New World Record RC Airplane Speed 548mph

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3 жыл бұрын

Strong Santa Ana conditions on Jan 19 2021 provided enough wind for Spencer Lisenby to bring the dynamic soaring speed record back to its birthplace of Parker Mountain, CA. Wind gusted to 65mph and temps were 45-50F. This flight beat the previous record set in 2018 at Bird Spring Pass by only 3mph. Filmed with a Gopro on my head while flying. Best viewed on a large screen with high resolution. Max acceleration estimated around 90-100G.
For more information on Dynamic Soaring check out:
www.rcgroups.com/dynamic-soar...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic...
Model is the Transonic DP:
dskinetic.com/transonicdp.aspx
and NO, the video is not fake or sped up...
548mph = 882kph
If you're looking for on-board video from a dynamic soaring flight check here:
• Dynamic Soaring - On B...

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@easygoing2479 3 жыл бұрын

It’s like trying to watch a tennis match while sitting at mid-court.

@stevie1246 3 жыл бұрын

I'd say Table Tennis while smashing

@BILLY-px3hw 3 жыл бұрын

Set the playback speed to .25 on your KZfaq settings

@joshuahora3550 3 жыл бұрын

@@stevie1246 and the ball is going towards youre face

@markusmuller6173 Жыл бұрын

Quite efficient usage of free available energy ;) :D :)

@NoNameAtAll2 Жыл бұрын

oh, so the camera follows the plane? I thought it is onboard camera and they didn't launch it yet

@fudhater8592 3 жыл бұрын

Dear God just back the camera off a bit and stop getting us seasick

@ebabula27 3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit!

@K-Effect 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the camera work was a bit much

@aydenmizen4 3 жыл бұрын

I laughed at this comment after i finished vomiting

@MarcCoteMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Apparently, we're watching the video from the camera attached to the pilot's head, hence all the back and forth, as he tracks the glider.

@blond339 3 жыл бұрын

65mph winds, the road they are on is on a thin ridge with no protection no place up there to hide - so now spielberg here

@wiggyb854 3 жыл бұрын

Shit man, it took me a whole minute to realise what the hell was happening

@FlasRoose 3 жыл бұрын

@KZfaq Is Dying Painfully he's looking for thetumbnail pretty much

@hemendraravi4787 2 жыл бұрын

How did that thing go that fast ? I’m confused it looks like a glider and I don’t think it has any engine how is generating thrust ? Is it simply by wind speed ? Wtf

@jojojo9240 4 ай бұрын

@@hemendraravi4787yes, it dips into a strong wind to gain speed, then goes out of it and flies back to the starting point to do it again

@zeplyn-r6 3 жыл бұрын

Who else is completely blown away by this?

@RazerTheDuck 3 жыл бұрын

*the pun*

@NoNameAtAll2 Жыл бұрын

if only I could see anything

@huffdaddy3845 3 жыл бұрын

How in the heck can a human being control something going so fast so close to the ground manually? It is even more amazing to me that it doesn't just crash into the ground.

@Hyratel 3 жыл бұрын

it's only minor corrections every loop; it's not entering and exiting multiple maneuvers, just the loop is established and keeps getting boosted. I noticed sometimes the loop ended up higher. the amount of control deflection to work safely at those speeds must be miniscule

@sll914 2 жыл бұрын

Here's a video that happens to show the stick movements while DSing at 485mph. You can see the rythmic inputs on every lap plus a bunch of random corrections due to turbulence...Turbulent air is constantly trying to throw you off course... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jsekgJVlm7vJpIE.html

@danivanon 2 жыл бұрын

@@sll914 where do you buy a DS plane? kinetic has no buy opotion

@sll914 2 жыл бұрын

@@danivanonplease email me -- spencer@dskinetic.com

@andyMSH700 2 жыл бұрын

its only a matter of time before one hits a human....also the jets are in the same league for danger.

@afrog2666 3 жыл бұрын

DSS is so crazy man, the fact that you can go this fast with no added propulsion is ridiculous, if someone told me and I hadn`t seen it on video or been at any DSS sessions, I`d probably call BS lol, it`s just nuts :D Btw, the sound in person is insane..

