GPS Autopilot Shuttle Glider Dropped from Drone - RCTESTFLIGHT

[@PeterSripol]

Sweeeeet! Was thinking about doing the same project to get around the issue with having to control the glider on descent! Keep it up and looking forward to the 3D printed one.

[@toba1163]

Hi Peter!

[@kreevee8351]

look its a wild peter

[@weirdscience8341]

Hi Peter I can officially say you and David are the reason I got into RC flight 👍🚁🚁

[@thecaptainnoodles]

weird science Same

[@dangryder6050]

Peter are you gonna buy idubbz gfs xxx cam vidsss?

[@birdseyeview1543]

Two aircraft. An expensive Alta and a crappy piece of foamboard. Lets look at the foamboard. THIS is why Daniel is awesome.

[@thecaptainnoodles]

BirdsEyeView Well he is only using an alts because it needs to be dropped from high

[@kolbeinnhelgi6341]

Ok

[@davidpuissegur1263]

Great video, good to see that you are doing such interesting projects again.

[@nikderking1125]

unless you're a goose...

[@mrcat5508]

Goose*

[@glydrfreak]

Man! I totally invented this concept when I was little. An autonomous, GPS guided glider software for a model skydiver dropped from a plane. But obviously didn’t have enough resources or knowledge to pursue it.

[@KenKneknaneek]

Very nice. I put a couple of Autopilots in my zohd models and am waiting for the snow to go and the weather to get better so I will be able to test the return to home feature in case I fly out of range. Am using the BGL 6G xxx and see how it works. Happy Flying

[@stephensowell9578]

Thanks for the education. Having a bag with several Autopilot/stabilizers with precarious results. Your video inspires me to get them out and find their instructions. Truly cool project, with very respectable results.

[@stevetaylor1120]

What a great idea you mentioned. Organizations that send up sensors by balloon would be able to recover expensive equipment easily and safely. I wish I could tag along and assist. You are brilliant....Good Job!

[@AsTheRavensGather]

I love to see shuttle like planes drop from a other plane/drone. Idk its kind of satisfying🤔🤣

[@rippleyaliens]

One of the best things, i have ever scene. A mere 10 years ago, this was 100% fantasy. Sweettt Vidddd

[@locouk]

High altitude stuff.. Like on a helium balloon, raised to 60km near the edge of space high altitude?

[@ciber_flyer]

edge of space is 100km :) but 60 is better than Felix Baumgartner.

[@locouk]

Pierre ANDRE Correct, the edge of space is known as the Kármán line and is around of 100 km.

[@Mionwang]

@@ciber_flyer turns out earth's atmosphere extends up to the moon according to some recent discoveries.

[@coriscotupi]

@@Mionwang But the edge of space still remains at the Kármán line, at some 100km.

[@brianevans4]

@@ciber_flyer You mean Julian Baumgartner

[@dakofpvrc4804]

Hi Daniel I just want to thank you for doing this awesome videos. They are such an inspiration for me. Thanks to them I am back at getting creative again. As you are doing, I'm Building a Spacex RC landing booster. You even inspired me to begin documenting my projects on KZbin. Thanks Damian

[@ohokcool]

That works perfectly! You just need to get better at working with the limitations and nuances of the mission waypoints. So inspirational, thanks for all the content you post.

[@Silver0Crow]

it's like boomerang but way more expensive...

[@SubWaySpiderman]

I think it needs an altimeter so when you're making waypoints that it needs to be at the specified height at said waypoint

[@T28-f6b]

indeed your right, to make a profile suited to the glide ratio of the aircraft.

[@kennethkustren9381]

Cottonwood trees... Farmers best defence against winds. Also one of the greatest allergy pollens.

[@rhymereason3449]

LOL... a pile of tubing waiting there for you to use... you live a charmed life my friend...

[@dodo3441]

I sowed a little parachute canopy last year. Getting one of those to drop, open and then steer autonomously would be awesome too!

[@raytron1138]

All your projects are so cool!! Really enjoy all the details. You have opened up so many things that are possible. Thanks

[@mrbrianbray]

Fantastic. Inspirational. Imagine where this will be in five years.

