Such a beautiful design! Love the motor location, aesthetically much more attractive than any other I've seen and it must be much quieter than the nose, retractable and pusher styles. Bravo!! I want one.
Amazing plane! Congratulations for the project and for making the dream come true! Please let us know when you will start to sell / hire this wonderful aircraft!
Now THIS is freakin' COOL as hell! I can see something like this being used in search and rescue operations because of its sustained flight capability. :D
I'm guessing the price on this beauty to be about $500k . One of a kind hand built. Practical not at all, COOL, one of the coolest things i have ever seen!!
Damn, that thing could pretty much power my whole apartment, too, if I can just get one and keep it parked on the roof or something when I'm not traveling far lol
Impressive. I'm sure a lot of people have seen the video where the Perlan 2 uses the thermals to ascend to between 50,000 and 55,000 feet (I'm sure my number is wrong but I think the glider went higher than any commercial flight). Basically the glider managed the height without any kind of propulsion. I'm sure with a prop like this one, that little extra push could really help in some cases.
Perfection. What’s the L/D? How much? Wanting more details! Doubtful I could afford one. But amazing to see this technology in soaring world..!!! Thx to smart aviation engineers…
good job, actually I'm member of a team from toulouse paul sabatier university in france, we will make next year a solar drone ... your video is a ind of motivation!
Beautiful plane and footage, some stat's or info would be nice. For example was it flying exclusively on solar ? What's the battery and solar panel size, endurance, performance, etc
That would be such a awesome feel to have the canopy open like that, you must be just above stall speed ? maybe with a bit of flaps?? When will they be available to by :) or build.
very cool plane, and also sexy design....appart from that I also like to think about solar plane concepts; maybe a flying pancake shape would give more solar cell area and lift
As it happens, I've been running spreadsheets on how to power an aircraft from solar cells. The surprising thing was discovering that the amount of power needed for sustained flight is proportional to just two things: aircraft weight, and lift/drag ratio (aka glide ratio). And the thing that has the biggest effect on lift/drag is the shape of the wing. Basically, for the same area of wing (and thus the same amount of solar power available), you can get better than FOUR TIMES the lift/drag ratio from a long, narrow wing than you can from a short span, long chord wing. So I think the designer went the right way with this.
Victor Williams Me being a rc pilot, please can you tell me when the kit is available! Just joking. Thats very impressive. People have been trying to do this in the rc world to. But without top results. But we will keep trying, as new cells become available. Great video. 👍up from me.
Nope, it has a battery that's actually powering the motor. The solar panels are helping to replenish the battery, but it's not at the same rate as it's being depleted.
Exactly what struck me..... Add some rigidity between the wing and the fuselage. Paul Allen's strato launch worried me too with so much flexibility between the two fuselages...all the torsion aeroelasticity concentrated in the mid wing. I'd pull my money out of this project. Also a great variation of cg with the second passenger variable being so far from the cg of the plane....
Интересно узнать ТТХ эл мотора, площадь панелей, вольтаж и ток который они выдают и какой планет использовали ( я в них не разбираюсь пока что ). Ну и вес самолёта ? It is interesting to know the performance characteristics of the electric motor, the area of the panels, voltage and current which they issue and which planets used ( I do not understand them yet ). And the weight of the plane ?
whats the range on that ? you said in the comments that you can get up to 10-12 hrs of flying in the summer. How fast is this magnificent beauty in cruise flight?
if you were to catch a good thermal and some wave, perhaps a ridge lift too and once you take off are able to soar for 10 hours straight, have the splar panels got sufficient capacity to RECHARGE batteries ?
Coz to me it looked like with only the center mount the wing could easily be blown to one side by the wind and thus bend the center mount, in the worst case even to the point where the wing tip strikes the ground an takes damage from the impact.