@markusmuller6173 Жыл бұрын

Quite efficient usage of free available energy ;) :D :)

@jonathanlynn2613 3 жыл бұрын

The impressive part is getting it back.

@mjodr 3 жыл бұрын

lol he's full flaps and the thing doesn't want to set down

@MrCarnutbill67 3 жыл бұрын

He just flies it in circles until it vaporizes.

@wayneledzian5342 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrCarnutbill67 planes have a speed rating called Vne, or "Velocity, Never Exceed'. In Dynamic soaring, the shorthand for this is "Puff speed".

@tippyc2 3 жыл бұрын

@@wayneledzian5342 The thing about limits and engineering, Ratings can always be pushed, but you'll never get an engineer to tell you how much you can get away with.

@kindlin Жыл бұрын

@@wayneledzian5342 Would that be the *poof* speed?

@ncscoobysnack 3 жыл бұрын

I can't comprehend stearing something going 548mph, incredible.

@SkwareniiXazerty 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t comprehend imperial

@kylelanning5856 3 жыл бұрын

@@SkwareniiXazerty Two kinds of nations. Those that have been to the moon, and those who can't comprehend imperial

@jetison333 3 жыл бұрын

@@kylelanning5856 NASA used the metric system to get to the moon though, so not exactly the best example.

@kylelanning5856 3 жыл бұрын

@@jetison333 NASA can also use and comprehend imperial. Funny how that works huh.

@jetison333 3 жыл бұрын

@@kylelanning5856 yeah they could, but they don't, because they decided its inferior. It is pretty funny how that works.

@ncc74656m 3 жыл бұрын

"Wow, that's amazing! How does it land?!?" "Oh, easy. Catch."

@utubeaccess7 3 жыл бұрын

Remember, the highest groundspeed is happening on the downhill pass, just before the lull section. Also, factor in the windspeed at the uphill transition (+65mph). Getting close to supersonic. Great work.

@billdonaldson7546 2 жыл бұрын

That would be cool breaking the sound barrier with a glider.

@kinfongyeung5400 7 ай бұрын

@@billdonaldson7546 Unfortunately physics tells us that long and striaght wing going at transonic speed is really, really, really bad, and that 548mph is right at the transonic speed ~.7 mach. So the glider is unbelievably impressive already.

@hrsh042 3 жыл бұрын

The amount of G-Force has never been so Huge!

@andrewnorris5415 3 жыл бұрын

The hamster inside wore a G-Suit.

@peterzingler6221 3 жыл бұрын

About 120g

@paulmurphy5244 3 жыл бұрын

How the Hell does that thing stay in one piece at that rediculous speed???!!! It's almost traveling at the speed of sound! Especially in that small radius continued loop! Crazy!!!

@msci3067 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulmurphy5244 Shit must be made of Vibranium

@hemendraravi4787 2 жыл бұрын

It should pull between 11-20Gs max

@jaredmoss5064 3 жыл бұрын

Are we just going to ignore the cloud shaped like a seaplane landing at 10 o'clock in the background?

@BEMS4Life 3 жыл бұрын

Not now!

@987jasy 3 жыл бұрын

Damn! I was going to say that

@snjert8406 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness

@879blank 3 жыл бұрын

WOW that's crazy I didnt see it until you pointed it out

@blond339 2 жыл бұрын

cant see it... what time on the vid is it?

@LouisianaAstroRambler Жыл бұрын

The sound it makes is absolutely insane.. I actually looked Spencer up after hearing a spacecraft engineer named Andrew Higgins mention him during an interview he was having where he was discussing the idea of using dynamic soaring of solar winds as a propulsion method for interstellar travel.. It was pretty mind blowing..

@peterb9038 Жыл бұрын

Fraser Cains interview with Prof Andrew Higgins snet me here. You guys are inspiring new concepts of interstellar travel using the similar methods of dynamic soaring but with the solar wind.

@chriswhite3692 Жыл бұрын

I saw that! Pretty crazy, huh?