[@Ahblair4]

I saw this when it was first uploaded, but I'm now noticing how seamless those transitions are and WOW.

[@gwheyduke]

Struggling through blackberry and wild rose prickers is the main reason I retreated from free flight. That new GPS is pretty cool.

[@MrNaomeentales]

You have to adjust the PVT to 200 bdc's and raise the FML to high, so that the plane can switch from ALS to BLS. Do NOT set the GPS's FGI to 0, or it will crash. One other thing, I have no idea what I'm talking about.. Cool video man!

[@letsgocamping88]

Looking at the route the plane took you can see it nails the centre of each waypoint before making the turn to the next one. So maybe if you want to get the landing right you need to chain a few waypoints together to control the planes heading.

[@BotanyDegreePilkerton]

i worked in STEM for 25yrs [Science Technology Engineering Maths] this is fascinating - i worked in aerospace, precision engineering

[@LuciusKyrus]

Your vids from 10 years ago were great. They made my son and I laugh so hard when the planes would go wrong. Many great memories of those days of building, flying and watching your vids. Still like the vid with Schlomo song.

[@alenlutz]

Awesome test! I love that you mentioned the pinpointrc black box tracker at the end. I got one about a month ago. It's a great little product. Managed to find my lost plane multiple times.

[@ando6116]

Add a little bit of wing flex to increase stability, because your shuttle appears to have a negative flex, awesome work !!!!

[@SuperFrodo95]

Dihedral.

[@ando6116]

@@SuperFrodo95 thanks

[@richardgault1002]

You need to contact the "Earth to Sky Calculus" group. They send balloons to over 100K feet, but it takes days to find their payloads. Just think if it would return home. Good work!

[@kc8omg]

For a manual RTH I believe there's a parameter to set minimum altitude, so the times it worked you were likely above that altitude, and when it rejected it, you had fallen below. A failsafe RTH might ignore that parameter because it's an "emergency". On a normal plane with a motor it'd be able to climb to the required altitude.

[@Freebird_67]

kc8omg so he should probably set RTH alt to as low as he can set the parameter then correct?

[@kc8omg]

@@Freebird_67 yeah, I would think you should be able to see it to zero, since it's a "minimum height", and then it would always try to head home

[@T28-f6b]

@@kc8omg maybe work out its (the shuttle) glide ratio, and set a initial waypoint (IP) position and final waypoint (touch down) set an appropriate altitude at the IP and 0 feet at the touch down waypoint, in fact if you set an ideal Altitude at the IP you won't even need to set an Altitude at the touch down waypoint. it will just vary a little bit with wind.

[@leahparsuidualc666]

Now bind a brick to it, so its maneuverability becomes what it looks like: a SpaceShuttle ... Wait! - would you be so kind to strap it on some solid rocket boosters ... ??? ... pretty-please?!

[@randomodbuild]

Could you try to do an iNav build? It would be very interesting to see an iNav glider or quadcopter.

[@TheyTookStrawb]

Just realized how easy it is to make an rc plane, probably gonna be making one and now I'm looking at your videos way differently.

[@hmax1591]

dude! that's real cool. Can you imagine dropping the glider in your state and actually gliding over to another state? Man, that would be cool A.F.

[@captainrick9379]

NASA is looking for guys like you! Thanks for sharing!

[@nozmoking1]

Damn. The possibilities are freaking infinite. Very, very cool concept.

[@honkhonk8009]

Fun fact: During a campaign or whatever, a US drone lost connection with its controller and by default was set to land back home. The drone however did land home, all the way in california. And it the drone taxied away apparently even into the proper hangar.

[@benjaminholbert9267]

The shuttle drop project was the first video of your I saw and have been watching sense.

[@PowerScissor]

Story if my life: Man look at all these really cool features! Won't answer the really simple question I need answered....but has a ton of cool features.

[@felixbaum2180]

Beeing able to remember the Space Glider video like it was yesterday, i feel old now...

