R/C Dambusters! (Will it bounce?)

last week I showed you how I built and flew a giant RC aeroplane made from foam to take on a rather ambitious project inspired by a piece of technology used in one of the most daring missions of World War two the dam Busters raid we're trying to get a barrel shaped object to skip over the water when dropped from a moving aircraft and this is the video where we do that welcome back to project air I'm James and this is Tom and this is Matt this is a Lancaster bomber very kindly I've got some expert youtubers here to help me out this is episode two the final part of this collaborative RC Dambusters miniseries you'll see how we prepped our gear the multiple attempts are getting a thing to work drone rescues boat rescues a few fails and some incredible slow-mo footage this video has been made to complement Tom Stanton's to provide a more in-depth look at the challenges we faced in this project along with some of the more amusing moments it was created as a science project inspired by real events with that being said sit back and watch what went down literally [Music] after the first flight of the Lancaster on that chilly winter's day we all got straight back to work modifying the aircraft to turn it into a full-on dam buster complete with Tom's bomb drop mechanism you can see how Tom designed this on his video but briefly it works through an elastic servo release and a small brushless motor we just worked out where to stick this on the plane we're very prepared here the aircraft was designed with the release mechanism in mind so all we needed to do was to cut away the sides to allow it to be glued to the structural middle deck inside the fuselage this didn't take too long meaning that we could get on with making sure it works smoothly before heading out of the door to test it in the right environment but then the weather turned against us so we're traveling along Tom and I just have some chips and that could have been the end but thankfully we had one more day with blue skies and calm winds the conditions were absolutely perfect we were so lucky with this as with many other things during the day as it turned out the plane was prepared and gear set up all that was left to do were a few battery installations and then we were ready or at least the others were to clearly illustrate why the mission was so risky we really need to look at a map you see we needed to operate from a very narrow strip of path hand launching from it and flying straight over the water if the plane had a problem immediately on the first flight it would have gone straight in and all of our work would have been for nothing landing is where it really got spicy though that narrow path had only a small metre wide strip of grass to land on which was much narrower than the 2 point 2 meter wide on the left there were stones that would likely destroy or damage Tom's release mechanism and on the right a 45-degree slope all to say this was a super risky project and every flight mattered however all we could do was take a deep breath prepare the best we could and go for it already okay I'm gonna come right down okay ready Tom so the first attempt was a failure as covered in Tom's video the plane was too high and slightly too slow meaning that the impact angle was too aggressive but we could go again if only I could land the plane in one piece all right I'm gonna dip you I know the approaches a guy might overshoot Ewing land on the path [Music] and it was at this point I knew that I'd messed up dammit so annoying I know would have been fine I just caught this with the wall at least the all the mounts alright let's unplug everything so it's a little damaged isn't it James thankfully it wasn't game over yet with some battle damage the Lancaster's cracked wings bars were glued back together the skin mended with the tape and the motors reattached with that it was almost ready for attempt number two alright so just before we do the next test the day happens to be the 11th of November and that is Remembrance Day here in the UK so of the war and Wars in general just thought we'd stop everything could just have a quick moment nervous you ready with full power on I decided to climb up turn around and dive back down towards the lake to minimize the time we were risking the plane but unfortunately I had failed to realize that Tom's high speed camera wasn't ready at this point the gyroscopic forces of the spinning barrel worked against us as it managed to force itself out of its mount this of course meant that we needed to land to reload what fell off oh I'm I'm relieved that I landed it but so stressed while trying to make sure that we're going to have enough you know enough of a plane left to do more texture this time I did a similar approach to the previous attempt diving down quickly and gaining airspeed unfortunately though I didn't give Tom enough time to spin up his mechanism so I climbed back out again only for the same problem to really rate soberly head if flying the plane and launching the projectiles was hard enough already we were at this point struck by another problem by role management thankfully Tom had taken the time to work on a rather high-tech retrieval system so that we could collect our plastic floating objects from the local environment so this is the barrel retrieval service provided by Tom here unfortunately though the wind had picked up meaning that the operation was rather difficult you right on top of it are the Nets like twisting with the wind we actually quite desperately needed to retrieve these barrels as they were being blown towards the undergrowth of the sides of the lake which was surely prevent us from collecting them oh that was so close no there's no there's no way I can get it all right Thomas is just trying to retrieve the barrel with the quadcopter but I'm going to try and receive it with my rescue boat [Music] hydrofoils go slightly slightly to the right if you're interested in this little hydrofoil boat I'll be doing a video about it soon so make sure that you're subscribed for more projects from this channel yeah let me just love it when a really high-tech system is beaten by with the barrel secured it was time for one more test this was it one more go at getting the shot taking the plane up far over the trees I gave Tom a long run-up to spin up the barrel after weeks of work and three failed runs it all came down to this one moment [Music] [Music] yes I did Oh about about it actually did it all amazing [Music] so it worked now all we need to the suit was to get the plane down without anything else going wrong but that was clearly too much to hope for what a scene of destruction dear this planes done its mission and then it just it didn't make it home boys [Music] Tellis actually a really epic crashes well it was watch the flow mode and then it slashes in the shadow oh my goodness that's incredible [Music] and then you see it splat again [Music] but when I realized like I was following the plane with the camera when it realized that the bomb was bouncing same time it's like it's actually working sorry to interrupt but when I was around there something made it go what that just before we bounced the barrel and I think that it could have been that a nut motor was falling off like there Wow yeah it was great is amazing so the plane was toast but we still had one more aircraft in the fleet that could be quickly modified so that we could keep on testing all was looking great it was smiles all around until James had a bit of the camera disaster he didn't know it yet the superglue in the bag that this was stored in so he's got super glue all over the lens breeches mop things up I heard that he's going to be sucking up a patron so if you guys could support him so can buy a new lens James has just discovered his camera and his lens a very fixed lens yeah so yes that's true as I've just hit 10,000 subscribers I am now indeed jumping on that bandwagon to give you the option to get more involved in the projects I have here at project F more info can be found in the description box if you want to find out why these projects need help and what sort of cool benefits you can get back in return now all back to the action Tom's excellent heavy lifter own made light work of hauling the barrels over the water for some more testing the quadcopter could get up to some fairly high speeds but often flew too high above the water to get good results having said that though it really did demonstrate that the barrels would skip a little even if dropped at height between each attempt we collected the barrels with a hydrofoil or failing that when one temporarily sank next to the shore a long stick to really take it back to basics oh oh nice nice nice nice Oh on one attempt the barrel was accidentally aimed at the wall of the lake which incidentally happens to be the lake side wall of the dam so I think it's fair to say we really did have a very good go at doing some damn busting that day all right thank you so much for watching this project thank you so much to Tom and to Matt for helping me and for doing this collaboration thank you Miss Matthew yes all right if you like this video then please give it a like subscribe so you can see the next one and I will really appreciate that thanks watch it [Music]

Channel: ProjectAir

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Keywords: Radio control, drone, plane, rc plane, scratch build, test flight, flitetest, flite test, dambusters, the dambusters, Lancaster bomber, 3d printing, 3d print, tom stanton, real engineering, diy perks, diy perks speaker, diy perks pc, real engineering dambusters, Tom Stanton dambusters, Tom Stanton 3d printed, flitetest build, flitetest challenge

Id: f29au_Eta7s

Length: 14min 7sec (847 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 22 2019