X-15 Hypersonic Aircraft. Flying At 4,520 mph, And 354,200 feet High In A Rocket Plane
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- The story of North American X-15 hypersonic rocket aircraft, reaching a top speed of Mach 6.70 and a staggering height of 67.1 mi (335.000 ft / 108 km). Learn about the courageous pilots that flew it and a brief history of rocket planes, including the Bell X-1, piloted by Chuck Yeager, the first to break the sound barrier, or the Bell X-2 that flew at Mach 3. The X-15 first flight was in mid 1959, more than 60 years ago. It also includes a series of vintage documentaries on the subject.
The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the 1960s, reaching the edge of outer space and returning with valuable data used in aircraft and spacecraft design. The X-15's highest speed, 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h; 2,021 m/s), was achieved on 3 October 1967, when William J. Knight flew at Mach 6.7 at an altitude of 102,100 feet (31,120 m), or 19.34 miles. This set the official world record for the highest speed ever recorded by a crewed, powered aircraft, which remains unbroken.
During the X-15 program, 12 pilots flew a combined 199 flights. Of these, 8 pilots flew a combined 13 flights which met the Air Force spaceflight criterion by exceeding the altitude of 50 miles (80 km), thus qualifying these pilots as being astronauts; of those 13 flights, two (flown by the same civilian pilot) met the FAI definition (100 kilometres (62 mi)) of outer space. The 5 Air Force pilots qualified for military astronaut wings immediately, while the 3 civilian pilots were eventually awarded NASA astronaut wings in 2005, 35 years after the last X-15 flight.
The X-15 was based on a concept study from Walter Dornberger for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) for a hypersonic research aircraft. The requests for proposal (RFPs) were published on 30 December 1954 for the airframe and on 4 February 1955 for the rocket engine. The X-15 was built by two manufacturers: North American Aviation was contracted for the airframe in November 1955, and Reaction Motors was contracted for building the engines in 1956.
Like many X-series aircraft, the X-15 was designed to be carried aloft and drop launched from under the wing of a B-52 mother ship. Air Force NB-52A, "The High and Mighty One" (serial 52-0003), and NB-52B, "The Challenger" (serial 52-0008, a.k.a. Balls 8) served as carrier planes for all X-15 flights. Release of the X-15 from NB-52A took place at an altitude of about 8.5 miles (13.7 km) and a speed of about 500 miles per hour (805 km/h). The X-15 fuselage was long and cylindrical, with rear fairings that flattened its appearance, and thick, dorsal and ventral wedge-fin stabilizers. Parts of the fuselage (the outer skin) were heat-resistant nickel alloy (Inconel-X 750). The retractable landing gear comprised a nose-wheel carriage and two rear skids. The skids did not extend beyond the ventral fin, which required the pilot to jettison the lower fin just before landing. The lower fin was recovered by parachute.
The initial 24 powered flights used two Reaction Motors XLR11 liquid-propellant rocket engines, enhanced to provide a total of 16,000 pounds-force (71 kN) of thrust as compared to the 6,000 pounds-force (27 kN) that a single XLR11 provided in 1947 to make the Bell X-1 the first aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound. The XLR11 used ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen.
By November 1960, Reaction Motors delivered the XLR99 rocket engine, generating 57,000 pounds-force (250 kN) of thrust. The remaining 175 flights of the X-15 used XLR99 engines, in a single engine configuration. The XLR99 used anhydrous ammonia and liquid oxygen as propellant, and hydrogen peroxide to drive the high-speed turbopump that delivered propellants to the engine. It could burn 15,000 pounds (6,804 kg) of propellant in 80 seconds; Jules Bergman titled his book on the program Ninety Seconds to Space to describe the total powered flight time of the aircraft.
Specifications
North American X-15 3-view.svg
Other configurations include the Reaction Motors XLR11 equipped X-15, and the long version.
