RC Wingsuit - Part 2

Testing of the 3D printed remote control wingsuit!
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[@isaaclyonsf1]

Scale it up and FPV it!

[@Rando104854]

Isaac Lyons I agree!!!

[@JustInTime0525]

Do you mean: Try wingsuit and attach a GoPro to his head?

[@isaaclyonsf1]

NERF870525, good idea!

[@Carlos_Max_1]

Isaac Lyons i

[@johnnyboyfpv6065]

Me: "Chickens can fly!!!" Science: "It's more a controlled fall actually...." Me: "Shudup..."

[@magicstew45]

You're told chickens can't fly in school then one launches itself at you..

[@jjavankan]

Great! Thanks Tom. You made me smile again. Was watching you long time ago in your T-Rex 700 time. Glad I found you again, great video's Tom. Keep up the good work. (Sorry, English is not my native language)

[@mccc4559]

GOOD JOB TOM --- IF YOU DON'T TRY, YOU DON'T KNOW. YOUR EFFORT HERE ENABLES MANY KIDS AND ADULTS TO KEEP THEIR PASSION OF EXPERIMENTING ALIVE!!!

[@supernaturalswampaids8083]

Wow, that last jump looked really great! This looks like it’ll be feasible to improve flight characteristics! Thank you for doing this project, it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a couple years now but I’ve still yet to get a 3D printer...I have so many projects I’d love to do. So thank you for doing this series 🙏

[@warnerjohnson1338]

Apart from seeing the dummy glide, (success!), the most thrilling segment of the video was when Tom suspended himself in midair long enough to click his heels together. More of THAT Tom!

[@Ju4n3n3]

I get so genuinely excited every time you upload man, thanks for the great content

[@Joelmelanie]

That was awesome! agree to scale up a bit for longer glide flight. Tom you are the first who did this scale!!! See you in the next video buddy;)

[@edwardcase]

well done. Tom, you've got tools, resources, wit, and opportunity. If I had those things at your age! Well, let's say this: Challenge yourself. Think outside the box. Do what hasn't been done. Engineering degree, yes, get one. More importantly, look beyond. New inspirations tend to be accidental, and discoveries made whilst endeavoring to do something ordinary. Have fun. Avoid what happened to me. Don't let anyone hold you back.

[@matthewhall435]

Dude that would b so cool to see a bigger one !

[@TBoneProductionsVB]

I like that you had an extra hand with filming this time. Maybe you can make a mini indoor skydiving wind tunnel to refine your design. A leaf blower might have enough power.

[@jonneduke65]

Good thing's come to those who persevere, good stuff tom. You have to go full scale and fpv it off a base jump high point lol.

[@MrDgwphotos]

I suspect it needs some forward momentum (i.e. don't drop from a hover or virtual hover), and weight does not scale like dimensions do, so it probably needs to be as light as possible.

[@brandonastley1100]

Think the lack of a head may have also helped as would have put the centre of mass further down towards the ‘hips’ which would have meant the rotational effect of moving the arms would be greater

[@jonas2431]

Super job

[@Earle63]

You sir are a genius

[@comedycopter7908]

That was very clever

[@MikeyFirst]

Completely awesome! Nice project!

[@stevenortega5223]

Awesome You can make another one but the wings instead of being of plastic you can use fabric and also for the legs part that would probably make it lighter, but out of that good job I was waiting for this video....

[@centerpinfishingaddicts4897]

Put a pivot controlled with a servo between the legs and the torso.. I know they use there legs to control yaw and as a part of other control in conjunction with their arms..

[@mugsytop]

Good work.

[@vatonix84]

Vector Would be proud

[@xpifpouf]

You should automatized the parachute opening !!! With an arduino nano and an altimeter or something like that !

[@RyanPine]

Wing suits are made of cloth mate, the cloth provides loft and loft helps catch the wind and propel the skydiver foreword, what you hAve made here is more like the rigid jet pack suits that have a turbine engine for propulsion, try making the wings out of the parachute material, keep the motorized arms and give that a go.