@Argo7753 Жыл бұрын

I was there too

@GSFBlade Жыл бұрын

Same

@randar1969 Жыл бұрын

Yeah seing how you can accelerate to 548 miles an hour using windspeeds that go up to 65mph, makes you wonder what you can do with solarwind speeds between 450 and 700 miles equator/poles not per hour but per second. But what i wonder most is what G forces you then can expect? Wouldn't that be beyond anything materials can handle? I mean if it's having the same speed difference that craft could go to 5000-6000 mps! Around 2% the speed of light! Still would take around 220 years to reach Proxima Centauri though. Sure you can use the same trick at the edge of the solar wind where interstellar winds take over but with that speed? Seems like impossible to me but i ain't a scientist.

@alejedy Жыл бұрын

Same

@Physhi Жыл бұрын

I continue to be amazed by your teams progress. Dynamic soaring is absolutely nuts!

@benc1103 3 жыл бұрын

Nice job guys. For anyone who hasn't stood by in person during a DS flight, it's a lot more spectacular than what the video shows....and the video is amazing. I've seen gliders turned into carbon fiber dust is a split second when the pilots timing is off by a split second. Just to get the plane back in one piece is a test of skill.

@OriginalJetForMe 3 жыл бұрын

Really should probably just hold the camera still at these speeds.

@kenyablonsky 3 жыл бұрын

nope....holding the camera still is very much worse. There is great video with the camera on the pilots hat that shows the plane really well. The speeds are not this fast, but you see the plane very much better. Holding the camera still, you barely get to see the plane at all.

@teejay3272 3 жыл бұрын

@King Joffrey When you're making a video the point is to show the subject matter. This didn't. That's not a complaint. It's a fact.

@sll914 3 жыл бұрын

@@teejay3272 FWIW - This video was made primarily for my own use in documenting and analyzing the flight. Whether its entertaining on YT or not is a secondary concern. We've tried stationary cameras and trust me it doesn't work out to be any better. You have to pan way out to capture the entire flight path and then the plane is so tiny you can't even see it. Fisheye just distorts the image so much that it's useless. Unfortuately, DS is not an easy thing to film well and I'm more concerned about the flying than the filming...

@jamesbehrje4279 3 жыл бұрын

@@sll914 u ever think about putting a small cam on that thing??? That would be an awesome video!!! Honestly i couldn't follow the video. It may not be the most KZfaq friendly video for b people but your accomplishment is awsome. I give you props my friend!!!

@FlyNAA 3 жыл бұрын

@@sll914 understanding that it's not a priority, it'd be really cool if one day all the compromises of filming this are worked through, and good video is made

@alishanmao 3 жыл бұрын

woweeee almost mach 1 speed there. i wanted to see how you slowed it down. maybe post that clip too :D amazing control

@jarodmorris611 3 жыл бұрын

They're a little higher than sea level, so not as close as it might seem.

@aashisheapen8230 3 жыл бұрын

Mach 1 is 767 miles per hour.. define almost😂

@jarodmorris611 3 жыл бұрын

@@aashisheapen8230 isn't it about 200moh away still, at sea level? That's another 30% or so faster. I get that "almost" is a subjective word. I wouldn't use almost too mean I'm 30% from my goal.

@daniellemichael2619 3 жыл бұрын

Hey dude just subbed to you looks like you have some good content

@alishanmao 3 жыл бұрын

@@daniellemichael2619 Thank you so much. I have just been on youtube for 13+ years. not too long :D hahaha only 4600+ videos and increasing

@robertkeddie 3 жыл бұрын

Note that the glider is called a Transonic. And for once, it's not hyperbole.

@RCnerd74 3 жыл бұрын

This looks pretty scary :o) Nice stick skills! Well done.

@ktmlifer 3 жыл бұрын

In the groove Spencer. Your an amazing pilot. Congrats!

@toast47624 3 жыл бұрын

Im 50 and been around RC all my life. This is the most insane variant I have seen yet! Bloody awesome.

@lucywucyyy 3 жыл бұрын

glad to see you back at this! cant wait to see how much faster you can go

@nedstudios6490 3 жыл бұрын

That was the coolest KZfaq Video Ive seen this year. This is headed straight to 1 million

@ezza2fly 3 жыл бұрын

That was sensational flying Spencer! So cool to see the world record back at Parker Mountain where ds was discovered. Congratulations!

@sll914 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eric! Hope you are doing well...

@ezza2fly 3 жыл бұрын

@@sll914 Yes all is very well, thanks for asking. From memory, you occasionally get stronger santa anas than this? So stoked for you!