General characteristics:
Crew: One
Length: 50 ft 9 in (15.47 m)
Wingspan: 22 ft 4 in (6.81 m)
Height: 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m)
Wing area: 200 sq ft (19 m2)
Empty weight: 14,600 lb (6,622 kg)
Gross weight: 34,000 lb (15,422 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Reaction Motors XLR99-RM-2 liquid-fuelled rocket engine, 70,400 lbf (313 kN) thrust
Performance
Maximum speed: 4,520 mph (7,270 km/h, 3,930 kn)
Range: 280 mi (450 km, 240 nmi)
Service ceiling: 354,330 ft (108,000 m)
Rate of climb: 60,000 ft/min (300 m/s)
Thrust/weight: 2.07
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Konstanty Ciolkowski was not a Russian, please check biography.
@@senamy424 Born: September 17, 1857, Izhevskoe, Russia
Died: September 19, 1935, Kaluga, Russia. Perhaps you are referring to his Polish origins (his father was, but his mother was Russian)?
I will give you a good example: Amedeo Giannini was the founder of Bank of America, under his tenure the bank became the largest and most powerful bank in the word (it is still pretty powerful even today). Amedeo Giannini's parents were both Italian and the mother left from Italy to the USA when she was pregnant with him. Amedeo is not considered Italian, bu American, and hardly any Italian knows his name. In The U.S.A. he made the cover of Time magazine more than once in his times, being called one of the titans of history.
Perhaps we missed something? If we use the same logic, unless I am missing something, then Steve Jobs was really Syrian (his real father was). etc.
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Nice documentary. New sub. I remember as a kid 6-7y.o. growing up in Southern California and hearing numerous sonic booms going off. They would rattle the house windows. After a while it just became an accepted and expected thing, The 60s were a great time, science and music wise, to be a young person growing up during the first space program.
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In the early 60's I was a young child and our neighbor worked for Goodyear Aerospace. He said to my Dad, Joe, we are going to the moon. My Dad at that time found it hard to believe. My Dad in July will be 89. The week I was born, Oct 9th, 1957, Sputnik was launched. I always did have a fascination for space and astronomy..
My 6th grade teacher was married to a systems mechanic on the X-15; so, when he came home he shared any exciting stuff with her to tell our class. We were all AF Brats. Our teacher taught a unique 6th grade ciricula of History/people of the Americans; so we learned spanish too; then new kids from other locations would join our class, she asked them to bring something they ate in the foreign country they came from. Always a great friday lunch in our class.
All 3 generations fully brainwashed.
@@paulmidd5523 I suppose you're here to tell us that if we believe the Earth is a globe, and that people have flown in space, that we are all brainwashed.
@@x15galmichelleevans I never said any shape that there is a fabrication in your own minds.
@@paulmidd5523 So then, how about you explain what your brainwashing comment actually was supposed to confer.
All this were done without modern day computers.
Exactly, one of the reasons they got things done 😉
@@wagner9050 indeed it does.
@@Dronescapes They get magnitudes more done with modern computers.
@@StephanieB67 just a joke, allow me...Yes, they make rendering upon rendering of things that will never be. Jokes aside, you have to admit that they did get things done back then. It took NASa only a few years to put a man on the moon, starting from zero knowledge, and these days we hope it "might" happen in 2025, when it was actually announced when G. Bush was President. I understand that it is also about safety, etc. as we have different standards, but with all the aquired knowledge (and all the computers), you would think that it would take them no time.
sometimes I wonder: if we are all potentially connected, billions of people being able to exchange information in an istant, how comes we did not solve problems like cure cancer, stop climate change, invent 10 different clean fuels that are sustainable, figure out how not to pollute water, found alternatives to plastic, or wiped hunger out of the planet? We are all interconnected and we watch TikTok videos all day, people believe in the craziest conspiracies, 30% of millenials are not even sure if the earth round or flat, or that the capital of Italy is France! It does not seem to me that things are progressing at the pace you would have thought the should have. It seems that it takes many more poeple to do what a single person did 30 years ago. It might be that all the computers actually halted "contamination" of ideas, the ability to communicate, and lowered the bar in many ways. Most comments are one line ones, or an emoji. Maybe it also led us to a breakdown in communications.
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I remember watching all this as a child. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo. Fascinating.
