the carrier yeah, the payload - seriously? why?

Do you need the sattlite?

Id put that on my airwolf

i have 450 size drone motor which is 1100kv. can i use that motor for 250 size drone with small prop?

Are there any blueprints for this wing?

mothership plans ?

Thank you a lot for this demonstration i just discovered in your channel. One question: i see that there is under the option "EXPOSURE", three "SHUTTER" modes for this camera: "AUTO", "MANUAL" and "FLICKER". Could you elaborate a bit more on the "MANUAL" one please (you were speaking only about the "AUTO" and "FLICKER", if i do not mistake myself)! Thank you in advance for this complement. Great job, anyway! Regards.

Have always loved your instructional vids. They’re the only reason I was able to successfully build my first fpv wing, a Team Legit 5D, about 5 years ago. I just ordered the 5D2 kit with the high output power system from your website and I ordered this carbon rod kit as well. I ordered the medium kit but now I’m thinking I should have gotten the large kit for the 5D2. Do you think the medium will hold up ok with this plane?

Cuz it's a stealth plane dodged its own signal!😂

great walk through. THANK YOU!!!

What do pilots do before taking off ... may be next time, follow a checklist.

Nice video, just bought the RH-55 from your site to use it in the runcam thumb.... what lens can I get with ir filtering for the night eagle? is this camera 1000TVL or 1500TVL ? in the official runcam site it says 1500 but in some places it says 1000

Although most people would complain about the pink effect during daytime, I think it looks cool as hell and could be used to film vaporwave-style footage. Also the crappy video feed at 7:29 is PERFECT for achieving the VHS effect without using filter editing software

Have a signal repeater on the mother ship.

i had lot of fun watching that whole video , good Job! Check out my rocket plane! Unfortunately in Europe we can not buy rockets that strong

Any suggestions for an IR block lens?

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I don't understand why it was necessary to mount the rocket plane upside down. Since the plane was dropped before firing the rocket, there wouldn't be a problem with the vertical tail fins hitting the carrier plane upon release, and you wouldn't have to worry about an upside down video feed, nor interference between the antenna and the wings.

Very poor antenna placement and orientation, especially with the decision to use carbon fiber, since it attenuates RF signals. Antennas were oriented such that the nulls were pointing toward your base station at higher altitudes pre separation. The only way to have gotten a strong signal out of the setup is if you were flying directly toward or away from the base station, which at the drop altitude and location would have meant flying straight up or straight down. Google "radiation pattern dipole" to get an idea of where the signal will be strongest and weakest, but my recommendation would be to go back to fiberglass and orient the antennas 90 degrees from each other with one pointing straight up (assuming you are going to drop from directly above the base station again). And as someone else mentioned, ensure that the TX and RX antennas have close to the same polarization. You want to point the broad side of the receiver antenna toward the craft and as close to parallel to the TX antenna as you can for the strongest signal. Hope this helps. Cool project and good luck on the next attempt.

Linkage geo is wrong. Low on the servo, high on the control surface for a wing. Use 222 threadlocker instead of blue. Does the same thing, yet you can remove it with hand tools.

Rubbish video feed even line of sight should have triggered an aborted launch or low level recoverable launch shouldn't it?

Fun project! Where do you guys launch/fly?

Actual plane drop @ 4:36

"Split" V-tail.... nice adaptation! :-)

Guy has a voice of Elon Musk XD

we used to do this in middle school. im not sure how things keep going wrong

Just buy a dji03 camera

looks like it went to 150km/h if the mothership was ~50km/hr just eyeballing. Wow!

This is SOOOOO COOOOLLLL

Seriously! You seriously posted a 7 minute of useless vid for us nose and mouth breathers! I’ll take my meagre ever-counting-down 7 minutes of life elsewhere.

Should use Kevlar next time.

rocket jet comon man make up yer mind is it a rocket or a jet? or doesit have two types o f engines? I see propellers and what looks like a rocket tube! Looks like you just dropped a BOMB!

I've flown my 40 sized R/C aerobatic well past the point of visual orientation many times just for testing new antennas, receivers or just for fun to test my ability to determine it's orientation. As I got better at it, I'd climb until I couldn't see it or I ran out of fuel, just to glide it in. A max altitude recording altimeter showed me at over 1500ft one flight which was the point of loosing sight altogether of the A/C. Most of these altitude tests were 1200-1300ft in altitude. You could always see if the wings were level and to determine if it was upright, just push the elevator, if it dives, you're upright, if it climbs, you're inverted. You could see the wings disappear, then reappear as you rolled over to level flight. The fun part was to kill the motor and glide back to the field. You could stretch that to ten minutes if you wanted, but a last-minute dive from around 500ft and energy management to a landing at my feet was my "show off" signature move. All this was practiced on a relatively inexpensive model, giving much more confidence for flying my large scale A/C. If I were doing what you're attempting w/ a dropped Rocket powered A/C, I'd practice some high altitude flying on something less expensive first.

Thank you guy for being an awesome local shop!

Carbon fiber isn't just conductive (not copper conductive though) which has a shielding effect (like a poor faraday cage). It's behavior at different frequencies is very interesting as well. It has a decently high permittivity at the frequency of your video transmitter, leading to an absorbing effect. Some of your video feed wireless power is absorbed in the airframe and turned into heat, meaning less signal. CF in an airframe like this will continue to be trouble for your control/video signals. You should have less interference at lower frequencies if you stick with it, so you could go to 433MHz

video game play irl.. the scene reminds me of Lost...

I'm new here, but I wonder about adding a deployable parachute for moments like this when there's no hope of recovery. Seems like it might prevent total loss?

CF is very conducive so proper antenna and placement are very important.

Yep, you dropped it, good job.

As someone who has done rocket-planes in the past, I feel your pain.

Just do it. Way to many p’s and q’s

It might make sense to setup your FPV aircraft on the ground and do a walkout video test. Every 50 ft, check your video signal with a clear line of sight to your VTX. If the carbon fibre blocks or interferes with RF as the folks here in the comments claim, it would have immediately popped up as being an issue to address. External antenna, higher gain, etc.

What size rocket motor?

Looks like the payload had an autopilot, was it just not used? I mean when you have zero video, what's the harm in trying... The carrier looks slow enough to catch by hand. Those funjets are good for high speed out of the box, even glass seems unnecessary let alone carbon. Just fly it stock, don't fix what ain't broke and the video would probably have been fine.

*_I think what happened was, chinesium. Start using quality american made eqpt._*

Very nice design whatb flight controller do you use ?

El Mirage Lakebed and test area.

Carbon sucks on RC Planes! I recommend kevlar as a cover material, and carbon just for spars and very small crossections, where the greater stiffnes of carbon starts to make sense and dosn´t block the radio. I have an competition DLC made of carbon with a kevlar canopy, and i hate that thing!!! (although it is a very high-performance glider) When you just fly level in thermals everything is fine, but when you do acrobatics the radio cuts out....🤮 So the damm thing hangs on my wall and i fly my selfmade foamcore- paper- composit- wing on a stick DLC. 😆

This is an excellent control rod instructional video. Lots of great tips and tricks, including personal safety.

Nice work guys...