[@longitudelatitude2859]

Imo the best lost plane tracker is tBeacon, because it uses 433mhz band to transmit coordinates via voice. So you can use cheap UV-5R to call for them and receive them, and if u'll use Yagi high dBi antenna u'll be able to find it even without coordinates. You just search for direction with best signal, and go there. I used to fly drones and planes in places with almost no cellular coverage (for example mountains), and this tBeacon thing helped me out really good though. It has its own battery with pretty low power consumtion because it just waits for you to call it and it doesnt transmit anything if its not needed.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

thats a very important piece of research if it works

[@nrdesign1991]

That was awesome, can't wait to see the weather balloon drop.

[@parkflyerindonesia]

Awesome experiment, dude 😎👍 You've been inspiring me to design my own parkjets and fpv planes.

[@mr.sandman4782]

Will you do your long range FPV videos again. I loved those man

[@LabRatJason]

Be careful with dropping from a balloon, as I saw a guy a few years ago try that and ended up getting his balloon rig tangled his antenna. Instead, try putting a small balloon opposite the large one. The small balloon is inserted into a cavity in the rear of the aircraft and holds it using pressure borrowed from the main balloon. When the big one pops, all pressure is lost in the system and the small balloon releases the aircraft... no strings attached! Good luck, I'd love to see it happen.

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

These gliders put windows in danger! Nice work :)

[@PaulGarbettNZ]

Please please please do a high altitude drop in the near future. That would be so cool. A lot of people have attempted to pilot them back but it would be great to see and autonomous glide.

[@JMMC1005]

Agreed. I've seen a few attempts but none I'd really call fully successful.

[@sparrow082]

You should try an airfoil versus no airfoil with the same weight on both machines.

[@taltruda]

Can you incorporate a radio altimeter and get this thing to flare itself at 5 feet?

[@mccc4559]

My year is complete when I see your new video. No more KZbin for me until 2020.

[@mrcat5508]

That ages well

[@scottthompson2481]

Always nice to see an rctestflight video uploaded , great project Daniel , All the best ...............

[@Snagglepuss1952]

Why does the px4 need a motor, as long as you have altitude you can trade it for speed, of coarse you can’t climb without a motor, but your just trying to get home. This project has really fired me up to try this. Great job.

[@dalecarpenter8828]

Cool idea for a drop from high altitude !

[@Rcschim]

Very nice mission. It's got the spirit of your old videos - but modern day tech instead of just popsicle sticks :) The px4 looks pretty nerdy - just what I need. You also got a Sripol going on here in the comments - next video Casey and Pew will come and say hi :)

[@ronaldspencer547]

Scientifically done!

[@emberpolyvideo3287]

literally every rc thing I have ever built, "huh, I wonder why its working, what changed?"

[@darrenbradz]

Love your work good luck with the high alt version.

[@stevefink6000]

Awesome man! GREAT IDEA. Great video on this, with the Thorn bushes and all

[@mobius-1965]

That is super cool it looks just like the shuttle used to I hopy you keep it up and dial it in I think you might be on to somthing really cool and needed for rc aircraft.

[@EnglishTurbines]

Those Blackberry bushes looked like barbed wire....Im feeling nostalgic for those pink foam days Daniel...:)

[@rebelyell22]

Those vids at your parents house back in the day were the best 😂

[@GreativeDIY]

really enjoy when planes landing

[@Freebird_67]

Maybe the vehicle is to close to home point when you engage it and is why it rejected RTH.? Try getting further out and away from launch point. You can change distance to home point engagement distance but can’t remember how. It’s been a while since I’ve messed with Ardupilot and PX4. I had the original 3DR mini pixhawk running px4 and had lots of issues and ended up dropping that project and moving on to something else. I’m not familiar with the pixracer but no they had some problems with that board a while back as well but sure that’s been addressed by now.

[@mickistevens4886]

Cool! But if you land in those giant poplar trees and you're going to need that big drone to rescue it! I made my own giant extendable pole (40 ft) for trees that I have had to use on occasion but nothing will reach those.

[@cecilcasey6440]

Please post a follow-up video of the GoPro footage of the plane bouncing off the trees in the final crash landing. Epic bouncing from branch to branch.

[@alexvalchuk3452]

I suppose you can slow down your dropship and make it glide smoother (and as a result more spectacular) by applying the tail-breaking system which is in a real space shuttle is implemented by a two-piece split air brake.