@10--50 3 жыл бұрын

I'm watching the video thinking " Jesus how drunk am I ??"

@AeroCraftAviation 3 жыл бұрын

Great achievement guys! Love the sound as it rips in and out of transonic flight.

@nickhull83 3 жыл бұрын

@sll914 Congrats and super happy Parker holds the record again. Seeing this makes me want to get back into it. I had one of your early 60". This sport is luck to have an engineer like you pushing boundaries! Never stop and post more videos!

@ChrisEvansNodd 3 жыл бұрын

While I understand the physics behind dynamic soaring, what I can't fathom is how you control it going that fast. That's got to be some serious concentration.

@lucywucyyy 3 жыл бұрын

same, how do you steer something going so fast you can barely see it

@FlyNAA 3 жыл бұрын

Full scale pilot here that's flown RC a few times (definitely not doing this) with the same question. My speculation is that you don't have a closed-loop mindset (as in "closed-loop controller" from engineering, not the looping maneuver... wish there was another word!) like controlling any typical maneuver, where you're watching deviations and correcting them on the fly. It's too fast for that. But rather, after enough practice you have the muscle memory with your thumbs of how to fly one of those circles, and if you notice one go a little bit wrong, you adjust for the next time around. And you get in a rhythm/groove with their cyclical nature, making small adjustments each next one. I'd love to get a real answer here from those who fly DS.

@sll914 3 жыл бұрын

@@FlyNAA I think it's like you say, muscle memory developed thru lots of practice. After a while you learn to recognize deviations from the desired path earlier and you can fix them immediately. Beginner DSers usually have one point in the circuit (top turn) where they make corrections and over time you add more and more points in the circuit where you recognize and correct issues. The ultimate goal is to develop so many points along the circuit that your corrections become constant and small.

@LawtonDigital 3 жыл бұрын

@@FlyNAA All the while trying to find the sweet spot

@GENESUTUBE69 3 жыл бұрын

VERY LITTLE CONTROL IS NEEDED JUST MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE LOOP WITH BANK AND A LITTLE UP A PLANE WILL HOLD THE SAME COURSE DO TO THE BUILT IN STABILITY UNLESS AN EXTERNAL FORCE IS APPLIED ANY DEFECTION OF THE CONTROL SURFACES JUST SLOWS US DOWN

@user-nq5hy7vn9k 3 жыл бұрын

Just waiting for the day we get a rc plane faster than the speed of sound

@sebastiaancuijpers2302 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, probably won't be too long, this is about mach 0.9 or something

@haydenharrington8354 3 жыл бұрын

Uhh bruh we already have one

@nickspanlopis9342 3 жыл бұрын

We have many...they are common...

@PaleOrchid 3 жыл бұрын

Transonic area is very nasty. Drag increase rapidly near mach 1 and so does other areodynamics. It will be extremely hard to reach mach 0.9 or above.

@user-nq5hy7vn9k 3 жыл бұрын

@@PaleOrchid maybe it's possible with some other design

@crapistheshit3840 3 жыл бұрын

Great work guys, had an absolute blast watching this !

@ClaudioPagan 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that was awesome, congrats! I had some great hang gliding flights from Parker Mountain 1985-1987 when I lived in the Antelope Valley.

@mgman6000 5 ай бұрын

Is it true about the hang glider that launched off parker and flew to Long Beach violating Van nuys and lax airspace and was arrested when he landed? That story was going around back then

@daviddavis8653 3 жыл бұрын

Very impressive stick skills to keep this thing from just smashing into the mountain side

@philj2650 3 жыл бұрын

That sound it makes...it’s AWESOME!!! I love it!

@runnit5863 3 жыл бұрын

*wing clips the cliff* guy 100 miles away: "oh hey, free plane"

@drac410 3 жыл бұрын

Wing clips an arm Look you dropped your arm.

@skeetermcswagger0U812 3 жыл бұрын

Is there some sort of mid air tennis match that we aren't aware of that they're watching with that camera?🤔

@Rocky_Intertidal 3 жыл бұрын

Why do I want to back away from the screen while watching this?

