40 Biggest NEVER BUILT Aircraft concepts! 100th Video Special!
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There are a lot of insane aircraft designs that never saw the light of day, and many have asked how they compare to each other. So why not chuck them in to the mix and size them up together?
Welcome to a very special video, the 100th video on the channel.
Bell X-22
Its ability to fly, compact design and stable flight dubbed it the perfect blend of a helicopter and plane.
Submersable seaplane - 50.5 feet long, 15.39 meters
it has the ability to sink below the waves and hunt its prey - submarines.
the XB 35 and YB 49
Originally a world war two bomber concept, this flying wing aircraft would do away with the flaws of modern planes
Yak 38
The yak 38 was a experimental russian vtol fighter jet design
Railplane
While technically not a plane, it was an aircraft on tracks. Developed in Scotland
Cl-346
Shockingly, US engineers had an idea to make a vtol flighter as early back as the 1950s.
the Kingfish
While many viewers might know of the SR-71 Blackbird - few know about its rival secret project, the Convair Kingfish
Avro arrow
Perhaps the most controversial aircraft design, this was about to enter full production in canada
fairchild dornier
From the creators of the A-10 warthog comes the Fairchild Dornier.
SR72
The current underdevelopment replacement for the SR-71
Baade
In the 1950s, iron curtain east germany developed an aircraft concept that was superior to soviet designs
Vtol Jetliner, Hawkersidley HS.141
Speaking of before their time, we have the Hawkersiddiley HS141, vtol commercial plane.
Aroura
Flying at mach 6 above the world with dount shaped rings, this spy plane uses a new type of engine that doesn't yet exist
Seamaster p6m
Ah the sea master, a nuclear bomber that could land on any ocean, and the navy's answer to the B-52.
TR3b - ?
The proposed flying dorito, or the TR-3b black manto, is a top secret project that apparently doesn't exist and has been flying using anti-gravity technology.
Convair ramjet
What happens when you combine a missile and a submarine, you get the convair nuclear powered and nuclear delivering ramjet.
7J7 Prop fan
using radical new engine technology, this boeing design would change the japanese market, and then the world
MC-21
The russian answer to the Boeing 737
Boeing 797 middle of the market jet
The Boeing 797 was designed as a middle-of-the-market aircraft to take on airbus
VVP-6 - 49 m / 160
With six giant rotors, this russian helicopter would have become the biggest helicopter design ever designed.
Forgotten Japanese 787-3 and the Airbus A350-800
Boeing 2707
The Boeing version of the Concorde was giant, 277 passengers and could fly faster than the European equivalents.
Lockheed L-2000
The 2nd choice in the supersonic arms race was the lockheed L-2000, a supersonic jet that was cheaper to build but not as technologically superior.
Boeing Sonic cruiser
Ushered in 2001, the Boeing sonic cruiser was a aircraft able to fly faster than convential aircraft of the time.
Nuclear 747
This project is one of the most scariest ever designs. A 747 that could carry not just one ICBM nuke inside of its fulsage, but six, and lauch them from the air.
747-500 prop fan
Speaking of power, consider the 747-500 prop fan version
MD-12
Not to be caught out in the double decker phase, Mcdonnad douglas designed their own double deck a380
747X double decker
Before the 747-8 was invented, Boeing wanted to bring to the market a double deck version
Hyper Cargo
The future of large cargo transportation
Parwig
The american ekranoplan was developed as part of a strategic nuclear weapon platform
Lockheed Super transport
Before the A380, Lockheed came up with a large, fat design of a plane that would be perfect for long haul flights
Airbus A380neo, plus and strech
Airbus wasn't quite done with the A380, and had several plans to build a cargo version
C-5 galaxy civil plane
believe it or not, there was a plan to turn the c-5 galaxy into a passenger plane
Triple Deck Monster
A huge triple deck monster plane, this concept was designed to see how many passengers we could fit onboard a conventional aircraft.
