Scale Flying Model of XC-142 VTOL

[@karstensiegmarsson5304]

One of the coolest scratch built models i´ve ever seen. Extremely nice done! And those smooth, controlled transitions hover/flight, incredible!

[@dansotelo228]

WHOLLY CRAP!!! Great technical airplane and its builder, and I love how its all done at the Great Apollo field... That's where I learned how to fly RC as a semi homeless man who literally lived there thought me how to fly. He approached me after crashing about 8 or 10 planes and said, "I can see you really want to fly RC, for a small fee I can teach you". He was an excellent teacher, not only because he was there when ever I had the time to break away from my work as I owned a bicycle component company onZa, with a crazy work schedule. In two months had me flying with the best of them. Of course at the end I gave him a big unexpected bonus, from what I heard got him into a small apartment and got a good job. RC flying also changed my life too. I have poor memory but I think his name was Bob. He had very good patience with me, as he always told me, while flying, "Dan, You Need To Clam Down". Funny thing was, when I did clam down I flew like a pro. A Great lesson in life too. Thank You Bob, where ever you are...

[@wallymcallister5831]

I am impressed and am happy that there are modelers with your brilliance in the hobby!

[@jeffersdom]

Thanks for the control block diagram and control surface / interface explanation at the end . A great plane and a great video .

[@greenseaships]

I have dreamed of building an XC-142 for years, but I never dreamed of having it actually fly with rotating wings and all! FANTASTIC JOB!!

[@ikarustigger]

Fantastic engineering work ! And fantastic documentation in this video. Congratulations !!! What a brilliant idea to make the back rotor fixed and achieve yaw with the ailerons - I love and admire such fantastic engineering ! I am also an RC pilot with planes, helicopters & multicopters including an ST360 with the KK2.0 board. Since about 2 years I play with the idea to also build this or a similar VTOL airplane. Once more - my deepest respect and congratulations for your work with this model !

[@TheTRANCEporter]

This is ONE awesome setup of a VTOL plane! Great Job man!

[@rctestflight]

So cool!

[@gregohare6412]

Very cool. One of those rare moments in RC flight that breaks the mold and goes totally outside the norm. Cudos!

[@chrisstolle5664]

One of the sweetest RC builds I have ever seen!

[@fatmikesvapemotoandtech.3240]

YOU SHUT UP!!!

[@NitroCharged]

Brilliant work on the OpenAero vtol system guys!

[@themainproblem]

That was just a superb demonstration! This is a great model and you are an excellent aviator as well. People like you make YT great. Greetings from Arizona.

[@darkhorse2reign]

Impressive build. Your pilot skills are equally impressive flying that slowly.

[@robertrussellmd]

Amazing feat! This is quite an engineering triumph. Excellent work.

[@eriklapparent4662]

Very clever.Very technical.Lots of paremeters to master. Sincere congratulations from France.

[@BKQuestico]

Bin überwältigt von der Flight-Performance! Thumbs up!

[@ollie4dad]

This would make a fun camera platform. Great video and project.

[@P61guy61]

Awesome model. Canopy is cool. Thank you for posting.

[@bpp325]

This is a remarkable achievement. Excellent job. Thank you.👍👍

[@m0ther_bra1ned12]

People are just doing realy cool stuff with these models! Very cool.

[@CurtisOlson]

Wow, that's a really neat model and a cool project!

[@marksminis]

Hey, that's Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, CA! I used to fly there all the time. Excellent model, btw! Love it!

[@mmmasterscross7915]

Great Job on the plane. Thanks for building it and the flight video.

[@ufochannel01]

you could run variable pitch but you would compromise the weight of this plane. beautiful job, i had the same idea and wrote about it at hobbyking blogs. you beat me to it good for you. plus now i don't have to do anymore guessing , now i know my other designs will work for sure , so thanks for posting! happy flying, tommy

[@mike_oe]

Whopping well done. Nice filming, too. Thanks for sharing!

[@behyllberg]

I love the way that flies. Nice job.

