Thrust Vectoring 'Canard' Jet - FLIGHT 

Not enough tea was consumed towards the end of the day, but I won't spoil what happens ;)

For a channel with 1.3k subs the production quality is incredible.

Super fun video and GREAT project! Nicely done

that was fun to watch, great job guys.

I'm a retired Electronics Engineer from "Airbus" now permanently resident in Northern Germany. You might find yourselves on the Threshold of some innovative aviation technology. Look out for the Cloak and Dagger Guys from the "Military". I will be watching, with interest, for developments in your future Projects. Good Luck and success.

It's nice to see someone with real RC piloting skills. Great flying.

Gentlemen: As a retired aerospace engineer from the U.S. now living in Thailand, I cannot adequately express how satisfying it is to see two young men who are doing something better in life than simply hanging about social media hunting for something to be offended by. I came across Tom's channel while cruising videos on e-bikes, and his stuff directed me here. The short version is that I am sure your families are proud of both of you and you make me feel a little less pessimistic about the future of the species. Keep up the learning and exploring. You obviously enjoy it and it sure beats marathon sessions of GTA5 or WOWC. Great projects and great videos! Frank Freeman

Love your channel, thanks Tom for sending us over here

I am teaching physics in the middle east, you boys definitely make me feel proud to be British. Great job and I also loved the Dam busters project, beautiful scenery too. Thanks

Get Tom on flight test - they're missing some ginger 😊.

Honestly this was the most enjoyable youtube series I have ever watched. More thrust vectoring team-ups please!

Hi, Electric Engineers from India. We love what you guys do. Tom Stanton is really inspiring.

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS!!!!!

Excellent job guys!! Wonderful collaboration.

This was the first time that I had seen Tom and James collaborating. I had no idea that these inventive characters knew one another. The potentiating boost of their mutual madness should produce spectacular creations if they can only avoid injury or incarceration. Best of luck to you blokes!

I think that you should make a plane launcher... something like a large crossbow/ballista that has a foot operated trigger so both your hands are on the controller as it launches. It would also look cool next to your trebuchet.

I know I am late to the party, and I am sure this plane is long gone, but the oscillations from the wings are due to the center of gravity being in a neutrally-stable/unstable position. Any perturbations from turbulence and control inputs would cause oscillations with very little damping. To add to the lateral stability, the CG needs to be moved downward and add dihedral. This can be done by mounting the battery in a lower position or shifting the wings up (this is why high-wing configurations are so stable) There's always a drawback, and this case it would be roll speed. But since you're trying a new design, I would prefer stability over maneuverability until the flight controller is tuned. Great video and awesome idea!

To use a typical English description, BRILLIANT!

Great collab with Tom. Love the video. Greetings from the Netherlands.

This is amazing, I love how much tea you fellas drink

Good to see you two together

I have watched Tom's work on his channel, which is rather impressive. He seems to be a better mate then the two other guys you had with you when you're testing out your pontoon plane. Downers

Hello from Hamilton Ontario Canada, just starting first year of engineering at university. Good video bro.

Epic partnership with the Red Baron designer 💘

Hey James, Bob from Virginia. We met at FliteFest - good seeing you on here! Thanks Tom for sharing this fantastic channel!

I Had no idea you guys are brothers ! I should’ve known , both of your channels are awesome. God bless take care stay safe.

Hello from Dubai, Tom linked me in here, great work guys.

Greetings from Turkey where is drink the most tea :) I like all Tom`s Projects and now I`m happy to meet with you.Good collaboration,keep going

You guys should collab more often. You have a great chemistry

ive never been more excited to see a collab. great job guys

This is still such a cool channel 2 years on

i did not expect that to fly. Well done! from western USA.

I am amazed that it took you so long to crash this amazing plane! Well done to both

Hey from Iran. I know very little about planes but I enjoy your videos, specially collabarative ones.

I was actually more impressed by the flying skills than the plane... And that doesn't mean that I wasn't impressed by the plane. Good job !

Like many viewers of this excellent video, I´m new to this channel and would like to commend the very high (almost Project Binky - high) degree of acknowledgement of the importance of regular tea consumption which we witnessed here. The idea of compensating for the downthrust generated by the flaps was a long way out of the box, as there´d be little correlation between airflow over (or rather under) the wing and throttle setting. I salute you both for the sheer audacity you displayed in building this model. It does have some astonishing flight characteristics as well as looking absolutely tremendous.

Fab! Followed you both for years - great to see you working together like that!

Great collaboration. Look forward to the next one. Thumbs up from Australia

GOOODD! finally a new channel that tries to be itself!

Fantastic, guys! 😃 One idea for the next project: 2 EDF motors on the back with individual tilting mechanisms. 😉

Cool to see the transition from first flights to slow flying and sad to see the last landing Enjoyed this episode. Cheers from New Zealand

LOVE the aerial footage - hello from Minnesota USA

One of the most British video i saw

A very entertaining and enjoyable video, would love to see more of these hybrid aircraft designs particularly with Tom and his experience/technical know how. Suggestion: a spitfire body with a EDF power! Keep up the good work, From Australia

Great fun to watch, the best RC video i've seen in a long time, thanks for posting.

