RC Shuttle Drop Tests - Will It Glide?

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5 жыл бұрын

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.com/file/d/13drL...
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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@rmdcade1717 5 жыл бұрын

"Part 1: A crash course in piloting." *explosion* Mr. Whomsley, you are nothing if not subtle.

@RamyRC 5 жыл бұрын

awesome job guys

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Ramy RC thanks man!

@laurentbeaujour9528 3 жыл бұрын

Love you both you're the best !

@mardisal1128 3 жыл бұрын

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

@romaismith6297 Жыл бұрын

not bad man

@darrenwest8760 5 жыл бұрын

Yeeessss rockety mcrocket face!!!! Go on lad

@kreevee8351 5 жыл бұрын

Darren West lol good name there

@Alex-l940 Жыл бұрын

Well done

@kimboost9686 Ай бұрын

what the heck is that name?!

@darrenwest8760 Ай бұрын

@@kimboost9686 I'm assuming your not British? It was a thing for us Brits

@kimboost9686 Ай бұрын

@@darrenwest8760 uhhhhh what was that? I see someone reply that?

@mikeupton5406 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@joshuawfinn 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah he did great!

@Cheticus 5 жыл бұрын

Well this was absolutely awesome.

@Brixxter 4 жыл бұрын

Tom Stanton brought me here, nice work!

@foamyflightmaster9385 5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff, good to see people having fun with RC projects. Keep up the good work.

@ChrisCVW 5 жыл бұрын

Making me wait til 12:50 for the tea shot you massive tease.

@TheM0JEC 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@MCsCreations 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing job, guys! Both of you!!! 😃 That airplane is a beauty!

@ibonitog 5 жыл бұрын

How does your channel only have like 7000 subs? Wtf?! You're awesome mate!! :)

@kinshukkumar6197 3 жыл бұрын

Come on!!!! This channel should have millions of subscribers, it’s awsome

@SLK11542 Жыл бұрын

Man British aerospace comedy is the best “the sheep will. Just fly over”

@kevinfarley6981 2 жыл бұрын

Fun stuff! Well done guys. Congrats!

@tombstonefpv9053 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Yeah we laughed a lot too. :P

@elijahbennett2907 3 жыл бұрын

You guys did a GREAT job!!

@jeffkeith637 4 жыл бұрын

Great work. Your mothership reminded me of a Blenheim with the square lines. I liked it a lot.

@stevelyon9405 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic ! Well done guys !

@badassdrones778 5 жыл бұрын

Nice ! Well done. Looking forward seeing the rocket episode ;)

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@allenwilson2395 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome job. I've been thoroughly entertained. Subbed your channel.

@cherylgonz 5 жыл бұрын

Outstanding!!

@thechemistsapprentices4260 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! I really like it. I would like to try by myself to do this amazing Space Shuttle!

@dcolb121 Жыл бұрын

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.

@kevelliott 4 жыл бұрын

12:58 "...we're having a great time here. Altogether - " "WE'RE HAVING A GREAT TIME HERE"

@grim-upnorth 4 жыл бұрын

You're basically the UK version of rctestflight :-)

@jupitorman 4 жыл бұрын

Inspired to re start my shuttle program

@electromaniac03 5 жыл бұрын

This was a great video Good job on the thumbnail too!

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Pleased you noticed the extra effort! ;)

@houssin_bs4009 5 жыл бұрын

this is good and very amazing

@rajifredrick2128 3 жыл бұрын

Looks so fun!

@technicaldavelazer9151 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful and amazing stuff

@thecraftking113 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome guys great crash course

@DoRC 5 жыл бұрын

The full size shuttle was pretty unstable. I'm not sure it makes a good first plane:)

@jean-maximest-pierre8375 5 жыл бұрын

NIce work man!

@Steven-er2od 5 жыл бұрын

one word AWESOME

@RCDUDEFPV 5 жыл бұрын

NICE!

@rc-hobby250 5 жыл бұрын

Great project!

@hooptydoo417 5 жыл бұрын

Of course the motor fell off. Everything was going so well it had to come off.

@leeball4 5 жыл бұрын

This was good fun!

@elijahf111 5 жыл бұрын

i got to see the last shuttle fly over my school in California. was friggin awesome

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Eli that’s so cool!

@skippyfpvexperimentalrc6755 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome keep it up

@nathanordowski718 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@christopherleveck6835 4 жыл бұрын

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...

@kkuenzel56 5 жыл бұрын

The Right Stuff!

@TheCoomer 4 жыл бұрын

Oh the Battle of Britain Theme!

@thefiestaguy8831 7 ай бұрын

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.

@Flamebrin 3 жыл бұрын

this is why twin engine planes are great. two engines to get you there, one to get you home

@donhalford2237 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff, or, the right stuff. Boy, you keep me entertained and LMAO

@user-wq8cp3uv7d 8 күн бұрын

Do some sort of stunt plane that can do loops and barrel rolls.🛩🛩

@bobwebber8521 5 жыл бұрын

Great fun! Keep it up. Being picky - the power here is supplied by motors not engines.