Bad assumption, idiot, look at the video featured on my channel in which u can see me shooting a bunch of real guns several years ago and dare do say that again! And while it's true that I know little to nothing about this particular design I said what I would improve about it based on what happened in the video, which was the wing tilting to one side a little bit, which in turn I would wanna prevent! How the fuck does that imply that this design is bad!? It doesn't, that simple! It's just something I said that I would personally do and I would definitely modify mine according to it if I owned one! Also, I've already built my own planes and even tho they're just RC models that still takes some structural and aerodynamic knowledge, and in my videos about them ur gonna see that I'm also quite a decent pilot! And last but not least, "butthurt" in this case means that u took a simple expression of what I would personally do if I owned or had designed this aircraft as a personal offense got so pissed about it that u started insulting me for no good reason, so here's my final reaction: SHUT UR FUCKIN TRAP AND P!SS OFF, DICK-FOR-BRAINS!
Somebody said that it has a 25 kW motor on it, and can run that for 20 minutes on the batteries. There are two things that require power: getting off the ground, and getting to a place where you can find natural lift. I'm guessing it takes only a couple of minutes to get it into the air, so the more important factor is how far and how high you need to climb before you can start using it like a glider and start recharging those batteries.
Such a beautiful design! Love the motor location, aesthetically much more attractive than any other I've seen and it must be much quieter than the nose, retractable and pusher styles. Bravo!! I want one.
Just watching the elegance of the gear go up but a big smile on my face. :)
It looks so beautiful. And even 2 seats. Very impressive.
That is got to be the most awesome glider plane I've ever seen what you're doing keep it up thank you for showing that video
Not only a fascinating drive"train" but also an incredibly beautiful aircraft. Bravo!
Amazing plane! Congratulations for the project and for making the dream come true! Please let us know when you will start to sell / hire this wonderful aircraft!
Очень перспективый проект ... Проект будущего!!!!!!
Such a wonderful looking and performing aircraft.
Xx
Absolutely incredible! What a great machine!
A superb bird
Now THIS is freakin' COOL as hell! I can see something like this being used in search and rescue operations because of its sustained flight capability. :D
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Happy to see such a invention, hopefully we can make more more in future. Specially expecting eco friendly types
what a machine ! you could fly across Europe during the sunny day..
Who would of believed this 50 years ago , amazing , the electrical age is certainly upon us .
check out the Icaré II made in Germany over 20 years ago. It's nearly the same as shown in the video.
it's time that we have alien technology made available ... fcking governments ...
Walter Wojcik please tell me that you’re kidding?
I'm guessing the price on this beauty to be about $500k . One of a kind hand built. Practical not at all, COOL, one of the coolest things i have ever seen!!
Check out the SUNSEEKER ONE built and flown across the USA THIRTY years ago.
NOW THAT IS FANTASTIC!!!
That is a thing of pure beauty!
Damn, that thing could pretty much power my whole apartment, too, if I can just get one and keep it parked on the roof or something when I'm not traveling far lol
KHFokg
Impressive. I'm sure a lot of people have seen the video where the Perlan 2 uses the thermals to ascend to between 50,000 and 55,000 feet (I'm sure my number is wrong but I think the glider went higher than any commercial flight). Basically the glider managed the height without any kind of propulsion. I'm sure with a prop like this one, that little extra push could really help in some cases.
Very beautiful these solar plane very cool
Very impressive, good job.
what a stunning aircraft
Perfection. What’s the L/D? How much? Wanting more details! Doubtful I could afford one. But amazing to see this technology in soaring world..!!! Thx to smart aviation engineers…
good job, actually I'm member of a team from toulouse paul sabatier university in france, we will make next year a solar drone ... your video is a ind of motivation!
Enfin ! Excellent. Ça faisait longtemps que j'attendais ça.
Beautiful plane and footage, some stat's or info would be nice. For example was it flying exclusively on solar ? What's the battery and solar panel size, endurance, performance, etc
beautiful air craft
That was a perfect landing
That is one immense wingspan.
;-) total Free & Bi Seat ! Very good idea !
That would be such a awesome feel to have the canopy open like that, you must be just above stall speed ? maybe with a bit of flaps?? When will they be available to by :) or build.