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When I was a kid, back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, what fantastic machines were developed using pencil and paper and slide rules! The X-15, the SR-71, the XB-70. Hats off to the fine folks at Dronescapes for delivering unto us all these most excellent and educational documentaries.
i Agree great video and avoiding the T'Rexes was hell.
Contrary to the popular myth that they weren't used during the design and development of the X15, SR71 and the XB70 the truth is computers were indeed used for designing all three of those aircraft and many more from that era, that's to say electronic computers and not mechanical one's such as the slide rule which actually is a computer itself, but when it comes to electronic computers yes, they were used in the design and development of all three of those.
Even in this day and age computers don't design anything, humans still do all the conceptionalizing and designing, they're simply an aid, one that can crunch number's that without them would take rooms full of people to do the same, but they don't design anything, even the smallest parts are still all conceived and designed by people.
The MIT rocket scientist in 1955 said it would take 10-15 years to get to the moon. Pretty accurate.
We are still waiting
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@@jimcatanzaro7808The village idiot speaks...
Hi Dronescapes thanks so much for video. Accurate and extremely interesting. It is staggering to contemplate that X-15, some 57 YEARS later, STILL holds the world record for fastest manned flight
( Mach 6.72 1967). Especially when one considers, as stated, that her design was built on nothing more than previous experience, estimation and trial-and-error, with materials which subsequently DRASTICALLY improved in quality especially in the areas of thermodynamics electronics, aerodynamics and others. These pilots were TRUE pioneers taking baby steps, sometimes fatally, into completely unknown realms of speed, altitude and atmospheric pressure. As history continues, these men, especially these brave pilots, will be revered and remembered.
I think it is worthwhile to mention that one of the X-15 pilots, Joe Walker, was tragically killed during an incident in a flight while flying alongside one of the two XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes in an F104N Starfighter. (The Valkyrie was also lost).
Rest In Peace, Sir
Captain Joseph Albert Walker
1921 - 1966 😢
The SR71, U2 and the X15 have always facinated me! Good video!🤔😊👍
I liked the part where they imagine the X-15 functioning as a space shuttle, bringing passengers to a "manned satellite".
1950,s.. gotta have a suit and tie..even up in the mountains..bet the shoes are even polished to a perfect shine..
I’m local to the Air Force museum by wpafb in Ohio. This is one of my favorite planes to look at. The A-12 is another favorite.
I can't imagine the brass balls it took for Chuck Yeager, who was told by some very smart people that hitting the speed of sound would be like hitting an invisible brick wall in the sky and he would immediately disintegrate, and yet doing it anyway.
Part of being in the military. You do as you are told.
I don’t see the logic that it would be a physical barrier like a solid object. Where they get that idea from? It sounds stupid to me to be honest
@@harryparsons2750 very logical! Similair to you diving in a swimming pool....its painless. But hit same water at 120mph and its like hitting a brickwall.
@@fn0rd-f5oYeager VOLUNTEERED for the Bell XS-1 program. NOBODY put a gun to his head.
Crashburn....sorry. Wrong recipient.
Beautiful!! There is always more to the story!!
Nice video
Watched it fly over attached to the B-52 while at recess in grade school.
Knew crew chief and chase pilots.
Crew chief friend had lots of Scott Crossfield stories.
"Now Scotty, if you have to dead stick this F-100 remember this. The hydraulic accumulator only stores enough hydraulic pressure for a single application of the wheel brakes." (Hamger wall incident. LOL)
Beatty is usually pronounced Bay Tee.
Ely. EE LEE.
It's crazy how safe the cockpit was, he was literally only scared for the crew when his rocket plane exploded
Your channel never ceases to amaze me.
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I hear people referring to sonic booms as if they were a Single Event.
Supersonic flight produces a Continuous Bow Wave that passes along the ground with the aircraft. As the Wave passes "Boom."
Note:
I have lived under a supersonic corridor since 1957.
