The Spaceship 09-05-2024 (Pilot: John Greenfield)

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Gimbal Geek

2 ай бұрын

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@tanyatucjer 2 ай бұрын

Hey there Mr Gordon you need to figure out how to get some sparks to shoot out the back to look just like Saturday morning 1934 at the $0.05 theater. 👍😀👍

@juanalejandrosegura5857 2 ай бұрын

Iba a comentar lo mismo!!!

@JohnnyJTav 2 ай бұрын

Cool... Looks like a 30's Flash Gordon Rocket ship. 😎

@MinuteBurn 2 ай бұрын

Thats one of the coolest RC ever.

@fierceflyer5 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, fantastic model

@jimseviltwin1 2 ай бұрын

Living proof that given enough power and a skilled pilot at the controls, you could make a washing machine fly.

@robertrussellmd 2 ай бұрын

Given the slow speed flight characteristics of this model, light weight construction, clever aerodynamics and as you mentioned very skilled piloting are combined in this project. I cannot imagine maintaining orientation during rolling maneuvers with symmetrically shaped and colored craft. Respect!

@robertkeddie 2 ай бұрын

Well, there's this TV advert from more than 12 years ago - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNB8mLOUytOuen0.html

@combatbuff Ай бұрын

A flying washing machine they call that a helicopter

@popsfereal 2 ай бұрын

I built one of these with a glow engine 30 years ago, it was a blast.

@RichardAnsley-kw3cn 2 ай бұрын

A very old design. I can remember seeing one powered by a Cox TeeDee in the '60s. Great to see one flying again.

@mikentx57 Ай бұрын

I remember seeing this in a magazine in the 70’s

@darrellcook8253 2 ай бұрын

I want plans. I need plans! Really really need plans!

@OnerousEthic Ай бұрын

This is a profound lesson in aerodynamics. If the drag is low and the volume is large, why do we not see vehicles like this in General Aviation?

@glennstubbs8232 2 ай бұрын

Outstanding!

@marcv2648 Ай бұрын

I'm totally here for this awesome theme song!

@autonoob Ай бұрын

Wow! I second what everyone else is saying. Such a cool design, so unique and far from anything I’d come up with and it flies! 👌

@michaelhrivnak1719 2 ай бұрын

That was WONDERFUL to watch! Great video.

@SSmith-fm9kg Ай бұрын

"GO FLASH, GO!"

@Cee64E 2 ай бұрын

I remember seeing the plans for this in a Model Magazine. Either Model Airplane News, or Flying Models. I always wanted to build it...

@Wingman4l7 2 ай бұрын

I think it was Model Airplane News. This model looks familiar and I had a subscription to that one for a few years, but never the other magazine.

@FatGuyFliesRC 2 ай бұрын

Love it. Whish it were a kit!

@Workerbee-zy5nx 2 ай бұрын

Design your own, life ain't all foamy. 😉🤣🤣🤣🤣👌

@FatGuyFliesRC 2 ай бұрын

@@Workerbee-zy5nx Great point, if only I had the time to. But yes making anything from your brain is far more satisfying.

@Workerbee-zy5nx 2 ай бұрын

@@FatGuyFliesRC 🤓👌

@BobbyDukeArts 2 ай бұрын

Very cool

@mikmerl1 2 ай бұрын

lifting body with perfect control very cool

@kenrobba5831 2 ай бұрын

I like my toast just a little darker, ThankX that was great !!!!

@TheScreamingFrog916 2 ай бұрын

Wow! Tha lbs so coo! Thanks for sharing ❤

@valkimber3706 Ай бұрын

Perfect song for the vid!

@celtisafricana4984 2 ай бұрын

This has to rate as one of the weirdest, most inspired RC planes ever! As an RC enthusiast and Flash Gordon fan, I take my hat off to you🎩

@Lascariis 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful aircraft. Smooth piloting. Thanks for sharing 👌

@abundantYOUniverse 2 ай бұрын

That is fantastic, exactly what I have been working on.

@johnnullmyers914 Ай бұрын

Gordon's alive, go flash go👌👍

@mariozuccaro7967 2 ай бұрын

super ottimo !! gran maestro!!💯

@alphabetaone970 Ай бұрын

Flash Gordon. You’ve only got 14hrs to save the earth..

@marktibbetts3799 2 ай бұрын

Wow,cool Beans.

@evilelf5967 2 ай бұрын

thats proper funky.well done mate.