@kenyablonsky 3 жыл бұрын

Because when the plane going 548 mph, slips and comes right at you through the screen, it's gonna cut your damn head off clean....LOL

@dsdy1205 3 жыл бұрын

@@kenyablonsky I saw a clip where the thing augered into the ground with a THUMP loud enough to reverberate across the mountain range

@jcrnda 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! The camera was moving even faster!

@LemonySnicket-EUC 4 ай бұрын

The pilot wore the camera on his head.

@RT10Viperman 3 жыл бұрын

I did not even know this was a thing but im impressed for sure..!!

@josefgergetz6949 3 жыл бұрын

Man, this is sick ! Congratulations !

@M.M.W.K.1910 3 жыл бұрын

However this came to my mind: Imagine u were a pilot back in ww2 and seeing this thing flying by 😂

@elihill8123 3 жыл бұрын

I would piss myself

@shlushe1050 3 жыл бұрын

Toward the end of the war the p51 could achieve speeds of 400mph ish, thats high altitude with little air resistance. Down at that altitude in the video id say it could do 350, which is still terrifying

@codesenseis9145 3 жыл бұрын

even the me262 is scared

@hemendraravi4787 2 жыл бұрын

Me262s max speed is 540mph at that altitude now that ur saying imagine but let’s imagine how they would have felt seeing super fast machines which weird buzzing noise and those huge 30mm cannons it must be real scary

@jo2lovid 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool that the fastest RC plane is a glider WITHOUT a motor! Those complaining about the moving video. With it held still you STILL wouldn't see a damn thing. You'd need 4k video at 120fps to even get a chance of capturing some good frames.

@bongofury3176 3 жыл бұрын

An incredible aircraft with an equally incredible pilot. I could barely see it. I can't imagine flying it. Nice

@MichaelHeinrich1 9 ай бұрын

Great flying!

@kwhp1507 3 жыл бұрын

What they aren’t showing is the 2 F-22’s that showed up 15 minutes later looking for a subsonic Russian MiG.

@prestonthomas9406 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t even see how a foam carbon fiber covered wing could stand up to these forces. Off the charts...

@sunsetfpv3046 3 жыл бұрын

i think it's just CF. servos begging for mercy

@aafjeyakubu5124 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same. The g forces must be amazing. Would love to have a sensor record the max g load.

@harryspeakup8452 3 жыл бұрын

@@aafjeyakubu5124 Max G recorded on the predecessor to this aircraft was 120G, which is the maximum the sensor could record. They routinely cruise at 80 to 100 G continuous turn. It is covered in this presentation from 2017 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNxnYLx-md3Sn2w.html

@aafjeyakubu5124 3 жыл бұрын

@@harryspeakup8452 I honestly didn't think I was going to watch the whole video. I was wrong. Unbelievable!

@headkickko609 3 жыл бұрын

the wings on these are so strong, a grown man can stand in the middle while the sides are beeing supported on each side.

@dvfpv 3 жыл бұрын

wow, this is insane! Congrats on the achievement !

@SammYLightfooD 9 ай бұрын

When steering the plane straight ahead for a second means it immediately flies out of sight.

@SuperScottCrawford 3 жыл бұрын

I like the vid where the exact moment the guy launches his glider, he says "Oh, no! I forgot to turn it on!!" Then down the hill he went. And it was way down, too.

@dsfxrender6360 3 жыл бұрын

top clip

@aerotorp 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, steady as a rock! I am well and truly impressed. Fastest moving object on the earth!!!!! (without engine)

@mk1st 3 жыл бұрын

I've seen loads of videos of RC planes (mainly warbirds/airliners and such) coming apart at way less speeds. This thing is amazing!

@kevinAPapaof2 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing landing. Congrats

@christiansprojects-cgmanuf1426 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing! Would you be willing to loose a few words about the setup of the plane? Like what kind of servos do you use, how much throw on the control surfaces and what kind of radio. That would be very interesting.

@nicholasjensen8016 3 жыл бұрын

not just any RC speed record. The fact that its just a GLIDER makes it even more nuts!

@pauljs75 3 жыл бұрын

In the hobbyist segment, such is faster than any RC aircraft with a motor. Even those with jets or small booster rockets are still slower. If you want faster remote piloted aircraft you'd have to look to something government owned, which then tends to be military aircraft or drones.

