Worlds Fastest R/C Aircraft Carrier

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[@rctestflight]

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[@brucebaxter6923]

Snow mobile. At some point you have to ditch the prop and go for a Pilton wheel then ditch that and go for snow mobile tracks, a pair to form the v of the hull

[@williams.7314]

You look like Logic, the rapper.

[@mapsofbeing5937]

that one propeller plane there, is it lost?

[@roryhennessey8836]

The first hour of war thunder is so much fun. After that just uninstall

[@godlugner5327]

14:26 is why I subscribed

[@w4SwD]

Well, with the video being sponsored by Warthunder, there is a non-zero chance, someone will leak classified documents proving the real top speed of the USS Nimitz is above 37.18 mph.

[@frozenstar7048]

it's like 70 mph or something, people clocked it

[@Sonny_McMacsson]

@@frozenstar7048 Questionable, considering hull speed and propulsion. The official fastest ship is waterjet propelled, is a wave-piercing cat and goes about 67.

[@CircsC]

We already have dudes in the comments section here saying they served aboard and they're actively hinting at the real number. It actually reminds me of how in WWII the Brits found that it was better to hire women for top secret work because they didn't blab idly like the men did.

[@wekkimeif7720]

So they did not beat the speed record

[@BirchPig]

That awkward moment when the most recent classified data leak at my work was some moron sending a reply all with some subsafe propaganda that included the speed of a sub. (relax it was a classified document being sent to people with clearence. It was their computers that received the data didn't have clearence to store or transmit classified files. )

[@raistrose7773]

If we are honest, 35mph is pretty good for a fucking city.

[@the_darkgameryt]

Prob faster than that, it’s just what they tell the public

[@air-headedaviator1805]

Considering most small metroplexes have a top speed of 0

[@otm646]

It's substantially faster than 35, it's likely around 43 regularly. I've heard north of that on exception.

[@ElectricityTaster]

@@otm646 That's only when going downwind and your mom didn't board the ship.

[@bundles1978]

I have been told that if you were to floor a Nimitz from zero, it would almost pop a wheelie. Im sure the guy was slightly exaggerating, but he did make it very clear they were a lot faster than we are told publicly.

[@UltraBadass]

6:22 The Ducks at the Park are free you can take them

[@clonkex]

Lol

[@Veikra]

Must be a rich town to give free ducks

[@Veikra]

That is not how you pick up a duck though. I watched a tutorial

[@s4dg]

@@Veikra that video was for domesticated ducks, for wild ducks there isn't a much better way than they picked it up in the video without it getting away. picking up ducks is still a bad idea, they will bite you.

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

It's a federal crime to take waterfowl out of season without a federal duck stamp. A Serious penalty. Stop with the tempting of people!

[@mstreich]

Now I expect a 1/2 scale ground effect aircraft carrier. 18:20

[@iKidTutor]

that's more or less 50% of an actual helicarrier 😍

[@null_focus5512]

Just mount the deck from this on one of his ground effect designs lol

[@theothertonydutch]

Yessss

[@happychayka]

​@@iKidTutor americans, when math

[@iKidTutor]

@@happychayka Not quite but still funny.

[@anthonytodd5750]

I was stationed on the USS South Carolina CGN 37 in 1975 during post commissioning yard work sea trials. We were one of the escorts for the Nimitz. I can tell you during the sea trials we were going well over our official max speed of 36 knots, and the Nimitz passed us and walked away at a substantially higher speed.

[@birdseyeview1543]

I have also witnessed this phenomenon from the deck of the USS Butte AE27, you just can't imagine that much mass accelerating so quickly and moving away that fast. One of those rare moments where your brain cannot compute what the heck your eyes are seeing....

[@napierpaxman]

Sports tuned lol! :D @@birdseyeview1543

[@SkeeterPondRC]

As an RC model boat builder, this hurt my soul and was hilariously entertaining at the same time.

[@p.r.5628]

Agree. Never i have seen someone trowing so much power and effort to an boat and end up with that less performance.

