205 Joshua Orchard's Ultimate Scratch Builds!
Flite Test: Aviation - RC Planes - Multirotors
Flite Test
4.9 • 600 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Flite Test Podcast, new host James chats with Josh Orchard about crazy detailed RC airplane projects!
"Building is my passion" - it's that simple for Josh. The master builder behind multiple epic projects on the Flite Test Forum, we spoke to Josh about why he builds, how positively influences his life and the design challenges he has faced.
Check out Josh's Bugatti 100p model on the Forums here.
Make sure to read all of the bonus podcast content found on www.flitetest.com
The Flite Test podcast was created by the Flite Test team and is hosted and produced by James Whomsley.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the flight test podcast this week. I'm James Wormsey, your host, and today we have a great episode for you. |
| 0:07.8 | The first one of 2019, all about ultimate scratch bill projects. So something that's very near and dear to flight tests DNA and to, I'm sure, a lot of your passions and interests. So hopefully you're going to find this |
| 0:22.5 | quite an interesting episode. And we're going to be hanging out with one of our prominent |
| 0:28.4 | community members, Joshua Orchard. So yeah, I'm sure a lot of you are going to get a lot of value |
| 0:33.7 | from this podcast and find it very interesting. Before we jump into this podcast though, |
| 0:38.5 | I just wanted to say I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday over the Christmas season if you're |
| 0:43.1 | in a part of the world that celebrates that kind of thing. 2018 was an awesome year and I'm really |
| 0:50.2 | looking forward to seeing what 2019 holds for flight tests and the flight test community |
| 0:54.9 | and seeing all of the great things that comes out of it and yeah it's going to be it's going |
| 1:00.8 | to be brilliant um going back to the podcast though um we have a yeah a really great episode for you today |
| 1:07.7 | uh josh orchard is well known for his highly detailed projects |
| 1:11.6 | that he makes using a variety of techniques. One project that you might know Josh for is his |
| 1:18.5 | Bugatti 100p which was featured at Flight Fest 2017 I believe it was at the Ohio Flight Fest |
| 1:26.6 | and yeah that thing is just a absolute |
| 1:30.2 | magnificent marvel of foam board and foam aircraft design so yeah listen in to |
| 1:40.1 | the podcast and we're gonna discuss all about that project and generally just stuff to do |
| 1:46.2 | with why you should build your own projects, what sort of value it can provide for both you and |
| 1:51.6 | other people around you and yeah and why this hobby is so fantastic. One thing, however, I should |
| 1:58.3 | mention about this podcast is unfortunately we had a few issues with the audio, so we've had to resort to a backup file on this. |
| 2:07.2 | So the audio quality isn't the best because it's more of a sort of Skype recording, but hopefully it won't affect your listening experience too much. |
| 2:16.7 | And yeah, sorry about that, but it is a great podcast. |
| 2:19.9 | So I'm sure you're going to enjoy it anyway. |
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