Nuclear tug
Why not drag them instead with a nuclear powered tug-plane.
Star raker
Part of a plan to build 80 solar powerplants in orbit, the star raker was a space plane that could do weekly trips into outerspace.
Tu-404
Not to be left out in the cold, Russia came up with its own super massive flying concept.
Boeing Pelican
The Boeing pelican was a design built to solve the cargo problem, and allow armies to be transported across oceans
Boeing RC
In the 70s when oil was cheap and in high demand, Boeing came up with a flying oil tanker to reach deep within alaska
Cl-1201
the biggest plane never built
I bet you have a lot of questions about everything... I've done videos on all the planes in this video, so click above to visit my channel and browse them all :)
Sure!
Amazing video. I actually wanted to know how big those planes are. Keep up the good work! 👍
The algorithm strikes again! But this time I'm glad 😂 +1 aaaand subbed. Looking forward to binge watching when able.
Sure
People need to see ur channel, just a bit of animation tweaking and you'll be a very successful youtuber
"40 Biggest NEVER BUILT Aircraft concepts!"
*Shows aircraft that were actually built*
It annoys me too
Not to mention that some of the models, 2707 for example it had swing wings, are wrong. Some of these concepts I have never heard of and I have been in aviation all my life.
Well he may of been referring to aircraft that never went into full scale production. Idk
@@worm3165 YaK-38 Forger was in service from 1976 to 1991
@@Chipmunk_of_Vengeance Just looked that up right and you were right. Guy's got some explaining to do, lol, it was still an enjoyable video. The last one was awesome, its a literal flying military base.
Preposterous. None of these are as big as the giant airplanes that my friends and I drew in elementary school. 😉
You are right
@@FoundAndExplained tyvm 🛫
Same
11:49 - Sadly, An-225 is now history ... :(
Rip
RIP
RIP
They might bring the surviving hull to flight. I heard rumors.
RIP AN-225, it got destroyed by the Russians
The billions of dollars Elon Musk put into Twitter could've been used to create these beautiful aircraft wonders. A shame... 😔
I prefer Twitter
@@user-co8uy5rb2s You're joking
@@user-co8uy5rb2si preffer aircrafts
He couldn’t control and manipulate large numbers of people that way.
You are being controlled right now.
At 2:15 the aicraft displayed is Yak 38 and was operational in USSR navy. The aircraft you’re talking about as an inspiration for the american model is the experimental Yak141.
That's right. Yak-141 was developed as the successor to Yak-38, forming squadrons on aircraft cruisers. But USSR government was not too inspired by VTOL jets. And after the crash of USSR they freezed project and later forgot about that at all, but two planes were saved and now are located in Air Force museum in Monino, Russia
Indeed. Seeing Yak 38 on the "never built" list - almost forty years after seeing it in the flesh - was quite amusing.
Yeahno, the yak-141 had nothing to do with the f-35b
@@chaoticneutral9903 The USSR wanted a VTOL because of the lack of Aircraft carries. Their plan was to used cargo ships as a makeshift carrier as a stop-gap while modernizing the navy.
The Yak 38 had several performance issues: Speed, stability and reliability. But the gov loved the concept so they launched another one. But the USSR broke up before turning the Yak 141 into serial production. Putin is financing a new VTOL project.
@@jb76489 try again. Yakovlev were approached by Lockheed Martin to technology share the Yak-141 to develop the VTOL variant of the F-35.
The CL-1201 straight up looks like something out of Ace Combat. Actually several of these do
Ace Combat loves using concept and prototype aircraft, often their original aircraft are tweaked concepts
ITS TIME
XB-35 is literally Arsenal bird
I have the same though XD
@@zeedonkulous7387 i thought the same thing
2:44 purple traffic light 😳
Sus 😳😳😳
😳😳😳😳😳
Move sideways
8:00 is something i would build in ksp
"the proposed flying dorito"had me dead😂
Next week's video will feature the Hughes Aircraft "TACO," (Tactical AirCraft to Orbit).
