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Today Alex and Stefan were inspired by someone on the Flite Test Fans facebook page to try to make an electric brushless motor sound like a gas motor!
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[@mylesspear]

I think you guys started a new trend amongst scratch builds.

[@SA-co5sm]

who needs an O.S engine when you can have an electric motor, tape and a skewer. awesome videos guys.

[@DanielSponholz]

I have a feeling Flite Fest is going to be a LOT noisier this year! Amiright?

[@michaelkaler3138]

Not any worse than an Arrow's scream :D

[@air-headedaviator1805]

“I thought this was an all electric meet?”

[@michaelkaler3138]

@air-Headed Aviator It is

[@air-headedaviator1805]

Michael Kaler you didn’t catch the joke.

[@michaelkaler3138]

That I did not. Lol.

[@MkmeOrg]

That sounds surprisingly great! I did not expect that. Well done Gents!

[@emersonb5764]

I can’t believe we haven’t been doing that for years. Nice! Sounds very much like an internal combustion engine

[@not_kasper]

The intro really adds a more proffesonial look to the episode, and also when you tell what you are doing, thanks for listening Flitetest:D

[@rmdcade1717]

Holy smokes, guys, that was amazing. Chris Kremer, you're a legend.

[@jonas2431]

Yall should win a medal for being the happiest guys on the planet

[@stevefox3763]

Alex and stefan are always super happy in the videos, i think full build videos would be hilarious if done by them ha ha

[@SVTL4799]

I’m going to have to experiment with different sized rods and tubes to make different acoustics!

[@Brobolio]

Finally the turn is complete!! At first we were trying to quiet our gas & glow engines, now we are trying to make electrics noisier!!!lol

[@RobertLErwinJr0224]

Yo guys... the smiles and laughter on your faces, tells the whole story... "way too much fun!" - I love it. Thanks for the video... oh yeah - cool chairs!

[@rodrigo_dm]

thats just pure genius. Gonna try that as soon as possible!!!

[@edwardkie380]

You guys blow me away!! This was totally a hoot and a half ... "Add more cards" this equalling more cylinders and or more squiers for more contacts just to hear it not like a one lunger gas model... This was so fun to watch thanks guys!

[@kwacked1]

I wonder what it would sound like if 2 pieces of tape were next to each other?

[@bruceyork5260]

I was thinking the same thing Edward, maybe three that are offset at the same angle as a three bladed prop, plus a bigger motor/ESC to compensate for the extra load on the motor.

[@electromaniac03]

That sounds awesome!

[@earthsciteach]

Pure fun! Great suggestion, Chris Kremer!

[@BigAlFPV17]

That Flitetest Fans group is awesome. Since Josh's favorite color is orange, it should be called the Spektrum Chair. Excellent video guys!!

[@Raycefan]

Puh-LEEZE!! The coolest group of people on the internet are working there are Flitetest.

[@dholtman5977]

And why am I smiling!?! lol! love it!

[@gpracer270]

AWESOME idea Chris Kremer !!

[@RumbleLab]

Brilliant! Such a throwback!

[@sjd5104]

haha that mustang sounded great! Loved those chairs too

[@erinfogerty3843]

Take of, sure. Fly, with ease. Landing, well..... Great video guys, looked like a lot of fun. It is definitely your spirits that make waking up at o'dark hundred bearable. Thank you for what you guys do, and the joy you bring.

[@spencerpond4098]

I was kind of hoping you were going to fit a speaker to it to make it produce motor sounds. I have this fantasy of a quadcopter that makes the sounds of a fairy from Legend of Zelda.

[@spencerpond4098]

Look! Listen!

[@rmdcade1717]

You'd have to be pumping some serious dB to overcome the scream of the motors. :P

[@volksdude1970]

Spencer Pond HEY!! HEY!!! HEY!!! ... HEY!!!!

[@noname-ge3tz]

the best upgrade ever... I love it

[@miklosko3355]

Alex you deserve 10 points for invention. And next 10 for expert landings.. Lol. Love you guys! Great job! Keep it up. Thank you for awesome content.

[@willyjimmy8881]

Redhead Alpha the commenter that gave him the idea deserves 9 of those points.

[@skidz8426]

Why does this make me so happy

[@athomeinventions7266]

Hears "coolest chairs" BUT CAN YOU DO THIS!?

[@jacksonbaynes2955]

Stephens laugh kills me every time!!!

[@johnsorber3546]

This is a cool sound ! Good job !

[@EGOS42]

That turned out about 10 times better than I ever would have expected. Sounds cool.

