Operation Melon Drop | Bombs away! 🍉💥

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[@FliteTest]

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[@Beastnasty_0313]

FliteTest you guys should do basket ball one plane drop the ball and another plane have the basketball net and try to make them swish

[@airproductions4383]

HI thank you for doing these videos i have been fan for years and you got me into the hobby thank you so much

[@tomjenkinson2746]

Do you guys have an idea of when these will ship? I am flying to my parents house in Illinois from Oregon and this plane is exactly what I wanted to build during my week long visit to gift my dad(who killed my rc plane when i was a kid before I got to fly it) but I am going at the end of the month and don't want to ship this there if it won't be there while I am.

[@user-by1vx7gl9y]

Я из России.

[@Bludawg27]

FliteTest I got 3 ads about people killing with drones

[@stevenjohnson6962]

You should release a battalion of army men each with there own parachutes. That way it looks like your being invaded

[@everettdale]

Yep. I came here to say pooper troopers. Figure out a way to send them out one at a time but really fast.

[@RCinginSC]

I vote for the army men.

[@JayAdams-ml5jf]

When I was a kid we had army men about 5 inches tall, hollow plastic men, that had plastic parachutes on them. Be cool if they could find those and drop about a hundred of them,

[@NeonBeeCat]

@@JayAdams-ml5jf Omg I had one too.

[@martindinner3621]

Hmm, rig a static line and some form of spring to push them out the launch hatch.

[@pterodox123]

DROP A STACK OF RACE QUADS WITH PILOTS TO FLY THEM AWAY! FASTEST QUAD TO ITS DESIGNATED LANDING ZONE WINS!

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Great way to start a Quad race

[@smoothvirus]

this is actually a brilliant idea

[@idk-ir6vv]

I want to do this now....

[@lukasmakessomething7322]

Just don’t drop the pilots

[@AJB2K3]

This has to be done. DRL is so boring at the moment.

[@licensetodrive9930]

You need to load up that melon bay with as many army figures with parachutes as possible!

[@gmfdp4852]

yes please

[@Zapodash]

Oh my god yes

[@Proger-sj8cj]

GraphicMemesForDramaticPeople *Or Humvees and M1 Tanks lol*

[@GameChanger77]

That would be great!!

[@S1baar]

YES

[@scottdoubleyou563]

Since we know it'll fly with a 12 lb. load, do a bowling ball from 400 ft. See how deep it'll go.

[@wtGripen_enjoyer]

yes

[@bakerrv]

I think you should design BOMB SIGHT!

[@thomaswaldorf9141]

With fpv looking forward and down to pin point drop timing.

[@mmodtomic7119]

And have team competitions!

[@jacobdaniel6135]

Yes!

[@georgecloudjr.3008]

I was thinking the same thing. FPV bomb sight

[@jtcaban]

You'll need an altimeter to determine distance to target and some markings to drop at the correct time.

[@kylewatson577]

Fpv camera for bombardier can see where he is dropping

[@Mr.ZooKeeper]

Kyle, I was thinking the same thing. Cross hairs and everything. They could set up a whole course with targets.

[@sinformant]

Awesome idea then they can build a giant scale b17 or b29

[@matejovik1351]

Same idea

[@timothyhydanus3961]

@@sinformant Yo with those big motors that would be sweet!

[@benfurdyna]

I was thinking the same thing!!

[@rwehuman]

I propose a "Bixler bomb sight" Using a FPV camera.

[@badgamergood6713]

rwehuman 3,2,1 Pickle!, oops I meant melon

[@ultrablazed9126]

i second this

[@divelizard1966]

100%

[@stevennelson5827]

Yes. FPV bombsight

[@Modern-Crafts]

Instead of dropping stuff you could also try to land a drone in the plane mid flight.

[@macaiahyhwh3330]

That's really not a good idea

[@Schladdermann]

They did that already...

[@killer13324]

@@Schladdermann link to the video or it didn't happen.

[@flyingsalmons934]

@@Schladdermann they didn't

[@flyingsalmons934]

Large rc with massive wings for slow flight in the center of the wing there is a cut out about 1.5x the size of the drone drone lands in plane

[@Gosuminer]

Obvious: Drop a plane out of the Skyvan and have that plane drop a small RC car or tiny whoop.

