The Bow and ArrowPlane 

As an archer and an aviation enthusiasts I love this video. I have actually used dammaged arrows to reinforce wings in my builds.

I like how it would have flown further if they had just left it an arrow.

When the plane launched just prior to the end of the video and cheers erupted after landing, all I could think of was the phrase that Tom Hanks shouted in the movie Castaway: *"I...HAVE MADE...FIRE!"* :-D Congratulations Alex (and team) on a superb build!!! :-)

Get Jörg Sprave's mind going on this. Soon enough you'll be launching ANY plane.

its not the builds i watch for, its the camaraderie and the passion that gets me in every time

I guess you could call it a Boeing arrow.

"a little" bit of dyhedral thats at least 30 degrees

Crossbow, it’s perfect

Man, I'll try not to let this get sappy, but I'm a couple beers deep so brace yourselves... Growing up, I was a total nerd, which is apparently cool nowadays, but where I grew up that was definitely not a term of endearment. Instead, it was more likely to get you shoved into walls and watching over your shoulder for the next unexpected and unprovoked aggression from someone who was at least 50lbs heavier than yourself. I love all things aircraft and R/C, and always have, and some of my best friends and best memories are all R/C-related in some way. My best childhood memories with my dad were going to the local fly-in on Memorial Day each year, and seeing all the amazing aircraft that we could never afford, but I wished and hoped I would some day have for myself. Fast forward, and after years of studying and struggle and perseverance, I got two degrees in engineering, ending with a masters' in aerospace engineering. I now have a job for a great aerospace agency that has always inspired me, and yet... I see your videos and it brings a tear of joy to my eyes (I warned you this would get sappy...) And the reason is... never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined a channel dedicated to friends flying and testing the zaniest R/C aircraft would get so many viewers and see so much success. You guys are doing exactly what my closest friends and I used to do, building things for the love and fun of it, and trying to make it fly... and laughing the whole way whether it works or not! For me, watching your videos is a dose of nostalgia, laughter, and this wonderful warm feeling I get from seeing that dorks like me building wacky R/C aircraft are not only having a great time with it, but also getting so much love from other people enjoying it too! (850K subscribers... I mean... WOW!) I'm so happy to see your success with this channel, and enjoy watching your videos so much. I have it pretty good now, but I'm living one of my dream lives through all of you vicariously. You're all awesome, and even though I've never met any of you I still feel like you'd be some of my best friends in another life. Thanks so much for your channel and keep on bringing smiles to all of the other R/C nerds of the world!

rc car glider tow next??

Will you guys be building a dirt pile at the new location?

VERY CRAZY IDEA ! EXCELLENT !

I like how Jeremy is in front of the camera more often now. He adds an all new personally to the main video crew. PS, it's also relaxing to watch someone that isn't hyper and screaming with excitement for the the whole video. ; )

As an avid archer I've got to say that custom made bow was the coolest part of this video, for me

1:03 "I've got BOWth my wings.." I'M DYING

I wish I had friends like that to share the hobby with!!! Lucky guys.

STEFAN! God ble.... Go... God bles.... Bless y.... okay quarentine that man!

I made one of these, and after a few adjustments and globs of hot glue it flew great! I hope to see more like this.

You're on! I want my skittles :)

This is the flite test I know and love! Building crazy planes and flying them. So much better than the reviews

This was by FAR my favorite video on your channel! Please do more!! :D The whole taking garbage and making it fly is amazing and so much fun.

Loving these little fun episodes! Keep it up guys!

As an archer and a pilot I was laughing my a** off. You boys crack me up. Looks like I’m off to the basement to find a knackered arrow and fire up the glue gun.............. :) Wicked

This was an EPIC video! Love this!!!

You guys have the coolest job ever

I love how you get a celebration out of every slight win

Awesome plane flite test

The fun just never ends!

Great video guys! Was smiling thru entire thing. Good stuff.

I love this idea!

