FPV Rocket Plane Drop, Version 1

Tim built a fiberglass Funjet with extra junk in the trunk. Ian built a bus. The two came together like peanutbutter and chocolate. With a failure this successful, a second version seems inevitable.
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Do not attempt. These are trained professionals who only appear to be bumbling idiots for entertainment value. Do not replicate. Use of toy propellent devices outside (or even within) the manufacturer's intended purposes can cause property damage, injury and death. Team-Legit does not endorse, condone or recommend the content of this video or the actions of any individuals depicted. Always use a dedicated safety officer to thoroughly check surroundings and ensure an empty and safe range before arming pyrotechnics. Be smart--be safe :)

[@Project-Air]

Wow, epic job! I need to build one of those drop planes!

[@MrHichammohsen1]

James you gotta go back to rocket planes please!

[@johnwhauserman]

In rocketry we call that a bag recovery. If it sticks in the ground it's a shovel recovery.

[@jeffswope1511]

Great job only thing missing is the DVR footage from the googles. I want to take that ride

[@markculp6126]

Yeah, what gives?

[@Bibibosh]

Why didn't they upload thay too???

[@jeffswope1511]

@@dominicklittle9828 hi Dom don’t be too hard on these guys when it comes to Texas wings they are the shit.

[@bernonic]

not a flight hobbyist but loved all of it - the spirit of discovery and adventure!

[@topgunpilott]

"This is not the greatest drop in the world, it is just a tribute." Love the little media reference to Tenacious D.

[@pikefolsom6061]

😒

[@Mauronic100]

Team Legit never disappoints 🚀

[@chrissugg968]

"It's like you guys know what you're doing!"

[@jeffwest5080]

I’ve been flying funnels for years. Built a bunch of them from stock to fully fiberglass and over 250mph. Building a 14s fiberglass fun jet now. I’ve found over the years you need big torque servos (150oz at least per side) also make your elevons out of solid balsa and carved and sanded to shape then fiberglass. I added basswood to the trailing edge to give me a solid area for hinges. I run 4-40 ball links with carbon sleeves. Awesome idea and can’t wait to see another video!

[@timhayward7996]

That is a great tip. Planning on running these next time. Hitec D89MW 118 oz/in

[@jeffwest5080]

@@timhayward7996 those should work, the solid balsa elevons will make all the difference in the world! As well as adding some basswood to the trailing edge so you have a nice and strong hinge point and added strength to the back of the airframe.

[@sUASNews]

This is the best thing I have seen in months. Well done all, love it

[@Brandon_Makes_Stuff]

That was awesome! The acceleration was unreal.

[@erichische]

Good stuff, V2 for the win 🤘

[@buddwizr]

That's fun! You guys have too much time on your hands and the result is this great adventure! Thanks for posting it! Impressive flights and and and a lot of technical engineering. Thanks again for posting.

[@thenatedog]

doood that was amazing. so cool. sorry about that crash but that boost across the sky was sweet.

[@Vanblade1692]

Awesome guys!! I wanna see another version part 2 there must be :D That speed was insane :D Congrats on the test!

[@robcampbell1056]

You guys are so lucky to have everyone vaccinated and no more covid down there!

[@johnnymeguerditchian4113]

Team Legit Back to Legitness!!! I'll be there for the next one.

[@erichische]

🤘

[@luisbugarin4327]

Been wanting to see that baby in action since I saw it in the shop. Very cool fellas.

[@jimmcnally2524]

Super cool. I would have made a cast of that crater. It was beautiful. Totally overpowered. Love it.

[@agennello1]

Sweet Project.

[@terrencejackson4587]

It came in a little hot! Understatement!

[@melsuarez]

thanks for that. what a blast! (no pun intended). amazing to watch the rocket plane ignite in mid-air. nice crash. too bad there was no close-up footage. you guys rock.

[@rc-hobby250]

Nice project!

[@pjbrewer56]

Nothing but AWESOME!

[@seaeaglebird6959]

Like the split V tail design in the mother ship - smart

[@confuseatronica]

that carrier airplane is pretty just as itself

[@darrylanunciado9300]

hahah these guys always doing cool things!

[@foobar201]

Classic RUD. Real rocket science here!

[@rdyer8764]

The first 3 Falcon rockets blew up. You're in good company.

[@evankirkland7182]

That's a bummer that there isn't any DVR footage from the crater-plane!

[@FPVTeamLegit]

Unfortunately lost the DVR, V2 we will make sure to get more footage of the whole process!

[@thirtythreeeyes8624]

@@FPVTeamLegit Man how did you not have 10 people all watching in their goggles?

