Not sure if I'm more impressed by the quality of the scale Spitfire or the quality of the drone footage
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That is impressive.
I was also impressed by the excellent video taken by the drone flying with it.
BTW, not sure what is going on but often the original video link to YouTube is missing and there is a very small text message that says 'no longer available'. But that text itself is a hyperlink that brings me to YouTube and plays the video you originally posted. Kinda' odd but it works. ??
Brian
utoobe changed somthing so you can't post vids anymore
aaye I get that as well, there's a seperate thread about it somewhere, I'm sure Max will be along in a moment to provide the requisite link
Did you click though to the P38 they have done as well?
Nope, did not see it.
But the one in your video was heavy for its size, I can tell by the sluggish way it is flying (that is not an insult, merely an observation) so the planes themselves are not of too much interest to me Years ago, I developed a lattice work based model plane series that was fantastically light although a lot of work to make. And that is the coolest part of that printed airplane: it looks like most of it can be made while the owner watches TV, which is always a big deal to me. So hat's off to those guys 'cause that thing is really quite slick IMO. So the flying part is merely the icing on the cake; the cake is having a machine in the garage crank out complex 3D devices like that in the first place.
Brian
They did comment on the weight but I felt (& I think this was also in the commentary) that it gave it a more "realistic" flight as it wasnt bobbing around like you see with many R/C replicas.
I think whats good (& this comes out more in the P38 video) is that once you've written off the cost of the laser printer the material cost of this was only around $30 (excluding engine & electronics).
Also its not just press & go, you do have to assemble all the various panels and there appears to be a extensive instruction/build manual.
There's an unboxing of the P38 in the below video plus some more inflight drone work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwVRUvIcrRE
Nope, did not see it.
But the one in your video was heavy for its size, I can tell by the sluggish way it is flying (that is not an insult, merely an observation) so the planes themselves are not of too much interest to me Years ago, I developed a lattice work based model plane series that was fantastically light although a lot of work to make. And that is the coolest part of that printed airplane: it looks like most of it can be made while the owner watches TV, which is always a big deal to me. So hat's off to those guys 'cause that thing is really quite slick IMO. So the flying part is merely the icing on the cake; the cake is having a machine in the garage crank out complex 3D devices like that in the first place.
Brian
thought.
These translucent models would look well cool internally lit via LED
well, as they specifically noted in the audio commentary during flight, this was a great representation of "scale vs. reality"
i.e. if that sized plane was scaled up, and flown with a compensation of speed vs. scale, it would be flying like an F104 Starfighter.. ( my favorite bird, since it's inception..)
if you scale it all, you will see it covers distance just as an original, actually, even moreso,,,
when I was living in and working in Richmond Va., my facility was less than a mile from Richmond Int Airport..
daily, as I rode to work, I had fighter jets leaving the airport (Air Guard), flying over me on the road I took to work, (sometimes they would go "inverted" and give me the finger and ADV highsign, thinking I was someone deserving it.. I guess my Gray/green colored Stitch, with the orange highlight balistics confused them..)..
had a pal I worked with there that had a bunch of R/C toys, one of which was a Jet/Fan powered toy.. he fired it up one day in the lot after everyone left, and did a couple "laps"... very impressive.. I almost got hooked.. but didn't..
after he went home, and as always I was working late, 3 BLACK Vans pulled in, and wanted to "talk" to me about .."wassuppp mistah?'
wow..
all was well, and nobody got busted, and cavity searched or anything.. but that was a "warning" if any...
we had touch-an-go landings weekly there with every Airforce One Jet in existance... so low, we could count rivets...
ahhh good times.
Ducted fans can be cool but the really slick set-up is a full- blown, axial gas turbine (read: jet engine) in model plane size. They start around 4 lbs. thrust and work their way up. They start and run exactly like the full sized versions; I would have said 'real' jet engines but these ARE real jet engines. They start on compressed air, then begin burning kerosene. They even smell like a jet engine. Usually used in model airplanes with nacelles so the engine is not visible, and they can be very, very fast: 200+ MPH, which is fast for something 3' long that you cannot see for very long in the sky.
An example of one running in a test bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPtsLPMTVnY
Brian