The X-15 program was 100 percent just an experimental project to see how fast we could f,y in atmosphere. I guess we needed to know these things for the space program. 😊
we went around 7000 mph in around 65 but they had no use for that much speed and discontinued
Oh I remember the Starfighters we had in Norway! Starfighter was one of the first words I learned! Ah..the memories!!:) Then we got the F-16s and now we have F35s 😊😊
Great video, absolutely fascinating, and incredible work on the history of flight, the aircrafts, technology, engineering, and governments and with the US military. Great video! 🇺🇸
This thing was great and when the pilot took it into space for a few they were amazed
@@wagner9050 didn't carry enough fuel
Yeah and he was told not to
27:28 She does the _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ uniform tug
Good thing for her it's in black and white and she doesn't have a red shirt on.
The X15 class of research aeroplanes (X15) was made possible courtesy of The Miles Aircraft Company and its M.52 supersonic research aircraft project, designed in the United Kingdom in the mid-1940s. There was to be an exchange of research, which in the end occurred only one way. The M52 was to be jet turbojet-powered, not rocket powered.
There is an ongoing debate on that. Eric "Winkle" Brown surely thought so, and that's probably why Chuck Yeager did not like him (X-1). It was certainly odd that the M-52 test flight was called off at the last minute, and not long after the X-1 broke the sound barrier. This said, there is no hard evidence that this is what happened.
That's nothing but Browns claims and there's no proof of it whatsoever except for him saying it.
If there's anything you can count on in life it's the fact that anything Brown said concerning America is a lie, the fact is that man was a petty jealous little child who wasn't big enough to congratulate anyone else for an accomplishment, so like a jealous little kid he'd stomp his feet, carry on and lie if he had to in an attempt to swing attention back around in his direction when it was someone else's turn to get credit for something they did.
I've never heard that man tell the truth concerning anything about America, he's actually claimed to have witnessed Adolf Hitler shaking the hand of Jessie Owen's after winning the gold in the 36 Olympics, the only reason he told that lie is because he knows it's a point of contention about FDR not inviting Owen's to the White House after the Olympics which is a tradition so he claimed Hitler shook Owen's hand just to make FDR look even worse, every historian whose ever covered the subject knows that Hitler left the Berlin arena in a huff after Owen's won, he didn't even stay to the end much less shake Owen's hand afterwards, like we're actually supposed to believe that Adolf Hitler did that anyways, sure thing.
Another big whopper of his is the claim that in the 50's US test pilots secretly flew that piece of junk Horten flying wing, and the only reason he cooked up that lie was so he could claim that "It wasn't even flown by a 'proper' test pilot implying that had it been flown by someone presumably of his, cough, caliber, cough, then critical data would have been recovered as opposed to some cowboy just going for a joyride and precious opportunities being lost, that's such an absurd statement it's practically enough to leave someone speechless, first off it's a very well established fact that no one ever flew that disaster in the making, no test pilot in their right mind would have set foot in the cockpit of that thing, anyone who knows the truth behind that hunk of junk beyond all the sensationalism nonsense about it knows it's airframe isn't close to being something that's airworthy, it was changed and modified repeatedly when the Hortens were working on it and the workmanship isn't even close to anything that could be considered aircraft grade, test pilots in that era had degrees in engineering and anyone with that high of a level of education would take one look at something like that and refuse to have anything to do with flying it until it was completely reworked, and also to think that they flew it in the 50's yet it was something that to this day remains so classified that they still won't admit it is absurd, yea right, it was that classified yet they let a television production crew from The Discovery Channel crawl all over the thing, right, that's all believable.
Which brings us to his lie about this aircraft, the X15, according to him he put in to fly it and met all the qualifications and the only reason they didn't let him is because he wasn't a US citizen, HA!!! That's laughable, first off that being the case they'd never have wasted anyone's time putting him through all the tests and everything else he claims he passed, why would they even bothered to in the first place? They wouldn't have, the fact is he never applied to fly it nor was he ever even considered to fly it, he didn't have anywhere near the engineering background to get into something like that, like the astronauts the people who flew the X15 either had PHD's or enough education that they were just a few steps away from having one.