@hinz1 3 жыл бұрын

Problem is more that you have to see and control it. Flying circles needs rudder deflection and rudder deflection creates drag. So hard to get supersonic that way. Put stub wings onto a rocket will easily get you supersonic, but it will more or less fly in a straight line and might be out of sight soon. There are numerous supersonic hobby rockets out there.

@Optimiser113 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing stuff!

@wleizero 3 жыл бұрын

Love that sound, truely awesome! (and terrifying) Thank you for sharing.

@louiefriesen 3 жыл бұрын

When that Russian gamer logs onto your Flight Simulator server and has 5 million ping

@oadka 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it surprising that a dynamic soaring glider has the world speed record, not turbine jets? Hats off to the pilot and camera operator for their excellent job!

@justincase7686 2 жыл бұрын

their a video of a jet doing 700mph

@humbertomonteiro6742 2 жыл бұрын

@@justincase7686 700kmh...

@falco1867 3 жыл бұрын

Wow... I thought I was watching 2 planes for a bit and thought, hmm, this won't take long. I've flown some pretty fast planes but they don't even scratch the surface of this one. Hell, I was a day late just trying to keep up with the plane in this vid. Well DONE!!

@BenErikNess 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! Awesome achievement!

@sslyder180 3 жыл бұрын

Man what kind of G forces is this thing hitting. Its amazing how it stays together with so much wing loading on a 2m wingspan

@mike3000ization 3 жыл бұрын

90 gs

@tekyguy 3 жыл бұрын

@@mike3000ization incredible!

@henrik3129 3 жыл бұрын

The wing was not cheap :) He did a presentation on the problems they faced building a plane that don't explode.

@firefly3981 3 жыл бұрын

dozens

@daxdadog 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! That was incredible! And to all the clueless commenters...of course it's hard to watch! It's a relatively small object, moving at an insanely fast speed! What part of that don't you understand? No one could make a pleasant to watch video, of something like that.

@charlesbecker6305 3 жыл бұрын

Wrong... A little creativity to settle the camera or highlight the plane would have gone a long way. Nevertheless, incredible feat!

@rayshivjee2672 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing. Congratulations!

@edstewart7688 3 жыл бұрын

Keep those records coming Spencer proud of you man

@Leontestedevorant 3 жыл бұрын

881,921Km/h = 548mph Information for rest of the World ;-)

@farginicehole513 3 жыл бұрын

Or is it 548,000 mph. . . just kidding 😁

@johnmaughan5007 3 жыл бұрын

Yes except England we still use mph mostly 😂😸😂

@X02AC3 3 жыл бұрын

Keep up with the development and one day we may hear the sharp crack of the aircraft's passage as it achieves supersonic flight.

@crustygrognard7403 3 жыл бұрын

That crackle you hear on every pass is the upper surface of the wing going transonic.

@Hyperious_in_the_air 3 жыл бұрын

@@crustygrognard7403 actually, I think that may be the sound of flow separation. it's moving so goddamn fast and has such a high angle of attack that it might be causing vacuum regions to form on the top side of the wing for milliseconds before collapsing from the outside pressure. Almost like how a propeller will produce cavitation when spun too fast.

@crustygrognard7403 3 жыл бұрын

@@Hyperious_in_the_air I was wrong, it wasnt transonic. The local airflow on the upper surface of the wing was in excess of mach 1.25 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNxnYLx-md3Sn2w.html at 35 minutes in there is a plot of the airspeed over the wing.

@quadstardrones Жыл бұрын

Amazing work, well done!!!

@kevinwells4986 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. For trying to further the rest of us.

@ryzenryne8747 3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit it flies so fast to the point my eyes couldn't see

@KalLanPIDT 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't even know dynamic soaring was a thing, might have to get a rc plane now xD

@wordreet 3 жыл бұрын

Be prepared to shell out several grand to get one similar. 😉

@KalLanPIDT 3 жыл бұрын

@@wordreet As I've never flown a plane I think I'll just start small and learn to fly before I try something that does 880km/h :O

@wordreet 3 жыл бұрын

@@KalLanPIDT Good luck my dude, trainer planes can be had pretty cheap and are easy-ish to fly. You can buy ones with stabilisation electronics built in, or just go for cheap and basic. But I do recommend trying an RC simulator first. I did 8 years ago, and it helped me to start.