I have Sooooooo much fun watching you guys have so much fun,. As you e explore the possibilities as you continue to educate us all. Thanks

I'd love to see a "scrap foam build off". 3 builders, 4 hours (or less), all the unused scrap foam you want. Cut offs, end pieces, you can use a glue gun, BBQ skewers and popsicle sticks only. Lastly, there can be one extra 15 minutes before launch to make flight adjustment then an winner takes all smash up derby.

Fantastic episode!

Ok. This is more like it. That sincere enthusiasm. And, back to basics. Good. Keep it up. I'd still like to see some new videos on flying reasonably priced drones like the DJI Phantom 3 or 4. I just know you'd try to push it to the limit. And, that'd be great! Please!

this was awesome!!!

You guys are awesome!

Great episode guys fun to watch , simple stuff is always the best fun

I could smash that distance with my 30 pound bow and an arrow without wings. Love your work boys keep it up

The sneezing had me on the floor laughing

Totally loved this episode! It's awesome what you come up with ;) I can see a new sport incoming

VTEC kickt in yooooo

about time the notifications started again!

You should team up to make one with that cool dude who makes the rubber band powered/ folding rocket planes!

Congrats! Great job. Super glider/arrow plane.😁

This is real entertainment. It is educational and just fun to watch!

Super awesome video you guys are awesome love the work you guys do keep up the good work

Very cool! now for the compound bow!

pra mim é o melhor canal de aeromodelismo ! estão de parabéns! aprendo muita coisa aqui, mesmo sem intender inglês.

See? This is why I love gliders over powered. It never gets old...

Pushing the boundaries of bow and arrow flight,that bow was nicely made from Hickory.

I dont know why, but the whole sneezing episode thing at 9:20 made me lol.

Oh this is NICE! Thansk for the video. Maybe a suggestion for part 2, make a crossbow stand (maybe even with a ratchet) so you can really launch it and have some glide time. But then again that might not be a simple build.

I purchased a box of arrows from a sporting goods store they are perfect wing spars.Have been using the same box of shafts for several years. Even if you total the plane strip off foam and rebuild the plane. These were fairly inexpensive arrows black composite shafts, the end that you thread the tips to has an plastic insert with a 4-40 threaded hole. 4-40threaded rod available from LHS or home center connects two shafts together for wing spars or keel beam in fuselage. Leave a gap between the two shaft ends and bend the threaded rod add dihedral to the two shaft spar. I like arrow shafts..

Plans? Making gliders from arrow shafts sounds like a fun build!

A few tips for gliders: first, when they are that small, I recommend that you remove the paper from the top of the wing and sand it into a sort of airfoil, and that will improve the glide ALOT. Also, the wing leading edge should be swept back slightly so that the wingtip has a smaller cord than the wing root and thus decreases tip losses like vortices. And lastly, instead of a barbecue skewer going over the top of the wings, try cutting a dihedral brace from plywood to go IN the wing where the center join is. And lastly, technically because lift:drag ratio is always equal to the glide ratio, a heavy plane could glide very well if it were very low drag.

“Ducks Fly Together” 🤣🤣🤣

Ive been watching since day dot and still love it today.

Wright brothers: *spent a lot of time and effort trying to get airborne* Flite Test: *attaches foam to an arrow and it flies*

Was going to study but couldn't stop watching your video.

'Duck's fly together' lol

"So you made this!?" "I made this" "He made that"

Awesome! you guys should fit this with the capacitor powered control system

Just one word: Awesome 😎

reminded me of airplane golf! go for round 2?

Pure entertainment!!! Flight Test gang ROCKS!!!