Sure that aircraft the RAF built would have been the first to break the sound barrier, but if someone can't swallow the cold hard fact that their own government pulled the plug on the project because half their country was still blown up and needed rebuilt instead of spending money on projects that at the end of the day were nothing but bragging rights for some then they need to get their priorities straightned out, as if people were still supposed to be without jobs and practically homeless walking through piles of rubble to get to work every day just so others could go around thumping on their chests the rest of their lives, big deal about whoever broke the sound barrier first, something like that isn't nearly as important as the people being taken care of first, especially people who'd been through so much those past years of their life, it was their turn to have their government spend some money on them instead of funding some people's egos.
@@Dronescapes There is no ongoing debate. The history is well documented. The X-1 aircraft was a British design, and the rocket engine was German.
As for Yeager, if what you say is true, he was somewhat confused.
Why risk a life for a record that's been taken? Britain, of course, eventually broke the sound barrier, in its own good time. It was the first to power a jet aircraft to 1000 miles per hour. That's jet engine, not rocket engine.
@@francocarrieri1988Obsessed and seething lmao, cry more yuropoor
@@francocarrieri1988 Yes, you are correct. There is indeed no debate, because it is bunk. To say that the X-1 was a British design is most definitely bunk. If it were a British design, please show us where the British ever flew an aircraft that looked like thew X-1. The X-1 was designed by Bell aircraft in the United States. If you wish to believe otherwise, that is certainly your prerogative. The rest of us will gone on with our lives and ignore conspiracy theories.
From 1984 to 1992, I spent my day's at Edwards Air Force Base.
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The X-15 was special
How does watching the his give me more hope than watching this give me more hope than watching anything made today
I was surprised to see in the second segment, they were talking about Polar orbits, something that is much tougher to do as you don't get the boost of the earth's rotation.
it's fairly easy to talk about it. an x15 was no more likely to use a polar orbit than it was to fly to mars.
31:00 wow the interview with General Doolittle and the red scare tactics about how we MUST be the first to 'dominate' and 'control' space at the time, just amazing.. Our history is SO interesting, the way things were back in the 50s and how they are today, they seem SO different, yet are almost exactly the same (maybe only opposite of one another) Very interesting
Sputnik had been launched 2 years before and was orbiting the earth as the first satellite (the US was quick to realize that the Soviet Union could do the same with a nuclear warhead)...General Doolittle was simply stating, "dominate or be dominated..." the Soviet Union had already taken the first step in the space race. We were just trying to keep up. Some of us remember bomb drills in school. Thanks for the post.
Amazing 👏
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I go to FSU and through the Federal Document Depository Act, we have THOUSANDS of nasa technical notes, I found the original documents talking about flight pressure distributions on the vertical stabilizers and speed breaks of the x15 airplane at mach numbers 1 to 6, and it felt illegal to be holding it
Man!. My forebears have walked in space and been the fastest Men alive and been (in my grandfather's case) had adventures in ww2 Burma.
And I'm 43 and stuck in Bathgate...
Everything about it shouts " SPEED " . With the ventral stabiliser it was basically a powered arrow . There was no nose-wheel steering but on the ground , above 100 knots roll inputs to the reaction system would cause it to deviate - by asymmetric loading to the skids (Source: At the Edge of Space - Milt Thompson) .
When I was a kid I bilt most of the aircraft as a model. I had allot of out of date revel models i was interesting in military equipment ww1 and ww2 and experimental design. I had a house fire and lost everything.
It's funny that we are still in hypersonic research and space speed.
We have a space force and need to develop a space craft.
this was 60years ago, imagine what kind of speeds we can reach nowadays….🤯
The only X-15 to do this had ablative coating to burn off at hypersonic speeds
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You're welcome!
At 31:00 this guy was speaking facts wayyy back in the day!!! Talk about ahead of your time.
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Beautiful craft.
Agreed!
This is a really, really good video. Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕
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I wish youd get your adanoids looked at mate.. Your channel is great, love all military bollocks, the more stats the beta.. Hoo-rar!! 😊
really excellent
Many many thanks
20:59 two huge WHAT tanks? 😂
4 and a half thousand miles an hour is just ridiculously fast
Oddly, Crossfield died in his 80s while flying a private plane and made a rookie mistake of going into a thunderstorm weather front. I believe there was a question if he did it on purpose or not.
