Darkstar Final Test Flights. Download Available!

The performance of this exotic and tricky to get right airframe is amazing!
Files available here cults3d.com/:2...

[@SpongeBob-xh8ir]

51 missed calls from Lockheed

[@racebanning6390]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@USN308]

Well, whatever you do, DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE!

[@tmseh]

And 72 emails from some Chinese "company ".

[@paulpaulsen7777]

And 2000 downloads from Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤😅

[@WyrdieBeardie]

Man... I'm not a plane guy (although I love the SR series) I'm not an RC guy... But these, all of them, are amazing! 🤩

[@Arthurdoar]

Same!

[@michaelking3629]

Ditto!

[@Jacques-dj3se]

Thank You, Young Aviator… You painted A Big Smile on my Sunday Face… From Biplane to Dart, in One Century… Amazing !!

[@tmseh]

This thing is flying TOO well. I'm sure someone in the Pentagon is sharing this video.

[@chuckheahfort1399]

Amazing! Your videos of the thrust vector model and the dark star model inspire me to want to peruse this as a hobby. Outstanding air frames. 👊🇺🇸🧂

[@WyrdieBeardie]

@@chuckheahfort1399 Right? This one and the NGAD one? I could totally see myself getting into this, modifying the models to test some ideas... It makes it seem very accessible! 😃

[@4DCResinSmoker]

The fact that the model flies so well, lends some credibility to the vehicle seen in the movie being a little closer to reality. Not just a movie prop or counter-intel spoof.

[@albatross8361]

This version looks even slicker, and it appears that the increase in control surfaces is giving it greater maneuverability.

[@Mr25thfret]

Your videos are so satisfying. Maybe because I have probably over 3000 hours of remote control flying time over 45 - 50 years. Problem is: The time came in 30 second chunks. 💥

[@sciencenerd2.718]

Thank you for making me feel like an excited 11 year old again--you are amazing.

[@guiart4728]

The whole thing is a wing! What performance!!!

[@bobmahnamahknob]

There have been "flying wing" aircraft since 1940.

[@theuktoday4233]

I am genuinely surprised it flies it looks fantastic flies really well looks really good and I love the sound of it

[@pusico6555]

Bro is waiting for a cease and desist email from Lockheed

[@andretokayuk8100]

used to make functional paper airplane models out of kits back in Ukraine growing up.. one day ran across an article about one of the early F fighters with top down view and side view.. happened to be typical model size, so I just copied the outlines to cardboard.. got the center of gravity right.. thing flew amazingly well. Since nobody's calling about this.. makes you think what the hell else they're working on at skunk's lair.

[@Kelvin130552]

It’s a beautiful bird. Good flying from UK. 👍

[@doctorjet1]

Sold! I'm going to build one. Excellent work and thank you. I'm interested in NGAD too! Your one of my favourite channels.

[@eduardopujol7111]

My man is out here pushing the hobby into a new era

[@weeliano]

I can experience the exhilaration as you launched this beautiful beast! She's on rails! Amazing work of art!

[@BlackBuck777]

Just made my Monday morning! Superb. You have made a stunning bird - the handling is unreal.

[@FM-ou1wu]

I remember flying the real Darkstar back in the 90s, your version really moves like the real thing! Good job!

[@terrenceburrell-little7585]

That thing is sick🤘🔥🔥🔥 USAF on the side...Appreciate it🤙..

[@PierreMilcent]

i like the sound of the airliner above your head at 3mn20s ... it sounds like this is your rc plane sound ... 🙂

[@MortenHolck]

Purchased and printing.....in progress👍

[@timgarrett203]

To have a good flying RC model: 1) CG in the right place I.e. stable 2) Plenty of Control Power I.e. big control surfaces 3) Plenty of thrust to weight. Either low weight or high thrust or a combination. You have that here. Congratulations

[@aw_dev]

or you could get an SAS system on there and have it naturally unstable 😆

[@brucebaxter6923]

@@aw_dev True, but without those three things it still will be a bitch. I have 4 full autonomous flight controllers gps etc and love the safety factor they give to bad planes.

[@P_Jason]

Could you make a video on how to assemble these beasts?

[@Drobert882-ix3zf]

That is down right amazing , been a raptor fan it's whole life now this model doing this amazing I could see it full size .. thanks for the show

[@sgtmac62]

Really thought this was real at first! Took my breath. Best RC I've ever seen. Great job, sir!

[@USN308]

I really enjoy your positive, upbeat attitude! I have several rc planes, but no batteries or receivers yet. (Mainly, at 71 years old, I'm afraid of crashing/ruining them...). I will use SMC batteries, as the test results show them to be top notch, and more honest about their battery specs. I am SO glad you finally made a right turn; as fast as this Darkstar was clipping along, and the fact that here in the Northern Hemisphere, vortex phenomenons rotate counterclockwise, I was concerned you were going to generate a tornado; thank goodness you negated the vortex effect with the right turn! ;-)

[@MarcoNoPolo]

All of that performance on a 1300? That's amazing.