@bobadingo 2 ай бұрын

Just how unique can one get!?.. .

@richardchambless12 2 ай бұрын

I saw this airplane at SEFF several years ago. I didn’t see it fly, but I thought it was really cool! Turns out it flys great!

@TheAttylapl Ай бұрын

Awesome !!

@JoseMunoz-gg2cn 2 ай бұрын

Lifting body at its best.

@barqwoof 2 ай бұрын

Superb!!!

@ronliebermann 2 ай бұрын

Has anyone ever built a propellor which contains the battery? I suppose the internal volume of a propellor wouldn’t be much. But some four-blade props are pretty big. Maybe the blades could be stamped out of a lithium-foil laminate.

@Fifisissi 2 ай бұрын

Incredibly stable in roll, considering there is no wing!

@donpardo9093 Ай бұрын

the whole model is a lifting body. amazing design.

@smithgroove945 2 ай бұрын

Very cool. I love it.

@viceroy7792 2 ай бұрын

how does it even fly?? Brilliant!!

@chrisambrose8838 2 ай бұрын

That’s pretty dang cool!!! 👍🙋‍♂️🖖🏻

@djsavada718 2 ай бұрын

Sick! I want one

@tu_alum5619 2 ай бұрын

Somewhere, Buck Rogers is smiling.

@steveperry1344 2 ай бұрын

that's cool and a smooth flyer. i'd like to build a rigid airship but i have to come up with some ideas.

@PhilipSigler 2 ай бұрын

Whoa, wild dude…

@rckyfpv 2 ай бұрын

I can see the king pinching those sticks ;)

@tonytek1 2 ай бұрын

Martian Spaceship from Model Builder Magazine, August 1991.

@KevinWhite-zb5os Ай бұрын

Cool! Now do Planet Express?

@samuelcruz9258 2 ай бұрын

Flash Gordon will be proud . Verry nice model .

@marce152 2 ай бұрын

Iit's too bad that he can't use Queen's theme song to Flash Gordon. That would have been cool .

@samuelcruz9258 2 ай бұрын

@@marce152 100 % de acuerdo.

@cuttersgoose 2 ай бұрын

Horsepower is everything in an airplane

@johnsonwayne9279 2 ай бұрын

This is badass - There is no wing - except for the body of the thing. Of course you have control surfaces but THERE IS NOT WING. Most of the crash proof rc planes use rubber bands but this body shape naturally mitigates lateral shear forces. I guess if you slammed this into a brick wall you could destroy it but crashing onto asphalt, no way. You should use hinged props and perhaps use a tubular support frame within the bulbous body but this idea is BADASS. With a small adjustment to body shape you could probably get this to fly 250km easy.

@gimbal-geek 2 ай бұрын

if you look closely it has rib fins on the body...without these it would be impossible to fly

@poepflater 2 ай бұрын

awesome

@andrebullitt7212 2 ай бұрын

LoL!!!! Awesome !!!!

@nevillecreativitymentor 2 ай бұрын

Lifting Wing Body thinga-ma-jig !!!??? YES????

@mikegrace8814 2 ай бұрын

GORDON'S ALIVE?!!

@Luisfernando-kr7wq 2 ай бұрын

Ming is jellous..! 🎉😅❤

@GG1man 2 ай бұрын

Buck Rogers lives !

@dmitrymaslov4458 2 ай бұрын

Finally!

@soopergoof232 Ай бұрын

Very cool! Takes you back to the '50s matinees.❤ The model has gotta be gyro stabilized in the roll axis, though. Right? Or is it pure pilotage?

@gimbal-geek Ай бұрын

no gyro

@davecooper3238 2 ай бұрын

Flash Gordon is alive !

@confuseatronica 2 ай бұрын

ahh ahhhhhh he saved every one of us

@brianbassett4379 Ай бұрын

Not much for carrying a load, but she's a flyer!

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 2 ай бұрын

FWIW: I have seen a couple photos of these things, but this is the first video.

@prowlus 2 ай бұрын

Looks amaing . Proves with enough skill and smarts . Even a brick can fly

@tonyrollman3991 2 ай бұрын

The next ufo video on youtube

@knowyourjoe8826 2 ай бұрын

E P I C ! ! !

@Stanf954 2 ай бұрын

Do a Planet Express next.

@monostripeexplosiveexplora2374 2 ай бұрын

cool

@tonyennis1787 2 ай бұрын

Do you have some lifting body action happening, or is it just a case of adding enough power to make it fly regardless.

