Can A 3D Printed Race Plane Withstand 100 MPH?!

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[kotorigaming]

huge props to the chase pilot, literally flew through a tree to get the shot. Great job, keep it up!

[caleb]

Everyone: "this plane is insanely fast!"
The chase quad, keeping up: 👁👄👁

[RevUnstableBoy]

3:50. A tip, . The pegs they have you print are 4mm, . I just use 4mm carbon fiber tube cut to size.

[microbuilder]

I'll never give up on balsa, but man, being able to print out a micro fuselage would be super useful.

[smac]

I like how the FPV antenna kinda look like exhaust piping from a radial engine. Would be cool to color them metallic silver if it won’t interfere with their signal.

[eulachonfish]

Yeah, double it up! This plane looks and flies great. I'm still hoping to see an FT 3d/foamboard hybrid plane some day. Printed formers, foamboard skin, printed accent pieces like cockpit, firewall, gear etc... way less print time than doing the whole plane and you should be able to create some great shapes. Seems like it would really be a FT sort of thing and whoever draws up the 2d plans for laser cutting should be easily able to make the jump to 3d for this sort of project!

[marksamwell]

Love your videos, even more so because they are a firm favourite of my Dad who has Alzheimer's disease... When I have him to stay with me for the day we sit and watch your videos for hours and it is so nice to hear him laughing and be amazed by all the amazing projects. Thankyou so much for the quality time I get with him. Keep them coming ! 😊

[InspGadgt]

What is probably more amazing now is there is 1 guy printing 3d planes that are turbine powered! Unfortunately he won't sell his STL files but his channel is still cool to watch.

[noolaiphx]

What's fascinating me more is the little drone trailing it, and even keeping up at the 100 per hour mile speed.

[felixleveille]

Clicked on the vid the exact moment I got the notification! 👍 are you guys ever going to be building a giant ft-edge 540 ? It would be sick!! 🤙✈️

[brucenunley]

Curious if you guys had ever considered taking model airplanes, helicopters and turning them into actual flyers. I would love to see a video of that.

[RevUnstableBoy]

Have mine printed in polyalchemy's nightshade elixir. Need to up it to 4 cell, but it is quick with a 3 cell. Great flying plane

[forit]

I'm a simple man, I see flitetest notification, I click instantly

[forerunnert]

The modelling community is really embracing 3D printing! Can't wait what you will be showing in 5 years

[infidelgaming]

*sees windshield wiper on screen*
Literally *wtf, when did I get a windshield wiper on my phone?!* 😂😂

[philbarrett]

You guys have been the Kings/queens of foamboard for so many surely you must be close to designing your own 3D printed stuff?

[ki-info]

All the work lies in that dangerous photographer. it is amazing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️

[stilldomi]

I've been seeing these rc plane videos a lot lately and idk if I wanna get sucked in to another expensive hobby, but it looks super fun

[jotham]

First flitetest video I've liked in a long time, you've come back to your roots!

[echobeefpv]

I've now printed 5 Eclipson planes, 2 model A, 's 3 Model C's. One really cool thing, when you order it, you get the files right away. I started printing my model C's 10 minutes after ordering. I print in standard PLA though, the price and shipping to Canada of that Colorfabb filament is just way to high. I'm looking forward to a summer's worth of planes, all 3D printed.