My 2005 ish Tie bomber toy is mint and one of my favorites. I just wish it was more accurate and would hold 2 crew. My LAAT can hold like 12 guys, 2 pilots and 2 addon gunner stations, not included.
"Normal" single engine propeller aircraft are not symmetrical and have hidden asymmetry to deal with propeller rotation and circulation that often gave them notorious and dangerous handling. The Grumman Bearcat had its engine canted down and to one side to deal with asymmetry. The Corsair had to have stall strips added on one wing to ensure it stalled at the same time as they other. The aircraft was called the ensign eliminator before this. The Macchi C.202 Folgore left wing 21 cm (8 3/8 in) longer than the right wing. The larger wing created more lift which tended to roll the fighter right, opposing and thereby counteracting the torque and P-factor. The Me 109 had the vertical tail fin built like a wing to counter p factor. Many aircraft had the exhaust canted to create thrust to counter prop torgue. Both the Corsair and Me 109 had one wing stall ahead of the other due to propeller rotation in the 3 point sitting angle eventually had their tail yokes extended to raise the sitting angle. Most aircraft had some combination of the above. "Found and Explained" should celebrate Dr Richard Vogt of Blohm and Voss's birthday as he gave so many odd looking aircraft that actually worked and helps us to understand aerodynamics.
I came here to say the same. When you put a high torque motor on a large prop and jump on the throttles at low speed the P-factor causes you to roll left, and given enough power that roll can be a snap inversion. The Corsair you mentioned had a habit or turning turtle when landing when handled by the unwary and yes, it eliminated many a "butter bar". I used to build and fly RC aircraft and mounting the engine on a wedge to angle it as you mentioned is common practice to even out the handling. Blohm & Voss had some brilliant engineers to come up a novel solution to the P-factor problem along with designing and building some other incredible aircraft, in particular the BV 222 flying boat.
@@larrybremer4930 A BV-141 would make a very interesting and fascinating RC aircraft. it would certainly attract a lot of curiosity. Do you remember the original 1965 movie "Flight of the Phoenix" with Jummy Stewart. They crash land a Fairchild C-82 Packet twin boom plane in the dessert and the Heinrich Dorfmann, an aeronautical engineer build a sort of asymmetrical BV141 out of one of the booms. It turns out Heinrich Dorfmann is only a radio controlled model builder and the team became demoralised but Dorfmann has done his calculation correctly and they fly out on the asymmetrical aircraft.
Blohm and Voss' design department lived by the credo, "Normal is boring." And yes, we would love to have you cover the Ares and the other Rutan designs.
Every single pilot on the planet who started training in C172s/C152/Piper/Cirrus is going to be very disturbed to hear they couldn't see through the propeller this entire time.
My favorite Luftwaffe Airfix 1/72nd scale model from my early teen modeling days, in the 1970s, was this unconventional (to say the least) recon plane. I still have that kit and many others in boxes tucked away in the garage.
Gidday Nick. Asymmetrical aircraft is a very interesting concept. I am very interested in ww2 aircraft, and i have spent many hours reading books and watching videos about them. I am very surprised l have never heard about them. But I guess it goes to show that you are definitely a pro at researching and finding out about exotic aircraft and concepts. Thanks so much for all the effort you put into these videos. Kia Ora from nz Seth
...but you can see perfectly fine through a moving propeller. The engine being forward of the pilot restricting visibility below the horizontal is a problem, but your diagrams and narration seem to imply that pilots flew while looking at a circular wall immediately in front of them...
Thisis such an interesting aircraft and possibly my personally favourite WWII era plane. I want there to be a modern version of it adapted for recreational use. I bet the detached gondola would make for stunning vistas while flying this thing around.
Give yourself a pat on the back for actually using the word ‘WACKY’ in your title card. It made me laugh out loud. I love the BV-141 design. Usually it’s ’Cutting Edge, Ahead of its time, or Extreme’ when discussing the unique concepts of the Luftwaffe.
I first learned about this aircraft when I was in Grade 5, back in 1975, when a friend who was into building lots of aircraft kits told me about it. I clearly remember looking at him strangely to see if he was trying to pull my leg, but as we can see, he wasn't. 😊 It's funny how we accept as normal an aircraft that is symmetrical, when for a propeller powered aircraft, the rotation of the propeller against the mass of the engine causes problems. Engine torque is an issue for nearly all propeller aircraft. Numerous pilot stores relate having to give a boot full of rudder to counteract the tendency for an aircraft to pull to one side. Of note, pilots flying Spitfires had to be extra careful when changing from the Merlin engine Marks to the later Griffon engine Marks as the propeller rotation was opposite. If they applied rudder and trim as they would for a Merlin engine, while in a Griffon engine Spitfire, they would quickly find themselves in double the trouble and destined for a ground crash because they were now experiencing double the pull to one side instead of countering the torque. As you can imagine, there were plenty of experienced pilots who failed to take note of the change in propeller rotation and set up the aircraft as they had done many times before and then proceeded to ground loop the aircraft and crash. Hopefully, luck would be on their side, and they might escape witha damaged aircraft and bruised ego. Mark from Melbourne Australia
It would be scouts and bombers first then heavier fighters later on in the uppers so that's kinda cool. But dangerous mabey not that mode mabey for rb tanks
You mentioned Ares but not Burt Rutan's other asymmetrical masterpiece Boomerang lol. it's asymmetry was actually on purpose to try and mitigate the adverse yaw from an engine failure
THE WHOLE OF MY CHILDHOOD SINCE I CAN REMEMBER. THE MODEL SHOP IN MY VILLAGE. HAD THIS PLANE AS A SCALE MODEL IN THERE SHOP CEILING. I NEVER ASKED ABOUT IT. IT WAS ALWAYS THERE. cheers i'll watch ya stuff now. i HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
As young preteen, I would seek out unusual model planes to build. Found the BV 141 at the local model shop. This was the most unusual plane I've built. I do believe it was in a "Raiders of the lost Ark" movies. 🇺🇸😎
That thing could have been the replacement for the JU-87 and a great costal defence plane. Could scout. Carry one big central torpedo, long range. Lots of variants. While the 109 should carry on but be more standardized rapidly like the K was with wrapping things up into one total package.
