200 Tom Stanton, 3D Printing and Compressed Air Engines
Flite Test: Aviation - RC Planes - Multirotors
Flite Test
4.9 • 600 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
YouTube engineer Tom Stanton joins James for the Flite Test Podcast this week. Tom's channel is crammed full of great projects ranging from VTOL aircraft to mighty wooden trebuchets. On this edition of the podcast, you can expect to hear about many of these experiments along with how it is to study aerospace engineering at college level.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Fight test podcast, everyone. Today what we're doing is talking to a guy called Tom Stanton, who is another guy from the UK, actually. |
| 0:38.7 | So this is going to be a very British flight test podcast today. |
| 0:45.0 | Tom is famous for his YouTube projects on his YouTube channel called Tom Stanton, aptly named, |
| 0:51.8 | where he does lots of like 3D printing and all that sort of stuff. |
| 0:57.8 | So yeah, we're going to talk to him about those projects and also about aerospace engineering, |
| 1:02.4 | which is what he studied at college. |
| 1:05.8 | So without further ado, let's just jump straight into the interview and talk to Tom. |
| 1:11.7 | Right then, I am joined with Tom Stanton here and yeah, this is the flight test podcast |
| 1:19.2 | that has got a very British theme today. |
| 1:21.3 | So I suppose we'll just jump straight in there and say, Tom, how did you get started in radio control and RC and all of that stuff? |
| 1:32.3 | I'm sorry, I just say hello to everybody first. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.3 | You know what? I should redo that. |
| 1:40.3 | What was I thinking? I didn't even introduce you. |
| 1:43.3 | Sorry. That's all right. Keep going. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah. Keep rolling. |
| 1:47.0 | Right, yeah. How I got started in RC. I've been flying RC planes for quite a while. I think I got my first plane in about 2004, 2005. |
| 1:59.0 | And then as a lot of people probably do, they smash it up, get disheartened and then give up for a bit. |
| 2:07.3 | So I stopped flying planes for probably three or four years. |
| 2:10.9 | Then went on a holiday to Thailand and bought a small coaxial helicopter. |
| 2:15.8 | Those are the ones of the two blades, which one on top of each other. |
| 2:18.3 | Right, yeah. |
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