[@gryfandjane]

Wow, that works surprisingly well. And the chairs... excellent! Reminds me of the Recaro seats in my car.

[@markhondaturbo]

There going to be a lot more noise at Flite Fest this year! I can't wait to try it!

[@Ptown187]

The cans in the wheel! OMG 90's throwback lol

[@Timsfpvshow]

Awesome guys.

[@ChrisandSohee]

Cool Video, Keep up the good work!

[@Gantorin]

You guys are a RIOT! and I love Flitetest Fans on FB... I learn new things everyday on there. You are right best darn people in one hive mind group.

[@BRRT199]

nah man rotorriot is another RC chanel :P but yeah Flitetest is so inspiring, bringing me back to the hobby tbh

[@protovision2010]

lol, playing cards flicking the spokes of the bike, did that as a kid. One weekend we also tried half-inflated balloons taped to the rear forks, the spokes would slap it as the wheel turned, making a nice 'womp-womp-womp' motor-like sound for about 5 minutes until the balloon would break. :)

[@vazza69]

Sooo cool and simple!!!

[@GroundControlRC]

Heheheh...much fun! Thanks for the video and Happy Flying!

[@UncleManuel]

Low tech sound generator. FliteTest needs to put this in the shop asap! ^_^

[@kb9khm]

Nice to see the old intro and outro on this video!

[@williamdecker3989]

Greatest FT innovation of 2018! Gotta do this to the founders Tri-motor! Great way to sync the motors by sound!

[@MyrrdynWhitefall]

You guys should get with Peter and see if you can do a custom quad that looks like a final fantasy airship!

[@bryanmadewell8896]

Awesome video, that is a sweet looking P-51 for being scratch built. I love the chairs, I can pictures me sitting in one playing Star Wars Battle Front 2, flying a tie interceptor, awesome, awesome, awesome.

[@dronereviewman9580]

Sweet plain!! 👍👍👍

[@Andres_Suarez]

That's simple and amazing, I was just thinking if you put two tabs on the motor opposite sides will sound like 2 stroke, If you put just one, that's a four stroke haha!

[@knightwolf8877]

That is stupidly awesome!!

[@josepherickson7618]

Awesome video👍👍👍🎄

[@HuskyStudios]

I have a revision! Put the skewer on the motor and the tape on the plane so that there is less resistance on the motor! :D

[@shutterbug1076]

Amazingly, I really like this mod!

[@jq5890]

Good idea, with the right tuning, i bet you can make an electric sound like a gasser :)

[@strhmh]

Thank you guys for making my day...i laughed my *ss out...keep it up!

[@MikeBramm]

Classic! That's one way to get rid of the electric whine.

[@kotasekaviation5031]

Thats so Cool! Putting it on all my airplnes!

[@daryl9237]

Awesome!

[@andrewperez3177]

This is so cool

[@jimmycone3717]

Awsome!

[@ladnar2a182]

Awesome effect

[@reb1691]

You are AWESOME!!!

[@atomicsmith]

what an awesome idea. Try with a few more skewers ...might give it more of a multi-cylinder sound...

[@MCsCreations]

Awesome, guys! I want to enter in that group! :D

[@manuelbeltranmeza]

WOOOOOW !!! saludos desde México.

[@utkarshgupta9975]

Will try this for sure

[@DallinDaBus]

IDEA!!! You know the Stuka Dive Bombers from WWII? do that. just make something that will send shivers down your spine.

[@properlytwisted2172]

LOL!! Someone needs to try this at a field where gassers aren't allowed for a good laugh..;)

[@thecraftking113]

Awesom. reminiscent days nice man

[@johannesgoetzen]

Nice!!

[@ritchietimm]

Hello guys and lady's of flitetest, Josh you've got the best chair :P because it's a royal color (the dutch royal color) . The Royal Throne, with lumbar support ;) Nice thing to do with the tape,maybe next time with 2 or more wooden toothpicks/scewers (more cylinders) Keep going the good work guys\womens love the channel for years now,and hope many more to come. Greets here from the netherlands, richard

[@crazyozzy1988]

you guys should totally make a working VTOL jet I would love to see that!

[@Andrewlang90]

That’s the first, and likely last time I’ll ever hear a RC Plane sounding like a 13B Rotary engine

[@brucem1553]

I love it .. Sounds like gas engine .. very epic.. so sweet. I used to have a website years ago called BFoamy.com. We tried to show people how you build and fly cheap built foamies. Real life hard times took the website from me but still fly. You guys are doing what me and my Brother were trying to get started years back.. Love the site love the builds and love the videos.. Great work guys. LOVE IT ALL. Keep up the good work BruceM

[@RAD-RC]

Flite fest is about to become a lot louder than normal.....