[@Cringespotted]

Or maybe drone !

[@Rideaholic069]

They’ve already dropped an rc truck out of it. I think it was a red cat racing Everest gen 8. I could be wrong on which gen it was but they did drop an rc out of it. That was the original purpose for the plane.

[@Gosuminer]

@@jeff4992 Thank you, I must have missed that one. Awesome to watch even after all this time.

[@CalebT_RC]

I think that little Cessna at 3:50 would be a great trainer for people because it’s small and simple to make

[@andrewknotts21]

You should drop a plane out of the plane. ✈️✈️

[@flyingsalmons934]

Yes rc out of rc

[@m1a2abrams52]

🏢🏢

[@SUMMONER917]

DrewPenguin someone’s been playing ksp

[@disgustingraccoon6198]

That’s actually quite interesting.... having a plane drop out then fly with the cargo plane?

[@janpetterfjeld6572]

YESSSSS

[@StarSwarm.]

You want sketchy? Setup a burning drum and drop fuel filled balloons! 🎈🔥

[@dagwood64]

Drop balloons full of paint at a target or balloons full of flour.

[@niki123489]

or just balloons with water over human targets?

[@milesarcher8502]

MELON MURDERERS!!!

[@jannikheidemann3805]

@@niki123489 Have you seen that crater? Realy bad idea.

[@scottmcnab80]

1) expose melon in bomb bay so that melon cam can see out prior to drop. 2) give bombardier FPV to melon cam 3) RC tail-fins on melon. GUIDED MELON MUNITIONS!

[@nickytions2273]

ahhh....the fritz X guided bomb but instead its a watermelon

[@bBrain]

FPV bomb sight for bombardier! See how close can hit a bulls-eye with 20/10/5 foot rings. 300+ feet altitude.

[@crudboy12]

You could install a GPS and get ground-speed as well as barometric altitude and feed it into something like an Arduino so that it could tilt the camera and calculate lead. It's a project I have wanted to attempt for a long time. I need to build a big plane first so it could actually carry something impressive. I will definitely post it to youtube if I can get something working.

[@iirossii2005]

this NEEDS to go VIRAL common algorithm.... you can do it!!

[@thegenerousdegenerate9395]

UPLOAD THE FULL 360 CLIP! Uncut. Along with some of the other angles. All uncut/unedited raw footage!

[@MCsCreations]

Yes! Please! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@austinbrantley776]

Yes

[@X02AC3]

FT raw clips

[@73richardclapp]

Full clip!!!

[@ericstratten6974]

Need a paratrooper drop on D-Day Anniversery . . . How many G.I. Joes fit in the Sky Van??

[@awesomesauce2935]

I agree with this mans suggestion.

[@TrashMutt]

Awesomesauce a c47 would be cool too but I’d just slap invasion stripes on this thing and make that video

[@Cannontime]

@@TrashMutt yes yes yes

[@RyllenKriel]

You guys should help Amazon with their automated grocery delivery service. Don't change a thing, blind drops from 400 feet is perfect.

[@travisflys1590]

Ooooooooof

[@mattthro8196]

Please drop a giant cube of jello! Love the channel. Keep up the good work.

[@justinlewis1609]

imagine if you made a separate FPV system like under the fuselage just for the bombardier! that would be so sick! please do it haha

[@ricksquebecrc4627]

great idea !

[@ricksquebecrc4627]

or a dozen soldiers with parachutes

[@raphaelgawn2542]

Justin Lewis yes I was thinking the same thing. Spam the hell out of this comment #thishastohappen

[@shelbykingnfs7216]

With a crosshair

[@roberthouston936]

@@raphaelgawn2542 or just a plane load of Spam.

[@Aviatr23]

An RC FPV GBU bomb. The FPV pilot guides it into the target.

[@thenerdyouknowabout]

They tried this a very long time ago. One of their funniest video :)

[@crzesZombieSlayer1]

Yes!

[@davidmescher2526]

@@thenerdyouknowabout Which video was that?

[@ovet81]

You should make the watermelon/bomb guided. Put some steerable fins and an FPV camera on the nose. It would look like Desert storm.

