[Brad] look at the sky! Beautiful, clear, calm...fairly calm, yeah [Bruce] we're going to try these out!
Yeah!
Hey guys I'm Brad. I'm Bruce. And we're the "Nighthawk Gliders." Today we're going
to be building the Aleda glider. This is a glider by Joshua Finn. He has a
YouTube channel and a website "J&H Aerospace" um we'll put a link in both
his website and his YouTube website in the description below and we thought we'd
just buy his gliders and just fly them. Build them and fly them and see
how they see how they go. They seem like fun little gliders. We haven't opened
these up yet so we thought we'd just kind of do an unbagging-- I guess it's not
really an unboxing. [Bruce] I'm ready. [Brad] You're ready? Alright let's take a look.
Joshua's kind of an expert in free-flight gliders I would say. Definitely an expert
in F1D if you guys know what that is, perhaps you don't, those F1D free flight
gliders are just absolutely amazing they're like rubber band powered. They just
float majestically slow through the air. Joshua does some amazing work with those
kind of things. Joshua is also an expert in his rocket
gliders. So one of these days we're going to get our hands on one of those too, right?
[Bruce] Right, yup. [Brad] But we thought we'd start off with this
Aleda and check it out. So what do we got here in the package, Bruce?
[Bruce] Well, we got clay, rubber band, a launcher stick, wings, ...
tail, rudder, and you're launching launcher? Um, what do you call that?
[Brad] The actual lunch hook? The shark tooth maybe or something like
that. He did have a particular piece for the dihedral angle right and I don't
know where that is but I think we'll find it. Oops. So he does have laser-cut
parts which come apart pretty easy I've already noticed it's kind of fall right
out so there's this tiny little tabs in there so we just kind of need to be
careful not to break anything. But it should be a pretty simple glider and we
should be able to kind of get these parts put together fairly easily.
From this point on will just do a time lapse and what we're done,
we'll show you our results!
[Brad] Okay we're done. [Bruce] Finally. [Brad] Yeah actually was kind of a fun
little build, wasn't it? [Bruce] Yeah, it went pretty quick. I messed up on mine. It ain't steep enough.
I was reading the scale wrong. [Brad] So when you did the
1 3/8", I think we talked about the the 2 3/4"
and if it's flat, you need to be 2 3/4" up, but you did
1 3/4", so you got the 3/8"... yeah you got a little confused by
that. [Bruce] We're gonna try it out and see how it does on slingshot. It glides okay and has a
smooth glide just like his. Mind don't have a turn; it goes straight. He has
a left turn on his, so it looks like it that's pretty good on his. [Brad] yeah I think I
got my dihedral angle right but I did do an extra trick where I sanded one side
of the back of the fuselage so that I can get a slight turn... a slight left turn
on my rudder. So it's kind of, you know, it's kind of curved in a little bit
so that give me my left turn. I don't think I got... I mean...
I tried to do a little wing tilt but I forgot about the flat fuselage on the
bottom. [Bruce] Yeah, it stays flat so you can't really tilt a whole lot.
[Brad] Right. So I think I'm solely rudder turn is what I've got. So yours turns very little or
something? [Bruce] mine just flies straight. [Brad] So we might have to trim it up a little bit
and figure that out. It's been raining today's been a lousy day so but
it looks like looking out the window looks like it's stopped raining so we're
gonna go and try it, right? So go hit the park and see how these fly. So, cool!
[Brad] Here we are in our local park and you know it was raining most of the day, the
grass is pretty wet, but look at the sky! Beautiful, clear, calm, ... fairly calm.
[Bruce] We're going to try these out! [Brad] Yeah, alright... So you want me to go first?
[Bruce] You go first! [Brad] Okay I'm gonna try a hand toss just to
see how it goes. Oh that's good! Look at that! [Bruce] Oh, sweet! Real nice fly. [Brad] it's got... okay, I think I
got a little too much of a turn in it. Did you see how tight that was? [Bruce] oh yeah, it turned quick.
[Brad] Yeah I probably sanded it a little too much in the back for that
rudder. Alright, shall I try to catapult it. [Bruce] let's see what happens.
All right wait a minute... it's flying good. oh it's the ducks.
[Bruce] Oh that's real nice! You might need a little bit more weight.
[Brad] I think you're right... not much just a little. That tight turn! [Bruce] Oh, sweet. That's a good glider!
We have to build a lot more of these. [Brad] Alright, let's add a little weight.
Bruce, we're running out of daylight. [Bruce] I know.
[Brad] Alright, let's try this again.
Woah!
There we go!
Moonlight flying! [Bruce laughs]
I can use a little trimming but not bad. [Bruce] Look at that! [Brad] Yeah! I didn't get the
full flight but look at that thing! It's going great! Whoa!
[Bruce] I think I got mine tuned in! [Brad] Nice! I think you got it!
[Brad] So just a recap. We went to fly at the park and, um...
it was damp and we were concerned about, you know, the weather... at least with the humidity
impacting the wings initially, I think you know it was a little bit of a
challenge for us to kind of, you know, just to trim it a little bit. You know
you had to do quite a few launches and once we actually got it we got we got it
tuned in and it was flying fantastic. I think you had the best fights that we've
recorded. [Bruce] So far. It got a little dark
and couldn't record his flight but it was a pretty long flight-- about 30 seconds.
[Brad] Yeah, it got dark real quick. But after I kind of stopped recording
and started flying, probably 30 seconds. I think one time I had almost 40 seconds.
Flight times were fantastic. So, definitely I like this little
glider. So again this is Joshua Finn's "Aleda" and it's just an 8-inch glider.
It's a catapult launch. You can hand toss it. This is actually version one. [Bruce] Right.
[Brad] We bought it before his version. His version two looks a little bit better
and he's kind of adjusted his templates and he's got a dihedral gage...
[Bruce] That's what I was looking for in the plans, yeah.
[Brad] But nonetheless, we were able to build these just great! So please check out
Joshua Finn's channel. I'll put a link here and to his YouTube channel and also
a link to his website. You can go to his website and actually buy one of these
for yourself, so check them out! We're Nighthawk gliders and we
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us, so, thanks for coming to Nighthawk gliders. I'm Brad. [Bruce] I'm Bruce.
Well, take care guys! Bye!
[Bruce] Out in the sunset! [Brad] There she goes...
His is flying a lot better than mine!