[@captain4stripes]

Great project! Good flying and well done video. I could feel the test pilot coming out in you. Exciting model!

[@ghgghgyuhkljjijijui]

5*!Thank you for your great contribution to VTOL! Watch this you will learn a lot!

[@jpatt1000]

Great model! One thing I noticed in the full scale videos is that it would've made a great STOL plane without all the equipment necessary for vertical flight. I've always found this plane interesting and it's neat someone made a model of one that works!

[@vizzuleyes]

Excellent job. She is a beautiful bird.

[@Dronesteve-72]

Brilliant thats what makes real modeller's stand out !

[@ronplucksstrings7112]

Osprey's grandpaw! Most impressive...high compliments on your development work and execution! Greets from Connecticut!

[@blusharx]

Very awesome plane and good pilot job!

[@ignaciobadillo903]

I really like your aircraft, very nice and looks like alot of fun to fly, enjoyed the video!

[@MrRexquando]

I love it! I always wanted to fly the Convair tilt wing.

[@2happysundays]

Awesome video guys. I hope to release OpenAeroVTOL very soon.

[@karthikmurugan6894]

Awesome prototype., transition is beautiful

[@DJMModelWorks]

Excellent plane and production.

[@hindsight99]

Excellent concept! Thanks for sharing! Matthew

[@zoxwolf2133]

You sir have my respect :) NIce plane.

[@websitesthatneedanem]

Great voice over!.... and model!

[@Kramgam]

Great Video, great plane, great commentary. 10/10

[@brianbrown4965]

superb well done . one of the best ive seen

[@Kalkaekie]

Very impressive ! Enjoyed watching !

[@GioBen68]

great VTOL plane. well done !

[@DesolationAngels]

Brilliantly done Sir!

[@stylz1]

Pretty dang cool. Good job to the creator and pilot.

[@lotharvonrichthofen4474]

Excellent work...incredibly unique...thank you for sharing your video with us...inspiring me to try something off the wall.... Cheers!

[@mickmuzzmkmz1628]

Nice vid mate (except for the spotty lens), with good narration & archive footage of the full-size. Also, congrats on getting it to this stage. No doubt it must have taken lots of experimentation, expertise & tweaking. Hats off to you!👍

[@TimJohnstonadventures]

well done man!!that is impressive.

[@livvidd]

best of its type I've ever seen fly..very awesome, would love to build one myself.

[@afrog2666]

Nice explanation, and a very interesting aircraft (and model), seems to handle very well for what it is :)

[@afrog2666]

She dips quite a bit on reverse transition though hehe

[@afrog2666]

With a 4engine prop plane you could perhaps mitigate some of that negative control by having a set of CW and a set of CCW to reduce torque steer, but the tail rotor is also a factor to be considered as it has rotational force in the back.. Just a thought :)

[@cholubaz]

Nice work! Never heard of that plane before.

[@tragkfshnt]

Chris Holub Not surprised the project was cancelled and forgotten.

[@BrianPhillipsRC]

That is very cool! Nice work!!! ...P.S. great job with the video work too!!!

[@Spawn-td8bf]

An ambitious and unique design that you built and handled quite well for the complexity of the systems. Did the real one have a tail rotor ? Congrats and God Bless.

[@espr7564]

Nice job, thanks for sharing.

[@arfrekr]

great modeler awesome engineering feat. and video was very good ty for your effort

[@clecopliers7011]

I'm almost more impressed with the man than the machine.

[@fatmikesvapemotoandtech.3240]

U like what u see eh?

[@marksantora]

great project!! very cool! great job flying!

[@aeromodelisme45]

Très bien et il vole super bien ! bravo pour cette réalisation...bons vols !

[@gregohare6412]

Think I know what you mean and totally agree!

[@kristiansikora7354]

Well done, this is just brilliant!

[@roudyaero]

NICE RC PLAN MY FRIEND

[@jimmbbo]

Excellent! The final result was worth the engineering and programming effort. Would be great to get a kit/ARF/plans

[@BigDuke6ixx]

Stunningly good model. I want, I want, I want!