@KalLanPIDT 3 жыл бұрын

@@wordreet Great tip, I can crash without losing anything but patience hehe thanks :)

@mikehagen3785 3 жыл бұрын

@@KalLanPIDT Go spend $150 on a carbon cub s2 from Horizon Hobbies, that will get you everything you need to fly,extra batteries are like 6 bucks, it gets you flying, I started there last year, now I own several large planes and a simulator... lots of fun

@philparamore13 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Congratulations!

@alpinat0rsflyingadventures413 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations, truly mind-boggling!

@rocketmrvc8066 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! I no longer think that dynamic soaring appropriately describes this type of flying. Dynamic, yes, but soaring? Any suggestions? Also, pat on the back for your hand, thumb/eye co-ordination. The stress on the airframe must be incredible! Congratulations, again. I truly am in awe!

@StaK_1980 3 жыл бұрын

about 120G s if I read that right

@Hyperious_in_the_air 3 жыл бұрын

At this point it feels like we've found a glitch in fluid dynamics and we're just exploiting the hell out of it.

@rocketmrvc8066 3 жыл бұрын

@@StaK_1980 120 G's is incredible. 1Kg turns into 120!!. Some mighty fine engineering as well as physical dexterity for flying at these incredible speeds. Like your handle, I live on the same island as the devil.

@rocketmrvc8066 3 жыл бұрын

@@Hyperious_in_the_air Glitch, or very smart engineering. Magic!!!

@american.rc1 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome flight!! A quick thought, maybe a directional mic with a top of the line wind covering could bring out some beautiful nuanced sounds. Thanks for sharing! Hopefully I progress to this level at some point.

@christoph8630 3 жыл бұрын

I agree Its like music but i think they already have a good mic. I mean you can hear then talking in 65mph wind

@daemn42 3 жыл бұрын

Was filmed with a GoPro by the pilot. GoPro makes it really annoying (and expensive) to add an external mic these days.

@Turgid_Spleenis 3 жыл бұрын

It's not meant for the general viewer. He records for his own personal use.

@patriottexan 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats sir. Well-done

@itszor 3 жыл бұрын

Insane Los skills. subbed :)

@JK-Productions 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a 3 second Clip that is looped and speeded up every round :D

@3Dmaker12 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought. It doesn’t feel right how the video was. And I know that modern avionics in rcs are amazing but to go 540mph with only a glider and no jet engine is impossible to comprehend

@ignasanchezl 3 жыл бұрын

@@3Dmaker12 Look up dynamic soaring, it's not the only one of it's kind.

@moshunit96 2 жыл бұрын

You can clearly see the gliders route change so your 3 second loop theory is busted.

@teourbs 3 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed at how that thing holds up to the extreme g force 😲

@Zilahi-Branyi_Laszlo 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe most of it's weight is in it's wings. In that case extreme g force (as I estimated ~70g if it went perfect circles, otherwise more than that) doesn't involve extreme stress, because the support is evenly distributed over it's entire surface.

@JaviRP97 3 жыл бұрын

@@Zilahi-Branyi_Laszlo Exactly, they had to put weight on the wing at the time they were always breaking the wing in half at high speeds. Highly recommended talk: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNxnYLx-md3Sn2w.html by Spencer (the pilot in this video).

@kindlin Жыл бұрын

He said it was a carbon fiber epoxy, and it's doing over 100g's, easy.

@mike94560 3 жыл бұрын

That is a very well built plane. Congratulations!

@kenstephens2955 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations Spencer! With love, Ken

@stomptheelites 3 жыл бұрын

The Camera was going for a World Record too.😂🤣

@raven_fpv 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness!! My jaw was on the floor the whole time! How do you get the wings from buckling? This is an amazing glider! Good job to everyone who was involved in this set up. 👏

@dcsmith5839 3 жыл бұрын

Very impressive! Hats off to you,too much happening too quick for me.

@bigestudios3890 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats! This is extremely difficult to do, pilot makes it look easy.