GTA need put it
Star scream from the Micheal Bay Transformers movies should’ve turned into that.
I didn't pay attention to what was being said, all I cared about was seeing those plane fly.
Btw, that Boeing Pelican looks phenomenal.
seriously I can't wait for yall to see it! This weekend!
I couldn't help me self. (〃ﾟ3ﾟ〃)
yes, the aircraft that transports armies acrost [sic ]oceans in hours, not months.
I'm betting it was a ground-effect design.
@@Blakgryf It was
16:31 and how precisely were they planning to hide such a massive vehicle? I feel like youd notice the moon and half the sky disappearing
Paint the bottom blue, that way it looks like the sky,
Before the invasion lander goes in, the aircraft carrier sends in SEADS planes in waves to eliminate any air defense resistance.
As a college project I made a model of the four engined Blenhem concept, it would have filled the role of heavy bomber but never got beyond the drawing board. As a bit of fun I have made the Boeing Blue Whale with a high wing and over wing engines it is a 747 based flying boat, it must be the way to go as you don't need bigger runways and you save the weight of the undercarriage 😊.
So your telling me Ace Combat Superweapons are still a possibility?
Arsenal bird is a dream that can be reached
Well, NASA Helios design looks like Arsenal Bird though
Maybe in the future ? Lul
Would love to see Gleipnir soon
A lot of planes and vehicles from *video games* are possible today. It's like the old saying: "what is fiction today, can be reality tomorrow." it's why I always tell people not to assume that just because we lack the technology (or science) to make or do something right now, that it'll never happen.
Be looking like the arsenal bird fr
The title says "NEVER BUILT" But Most of these was built in ether concept or prototype
Maybe so, but what he means is they were never put into actual production.
Yak38 was retired in 1991
SOVIET UNION
@@skiy2239 THATS THE USSR
a few x-22 prototypes were built too
Surprising number of videos about the TR-3B this past year or two. Remember seeing info about this craft years ago and seen the rumours change from speculation of ET craft to US Naval Office Black Project. I’m a believer, have seen similar craft with my own eyes flying in the night sky over Canada in the past and seen photos from other countries, most famously the Belgian UFO wave.
XB 35, the arsenal bird. A great concept and a fun boss battle
Oh man, the world would be a lot more Ace Combat-y if these were all put into production.
A lot rare
*"I T ' S T I M E"*
Star raker is a ark bird
Here comes the snow
*goes from convair submersible sea plane to the XB 39 *
*“Well that escalated quickly..”*
3:17 kinda looks lime a upside-down F-22
0:28 exPLANEd
Hey Found and Explained, could you also cover this 1993 Patent titled "Electromagnetic Energy Propulsion Engine" granted to James R. Taylor [US5197279A] which seems like a some sort of tic-tac cuz I'm starting to think that human invention is the more likely scenario? Anyways, great work and keep it up man!
Yes it’s on my list!
it seems that anti grav technology may have been discovered in the late fifties and then went totally black and was wiped from history, there were a lot of newspaper articles for a brief period of a couple of weeks at that time stating that people would soon be able to travel in ways that they made sound like modern ufo's and then it went silent, also in the late 1800's and early 1900's there were numerous sightings of craft referred to as airships piloted by people that used traditional light sources and materials of the day but seemed to have anti gravity capabilities, they were supposedly created by a group of german americans who started the senoma aerospace club and financed by a german group called nimsa
@@King_Flippy_Nips Seems more likely it just failed
@@kenetickups6146 seems more like sus
Yes, I've always believed it was our technology rather than aliens. It's always been strange to me how the government seems to want to push the alien idea and it made me think it's all just a cointellpro.
There's one golden question
"What in the cursed ace combat sh*t is this?!"
especially the last plane, it's size is like the XB-0 Hresvelgr
12:14: An Air France livery on a supersonic jet?