It's weird to see the narrator talking about Mars and having no idea what it really looks like. Apparently, people back then were still fixated on Percival Lowell's "canals" observed in the late 19th century.
At 4:07, that's the NACA X-5 variable sweep ship, not the X-2.
the balls of these pilots
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Test pilots back in the day were just bad asses no computer simulations then just take off and punch the throttle and see what happens hope you've got the skills to deal with the problems.
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Is this Firefox in the Clint Eastwood film
I think that was the SR-71
The numbers of this aircraft speeds are well over mach 7 based on the cia declassified files
There was never anything about the X15 that was classified, that's like thinking that the speed of the Saturn V rocket was actually faster than what they told everyone because the CIA keeps it's true speed classified.
Like the Saturn V the X15 was never a military program, it was nothing more than a research aircraft paid for with US tax dollars and as such NASA, who owned and controlled it, was always showing off what it did for the sake of showing the public where their money was going, they even used to parade around X15's showing them to the public, and everytime one of them flew they immediately made very public the speed and altitude it flew at.
I don't know where you ever got the idea that the CIA had anything to do with the X15 or that anything about it was top secret but you couldn't be more wrong, the program was something that from day one was open to the public with all the information about it's flights made public as they happened, it wasn't a top secret program and the CIA had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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The name of the unlucky german rocket scientist was Max Valier!
R.I P. Mike Adams my hopes u went quickly I'm sure 😢
Mach 6.70 is 5,141 miles per hour.
Well, the speed of sound changes with altitude. So mach 6.7 at sea level is not the same as mach 6.7 at 354000 feet
@@arlandaplanespotting Yes, Mach 6.70 is 4,520 mph at 102,000 feet, which is the altitude that Pete Knight flew on 3 October 1967. As for any Mach number at 354,200 feet, that is actually irrelevant since it is outside the atmosphere, and Mach is only a speed when related to flight through air.
What about the X-43A, X-51 & X-43D.
Okay
Not an aircraft. This is a rocket with a seat in....
Just think what we have now ... what we're not being told
You can still walk the grounds of Edwards Air Force Base and find aircraft parts and wreckage.
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@@Istandby666 Interesting. By the way, we got offered a lot of SR-71 titanium parts from crashes, but we could never verify if they were legit
This is incredible. I thought I knew about all the secret Nazi test aircraft but I've never heard of this Silbervogel hypersonic sub-orbital bomber. It's crazy to think even before supersonic flight was achieved the Nazis were trying to design and build a hypersonic aircraft. I doubt they would have had sufficient materials science to prevent burning up but it still shows how much more advanced they were in so many areas. Luckily for the rest of us their leader was a psycho who thought he knew more about military doctrine & battle than his own general's and field marshal's LMAO 🤦🏻 Great video Drone, I loved it 🤙
The name means "Silver Bird", and it was going to be Hitler's means to bomb the U.S. in many ways, it was the original boost-glide vehicle. It was too far ahead of it's time, though, and the tech didn't exist to actually build it...
He did in France, but your right about the end. And yet it’s the same people who are behind so much of what’s going on today- ie Ratschild debt slavery central banking-Kssngr&Assc. Not that I think he wasn’t involved with transmitting the OBO for Citadel, as Ghelen and Canaris claimed they traced the signal to the Eagle’s Nest and were about to arrest Bormann; but Hitler said “everything he did, he did under my direct orders”. Not that I’d trust them, yet his sabotage of the Wehrmacht makes me believe it.
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They were trying to achieve a bomb to and they couldn't accomplish that could they?
Everytime someone mentions something about some Nazi dream weapon everyone assumes they thought of it first, hardly the case if you look into it concerning anything like that be it jet aircraft, rockets or anything else.