[@CustomCrawlerz]

Very nice modification and execution on the Melon drop... Impact at 12:44 Looking forward to the next one guys.. #FLIGHTTEST #Customcrawlerz

[@coeystickney9720]

You guys should drop a bowling ball out of the plane!!!

[@floofdapoof92akaafloofyboi22]

Bowling ball na In the words of thunder quack from ducktales let's get dangerous for the fourth of July you guys should drop a fire craxker in the pond

[@bodiebreitbach141]

It was a 12lb melon, they could do a 12lb bowling ball

[@tbirdracefan]

Load that plane up with as much glitter as it will hold. Take it up to 400 and release. Other ideas would be hole punches, rolls of crepe paper, Toilet paper, eggs, golf balls, ping pong balls, etc.

[@AveryMilieu]

Because glitter is essentially micro plastic and never goes away, gets into poor critters who don't need it clogging up their systems, it might be better to drop confetti - or what about a pillow's worth of feathers!

[@vitormasson]

12:33 that music adds a beautiful kind of dropping-drama to the watermelon scene lol

[@stevengaskill6515]

I just came across this channel. It's awesome! I had no idea RC plans could be built like this.

[@TechFitsShorts]

"We can always run" Josh said Josh:Safety is the number one concern

[@loganreuter6072]

Oh my gosh! There’s finally a Cessna!! Can’t wait to build it!

[@abdul9593]

Oh my god that friendship is sooo pure😂😂👍👍

[@WisienkaZajebista]

Drop little fireworks that explode on impact, or maybe airsoft grenades?

[@kevinfinkel5536]

Now go replace your divet!

[@bgdavenport]

You guys have the best way to make a living! Joy to the world!!!

[@QuantumRed]

You should make a giant flying aircraft carrier like the SHIELD Helicarrier you did but flying instead of hovering and then take off and land planes on it mid-air.

[@forthwithtx5852]

Shades of the David Letterman Show. Bowling ball.

[@raymondo162]

done

[@timluns]

Do a collaboration with ( How Ridiculous ) all you guys should get creative and surprise us !

[@patricksawyer9779]

... Dude, that's legit a great idea.

[@Scales_365]

Yes that'd be amazing. Do how ridiculous, dude perfect, and flight test colaberation the watermelon smashing air drop trick shot

[@mikeaninger7388]

timluns yes!!!!! Please!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JonBaldry]

Hah!! Just posted the exact same thing before I spotted this LOL!!

[@JonBaldry]

@megaJacobisawesome And they are well known for travelling all over the world. Have you ever actually watched any of their vids chucking stuff off of dams for example?

[@DanielArnolf]

What a build up on the second round !!!!, You're very serious with your stuff, great job, respect !.

[@altonkluse8362]

You should make a fireplane and put out a fire with it😁

[@TheGojira88]

Dropping some bags with different colors of powder would be awesome to see. Colorfull explosions that would be amazing😍. I'm also new to this channel but already love what you guys make!

[@mehtevas2653]

You guys should drop tickets during flite fest out of the sky van for a raffle or something like

[@anthonyblair6090]

Absolutely brilliant guys, keep them coming. 👍🏼

[@johnweems4586]

Great video! You guys should fill up the bomb bay with snap pops and drop them onto a parking lot!

[@chiragarora2827]

What was the footage from the 360 cam upon the crash like? Wanted to see it :/

[@dylanbar11]

drop a block of dry ice from the plane into the ground or in the pond.

[@cplblackhawk8592]

Now that is a good idea! (And it will look cool when it's in the plane)

[@MWS1960]

When I retire from being a director of sales for a fortune 50 company, I want to do what you guys do. You guys have the perfect fun job !

[@phil2082]

The one you want now? FPV guided darts. It's just an FPV glider. Two servos, super easy, and you could make them indestructible if you do it right.

[@maglev_]

Drop a 360 camera out of a plane with a parachute

[@rsharney1111]

Nedyarb, that's 400$ brotha!

[@annahart4545]

Yes

[@takeaflightfpv8006]

that would be cool to see the quads orbit it on the way down

[@martindinner3621]

And with a properly sized chute, the worst it will get are grass stains.