[@BMSWEB]

That was awesome!

[@skyforce1983]

Let's gooo legit just build another tonight and fly tomorrow you have an actual store full of parts soooooo whaaaaat !!!!!!

[@udoworner4399]

Wow the rocket glider was damn fast, for a moment I felt like I was in NASA's time when these experiments were being made with rockets, especially at the point in the video where you could hear the rocket propulsion in the sky. Thumbs up

[@Hubiwaw90]

I like this type of projects :D

[@garrettburrows442]

Most people wont get or understand that this failure wasnt a failure

[@airwolfie100]

That. Was. AWESOME!!!!!!!

[@BarrettCharlebois]

This is SOOOOO COOOOLLLL

[@Joyplanes]

That was epic!

[@tonythedwvyer]

Awesome !!

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

FANTASTIC!

[@theironladyhk]

Nice one..

[@smoothvirus]

this is awesome, the best FPV video I've seen in a very long time. I so miss doing stuff like this.. looks like us FPV pilots will all be back together soon. With longer hair. lol

[@JoeOvercoat]

GREAT SUCCESS!

[@yayathidayat6678]

Awesome plane

[@ScaleMeDown]

Awesome whilst it lasted. Better luck next time

[@FPVJesus]

Dude! That was so fucking LEGIT. Nice work gentlemen.

[@georgitushev]

Awesome 👏 next time use some solid metal servos and 10amps BEC

[@moteroargentino7944]

For a rc model... It recreated a high speed crash pretty good. Damn. Just a hole and tiny bits.

[@bobbys4327]

what kind of speed was that? looked really fast. great job, I like it!

[@knight907]

That’s was a *really* long burn. What motor did you use?

[@agennello1]

Hold on, I need to wipe the dust off this channel 8^P

[@FPVTeamLegit]

Lol trynna beat you to it.

[@bbjunkie]

Awesome! Any DVR footage from the goggles? THAT would be cool!

[@klesmer]

It is amazing what can be done with some foam board and idea's. Where is this filmed? What a beautiful flying site.

[@pedrofdmp]

Servos with telemetry would be interesting, that kind of speed should be putting quite a load on them

[@kennymanuel1007]

that was awesome!!!!!!!

[@adamhale6672]

This looks awesome! Great work! Was this at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah?

[@CuervoRC]

Very good project, at those speeds you might need ultra powerful servos. 👍👍👍 Do you know approximately what speed it reached? I'm doing a similar project, but I haven't put rockets on the glider yet, at the moment it's just a brick glider.

[@FPVTeamLegit]

We estimate high 200's mph

[@keithbrown2458]

Very cool but you need baby steps on the rocket power may be a one second lower thrust rocket and then work yourself up I only suggestions because I’ve done it the pressures on servos are just too great at least in my case

[@KolorLux]

this is why we keep our tall friends around

[@obniktiv]

Good job, enjoyed watching the whole video! What did you use to support the Wing of the carrier-aircraft, a carbon tube?

[@timhayward7996]

Yes. We had multiple spars running across the span of mothership.

[@TemporalOasis]

Rip Funjet

[@BrandoDrum]

Aereoelasticity is a heck of a thing! Imagine being a wwii pilot and getting stuck in a dive or a supersonic test pilot and experiencing control reversal at speed while in the airplane lol

[@gus8378]

ELI5?

[@nacorti]

@@gus8378 high speed = high pressure on control surfaces, which bends wings the opposite direction of the control surface movement So you're stuck in a dive, you pull back on the stick to pitch up but the nose pitches *down* because of the reversal. Killed a number of P-38 pilots back in the 40s

[@gus8378]

@@nacorti I still don't understand, and I'm very curious. Why does the nose pitch down if you pitch up on high speeds? The control surface is on the back of the wing, so when it tilts up it makes the whole wing twist, right? So it would make the front of the wing point up and the back of the wing point down. It should still make the nose pitch up, shouldn't it?

[@nacorti]

@@gus8378 you're close! You're correct that the wing twists, the front of the horizontal stab points up and the back points down - but at high speeds, what this means is that the entire horizontal stabilizer is acting like an elevator instead of just the control surface hinged on the rear. So in that position, it acts like a giant down elevator instead of up This principle is incorporated into the design of modern fighter aircraft with the Stabilator, which moves the whole horizontal stabilizer at high speeds

[@gus8378]

@@nacorti Oh I seeee. I was thinking about the wings, but it's the tail that's the problem. I can see how it would twist and have the opposite effect of the pilot's input. And I always wondered why some fighter jets moved the whole stabilizer. Very interesting. Thank you for explaining.

