Flite Test | RC Skydivers (Parachute Drop)

We made some new friends at this years JoeNall who introduced us to an aspect of the hobby we've never seen!
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Thanks for watching!

[@aaronbaxter9935]

Do the fast and furious 7 bit where the cars jump out the plane and I would recommend using the animus 1/18sc rc short course truck there very cheap and very strong

[@alexconsadene8924]

Yesssss and mabey use parachutes that would be so cool!

[@risingsun6743]

aaron baxter They should do the A Team tank scene. Now THAT would be cool!

[@fsociety5696]

aaron baxter just what i was gonna say:)

[@georgechin73]

aaron baxter That was running through my mind when the first video on this beastly plane came out. Big Thumbs up on this one.

[@baileybassett7554]

aaron baxter yes i was gonna say that it would be awesome!

[@griz12471]

In honor of David.. It needs a rocket assisted take off

[@BeyReaper]

Just like the Blue Angels' C-130 Hercules "Fat Albert" used to do.

[@griz12471]

Exactly

[@aaroneby-good8058]

YES!!!!!

[@lightningfastrc]

And don't use any wimpy rockets on there, get some F's or G's, that would be epic!

[@griz12471]

Lol

[@TheAdkFlyer10]

Very cool! Ok, here's a challenge. The giant cargo plane deploys a vehicle powered by APM that autonomously drives back to you following waypoints!

[@jasonm2477]

TheAdkFlyer10 I support and endorse this... Of course my input is meaningless.

[@sausagefinger8849]

my input is meaningless too you know. Rc skydivers? never seen those before . accurate as well.The mechanism could be used to do a mid air battery replacement.APM and a couple of servos could pretty much guarantee the spent batters landed within a safe area for recharging .I think something like the kracken(love that name)would be ideal as kind of service drone to replace batters midair refiling with batters would be a challenge.but definitely doable. I think the cargo plane would need an aux battery to keep it in a stable dissent after ditching a spent battery at altitude something like a 2.2 5 cell could do 3 maybe 4 attempts or replacements. Two protruding forward facing chop stick type arrangement at the front of the Kracken could be used to pick up two over sized fold away hoops under the cargo drone using fpv .once successfully attached load censors would send the cargo drone into a steep climb detaching the new battery already ankerd at two points bringing the new battery flush with the fuselage bearing in mind this battery would already have a parachute APM and a couple of servos for the next cicle. simerly as the battery becomes flush with the fuse a small microelectronic or arduino would clamp the battery at a third point securing the terminals and completing the cicle. maybe wishful thinking but imagine the possibility's this could open up if it were made scalable and automated.wouldnt it be great if people saw a drone and saw an invaluable interesting cheap efficient workhorse. Yeah.... waypoints too good point(about 50 miles apart)wooops of on a tangent again sooory.

[@raymondo162]

TheAdkFlyer10 Game On.............

[@TheRcSaylors]

We love you guys and your family friendly theme! Abby and I REALLY wanted to make Flight Fest this year but have work scheduling conflicts =^( Our #flyingfamilies hope to meet up soon one day!

[@ericfelle2805]

You're videos are getting too short recently. Remember there used to be 20 minute long videos quite often like the let's fly ones?

[@CallMeJack08]

I've noticed that too. I think they're intentionally long in thr fall and winter and start getting shorter in thr spring and summer.

[@JamesBalazs]

It's weird, because people shorten their videos so they can make more quicker at the same quality, without knowing that youtube rankings are based on minutes viewed, and videos with more minutes viewed are higher up the search results and get featured and suggested much more often.

[@CallMeJack08]

interesting. i didn't know that my self. I would imagine they're not too concerned with you tube ranking, then.

[@ulaB]

Eric Felle Flite Fest 2015 is in two weeks... Organizing it takes a lot of work time out of their schedule.

[@thesherm44]

Balu knows whats going on. Will you be making it this year Balu?