[@maglev_]

Rotor Ryan they stuck it in the watermelon, why not with a parachute

[@utoobuser206]

Drop a load of tomatoes They will cover a large area on impact and the carnage should be red and spectacular!

[@prestonang8216]

“I don’t even think i’ve seen a plane so heavy” All the commercial airliners : *Am I a joke to you*

[@flyingsalmons934]

Rc plane

[@nickeliang2470]

Please make more of this! It's incredible! Love your channel

[@LightsCameraandLego]

Drop 100 Paper airplanes from the huge rc cargo plane!

[@MatrixExpress]

cool 8-)

[@Hiroak]

Show the entire 360 drop footage. Very cool.

[@jacksmith9045]

I CHALLENGE YOU GUYS!!! Build a POPSICLE STICK PLANE!!!! You can use any size popsicle stick and glue them together but you cannot cut them in any way, each stick has to be full sized.

[@meltedgyrofpv8477]

And make sure propellers are also popsicle

[@justuslm]

You guys have done several things with toilet paper before... But how about stuffing as many different coloured rolls into that cargo plane and dropping them all at once? You can get cheap, one-coloured toilet paper with lots of different colours to choose from on Amazon, and I think that would look really cool.

[@falcon-jy5wt]

I want to see the full 360 video.Not just little snippets of it.

[@robertobuenrostro2781]

I think you boys are cloud seeding all wrong. 🍉🛫

[@majorbred2433]

Nice pun

[@richardcrouch3510]

I wanted to see the full 360 footage from drop to ground...

[@garrettbaker8037]

Richard Crouch I know they didn’t even show us

[@travistibbs1530]

Me 2! I immediately came to the comments to see if I was the only one. It’s not possible that only part of the digitally recorded 360 footage survived the crash, is it? Maybe they updated the description with a link to it? I’m gonna go check....

[@swatkats54]

Steel tip lawn darts, parachute army men, tank, party poppers, gliders, Frisbee, boomerang, a drone, a live fish with a 360 on it.

[@trex9166]

Awesome!!!! Fpv camera under cargo bay to really “place” the mellon

[@jamesmccarrall4459]

You guys are AWESOME!! You guys got me interested in the hobby and so far I’m LOVING IT!!

[@nyeleskettes]

Best melondrama i've ever seen. Gosh that impact crater. I now know what happened to our Moon.

[@ultranitro437]

The Idea that this is what you guys do for a living is INSANE! I'm jealous!

[@RobMccloud3]

Lawn darts or bowling balls. GO! I'll just leave that right there. 😉

[@d4gamer453]

Please build a b17 and drop firecrackers out of it Btw love the videos :)

[@danieldavis4574]

Yes! Yes! Please yes!

[@ucitymetalhead]

That would be great especially with some big powerful fireworks.

[@TuberiderFPV]

You guys have the best job ever, great footage .

[@KeleFPV]

Load up 4-8 Tiny Whoops on different channels, drop them and the first through a gate on the ground wins! I would come up for this. I guarantee Jesse would be down to sponsor this. This could be something to schedule in for Flite Fest too.

[@carpenoctem3257]

Nerf whistle darts They fix themselves in flight and you can drop them on one another without injury.

[@sapphocalypse]

Plus you get that nice whistling effect from British WWII ordnance

[@carpenoctem3257]

Edward Hu I’m sure they could buy a huge pack of them from amazon. Imagine hundreds dropping down on a quiet day

[@flyingsalmons934]

@@carpenoctem3257 yes Title dropping 1000 nerf darts from rccplane

[@tannerkeith6776]

Imagine flying the cargo plane over the neighbor’s house you don’t like.. And dropping melons on their roof 😂😂

[@roberthouston936]

Or horse manure, maybe not.

[@henryhudd1316]

ZombieFreaks 02 no. Bowling balls

[@detroit19531]

You guys always rocket you know what to do you keep us entertained you keep us knowledgeable you guys help me get into fpv a long time ago great job once again.

[@shanegonzales]

That. Was. BEAUTIFUL.

[@zandercochran2468]

They should make the helicarrier from Avengers, and have working fighter jets on top of it.

[@la7arla7arlannan68]

Zander Cochran they already did

[@tbirdracefan]

Get a camera on the bottom of the plane or just inside that is self leveling and looking down. FPV bomb sight. Oh, and your gonna need a lot more watermelons.