[@robertadams2857]

I like how he said to turn away If a modeler…😂😂😂

[@michiganengineer8621]

The number for Aircraft Carrier speeds is the OFFICIAL maximum speed. I served on CV-60 (USS Saratoga) in the early 1980's, during one of our sea trials we topped 40 knots (46mph/74kph) for over an hour.

[@EleanorPeterson]

Naah. The speedo was adjusted for propaganda purposes. You fell right into the trap, my friend. 🤭 It's kinda like fitting weird-sized wheels to cars to give (apparently) phenomenal top speeds. (I'm kidding. Everybody knows that cars make lousy aircraft carriers.)

[@coryhueske5245]

Wind, and sea conditions. In perfectly optimal conditions I believe it, but the official number probably couldn’t be tested and certified in those conditions as they are rare, or it was put into a computer program that gave the speed number, and it uses an average of sea conditions for its calculations.

[@alttabby3633]

loose lips sink ships

[@michiganengineer8621]

@@EleanorPeterson Actually the radar system I worked on needed extremely accurate speed, yaw, roll and pitch data since it could do a hands-off landing. The only data we used from ship systems was speed, everything else was internally measured to less than 0.1 degree of accuracy.

[@timlong1462]

@@alttabby3633ha! I need to look up if this is literally the reason for the saying. It's rare I see a saying so directly applied in modern day

[@ronnybe7994]

But you didn't land a plane on it! Dereliction of duty

[@luke889h]

I was hoping his chase drone friends would do a touch and go but his radio tower interfered

[@sdoc3]

WHILE the carrier are doing 35 mph!

[@robertadams2857]

Great idea

[@Studio23Media]

He did that in a recent video

[@JurassicJolts]

The limiters for speed on a nuclear air crafter carrier are cavitation of the propellers and the strength of the tip of the boat which is flattened for stability. The force needed to go faster through fluid and with a larger vessel increase exponentially, not linearly.

[@wraithgard]

35mph is the unclassified speed ;)

[@Bolphgolph]

Yeah, the actual vessel can do mach 1.1 (like the model)

[@turkaviation]

thats why the vid was sponsored by war thunder to get the classified speed

[@marcovw6415]

​@@turkaviationhahaha

[@enja001]

Oh they definitely do a fair bit faster

[@christianterrill3503]

We could figure out how fast they actually go tho right? Like when a war breaks out the aircraft carrier will be sent to that area of the world seems like you could work the math out early.

[@cloudpandarism2627]

SCALE BUILDER all over the world: "i want it to be slow and graceful" RCTESTFLIGHT: "hold my mach 9 carrier!" not gonna lie i chuckled much more than i should

[@borgonianevolution]

I was actually ON the Nimitz for almost three years. I am gonna say the speed rating listed was max TURNING speeds. Sea trials was a blast layin that ole girl over. I can attest that yes the Nimitz could go anywhere it wanted as long as there was enough water to float her. We were in port when Hurricane Diana came up the east coast. WORST place to be in a ship so we put out to sea. While out there someone got the bright idea to collect weather data so we aimed her into the hurricane... launched air craft out side go into the eye, launch more air craft... go back out recover the ones outside then go back into the eye for the rest. Waves were braking over the bow and that big ole beast barely moved.

[@kofeyh]

Imagine crusing along and then USS Nimitz saunters past at mach 9.6.

[@BrownRoze]

Burnt ESC is such a distinctive smell. I smoked a 160amp Yokomo ESC in a parking garage drifting. Months later & you can still smell it.

[@TheRealRCSparks]

I love this channel so much

[@hwinterr]

love the Queen build brother, desert trucks are so cool

[@coolrex69]

I love your KZbin gold series

[@Buconoir]

That's 35 knots, not mph, so a carrier is a little faster than you think....actually they are a lot faster than people think. I've seen one go speeding off so fast that it left us on the escorting destroyers in the dust, even as we kicked it up to our own classified top speed. Good build you did, here.

