RC PARACHUTE DEPLOYMENT RELEASE

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@spannerman4886 8 жыл бұрын

Ed thankyou for taking the time, your channel has taught us lots and my grandson and I have had lots of fun with foam board planes. designs from you and FT. This is a great solution to make deployment pretty much reliable. I'm 65 and every day is still a schoolday! Thanks again👍

@larryc608 10 жыл бұрын

Very good info here. I was an "AME" in the Navy and also a certified skydiver. This info will make my RC hobby more interesting for sure! Job well done!

@willyam9735 4 жыл бұрын

I subbed a long time ago and never left. You were my original inspiration to get into rc airplanes. I later suggested your method of making wings (giving you full credit) to FliteTest and they did some that way. Some where along the line I thought about adding a parachute to my plane as a "ballistic"-type safety chute should the plane be in a hard crash situation but I never did implement it though. I mention this because I see in your parachute videos where some chutes have no payload but are attached to the plane. Thank you for being a true pioneer in the DIY rc airplane arena! Will

@decoybig 3 жыл бұрын

Millions of thanks! Very useful and helpful video.

@Luvtoflyhelis 10 жыл бұрын

Hi Ed, i just want to thank you for a great channel and for sharring all your great idea's and your knowledge of rc aircraft and the fun with them, i have built a couple of your parachutes and i built one of the release mec. They work fatastic, thank you again for shareing, take care my friend and have a great day, Terry

@7daniel49 13 жыл бұрын

Your videos are the best. Very original!

@ExperimentalAirlines 12 жыл бұрын

I lost my thumb and most of the palm of my left hand plus broke most most of the bones from a pyrotechnic device (skydiving smoke bomb) which exploded in my hand. My index finger was moved over to the thumb position and hooked up to the tendons, nerves, and blood vessels. It works well enough - way preferable to no thumb at all, which was my state for 11 months. More in the "intro to Ed" video on my channel too.

@supergreg72 11 жыл бұрын

Very elegant design. Would also work as a release mechanism to tow a glider with small mods. Good work!

@micromachine7954 9 жыл бұрын

Another GREAT video! Im actually building a small air brake/parachute for a rc dragster so I need a smaller release but this gave me some ideas! Thanks again!

@TFWS6 11 жыл бұрын

Very cool idea! Former skydiver myself so I get your reasoning behind the pin mechanism. I would like to try this as a pilot chute for a larger aircraft rescue canopy.

@DL6UK 10 жыл бұрын

Great idea!!! Thanks for sharing!

@MohitDewan 11 жыл бұрын

Excellent video Ed.

@nicholasjacobs1967 10 жыл бұрын

Very nice design. Note that the servo arm flexes and stresses the servo with the loose deployment rodI would suggest using a small slice of plastic card across the end perpendicular to the plastic card and notch a v to secure/guide the rod at the deployment side. Hotel key cards are suitable, and make great glue/spac spreaders, control horns etc.! Cheers.

@imbk245 12 жыл бұрын

Very neat technique. Thanks for making this video...

@usarmyfl1 13 жыл бұрын

Very cool, as always!

@Chrisdafer199 12 жыл бұрын

WOW thats quite a story. I lost the tip of my thumb and index finger also from a home made firecracker when I was 16. No nails on them as they were cut off just past the final joint. I really could have lost more as it was a large little bomb. My uncle has his big toe on his left hand as a thumb due to a farming machinery accident.

@FlyingMerf 13 жыл бұрын

A brilliant solution!

@wheeleking9049 4 жыл бұрын

My parachutes are very large and I use small 40-60sz planes. So, I have to place the parachute at the CG and under the plane. I use a standard servo with a strong release pin. I sometimes use a 10 foot parachute with a 8oz water bottle for the parachute weight. I like keeping the chute weight lite so it drops slow. Sometimes even goes up instead of down some of the time. I do like the looks of your Cargo plane.

@JohnnyVegasStudio 12 жыл бұрын

This is on my to-do list :-) Going to see if I can drop my parachute guy from my Axon.

@rolanddvcourt 10 жыл бұрын

This is great! I was thinking would be nice to protect the plane from losing radio. I plan on adding a servo, setting the Rx failsafe to deploy chute upon radio loss.

@Tryin2FlyII 10 жыл бұрын

Pretty slick Idea! very nice little release mechanism, to add to the comment below (about a radio drop) I'm into RDF (Radio Direction Finding) one could build a small cheap Tx do the drop and then using RDF rig "Hunt" for the Tx would e a lot a fun -Thanks for the video

@MichaelSmith-lj7nh 6 жыл бұрын

Really excellent videos, I have been looking for ways to construct a reliable drop system

@ExperimentalAirlines 12 жыл бұрын

Cover it with what?

@stockysie1 10 жыл бұрын

to ensure the arm doesn't get pulled over to one side, you could make a small v shape notch under the arm for it to sit in. :)

@ezr168 11 жыл бұрын

Dude, harshing the calamari, rather see magnetic strip eh. Thanks for sharing your creativity. I'm hoping this parachute design will still work if it's smaller.

@2wheels4life27 7 жыл бұрын

very cool idea and looks good, ill put my own twist on it, im using it to save my plane thou not for cargo.

@forteleaerieneromane 13 жыл бұрын

wow, great idea!

@AdriandelSer 10 жыл бұрын

where did you get the servo quick connect?

@MrEndoftheRoadRC 12 жыл бұрын

Works great, Thanks.

@cubertou6654 5 жыл бұрын

Not to be mean or anything but do u have something wrong with ur hand 2:13

@willyam9735 4 жыл бұрын

He has answered this soooooo many times! Faulty smoke flare exploded in his hand when being deployed while he was parachuting.

@cubertou6654 4 жыл бұрын

O ok thx

@ExperimentalAirlines 12 жыл бұрын

Oh that would take the fun out of making them yourself! I don't sell anything. I don't have much time to, and it keeps everything fair and objective in the videos.

@ExperimentalAirlines 13 жыл бұрын

@coolwaterhubby See the video just preceding this one, showing how to make the parachutes.

@JoshWeaverRC 6 жыл бұрын

Oh yes. Will do.

@troykneeee7104 10 жыл бұрын

awesome

@ЭдуардРыжевский 6 жыл бұрын

Hi! How i can PM you? I have few quick questions about parashute system.Thanks!

@Joshplv 11 жыл бұрын

you have to putt multiple cargo

@mccauslandk 12 жыл бұрын

i hate asking this but what happened on your left hand?

@willyam9735 4 жыл бұрын

Come on people, doesn't anyone read all the postings??? He has answered this soooooo many times! Faulty smoke flare exploded in his hand when being deployed while he was parachuting.

@hughhemington9559 10 жыл бұрын

Forget cargo! I want to see if a parachute can prevent damage to a falling quadcopter. Maybe even some mechanism that would deploy a parachute and disengage anything driving the motors, so a "runaway" flight could be aborted. I thought about a tube hinged down with a sprung plunger at the base, so that when the tube as deployed, it would spring up and release the spring pushing the parachute out the top, clear of the props. I don't know how large a parachute it would take to slow a quad down in a fall though.

@ExperimentalAirlines 11 жыл бұрын

Ah so. No, you need the porosity of the netting to allow the air to come in from below and inflate the upper canopy.