourselves.

I visited Glacier Girl when sh was being restored. I still have a key ring with an original piece of one of the wings that had to be removed during restoration.

Guys,, you've outdone yourselves! That was fantastic! Congratulations! That was more exciting than the Reno Air Races, and almost more realistic. The viewer is almost sitting in the cockpit with the pilot, instead of a grandstand. I truly believe you have created a new field for RC aircraft racing. Your should be proud of yourselves. I can see you setting up a racetrack with pylons and everything. If you could project that on a screen? Great!

Im surprised Spec Wing Racing hasn't caught on like Qaudcopter Racing.

I love this vid the most. This race with big, beautiful planes and the fpv is just awesome!! Thank you! Wanna see more of that please!

U guys should make a paratroper plane

This is it! Reno...are you watching!? Full scale...can you see this? I hope this inspires full scale racing just as 3d Model flying has! All your camera angles and fpv make these giants come alive! This should be an event. Is their an AMA event like this? Classic Warbird or Reno Air Races FPV....if it is...I haven't seen it yet. Fantastic Job!

WHO THE HECK DISLIKED THE VIDEO!!

By far the most Epic race of large planes..Stephens laugh is so infectious, weNeed more of these races...

2019: MONSTER SIZE P-38 Lightnings 2040: FULL SCALE PASSENGER PLANE MODEL!

As an aerobatic instructor and ex-Airforce pilot and Airbus Instructor with an active build schedule in FPV, I can say that was very well done!

does anyone else want to see this in a gas version

I swear you could never get bored if you had that many RC planes

that roll with the fpv drone was so awsome

That. Was. Epic. !!!? Awesome, just awesome. P38 is one of my favorites, looked so beautiful in the air. Amazing footage. Great flying...

This is really cool. I was the director of the Savannah Foreign Trade Zone here in Savannah GA and the "Confederate Air Force" came in with the guns from the plane to be demilitarized. Was really an unbelievable story and was able to see first hand the pictures and story that went along with them. The interesting part was when they found the head gear for the radio, it was as soft and usable as the day it went in the plane. Also they did fire the guns prior to bringing them in the US and they also worked as if brand new. The ice perfectly preserved the interior of the planes. Awesome you guys did this!

I've watched you Guys from the start,and this just took over for my FAVORITE episode!!! The launch on those are so awesome I think they would have yanked Stefan off his feet if he got hung on one! EXCELLENT WORK!!!

More of this please!!!!!!!!!! you should set up a GP series between you guys there, racing for points.. see who takes the trophy at the end over a good few videos!.. would love to see who is the ultimate race pilot !

When I was a kid in ireland . They use to fly spitfires from England to Ireland . I use to here them once a year over head . That sound and look was amazing. Just watching this video brought back child hood memories. That's guys that was amazing

Racing is SO much fun to watch! MOAR racing!

The noise those large planes make is amazing! You guys should do Rutan's Pond Racer.

Hands down greatest video flitetest had done.i was blown away by the editing, camera views. It was amazing, well done guys.

That was a really fun one. I lived 25 years in Saudi Arabia where RC flying was pretty much banned and unavailable. So of course we built a ton of them out of foam board. Now that I live back in the US I haven't really considered building with foam but watching John, O. on Facebook and now your guys stuff... hmm.. that P38 is looking pretty good!

One of the best arcade games ever!! Used to spend hours in the Great Adventure arcade/Amusement park, in Queens Ny. Waaaay back in the 70/80's!!

You guys are the best!! I aspire to have as much fun as you guys do on a regular basis. You give me faith that there's hope for peace and love for everyone on this planet.