As an example the true pioneer of rocketry was an American named Dr Robert Goddard whose experiments and first rocket flights went back to the 1920's, not Werner Von Braun as most people think, Von Braun himself admitted after the war that without access to Dr Goddard's research he'd never have gotten a rocket off the ground before the end of the war, Goddard developed the first liquid fueled rocket engines that could be throttled and were mounted on gimbals for direction control both things necessary for space flight, along with the turbo pumps necessary to feed liquid fuels in huge amounts to large rocket engines, likewise in Russia there were pioneers in rocketry before WW2 but like Goddard didn't have huge government backing and the funds needed to develop them, wherein Von Braun not only had the advantage of access to Goddard's research he also had a government that because they wanted it turned into a weapon threw a bottomless pit of money and resources at him to accelerate his program.
That's the case with just about everything people think the Germans "invented" or thought of first, the fact is years before they did any of that there were always people who laid down the foundations necessary for their ideas but like Goddard they were in countries that were in the throws of a depression and in the era of post WW1 politics where governments couldn't justify spending endless amounts of money on military projects when those same politicians who were in power had all run on promises after WW1 that they wouldn't spend money like that on military forces they were supposed to be downsizing as per their campaign promises, and then even worse in the middle of an economic depression that had people standing in bread lines.
Hitler on the other hand threw all his country's money into programs like that until it led to Germany being bankrupt in the late 30's so to prop things up he started "annexing" other countries to seize the gold they had in their banking reserves to keep things going.
At the end of the day it's a sad fact that it took wars for government's to pump that kind of money into scientific research and development, but that's the reality of it, the first one's who want to turn something into a weapon are the first one's to fund their development.
I'm sure the first spear was developed for the same reason.
Actually they focused on weapons that were too advanced for the times. They should have focused more on producing a higher quantity of weapon designs that had already proven themselves.
@@kinte1870 Oh I'm not gonna argue about weapons allocations, that is an undeniable fact, too many firms were used to make too many weapons types AND alot of the time they were made to completely compete against and never co-develop with each other. I was just speaking on they were looking very far ahead. Eric Brown has stated on numerous occasions that with what he saw right after the war ended he had no doubt that if the war had continued the Germans would have been the first to supersonic flight. They had the 5 most advanced wind tunnels in the entire world at the end of the war. The one that was removed from Peenemünde could get it's air column up to something like Mach 4.5.
Sliding rules, cigarettes and coffee.
That's a myth, electronic computers were used in the design and development of not only the X15 but also the A12/SR71 and the XB70 despite the common myth that they weren't.
Another myth is that today's aircraft are designed by computers, no they're not, it's not like someone enters into a computer "Design a better spy plane than the SR71" and POOF, the plans for an SR72 pop out, even the smallest parts on today's aircraft are all conceptionalized and designed by human beings, really the only thing that designers have nowadays when it comes to computers is CAD which all it does is allow the designer to draw the part in 3D on a computer instead of having to draw it in 3 different views on a blueprint, that's all, but it's still a human who thinks up the part and designs it, and instead of having to wait their turn to use a computer that takes up an entire room so they can have it crunch number's for them nowadays each engineer has his own computer sitting on his desk that can do it.
But one way or the other no matter what it's still human beings that come up with all the ideas then sit down and do the actual designing, the people back then weren't any smarter than the people nowadays who design the latest aircraft, they just don't chase speed records nowadays because thing's like stealth, electronic countermeasures and precision weapons are far more important than making today's jets go faster than yesterday's jets.
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Towards the Unknown !
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"wow that's a lot of power" 🤣🤣🤣
Narrator cant be AI
Humans actually flew to the moon within 15 years. But hopes of reaching Mars in the 1980s (49:38) were completely dashed. From today's perspective, it would be a great success if the first man were to set foot on Mars 50 years later. By the way, with current astronaut Stephanie Wilson, there is a Wilson (49:56) who might one day walk on the moon.
The X-15 wasn't a plane it was a manned rocket.
Or a rocket powered aircraft?
I'm not entirely sure the music that started at 16ish min was necessary. Might be just me, but I prefer listening to the narrator alone.
When did they realize there might be a Kessler syndrome?