[@jttech44]

Yeah, the "official speeds" are always an understatement in the military world. I've been driving on a highway next to a military base where they do tank training, and had an abram's pass me while I was driving well over it's official top speed. I've heard the carriers are the fastest ship in their battle groups, on purpose, because they wanted them able to GTFO if necessary. Makes sense really, they're, well, awfully expensive lol

[@zJoriz]

Yeah I'm pretty sure he confused knots for miles there.

[@zavtparticles6828]

@@jttech44 yea, official speeds are usually one prop maximum speeds, not all four.

[@stevenmarlowe9767]

@@jttech44it’s just physics… maximum hull speed in knots is equal to 1.34x square root of the length of the hull at the waterline in feet. So for a standard displacement hull (non-planing) a longer ship will always be faster as long as sufficient power is available.

[@spencer___5623]

According to @stevenmarlowe9767 calculations a modern aircraft carrier can go 43.2 knots(provided it has enough power) a modern destroyer can go 30.2 knots(same stipulation as above) all of this is based off of his given formula and googled data on the ships. All of this is also taken with a grain of salt as the military could have top secret ways of making ships faster.

[@crestdazoltral7705]

Mph != knots. Unofficial reports from other navies have Nimitz class ships going ~42kn (48,3mph, 77,8kmh). At that speed your model carrier would probably become airborne itself.

[@planespottermerijn]

Another note on this, that's *fast* for a modern warship. I know frigates and destroyers that only go 35 knots. They're some of the fastest warships around and they're huge

[@robinnautica9773]

That can't be right the fastest carrier goes about 30kn it's the Gerald-R. -Ford-Klass with nuclear power

[@planespottermerijn]

​@@robinnautica9773Lol no carriers definitely run faster than 30kts

[@Ninjastahr]

​@@robinnautica9773that's the unclassified "normal" top speed

[@robinnautica9773]

@@planespottermerijn okay experts than please explain how such a big displacement hull could get up to 50 mph.

[@Raceb8420]

A number of years ago my cousin was an officer onboard the Nimitz. Every time our families got together, I would ask him how fast his boat could go. And every time he reminded me that he wasn't at liberty to speak on the matter, as her max speed is classified. However, he did tell me that the Nimitz was capable of running circles around the cruisers in their battle group, while they maintained a straight course.

[@crackedemerald4930]

borderline aircraft, carrier.

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

0:04 Twenty years in the Navy stationed aboard almost every Nimitz class and the Enterprise: yeah, but no. That is just what the public is told.

[@CircsC]

DO NOT POST THE NIMITZ CLASS OWNER'S MANUAL PDF HERE - POST IT TO THE WARTHUNDER FORUMS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES (hey FBI, this is called a joke. No one sane wants idiots leaking our stuff.)

[@LuckyLeprechaun100]

people who comment without watching the whole video cant even get 4 seconds in these days lmao

[@citratune7830]

@@LuckyLeprechaun100 wtf r u saying lol why would he wait til finishing to comment about something relevant at 4 seconds in

[@LuckyLeprechaun100]

did you finish it before commenting@@citratune7830

[@bannablitz247]

I would just like to say that it seems Daniel is a kid with adult money but his business runs on this philosophy and I love it.

[@75keg75]

0:53 “hey baby can we just watch big ships crashing through waves…. “

[@jaysengstacken2118]

I heard a navy guy telling a story about an actual speed test they did with the 4 power plant a/c carrier we have; built as a testbed. It typically uses only 1, and 2 if it's in a bit of a hurry. They used 4 during a proving test and it hydroplaned.

[@jamesy8581]

You should had extendable hydrofoils to it, so it functions normal at low speeds and on plane at high speeds.