[@DivisionRc]

Ohhh yes! Here i come ohio!!!

[@nathangoff4425]

You guys should do a controlled bom drop

[@gracklefpv8811]

My dad put cards on my wheels when I was younger, I'm 14 now... Ima go put cards on my BMX bike after I watch the rest if the video lol

[@kobyaye3440]

thats a good idea do some more 3d printing stuff

[@JarcodeRover]

Man.. Those days where great, trying to put as much cards and clothepins as i could and "drive" my neighbours mad :D

[@qturn4726]

Wow its sounds like gas engine plane..... Really cool idea

[@TheFleckening]

Make a lower KV motor sound like a Moki and I’m sold forever.

[@grim4this]

Has anyone built a plane from these guys and then stopped and was happy with it? I kept biulding arrows over and over trying to make them lighter more powerfull and faster, i decided im a useless perfectionist and moved on to the vector. I built a vector and thought it a bit lame after the arrows - which i still havnt perfected ( i even bought one s800 shadow, and bugga me the arrows i was building from flitetest are far superior ). I then re-built it as the plans had options for swept forward wings, I did like this alot more, then i rebuilt it again because the plans had options for leading edge slats, this was a great combo for slow high alpha flying. I never had canards before and after getting cocking with my new cool plane i ummm, it needed rebuilding so i adjusted the canard pitch and now this cool engine thing. FFS I need to move on to another plane and you guys just keep coming up with stuff and keep me thinking and wanting to add and adjust, damn it i even saw a really old video of yours with lights hooked up through a brushed esc, fibreglass threads and hooked to throttle to make it look like flames coming out, and glowing more the more throttle you are running. Seriously you do understand when us mere mortals see something as cool as this we have to do it lol. Ok new plan, vector ( with rudder ), + swept forward wings + plus leading edge slats + afterburner glow system + engine noise sytem, spose i better look into a servo for the canards while im at it, whats a vector weigh again about 8kg? lmao

[@eziogabbiano2823]

Grandi, quando venite in Italia.🙌🛩🙋

[@zincyellowmach1523]

That's just awesome! What about 3 more skewers (top, bottom, and both sides)? Wouldn't that make it sound smoother? It's all about timing. I will have to try it.

[@plsquadron3832]

Gastape is already install in my planes;) Thats is great ;)

[@Elimarzordan]

Like from Brasil

[@MCsCreations]

+1 aqui. :)

[@smad333]

If you put the skewer on a servo, a bit like a bomb release, then you could toggle it in flight! Possibly even change the note or volume

[@jarrodroetenberger3926]

Awesome video guys; when are you gonna fly Ben's F-4?? "The Swede did the bomb thing to me already" lmao

[@jimliu6409]

When are you going to make more EDF planes?

[@arleysimpson3678]

How long before the bbq skewers chew through a plastic prop, tho?!? Awesome!

[@volksdude1970]

Arley Simpson I believe they used tape strips on the brushless motor and that was what was rubbing against the skewers.

[@magicalframe9441]

It definitely sounds like a gasser!

[@tysonl79]

I literally had this exact idea discussion with one of my coworkers a few weeks ago.

[@rogermiller6049]

Next time a stranger ask me if my electric plane I am flying is a gas plane power plane. I will reply yes lol.

[@gregz436]

7:00 never seen Josh so happy before!

[@droopy4thecats]

You could check the rippums your electric motor is running and space you skewer's to certain degrees to make it sound different, Like look into the hertz and stuff and displace 2 or 3 of them in the proper spots to make it sound a certain way.

[@Kari-tu3fs]

You could easily make it sound different by placing more skewers in various locations for the tape to hit

[@kalvinwinder]

"The Omega with the royal Bro" - Stefan

[@jameshunt8831]

Hi guys, i wish you were in England. I learn so much from your vids. Have you tested Hobbyking skipper xl, I am using four cell 2700 and could use your expertise for cg.keep up the good work. James

[@bruceyork5260]

Awesome lads, do you have plans for a foam board mustang on your website?

[@welshdave5263]

Possibly try a tiny cutout on one of the props so the skewer only hits one blade, this will half the frequency of the sound, it seams a little too fast/high pitched at full speed.

[@jaskarantaneja1591]

Nice

[@volksdude1970]

I'm gonna have to try that out! What type of tape did you use? And how did you mount the skewers?