Can a Solid Wood Airplane Actually Fly???

[marshallcarter]

The animations and explanations for aircraft stability were better than any actual private pilot curriculum I've ever seen. Well done.

[redhelmet]

Honestly, your explanation of basic aircraft fundamentals was better and more concise than a lot of the college classes I took for my AE degree. Would recommend your video to any entry level college students or anyone just interested in the basics of flight.

[LtSpiteful]

Imagine being the poor dude half a mile away just randomly getting beaned in the side of the head by a errant printed plane

[anselme]

You just made flight physics something understandable by everyone in a cool and concrete manner. Incredible video, I remember asking myself this same question. And you answered to it, you showed that anything no matter the wing loading can fly as long as you give it enough speed !

[funkstrong]

I could watch different iterations of these designs dropped forever, really cool to see how they all respond.

[KiwiandPixel]

I should have learned most of this theory during my PPL but you’ve simplified it and visualized it better than any textbook I ever read.

[sharedknowledge]

As an engineer It’s fun to watch you share your theories, iterate prototypes, and then test, test, test.

[medivalone]

PrusaSlicer 2.6 has the ability to add pegs and holes to aid in aligning and glueing models that are printed in multiple pieces. This might help you with aligning the two halves of your models.

[cappytheimmortal]

So thats where the random plane came from in my backyard

[aqimjulayhi]

I haven’t gone past 4:42 but I just want to applaud how understandable the explanation for passive aircraft stability is. I fly model airplanes myself, I ‘know’ the things like dihedral, but I can never really understand why they work until I found this video. The visuals and the ‘pretend like we’re the oncoming wind’ really helped better understand the concept.

[terrafimeira]

For practical non-littering, maybe a slight roll bias to keep them in the field is desired. :|

[thomasmaughan]

"Can a Solid Wood Airplane Actually Fly?"
Yes; but it might more accurately be called "falling with style".

[HalftonJohnson]

Technically they are still paper airplanes, just pre-paper airplanes:)

[mikebergman]

Dude I could watch hours and hours of these. This would make killer "fan showdown" type of content.. Where people send in crazy/well thought out designs that are printed off and drop tested. Super cool content to watch!!

[gabriellynch]

That was one of the best explained videos i have ever watched on any subject. I haven't studied fluid dynamics, I don't know much about aircraft engineering and i certainly am not involved in the flying community. This video taught me ALOT. And I was enthralled the whole time. I think it mostly just comes down to how well the video was made. I give you my thanks.

[aaronredbaron]

Solid wood slope sailplanes built for high wind are a thing. They fly fantastic!

[hinglemccringle]

i love how you make your videos. they're informative and genuinely entertaining with how you actually craft projects to show real-world effects on the things you talk about.

[Averium]

man...how is this legal there? Where I live, you need freakin registration number for a 250g RC plane and you just drop kamikaze wood chunks from 200m altitude with buildings and parking cars around? Good for you.

[nathanielnoodles]

Got to admit that this type of content at this level is hard to find, good job man I'm proud of you.

[K_Seth]

even though I have not studied flight physics, (as I am still young) the hours I spent on designing and testing paper airplanes proved itself to help me understand this video, your explanations were straight to the point and easy to understand. Thank you for this video and the amount of effort you put in. (18:52 Look closely at those horses, they are reacting and you can see a small blob presumably your aerodynamical space shuttle fall into there haha)