[@Exkirk12]

I love how it started out sane with the mods then got completly out of hand

[@robertadams2857]

Exactly why I watch 😂

[@VizzVideos]

I love these videos! I also enjoy hull modeling and making crazy-wave RC boat videos, and learned that scale speed actually scales by the square root of length scale, rather than length scale itself. So for 1/200 scale, multiply the speed by about 14. Still really fast: 37 model mph scales to over 500 full scale mph - jumbo jet speed! Time also scales this way - if you want a "real" looking video, slow it to 1/14 speed. This is based on Froude number - it can be used to scale other hull parameters too.

[@robinbennett5994]

I'd love to see some slo-mo of the final version, when it was almost jumping out of the water and crashing down. That would be epic!

[@badmongo2996]

Daniel, I served on the Nimitz. The claimed ~35 knots is not the max speed, that is the average speed of that carrier. The Navy will not officially release the actual speed as national security. Just saying, we left San Diego around noon ,were told to heavy tie-down alll birds on deck, and we crossed made Japan port in under 24hrs. I had a bird on deck with an avionics issue that required us to run the GPS and nav. The carrier was creating a wake over 60ft tall, and our GPS was reporting almost double the top speed you claimed. We crossed the Pacific Ocean in a day....

[@badmongo2996]

The carrier is always the fastest ship, the true speed is classified on purpose.

[@wiredforstereo]

I have heard one or more sailors report 60 knots, (70 mph). That's 1680 miles per day. Hawaii in one day seems nearly doable, but Japan in one day seems outlandish.

[@chakflying1]

I think this is only possible if they are also massively under-reporting the shaft power of their propulsion. Referencing data like top speeds reported by cruise liners (e.g. 30kts at 80MW for the Queen Mary 2), and using a conservative Cube law P = v^3, it would take a massive 650MW shaft power to reach a speed of 60kts. It's still within the possibility of the nuclear powerplants (2 reactors, 550MW each according to wiki), but to dissipate that much heat on a ship is insane (taking a few tons of sea water per second?).

[@teaboy8362]

@@chakflying1Considering that this is the US navy we’re talking about I’m sure they’ve found a way to do it

[@cdmonmcginn7561]

​@@chakflying1well the (public) generation capacity is like 1.5GW

[@JohnJaggerJack]

Needless to say you might already know this. That hull, really wants to be submerged and not half-exposed like speed boats. Which goes to show how in engineering, everything is a compromise. Large hulls are optimized to allow water to flow around them with out many losses. They are efficient at low speeds and awful at high speeds. Speed hulls are optimized to have the least contact with water, they want to be above water. They are efficient at high speeds but awful at low speeds.

[@therealjamescobb]

I read the first part of this as it needs to be turned into a submarine

[@ahmedmohanned9994]

Some advice , the nose design on these aircraft carriers is meant to dive under waves and cruise smooth and stable in giant waves , not a surfer , a smoother , longer pointed nose with a horizontal flat belly will surprisingly make it lift higher and more mass on both ends ( torsional inertia ) will stop the pitch bouncing up and down .

[@tracybowling1156]

Thank you, Daniel, for showing all of the building of the boat parts in the video. I really enjoyed it! I definitely noticed, and I appreciate it! 😊

[@drunkskunk00]

Hydrofoil Aircraft carrier when? :D Awesome video!

[@gascan]

Turns out water doesn't scale linearly. Take a look at something called Dynamic Similitude Speed. You need to use the square root of the scale to determine the scale speed. You also use the square root of the scale to to slow down time when looking at the film of it. You actually reached a scale equivalent of 525.8 mph. Also, there is a scale combat club in the Seattle area that builds functional RC battleships, which sounds right up your alley. It's an engineering challenge to build functional cannons and the damage control to make it survive the fury of battle. Much more fun than basic, boring scale modeling.

[@Skroggn]

Dude you are killing it with these videos. We need more creators like you. Would have been cool to do trim tabs controlled by the pixhawk.

[@justinmiller3349]

I'm pretty sure this whole thing ends with a ground effect flying aircraft carrier

[@Linuxpunk81]

I am a retired US submarine sonar tech and we would hunt these for sport 😂honestly really cool model. Lots of speculation about speeds in the comments, remember that it's always measured in knots not mph and I know all the real answers but I can't tell you 😅

[@stephenlewis9159]

I'm so here for this. Were you hinting from the out of water shots that an aircraft carrier ground-effect plane is next? Hahahahaha!

