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so the inspiration for today's video is twofold one

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we wanted to build a pc for luke at his

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new job at Floatplane media inc that really reflects the values of that

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company which is fly or float

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so we obtained this literal actual Floatplane

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and then source of inspiration number two was actually a video that i did a

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little while ago building a pc inside one of lee and

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lee's cases that looks like a boat

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the only problem with that case was that when i tried to actually float it

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the thing sank and i was like you know what no no no Linus media group can do

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better than lee lee Linus media group's airplane pc is actually gonna

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freaking fly so i tasked alex here resident engineering

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wizard who i never give enough time money or tools to with coming up

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with a flyable Floatplane pc and that's exactly what he theoretically

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did we're about to find out

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kono is excited to introduce the hexgears x1 keyboard a low profile

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bluetooth mechanical keyboard with multi-device connectivity and a

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beautifully machined aluminum case check it out at the link below

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inside my beaver you're gonna find my cockpit and then there's actually two

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passenger seats back there so we're gonna rip that out and

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throw in it's gotta be at least probably like a

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pound worth of heatsink and RAM m.2 SSD

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uh i think this is probably a core i7 processor

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should be good should be good before installing the computer in it we needed

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to assemble and fly the plane this would allow for us to make sure that there

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were no issues with the aircraft before we modified it

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but also meant that Linus would need to take

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off and land without destroying it like it's been years since i've flown a model

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airplane at all i have never flown anything this big

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and i have never even spent any sim time

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with a water plane do you want to um that probably wouldn't be a terrible

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idea but let's get it let's get it assembled given this is a ready-to-fly kit

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assembly should be a pretty simple case of following the instructions

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although it quickly became clear that there were two problems one bad

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instructions is this diagram clear to you how exactly

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these little wire doodads go in here no it goes across no it goes it goes

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straight to the big hole but then i can't tell how you fasten it and two

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people not reading those bad instructions you have to go through the

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wood on this it's a pain it says remove plate so

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probably not oh

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very clearly labeled actually all right

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landing your wheels on

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seems pretty legit

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let's see if it'll be able to handle coming down about as hard as it's going to

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seems pretty strong i'm ready for insertion whenever you are

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i've got i've got three fingers in it now but it just doesn't let me get my

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fingers in too okay oh there we go there we go perfect where

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what do you mean where shone where's the picture of the velcro

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right there where as our lack of both rc

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knowledge and building ability became more clear

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so did the realization that this plane may not survive its maiden voyage this

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is going to be such a waste of money if we just like plow it into the ground

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we soldiered on though completing the build and what thanks to the beauty of

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video editing was record time maybe we could lube it up a little bit

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cool so here you push it in i'll line it up okay

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there we go i'm excited we're getting close to uh first flight yeah

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before flying though Linus wanted to try his hand in the flight sim to brush up

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on his rc skills okay oh

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nice that was sketchy that was wow

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okay we're coming in we're coming in dennis get the hell out of the way

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no no we're not coming in we're not coming in get that propeller going there

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no no just wait just wait it's not gonna stop i got that i got this come on baby

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come on in wake up

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no we lost the wheel we sheared off a a a bolt here

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and uh so all we gotta do is is find a new

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a new mount for this wheel holy crap we lift through it

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oh chapter two before putting the pc in the plane it

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needed a good coating of acrylic conformal coating from mg chemicals

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this would prevent the pc from getting damaged by small drops of water that

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might end up on it during water takeoffs and landings

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with that said it doesn't make the pc completely waterproof

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this is like not even it's more conformal coating than pcb now it's like

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swimming in it i mean you can't swim in a solid but you

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get my point i said to do three coats that's three coats look at these they look so

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beautiful they're so shiny it's like plastic RAM

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and they still smell like nail polish yeah we gotta test it with the system in

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it that's what we're doing right now yeah we gotta get the oh wait write test

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the system does the system work testing the system gave me the opportunity i've

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been waiting for so you can see here my friends the test cart 9000 has a

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convenient keyboard and mouse

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right in an ergonomic keyboarding mousing location

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it's got a HDMI and vga monitor so you

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cover all your bases there huh it's got a mouse pad for your comfort it's got

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one of these little uh ah

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who makes these again moss cable it's got one of these little magnetic cable

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holders see that test cart technology grab your usbs because they're

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conveniently magnetically cable managed i don't know i thought from lewis

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rossman all you need to know is the fan spins no and the fan isn't spinning so

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let's go ahead and press the power button there

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did you break the knock oh wait no i think it just lit up

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okay cool now that we knew that nothing crucial got covered in conformal coding

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we were ready to put the pc in the plane how do we get our pc in there so in the

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back seat yeah it's like in the back seat that's really going to hurt our

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center of gravity there yeah we need to put some like weights or

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something up in here oh now we're putting weights in the thing this thing

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was hard enough to fly in the first place although we were technically able

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to get the pc in through the front window it was very difficult to access

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so we needed to create a bigger opening scalpel

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thank you for not putting the blade into my finger

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that's good oh this is much sharper

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because the blade is thin it's actually harder to cut in a straight line though

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i guess when you're cutting bodies it's less of a concern that you go in a straight line maybe