OH SHHHHH-
*FLASHBACKS INTENSIFY*
AWESOME VIDEO! I love experimental aircraft designs especially heavy lift and it's hard to find a lot of info on them.
"Or what the CIA would have you to believe."
I don't know if it was intentional or not but I feel like that's a tribute to Norm McDonald. God Bless that man.
Yeah since one guy owns all skeptism of the CIA....a secret government organization......
@@JamecBond nah but he sure had a good time joking at their expense, lol
God bless that chunk ol coal
“This 3 engine plane that looks like it’s from Tin-Tin”
Damn that brought back some memories
6:25 I always dreamed of riding a missile
Kim Jong un living your dream
This is great, very good production values. I'm glad I got the chance to fly on the A380 a couple of times, such an amazing aircraft. It makes me really sad to see it's program end. At least it became reality unlike most of the others in this list.
So technically the XB-35 and YB-49 were both built. They just never entered full-scale production, ending, instead, at proof-of-concept demonstrators. For that matter, I'm pretty sure the jet version wasn't a whole new aircraft, but was actually a direct upgrade of one or more of the propeller powered versions.
Correct. This video is more like largest aircraft that never entered service.
The YB-49 was a serious development project. The loss of stability issues were impossible to correct with the technology of the time and the program was abandoned.
The best video of the YB can be seen in the 50s George Pal movie War of the Worlds.
XB-35 was also used in Captain America at the end of the movie.
@@The.Real.Batman. I'm willing to bet that was a CGI version, though. The real aircraft haven't flown since the 50's or 60's.
"Only has the name Aurora"
Subnautica players: that sounds familiar
I live in NW Arizona and witness a aircraft flying over my home at what was at least 40,000 ft and was moving at what zI estimated to be mach 4 leaving a " Doughnut on a chain type of contrails. Couldn't really make out shape of the craft due to altitude but the doughnut contrails and the speed of the formation and movement of the same was unmistakeable.
12:03 the hell is that goofy ah looking plane😭
I can't get enough of those 3D models. They look absolutely fantastic.
@lordcarti Absolutely not lmfao
can you say I look fantastic
@@eff0563you look
6:02 nobody going to talk about the fact that this looks IDENTICAL to the ufos seen recently
Huh. Didn’t notice.
Or how that technology is literally impossible at this stage of humanity.
@@syox if I threw a brick at you and you didn't know what hit you it would have been an UFO to you so yes they are very real. I do agree with you however that it's highly unlikely for alien spacecraft to visit earth.
@@layzabullit TBF you have no clue. This tech was being put to the test in the 1960s? Area 51 had the tech from either crashed UFOs, or UFOs dug up archeologically. Personally I think I saw that craft back in 2009, wichita, KS. Even seeing the thing come to a dead stop mid flight, seeing the 3 orbs of light switching positions. I guarantee intigravity craft has been done before and flown here in america. Maybe even 60 years ago...
@@zealt0163 people have been seeing this exact "Black Triangle UFO" for decades, a very long time. I feel like all of the new sightings are from the tic tac, or balloons
My favorite part of this video is seeing how some games and movies adapt these designs into their universes.
RIP AN-225. Guess the second-to-last plane will be built
**Never built**
Yak-38
+Doubt
Favorite plane:
9:46 sonic cruiser
11:44 hyper cargo
12:11 drake hyper sonic
13:00 lockheed super transport
14:17 nuclear tug
14:30 star raker
15:00 TU 404
15:43 boeing RC1
I like TU-404 the most, as it is the loudest of all!! (Love turboprops because all are noisy above 25,000ft, compared to turbofans that start to get really quiet past 30,000ft high.)