[@rcbif101]

Lots of cool ideas for the cargo plane, but I think something simple like doing a low pass deploying an r/c Jeep or tank on a sled via parachute to drag it out would be really cool. For an example, check out the video "M551 Sheridan Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System (LAPES)"

[@TheMiniMammoth]

Put the kraken on it and on the kraken put a drone and then put a drone on a drone and then a small multiroter and fly each one till the battery dies and see if you can stay in the air for over 1hour

[@TheMontanaDave]

Thomas Leaker Inception

[@tboat2234]

My girlfriend has a pet ferret that is Satan incarnate. I've tried everything I can to get rid of him, like leaving the doggy door open, leaving him unattended with a book of matches, starving the other household pets for a week before letting him out, and even typed up a fake acceptance letter to a prestigious college on the other side of the country, All to no avail. I really think that Peter's giant cargo plane and my girlfriend's disgusting ferret would be a great feature in a video on how to deal with (and stay calm during) a power failure in flight. Or loss of RC signal. Or a momentary lapse of judgement. Or a moment of clarity. Or an itch. Or abandoning a hobby while you are actively engaged in said hobby. Or testing airbags on RC airplanes. Or what happens when unsecured ailerons separate in-flight. Or any idea that ends in this ferret hitting the ground at 3+g's, where I am not the culprit. Please let me know, I can FedEx him overnight. He's already in the box.

[@tboat2234]

Derrick W Or poorly fire-proofing a plane. Or poorly lightning-proofing a plane. Or how to make an air-tight cargo bay. Or how to return a ferret from 8,000ft AGL. Or teaching rodents about accountability at 8,000ft AGL. Or explaining why Niccolo Machiavelli is relevant to a ferret that thinks he owns the house...at 8,000ft AGL.

[@raymondo162]

Derrick W If you got any ideas over the last couple of months, Derrick, do let me know - especially if you got something that will up-scale to cat size

[@modelrc9500]

Derrick W I’ll take your ferret!

[@BMSWEB]

That's insane!! Kills our Parachute Drops!! Loved it

[@luiselu6208]

Have it drop a larger pun jet, and have that drop the regular pun jet. Just because..... Or have it just drop a bunch of regular pun jets. I love that plane. Anyways that plane is amazing another great video as usual guys!

[@BrightCentral.]

U guys should make a fast and furious scene were the cars drove out and had the parachute on the cars

[@jamessutton2960]

Recreate the scene from fast and furious 7 with RC cars being dropped with parachutes.

[@elpiegrande3562]

Raffle idea- sell a bunch of numbered ping pong balls/mini-parachutes/whatever, load them into the cargo plane and drop over a drop zone at events. Closest to target wins. More fun than the usual raffles at flying events!

[@bretts15]

How about dropping a Guinea off of The Capybara, then a Mini Pun from the Guinea. (So the order of dropping is from Capybara -> Guinea -> Mini Pun.) Also, maybe dropping a car with wings and a motor the pops out.

[@cha3119]

Brett Salyards Turducken

[@Uncle_Buzz]

Peter, buddy, talk slower. We old guys can't keep up! LOL!

[@maxsmodels]

Air launch an Estes rocket from the cargo bay the way the air force did in ths 90s. Also air launch a swing wing RC and maybe some mini quads. Also try doing a LAPES drop (low altitude paracheyte extraction system). Google it., it's cool.

[@TheRCAddict]

Wow, looks like fun! I am not really a fan of things with no power though as you either have to throw it and have a very short flight or have something like that drop it and still have a short flight :/ For example the Whippit I think it just stupid :/

[@ulaB]

The RCAddict It's all about thermals :). Not sure if the Whippit is big enough to catch one though :)

[@TheRCAddict]

Balu Yeah, but it is just not appealing to me.

[@timmyfreadman9121]

Try and do the scene from Fast and Furious 6 where they try and get cars in the plane while the plane is moving

[@hddog99]

Recon quad drop. Put a fpv quad and all the gear on one parachute to get your Rc fix delivered wherever you are in the field... BY AN RC PLANE!!!

[@hddog99]

Or guinea inception

[@PaperFun]

FliteTest When will you bring out an episode on the packing of these chute? I'm a skydiver myself and I would love to see these RC skydivers in more detail!

