RC Hot Air Balloon Experiments

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@jamesLbertjones 5 месяцев назад

My dad is a balloon pilot and builds hot air and gas balloons. We’ve been building tissue paper and rc balloons as long as I can remember. I am going to show him this video over the holidays!

@SonicBoone56 5 месяцев назад

Give us an update on what he says

@pato814 5 месяцев назад

Give us an update when you show him

@penewoldahh 5 месяцев назад

I ned udat

@schilling3003 5 месяцев назад

Better yet, show us some of your builds!

@SkiSkillsMontana 5 месяцев назад

My dad went to get milk and never made it home. Could your dad help find my dad, please

@suspense_comix3237 5 месяцев назад

10:25 Ah yes, my favourite Imperial Measurement System: the Banana and Courgette.

@PERMaesan 5 месяцев назад

how did you watch 10 minutes of the video in two minutes??

@Tsnafu 5 месяцев назад

Don't be silly you can't use courgettes to measure, those were aubergines

@DenCon143 5 месяцев назад

As teenagers in the California Central Valley, we used to set off hot air balloons using dry cleaning garment bags with birthday candles taped to straws that kept the bottom of the bag open. The candles were the kind that can't be blown out. From our experience in the non-windy Central Valley summers, your RC controlled hot air balloon will only work in a windless atmosphere.

@MikeNelson1953 5 месяцев назад

Exactly the same in the winter in Erie, Pennsylvania in the late 1960s. Being risk takers, we launched them only a couple of miles from the Erie airport control tower. Only a few were recovered. Most ended up in tall trees in the woods and stayed there for years.

@redsorgum 5 месяцев назад

Same in Southern California, except we used regular birthday candles. We taped the top where the coat hanger stuck out so the hot air didn’t escape….✌️

@narr0wm1nd49 5 месяцев назад

We did the same in California when riding motorcycles in the dunes. Dry cleaning bags. Two sticks of bamboo and a full set of birthday candles. And we would launch them in top of a dune watching them float over the desert

@therandomkidyoutube 5 месяцев назад

as an X year old in 2023, i cant do much in my life

@FarmerFpv 5 месяцев назад

I did the same in Ocotillo Wells using a flare and a homemade balloon. it caught on fire about 1 minute in flight and almost landed on our trucks with gas cans in the back. We always spill race gas when filling our dirtbikes so that would have been bad.

@aaronhastie830 5 месяцев назад

My dad is a hot air balloon pilot so I have several years experience with being ground crew for a hot air balloon, so I don't have much (any) experience with the rc kind, but I can tell you what we do with the big balloons. The line connected to the top of the balloon (the crown line) is normally only used while inflating/initially heating the balloon to control the initial ascent from the ground. It can also be used to keep the envelope from moving erratically if you want to stay inflated with some wind present. The 3 lines you have connected to the basket are for tethering (we usually connect them at the point where the envelope connects to the basket at the top of the tower), and they are the minimum need to fully constrain the balloon over a single spot, but you really only need one to keep it from flying away from you if you don't care that it can move. We usually tether with just 2 lines. The internal line (often called the redline bc it's usually red, or the top line) connected to the vent (called a parachute top) is either used while deflating the balloon, or to let out some hot air to cool the temperature down to descend faster, or reduce rate of ascent. The parachute top is initially held in usually with Velcro to keep it in during inflation, but you can pull it before you deflate the balloon because the buoyant force of the hot air will keep it sealed. Hope this helps, I'm happy to answer any questions about ballooning!

@randymarsh8936 5 месяцев назад

I've always wondered how flight planning works... Like you just look at all the weather information available to you and send it? Just land in some random farmers field and call the truck?

@WereStillPlaying 5 месяцев назад

Yutta Hey?

@aaronhastie830 5 месяцев назад

@@WereStillPlaying 👀

@aaronhastie830 5 месяцев назад

@@randymarsh8936 lol yup you pretty much nailed it. Pick a spot that will give you plenty of opportunity to land and just go for it. The winds often allow for some steering as they'll be at different headings at different altitudes. There is absolutely skill in being able to steer the balloon but if the wind ain't blowing there you ain't going there.

@WereStillPlaying 5 месяцев назад

@@aaronhastie830 Don't take it personally, ballooning is a small world :P

@glennlane6599 5 месяцев назад

Used to make hot air baloons using dry cleaning clear plastic bags. Started with candles for heat, then graduated to Sterno until one windy night all the sterno fell onto a neighbor's roof. We boosted one of our little brothers onto the roof and he stomped out the fire. Always wondered why none of the home's occupants came out to find out what that noise was! That was the end to our hot air balloon experiments.

