@spider plays_YT Disagree.

I also very very strongly disagree. The advantages of capacitors don’t apply to a efficient airplane. Also they add weight and take away battery capacity. Check out Tom Stanton for some good stuff about using capacitors in rcs

The actually watt hours to weight isn’t nearly as good as capacitors. You don’t need to have high discharge rate on airplanes, so if you wanted more efficient power source maybe li-ions would work

Yeah true. I still don’t really think the benefits of capacitors apply to that in a way that makes it better than lithium based batteries, but definitely cool. My favorite use of a capacitor is the taser disposable camera

Is that a runcam split on the front? If so which one? Cheers

Lol...

I'm not scared of it dropping in altitude. I am more scared of it rapidly deaccelerating while it touches a massive 8000 mile diameter sphere.

@@ColinRichardson Just fly a bit to the left to avoid it.

​@@MatthewK863 I don't believe Tesla's Starman would agree.

@@MatthewK863 Getting into the air is the challenge, getting back on the ground is free.

parmsib yea that was hilarious. I really lol.

.... Make fun of each other and nobody got offended. Just like humor is suppose to be done.

-Grab an apple off a vine …😂🤦🏼‍♂️

"An engineer and a flight test op walk into a bar"

@@jstaylo2 i didnt even realise he said vine becuase i to focused on how those are coated in pesticides and not recommended to eat off the tree like that

*Hell yeah, this is the life!*

How to pronounce vegan: vegan

hell yeah!

You can literally watch and say the same thing about every single one of his videos going back years. You don't know why, but you just keep watching then 25 min later you're like "what did I just do?"

Whatttt??? Macakiux jajaja, amo tus videos, y lo menos pensado que tenía era encontrarte aquí. Me gustaría construir algo como este avioncito.

Hobbyists invented the technology. Companies and governments assimilated it.

Imagine hobbyist build up an entire army with drones.

@@keyboardwarrior1946 and pouring acid on people during big gathering that'd be hilarious

@@w花b WTF BRUH?

@@datalorian I think Sperry Co. developed autopilot from ship's navigation.

Yes. Amazing.

Would be the same in Europe. Most speed measurements are in km/h (m/s*3.6) and people don't usually convert between the two intuitively

@@ToxNano x4 for KmPH and x2 for Knots - rough enough

@@gke3800 Guess that works, although I've never understood why anyone would want to use knots.

@@ToxNano - you could be in a situation in which you only have a piece of string.

Just miltioly meters ber secon by 3.6 and you get kph. Easy. You just need a calculatir if its not an easy number ti multiply.

I scrolled to the read the comments exclusively because of that statement 😂

I use mixed metaphors a lot. The last one was "beat my trumpet".

I saw this comment literally as he said it

Geeses

Since when did apples grow on vines

Look up spirit of butts farm Föew ovet the atlantic

The phantom 3 will get a 14 mile round trip easy if you don't loiter.

Yeah put more programming videos

@VideoSevicesVB @@alirezas.m1498 Thats awesome idea I don't care if it's boring and gets no views, i want to see the process please!

rctestflight2 please

@@kbytfs yes, pls!

Yeah I would like to see how the waypoint missions are planned :)

No you were right the first time. The plane was turning West. He was apprehensive about the headwind they started flying into.

Hahaha, yes me too

Bro... I happened to read this comment at the moment it happened in the video and it tripped me out!

Nurk is considering super long range FPV with scaled back anxiety

You sound like a XIV century paper press manufacturer...👍👍👍🤣👏👏👏

You could use a clip on mobile antenna for the radio... Cool mission planner!

Yeah he is

I'm sure he said Banj a bunch of times but I'm not used to his 'merican farmer ack-cent.

Just like the good old guidance systems from ICBMs! I love your username, by the way.

Ever heard of Top Gear Polar Specials

Best season ever!

20 mins in before I came across your comment, didn't realise it was an hour long.

Because the screen is in our hearts.

LMFAO, it's funny that everyone knew what he meant though...

@50:00

Bro mood

I loved the lack of response

But he ate the apple, he did not throw him away when he realized that it wasn't quite ripe. I had a problem a while ago, I had forgot the key to my student apartment. I must drive the whole way back to my parents with the train, grab the key and drive back (with the train and walking a while), this takes 4 or 5 hours. In this situation I had the Idea that my parents could use a drone to send me the key ... the wight of the key is basically nothing. I had to wait less than 1 hour till the drone would reach my position if the speed would be 35km/h. This would be very nice in such a situation. I know that the safety is important and I would not get the right to fly over a not private area her in Germany. Possibly someday there will exist something like a drone-flight-right on limited areas, with a easy way to add the own drone to a flight-plan and a route ... like a street in the air for drones ... with a automatized air traffic control system.