[@chrismillersrcfamily]

Great episode guys :)

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

Now they need the parachutists to land in a scale model of a Football Stadium!!

[@MeesDeppe_Official]

Guys, make it drop hamburgers in packages with parachutes attached to it. Or maybe let it drop firecrackers, like a carpetbomber

[@tstthomason]

I feel like the AMA would have a fit. Which means it must be done!

[@av8r_owengaming769]

^ what he said :D lol

[@sherlock080too]

Mees Deppe YESSS on the fireworks. just yes

[@5i1v3rStorm]

Jeesus! They didn't even track away from each other :-D Awesome work on the Chutes and on the RC Skyvan!

[@engscott78]

lol

[@oleandreas9628]

Peter, drop rc cars in parachute out of the plane, like in the movie Planes 2!

[@Kalimerakis]

see how much weight it can take

[@thejoshmoss]

Drop a miniquad out, then fly it back in.

[@indyjons321]

I would LOVE to see "LAPES" (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System) done with this aircraft!!!

[@NJProductions1]

put a glider inside of the cargo bay that has a mini glider inside of it

[@TravisHailston650]

Peter, I'd love to see a 250 mini-quad drop out of the back of that bad boy, and take off by FPV! Drone delivery system revisit? Keep up the awesome work, guys!

[@ryacka]

Idea for the capybara: the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, like batman uses in The Dark Knight? Would like to see how you could modify your airframe to get it to work.

[@hateeternalmaver]

I love your videos FliteTest, hate the waiting everytime. And please hang on to putting the metric values in brackets, it's awesome^^

[@lukehayward2604]

Your voices are really boring, u don't seem that passionate. What happened? I remember watching every episode and they were good.

[@tstthomason]

There's constructive criticism and being a jerk. And you sir, are doing the latter. By saying what you did nothing was fixed.

[@ulaB]

***** They might just be a little stressed with Flite Fest 2015 coming up in two weeks?

[@tstthomason]

Yeah they must be. They've probably been up late for ages just putting together the kits and such.

[@fpvkernow2652]

How about, large scale FPV glider towing.

[@SonAndDadFPV]

Used to like the funny fragments at the end... (Bloopers) The vids are all so clean...

[@AileronRC]

I want that plane in the background! when will it be released? :)

[@ulaB]

Croom/AileronRC The Shinden? "Soon". ;) They were having a lot of problems with the flying characteristics. I'm not sure if they were able to fix all quirks yet, but since it's shown so much lately, it can't be long.

[@Mfilms2000]

Love you guys! Here's a challenge: reach a high altitude and a long distance away with the cargo plane, then open the door and drop a ground vehicle out of it using remotely opened parachutes. When the vehicle lands, remotely drive it to a house (using only FPV) to drop something off, then take it to a nearby open space, land the plane, open the cargo door, drive the vehicle back into it, then fly the plane back to you, land it, unload the vehicle, and park it. You would be officially the most skilled RC pilots in the world if you could pull that off. I really really really hope you can do it!

[@AndyRCchannel]

how about flying FPV with those guys!

[@Aviator747a]

I would love to make one of these skydivers. There is very little info on the interwebs about them. And the ones I have found before are not cheap.

[@guyinsas]

Never seen RC Skydivers before, they look really cool. I shouldn't be surprised how much they fly like real skydivers, but I am :)

[@xf1961]

Para drop a R/C car then drive it back to you!

[@sparrowlt]

I wish my family were even 5% as suportive as theese families... mine actually thinks that RC flying is silly. a childs thing and wasting money.. but hey.. each of us have its share of problems i guess

[@dlrion]

A whole swarm needs to fly out of this! Like 10 or 15 mini quads dropped crop duster style!

[@RedKiteRender]

Mid air refueling / recharging would be awesome if very difficult

[@Tallguysrc]

Take them up with your drone lock in GPS and let them go. Hit RTL while your quad lands itself you fly the parachute down.

