RC Shuttle Drop Tests - Will It Glide?
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- This is Part 2 of this RC Space Shuttle Series. We're seeing if we can recreate the Space Shuttle Program with R/C planes and model rockets. After watching a Space Shuttle documentary, I thought it would make an interesting Project Air mini-series to build and launch a model space shuttle from beginning to end. This is part 2. Check out part 1 here.
To provide you with some more info, we're using Estes solid rocket motors to propel a foam board Space Shuttle attached to boosters into the atmosphere for it to detach and be piloted back down. This episode sees the shuttle drop tests from an R/C airplane, much like the Enterprise drop tests from a NASA Boeing 747.
Free plans for the Shuttle can be found here: drive.google.c....
Note! These are very vague and just what I used to make my own shuttle. I improvised some of the parts from foam board and you'll have to do the same.
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I am an RC plane flyer/modeller and I am absolutely amazed by capabilities of that big bomber plane! Such a greatly balanced design and the fact that it can fly even with such payload made me speachless. Kudos to the pilot and his skills! I would love to see the plans and build video of that plane :D
not bad man
awesome job guys
Ramy RC thanks man!
Love you both you're the best !
"Part 1: A crash course in piloting." *explosion*
Mr. Whomsley, you are nothing if not subtle.
I was at Edwards on the day Enterprise was dropped. Approach and landing test #1. I was working on flight qualifying the APU systems for the Columbia at the time.
Yeeessss rockety mcrocket face!!!! Go on lad
Darren West lol good name there
Well done
what the heck is that name?!
@@kimboost9686 I'm assuming your not British? It was a thing for us Brits
@@darrenwest8760 uhhhhh what was that? I see someone reply that?
Mike did an AWESOME job flying that shuttle. I've got a lot of flight time on systems like this, and that's about the hardest thing you could possibly learn on.
Yeah he did great!
Well this was absolutely awesome.
Making me wait til 12:50 for the tea shot you massive tease.
Tom Stanton brought me here, nice work!
Come on!!!! This channel should have millions of subscribers, it’s awsome
Not sure what the glide slope was on your shuttle but looked similar to the 'flying brick' characteristics of the full sized shuttle. Well done.
How does your channel only have like 7000 subs? Wtf?! You're awesome mate!! :)
Man British aerospace comedy is the best “the sheep will. Just fly over”
12:58 "...we're having a great time here. Altogether - " "WE'RE HAVING A GREAT TIME HERE"
Great stuff, good to see people having fun with RC projects. Keep up the good work.
Amazing job, guys! Both of you!!! 😃
That airplane is a beauty!
I really want to see a video dedicated to you just landing various aircraft. For the life of me I can't seem to fathom why almost none of your planes have wheels, and all landing are hard landings.
Take this challenge my dude!
The full size shuttle was pretty unstable. I'm not sure it makes a good first plane:)
Of course the motor fell off. Everything was going so well it had to come off.
Inspired to re start my shuttle program
You're basically the UK version of rctestflight :-)
Couple of tips, use Bungee cord not elastic and you need to stretch the cord so that there is plenty of tension, not just 5 feet of weak pull as seen in the video. The shuttle is a turd even with a motor on the back and all Deltas are twitchy in either pitch or roll depending on the shape of the Delta. All aircraft with wings need a certain forward speed/amount of air travelling over the wing to stay in the air/be stable, your using a turd and low speed which is why it doesnt really do much other than nose in or at the end semi controlled glide straight down to earth. Bigger wing area is needed or much more speed.
Have a look at the Parkzone F27-C which was a very popular RC model a few years ago ( before they made the ugly thing they do now with the same name ) Large wing area and amazingly capable from light weight to 200mph speed machine. Make your own scaled down version, it will fly fine with 1 vertical stab( mine still flew with 1 stab and half a wing ) , test its glide , add some foam to make it look like a shuttle. Be happy :D
Talking about bungees, how does one select the length of the bungee?
@@anirudhbhat7350 It depends on the size and weight of the plane. You want the bungee to provide enough inertia to overcome a tip stall , if you see in the video the amount used is not enough for the "shuttle" to do anything other than just fall back down to the ground, throwing the plane would have given better results just because the "bungee" used was completely ineffective. I use a Natural Latex Bungee tube which is 6mm diameter and i bought 20 meters from Aliexpress and have more than enough for 2, for a small plane you could use 10 meters and adjust it to get the best results ( better to have too much and cut it than too little and tie it) , it is the same latex used for catapults/slingshots so it is very resilient. The other side is to ensure that were you anchor the bungee in the ground is solid !!!!! you dont want to stretch the cord and then have the anchor come flying back at you because the ground is soft lol.