Not Drake, but rather Drako Airbus Mach 3 Commercial Concept
@@Entity_BlackRed777 sakarep mu
CL-1201 is my favourite because I just really want to see it fly
drake
Lol I like how all those aircraft could potentially dock comfortably under the wings of the CL-1201
Wow,first time I have watched one of your videos and loved it 👍
The Avro Arrow has always bothered me, even as a kid. A lot of these were pipe dreams or competing contracts that never got the go ahead. Avro had functioning planes that weren't prototypes. The Arrow was built, it was ready to go, it was so close to changing the entire dynamic of which countries had air superiority, which countries other countries go to for their military aircrafts, and it would've moved aircraft design forward massively. If it had been made Canada could very well be producing military jets today. It was so far ahead of the curve and got shafted so thoroughly and that always bothered me, that politics destroyed something so advanced, and for a county whose military vehicles are now everybody else's old gear, this would've changed everything from that standpoint. I'm big into aircraft and the "what if" of the Arrow just bothers me a lot, because of how close it was. It was real and then it was gone.
There’s plausible evidence that one was smuggled out of the country under the cover of night on the day they were supposed to be destroyed, many people reported seeing a completely unmarked Arrow land, take on fuel, and high tail the fuck out at an airport near the boarder
Prime example of politicians being stupid
But a lot of those canadian aerospace engineers went on to work on the Apollo missions and helped put us on the moon
@@stoneymacaroni true, but I think that's why 1boredcanadian is saying they would still have a solid industry today. When the Aero got the ax - just weeks before full production began - Avro had to let go most of its staff. The very day of the layoffs, there were recruiters from Boeing, Lockheed and other aerospace firms literally standing outside The Avro headquarters in Ontario, offering jobs to those brilliant engineers. Some went on to the Apollo program, some went on to build the Concorde, but few remained in Canada.
The avro was a failure, it had crap range, no maneuverability, and its entire role was phased out because russia switched to icbm's. It wasn't GOOD for anything but intercepting supersonic bombers, which were no longer a threat
Love seeing this channel grow and the dedication you have to your fans is unmatched. A rare feat nowadays
Another great job and video!
Rip Antonov-a-225 😭
Its litteraly a Warcrime to kill a Sleeping Grandmother😢, the only one
an225 not dead 😡😡😡😡😡
planes don't die
A phenomenal video. I already love the channels that show mockups of real and SF vehicles, but yours go a step further, with more colourful models, gorgeous in-action renderings, and your mellifluous voice narrative that graciously takes me through the reasons for their permanent grounding.
Great work to you and all.
Wow, thanks! thats a great comment :)
CL-1201 sounds like a ace combat plane.
Excellent video. Thank you.
7:20 The MC-21 is now built an hab the first fly on the 23th December 2021 😊
Awesome video Nick! Perfect for nr 100 because it's basically a compilation of all/most videos that you have made so far. Keep up the great work man! ✌️
Great content mate :) I was flying when you uploaded this VOD.
Yes, I like everything found and explained
What an informative and entertaining video. Love it
Imagine if all of these planes actually went into production, it will be insane
Form any of them - any decision to place them into production would be insane. The YB-49 had serious stability issues which led to every prototype being destroyed when they lost stability in flught.
They’re all built, they’re currently hiding in Area 51
5:48 P6M Seamaster actually was build.
Nice video mate!
Northrops XB-35 and YB-49 were built. And they have flied those years. They were not put into service, but still, they are not just concepts tho
Amazing video, keep it up 😁👍🏻
Thank you! 😁 I will! Best comment I have seen today
he forgot the saunders roe queen and the yak 38 actually served with the soviet military
Yak-38 was even produced in fairly large amounts (over 200 units)
Here before 10M views!
@Found And Explained, Kudos on producing some DAMN FINE ANIMATION/GRAPHICS!!
Wow those are really awesome
The XB-35 is actually what inspired the Arsenal bird (AKA: Big baby Huey) from Ace combat 7.
The “V-22” that you show is from the 1960s, and is actually the “X”-22.
The “V”-22 is the Osprey, currently in service.
I've just now found your vids. Very good vids. I might subscribe.
Superb 100 video my UA-cam friend!!!