And this is why I love flitetest

Fellas ! Nice vid ! Make one of those ancient massive spear/ arrow launchers .. you know . Wooden wheels and whatever .. each make a glider .. furthers wins

As always.. You guys are sickly awesoome 🤣💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼👌🏻

loving it :)

Would love to see a challenge to launch a craft from a Trebochet - Most likely a re-inforced Goblin or similar (to withstand the G-forces) 3 parts to the challenge. 1 - Build an effective Trebochet. 2 - the craft needs to survive the launch, and should reach a suitable altitude that would encourage a panic state as it starts it's free-fall. 3 - operator only gets to control the craft from a certain height from the ground to recover and dive bomb a nearby target. EXTRA POINTS: Do it with under Glide conditions - Competitor with longest glide wins after gaining control from freefall.

Damn...the good ol'days are back..keep it up guys.

I would love to see a motor on that thing! It flies so good!

Well played, Jeremy Longbow. Huzzah!

Great project! Bungee launcher for your Arrow Plane maybe? Happy Flying!

People sneezing is hilarious.

That first arrow shot physically hurt

Now I'm wondering if it would be possible to do a bow powered airplane. Like how some planes use a twisted rubber band for power. Maybe have an arrow with teeth along the top edge that turn a gear that then turns a propeller? Sounds like a good project for Peter? :D

Hi! I love your vids!

The stoned sneezy guy lmao

That's the kind of irresponsible mashup of 2 hobbies I like to see . Love it ;)

Please put an engine on that glider and see how well it flies. Would like to see if it would make a good DIY motorised glider build. Thanks for the fun video ;-)

Arrows could be thought of as thick CF with a hole through the middle for lightness :) Have an Avro Arrow here with an archery arrow as fuse strengthener. The arrow was found in the field that I now fly the Avro Arrow at.

thats cool, even without the bow, put a motor on that puppy and thats gotta be a go-er, love it

Nice arrow plane dude.

Dear FliteTest. I have a challenge for you. You know those flexible pipes used with portable airconditioners and such? You take two of those and mount them parallel, about a meter apart, put some engine inside each one. Stiffen them up a bit, and use their bendyness with some servos to control it. Could you make that work?

you could totally use this as a slope soaring plane, even a powered glider if you put an EDF in the V in the center

FT guys: OMG, its flying! I cant believe its flying, this is a child hood dream Peter: well that was uneventful

i use a carbon express 2117 aluminium arrow shaft for fuse on my motor glider,i 3d printed some clips to glue to foam board,eveything snaps on.work in progress .....nice work guys.

Thank you for the dry fire warning! I hate it when people do that :)

Haha it cuts through the aiiiir like buttah ...splat xD you guys are the best!

That's exactly the way Wright Brothers flew for the first time :)

"The ancient sport of bow & arrowplanes" - you gotta admit: Alex is the master of weird wordglobulations! ^_^

With catapult launched gliders (CLGs) you balance it (as you did) for a flat gliding flight. Typically one will launch the glider so that the speed of the plane will be greater at launch than at gliding speed. At a higher speed a plane that has lift will curve up into a stall if launched with level wings, and either dive into the ground or fly in a series of stalls. Free flight CLGs are often launched with the wings at an angle to the ground so that rather that going into an upward arc the plane will fly in an arc between perpendicular to the ground and parallel with the ground: this will give you height, but rather than stalling the plane will level out into a glide.

"Stop sneezing...!" Glad that didn't get cut.

One flaw in the challenge ..... whoever uses the highest mountain wins ! For a "level playing field" , it needs to be a level playing field ! And you need to specify a minimum amount of wing area .... add VERY TINY wings to an arrow and it will go VERY FAR .

Guillows makes a rubber band launch glider where the wings fold so it can go faster up to altitude and when it slows they unfold and glides. This project needed folding wings.

You're gonna need a bigger bow... High forces over a small distance give a very high acceleration on launch which will have a tendency to rip the wings off so they've got to be strong. Batteries especially need to be secured very tightly!

@ 6:12 Josh says enthusiastically: “ She cuts through the air like buhtta!”, and proceeds to demonstrate that the ground is not buhtta. :)

Fantastic, guys! Really nice! 😀 You could add a little rocket in it, hum? 🤔

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