Drone and RC plane news, March 8th, 2024
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Links from this week's video
The WaveEngine pulsejet:
• Wave Engine Corp. Flig...
sg.news.yahoo.com/bonkers-air...
www.flightglobal.com/military...
DJI"s official statement (by default)
viewpoints.dji.com/blog/get-t...
AZ man gets prison for trying to ram helicopter with his drone:
www.12news.com/article/news/c...
The Russian FPV drone with trailing fiber optic cable
mil.in.ua/en/news/russian-tro...
The DailyMail story with that weird police drone picture:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
The AI hunter drone:
www.livescience.com/technolog...
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All good points, unfortunately your audience is already in agreement. It is the regulators and the public that need to hear the facts you present. Keep up the good fight Bruce!
True but the public have already been brainwashed into believing that drones are bad so can't be convinced otherwise, in the same way that a lot of viewers of this channel (by law of averages) believe EVs are bad and also can't be convinced otherwise.
@@st200olsure they are, the more important to reach out to them firstly and secondly us in the hobby
A quick observation about your helicopter point,,,
As illegal as it may be to fly outside around a helicopter,
It is perfectly legal to fly the same drone INSIDE the helicopter where, I think, we can all agree is not a good or safe thing to do!
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In the UK, I saw pulsejet powered planes in the 1980s at model air displayes.
Yes, military and police forces still use "Draganfly" drones and 72mhz systems developed late in the 2000s. Those goggles are actually AR "glasses" powered by android usually, used them at CES back in 2018, but Google couldn't even get their version Google Glass to stick. I also gave up on regulations and just got out of the hobby. I only have sub250 wing and whoop now. No remote ID or registration for me.
Me either. I’ve sold most everything I have except what I’ll keep in my barn😉
04:35. If I recall correctly a 747 wheel/tyre was 200kg. Laurie. NZ.
Also....The Germans in WW2 used the pulse jet on the V1 bomber
There was also a manned version of the v-1 that’s kinda cool looking
*V1 Bomb.
The V1 bombers were fitted with a pair of either Jumo 211 F1 or F2, or Jumo 213 engines.
Weren’t the ‘doodle bug’ flying bombs pulse jet driven too?
@@TheM0JEC The doodle bugs were the V1 bombs
@@BrazzaB1 I couldn’t remember if it was V1 or V2, thanks
Bruce, the question truly is what is the FAA focused on. As the world can see it is not aviation safety. The FAA needs to focus on is getting the young men and women interested in aviation so they can become the airline pilots and A&P technicians of the future.
Thanks for posting Bruce.
Hi Bruce. Always a pleasure viewing your content.
That is actually my Uncle Bob in the first picture.
They were testing the feasibility of being able to remotely bring donuts to the offices from the donut shop accross the street.
The whole precinct was in agreement that they needed daily donuts, but nobody was wuite physically fit enough to walk all the way there and carry the doughnuts back accross the street without pulling a hamstring.
They had 7 officers at one time at home on disability with pulled hamstrings, and thus the FPV Drone program was tested...but it turns out nobody could pilot across the street successfully.
Hello Bruce. Thanks for your excellent and relevant content. Keep them coming brother. The glasses at the beginning of your video look a little like the Epson Moverio glasses that at least at one time, ran the DJI Go 4 app and other things.
I tried those style of gogs in 2016, I think they’re a more modern version called the BT-35E, a ‘see through screen’ worked ok if you were single oping both drone and cam, no real value in any ‘2 person’ operation.
Helicopters vs drones is very much like the elephant shrieking when it sees a mouse!
Thank you!
This is the 4th time in about two years a heavy part has fallen off a Boeing. In October 2022, a 747-400 Dreamlifter dropped a wheel. A door fell from a 737-Max and a 777 engine cowling fell in a residential area near Denver. For context, there are about 15,000 airliners aloft constantly.
thanks again.
