Operation Sky Hook | RC Aerial Baby Pick-up 

Ok guys, I really wanna know... Is there a baby-shaped dent in the back of the truck....?

"the baby clipped a tree" *gets f*cking smashed into the back of a van and is ignored*

Are we going to ignore the fact that the baby SLAMMED INTO THE FORD F150

Maidening my first drone tomorrow. 😬. Wish me luck. Footage will be on IG - @ollieflying

World News: A toddler got swept up and carried in the air by a kite. Flite Test: Hold my beer...

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.

Flite Test: lets do skyhook. Toy Baby: “I’m Batman!”

Josh: “All right give me a knife. I’m going to cut off the other wing tip.” Andres: “What?.... We have hot glue!”

Best FT quote. "Unfortunately I had to kick his face off" 😂😂😂 That emergency landing was surprisingly graceful all things considered 🤣 was the van OK?

Amber Alert Minerva, Ohio Infant last seen being taken by large foam aircraft resembling "Cabbie" from Planes 2. If seen, please call 911 immediately.

hey flite test can you guys build a antonov 225

As a Flitetest viewer for the past 8 years... that landing was one of the best moments of all time

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.

"Guys.. That was super sketchy and pretty dangerous....." "Just have Josh read a PSA about how safe we are on the end." "SOLD"

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...."

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?

This was more like an episode of "MYTH BUSTERS" ..lol

The end of Thunderball. Can't believe they didn't reference that.

Baby smiling in the wind. Gorgeous

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...

actually worked with the gentleman that invented the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system

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

7:58 "unfortunatley im not a very good pilot" -josh also josh: *flies almost everything at flitetest perfectly*

Thanks for bringing back the Flite Test sketch factor.

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.

no kidding when your shirt says "random happens"

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

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.

Bring back baby for a post mission interview wearing an eye patch.

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.

Baby hits the tree, baby hots the van, baby hits the tent. You guys have way too much fun. Thanks for sharing!

Haha, you guys do this right after that child was picked up by that kite. This is comedic timing at its best!

Still waiting on the flying flushing toilet

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).

bouncing off the truck was hilarious!

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.

Someone happens to glance up, sees flying baby being pulled by plane... lol

Watching this on my break at work and dying laughing when the baby starts bouncing off things 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Gives a whole new meaning to Baby Snatching!

Baby managed to hit the tree, the truck AND the tent, three objects that were really far apart in a very large field.

I think at 19:52 you broke someone's car window:)

Is there a baby-shaped dent in the back of that van now?

12:46 glasses off!! Such a pro move josh 😎💯🔥

20:15 🤣ha ha ha trees, van, gazebo lol

"Operation Baby Yoink"!

You should do a real-scale airplane that’s remote control

Baby rides are now an official measurement of FliteTest

"Big gopher? . . . nope, just Josh doing baby's flyby." : )

"Unfortunately I had to kick his face off to keep the plane from burning up." I hate when that happens.

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've always thought the skyhook thing was a real hoot, glad you all decided to check it out and do a video!

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!

almost kills one guy "i almost killed all my friends" :.( Saddest thing ever

18:16 yoink

The skyhook is in the battlefield 4 campaign and it is one of my favorite scenes in battlefield history!

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!

Someone’s gonna see this comment and wonder how it has so many likes, and will have no idea what it originally said

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...)

BabyCam was EPIC!!!!

Love it!!! Laughed my butt off watching baby get the ride of it's life!!

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FRu6ZxFAVU8.html if you go to the clip and look at the eighth comment it explains a little more. Dave Doster

Id love to see you guys attempt this again! Maybe with an Action Man Doll or something? :)

Teamwork makes the dream work? Wow - that's amazing!

You guys need to revisit this in the future!!

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.

Girlfriend: Come over Me: Sorry I am flying R/C planes Girlfriend: My parents aren't home Me: 18:16

You guys fixed Cabby!

This is BY FAR my favourite episode!!! FLITE TEST IS BACK!!!!

Should have used lazer baby

Some bumpy ride for poor baby! It was one technically difficult job to pull off - well done guys!

16:52 it almost like cut the wing tip off just to plug the new sponsor. That was awesome!

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.

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!

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

Naked Snake will be so proud with this RC Fulton Recovery System

Awesome that this dropped the same day the baby getting skyhooked by the kite did.. thankfully the 3 year old landed safely

WE WANT TO SEE THE BACK DOOR OF THE VAN..... WE VOTED!!!! WE WANT TO SEE IT!!! Lol

This is such an awesome idea! Love your videos and projects guys!

That was the delivery of a "bouncing baby". Well. done guys.

This was awesome guys. I really like these types of vids. A history lesson along with a really cool experiment. Poor baby.

I'd say do over and than make the baby skydive. Loving the episode guys!

Always fun to watch what you guys come up with!

Came across your channel today with the RC cockpit. Of course I had to subscribe!! Loving it!

My favorite thing every week is seeing a new video come out. Keep up the good work

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.

I hate to admit How cool it looks when one of those things catches on fire.

That final sequence was by far the best and most scary thing this channel has done for a while.

This video has the chaotic energy of a Windestål era Flight Test video.

I enjoyed it a lot! But the most I appreciated was the very last announcement at the end about safety. Thanks for adding that.

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. 🤣🤣🤣

You need to make an RC blue angels airshow. that would be AWESOME

Good reflexes Alex! Wow!

Fulton surface to air recovery system great job guys I love it

Awesome video and looks like a whole lotta fun ! How could anyone not like this ?

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 plane is Soo beautifully ! And I love this kind of complex project. GG

This was awesome!!!!!!!! Hope to see Cabbie back again!

This will be my new favorite Video by far from the flight test crew.

Yes! Just the kind of entertainment I needed since it’s pouring rain and depressing