@anon_y_mousse 4 месяца назад

Just imagine doing that at Christmas and the kids get excited about Santa coming down the chimney. Funnier still would be if they didn't have a chimney.

@brothercannon 5 месяцев назад

Some thermal camera shots of the hot air balloons could be interesting.

@slob0516 5 месяцев назад

Hi. Pilot here. The top line is the crown. It's for use on the ground. The parachute top is used to go down or to dump the air at landing. The teather lines are for anchoring the balloon or to drop to ground crew to handle on landing. Lift is determined by a pyrometer at the top. Higher temperatures are bad for the coating. Keep it under the rated temperature and measure the lift there. Lift relates to the area over the equator of the envelope.

@AnimalWhisper007 5 месяцев назад

The Cool thing about Hot Air Balloon Piloting is the Steering . I got to pilot one with the actual Pilot as My Copilot and to steer You Spit over the side and see where the lower winds are moving in the direction You are wanting to Go and then lowering the balloon to that level and blowing over the way you want to steer then raising up to straiten out or turn the other way ! So you need to get an RC Pilot that spits for the Balloon now !

@b5a5m5 5 месяцев назад

I've been ballooning for 10 years now and was delighted to see you messing around with LTA aviation! One thing I was a little concerned about though, your envelope (probably nylon) is considered over-temp above 250f and quickly degrades the fabric, for polyester envelopes it's 300f. Seeing as this isn't carrying passengers it's not like there is much of a consequence here, but just something to be aware of if you want the envelope to last, well I guess forever since it will hardly be carrying a payload.

@aerospacematt9147 5 месяцев назад

Balloons were my first aviation love. When I was younger I used to be OBSESSED with balloons. Anything from helium party balloons to hot air balloons. When people would ask me what I liked, I would say “anything that flies”. Of course as I’ve aged fighter jets have become my forefront aviation interest. But, to see my favorite RU-vid channel deal with hot air balloons is special! (It’s Peter’s fault I’m flying RC planes too)

@You-are-my-sunshine573 4 месяца назад

I also have an interest in aviation its just so cool to think about flying

@aerospacematt9147 4 месяца назад

@@You-are-my-sunshine573 since the dawn of our species we’ve looked to the birds and wondered what it might be like to soar through the wild blue yonder. Through the years our technology improved and allowed us to finally find out. In a few hours, I myself will be flying in a passenger jet, airborne as our ancestors could only dream of. I count myself lucky to be alive in a world where flight is possible!

@shaylonsegrest7372 5 месяцев назад

You should do an electric hot air balloon using an induction heater.

@oojimmyflip 5 месяцев назад

use a black dust bin liner and let the sun heat the balloon and the air inside, it actually works.

@JosephHarner 5 месяцев назад

Too low energy density. Electric flight is all about efficiency. If you just want heat, as in a hot air balloon, you really can't beat combustion.

@artisticyeti22 5 месяцев назад

@@JosephHarnerYeah I was wondering whether an induction by itself would be able to sufficiently produce so much thermal energy for the Ballon to lift

@Knot_Sean 5 месяцев назад

“Do not try at home!” *as they proceed to unprofessionally and hilariously try this at home*

@napalmholocaust9093 5 месяцев назад

Tampons make excellent wicks for little hot air balloons. Wrap most of it in foil like a bag. I stopped doing it after a police car hit one that struggled to gain altitude and drifted down the main road through town. S. S. Light days. That was one of my ex's favorite stories to tell. It was going out so they didn't stop and it didn't flare-up. When I was a kid, a Korean vet made paper lanterns that you light the whole thing and it goes as an ember up into the sky.

@praticle 5 месяцев назад

username checks out

@nosidenoside2458 5 месяцев назад

I think that a small vertical propeller could be useful here, if you made it neutrally buoyant, it could push it up or down with very little energy

@xxmortikaixx4975 5 месяцев назад

A tall, very thin stainless steel type of shroud/tube with holes around the flame would help keep the flame consistent and also help draw more air into the shroud/flame to be directed into the balloon.

@JSMZeez 5 месяцев назад

Plus it needs to be mounted way higher too.

@NotDrDre 5 месяцев назад

Looking forward to Peter’s follow up to this video: a Hindenburg reenactment flight Edit: he has a dirgible video!