@MrsThaliaSmith 2 жыл бұрын

I like when the cameraman was like yeah yeah yeah

@mattdumbrill8324 5 жыл бұрын

Gj for that little practice

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Mattie Dumbrill thanks! Mike did well.

@mattdumbrill8324 5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@longbowshooter5291 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@5c0u53 5 жыл бұрын

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

@anirudhbhat7350 5 жыл бұрын

Talking about bungees, how does one select the length of the bungee?

@5c0u53 5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@5c0u53 5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@Packless1 2 жыл бұрын

8:25 ...like the trailer of 'The 6-Million-Dollar-Man'...! ;-) ...now i've the urge to watch 'The Right Stuff'...! :D

@FlyingMarvin 5 жыл бұрын

Nice funny video Entertaining👍Can't wait for the next part.. A camera on it would be cool🤔 Greetings from Switzerland

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Might have to strap a camera on! :)

@heathsn1051 Жыл бұрын

He makes amazing thing

@berrodude Жыл бұрын

The Sydney council held a competition for naming the new Sydney Harbour ferry and the name they chose was Ferry McFerryface. Legit.

@knightshado 5 жыл бұрын

Hi, are plans available for the twin motor airplane also?? Loved the video.

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

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).

@surajhebbal3232 5 жыл бұрын

cool

@SmithHayward 5 жыл бұрын

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"...

@O.L.D_RC 4 жыл бұрын

Your mothership vertical stabilizer should have continued the slighter arc to create a more B-17l-like structure. Still a great design though.

@ianallistair1880 3 жыл бұрын

Nice flite test hat

@MrTitanicfanatic2 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@vjspicer 3 жыл бұрын

What piece came flying off when you detached on the final attempt?

@Caktusdud. 4 жыл бұрын

Look at the stratolaunch aircraft or the virgin galactic mothership they might be another good area to look when doing it as well

@thecaptainnoodles 4 жыл бұрын

Rocket boiiiii

@RCLoversan 5 жыл бұрын

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

@visstar3335 4 жыл бұрын

How are you powering the receiver and servos?

@nlavigne92292 3 жыл бұрын

You have to use this and your rocket plane experience to make a Bell-X1

@loodwich 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@hamishburnettbrowne9811 4 жыл бұрын

your challenge should you chose to accept it, Grumman X-29 .

@Jkauppa 3 жыл бұрын

the main thing could be on auto-path while specific mission is run

@rocketman6878 4 жыл бұрын

Never mind guys it worked .

@fynnjackson8416 5 жыл бұрын

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

@julianmcshane2965 5 жыл бұрын

(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).

@UnitSe7en 5 жыл бұрын

Can't really do camber on a delta.

@EricRobb 4 жыл бұрын

The google drive link for the shuttle plans doesn’t work

@sterlingsmith202 5 жыл бұрын

noice

@aarongentapan8665 Жыл бұрын

Can you put a landing wheals?

@SonAndDadFPV 5 жыл бұрын

Landing with turning prop did the first damage I guess 😅

@Sabotage_Labs 4 жыл бұрын

MOTOR....MOTOR...MOTOR! You have no engines in that thing🤔🤪😁

@drewshafer7288 3 жыл бұрын

A motor is an engine that uses electricity as its "fuel" (what the engine converts to kinetic energy)

@Sabotage_Labs 3 жыл бұрын

@@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/

@anti-popfpv4638 4 жыл бұрын

Is Rocketface related to Thrusty McThrustface by any chance?

@TheRealBillder 2 жыл бұрын

Man where did you get skills to build that all?

@CaptainJohn 5 жыл бұрын

NASA 905, call sign of the 747 that launched the shuttles. Has sense been repainted and stuff.

@merttoprakli9675 3 жыл бұрын

houston mission accomplished

@air-headedaviator1805 5 жыл бұрын

Mission success

@superslug2516 4 жыл бұрын

I want the plans for the lancaster bomber please😥😥😥

@regardtcoetzee 5 жыл бұрын

When will you finish the rest of your projects

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

Regardt Coetzee Some of my Projects are on hold and most are done for now. I’ll be revisiting things like the lifting body plane and Hydroplane in the future.

@CuervoRC 5 жыл бұрын

Lo que me he reido cuando has perdido el motor mientras volabas. 😂😂

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

MrCuervoRC sorry, I don’t speak Spanish! 🤷‍♂️ Thanks for the comment though

@CuervoRC 5 жыл бұрын

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.😂

@TinyHouseHomestead Жыл бұрын

Still don't see the plans man! 😪🤪🤣👍🇺🇸

@typxxilps 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Project-Air 5 жыл бұрын

typxxilps I’m still unsure as to what the piece fell off on that final flight actually was, which is a bit worrying 😂

@Nuggeinsky4321 4 жыл бұрын

what if you made a rocket and put the shuttle on said rocket then land the shuttle

@Lord.Kiltridge 3 жыл бұрын

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.