@@anirudhbhat7350 Have a look on this link , the plane is a light weight Glider launched by bungee , see how far he stretches it out..
vimeo.com/110052953
Great work. Your mothership reminded me of a Blenheim with the square lines. I liked it a lot.
It was actually an R/C pilot that proved that the shuttle could carry the shuttle. He was an engineer at JPL who flew model planes for a hobby, he tried telling NASA it could be done, but they refused to believe it was possible. So he built his own 747 and shuttle, using the same weight ratios for each, and flew it for them.
This was a great video
Good job on the thumbnail too!
Pleased you noticed the extra effort! ;)
I used to work for Boeing and the NASA 747's would come to Everett for work. I've been on that plane. There are huge thick straps running up and over the top to support the space shuttle.
Great video and great fun with your friends. I laughed so hard at the end when your motor ejected. Haha Nice single engine landing. Congratulations on the successful shuttle glide test, I look forward to seeing you take this project further.
Thanks man! Yeah we laughed a lot too. :P
Outstanding!!
Oh the Battle of Britain Theme!
Hi, are plans available for the twin motor airplane also?? Loved the video.
Afraid not, but from now on I will be releasing plans for almost everything I design on my website and Patreon (when I launch it).
The space shuttle was given the nickname of "the flying brick" when talking about a descent phase... it literally plummets from the sky like a brick.
i got to see the last shuttle fly over my school in California. was friggin awesome
Eli that’s so cool!
For the Estes motor launch, please consider using a single, appropriately sized rocket motor that is firmly mounted to the shuttle. Multiple motors rarely ignite simultaneously. Point the thrust directly through the properly positioned cg so you don't have a torque from the thrust. You will likely encounter stability challenges, resulting in a very uncontrolled ascent from a short burst of thrust.
I like when the cameraman was like yeah yeah yeah
Nice ! Well done. Looking forward seeing the rocket episode ;)
Thanks!
this is why twin engine planes are great. two engines to get you there, one to get you home
Wow! I really like it. I would like to try by myself to do this amazing Space Shuttle!
Fun stuff! Well done guys. Congrats!
Great stuff, or, the right stuff. Boy, you keep me entertained and LMAO
Fantastic ! Well done guys !
You guys did a GREAT job!!
8:25 ...like the trailer of 'The 6-Million-Dollar-Man'...! ;-)
...now i've the urge to watch 'The Right Stuff'...! :D
Wonderful and amazing stuff
He makes amazing thing
Great fun! Keep it up. Being picky - the power here is supplied by motors not engines.
this is good and very amazing
The Sydney council held a competition for naming the new Sydney Harbour ferry and the name they chose was Ferry McFerryface. Legit.
Looks so fun!
Gj for that little practice
Mattie Dumbrill thanks! Mike did well.
@@Project-Air he did, also this project reminds me of the Stroto jet with a twin fuselage to drop a rocket from the middle. That would be cool to see.
Do some sort of stunt plane that can do loops and barrel rolls.🛩🛩
i think you dont understand that the space shuttle flies like a brick
this is shit
DieKritik you’re shit
@Koen woiczyk everyone is shit
@@diekritik8927 True fucking statement. Moron
Ask any Shuttle Pilot. Every one will say it flew like a brick. it had to have runways built for it and special tires designed because of its Crazy High Touch Down Speeds because it had little stubby wings that hardly made any lift. Do your research before you talk shit
Zues Toots. Yes you’re right. The Space Shuttle was nothing more or less than a very heavy and pretty bad glider.
I saw the enterprise on the back of the 747 when I was a little kid living near Denver Colorado. I assume they were moving it across country and stopped in Colorado to refuel?
Anyway they did land and we got to see it from the fence as it took off.
I remember it looked really cool with the fairing on the rear since Enterprise had no motors.
Later when I built a model of it, I used the fairing instead of the motors that came with the kit...
Awesome guys great crash course
Awesome job. I've been thoroughly entertained. Subbed your channel.
The Right Stuff!
NIce work man!
one word AWESOME
Nice funny video
Entertaining👍Can't wait for the next part..