[@mdriyasatali]

It's amazing bro💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

[@MOEMUGGY]

*Laughs in Burt Rutan. 😂

[@BALSAFLYER]

Do you have any readings of fun jet's top speed?? Waiting for the next video

[@FPVTeamLegit]

Next time :)

[@pdbsstudios7137]

a little step for my grandma a big step for my chair

[@repalmore]

Something to think about. Set the angle of attack, while on the launch craft, so the jet give some lift. This way the launch craft only needs to provide thrust for the two aircraft instead of lift and thrust for both. The problem with the rocket plane the servo's were overcome by the stresses on the control surfaces. As speed increases the amount of effort to change the control surface angle increases. This is a problem the gave all kinds of trouble to the first jets and super sonic aircraft.

[@DaveItYourselfChannel]

NIIIIIIIIICE! 😁👍

[@MatHolliday]

What rocket motor was used?

[@wenepzoli]

Nice video! 👍🛫Like!🛩👍

[@spoilerboy4026]

No DVR from the rocket plane??

[@BillKisel]

Color me "old fart"... I was most impressed with the twin fuse. Pretty exciting non the less.

[@spinynorman887]

The year long project was a success - he says as they pick up the shrapnel of the expensive lawn dart.

[@timhayward7996]

That we me. 90% success. Wait for round 2!

[@ddegn]

Did any of the drones get video of the rocket plane? Thanks for the fun video. Subscribed.

[@FPVTeamLegit]

That's all there is until next time.

[@sparrow082]

I would double up the service and metal hinges on the elevons.

[@Gejdkckejuyhxtsjbgcjhjdbfkckf]

Please Part 2, I won’t do this for years but geman regulations are a little strikt about powerful rockets.

[@steby123]

Mo powerful servos?!?

[@oadka]

Pls upload fpv footage from rocket plane

[@kirill2525]

needs to be done again but make it controllable. who wouldn't want an rc cruse missile? XD

[@rcflugkanalmeier]

crazy, i like it :)

[@nicklachen5060]

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

[@crowsnestdigital3696]

If you ever do this again, let me bring a quad ans get some air to air video!

[@scottl5000]

anyone record the FPV video?

[@marines0001]

I had the same problem when i got over 130MpH the servo rods flexed and could not push the control surfaces. I reinforced the rods with a tube and glassed the ailerons

[@timhayward7996]

I used carbon tubes' with the rods and glassed surfaces. I think the servos themselves were just to weak. Going to overkill it on V2.

[@jeffparisse4202]

Was this El Mirage Dry Lake near Adelanto CA?

[@timhayward7996]

Yes sir.

[@rektrc1142]

Crazy

[@superdon1chw]

I think it was going so fast the servo did not have the power to adjust anything up or down you need stronger servos

[@user-fg4lk8ri1l]

Спасибо за материал!!! Где такие счастливчики живут??? У них, точно, коммунизьм!!!

[@RCP-1136]

shame there is no DVR footage :/ very smooth detach anyway :)

[@antman2826]

I wanna see what the rocket plane saw!!!

[@breckfreeride]

Thrust angle may have been off...

[@gus8378]

Kind of scary to see civilians able to build missiles

[@ozziepilot2899]

Ha ha so cool, so many nerds in one place :)

[@carnagefpv8256]

Any idea what speed the funjet achieved before it became a lawn dart?

[@FPVTeamLegit]

We think really really fast but lost the data

[@carnagefpv8256]

@@FPVTeamLegit well regardless it looks like a missile coming off the rail, I'm sure it was scooting along. Great work as always regardless

[@timhayward7996]

I was the pilot. I did some math with the time in the air plus estimate distance traveled and we estimate 272mph.

[@daviddavids2884]

at 2:23, stoopid aft extension of tail booms; past the elevator hinge lines.

[@marlobreding7402]

Like blue collar comedian Ron White said "The airplane will fly all the way to the crash site".

[@PKB94]

triumph for hobbyists and engineers everywhere. but also the future of warfare..

[@Fahrenheit353]

How fast did it go?

[@timhayward7996]

250mph approx

[@radiolink713]

It's a very nice job, I need the design, Can you help me?

[@timhayward7996]

modified Multiplex funjut

[@daviddavids2884]

looks like you boys were using weird props, for the application.

[@FPVTeamLegit]

APC, the choice for me

[@Deathrattler]

You think there was just too much thrust????? Need smaller rocket engine?

[@timhayward7996]

nobody ever said "lets go smaller" we got a bit of go fever. v2 will have more pre burn test.