this thing flies amazingly it's just like it's butter it's just smooth as butter the airframe is pretty cool and all but uh i think i really put the icing on the cake by gluing the flight controller in there that was hard work i really put the team on my back got us across the finish line good work daniel this project all started a few months ago when flying ship company saw my foam board chrono plan video and reached out to see if i wanted to build them a model of their autonomous cargo delivery ground effect vehicle my response was sure but i know a guy who can do it a lot better and that's when kevin got involved previous to this project he had built another ground effects vehicle that sebastian and i had been using for software development that one turned out great and it had really good flight characteristics so kevin was just the guy for the job kevin has already made his own video about the project which can be found on his youtube channel called thinkflight ironically kevin didn't go into too much detail on the whole build process in his video but he did give me all the footage and i think it's super interesting so let's dive in but first a quick word about the sponsor of this video native body care products building planes out of composite materials exposes me to enough nasty stuff so the last thing i need is bad things in my body care products that's why i got natives aluminum free and paraben free deodorant i love native deodorants because they dry quickly and don't feel sticky afterwards they do a great job of maintaining their effectiveness all day even after vigorous exercise and they keep you smelling oh so fresh they offer all sorts of great scents including coconut and vanilla eucalyptus and mint and cherry and vanilla macaroni they also offer limited edition festive holiday scents including sugar cookie candy cane and fresh mistletoe three deodorants are normally NUMBER_TOKEN dollars but if you use my link and code test flight you'll get them for twenty four dollars that's thirty three percent off with my code you can also get twenty percent off any body wash or toothpaste now back to the video he started out the design in xflrNUMBER_TOKEN this is a computer program that analyzes different wing shapes and airfoils so you can optimize flight performance all the wing and tail sections were hot wire cut out of epp foam and end caps were cut out of plywood to make the wing sections stronger and more durable to join the wing sections together these big rectangular carbon fiber bars were made with a custom aluminum mold and these slide into wrapped kevlar sleeves that are embedded in the wings they're held in place with gorilla glue which works really well for this kind of foam because it expands into all the little pores and cracks these little tabs are used to keep the wings from sliding off there's a captive nut on the underside and a screw that goes in the top the aileron servo connectors are embedded into the sides of the wings so they are automatically plugged in when you attach the wings servo compartments were also created at this stage after all that cutting and gluing the surface of the foam is pretty rough and there's a lot of cracks and holes and whatnot to smooth all that out a mixture of spackle goop
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN in but first a quick word about the sponsor of this video native body care products building planes out of composite materials exposes me to enough nasty stuff so the last thing i need is bad things in my body care products that's why i got natives aluminum free and paraben free deodorant i love native deodorants because they dry quickly and don't feel sticky afterwards they do a great job of maintaining their effectiveness all day even after vigorous exercise and they keep you smelling oh so fresh they offer all sorts of great scents including coconut and vanilla eucalyptus and mint and cherry and vanilla macaroni they also offer limited edition festive holiday scents including sugar cookie candy cane and fresh mistletoe three deodorants are normally NUMBER_TOKEN dollars but if you use my link and code test flight you'll get them for twenty four dollars that's thirty three percent off with my code you can also get twenty percent off any body wash or toothpaste now back to the video END_SPONSOR_TOKEN