My Dad was nearly killed by a pulse jet engine while he slept in his bed! Unfortunately his home was 100m from the gate of a US army airforce P51 Mustang base and the pulse jet, (along with its 1000kg of amatol high explosive) had been very irresponsibly launched from the French cost at the said airfield (Headcorn, Kent) and After a Tempest (flown by Richie McCaws grandfather no less) put a 3 second burst into the pulse jet it crashed into the boundary of the airfield and blew up! My dad woke up with the end of his bed hanging out of what had beed his bedroom wall to see US ground crews and pilots rushing to pick him up from the destroyed house and rubble. As he was only 7 years old he got lots of care from those airmen and more chocolate and 'candy' than he could have dreamed of!!
Sweet god. we were running pulse jets on single wing control lines in the late 70's. Yes, you got really dizzy when you stopped.
Thanks!
If you were working for the US government, how much trouble would your council be able to cause for you? To quote the council man trying to knock down Arthur's house in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, " None at all".
Thanks for the news, Bruce! 😊
But yeah... Bureaucrats, what can I say.
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thank you Xjet. One question for our US congress. Hobbyists have paid thousands of dollars for their DJI drones. If they are grounded without the hobbyists' consent, they better have a buyback program in place.
Great vid @xjet. Those were some interesting topics you covered. I think Wave is doing more than just that pulse jet. They’ve been working with darpa on some stuff. Interesting company.
The German V1 'buzz bomb' used a pulse jet engine. It was the precursor to the V2 missile.
Just three month after I have built my first directly driven dual-rotor helicopter with INAV on it and put it on YT, a Chinese aviation company presented the very same concept as a new groundbreaking innovation on Facebook. On the video it looked like a slightly upscaled one-to-one copy of my build.
"ISS giant battery, tossed overboard in 2021, is making its way back to earth." This message came to me as you were making the point of probability being beaned by space junk than hurt by a drone. How's that for comedic timing. 😮😅😊🙏
Great video
Hi... and yes there were those same fpv glasses used in about 2006...and yes they were useless as there was more light and outside views than fpv view...my mate used them on a 5mtr glider with a massive cam- recorder and dirty vtx....they did exist
I think control line fpv would be worth trying, if only for the laughs. I'd join you in that!
I've got a pair of those goggles.And I still got some seventy two megahertz transmitters
Shared. The least I can do, Bruce! 👍
Vusix glasses still have some in the cupboard
Thumbs up, keep up the good rc work
I'm always up for arsey model aircraft news.
Thank you for the time and effort to make these "protest" videos ! Unfortunately as these rules seem to be a global trend , i am not sure how successful any objections could be.
V1 flew with a pulsejet. I'm sure pulsejets have improved from those times but what the hell :)
I read an article on that new engine Wave designed on The Drive Warzone. It’s a good article if you want to look it up. I don’t think CZcams will let me post a link unfortunately.
Maybe it’s Warzone/The Drive.
The V1 used a bit different tech than the simple tuned/oscillating pipes and chambers shown though - it had louvres at the front that opened in the slipstream/by under pressure in the chamber, slammed shut as the pressure of the combustion rose, providing 'something to push on'
As the pressure in the chamber drops they again open, letting fresh air in. Repeat. Some pulsejets today use reed valves that do the same.
Starting the V1 used a shot of pressurised air to get it lit off, oscillation was enough to keep it running, but it didn't have enough power to take off on its own power alone -it was launched off the ramp by a steam catapult.
Australia’s UTM project has been in development for 4 years.
Presumably Tax payers are funding this UTM project. I hope Airservices will then charge commercial users a fee to recoup system and O&M costs. It would be interesting to see the scope and business case for the UTM project.
How such a system copes with larger birds, kites and temporary structures will be interesting.
There are only two drone delivery services licensed by CASA, operating in 5 geographic locations.
A UTM seems like overkill for two delivery operators - unless it’s very low cost of course 😂.
Surely air taxis would require remote pilot supervision for initial deployments, and could be managed as helicopter services until the level of demand for such services is known ?.
Let's talk about some good things _ Meteomatics Weatherdrones, based in Switzerland, flying up to 5 5k AGL on a daily base with no issues at all, keeping ground risk as low as possible with impact predictions based on wind speeds/directions and buffer zones, using parachutes as well - check the NOTAM's.