Sweet! The future is upon us lol
by covering whole fuselage it may be more stronger!
See also SUNSEEKER ONE built and flown across the USA THIRTY years ago
I strongly advise blacks in Africa to build such beautiful airplanes and fly them. They feel good, they have plenty of sun!
Can this be classed as a motor glider?
Wonderful and best of luck
Awesome 👍
I would love to fly it!
Impressive .
Thank you!
very cool plane, and also sexy design....appart from that I also like to think about solar plane concepts; maybe a flying pancake shape would give more solar cell area and lift
As it happens, I've been running spreadsheets on how to power an aircraft from solar cells. The surprising thing was discovering that the amount of power needed for sustained flight is proportional to just two things: aircraft weight, and lift/drag ratio (aka glide ratio). And the thing that has the biggest effect on lift/drag is the shape of the wing. Basically, for the same area of wing (and thus the same amount of solar power available), you can get better than FOUR TIMES the lift/drag ratio from a long, narrow wing than you can from a short span, long chord wing. So I think the designer went the right way with this.
I THOUGHT IT WAS AN RC PLANE LMAOO
Victor Williams Salmeron same
Victor Williams Me being a rc pilot, please can you tell me when the kit is available! Just joking. Thats very impressive. People have been trying to do this in the rc world to. But without top results. But we will keep trying, as new cells become available. Great video. 👍up from me.
With 2 seats!
Victor Williams سیکس
should make an option for when you do a steep dive it windmills the propeller and generates more electricity
That wouldn't be a good idea, you'd barely get any power back from the loss of potential energy.
Nice landing
such a huge wingspan for one man plane.........little bit of wind might just give a huge trouble
Is this fully powered by solar energy only? wow amazing
Nope, it has a battery that's actually powering the motor. The solar panels are helping to replenish the battery, but it's not at the same rate as it's being depleted.
and good thing is when stranded this can power whole airfield.
I would love to own this plane. I would put money towards it's development if I could! Sweet!
just buy a stemme s12
@@Haralddv for $369,000 :)
No noise!!!!!! amazing
Is the glide ratio comparable with an sailplane?
What was dangling from a cord behind the wing cam?... could hear it rattling at T/O too.
Hello ... what a good job (and really big) !
I'd like to have a ride ! but I'm in france .... so bravo. Tadeg
Very cool, what's the glide ratio?
this is the future of flight..................
oh , such grace !
And what's difference in length of flailing
with, and without solar panels (same
glider)
Both wheels are not touching the ground while landing at same time.ls it unbalnced landing or cross wind landing.
I'm just wondering how much stress is on that tail by mounting that motor back there?
Very little
Awesome glider
Welch eine Schönheit.....
i am in love with sail planes. i think these planes are safer than jet planes
3rd axis i love gliders, but don’t try to cross the atlantic in one!
bravo.. good job for the team
Exactly what struck me..... Add some rigidity between the wing and the fuselage. Paul Allen's strato launch worried me too with so much flexibility between the two fuselages...all the torsion aeroelasticity concentrated in the mid wing. I'd pull my money out of this project. Also a great variation of cg with the second passenger variable being so far from the cg of the plane....
Try hours tyyyy uzs
You can even add a propeller that makes electricity then maybe you can even have 4 seat model.
Nice landing. Could put a small motor on it to keep the battery charged at nignt and free running during the day
As long as you're in flight long enough to replenish the energy it took to launch, there's no need to charge overnight.
Making a wonderful......... Very nice
Fabulous!
Thank you!
Интересно узнать ТТХ эл мотора, площадь панелей, вольтаж и ток который они выдают и какой планет использовали ( я в них не разбираюсь пока что ). Ну и вес самолёта ?
It is interesting to know the performance characteristics of the electric motor, the area of the panels, voltage and current which they issue and which planets used ( I do not understand them yet ). And the weight of the plane ?
Some of the uiltra lights better of with a 250cc motor they could be up there for hours electricity still causes pollution?