@monostripezebras 5 месяцев назад

In balloons there is kind of a delay effect, when you burn you need to be aware that if you burn until it moves, you overdo it.. short bursts and observing the movement is how balloon pilots do it at first until they develop a feel for their volume

@fezpcgamer4164 5 месяцев назад

Engineer: “recomend me a precise unit of weight” Peter: “eggplants and bananas” 😂😂😂😂

@AJ-Palermo 4 месяца назад

That's by far the best ad for Brilliant I've ever seen!

@bake162 5 месяцев назад

This is the perfect of example of “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” Merry Christmas lads

@bkanegson 5 месяцев назад

It isn't a PeterSripol presentation without some spectacular failures :-)

@paraglidingprospector 5 месяцев назад

I’m just here for the carnage. 😂 Jk. I approve of his RC Tomfoolery!

@shop970 5 месяцев назад

It's really fun! Peter has been experimenting for a long time! Keeps going until it's successful!

@GAD00SH 5 месяцев назад

Always love the variety of your videos! Looking forward to more work on the lobster boat!

@WhatDadIsUpTo 5 месяцев назад

I'm 75 and 'back in the day' I SUCCESSFULLY did this using a kerosine fuel-soaked Tampon wrapped in a criss-cross of 30-gauge wire for support, suspended from a thin "X" of wire side to side from a tissue fabric geodesic baloon made of thin balsa strips. Robust, lightweight, controllable.

@prozacgod 5 месяцев назад

That was about as exciting as a hot air balloon.

@Sniperboy5551 5 месяцев назад

I love most RU-vidrs have uploaded new videos today! Good timing since most people don’t have work, definitely brings in more views!

@richfromtang 5 месяцев назад

Peter: "this is a fire hazard" Um, really? LOL!

@jojofixer 5 месяцев назад

Get a plastic bag from the cleaners, Scotch tape top hole, make a cross of balsam wood and use 2 birthday candles cut in half to make 4. Use on still night only!

@AerialAcesRC13 5 месяцев назад

On RC helium balloons, they commonly used a multiple sized(weights) hex nuts on a string underneath to act as a counter weight, and VERY easy to fine tune as well!!! Very cool, very different!

@hanfo420 5 месяцев назад

Let‘s build our homes out of cardboard and make paper balloons powered by a very big flame fly uncontrolled over them. YEP. 😂

@anthonyelam2257 5 месяцев назад

You are so adventurous and you love to experiment through trial and error and you learn fro your failure ... so fun to watch ... thank you ...❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊 ...

@2timothy477 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing this project. You all have such determination not to give up! May God Bless you all. Steven. U.K.

@TK-tt7jm 5 месяцев назад

I'm building a blimp that uses variable gas temps to maintain buoyancy/altitude. Ultra lite aircraft powered by Corona thrusters and hydrogen.

@Lorecastapendragon 5 месяцев назад

thank you for making this video, I have a fascination with airships and have always dreamed of making one but have never had the means to make one

@hchowky 5 месяцев назад

It's a great idea to combine the rigid airship + hot air balloon idea. I've wondered in the past if a electric heat controlled (through heat elements) compared to gas powered airship can work. Hopefully you have better ideas for your next airship/hot air ideas

@themanhimself3 5 месяцев назад

This is a a fantastic video on why I will never step foot in a hot air balloon. 🤣🤣

@Zortorond 5 месяцев назад

I did make models of hot air balloons myself and actually I found out that you can make one just out of black plastic trash bags and it will lift itself pretty easy by the heat of the sun. So technically you don't even need a heater. But the balloon with fire just looks cooler (or should I've said hotter?) :) There is a very old video of one of mines at my "channel" btw. That one was made of paper and used some solvent as a fuel.

@AveryFlies 5 месяцев назад

Man, you always do the things I can only think of, thats awesome!

@ashers_workshop 5 месяцев назад

Cool. Been waiting for you to do this! Not super adrenaline or fun but i wanted to see you try

@r.f.g1621 5 месяцев назад

Bring back so memories of this year I was at a show doing some rc truck exhibition work, and there was a group or club that had rc hot air balloons on display 😌

@StuartRobinson123 5 месяцев назад

amazing. thank you for this. and for the CAD files. could you list the electronics components you used in the description?

@AsTheRavensGather 5 месяцев назад

Blud commented 14 hours ago… this video is only 43seconds up

@GamingCat100 5 месяцев назад

time travel ??