It's not all lost❤
The one with the parashoot was a spark hazard. Look at the gloves.
I still fly my stuff with 90’s spektrum equipment.
Here in Spain some roads, notably those used by motorcyclists, have warning notices on the side of the road regarding Radar, helicopter or 'Drones' speed limit enforcement...
Yes Bri....but its bollocks.
Never seen any drone checking speed limits here in Spain.
Apart from that Spaniards do not obey speed limits in any way..... unless there's radar/cameras involved.🤗🤣
Right now if you bring a case against remote ID or registration or what amount of airspace the FAA actually can control, you'll lose. Raceday quads lost because Chevron mostly. One of the judges told the FAA there are plenty of other ways the agency could have written that rule. Yet they sided with the agency because of Chevron deference doctrine.
Have to say Bruce that copper was using hi-tech stuff in Scotland the radio's still use valves 👍
Much older tech when rebuilt with new controls works well.
UTM, should be nearly as good as the UK Post Office /Fujitsu Horizon system 😕😕😕
Or the case where the police watching someone with a drone was flying it right inline with the final approach for a runway and small plane hit it.. clearly the govt is more dangerous
I shared the video on Facebook
UTM sounds almost like NBN
We're good at that in Australia! 😢
Don't forget the V1 pulse jet flying bombs.😎
Quote of the year, The world is a work of fiction.
Do you see the size of that ordinance taped to the bottom of that drone? Gotta be a 10-15lbs load. That drone would not fly more than a minute even IF it could fly at all. I call bs. Plus the load isn't even centered so it would be pulling to one side causing even more drain on the battery
Bruce that's not a handful of money in my book it's a truckload
The problem I see with the rise of drones and tons of regulations. Is back in the day when you had to build your model aircraft. It took some skill and smarts to make something that would work. Which also came along with intelligence on where you should fly and how. Turn-key drones and such let any idiot fly with no commen sense. Of course in the U.S. our current government feels the need to monitor everything everyone does. You should see the new rules for cars. Driver cameras, microphones in the car to listen to conversations. And of course remote shutoff. Our state governor felt it was necessary to have names and addresses of anyone who owns metal working machines ie Lathes, Mills, Cnc. That's to make sure no one is building anything they shouldn't.
Looks like the BMFA and CAA are continuing to plot the end of model flying in the U.K. The BMFA sleep walking into this and supporting it with the short term prospect of being handed a monopoly on control of ‘approved’ flying sites. Current ideas around RID sound like the end of model glider flying from most slopes / parks.
Oh so they're just sending all the "radio" data up to the drone via fiber optic cable. I suppose you could fly an RC sailplane like that. How much does 2k feet of fiber optic cable weigh? Could get around the 400ft rule if sailplane was tethered by fiber optic cable and not controlled by actual radio signals. 🤷♂ Would have to be a large sailplane / drone to lift that much fiber optic cable.
Or a laser link, without the cable. Hard to interept when it works.
Seems like the ‘#2 military in the world’ would be able to come up with a better idea than an aluminum frame quad with a wire because they can’t figure out secure comms lmao
Re: Pulsejet engines - Bruce, didn't you have some involvement of Scrapheap Challenge's (UK) larking around making pulsejets back in the day too?
Yep, I was on the "Jet Racers" episode and helped a bunch of Navy engineers build a pulsejet-powered vehicle that we ran down the Santa Pod dragstrip. We beat our turbine-powered opponents ... yay!
I was also a technical advisor for the US version of the series where we built a pulsejet powered drag-boat which won its race at the Longbeach Marine Stadium in LA (beating a V8-powered boat).
That brief clip I showed of the pulsejet dragster was filmed here at the Tokoroa Airfield and had Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett in TV series) in the driver's seat. It was part of a show here on NZ TV.
Hi Bruce, Great News reporting. Nope I have never seen it. WOW ! What's this? A X-class on steroids ?
Totally seperate from this video. Have you seen this article this morning out of LA ? United plane drops tire, smashing cars, as it departs SFO. Jet lands safely at LAX My RC Plane never went to this extreme !!!
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08:20 "You cannot believe anything that you hear or see"
Should I believe that ?