[@Specter0420]

1. Drop an RC tank (or car) on a platform stabilized by small chutes, chutes too small to perform a safe landing. Have rocket motors on each corner of the platform that fire simultaneously before touchdown to arrest your velocity. 2. Build a simple ballistic chute (spring in a tube, slingshot, or use a rocket motor) to pull the tank/car sled out of the back of the plane as you do a low, slow pass. 3. Combine 1&2. 4.Put out fires. 5.Put pyrophoric materials on top of cheap rc cars/boats, bomb them with water, direct hits with cause fire/explosion and the AMA will be happy. Have 3 or 4 driving around as targets, use fpv for the pilot AND the bombardier.

[@flightbudz]

Had a lot of fun filming with you guys. The video was great

[@skinny4070]

how about one on where to find rc sky divers

[@Drewy62]

As you guys know, we here in California are in the middle of an epic drought, which means wildfires. As a challenge why not try dropping water balloons out of the Capybara onto a Weber sized fire and show the world the potential for RC firefighting. You guys do the coolest stuff, keep it up.

[@rebelyell22]

Revisit the glider tow episode with it.

[@dukecorso80]

Put a glider bring itup real high a nd then let the glider( radian pro ) Go even high and then when the engine stops working let the the other baterie for servos only guide u back down all fpv. And what u guys use for long distance fpv...👍👍👍👍🐦

[@jcims]

I wonder if a steerable canopy could be used with a flight controller to bring a high altitude balloon back home. Assuming they can make headway upwind.

[@obscurvevo]

Suggestion: do a "piggy back" take off with a FT Viggen, parodying the space shuttle piggy back takeoffs.

[@Firebird356]

Put out a (LiPo) fire with it! "Planes : Fire and rescue" style

[@jonathanrobertss]

in 1993 or 04 (or earlier) John Lockwood set the world record of dropping (I think 8) RC Skydivers from a gloplug plane that looked a lot like what Peter has built. :) John Lockwood also built some of the RC planes that were used in the filming of The Right Stuff ....particularly the X1's drop for Yeager's sound record. Man I hope someone can fact check all this. I was like 15 years old and was given a transmitter to control one of the Skydivers and my memory is a bit fuzzy.

[@TakeshiM]

1:00 I see that ascender in the background, do you plan on making a video about it? I haven't found one on your channel...

[@ulaB]

Takeshi M It's not an Ascender. It's a Shinden :) They are working on it as a new scratch build to have in the store and of course release plans, etc.

[@sherlock080too]

Balu how do u know so much about the flite test group... strange

[@bconiswhattheycallme]

The flag looked really cool, but it shouldn't touch the ground. Once it does your supposed to give it to the boy scouts I think.

[@ulaB]

bconiswhattheycallme Are there mini remote controlled boy scouts? =)

[@M9199bro]

bconiswhattheycallme Or the Civil Air Patrol, or various private military academies.

[@RiJMC17]

bconiswhattheycallme What happens if I wear an American flag underwear and fall on my ass, do I still give it to the boy scouts? Or is that the job of the girl scouts?

[@kevb.943]

Hey Flitetest! I stumbled across your youtube channel and have literally watched 80% of the videos on your channel this week. I am jumping into the hobby head first with scratch builds right away and will be buying a griffin as well. Cant wait to get in the air. I have a military background so my suggestion for the capybara is to set it up for a JATO take off like a the "fat albert". My second suggestion is to make an FPV guided "munition" that you could drop out of the back and guide it to the target like the 90's TV guided bombs from desert storm. I think the challenge would be to not only steer the un-powered projectile to the target but to build the FPV rig to survive the drop. I literally just thought of this while typing this comment but another cool idea would be to set up an FPV rig on it in the downward position, like an old bombers sight. You could then drop some lawn darts/marker flags while using the sight. Keep up the good work! The day I visit the Football hall of fame I'll be swinging by to say hi.

[@oogalook]

Try this: Make a guided parachuting delivery device using tech similar to the skydivers which can carry a heavy payload to a target. In the new field opened up by Google's and Amazon's delivery drones, there's a lot of room for innovation. Parachuting devices wouldn't require much high-tech, expensive equipment and could be left with the client or mailed back to the shipping company, but would still allow aerial delivery.