A camera on it would be cool🤔
Greetings from Switzerland
Thanks! Might have to strap a camera on! :)
This was good fun!
Your mothership vertical stabilizer should have continued the slighter arc to create a more B-17l-like structure. Still a great design though.
So I know this is a late comment, but I noticed something in the footage of the successful launch of the glider that I was curious about. There was a piece of debris that flew off during the launch, (around 10:24 in the video) and I noticed after the single engine landing that a panel on the bottom of that engine pod was missing. In flight it seemed that after the engine failed, there was a battery or something hanging out of the pod. Was that piece of debris during the launch of the glider that panel? It seemed like a likely cause for that failure and I am honestly quite curious.
NICE!
Great project!
The google drive link for the shuttle plans doesn’t work
Interesting, I like it, but I started to think. Do you have an FPV equipment? If you have it, You can see how is managing the shuttle if goes to high... Also, the link for the plans doesn't exist.
Awesome keep it up
I'd love to see what happens if you threw a gyro into the shuttle, it would freak the heck out and flail the whole way down. That or it would actually stabilize the "controlled dive"...
Nice flite test hat
MOTOR....MOTOR...MOTOR! You have no engines in that thing🤔🤪😁
A motor is an engine that uses electricity as its "fuel" (what the engine converts to kinetic energy)
@@drewshafer7288 just because people are lazy and use the language poorly, it doesn't change the meaning words. Hence, they have no "engines" in their crafts but motors. Engines contain their own fuel source such as gas. Motors use an external source, like electricity. People use these words interchangeably but...they are wrong.
Gas engine...electric motor.
www.jtech.org/engines-vs-motors/
Rocket boiiiii
What piece came flying off when you detached on the final attempt?
Never mind guys it worked .
your challenge should you chose to accept it, Grumman X-29
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Lo que me he reido cuando has perdido el motor mientras volabas. 😂😂
MrCuervoRC sorry, I don’t speak Spanish! 🤷♂️ Thanks for the comment though
I don't speak English either, I use the google translator.
I'm sorry, I said it was really funny when you lost an engine.😂
I want the plans for the lancaster bomber please😥😥😥
NASA 905, call sign of the 747 that launched the shuttles. Has sense been repainted and stuff.
Who were you last week? 0:01
Great project!
Please take a look at my X-37ABC drop test "on a budget",
using a WLtoys V262, a F939 controller and 1 sheet of foam board.
Instructions and plans are available on Instructables website
Look at the stratolaunch aircraft or the virgin galactic mothership they might be another good area to look when doing it as well
houston mission accomplished
You have to use this and your rocket plane experience to make a Bell-X1
Is Rocketface related to Thrusty McThrustface by any chance?
mike talking...yeah mike talking...yeah mike talking...yeah
(I'm no RC building expert since I'm still building my first original aircraft, but) wouldn't a little flat bottom or better yet (I think) a cambered wing help it glide better? Or can't you fit that type of wing design in there, since I see that the wing is completely flat (I think).
Can't really do camber on a delta.
Rctestflight did the same years ago 😉
But without a booster../rocket
Yep, he did a great job!
Man where did you get skills to build that all?
My first observation is that the shuttle is inherently unstable. It should be designed and trimmed to fly straight and level without any control inputs.
the main thing could be on auto-path while specific mission is run
Did Mike survive?
A lot of gooses or birds going home for summer... dangerous flight time.
You lost a piece of the shuttle during launch as the real shuttle - just before the 2nd motor decided to leave the plane.
typxxilps I’m still unsure as to what the piece fell off on that final flight actually was, which is a bit worrying 😂
It’s better to have a tail like a p-38 lightning because the space shuttle disrupts the air flow behind it and control on the vertical stabiliser is diminished and plus the shuttle can hit the tail , the antonov an-225 was designed to carry the Russian space shuttle the buran and it has a twin tail and the 747 shuttle carrier had extra vertical stabilisers on the horizontal stabilisers
Still don't see the plans man! 😪🤪🤣👍🇺🇸
How are you powering the receiver and servos?
Can you put a landing wheals?
cool
Landing with turning prop did the first damage I guess 😅
Were is part 3
nvm found it
Bro did the enterprise
How can I communicate with you? Like I have something to show you
What’s with people and the Battle of Britain Theme? Lol
what if you made a rocket and put the shuttle on said rocket then land the shuttle