Absolutely not. :-)
@@xjet Oh dear. That in turn means that I cannot believe what you say about not believing you 😃
The Germans were using pulse jet engines way back in the 40's on their V1 Doodlebugs 😂😂
The fact in the USA. U can buy fky a Mosquito one person copter a ultralight a hanglider or even a stolen drone that carries a person now. All woth no lic or reg. But I have to for my drone. Is PAYHEYIC AF.
There is actually some goggles that look like that or at least kinda like that
FAA is focused on $$$ and DEI hiring.
That falling airliner tire wouldn't have caused any damage at all, had it been properly fitted with Remote ID.
The policeman is flying a microdrones md4-200 from about 2007 2008. They had this image on their wall in germany for years.
The md4-200 was amazing for its time and literally ushered in the tech we now take for granted.
The video goggles were shite though. No one ever used them.
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That 777 has Remote ID, so all good.
2:17 Ok Bruce I disagree with you here, I worked for a company that did part 107 drone work for tv and commercials. we worked on master chef, american idol, etc. We were granted an exemption from the FAA that allowed us to operate over people due to the fact that we successfully demonstrated a parachute working to arrest the descent of our drones. granted these were DJI S1000s rather than massive agricultural or manned multirotors. The chutes were deployed using CO2 canisters and failsafe logic in the A2 flight controller. Of course it could go wrong any number of ways, but the FAA was sufficiently convinced to allow us to operate over people. Can't remember what was the minimum altitude but we did maintain that. Your other reason is that "the wind may carry it away". okay? so what. the point is that it isn't coming down with ballistic velocity. Who cares if it winds up down range, that's way better than it landing on people slow or not. There is a reason there are chutes on a Cirrus. Have you seen the video where a man landed in a neighborhood with one? Kids on a playground would be able to see it coming and run away.
As I said... a parachute can actually make things worse if there's any degree of wind because you can no longer ensure the safety of things on the ground simply by not flying over them. And, a 60lb drone (or anything) travelling at 15mph (laterally) has the ability to inflict severe injury or worse. Parachutes are not a perfect mitigation by any means.
Did Boeing merge with Hyundai? I had a rear wheel come off a 1987 Hyundai (less than 30K miles the bearing went 'poof') when I was driving across the Ben Franklin bridge.
5:39 I'm just waiting on the Supreme Court to end Chevron deference. Then, courts don't have to defer to the administrative state. Then we can go after the FAA.
I thought it was my age that made me distrustful of media and government . Reassuring to see I'm not the only old fart that feels this way. Wonder what type of drone those 80,000 chineese California let across the boarder , will be using when they attack ?
Smart man
Solar pulsejet roadways! 😂👍
The German Doodlebug, or Buzzsaw, was a pulse jet powered plane from WW2, that was kinda cool.
Not if they dropped out the sky near you as happened to my mum with both V1s & V2s!
Can I put a ‘control line’ on my camera drone and call it a ‘kite’?
I wonder what this regulation will look like in just 15 years.. Unfortunately, I likely have at least 50-60 years left here.. One thing is for certain, however. I will resort to non-compliance and fly safely until I physically cannot do so anymore.
That's hilarious.😅😂 "Police fly drones" the gear they are using is ridiculous... But not as ridiculous as the 250 million pound budget that bought them. Can anyone say skimming ?? Looks like 90% of that budget went into suppliers pockets.
Those look like the crappy vuzix goggles Trappy stuck into a set of ski goggles to make something vaguely useful. An aeon ago..
fpv by wire would just simply not work, surety this was laying a comms cable
I did consider that but if so, why bother burdening the drone with a heavy piece of ordinance that would severely reduce its range and endurance?
Are you sure about the inventor of the pulse jet
You missed the Hudster beating Sussex Police
Saving that for a separate video -- to important for just a minute or so in 20-minute long one.
AI drone built in a few hours, used to hunt drones, uses drone recognition software. Yes we have all seen the "Slaughter bot" video.
They can’t be built in a few hours but the US military does have such a thing. It uses microwaves to fly the electronics on other drones and can engage multiple targets simultaneously. I think it had around a 30 minute loiter time and seemed pretty small. I was reading about it the other night.
