 What's up everybody? Welcome to Road to Riot. I'm Let's Fly RC. Usually on this channel we fly drones They've got four propellers fly really fast and really agile, but they don't fly for very long. Airplanes fly for a really long time But unfortunately with an airplane you have to have a big long runway to take off or land on and they're not extremely agile So the best of both worlds would be an airplane that could take off like a quadcopter and fly for a really long time And then land like a quadcopter. A vertical takeoff and landing or VTOL airplane does exactly that It will take off just like a drone and then transition into an airplane, and it'll be the best of both worlds essentially So that's exactly what I did. I've got this prototype here, and we're at Road to Riot rampage, and we're gonna test it out Oh the wings fell off. Oh, that's okay. They're made to come off. Oh really? Yeah. Oh, that's cool. It's just a little pin Yeah, watch this It's alive again. Alright, if you're in quadcopter mode it acts like a quadcopter. Okay, as soon as you flip into transition mode It tries to hold its altitude as it's transitioning. Got you, but then you're basically an airplane flight mode So as you give it more throttle, you don't gain altitude you gain forward flight. Gotcha, okay, right? And then as soon as you flip the switch into complete airplane manual mode Then all the controls act like an airplane aileron elevator everything becomes an airplane I was trying to flip it back into quad mode so that it would stabilize itself But I ended up flipping it into an airplane manual by accident. Gotcha. Okay, and that way it flipped out Couldn't ask for better conditions right now. It is really beautiful out and sunny and hot and not windy And that's what we need for something like this because it's an airplane and they don't like wind We're gonna test flight for the first time ever as an actual airplane and hopefully it works Yes, make sure your video is working. Let's make sure I'm gonna be his spotter and safety pilot It's so easy FTV oh wow All right, here we go. We're gonna get a little more altitude a little more altitude to the way There we go airplane here we go. It doesn't crash. Oh boy. I'm flying like an airplane. There we go. It's working Oh, this is awesome. Okay. This is really cool. I'm gonna fly it out. Oh, this is awesome This is so cool. Let's see if I go back now. Let's see if you can transition it now I want to go back to a quadcopter. All right slowing here. We go All right. I'm slowly slowing down. Okay quadcopter mode only allows like angle mode. So basically with angle mode He's not an actor where you can do like flips and rolls. It's going to help stabilize him Which is going to really help him in this case. I'm going to let my feet. I'm going to let you fly it. This is so cool Nice job, Sean All right, let me fly this thing Oh, this is cool. It has a little bit of yaw twitch. It does but all right. Here we go Oh my god, you're like a natural. Yes. Okay. I'm in airplane mode now. Yes you are So awesome. Oh my gosh. It's so fast. It is really fast. It is awesome You're doing a much better job flying it than I was. I was scared. He's like, I don't care if I crash Sean's plane No, that's always the mentality is I don't care if I crash Sean's plane It does have a very high stall speed. There it is. That's pull pitch back. It's not tipping a wing or anything This is fun. This is like what you want in fbb. You want to be able to go somewhere far But then just be able to land it as well transition Inverted. Oh, it's so awesome The roll rate is so high It's like so fast go for the tube. All right, go for the tube. All right. Here we go Thank you. Thank you for not crashing. Don't break this one. I like this one a lot. Yeah, I don't really want to break this one I didn't even get that. I didn't even get it. Not even a little bit. I'll do one more fly by We're good. We're okay I don't know what it did. It just freaked out. Well, I know I touched the ground, but I like I touched it But boom, it just like did it You have to do it again. All right. All right. Hold on. That scared me. Oh my god I think I peed a little bit after that one Yeah Like I barely missed the cards. All right, here we go transitioning Gac Nice So awesome Boom right at our feet. It looks it's so much fun. It's easy to fly too The only thing is like when you give it like in an airplane mode when you're like above 70 throttle Like when I was trying to fly by it gets super pitch sensitive. Yeah, like I was like, okay I just need to make a tiny adjustment boom I could see this being used like for delivery people always talking about like Oh, wouldn't it be cool to use drones for delivering? It still hasn't happened. I don't know if it's ever really gonna happen Hey, but if it does this this might be a technology that's employed because you know a challenge with like trying to carry a payload You know far distances and deliver it to a very precise location It means that a you know a drone isn't good for that because it can't fly for very long And a fixed wing airplane isn't good for it because it can't necessarily like get right to your doorstep But this can building these things was a challenge I spent about three months learning the software. So there's a lot of the software already out there. I mean, what are you using? Yeah, so I was using a new software called rdu pilot and If you can imagine using beta flight and doing everything in cli or virtually everything That's kind of like what rdu pilot is extremely daunting to learn the great thing about it though Is it's so capable? There's like so many different types of v-tools you can make and it's just so customizable I love it. So these look a little bit different. What what are you got going on with this? It looks like to me you just basically took a quad because you got four props here And you took a plane and you just smashed them together. You got peanut butter in my jelly. You got quad in my plane Here we go. It's exactly what we did. Okay. This is a quad plane And that's what they call it a quad plane And you basically just have a quad copter that takes off and then when you get