Electricity doesn't cause pollution, it's all about the method of generation, but even the nastiest one is still cleaner than any combustion engine.
beautifull
Is it too heavy so it doesn't stay up long because it's always decending?
what a beautiful plane........does it have a ballistic parachute?
Yes, a GRS, which is the best available
just put this on my retirement list!!
Where can I buy a two seater glider? Are there any manufacturers?
how much it weights more than normal sailplane ?
what kind of performance does it have? like stall speed, cruise speed, never exceed speed(really cool plane btw)
Wow! to fly, does Glider Pilot license will suffices or needs a power craft license ?
whats the range on that ? you said in the comments that you can get up to 10-12 hrs of flying in the summer. How fast is this magnificent beauty in cruise flight?
About 40 mph, faster at times and at high altitude.
So i could expect to fly about 400 miles in that ? At max a flighz from vienna to rome
Looks like my Calypso foam glider!
Premier rêve : Voler
Second rêve : Voler sans consommer !
fantastic! you replace the pilot with a computer and 2 hellfires and you'll have the ultimate drone!
how much this plane cost in us dollars including shipping to mexico
No, you can't use to transport cocaine
Which engine was used
Emrax 222 from Enstroj direct drive
SuperCool!
Impressive, how much does it cost?
Beutiful...!! Cycling Energy... Electrical Age Coming Soon... < 🇱🇰
How much charge does it produce?
Motor? Battery?
if you were to catch a good thermal and some wave, perhaps a ridge lift too and once you take off are able to soar for 10 hours straight, have the splar panels got sufficient capacity to RECHARGE batteries ?
Yes, we recharge the batteries completely in 90 minutes or less, and yes, in summer I have flown over 10 hours!
Che spettacolo
Future is in it
Wow how much do this plan cost.?
That'sone hell of a nice plane but I'd definitely give it wing struts!
why?
Coz to me it looked like with only the center mount the wing could easily be blown to one side by the wind and thus bend the center mount, in the worst case even to the point where the wing tip strikes the ground an takes damage from the impact.
Bad assumption, idiot, look at the video featured on my channel in which u can see me shooting a bunch of real guns several years ago and dare do say that again!
And while it's true that I know little to nothing about this particular design I said what I would improve about it based on what happened in the video, which was the wing tilting to one side a little bit, which in turn I would wanna prevent! How the fuck does that imply that this design is bad!? It doesn't, that simple! It's just something I said that I would personally do and I would definitely modify mine according to it if I owned one!
Also, I've already built my own planes and even tho they're just RC models that still takes some structural and aerodynamic knowledge, and in my videos about them ur gonna see that I'm also quite a decent pilot!
And last but not least, "butthurt" in this case means that u took a simple expression of what I would personally do if I owned or had designed this aircraft as a personal offense got so pissed about it that u started insulting me for no good reason, so here's my final reaction:
SHUT UR FUCKIN TRAP AND P!SS OFF, DICK-FOR-BRAINS!
Coming from the stupid idiot who was offended by someone else talkin' about a personal modification he'd do to a plane!
Hahahaaha!
Hey what did you use for encapsulation?
I'll take one!
is that as long as it can fly or just a test
It can fly as long as the sun shines. Longest flight so far, just over 10 hours, in summer.
Is that real plane?????
Wow
It looks like a glider. If the engine quits you could probably just find some thermals to get yourself home.
*THE FUTURE...!!!*
The new shape of the next space shuttle.
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how much battery charge is used at takeoff??... how much battery charge do you need?? .... do you need a full charge??
Somebody said that it has a 25 kW motor on it, and can run that for 20 minutes on the batteries. There are two things that require power: getting off the ground, and getting to a place where you can find natural lift. I'm guessing it takes only a couple of minutes to get it into the air, so the more important factor is how far and how high you need to climb before you can start using it like a glider and start recharging those batteries.
This is truely the future. Well done.
Was there any problems to placing the motor on the tail ?
No problems at all. It makes the cockpit very quiet!
@@Solar-flight no problems at all? So adding power doesn't cause trim change due to prop was over stab?