[@samhklm]

You need to have Ward Carroll as guest commentator. "Deep Intel on rapid deployment modules for the Ford class carriers"

[@KO-pk7df]

This carrier is fantastic! Whole lotta fun watching it go! I was on the Forrestal CV-59 in the North Sea. We were at flight ops with 74Kts of wind over the bow and once in a while a wave would break onto the flight deck from port and Starboard aft. Our aircraft were getting salt water on them and we had to work long hours with water displacement compound etc for corrosion control.

[@JessWLStuart]

It's such a joy to see your inner kid come out while you're playing with your carrier! Yep! Your carrier is faster than the published speed of a nuclear carrier. I've been told (unofficially over beers) the actual speed is up around 45 to 50 knots.

[@mathewmichuta5286]

Love your channel, have you looked into the wildwing vertical sails? I'd watch the heck out of you experimenting with them!

[@zeilstar]

The duck cracked me up. Thanks :)

[@rey5597]

⁠I went on a tiger cruise when my buddy was in the navy on the USS Carl Vinson. We did a drag race with the rest of the fleet. It accelerated the slowest but had a higher top speed than the rest of the fleet. It eventually overtook the other ships. Definitely very very powerful. It was a hell of an experience that trip

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

You can add a tow line to the drone with magnets for the future meltdowns!

[@justflight898]

love the cookies in the tuppaware container at 13:46

[@Endelin]

You know a project is getting fun when you're thinking about the optimal CG of an aircraft carrier.

[@dcolb121]

These videos are always a pleasure to watch.

[@SunriseKnight]

Such good content when you showed the propeller build

[@secondengineer9814]

lmao, it's pretty funny to imagine an aircraft carrier actually going that fast

[@cj_clippy]

Daniel you are amazing! The things you make are so fascinating. I love your videos and your humor!

[@SamCyanide]

20:30 it looks like some kind of mecha from an anime haha super sick

[@7seriesmax]

About 10 years ago, I took a cheap RC boat from Walmart and added the controls and motor from my wrecked Losi RC car. It had so much power. It would spin the boat clockwise when it accelerated. I wound up adding on a hull plane to the right hand rear corner to counteract the torque. Then I put three battery packs in the nose of the boat to keep it from jumping out of the water. Eventually, I wound up having to shave my prop down to 5/8 of the size it came. Eventually, when I got it all straightened out the thing would do an Olympic size swimming pool in 2 1/2 seconds. It blew out four different driveshafts to the point where it sits on its stand on the shelf because it was so much fun. There’s a few eventually in there because it took about two weeks of an hour a day messing with it to get the thing to work. You want more power? It’s gonna take a little tooling.

[@FarrellMcGovern]

The way that was riding, I am surprised you didn't go for turning it into a Hydrofoil! A hydrofoil Nimitz would be wild!

[@jimsvideos7201]

An aircraft carrier getting up on plane, what a time to be alive.

[@schlollepop]

Next step? Powering from a scale nuclear reactor? Cool project!

[@dhruvakalur]

Damn Dude, thats staggeringly fast considering its SIZE. Good JOB!!

[@yukthyukth1757]

oh yea

[@yukthking6430]

suiii

[@TechGorilla1987]

I'm now adding seeing a planing super-carrier to my bingo card for the next 5 years.

[@microbuilder]

*Jets taking off* WOOOO HERE WE GO! *Jets landing* Hey wait up!

[@jeffgTrialsBikes]

So enjoyable to watch! Thank You!

[@UKMike2009]

Admirable engineering development!

[@marvintraxel6955]

I really like the front on camera style of narration

[@donkey1331]

This guys videos are just the best.

[@TrailAngelRock]

When I was in the Navy we were told an aircraft carrier could do 60+ MPH. The + ment anything above 60 was classified.