@lucastschetter9896 5 месяцев назад

Odd, the video has only existed about a minute, and you have a comment on for 14 hours already?

@fingerknight2759 5 месяцев назад

Patreon.

@RemasteredStudios 5 месяцев назад

bruh

@nermket4849 5 месяцев назад

When you use the gondola as fuel it solves the issue of not having enough fuel and having too much weight

@levigabel3685 5 месяцев назад

great video! i am always so excited when i see a new video

@suzannethomasson8692 2 месяца назад

lol “this is terrible, I don’t know who thought this was a good idea, to light these off and let them go.” -Peter @ 2:35 lmao they were ancient Chinese people

@GeneralPadron 5 месяцев назад

You have to remember, the hotter the air, the more lift you get. Even in the same volume of space.

@samuellondke9108 5 месяцев назад

Two Peter sripol videos in one month?! Best Christmas ever!

@skenzyme81 5 месяцев назад

If you can get them to land and auto-refuel, this could be a pathway to swarm-based air defense.

@beargillium2369 5 месяцев назад

I know you're joking 🎈

@vanpenguin22 5 месяцев назад

Long time no see. Glad to see you're still at it. Hope your Christmas was excellent

@seegurke2021 5 месяцев назад

Now I really want a flying hot air balloon eggplant/banana bomber.

@seditt5146 5 месяцев назад

What about Nichrome and electric? Think we are reaching a point where that might be possible? I damn near burned down my neighborhood with these things as a kid and the open flame is a terrible idea..... Trust me.... That Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipppp sound is ethereal btw.

@TheTonester2312 5 месяцев назад

This is super super cool 😎👏🏼🔥

@jurgenknol5721 5 месяцев назад

I like this type of video!

@Robert-ni6ut 5 месяцев назад

Man this thing makes the hindenburgg look safe 😮 but it's still cool keep up the great work Peter 👍

@bmobert 5 месяцев назад

Have you ever heard of Solomon Andrews and his Aereon? He was able to fly against the wind without a motor in 1863. In 1865, he flew from New Jersey, over New York city and landed on Manhattan Island for a few days to avoid a storm. He then flew back again. A post-war recession bankrupted him and he never flew again.

@kashgohel 5 месяцев назад

😂 Can you picture the 1st prototypes screaming at you like a banshee from a dark alley?

@mtmadigan82 5 месяцев назад

Lit unmanned compressed gas bottles in the sky. Couldn't see any massive liability attached to something that reckless 😂

@thesebi 5 месяцев назад

soooo .... you're going for that Hindenburg experience? 🤣 Using a gas lamp mantle might be interesting, so there is less open flame.

@Lopez_rc 5 месяцев назад

Watching this, I just started thinking of launching my rc gliders with these balloons. With a simple release system that both releases the glider and pops the balloon. Good idea for next summer

@pauljs75 5 месяцев назад

The home-made one was close to working better, but I'd suspect the balloon part would need to be twice as big. Compare to the one that was purchased with the basket and all that, in terms of payload vs. lift.

@ik04 Месяц назад

When I was a kid, we made these out of giant popcorn or dry cleaning bags and used birthday cake candles for heat. We launched them every Independence Day and called them UFOs.

@dronepilot260rc 5 месяцев назад

My dad and I used to watch the Hot air balloons go by. Used to be very common in the 80’s and 90’s but now I rarely see them

@quentinhilpert9606 5 месяцев назад

I've been playing with hot air balloons since I was a kid (68) and still do. Unfortunately I live in Arizona so......... when it rains really really well then time to fly. What I want to try is those blow up santa clause yard thingies. Weight it just enough to keep santa upright and santa and maybe his reindeer would be flying!!!!!

@paulkerman8906 4 месяца назад

"Gramps, how did the Great Fire of 2024 start?" "Well, sonny, there was this guy called 'Peter Sripol...'"

@abavariannormiepleb9470 5 месяцев назад

Did a similar project for physics class in middle school - the first test launch was great, the second one was “blazingly short” - fond memories.

@jonathandill3557 5 месяцев назад

Solar balloons made of black material would nearly eliminate the fire hazard, but would probably provide less lift per volume of air.

@stockspieler-yv1fs 5 месяцев назад

Really cool

@mdoyle1981 5 месяцев назад

I had one of these with 3 propane tanks that was slightly larger, Harbor Freight sells a brass adapter that allows you to refill those smaller bottles from a regular BBQ propane tank much cheaper. I sold mine because there were never any days calm enough to fly it!