[@evahxh]

That would be called lift. Not loft.

[@RyanPine]

FirebugPlays actually there is no way to get lift if your falling out of the sky with no propulsion, it’s called Loft, it helps catch wind in the fabric and in return moves the diver foreword through the air like a parachute. There is no LIFT when flying a wing suit unless it’s a turbine jet suit.

[@Scav16]

ThePinerThings InLife that's just objectivley false

[@rondyson8323]

That was great . I would like to see you build a bigger one , which will glide better .......try and do a self unfolding section between the hand and ankle on each side . I'm not sure how well that would work . but I think it's worth investigating .........see you in your next one ......... Cheers

[@DominicClifton]

good work!

[@REDROBRCFPV]

U can always try to put a small brushless motor where the head is..... or on to the next project lol

[@ThePixel1983]

An air tunnel would be handy. See the Tom Scott video.

[@tristunjanes761]

you should try some ninjaflex so you can have some give for the wings and in between the legs just like a real wing suit

[@spunashell]

Nice vid. But isn't the chute a bit small in size?

[@spshowcase2040]

Make the wing flaps from fabric. That way you reduce the weight and improve the lift characteristics.

[@JessHull]

"Everybody lookin' at my tight pants, my tight pants, I got my tight pants on!"

[@tastytechaddictsmtb]

It needs forward momentum to generate lift, just dropping it is like a airlines that has stalled, just falling out of the sky.

[@OpenRoader]

SCALE UP!!!!!

[@RCLoversan]

You started to get a better glide once you have sorted the CG, that allows the wingsuit to gain enough airspeed, due to slightly nose heavy setup and the initial free fall. Ideally, you should drop it from a higher altitude, letting your wingsuit to increase the airspeed and after at least 10 meters of free fall, you should start to control it. Trust me, I've built 9 prototypes of my X-37ABC before obtaining a proper glide and it also took a few drop tests to achieve a decent flight. For comparison, you'll find the plans on Instructables website.

[@Fitter562lu]

Good job! Do you think your wing suit guy would glide better if the wing and tail area were some sort of cloth like rip stop nylon? I would be curious if the increased drag would generate more lift ? keep up the good work. cheers from the USA

[@kili_ghillie]

I have been waiting for this

[@-dantheman-1394]

ahh imagine doing it in fpv the wingman how sick would that be Tom Stanton

[@poliak9]

I think you can actually use one radio for two receivers

[@rishabhtolia4570]

That was awesome!!

[@EditorEssentials]

Great video!!! FPV would be pretty awesome...

[@cobbitconsulting9947]

Make the Wingsuit stronger

[@veizour]

Congratulations... I was thinking the only way you were going to get it to glide is if you released while the quad was flying forward

[@tin2001]

That wasn't flying! That was... Falling with style!

[@xlrcsamshikhbahaei4661]

super....cool...great job..i think your rite with going bigger...great joooooobbbbbbbb........

[@SimonDengler92]

can a rotation of the legs also be used for steering?

[@sandimusa368]

you should try using a lily impeller for something.

[@dennisrader1237]

That is a the gingeriest ginger I've ever seen

[@TheFPVShogun]

Have the arms and legs printed but run some material betwixt them. Should be lighter and glide easier

[@masterrippin1027]

It's not flying...... It's falling. With style!!

[@arifkramer4974]

Scale up? If youre 3d printing ideally you would scale down cause of square cube wouldn't you? Maybe a possible idea is to make it a lot lighter and have the flat surfaces be actual cloth or something, not solid slabs of plastic.

[@hiimunfortunate]

In my VERY limited (went indoor skydiving ONCE) experience I learned that yaw is controller by your hands, and your forward momentum(?) is controlled by the angle where your knees bend. I know this is an old video, but it might be cool if you could revisit this.

[@turkeyphant]

Not really true for belly flying. FS you use both arms and legs to yaw and forward and backward is also with both arms and legs. They grossly simplify things for your first wind tunnel experienec.