@gimbal-geek 2 ай бұрын

Fins on the body

@jimpinkowski3394 Ай бұрын

Now, if you could just add airshow smoke...!

@tpliscon4662 2 ай бұрын

This is so AWESOME!!!

@jb5music 2 ай бұрын

The adventures of Flash Gordon. That's the one they flew all the way to Mars through the ATMOSPHERE. 😆

@christopherguss199 2 ай бұрын

MUSIC FROM FLASH GORDON THE MOVIE. PERFECT FOR THIS VIDEO!!!@

@88SC 2 ай бұрын

The Martian Maggot! Almost.

@3057luis 2 ай бұрын

At last an airplane without those useless wings!

@johnsonwayne9279 2 ай бұрын

You CAN'T crash. Gives me some great ideas.

@linecraftman3907 2 ай бұрын

Does it use any kind of active stabilization? I'd imagine the thing is very unstable in roll axis

@gimbal-geek 2 ай бұрын

no gyro whatsoever, John is a very experienced and capable pilot. the body has rib fins to help it stable but that's it

@linecraftman3907 2 ай бұрын

@@gimbal-geek very impressive, John is a great pilot

@herryrachmad333 2 ай бұрын

@@gimbal-geek other word, the wide body as a wing ? i woud like to build one and with foam/polyfoam, but i dont know it will fly or no, may i know the wide and lenght the model and also the total weight with the ilpo battery includ .....thanks for share the amazing model

@Tadrjbs 2 ай бұрын

Sept. 5th of this year? Yah, right.

@gimbal-geek 2 ай бұрын

UK date format so 9th May

@ecomandurban7183 2 ай бұрын

who needs wings to fly

@DesertMonk63 2 ай бұрын

that's just awesome!

@bsmith8564 2 ай бұрын

All it needs is sparks coming out the rear.

@dogdooish 2 ай бұрын

Wewll done indeed John!!

@RRinfinity Ай бұрын

Where may I purchase The Spaceship?

@gimbal-geek Ай бұрын

you can't, it has been built form scratch

@IsaacKuo 2 ай бұрын

Hawk Men ... DIVE!

@Abderrahmane_Aitouche 2 ай бұрын

Presque un hélicoptère

@wigglestheclown3453 2 ай бұрын

This doesn’t happen until September 2024, you’re watching the future!

@gimbal-geek Ай бұрын

uk time format

@PushparajAmeen 2 ай бұрын

what is the name of the model?

@gimbal-geek 2 ай бұрын

spaceship

@PushparajAmeen 2 ай бұрын

@@gimbal-geek thank you

@musk-eteer9898 2 ай бұрын

impossible to tipstall

@zefkosta Ай бұрын

Does it fly knife edge?

@gimbal-geek Ай бұрын

No it's 3 channel no alierons just rudder and elevator

@zefkosta Ай бұрын

@@gimbal-geek try mixing elevons.

@gimbal-geek Ай бұрын

@@zefkosta has a 1 piece elevator so not possible

@jlions72 Ай бұрын

I think it was 6-5-2024....? ...lol...... how does this fly ?

@gimbal-geek Ай бұрын

no definitely the 9th...it's a lifting body design

@hifinsword 2 ай бұрын

Is it a lifting body or helium-filled?

@gimbal-geek 2 ай бұрын

no helium

@andrewallen9993 2 ай бұрын

Hydrogen. As when they crash and burn they are safer for passengers than a Boeing 737 MAX!

@gsestream Ай бұрын

helium airship rc? should float without any prop power. yep foil balloon should be enough.

@gimbal-geek Ай бұрын

No helium

@jonquinn11 2 ай бұрын

This is a very old design, probably free flight as originally drawn

@tonywright8294 2 ай бұрын

Thinks it’s called windbag

@tonytek1 2 ай бұрын

RC Martian Spaceship Aug 1991 Model Builder Magazine. Was on front cover.

@farmer7229 2 ай бұрын

a smoke system would really set it off

@davidnewbrook8628 2 ай бұрын

⁠Definitely the Windbag, the plans were available through the Aeromodeller Plans Service.

@donpardo9093 Ай бұрын

I want one bad! how?

@RichardAnsley-kw3cn 2 ай бұрын

A very old design. I can remember seeing one powered by a Cox TeeDee in the '60s. Great to see one flying again.