Making a GIANT F-18 with a real JET TURBINE | Sailor VS | U.S. Navy

starting in three two one uh emergency landing okay, okay, you asked for it, we'll deliver it today. We have a

giant

foam F-18 with a

real

turbine

engine. Thanks to the

navy

for sponsoring this video. This is

sailor

versus. a series where other creators and I test our skills to see if we have what it takes to be in the

navy

. They hooked me up with a fellow aviation machinist who gave me some tips and points on how to put this engine in this foam plane without setting it on fire, time to design the super f-18 hornet.

I could probably spend some time designing myself, however other people are better than me at designing airplanes, especially with the origami folding aspects. I searched online and found one from my friend. Ben Harper is an excellent designer and designed this F-18 Hornet. The F-18 horn that he designed is much smaller and this is a 180 enlarged version so if you search online you can find these plants for free for a smaller version we are going to enlarge it so that you can carry this

turbine

in this video a little interjection here so you probably noticed the

giant

cut on my face well we had an accident a few weeks ago luckily I was wearing safety glasses because you know safety first anyway let's get back to the video that starts in three two one uh I have some questions here luckily i have someone on the other end of a video call this is 81 caleb de fredes a fellow aviation machinist in the navy hey caleb hey peter so i have this. turbine for my friend and I'm trying to mount this thing on my plane now, unfortunately I'm worried that the hot exhaust gases will melt this thing because it's actually styrofoam, but I imagine it's probably similar to what you guys do inside of the Marine.

Do you protect your planes to prevent them from melting? That's a great question, Peter. So what we use in the marine is a composite frame plus cold air from the fan to help prevent the engine and helps keep it cool. What do I think they can use? it's one layer of aluminum foil and cheesecloth, maybe two layers and that should work fine, yeah, I think I'll try that aluminum foil because I have all this splash guard like in the back of the plane where I think it will probably melt the back of my plane yes At least I don't try to take care of that, what is your fuselage made of?

It is made of foam and paper. Oh, that's definitely going to melt. It will still fly melting half the plane, but it will be interesting. To see, okay, we've got our heat shield, let's cut this out and make this hopefully not melt. Hold my plane, I have our five cans and let's see how it works, so we have cheese shine. I have a bit of an air barrier. there, so hopefully it gets too hot underneath and melts the foam, I'll rivet this thing and see if it works, so now that we know the details about the heat shield, I'm going to finish this and install one thing.

As for electronics, we actually have a lot of them on this plane. I'm going to check everything again just to make sure the filler rods work and the spokes are solid and the links are good to make sure we don't end up as a pile of smoking rubble on the ground now it's time to load it up and hit the field and do this right, we're in the field, we actually have the engine running, it runs and that was horrible, it's 180,000 rpm. from a turbine terror, the funny thing is that I've never actually messed with any type of fuel in any RC airplane before, so it's a big step to go from electric directly to the turbine; the heat shield seems to be working, but it didn't work much.

Hot, fortunately, the exhaust comes directly from the rear of the plane. We'll do one more quick check and then we'll be in the air. Hi Peter, how was the turbine test? It gave us some hiccups getting started. But once we have everything situated, the turbine now seems to turn on reliably and I think it should be ready to go. I hope the fall holds and I can't wait to see it in the air. I hope this goes well. Also, I don't know what will happen, it will be quite expensive if it crashes, good luck on your flight, Peter.

Okay, also before we fly it, we'll eventually put that catapult truck over there, but first I want to make sure that the plane flies well and that thing has a lot of things that can go wrong, like you don't launch it playing like an F-18 from the air carrier from the beginning, they usually take off part of your base, I think they do it at least because it gives you more room for error, so having a long runway is beneficial for a short launch of the catapult because something bad would happen, it would be very catastrophic, so we'll position the sled first so I can get all the track I need.

It goes out and the plane is smooth, then it goes up into the air and after we test that flight, we'll put the sled in and throw it in there like it's a

real

cat launch. Okay, you're ready. I'm going to start the engine. Oh wow, how pretty. takeoff now we're good, it actually has a lot of thrust, it actually has good control, okay, taxiing in three, two, one, oh, is the flame out, emergency landing, I think it looks good, the cameras are actually in that shot I wanted to roll, but as soon as I made the turn, I think air collected inside the fuel tank and caused the engine to shut down, so the plane is on the ground safe from sound, so let's prepare for the cat launch.

Then the plane is on the cat. Let's try it and see what happens. There could be something else going wrong, such as insufficient launch velocity. The launch starts the plane. The plane could catch fire, but I guess we'll just send it away now. oh not enough launch speed other than a launch oh no oh no okay, this thing is definitely a little worn out, we really don't have much more daylight so we won't really be able to launch this thing again, unfortunately The speed of flight of this model F-18 is too high that the catapult cannot reach sufficient speed and also this turbine rise time is too long, so unfortunately we will have to end there with the launcher saga, I am glad that the dolly worked because this thing definitely needs a track to run for the most part.

I think it's a pretty good success. The turbine flew the plane surprisingly very fast for such a small engine and the heat shield definitely did. he did his job thanks again to the navy for sponsoring this video and thanks 81 caleb de fridas for all his help and knowledge no problem peter anytime see more

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versus where i will be working on an airplane combustion module of real combat. I'm going toe-to-toe with the navy, so I'll see you there.