[@swashed.]

wingsuits need horizontal velocity to create the illusion of flight

[@Domanator78]

Instead of solid Wings between the arms and the legs. Try to use fabric Maybe. Cool idea.

[@thomasspeed-andrews9283]

What drone do you have?

[@jasonbirch1182]

Rc smart(ish) bomb.

[@raindogred]

now that you mention it..a flying chicken would make an awsome drone..

[@frog1443]

If I were you I would’ve made the webbing out of nylon and only 3D printed the frame for it so it was lighter and would glide better

[@mattingraham3240]

Where is this park?

[@dbbd9890]

Can you fly fixed wing or heli???????????

[@jairusswint6703]

More wing area.

[@bdouble338]

The wingsuit seems to be way too heavy

[@rho35100]

awesome!!!!

[@supernaturalswampaids8083]

Yay!

[@samhsmith]

I want a wingsuit 2.0

[@yshwgth]

Sam Smith a rocket powered wing suit?

[@samhsmith]

yshwgth sure, why not

[@Panchal_aryan]

Okk i saw your part

[@MichelPASTOR]

Awesome! Now put FPV on it :)

[@JoanRubra]

Finally!!!!

[@TheRustAdmin]

why do people deploy their parachutes SO early?

[@alexmitchell331]

theres a thing called common sense that most skydivers have. At terminal velocity in a belly to earth orientation, I fall at roughly 130mph which is 1000ft every 5 seconds. I deploy at 4k feet so if i have some sort of malfunction i still have some time to execute my emergency procedures. Learn to skydive and it will make sense

[@TheRustAdmin]

No need to be so rude, if you had common sense, you would know that there is an apostrophe in the word "there's". But seeing as you instead wrote "theres" as the first word of your reply, I'm guessing you don't have much of it.

[@jon_raymond]

The chute deploy could be controlled with and altimeter so it automatically deploys at a certain height.

[@WhoAmi-kt1qb]

ha thats what i call it dji dance

[@rubikwarna829]

CG=central grafitasi

[@אורכהן-מ4ת]

can i have the stl?

[@tritansologo6267]

Dude you need to make the wings out of rubber

[@Little_grey_off]

Can you make the suit ?

[@omarshabibfpv3201]

Put fpv on it

[@speedyzoom8689]

You can't just drop it at a dead stop do another video but fly the drone forward a little so he can go more than just down

[@nerd_world8919]

“It’s actually working” *crashes to ground*

[@jeremygillespie5482]

Scale it up! I think maybe going to a wood and cloth setup instead of plastic would go a long ways. Maybe a 1 foot or so wing span? Good job man!

[@RpattoYT]

Plastic may be better for strength over wood, in a cloth and plastic design.

[@jeremygillespie5482]

I don't disagree with that at all. I'm hoping that he can make it a shape and size that doesn't allow for TOO rapidly of a decent, like a kite almost.

[@marty3469]

Jeremy Gillespie as above mods but possibly use shower curtain material for wings, light and strong. ...also waterproof !!

[@MrUnder30seconds]

its not 1918 its 2018

[@charadremur333]

Why not full scale?

[@Enginair]

3d printing is a super heavy method for constructing something like this. In your last video when you said the weight to surface area scaled properly you forgot how air doesnt scale. To get similar results to an actual wingsuit man you would need your model to be significantly lighter than what would be proportional to its height.