[@RCflyer729]

I enjoyed the video. I wish I could of made it to nall but I was at the beach with family. I am planning on coming to eweek:).

[@RCflyer729]

Peter put the avrotor motors on your cargo plane and make it a vertical take off plane like the one you had last year at eweek:) That would be amassing

[@jacobrachwal7625]

obviously build a MASSIVE PUN JET! Or stuff a viggen in it with folding wings or something. DO something EPIC with that cargo door! (I know you will peter because you are awesome!)

[@DarthMaterFPV]

FliteTest I vote you air Drop RC Tanks, RC planes, Try Airdropping an RC boat out of the back onto a lake (think disposable parachute that has a servo detach that you can trigger 1-2 feet from the water) The coolest would be using that idea to AirDrop an RC submarine

[@shelby02403]

excellent show. Id love to se that huge plane do some pyrotechnics maybe with night lights. This show is what got me into flying. Thanks so much. I really enjoy flying my carbon z cub on floats, all from your tips. Cheers

[@badmofo350]

Great job finishing the plane Peter! You should drop some tanks or humvees out with parachutes. Rockets would be cool also! Great job flite test crew. I've followed you guys since near the beginning and You've come a long way and have tons of support. I think the key to your success is that you listen to your viewers and try to give us what we want to see. Keep up the awesome work FT!

[@stretchpadawan1]

Fly a small RC plane into it in flight

[@xFunTomCZx]

Put a shinden on it (like spaceshuttle was placed on 747) and fly bunch of punjets from the inside.. Everyone from flitetest could fly one,would be fun since it would be hard to figure out which one is who's, if they get dropped simultaneously..

[@michaeln.8185]

Hey Guys at flight test Your videos got me into rc I am very new to rc and your videos have been a great help as well as entertainment. I challengeif you tomake a HARRIER Jet inspired electric plane .. Thanks

[@sanderostvold]

The shindon is looking fresh!

[@knexfun]

Peter, I have built a 120" cargo plane out of DTFB and I plan to launch a Bell X-1 using homemade sugar rockets from it this summer, I bet that would make a fantastic episode if you did the same with your massive cargo as well.

[@ekarc]

P.A.D.S drop. Mini scale wood pallets holding cargo, install a strip of rollers in the cargo hold of the Capy. Open bay door, release pallets to slide on the rollers, nose up, Servo deployed Drauge chutes, each pallet has a small APM or basic guidance, automated parachute. Each pallet can be a can of Mt Dew or what have you, delivered to a predetermined way point.

[@wyattwagner8170]

Awesome plane! I have a challenge! Put a wing folding version of the Guinea Pig inside it and drop it! And inside the Guinea Pig will be a few paratroopers which will fall out of it! Quite the challenge but I have seen what you guys can do. -Wyatt Wagner

[@UnfinishedProduction]

JATO Rockets on the sides, would make David Happy, with using rockets :)

[@parajared]

Cool stuff! I'm going to build one now only I control both diver and plane. I plan to accomplish this by using my plane that has an APM in it and when I get to the altitude I want switch channels which will cause the plane to lose signal and go into RTL/loiter mode and then I will switch to the channel which controls the skydiver.

[@Sean_Coyne]

How about a monster fire retardant drop onto an actual bonfire? Also, to go with the parachute thing, fire out dozens of skydivers from the cargo hatch...see how many little army guys you can cram in there. ;-)

[@drcuffe]

Drop as many mini flying wings (with streamers) as you can fit, these then go straight into combat. Or a camera pan&tilt on rail system, so you can look around cockpit, then move through cargo area, say look out side door/bomb bay(add these or windows etc), then back to rear cargo door to look out

[@meade816]

Should try making a module that works off of wifi and you can use a phones mobile hotspot that is mounted in the plane to fly it and have FPV. So you can fly the plane remotely as long as it has service. I'm aware of LOS but would be cool.

[@Caboose30]

Flying a mini quad out of it would be cool, but could you set it up so you can launch a small rocket plane out the cargo door?