That 777 tire weighs more than 250 grams therefore it is required to have had a remote id module
When is the government going to require RFID on geese, and other large fowl? They have brought down and damaged way more aircraft than drones have.
try it.
All I can say, there is a main group of people in US AMA community that block your video and do tell - you're a buy who don't understand the situation.
Most of the idiots believe it.
As far as being interrupted by the ads - I never saw them and I never will subscribe to YT premium. Just use an Ad blocker 🙂
Cheers
Last week I took my Typhoon H for its last flight. There are no RID modules under $200, Where are the modules? The Yuneec pilot forums have gone almost quiet other than peeps trying to sell their hexacopters. This is a law that seperates Rich from Poor. I dont even know if I can legally sell it to buy a mini or something and if I can Im sure theres not much of a market for a large heavy hexacopter. HEY! BEZOS! send me an RID module! This is your Law, Help people out!
There are drone pilots in Ukraine that would love nothing more than to be able to bring down an enemy helicopter or airplane with their FPV drones. Even Main Battle Tanks are being destroyed with FPV drones, but so far no airborne aircraft have been destroyed with a drone and people do try. There is video from the drone of at least one failed attempt that I know of.
Isn't it actually the DJI software like Go4 or Fly installed on a cell phone that would be sending this data to the ccp not the drones? We don't have to use DJI software to control some of their drones.
Those guys didn't even bother to design their own model to mount that pulse jet engine on. It's just a modified A-10 model.
Known to the living in fear Londoners as Buzz Bombs - V-1 flying bomb - The term "terror bombing"
this balloon is called Jeremy123
Wow .. that’s pretty anti dji is skydio paying you too? Lol by default is because yes we can allow dji to see our flight logs if we choose too. This is needed when dji wants to find out what went wrong with your drone or what the pilot did wrong. If there is actually something nefarious they could do with those flight logs, one easy fix would be to not offer this connection. That being said what could be used against our country that is in our logs? Dji stops us from flying near critical infrastructure. We cant even take off.
I was enjoying this until I saw that AI drones could hunt people down! 😮😂
People saw drones using facial recognition in the movie "Ready Player One" and thought it transferred to the real world.
What blows my mind is how dangerous cars are. Last year 343 people died. The year before that, 372, in our little NZ. Every year the equivalent of a airliner disaster die, but nothing gets done about it. Absolutely wild. We could be doing what the dutch do with vision zero.
Money and convenience.
Lockheed Martin made the drone and glasses , all of the things we as consumers use are old recycled tech. My Lockheed drones from a decade ago are still better than anything DJI makes…
Bruce...the whole of the UK is in dire strait's right now, surrounded by sewage and a Monty Python government ...brexit disaster is continuing yet the flag waving simpletons think it is going well..i haven't even scratched the surface here on this silly photo of an english copper...ALSO please keep in touch with Michael (Philly Drone Life) , he needs all support he can get.
Another episode of "The World According to Bruce". Hello, ive come for an argument. No you havent...
People don't care about the agendas effecting major issues in the world. You really think their gonna care about rc toys? It's a lost fight Bruce. All we can do is hope it blows over and they forget while we fly in the shadows
ITS HERE! 3/16/24! Quick, everyone run to the hills. Here come the "Federal Regulators" xjet has been bitching about for years. Remote ID enforcement starts today and according to Bruce, this is the first day of the end of the hobby. Right Bruce? Haven't you been telling everyone Remote ID is going to kill the hobby? Welp, its here! I guess we should all go home and stop flying our toys. Or.... one could simply not use Remote ID. How will I get tracked down if i do not comply? Who is going to be enforcing Remote ID and kill our hobby Bruce? Did the FAA get 1000's of new investigators? Remote ID will be an epic failure and will never result in mass rule violations as Bruce has been saying for years.
Fearmongering... Yep, xjet is the Fox News of the Drone World. All talk, all opinions and completely lacking in FACTS!
Are you AI ?
Are you? 😛
As you said money. Keep flying what you want screw them. Governments have l9st their minds.