@MelindaGreen 3 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is I was amazed by the camera operator being able to track the plane so well, only to find the comments all about how they think the camera operator was the problem! I was also struck by how much quieter this plane is from previous ones even while going faster. Did you find and fix some previous source of drag? The winds that day in the City were nuts. You guys must have been ready to drop everything to catch this rare opportunity. Congratulations! Please make a video documenting the whole thing. I want to know all about the project and your plans.

@douginorlando6260 3 жыл бұрын

Melinda Green ... never knew Dynamic Soaring existed until now. At first I thought this must be fake (speeded up video with normal speed sound). Then I watched his 2017 video. I’m impressed by this as much as Elon’s starship. Truly amazing engineering

@MelindaGreen 3 жыл бұрын

@@douginorlando6260 It's crazy amounts of high-tech and artistry. I mean they're building to perform at a constant 100 Gs. I think they even have trouble getting paint stay in place. I was near a similar plane once and I have no desire to do that again. It's truly frightening. Safety aside, one twitch and you plow into the hill. At 800 feet per second I would also worry about losing it in the sky.

@SALESPRODUCTIONS 3 жыл бұрын

I am surprised it doesn't break apart. I am also curious as to the G forces ? And whether it is carbon fiber ? ( AND - if you're going to all this trouble and doing a world record thing and videotaping it for broadcast - one might think that a person would bring a camera with a mic WIND SCREEN. )

@BlueSparrow13 3 жыл бұрын

In order -some designs have been known to shatter once they exeed there desighned speed envelopes. -The G's for ghis flight have been calculated at between 60-100+G's -Yes it is built verry heavy and very strong out of carbon fiber. +-10lbs -The camera is a gopro straped to the pilots head, if it weren't it would be even harder to follow whats happening (its been tried)

@boltonky 3 жыл бұрын

That's insane and scale helps...love to see the G load etc it goes through as its flying in circles

@sll914 3 жыл бұрын

approx 90g

@DickRichie510 3 жыл бұрын

I have some foam slopers and a thunderbat i thought was fast.. i wouldnt be able to fly that in a 100 life times.. you are truly talented thank you for sharing that was cool..

@smudge6831 8 ай бұрын

Wow, the forces on the airframe must be colossal. Great job with the record!

@vueport99 3 жыл бұрын

Wished the camera man kept the camera steady instead of whipping it back and forth like that. Can barely see the plane as is without him moving it

@sll914 3 жыл бұрын

It was filmed with my Gopro on my head while flying...

@nakul1830 3 жыл бұрын

How's your neck? (jk)

@boriscat1999 3 жыл бұрын

When I was watching I kept wondering if you had some genius cameraman that was good at tracking it visually. Thanks for the comment, it answers my question. The pilot knows better than anyone where the plane is. ;-)

@sll914 3 жыл бұрын

@@nakul1830 Tennis anyone? giphy.com/embed/3o6fJ73ZboJ0tqnqwg

@dsdy1205 3 жыл бұрын

@@sll914 Could consider running image stabilisation on this video, although I'm not sure if it will pick up the plane on the downhill leg

@microbuilder 3 жыл бұрын

Simply amazing! Watched the on-board video as well, made me wonder how one of those 360 degree GoPro cameras would do.

@cvdheyden 4 ай бұрын

This absolutely blew my mind! The fastest remote jet plane is not as fast! So I dug deeper into the physics of this and that is mind blowing as well.

@dzordzszs 3 жыл бұрын

How does one control such a fast rc plane, a motorless one, nonetheless.

@sll914 3 жыл бұрын

www.hitecrcd.com www.mks-servo.com

@mjodr 3 жыл бұрын

You can try it in a simulator. I'm not very good at it, but a couple hours of practice and you could start to get the hang of it. A lot of it is just timing the elevator inputs.

@peterhallett1998 3 жыл бұрын

Practice. Takes a long time to go that fast

@Duraltia 3 жыл бұрын

@T Hebert I think that would only work with ground based optical positioning systems like how they use for those super fuckin stable Drone flight demonstrations the *ETH Zürich* keeps pumping out every once in a while. Everything else - like commercially available GPS positioning systems for model aircrafts, at those speeds and this close to the ground, would most likely lead you to a fine for littering the ground with shrapnel.