[@Dontdoxme9268]

Drop RC cars from the hatch military style onto a runway with a jump at the end. Make an RC parachutist coca cola can! Try the breakfast drop again.... from the cargo plane.

[@GruntyGame]

Could you deploy a rc tank or jeep the same way the army does? The dropped cargo could also complete a scenario.

[@flynamics9851]

Piggy back the kraken on the capybara and then detach and slope soar the the kraken back down! That would be awsome! Also i wonder if you could slope soar those rc skydivers?!?

[@puddlejumper67]

I know that it's not proper or safe to fly over people, but you did ask what you should drop next from the Giant cargo plane. Maybe you could have a bunch of kids behind a line at an event and fly above the field and drop a bunch of parachuting candy bars and then blow a little air horn when he clears the field and let the kids go and try to catch them as he goes to land on another field. That would certainly create some great memories for the very small kids that may be too young to fly quite yet.

[@lucagk9420]

Soooi cool, u should drop rc tanks with parachutes attached like they did in WW2, then create like a mini battle scene with the tanks, and planes doing low flyby ground attacks. That would be awesome

[@crazycrow3378]

this is awesome. Peter rules the scratchbuild scene!!!! sorry bix, you came in second.

[@xavtek]

Nice to see that you fixed the ailerons. Now you need to add 2 more motors to make it a real work horse. I would be curious about how much you can carry and how far. Maybe surf on the "delivery drones" hype and show these that nothing can beat a plane for distance and load !

[@poedadragonwarrior]

i have a better idea - i have a bunch of cats around my house - lets put a parachute on them and then we can deliver these cats to your neighbors or other people that might want a cat. not only would you be providing a service for local farmers and whom ever, but it would be a lot of fun also. just throwing that out there. oh yea!!! with a flight controller we could program it to land miles away.

[@Partok81]

How about creating some kind of a model of "Jet Man", and dropping him from this big cargo plane? Then have it glide around before opening it's parachute?

[@Niziex]

Challenge: Do some aerial refueling like a KC-130 with some spare batteries and a cable using maybe magnets to connect up to a smaller plane for some mid-air recharges!

[@Partok81]

What was that canard plane in The background when you were in your shop? I hope you're FINALLY going to make a kit of a canard plane!

[@rabinator33]

Try flying a small plane or Mini quad into the cargo bay! A reverse drop! It could almost be an aircraft carrier. You could even try to fly into the plane, then redrop it and fly into it again and so on...

[@harrisonneyland2750]

Do a strategic drop with cargo pallets and tanks and humvee's like they do in the Air Force with their C-17's and C-5 Galaxies.

[@cuauhtemochernandez296]

Here's an idea, you guys should get some rc cars that look like the ones from Furious 7, put some parachutes on them, put them in one of your rc cargo planes and when its in the air open the back door and let them drop and you know, just re enact the the drop from the plane from Furious 7

[@PaulJaysonLopez]

Suggestion: You should recreate the scene in Furious 7 where they drop Cars from a cargo plane and drive off when they land. That would be sweet!

[@demianmoody148]

I see your giant plane and I raise you a challenge: Peter and Josh both try to build the smallest possible plane kapable of carying 100 grams of sugar!

[@henrydruz1946]

Guys you never take any my suggestion but launch model rockets from it and deffaintly figure out how to deploy rc parachute from a large model rocket

[@sherlock080too]

Have a triatholon with land, sea, and sky involoved. Start with the huge cargo plane and, while flying close to the ground, release the rc car. That rc car could have a boat attached to the back of it, as if on a trailer, and then the car could back it up into the water all the way to the end of the finish line. Then the person who can do that in the fastest time wins. Just a thought

[@patrickford9615]

Nice. Parachutes look kinda peaceful. Capybara looks really good with paint job. Keep up the good work guys.

[@Beesno]

I would love to see an fpv "land in the cargo hold" challenge. Maybe using the pun jet, although you might need something a bit slower and more stable.

[@glennburrow4364]

I want to see it pull the longest streamer possible. Like 100+ feet. Then do the same with The Kraken. You know what comes next...

[@MissIvoryB]

Idea... scal cargo plane with cover belt sky divers