Stellar job men I had an older friend like you when I was his age and I still remember flying with him vividly. You are providing positive memories for Lawson Great work
So had to come back to this video and comment, while watching this, I made it to the 5 minute mark and had a kidney stone attack. I left the computer as it was and came back the next day from the hospital to you just making it back with your 8 pins. Now to finish watching the video...
8:03 Your weight inhibiting factor was the power not the strength of the wing construction. I love your videos and especially these twin engine planes. I flew my Trex 600 on a filming trip and forgot my cable mount again! Still need to try that out.
salle rc Meh, if someone uses measurements you aren't familiar with you can just look them up. about 2.2 lbs per kg. 16 ounces to a pound. EZ. Also about 35 ounces to a kilogram. I would like to see him add more power to the plane and see how much more weight he could get on it. Obviously those dinky motors just won't cut it ;). Plane's too slow, speed is life.
Nice job guys! I think this was also a great test of your flight and landing skills, too. The flight characteristics change with each spike, I'm sure, and then landing the plane, without damage, with each added weight. Very cool!
That was very entertaining!! Thank you for posting and very good mentoring for Lawson to grow up around. Was a nice way to spend my break. I noticed as the plane gets heavier it seems to look more like a realistic take off aside from the times it flips around.
I did SAE aerodesign for my senior project in college. It was the old days of glow plugs, nitro and balsa...but the minimum qualifying lift was 8 pounds.
Why don't you try rocket assisted launch for the heavier lifts? :-) There are interesting possibilities with those heavy weights of delivery of supplies to hard to reach areas e.g. injured or lost hikers before rescue teams come.
Man, I don't know why but I really love the sound of landing gear rolling - the exact sound at 8:55 and 9:10 is music to my ears. Not for any cliche or sarcastic reason, it's just a pleasing sound to me. AWESOME VIDEO TOO BROSKI!
Man I wish I had a field like that where I live! That looked amazing! Plus you have Brian from briansmobile in the comments, doesn't get cooler than that!
I think this is a great model for a do it yourself cheap plane. Pink foam, a single carbon fiber spar, differential thrust, no rudder, hot glue and tape, aluminum flat bar for motor mounts and landing gear, only three servos, as long as you can carve a decent wing out of foam, it's pretty straight forward. It does seem a bit heavy compared to foam board, but I've never seen a good foam board based motor mount, even with a plywood firewall.
Wonderful. I love it when Dad's do hobbies with their children. It always makes 100%+ videos. Great job you two. Keep the videos coming....of you two working together. Great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Differential thrust was not helping you get to a good take off speed. You gotta keep both motors at full thrust. It doesn't look like you had a moveable rudder surface. Throw a servo there and give it a healthy amount of surface area and you might be able to do a bit more.
It would be really cool to see if small wing extenders would help with the heavier weight. Do we need more power or just larger wings to get 10 spikes off the ground?
Could you share details of what motors, ESC Amps, props and batteries you used? I am a newbie in RC plane hobby but have successfully scratch built and flown one. I need some more power and your powerplant combo is impressive. I'd like to replicate it!
I think you can carry more with more expensive components. Not that you should spend more but your wings might be able to take more weight. You may be able to get higher wing loading. Remember 747 has a jet. So in the end you reached the capibilities of your components and not your airframe. Really great plane and very scientific... I like it!
Very good. How do you determine wing loading. I haven't learned how to measure your wings to give you the answer? I'm a Noob yes. But I want to learn. Dig your videos. I was so hoping one or more of those Railroad spikes didn't come off and hit something. Nice job.
Adding another 2 motors should definitely increase the payload capacity, the amount it would allow it to carry extra probably wouldn't be worth it though
what tubing did you use for the main shaft back to the tail? Carbon fiber? I'm about to do the same thing just with a "speed" wing and overall lighter weight.
Excelente video, pero mucho mejor el diseño del aeroplano. Puede por favor publicar el setup; motores, pilas, speed control etc. gracias y Felicitaciones !!
Styrofoam is a very good heat insulator. Maybe if you put your ESCs (and probably the battery) more into the airflow, that'd help. Also, reverse the right engine rotation (and prop) like in the P38 story.
Payload test with a cargo plane is great..How about the same similar test using various quad set up ?? Now that would be cool...for instance Motor up or down Lift ability etc etc ?