[@ibstryder4736]

Wish i wasn’t 71 years old and broke.

[@Mr25thfret]

I feel you brother. But we lived through some incredible moments in history, didn't we?

[@brucebaxter6923]

I’m 54 and broke. The local library has 3D printers to use and if you use the 5” drone motors instead of the expensive ducted fans you actually get higher speed for $10 a motor.

[@dannybrouwer3635]

I,m 16 and miljonair 😂😂😂😂 who gives a shite

[@bobmahnamahknob]

Ok, little buddy.

[@alanshearing7515]

Looks awesome, love the black . Congratulations on V2 🎉

[@t6404]

Awesome.. ! Seems like you have new plane coming out like every week. Barely managed to print the FA XX.. now this. Man, I'm running out of filament!

[@AenesidemusOZ]

Fantastic craft! Thanks for sharing your excitement.

[@nickfury1279]

awesome! Never thought I'd see one of these fly irl, model or otherwise. Would be cool idea for a future video to get some of the original designs from the Ace Combat games to fly

[@olsonspeed]

Hard to comprehend this radical design toys so well. Thanks for the video, I will have to print one for myself.

[@StMyles]

This was the coolest thing I seen all day…

[@StealthTheUnknown]

and here we are at the launch of your channel, enjoy the rapid growth, you earned it with your content ;)

[@Adanacon]

Beauty creation !! Flies well… good job!

[@Blackys-Boy]

Gotta' say, THIS is the most bad ass plane you've made so far!!

[@chrispilon2794]

Awesome man that's sweet... have you seen the movie STEALTH can you build the fighter or the drone from that movie

[@randalbloomquist7812]

Very Nice! It's a lifting body airfoil that requires minimal control surfaces for maximum controllability. I wonder how much it would need to be scaled up to incorporate retractable landing gear.

[@SummerCrowfpv]

Well,I guess I’m going to need a 3D printer now

[@veroldaley1]

Me too , wish i knew what printer to get lol

[@nic.h]

Lots of print services these days

[@radgittens2383]

I love what your doing but you need to add more cameras on you planes, for that on board veiw . You did it once and it was great.

[@TheJacklwilliams]

I’d like to lay this up and only one alteration, well I’m sure it’d take a couple things. First, pov cam for goggles and recording video preferably 4K. Fantastic design. Great plane!

[@jeffreyknutson]

The Firefox is the same way (1982 Clint Eastwood movie plane). Mine was built with cardboard, but it flew great!

[@pks15032]

Cockpit camera next please. Amazing. Gov will be k8dnapping you next 😅 Love the landing

[@WyrdieBeardie]

I watched a few of your assembly videos and was thinking... (Dangerous 😆) Anyway, do you think adding locator bumps and divits would help ensure that pieces were perfectly placed for gluing? Is it even possible? 🤔

[@robertthallium6883]

This is NOT a Grateful Dead recording of Dark Star.

[@blairhammond5456]

Sure does nail those left hand circuits!

[@poneill65]

What a beauty,. bravo sir! And there's me thinking these moderm/stealth geometries were inherently unstable,.. I guess not!

[@BusstterNutt]

You knocked it out the park again.....Sweet!

[@PaxAlotin-j6r]

Beautiful work mate. Look forward to seeing it fly over the skies of Australia. 🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘

[@rod3134]

You did it again 🎉❤🎉✌🏾👏🏼

[@charlessmalling9903]

Good flying creation. Could you provide information for the edf units you use. 3D printer materials used...etc I would like to try my hand at printing planes. I have been in the hobby for 50 years, Just new to 3d printing.

[@charlielynes]

available on Cults

[@PierreMilcent]

all is in the link with the video

[@rickkollins]

Already downloaded! Great job!

[@martales8563]

sexy plane , would love to see more high aoa passes

[@samcorbin6744]

I only recently discovered your channel, which is a damn shame as I really wish I was here since the beginning. I really enjoy your videos and how you test different air frames. I would love to know what printer you're using to print your models. My plan is to purchase a couple off Cults3D to build for myself.

[@chadconley9641]

Beautiful bird, man. Great job!

[@leechild4655]

You may not be interested at all but, I saw a video of a pterosaur recently uncovered and as pterosaurs go, this one is `rc plane size`. Maybe the size of an average sailplane. So, with a little measuring this ancient flier could be made to fly again all be it as an rc. Not only would it be just cool, palentologist would probably showcase this model and feature it in a few `first flight in millions of years` videos. Just a thought.

[@marcwatson455]

I would love to see a bigger version of DarkStar but with an actual Micro Jet engine ❤

[@aerospacematt9147]

My twin 64mm Foam Board DarkStar didn’t fly too well. I think I had some issues with the thrust angle. I’m glad yours works better, makes me want to try again with a larger airframe. But, by no means am I as fast at building as you are!