[@adhdaf]

the mic clipped to the screwdriver was a delightful bit of silliness 😂

[@raguhmuffin]

I recently learned about the Voith Schneider propulsion system, not sure it would be useful for the majority of your projects but I bet you could find something interesting to do with it!

[@caspernowak]

Awesome!!!! How much more efficient/faster would it be if converted into a hydrofoil?

[@somenamelessdude8095]

I was on the Kitty Hawk cv63. One time we pulled 37 knots. The captain was so proud he told us on the ships horn. Conventional too

[@sleeplessstu]

Looks like “Battleship Galactica” with those power outriggers ! 😂

[@joshuavillwo]

I love the cookie in the tupperware along with the flight controller, GPS, etc!

[@localsms]

this feels so out of character of you. I love it!

[@Shit_I_Missed.]

Fleet Admiral Nimitz at full send: "IT'S HECKIN WIMDY!!!"

[@calvinwright5040]

I love the music mix, great v!

[@gwheyduke]

An interesting study of ESC's and battery power.

[@brucebadeau9906]

ALWAYS love your work --- KEEP GOING -- EXCELLENT and INTERESTING

[@Consequator]

They mentioned something on the battleship new jersey channel about how those battleships have 4 on the outboard and 5 bladed propellers on the inboard. Something about speed vs power and getting water over the rudders.

[@evelkenevel7948]

The rooster tail is priceless!!

[@Razer_-fe9mo]

Now we need to see you make one of those tiny planes R/C!

[@axoneer7806]

that duck was so chill when you picked it up

[@meistro32]

17:53 When a new oil deposit is discovered in the middle-east

[@dudeyoudontneedmyname]

It's good that you work at the scale you do.

[@lifesaship]

try to make an rc plane go scale speed, that would be cool to see!

[@LobstersLobsters]

check out the indoor flying airbus in Stuttgart

[@damantx1]

I was on that carrier (it was the kittyhawk btw) when that clip of a carrier crashing through the waves was filmed. It was pretty insane.

[@toolbaggers]

You should make the drive pontoons look like tug boats, re-supply ships, frigate or whatever is close to scale.

[@Jake-pc4fd]

😂🤣🤣🤣. Damn I needed those laughs… This is legendary, thanks for what you do!

[@sthomas6369]

During the segments where they played the Colonel Bogey March, I instead played Sousa's "Anchors Away" much improved!

[@pete_dl1585]

very imaginative silliness :)

[@tscUnhold]

Could you post which brand of expanding foam you used for the floats?

[@retovideogames]

Objectivly better! I love it!

[@lunchboxproductions1183]

Would be cool to see how fast it could go with some gyro controlled trim tabs, basically a trimmable hull extension. It should help with the poirposing.

[@ivolol]

Now I would love to see you just try and make your own fastest RC boat within some volume limit

[@jayrowe6473]

Get back to me when you can launch RC Jets and fly them off that RC Aircraft Carrier.

[@Blue-bf8lv]

the new camera really adds so much quality to these vids!

[@vincentcasparbohm6881]

nice one! did you ever think about how heavy the scale model would actually be?

[@InfiniteNesLives]

Just want you to know you guys are my favorite. Don’t stop being awesome.

[@Advil1024]

You turned an aircraft carrier into a three point hydroplane basically lol

[@corey312]

I have a some tiny little brushless motors i want to waterproof, would that be a good way to do it? Didn't think of epoxy!

[@alexsanderrevemark5136]

Found a propeler that is called PVBD that has a secund propeler where the propeler vortex wold be created. Instead of a cone at the end, it has a built in propeler with channels from the propeler to lead the vortex water through a propeler case to brake up the vortex. Some submarines are using it to lower the sound and get more efficient pawer use at lower engen speed.

[@simonlullin]

Slow-Mo shots are lit!

[@user-ud3nq7ph2h]

16:31 I can feel the sand getting thrown into my eyes