Bangi really wanted one!

And you sound like you speak English.

Lmfao.. 🤣

My friends from England say that to me, also. "You're just so American!" Well, I am, so what do they expect, lol? I suppose they're right.

Second that! Aussie here

Ok

yep

That's right!

lol meanwhile me living in western united states seeing this uploaded at 4 am

Ended up watching this in the evening, enjoyed the trip across all those obscure little US towns. Great achievement with the Solar Plane V4. I wonder how far away the nearest store is from some of those town's if you ran out of your favourite beverage and just HAD to have one? :)

That would be so awesome!

With SpaceX starlink worldwide internet that could be possible one day for sure!

@ doubtful, not because starlink isnt amazing but because you would need a very large rc plane in order to carry the relatively large antenna array for starlink. There is no escaping difficulty of sending a powerful enough signal to reach a satellite vs reaching a nearby cell tower.

Look up the Airbus Zephyr

This is definitely doable, well, at least the LTE telemetry and control for fpv. I would argue that there will never be a quadcopter that could do this because it would have to be huge to make enough surface area for solar charging. But a slow-flying, large-winged (not delta) design that was heavily modeled for good glide ratio would be very efficient. I've actually spent a lot of time looking at efficiency and controllability for something like this. 100 miles one way and back, etc. Ofc I would have to throw up the fictional thing as well so the FAA wouldn't be mad at me.

Well it'd have to be perpetual day, but yeah it could fly forever in fair weather and perpetual day. or you could just make it so fast that it outruns the nighttime!

@@serbianspaceforce6873 Yeah, it’s kind of hard to get one to be efficient enough and fast enough at the same time though lol.

A very quick estimate is like this: There are 4 time zones across the continental US so the plane could experiences 4 hours of noon time with maximum sun light, flying west bond. You may be able to add two hours on both ends so lets say 8 hours of decent sun light. Assuming 30miles/hour ground speed. It will probably barely reach more than 300 miles on a very good day at this point. It will be closer if the (efficiency x speed) can improve by 10~20 fold.

@@serbianspaceforce6873 You need a plane that is breaking 1000 miles per hour to stay in the sunlight.

A big battery can help...

"and we are following the plane by car, for safety"

Being able to fly 24/7 would be awesome. Fly above the clouds and there'd be no limit as to where you can go.

@@SolarWebsite You couldn't fly above the polar circle, though :P

There are solar planes capable of that, and they are called pseudo-satellites. It would be EXTEREMELY cool if he would actually manage to privately build and operate such a plane!

I have done little bit of math last week to know how fast the plane has to be so it has sun constantly over the head. It resulted in some 400m/s+. so you need to carry big battery for night

Yeah I get that feeling too, anyone with this much energy, inventiveness and out and out smarts definitely deserves good things in their life.

Not even RC, just C

@@wires87 Not even C just

and then he signs off by saying what does vegan even mean apart from pretentious? HAHAHA

The apple off the vine killed me. And the confusion on center post irrigation.

I am not accustomed to AWACS references being made by computer gaming nerds. Wait a second, yes, I am.

I mean... I would...

@@goldenpiston8449 Was thinking the same thing.

That's pretty easy to build a big plane and do this. Getting it efficient is another story

I live in the UK I would have to find a way of compressing a week's worth of sunshine into a single day to try this at home haha

@@MarcAntoine01 Well where I live any unmanned aerial vehicle off 100 grams needs to be insured and have a license

Lol

FAA ??? Who and what is that??

No one noticed the airstrip he flew over, either. Doesn't seem to be marked, so probably just a crop duster's operation?

Anyone monetized on KZfaq, with a drone video posted for any purpose at all, should expect a friendly message from the FAA to stop doing so immediately, until licensed as a commercial drone pilot. This is true even for drones under 250 grams, which this bird obviously is not. They typically don't demand removal of videos posted prior to the warning, but they could. And yes, line of sight is still a thing, with or without a license.

Oil? That stuff comes mostly from unicellular organisms way before plants became a thing.

@@programagor what about coal?

Use the force Benj

Hahaha I thought the same thing!

I love going on trips to Mexico in my drift cars...

Fake disclaimer?

@@introvertairways yep

@@MalKediler That's not a fake disclaimer. it says they followed the la and don't repeat it without contacting the FAA or whatever

its only an hour

Same here gonna postpone though as I always do

Be cool, stay in school

Procrastination is the key to failing successfully.

@@voodoovince8001 nice

Time doesn't exist.