[@Enginair]

Thats interesting, Ive never heard of that. I am simply speaking from the many places I have observed this in my experience with rc. Theory is fun but what really matters is how it actually works in practice. (You cant deny that making it lighter would give it a better glide slope, thats all im really saying here)

[@thomassouthern23]

Sorry Dave your'e wrong scaled down aircraft cannot weigh the scale weight of the full size aircraft and be able to fly. For example the Extra 300l aerobatic monoplane has a max gross takeoff weight of 2095lbs if you were to scale it to 1/4 scale and scale its weight by 1/4 the resulting scale model would weigh 524lbs. Quarter scale Extra 300's are common place in the radio control hobby, and they have a max gross takeoff weight of about 16lbs. The difference in weight has to do with amount of air molecules passing over a given airfoil known as Reynolds number. More info can be found here www.nasa.gov/pdf/601262main_ModelingFlight-ebook.pdf check out pages 12 and 13

[@ninjaed13]

It's also relevant in scaling models as aerodynamic performance varies drastically with Reynolds numbers due to differing levels of influence by viscosity, However, a factor I don't think Thomas has considered is linear vs quadratic vs ternary relations. If you half the wingspan you divide the wing area by four and decrease volume by a factor of 8. So, assuming a quarter scale wingspan extra 300l could generate the same lift per wing area as the "real deal" its take off weight would be 130lbs, still a far cry from the real value of 16lbs but closer (still miles off though).

[@jamesadams893]

You would think tom would know all about that stuff as he is taking courses in aeronautics

[@Hyperus]

@@thomassouthern23 1/4th the scale does not equal 1/4th the weight, as the aircraft would 1/4 on all 3 axis. The actual weight would therefore be at below 33 pounds.

[@RCinginSC]

"The easiest landing I never did"....classic.

[@thoriso1000]

Finally part 2 arrives. Great videos. Please scale it up. The last drop really proved that it could work.

[@SUVRVing]

Drop ALL THE THINGS from drones!

[@yshwgth]

A 3d printed maple seed!

[@isaiahschwartz1381]

SUV RVing drop a DRONE from a drone

[@JimN5QL]

Good work! That was hilarious!

[@enriquemedina5804]

DUUDDDEE!!! Major tips: 1. The center of mass and gravity of a human is ruffly between the shoulders and the hip. 2. You should try making a " Distance Wingsuit . This is basically a Wingsuit where the arm wings are conected to the legs. 3. Arms turn the wingsuit left to right while the legs control pitch. IE. The arms don't control decent. 4. The arms, legs, and body all have the same length. HOPE THIS IS HELPFUL. Also the arms are too short and angled too far back.

[@evaahh9584]

Enrique Medina it’s closer to the bottom of your ribs I’d say

[@roynorthcutt830]

It actually kinda worked awesome job

[@joenodden]

Why does it have to be 3d printed? That just makes it heavier and less aerodynamic.

[@zogworth]

joe nodden In previous video He has 3d printer. Doesn't have sewing machine.

[@prodthemusic]

joe nodden Ikr

[@andie_pants]

"That wasn't flying! That was ...falling with style!"

[@jayrothwell]

Nice work, I was impressed on how well it was falling, I thought it was just going to tumble all the way down. Congrats!

[@boazmulder1934]

jayrothwell how dit you see it a day ago?

[@RattyfromInsideFPV]

Patreon.

[@jayrothwell]

Boaz Mulder yes, patreon gets early access

[@marcoallegrini2324]

Bravo!😂😂😂😂

[@FinaISpartan]

Nobody's watched the video yet and they're already commenting on the quality of the video... smh

[@deegeetee]

Tom's Patreon supports get an early view of his videos

[@scarlfpv8613]

Fpv it plz

[@Zorkz]

I've been checking your channel daily for this!

[@BNConnection]

You need to find a wind tunnel . . . Next project?

[@did3d523]

the man is too eavy and dont fly it fall like a shit! put a motor in place of head maybe you can fly it

[@spikekent]

Fantastic! You looked ecstatic, and justifiably so. That qualifies as a resounding success in my book. Looking forward to your next iterations.

[@HDSantosYT]

Scale it up and put a camera on it!

[@MrUnder30seconds]

if one more person says scale it up im gonna comment about it.

[@starlitstreet]

it seems like this video didn't really take off

[@ezequielgentilemontes9721]

What if you use nylon for the wings instead of PLA?

[@Trex450S]

You need to put an FPV on that guy.

[@FPVREVIEWS]

why not scale it up and make it as light as possible, to obey the laws of similitude?