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oh no problem oh oh it's so beautiful

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good news is our system fits bad news is the i o does not stick out the door the

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pc fit in surprisingly well meaning we could skip having any i o extensions and

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instead just drill some holes in the side of the plane for usb Ethernet and

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Thunderbolt oh not bad

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not bad at all oh

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okay yeah it came out clean perfect nice

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oh crap so there's the pontoon mount

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i was trying to widen the hole slowly and just rip the whole thing out

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shoot to keep the pc in one place we decided

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that the best option was to put zip ties down through the pcb attach a washer on

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the other side then use another zip tie to tighten it down after installation in

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its super cool new case we just needed to make sure that the pc had survived

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the operation what could we have possibly broken over the last little bit

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here yes

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oh okay have me freaking out a little bit there

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let's see if the wi-fi still works wi-fi is still working so we managed to

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not unplug that crap okay all right all right

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okay all right the first flying computer

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other than all the other flying computers can you can you see it in there

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here oh it's coming for you

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can you see it see the computer in there well you can

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see the i o i don't know you can kind of see it it's kind of hard

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to see actually yeah whatever it's in there trust me

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okay

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oh that gust let's just go for it

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we're up and away oh my god the weight

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the weight the balance is uh is look way off you want to fly by

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i'll give you a flyby

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you know what i was actually probably wrong to make those adjustments to the

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elevator

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never mind i was right to make those adjustments to the elevator that just

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saved us

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come on baby

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no oh crap okay well um

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that wasn't what i meant to do i was trying to bring it over to the road and

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the wind just pushed me right

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this was actually my backup plan in case i lost confidence and i didn't want but

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i was going to do it on that side where they're kind of taller

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so wow

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seems totally fine yeah i don't think we took any damage

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coming into the grass there because like i said i had already cut the power

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if you see the flies hell yeah brother

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they said it couldn't be done wait who was the one who said it

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couldn't be done that was us wasn't it uh luke seems to be on to us

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i called him and said we needed to meet

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tomorrow for a video thing and maybe it was i said the fact i said

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it was Floatplane related maybe he'd put two and two together but he's like

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oh is it that plane that's in the office so i lied to him i said no it's not so

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we're gonna have to be like ha ha yes it was got you

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so it's last minute preparation time we have finally mounted the pontoons

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making it properly a Floatplane can i hold it up for a second

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are you are you guys good can i just hold it up for a second

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ah and we're doing some last minute prep while luke waits for us upstairs so

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we're trying to get a gopro mounted inside the cockpit which would be super

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cool like actually looking out through the cockpit and then alex is trying to

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figure out the uh the servos and rubber bands and

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whatnot that

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we need to hook up here we lied to you

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so i did call it haha yes it was

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shut up we made a working Floatplane

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it flies it does fly really of course it flies

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this is Linus tech tips and there is a full quad core

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machine with m.2 SSD 32 gigs of RAM

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and Thunderbolt 3

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inside that's amazing functioning computer functioning plane wanna go fly

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it yes all right let's go so he went into the warehouse to borrow

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a speaker for a wedding yeah like a bluetooth speaker and he saw the plane

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after all those i even stopped at it was like whoa

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that's cool i wonder what that's for who's working

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on this and the stupid thing is that i thought i was being so clever

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telling you it's Floatplane related yeah yeah

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i know we just gave this to you but there is a very good chance that it will

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not survive the day i have never done a water takeoff or landing and i have only

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even successfully landed a plane

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sort of once should we just go for it or what

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the water's really still it's nice that all these trees are around here yeah

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there's one duck that's kind of in the way there so i kind of wait for him to

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yeah maybe get out of there you could probably turn that way

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yeah i want to take off directly away from me though just because it's a

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little easier bring it back to control sure

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okay actually hold on

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hold on yeah oh yeah he's gotta run you know what let's just

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do it whoa okay

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alrighty then oh wow this is actually this is a very

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small pond this is a much smaller park than i had

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last time

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it is gusty it is gusty today

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if there was any doubt that it's gusty let me

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set your mind at ease about that

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there's some chop there's some chop in the air

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no no i'm not that low it's okay

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the wind just picked me right up there did you guys see that

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that was not me on the elevator

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oh wow

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not the smoothest landing of all time

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the massdrop xakg k7xx red edition

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open-backed headphones feature its predecessor's legendary sound and build

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quality which made it a big hit with the audiophile community and some

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improvements so the highs are getting boosted by an innovative flat wire voice

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coil mids are getting brought up to better balance the range and the lows

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were raised by three decibels for a more immersive sound this was a collaborative

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design with mass drop and akg and includes a custom ruby red color way to

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help the aesthetic really pop from the competition it features a 10 foot

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detachable cable and you can check it out now at the link in the video

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description so there you have it the world's first

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Floatplane no no it's yours the world's first Floatplane pc for co a

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Floatplane

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now let's make sure the computer still works at some point but i'm sure it's

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fine i'm sure it's fine we just we just tested it before we came out

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yeah no i honestly i don't even think so yeah

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we got the i'm glad we put the tape on though i'm really glad we put the tape on so guys

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