[@chriscloud3495]

Best video I have watched today!!! That melon bomb was awesome!

[@qr03426]

you guys are awesome ...... with amazing plans .......

[@rodriguebrousse2751]

You should drop like BB's or Darts on a baloon field!!

[@thomasstuart2936]

Lawn darts.

[@mrviking6892]

You should add fireworks/firecrackers to this!

[@danielreardon6453]

OKAY......... IDEAS!!!!!!!! -Drop Watermelon again but with little firecracker explosive in it where u can activate the explosion inside the watermelon at any time through out its fall (hopefully close to ground) -Drop a guided bomb -Drop guided bomb with a canter lope with explosive as the war head -Make Fritz X guided bomb with rocket motor at the back -Drop Water balloons -Drop big Nerf whistle dart -Have water ballon fight with teams, people on the ground fighting, then the bomber comes over and just water balloon carpet bombs them.... -Have a rocket with a water ballon warhead -Make 2 teams with some sort of airdrop mission to drop a tank out the back with parachute to invade another teams territory (god we could do sooo much) -Put tonnes of small rockets along a wing and send it all at once. - PLay airsoft battle with A 10 strafing people (wear protective gear) and droping water melon on people HAha jokes

[@spaniardo8565]

Hell yeah, make it drop planes and quadcopters!

[@walkermediaworx]

I want to see the 360 cam footage from drop to splat! Like / comment if you agree!

[@jeffh8693]

Drop lawn darts and try to dodge them... Sounds fun

[@DontEverGrowUp]

You should install a bunch of super bright white LEDs inside the box to flood it with light, then fill it with glow-in-the-dark items, and drop them at night. Have some on parachutes, let some free fall, and tie streamers to others, to vary the rate of descent of the various objects.

[@robertneal9953]

My dad and I think that you should do a Snoopy: They flying Ace and his dog house as one of your flight test projects. Love your videos!

[@saito125]

That's fun but it's been done over and over, at least since the 1970's. There's actually a company still selling a kit.

[@hosh6132]

*12 pound meteor from 200 l feet leaves crater in ground* Josh: we’ll fly it near the runway we can always run”

[@reecetylermartinez5132]

Hey guys you should do a rocket competition on who flies the highest

[@billydarley6925]

i launched a small rocket once. it was my first one and i didnt know how high it would go so i used the biggest motor i could put in it. think it might be on the moon. my friends and i never saw it fall back to earth. looked like this live.staticflickr.com/6055/6244585063_5462973128_b.jpg

[@rwehuman]

They/we are limited to 400' per FAA law.

[@billydarley6925]

@@rwehuman oops.

[@rwehuman]

@@billydarley6925 haha, I have never seen it enforced or do I know anyone who has....

[@Barwell999]

You Guys always entertain!! Thanks.

[@MrNlce30]

the bombardier should have FPV looking straight down for better accuracy. Great video. Keep up the good work.

[@frednoble3547]

Spinning/bouncing bomb idea with water? Like dam busters historically

[@matejovik1351]

Put FPV BOMBER CAMERA on the bottom of cargo plane

[@davevernon4993]

Fantastic....( bombardier has a silent second b ) no big issue, great job guys.

[@scottkuppers]

This video was AMAZING! loved it!

[@jaystone3516]

I would like to see you drop a RC- M1 Abrams tank out the back with para shoots. or m2 Bradley fighting vehicle.

[@robhettinger1861]

So traditionally 5 lps sacks of flour make excellent bombs

[@aniketakabir1572]

Wow! I have been designing a cessna and now you guys bring one out! This is great I'll probably build this one.

[@pixelphone5819]

You should fly that thing in the city, dropping Hershey's, any kind of Candy's, kids will love it.

[@user-dm5bw4bh2n]

Can you guys make a foam board helicipter? Helicopter is very complicate machine but foam isn't. So it will be EPIC

[@bennield6322]

Drop cricket ball marrows/gem squash like 10 at once so it looks like a true bomber

[@tacobob4664]

Build a bowling ball bomber. That would be epic!

[@myanimalsandmecatsanddogs3321]

TACTICAL MELON INCOMING!!!!! 💥💥💥