[@williamdimpfl7529]

Daniel, Back when you did a shuttle drop video I suggested that this technology would be useful for returning weather balloon or other balloon borne instrument packages to a home base instead of relying on them being dropped by parachute, found accidentally, and mailed back. I don't know if your comment about doing this from a balloon release is related to my earlier comment, but I still believe this would be a valuable application. My experience is that good ideas have usually already been patented, but if this hasn't it would by worth your pursuing. Bill Dimpfl

[@jrotor3301]

Cool project Daniel. Keep ‘em coming😊🛩

[@sUASNews]

Gliders are supported by Ardupilot #LookforArdusoar

[@cetyl2626]

Always wanted to play with the px4. Nice!

[@PiefacePete46]

Apart from the rest of a great video, the thing actually flies great!

[@alexandrpetrov1110]

Definitely great video. Really nice design.

[@jameslovell8682]

So funny, this guy's voice goes HIGH at the end of every SENTENCE!!!

[@3000gtwelder]

The slough haha! I haven't heard that thing mentioned in years, I'm from Woodinville lol.

[@doozowings4672]

Glides like a brick ..... best line of the day...

[@ashave9100]

Wow Thank you -much better than having boys playing with toy planes !!

[@Tomwesstein]

Nice project. When dropping from a height, pay attention to the build-in military limitation on GPS sensors that makes sure they don’t work above 18.000 meters/59.000 ft.

[@iforce2d]

Most u-blox (even $11 clones) go to 50km these days

[@weirdscience8341]

Dude that drones a pure machine I want one

[@KyleKillorin]

Your still a kid. Good jobbers!

[@josidasilva5515]

Next step: use a on land black box to update the home coordinates to the glider, creating a mobile destination.

[@BrianPhillipsRC]

very cool!

[@tgirard123]

That was freaking cool. Looking forward to Part two

[@captarmour]

Try a close coupled canard and about 20 degrees sweep back on the main wing trailing edge and it may pitch up in ground effect for a softer landing

[@LinOGGaming]

very good video! got me inspired to code my own autopilot software probably wont have time for it in a long time though

[@thompascoe8463]

If you do your final version clear the grease from your servos and put a hand warmer pouch on the electronics and battery it gets cold up there.

[@joshuagaughan2567]

Check out the SAE aero design challenge, the advanced class planes have to drop these into target circles. They use pixhawks too.

[@mountaindewdude76]

That's pretty cool man! I'll be watching for more updates.

[@B4503D]

This is werry mutch like a project I started on way back in 2011, dropping rc airgliders from my rc Jr. 70 nitro helicopter "fairly big" as high we could se and relese. Then manualy glide home, but the final goal was a air glider droped from a other bigger autonomus long distance "drone" delivering guided Air supply for max surwival and retrival .... My work stoped when I had to dropp the project in favor of me new growing all consuming project, My Fammely... Anyways good work I will deffently follow your jurney while my 6 children grow up and maby free my time again...

[@jaqummh]

Just great episode! Keep em coming!

[@brucebaxter6923]

Ardupilot not only supports gliders but it also searches for thermals.

[@weirdscience8341]

Really that's nuts

[@larrys8645]

Here's a link that may be helpful: ardupilot.org/plane/docs/soaring.html

[@larrys8645]

You can most likely adjust the ardusoar parameters to suit your mission.

[@GhostRyderFPV]

"...so many autonomous vehicles!" Welcome to the Matrix. Now charge my LiPo puny hooman!

[@leGringoo]

Great project, looking forward!

[@merder9653]

hell ya that sounds awesome

[@xsto01]

check for jet streams over your area when it goes high.

[@emiliomcb4121]

Very interesting projects. Instantly subscribed

[@justiceforsethrichwwg1wga160]

I like your ambitions my friend!

[@bender9205]

Still waiting for continuation. Of the series. I'm definitly gonna try this for package delivery

[@100SteveB]

Word of warning about those gps trackers - be careful using them in remote areas where there is weak cell phone coverage - if your craft goes down the gps on the craft will still know where it is, but without the cellphone network it can't let you know that information.

[@Frank-il2my]

I like this guys RC's big up bro,from 254