I can't be the only one who uses these concepts as KSP designs lol
I'm thoroughly convinced the TR-3B exists. And I'm impressed you brought it up.
Absolutely *loved* this video, bud! And i look forward to seeing more!
Bruh
Anti gravity magic doesn’t exist
@@rubyhillman1859 you don't know that
Great work. I'm a little late but love the channel!
13:45 Nice
Today is a blessed day, for FnE has uploaded once again!
I love this comment. I shared it with my partner
@@FoundAndExplained YAK-141 seems interesting...
Quite interesting video, thank you! But... Yak-38 was at regular service in the SU Navy; Yak-141 was built as an experimental one; MC-21 just begins its life and 7 planes are built for various tests, 100+ items are in production pipeline.
I know for sure that those three cannot be qualified as "never built" but what about the rest of the list? ;)
Around 1977 I saw something that looked like the TR3B Black Manta fly over me near Portland Oregon. It was at night and it was silent. The lights were slightly different, but the shape is exactly like I saw. It went and hovered 10-20 miles away and stayed there for about 30 minutes when it and TWO OTHER lights went to the East and upward.
I saw the 3 lights in 2009, wichita KS. I saw the thing gliding like a normal airplane, then it came to a dead stop, then the orbs faded off. It was dark enough that I couldn't see the shape
When I saw the VTOL JETLINER all I could think is how LOUD that thing would've been with 8 engines right next to the windows. That's only on one side not including the engine under the wing. Good gracious!
I don’t think those were each individual engines, but there still were some extra engines someplace - and having it fly in and out of an airport in the middle of a city would also have been incredibly noisy!
@@Sashazur Those were all engines that was one of the biggest problems it had. Back then engines weren't as powerful, So, they would've needed that many. Either way, I can't imagine how loud that thing would've been flying in it or as a resident in a city next to it.
Yak-38 was actually built and Internet service the Yak-41 experimental supersonic which Lockheed did help with at the end of its development life before the project was scrapped
All four of the Yak-41/141 prototypes were built and flown years before Lockheed came into the picture. Lockheed proposed paying for the construction of 3-5 upgraded prototypes, but with all the chaos in the collapsed country, they realized this would be too risky. Ultimately they ended up just buying the Yak-141 tech docs in order to employ them in their own designs. That's all the "help" Lockheed provided in this development.
You should change the title to “Aircraft that never made it into production”.
They builded 231 Yak-38.
1:05 wait til this guy hears about the v-22 ausprey
12:19 omg new concorde
Flying Wing XB-35 and YF suffered one fatal flaw for bombers. It couldn't hit a target because of the yawing wing wobble caused by the lack of a rudder, or the fly by wires computer control to dampen it out (as used with the B2).
I have to say this is very cool and interesting, to ponder. I also have to state that, I have always believed the essential ingredients for any aircraft is the power source. For instance, if we ( Free world) have, say a power source that defies conventional laws of physics, chemistry, motion, etc. we would in essences, have a unique perspective. I mean we would be able to fly anywhere probably ( hyper realities ) and most importantly "AERODYNAMICS" would not matter in a friction air environment with bombardment of solar radiation, etc. Now, if you see or read about orbs in the sky, the things that they do is remarkable. Lastly they appear to be shapes that sometimes are not necessarily aerodynamically sound. I just reason that it has to be the power source. Whatever they have, it appears to be from somewhere else.
This is the most beautiful Video I've ever seen.
Hey @found and explained I love your videos and this one is my favorite but how about the next one being about the top 40 largest buildings never built?!
I've always said that the Avro "Arrow" should not have been cancelled. If Canada had continued, they could have sold the jet interceptor to other countries to defray the costs and lower the price per unit. However, the incoming Government was, as corporations do, looking only at their "bottom line", and missiles were cheaper. Still pissed after all these years.