[@fladder1]

Awesome, the design reminds me of the gi joe phantom x-19 toy I had😅

[@anthonyC9199]

Would love to see a high speed run. I'll come back for that!

[@johnchristopherrobert1839]

Loved it! You made my sh!ty day much better 🎉

[@ricoloco2251]

of all the nice builds you have made, i realy would like to see you to recreate the German WO2 Horton 229 the beautifull first flying wing jet design and see how this old design holds to these magnificant models.

[@mirkomarko133]

Very nice color .... good job man🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@leeklemetti1887]

A really fast flyer! If you could place two batteries in the fuselage and hooked up in parallel, would it fly twice as long? If the turbines would take it and hooked with series batteries and series turbines would it fly longer and a way lot faster.? Series turbines and batteries mean that the turbines run at the regular voltage. Could you check if the controller can run twice the voltage? If you get an electronics designer (or yourself) to make secondary controller that can run at twice volts and battery controller that would use transistors to run the higher voltage to the turbines. I really want to get you to fly the wings off that plane!

[@stewarthopkins2810]

I'd like for you to do a vertical stall. Then recover of course.

[@tomseiler5541]

I would expect Tom Cruise to call, asking you to build one for him.

[@Soshstar999]

Nice flight, cool plane

[@racebanning6390]

Sweeeeet, super stable and Plopdrop😁😁🏁🏁🇺🇸

[@didierla1965]

Dark Star, the sky is yours 🤣

[@mitchellreece3711]

This design should be efficient for long and straight flights

[@phillip1115]

I'm loving your videos and amazing models but why do you always circle in the same direction?

[@alwoods1588]

Yoo! Watch out if anyone asks you something like "does this smell like chloroform to you??" Cool content man!

[@berkosmansatiroglu]

😍

[@xrx1113]

Should have it printing tomorrow!

[@MajorTendonitis]

This flies amazing well .Now that you’ve done proof of concept, could it be designed with retractable landing gear? Not sure if there’s enough available real estate inside . Or maybe it would have to be scaled up a little to accommodate landing gear

[@forcefed6444]

pov cam would be dope!

[@miketurner1768]

Freakin awesome man...

[@marcbjorg4823]

Perfect. 👍 It's only missing a black paintjob.

[@skb40cal]

This could have military applications. Deploy from back pack add GPS cameras and warheads. Faster more maneuverable than drones.

[@michaelschmidt7014]

One thing that would be interesting is if you could provide info on how fast it is flying in mph in scale. Do you ever have models with landing gear, those would be very interesting to see taking off and landing on their own power? From what I have seen of your videos even your "not so good preformers" are excellent.

[@ctdsd619]

Awesome design👏, anyway to have a version of the dark star with retractable gear?🤔

[@heindevries5646]

It sounds awesome!!!!

[@tomfull6637]

A wish: It would be interesting to experience how your model planes behave and sound whilst passing you. You have a tendency to always hit the accelerator when they pass you. Like each time… 😔 An attempt at an engine “roar” doesn’t impress really. However a versatile demonstration would. To me especially the “silent mode”, how low profile one can be in the neighbourhood, would be nice to know. Thank you. Kind regards Anders Sweden

[@Paul__FC]

That is some amazing stuff.

[@tomaspocius2223]

I will print that beast this week

[@thomaswakefield6889]

I bet if you do a comparison between the Darkstar and the Star Wars A-Wing you will notice several similarities, including the very low profile airframe which allows it to get maximum lift and a max speed of mach 5 plus

[@milkhbox]

Id like to see an enalrged model with 70mm EDFs. Thatd be nucking futs.

[@--.--.--]

You do Awesome work.

[@lewiemotorsports3616]

Wow. Just wow!!

[@samuelcruz9258]

Un excelente modelo y manejable . Me gustaría un 200 % más grande para (mejor visibilidad)

[@CaptNumbNutz]

How were the panel lines done? They appear to be cut into the model and not painted on. Are they printed like that or did you cut them carefully with a hot knife or other tools? Whatever the case may be, they look really well done and make the model pop.

[@Warpig0321]

My gosh, man. You need to go to work for Boeing’s design bureau! Brilliant!

[@adrianmitchell9819]

Nice!

[@kedelbach]

4S? nice job. Looks much easier to hand launch and fly than my 2x50mm SR71.

[@DJ-ys9pv]

Love that profile 😮

[@alexantollin564]

you should try to add vertical take -off and vertical landing using two fans.

[@marcwatson455]

I see a chinese gentleman with a case full of money in your future😂

[@BLACKSTALLION77]

You nailed it!

[@allansutton557]

I’m guessing that because of your control surface placement you are getting some vectored thrust.

[@rcpowres]

Wow!