[@justlovingthisrcstff3082]

That's very respectable plane. Good work and great execuyion of a idea

[@tommccarron324]

Amazing how your model flies perfectly but they had so many problems with the real plane. I think there's something to learn here

[@mptang1]

Fantastic and thanks for the information.

[@carmelpule6954]

Brilliant in every way. This level of engineering is not on a hobby level, it is very professional I would add. Presumably this includes accelerometers and all the necessary stabilization algorithms, I like the modest of the pilot as he expresses his emotions .........." That was not too scary...... shall we try to .............." Congratulations on being so natural when facing such intricate decisions, Good luck with your building and flying as you seem to enjoy them both .

[@tonysmith2360]

That wing in the vertical makes for a great air brake.

[@backyardbasher]

that sure does fly nice, well done :)

[@mattadams6996]

Great flight!

[@X-Gen-001]

Very impressive!

[@Love2012rc]

Very nice vtol

[@everydayobjectsinnotsoever8814]

These are great planes for the new quad copter world we are entering. make a great fpv platform

[@marcelolelo5083]

AMAZING ......................... Very very nice scale plane......................

[@Aced985]

That's very impressive!

[@dustinandtarynwolfe5540]

Nice work fella.

[@572hemi2]

Very cool!! Makes you wonder if the originals had some modern computer aids like your system, would they possibly gone into production? Very nice model, I want to keep up on your progress with this aircraft. Good Job!!

[@СергейА-п8з]

Ооооооо, very good work. Congratulations!

[@Les_Grossman]

Very good work- nice!

[@flyingcatsofthesalishsea.]

Nice job bro.... real nice!!

[@Allister12212012]

I wish I could build something like this .. great work.. :o)

[@BundymaniaReviews]

Awesome model !

[@heinzmenke433]

Gute Arbeit, mehr davon.

[@RaulRodriguez-uw6cq]

Very nice model

[@williamliebbe6102]

Works just as well as the real plane!

[@mikepalumbo4362]

very nice work!

[@BillPiedra]

Very impressive!

[@Keysforjourney]

You look like King Pin from Daredevil. :D Nice machines, dude!

[@brpeters8760]

So cool. Great job.

[@carmichaelmoritz8662]

that thing is pretty cool , looks like it should not be able to fly and yet it does pretty good . looks pretty good to me .

[@Yman83464z]

Awesome flying, and AWESOME camera work! Wow! Cant try'flying one of these in my neighborhood: so many shotguns will come out! [I live in Nigeria]

[@metalfox1911a1]

That is cool! maybe now that we have advanced flight controllers the real one can be opened. I have wanted a v22 osprey for quite some time.

[@thecorbies]

Excellent video. Not only did you give some history of the original aircraft, but a pretty detailed description of how the model relates to the original, and all in a very calm and steady manner. I at least, appreciated it very much. You mentioned the KK2 flight controller, but may I ask what setting/program do you have that set for? I mean, I know that that controller can deal with quads, hexa's, octo's etc., but a multcopter transitioning to fixed wing? Hmmm interesting. I recently saw a kickstarter project that had 2 'main' wings each with 2 motors as in a quad set-up, but it then tilted both wings so that progressively the thrust was vectored rearwards. I seem to remember that the 'inventor' said that they had developed unique software for the project, but your demonstration seems very close to theirs. Sorry for such a long comment, but really well done again. Regards Mark in the UK

[@ReddwarfIV]

thecorbies Flite Test had a similar plane called the Chimera that transitioned from tricopter to twin-engine fixed-wing.

[@FeralRabbit]

Awesome model.

[@MonacoBlast]

Nice! You should be proud!

[@Auggies1956]

Just beautiful !

[@scosha371]

superb well done

[@DBKTube]

If they had the sophisticated fly by wire technology in the 60s that they use today, the XC-142 might have been a success.

[@virtuosomuso]

Brilliant well done