You have my middle names and I agree
One word for the TU-404 :
*THICK*
Im really happy the avro aero was mentioned, not many people know about it. At my house, my dad has a picture of the blueprints framed on the wall
The XB-35 reminds me of the B-2 "Stealth Bomber". I saw the B2 fly over my house multiple times during carpet bombing simulations, it was rad!
Na that the Arsenal bird from ace combat 7 1:41
5:37 yea its real its obviously a star wars star destroyer
13:47 that doesn't sound a bad idea
It’s a dorito
Nvm I saw the Black Manta
WOOOW THX FOR IDEAS I LIKE THAT PLANE LOOKS LIKE a380
Wow that is awesome
16:25 Imagine if that behemoth crashed into the ground with all those people inside. Maybe that's why it wasn't built
The tow plane was also a generally stupid idea. One bout of turbulence from any of the planes would send them all crashing down
@@buddabro6722 Agreed, lol
231 Yak-38s were built... misleading. I still liked it tho.
I think the author was thinking of the Yak 141, who's design was actually influential to the F-35 when it was in much earlier stage of development, but even that one had at least two prototypes built
@@niggalini us company paid the company behind the yak141 out of going bankrupt in return for the yak141 design and even had them build some for testing of the Vtol engine
Awesome video
In a WINGS chapter about the B36 they explained that the B49 was in contention for the bomber role at that time but some unexplained politics hindered it from being selected. It had its day many decades later and shortly before his death, Jack Northrop was shown a model of what today is known as the B2 Spirit and he was told it had been chosen for production. It was well known since the beginning that the flying wing was a brilliant design.
As I remember from the TV series "The age of aerospace" sponsored by Boeing themself, the Boeing 2707 has a pair of wings which can change it's angle due to speed instead of a fixed wing design shown in the video
The swing wing design was abandoned early on as it proved to be highly impractical for a passenger plane
@@Solnoric not impractical, but too complex to design and build
@@edgardox.feliciano3127 so, you're saying it wasn't a practical thing to do.
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, I would like you to make a video about the one and only rocket fighter (I guess)
Great suggestion but the Komet wasn’t the only rocket fighter in WWll, the Natter and Japanese Okha also saw limited action and a few more types were prototyped ( If i recall correctly the russians also built a small straight wing rocket beriev)
Horten 229 is also interesting.
Flying wing by Germany.
@@000theUnforgiven000 seems like the Natter was right on the borderline between fighter and human-piloted SAM
and the Okha was a purpose-built kamikaze plane more akin to a cruise missile
@@boymahina123 Facts. That said still rocket engined and judging the Komet on pilot casualty rates you’d be forgiven for thinking its also a kamikaze
@@000theUnforgiven000 I mean, hastily built winged tin cans with rocket engines that use fuel that can explode when you blow on it too hard arent gonna be all that survivable. (Obviously exaggeration, but it's pretty close)
5:21 YAY! SR-91! I recognized that plane the moment it came into view. I thought, "Could it be? Really? Yes, Aurora gets mentioned! Yay!" I still believe they actually built these, as I have seen some very odd black triangles crossing the sky. Of course, the ones I have seen have pale blue or blue-green exhaust plumes, which looks more like rocket exhaust.
The fact that this video is about aircraft and his mic quality is just like that of a PSA on an airplane is just satisfying.
I'm glad I could get that perfect for you!
Honestly, from the title I was expecting the biggest aircraft concepts that were never built. Still a good video though. Oh and no way would the YB-49 have been a contender against the B-36, it didn't have anything like the range or lifting capacity and operational ceiling and our then-current nukes wouldn't even have fit in it, plus without fly by wire technology and computers it was far too longitudinally unstable. Rip captain glen Edwards.
It's weird how you say "it could achieve X speed" on a plane that never left the idea stage and relied on not fully fleshed out technology as that implies there would be no manufacturing or developing issues that would limit the actual capabilities of said plane. Saying "it was planned to have X speed/range/capacity" seems much more sensible.
Many of the planes he mentioned were built and tested. The title of the video is quite misleading.
Very nice presentation and interesting show!