@chrisfell2621 5 месяцев назад

I agree, sky lantter ballons are a crazy. The risk of causing a fire seem to great.

@techno_john 5 месяцев назад

So... what about using solid state heaters instead of fire? And I've seen stuff about using a smaller balloon filled with steam. Maybe have a two stage design with a small inner balloon with steam, and then an outer balloon with hot air?

@locusschreinert2215 Месяц назад

the cartel lost a good smuggler there 😂😂😂

@Skinflaps_Meatslapper 5 месяцев назад

The sky lanterns are absolutely not a fire hazard unless you launch them in adverse weather conditions. Calm skies at night will allow the balloon to ascend several thousand feet up, and will continue to climb until the fuel runs out and the fire dies. Then you have several thousand feet of slow descent for the fuel element to cool completely down before it lands. It presents far less of a fire hazard than a controlled campfire by a conscientious camper.

@user-mx1qk9bz8v 5 месяцев назад

I follow you from Palestine and I love inventions and continue

@FarmerFpv 5 месяцев назад

I'd be excited and mortified having Peter as a neighbor, lol.

@laytonpratt 5 месяцев назад

Peter has a hot air balloon along 10 bananas and 27 eggplants. Calculate the necessary force required to lift the hot air balloon by itself and then with the bananas plus the eggplants. Assume the balloon weighs 30 lbs, each banana weighs 1 lb, and each eggplant weighs 2.5 pounds. Neglect air resistance and use 32 ft/s^2 as the gravitational constant.

@Rebar77_real 5 месяцев назад

Great Dirigibuild!

@arjovenzia 5 месяцев назад

Hmmmm. Im planning on spending early January at the beach, I often do Ham radio stuff there, not much noise and great propagation. Not much opportunities for a big mast tho, usually jank something from fishing rods and trees. Something like that pulling up a long wire antenna over the ocean could work super good. I believe I have a summer project, thanks Peter!

@flierbill 5 месяцев назад

Awesome one!

@user-zh5pu5lt5f 5 месяцев назад

I was wanting you to do a video on rc hot air balloons so thank you so much also merry Christmas

@zwpf8768 5 месяцев назад

You could use the big off the shelf balloon as a stable platform for RC plane drops 👍

@calvingarrett3245 5 месяцев назад

Thats a cool balloon Peter i like that last one you had a lot of weight in that basket now you can try building a little biger size balloon. Have a great chrismas Peter.

@davidkettell6236 5 месяцев назад

I guess that now we know who's balloon the air force shot down .Well done Peter.

@ChillCat665 5 месяцев назад

If you use a venturi tip on the butane it would work better, hotter with less flame

@walk4718 5 месяцев назад

That was hilarious 😂

@jackermis3104 5 месяцев назад

Merry christmas peter!

@eTiMaGo 5 месяцев назад

The Montgolfier brothers would be proud. Horrified, perhaps, but proud

@laridaa 5 месяцев назад

love your videos greeting from Slovakia

@LeoMcPherson-uv5qm 5 месяцев назад

nice video man, we anticipate an aircraft project soon

@miles_world 5 месяцев назад

"don't buy this thing if you life any state that's flammable" 😂

@kurtflint64 4 месяца назад

I've made something similar to this before by hanging a stripped-down tiny hovercraft, which I made from the Flite Test plans, using only rear motors plugged in, from a neutrally buoyant helium balloon or two. When the stick is pushed forward, it causes the entire contraption to roll, giving the hovercraft gondola a slight upward tilt and causing the entire setup to go forward and up. Turning the hovercraft rotates the balloon or balloons, resulting in the entire setup turning the next time you throttle up. This setup works best indoors, where you won't risk losing your toy to an updraft and it getting stuck in a tree ;-) A broken micro drone can also work with just a single party balloon. In fact, this video has inspired me, and I think I'll build an RC blimp using tiny whoop parts this weekend!

@bobflyman 5 месяцев назад

I love your crazy projects. Was thinking with the first couple of attempts, if a flame burned through your string tether that flaming balloon would have been away! 😮. Flexible wire at the last metre would be advisable. 😊

@Otto_Captures 5 месяцев назад

An integrated heat-pipe that absorbs some of the heat from the flame and transfers it to a jacket/heatsink around the fuel tank would keep the tank from freezing. Added weight, but more consistent fuel to heat output.