Well, you just have made VTOL Jet. Not a usual thing to see in a plane! Subscribed!

That was the greatest thing I've ever seen

What a great collab, I left the comment on Toms video, Ardupilot has a mix for just this sort of airframe, allowing flying wings to take off flat with vectored motors.

Great to find true Brits consuming plenty of Tea ☕🇬🇧👌🏼😄🙌🏼

Great team effort!!! Looking forward to your next collaboration with Tom

Love the video! Love the collab! Glad Tom sent us over here to your channel. You two are fun to watch collaborate! Good stuff gents! Oh, and I am from Unalakleet Alaska! Been a FliteTest fan since day 1 and am enjoying all the branch off channels of people involved! Plus people like Tom are just stellar to keep up with. Never a dull moment with people like you guys. Good work!!

OUTSTANDING.

#1- add a fan unit inside the fuselage with air inlet ducts forward of it. #2- make the fuselage smaller in diameter (less drag). #3- make the canards wing shaped. It seems to be underpowered. Great first design. I am from Rockford, IL. USA. GOOD LUCK

Came from Tom's channel but I am a long time FliteTest fan so to see the correlation was really fun. You plane is similar in flight characteristics to the FT Viggen but on steroids. I am happy to be a new sub and look forward to future content. I'm from Utah in the U.S. and love flying everything from tiny RC to large Boeings.

Nice Build, I was linked here from Tom's channel.

6 cups of tea went into the making if these video; Caleb from Texas, US.

What a great build,... enjoyed seeing it all come together. I enjoyed watching all the technology being used to make the plane and then making it fly.

You pretty much created a VTOL aircraft 👍

Great project in the true spirit of FliteTest. From West Virginia USA

Awesome ! Greetings from Reunion island !! That was very fun to watch !

Just came over from Tom's channel and am a big FliteTest fan as well. Just subscribed and looking forward to checking out more of your videos! edit: I'm from South Carolina, USA

Posting from Canada 🇨🇦. Interesting build, I enjoyed these videos.

Quite nice drone footage

EXCELLENT footage at the end!

the wing portion in the middle is destabilizing a rear lateral wing counters forward thrust for better balance

The plan flew so much better than I ever guessed. What a great idea for a project!!! I'm subbing!

Very good plane. I had once made a delta plane with vector thrust and flew just as strange. Especially at low speed.

That. Is. AWESOME! Love the drone footage of the flight too, so cool!

Looks like a lot of fun,more projects please

Well done chaps!! What fun video

This video was so sick

You know they’re British when there are 4 tea breaks in a ten minute video!

Nice work!! From California USA.

The birth of Flitetest UK..

Another great channel with people making cool projects discovered 😎 Great video!

That was awesome!

Great stuff. That looked fun and for what was a knocked up plane, it flew very nicely. Props on the neat landings too.

From the Netherlands and flying rc planes since i was 7

Great flyer ! Nice to see something different....

Great vid! Watching from Canada

Nice work guys! 👍

Hello James, just found your channel. You are an expert pilot. Would love to see more hovercraft adventures. David from the Isle of Wight

Well done chaps.

What a strange airplane. That said, this was a thoroughly enjoyable episode, watched while drinking tea, I might add. I've subscribed to both your channels for some time, so it's a real treat to see you working together! Best regards from Missouri, USA.

Well... it looked a lot better in the air than on the bench, and flew a lot better than I expected it to after the "teaser" at the end of the build video on Tom's channel. 😁👍🏼👍🏼 Subscribed 👍🏼

Hi from Denmark. Very nice production and cool concept with the cross channel collaboration. Keep up the good work.

Reminds me of a really old RCPowers video! Great job.

Nice! This looked very cool in the air. Some of the landings reminded me of the space shuttle.

This is great guys! I love seeing you're innovation!

Hi from Australia, this is cool. I think the nose looks like the English super sonic plane the Miles M52

Suggestion; use an old FC to for gyro stabilisation and channel mixing, basically make it 'fly by wire', that way you won't need to manually coordinate pitch and thrust to maintain level flight...

You guys make a good team. Keep up the good work.

you should put an edf in it and just have the canards for pitch control

BTW, I'm from Brazil. And your channel's name remembered me of Project Blue Falcon, JC's channel... R.I.P. So, keep the great work!

Hey guys am from India Mumbai and love your work..

This is really awesome

Hello from Mississippi

Very cool plane guys, regards from Mexico.

fun to fly and fun to watch from Perth Western Australia

FliteTest could take a few aerial video lessons from this :-)) Great vid - bundle of fun too - wine works better than tea 'tho LOL :-))