to a certain altitude The fifth props start spinning to gain the speed eventually You get up to enough airspeed where you can turn off the air four pillars and this one takes over And you're just an airplane so during transition you have all five spinning all five spinning So then once you keep and you stable right this is going to move you forward because you need actual air speed for the wings To do anything so then once this prop has done its job and you've gotten some air speed You actually got some lift going you can shut down the four motors And it's just straight up a plane and these motors are just hanging out adding drag doing nothing Because it actually has braking built in these actually completely stop which is kind of cool. Nice. Okay Yeah, so I mean the only criticism I can kind of see of this is that like you've got Four whole motors and the weight associated with that motors hanging out doing nothing for I say 95% of the flight right because you're only using them for the the volt holes So they're basically adding drag and weight to the right so it is kind of a bummer to see that So I see this one is different. I think this kind of Takes that into consideration because I'm seeing a lot less motors and I'm seeing that they do a little twisting This is a tilt rotor v-tool and the front two motors do multiple functions They tilt up as a quadcopter and because I quadcopter That's right when you think of a drone usually think of a quadcopter in the way quads do Yaw is by spinning two motors that spin the same direction faster than the two other motors spinning the opposite direction And that angular momentum differential creates the yawing action And now with a tricopter where you've only got three motors That means you've got to get the yaw from somewhere else A tricopter usually has a tilt motor in the back to give it yaw authority This plane doesn't need it because the two front motors act as yaw authority when both of them can tilt simultaneously To create that yaw and it's so cool to watch the best thing about this is that when you're in forward flight You technically only have one motor and one prop as drag right okay So the tilting achieves two things they actually tilt forward And that becomes the forward flight motors and then this guy just becomes useless Definitely have to think about with v-tool if the Useless motor is worth the extra drag or not So one of the greatest things about a v-tool versus a standard airplane is that you could technically carry a heavier battery Than you could in a regular airplane because you have the extra lift to get it off the ground and stable Or an airplane would have a hard time taking off with that much weight I would not have thought about it like that So you could get a longer flight time just by being able to put a bigger battery in it Well shan overall I think you did an awesome job as usual putting these things together And I love the 3d printed things that you've got going on here. They're very sculpted. My friend mark actually gave me these Designs and he's already built this so I don't want to pretend like this is totally my design It was so much fun to build. So what's the next thing? What what are you trying next? What are we doing here? So we are here at rotor ride rampage 2022 last year We did ring drone and we had a bunch of the community members helped me build it I thought it was so awesome and so much fun. Everybody loved it We thought why not try something this year as well and we're gonna take this and blow it up to a Giant scale size. You've got some people that came right here to the event want to help you out on community build I don't know. Let's get you into the build room and get this thing put together That is amazingly smooth I didn't even have to pivot in this one let's do a forward flight test on the back motor This thing flies so good It's better than all the other ones I've done so far. This might be one of the crazier projects you've done I like it. Oh, yeah hours worth of work. All right, foldable people involved. Here we go. Here we go One fpv All right, here we go transitioning Yo airplane Straight at the tent. I'm an airplane. I'm completely in airplane mode now complete manual. Really? Yes, how does it fly? Oh, it's flies great flies like an optara, but it's a little bouncy Okay, I could see that. Yeah, the pitch is a little bouncy, but it's flying We're in transition mode. Let's transition slowing down. It's slowing down on its own quad cupper mode. Okay. All right. We're backing up turning around That is so cool Literally looks. I love that so much. That's so weird to see a wing do that What? That was so weird Dude, it's going oh my gosh a wing is not supposed to do that This is literally this is literally some avengers Okay, I want the quad cup to know to save it That's so so weird looking that's like to stop. All right. We're in transition. Okay. We're in quad Yeah So, you know how amazon is like trying to do drone delivery I think this would be perfect because you can have a really long battery life If being a wing and then just have a quadcopter drop a package Are you going sideways intentionally? Yes. Yes. Okay So in quadcopter mode you have a lot of level Sean that was amazing. That is so cool. That is so cool. That's so cool That's the coolest thing. That's so cool. Yes. It works. Congratulations everybody that did this This was an amazing community project that wrote a right rampage 2022 Thank you so much to the guys that helped me build the giant airplane beetle We had so much fun with it. It was exciting huge Thanks to my good friend mark for helping me with this project and getting it up and running So that I could learn rd pilot which was really daunting and really hard to learn I had so much fun and I learned so much about rd pilot If you guys want to build any of these planes that I built I will have links in the description to All of the plans all of the parts and I will even give you all of my parameters So you can have a good starting point. Make sure you subscribe click the bell Don't forget to go to rotorite.com and come to rampage. Thanks for watching guys, and we'll see you next time on rotorite