We accomplished things in the 50s and 60s, that we haven't equaled since, thanks to men like Kelly Johnson and a building full of people with slide rules and pencils. Hell, they still went to one woman at NASA to check trajectories for the space shuttle, to double check the computers. And she's the only one that was never wrong! It's sad we did so much then and so little now. You can't tell me there haven't been developments with the internal combustion engine so we can get 100mpg. It became more about money and less about achievement. A lot is also because we the people, haven't held their feet to the fire to expect more achievement. We've let the politicians make the decisions instead if us, the way it was intended. Small government with the states and residents making decisions, has turned into an oversized government with too many duplicated agencies and the people having very little say in the decisions. When it gets to the point where they make all the decisions, we become what all the failed governments before us have become. We were such a great country when it mattered. Everyone stepped up to the plate. If we don't get back to that, it's over and all the sacrifices and achievements will all be in vain.
People were more patriotic and hence back in the 50s, and 60s and wanted USA on moon for prestige and technological advancement. Also the goal of NASA was to get to the moon not international relations and DEI nonsense.
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I absolutely agree
I really dig these old black & white films. All before my time with my birth 1973. What catches my attention is the eyes of the actors they look like demons or maybe aliens just not human looking. I bet people of that time must have been freaked out by this idk
So velocity+flight path are the factors for weightlessness. 🤔 Not lack of gravity. Very interesting.
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Ultra bad ass…skygods… out there by magicians engineers with visions… so much better than shooting monkeys up on a candle
As child no one questioned this history but as an adult im not sure we are getting the real story. Tell me how NASA can put up their planes that go 17000mi hr that look like an elephant where these all aerodynamic and break apart..........
Not even 1 minute in at there's issues with the content.
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Computers !!! Over rated why people used to be smart and had guts not like the lack of brains like we have today 😒 people had courage self worth and the want to do !!! Great achievement from the great minds of yesterday I knew a man who worked for Rockwell when a space ship had a real bad problem all he said they will be back safe i was just a small kid in late 60 s early 70 s
I'm not sure what kind of filter was being used on the black and white video interview, but it makes them look odd almost like lizard people. The gentleman the Baldhead has bulges protruding out and their eyes look strange. Just a strange filter effect.
I'm a Gemini
The british did all the testing, and then the Americans stopped the program as the brits were way ahead, and of course, the Americans were shit scared of Britain having any form of technology. So mothballed the brits and took their technology to be able to get where they were. Luckily enough, we kept some information to ourselves to develop aircraft
What are you talking about? Nonsense
@@harryparsons2750 what are you on about????
I'm not going to go into it. With such a narrow minded comment
Manned missile
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The crash of pilot Adams looks strange. How could a plane flying at 4000mph and re-entrying atmosphere in a total loss of control, possibly leave any trace on impact, let alone a complete one-piece fuselage on the ground? I assume the images aren't from this event.
Nice, hold up the good work
The awful narration stops at 25:39 and the real documentary begins.
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36:00 vomit rocket lol
NAWW-SUH...😅
WONDERFUL TRY BUT ,THERE COULD BE SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE ADVANCED
Somebody just lost their job to AI. This is terrible
Red White Blue So Russia thinks they have hypersonic
This is all foolishness. Every thing we seek to to find in space is already here. Furthermore, human physical life is and always will be short and fragle 100 years being very exceptional. Therefore, why not spend our time and energies preparing to meet our maker on the other side of this life in which there is no end?
Forget these bloody imperial units, use metrics.
Lucky they got that technology off that crashed space ship. Or they at that time, wouldnt have had the material to withstand the forces. Nobody else did at that time. Not even close.
Ah, the materials it was made of existed long before WW2 even happened, just because cars and refrigerators weren't made out of them doesn't mean they didn't exist.
mf read the Terra Invicta lore
all the advancement of this painstakingly technology ends in a nuclear war
Let’s hope not
WE MAY BE IMPRESSED WITH THIS VIDEO. HOWEVER, WHISTLE-BLOWERS HAVE CONFESSED TO A MUCH MORE ADVANCED LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY CONCEALED FROM THE WORLD.
No conspiratorial theories please
@@Dronescapes Unfortunately, these people are everywhere. Critical thinking is unfortunately no longer required.
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