@@notagooglesimp8722 ze Germans fckd up with all their non-standardized variants of everything…and they still do it till this day, just look at all the 911’s types on the market
I think he meant to say the spinning prop blocks the path of a machine gun that needs to fire through it. i think the allies had a mechanism to link the gun to the engine rotation to avoid damaging the propeller. this design wouldn't suffer from that problem.
Yes, the Argus engines of the FW189 were surplus to requirements, whereas the BMW-801 (WHY you call it BMV?) were pretty much all reserved for the FW-190. By the time they started using Junkers Jumo and Daimler Benz 605's in the Later 190D and TA152 the BV time had passed.
Yeah, I didn't know "W" was now V. I'm normally not the type of guy to be a stickler for mispronunciations, especially if things aren't in your native tongue, but dude "W" doesn't not equal "V" in English, even in Aussie or Kiwi English lol
I have heard a modern version is planned to be produced again. Is that a thing? I mean it would safe a lot of developing costs and i can imagine a good use in the private aviation sector.
I love how you show an airplane with an invisible propeller while claiming the propeller blocks forward visibility. How can we trust what you say when you make such statements?
One of the now famous - "NJ Drones" - uses this design, and some other unique details, much to my surprise, I seem to be the only one to have figured out what these craft actually look like. Humans are just... weird...
@Foundandexplained I have an idea for a video. Do you ever heard of the insane idea from a Japanese admiral named Kadena to build an insanely huge battleship IJN zipang (3 times bigger then the Yamato).
This is like me when im trying to convince my parents to buy me that thing even tho i know i wont use it or it wont work but still do it because it just looks great
Give me a squadron of spitfires (the german air commander said) most stylish war plane ever! Although the hurricane had many more kills it did not have the style of a spitfire or recognition for the work it did what do you think? Rolls Royce merlin engine's rock 👍💯💪
@hawkstripe. To the left is the fuselage not a spinning propeller unless you're the sort of person petty enough to face plant the wind screen to prove a point oh a god forbid using sarcasm
@@x_hibernia throughout the video he mentions that one of the pros to using this experimental design was better vision, and he highlights how the propeller would block the pilots vision but obviously pilots can see through a spinning propeller just fine I was being sarcastic dawg
This video tortured my symmetry OCD for 14 minutes. I can imagine the German general got his symmetry fix after seeing the Fw189. And this channel really needs some War Thunder sponsorship.
@@dj_fission ok, now I'm confused. There isn't a single video out there where the narrator doesn't attempt to spell out the German name of a weapon, plane, tank, city, person, scientific theory, etc and it goes terribly wrong. Yet, when someone does indeed succeed, all anglophones jump him as if he was committing a crime.
Pretty sure you can see through the propeller ... otherwise how would 99.9999999 percent of aircraft with a single propeller ever see where they are going?
FaE in the title: "The plane that was unbalanced... on purpose" FaE few seconds in: "It's more stable than a mirrored plane" So that title was a total lie.
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And this is how the TIE-bomber was born.
And the B-wing
George Lucas, we see you.
This is probably the only "compare everything to Star Wars" comment that's actually relevant
My 2005 ish Tie bomber toy is mint and one of my favorites. I just wish it was more accurate and would hold 2 crew. My LAAT can hold like 12 guys, 2 pilots and 2 addon gunner stations, not included.
And probably many of the "Uglies" from the Star Wars Legends universe Kilrathi designs from Wing Commander 3 and onward.
"Normal" single engine propeller aircraft are not symmetrical and have hidden asymmetry to deal with propeller rotation and circulation that often gave them notorious and dangerous handling.
The Grumman Bearcat had its engine canted down and to one side to deal with asymmetry. The Corsair had to have stall strips added on one wing to ensure it stalled at the same time as they other. The aircraft was called the ensign eliminator before this. The Macchi C.202 Folgore left wing 21 cm (8 3/8 in) longer than the right wing. The larger wing created more lift which tended to roll the fighter right, opposing and thereby counteracting the torque and P-factor. The Me 109 had the vertical tail fin built like a wing to counter p factor. Many aircraft had the exhaust canted to create thrust to counter prop torgue. Both the Corsair and Me 109 had one wing stall ahead of the other due to propeller rotation in the 3 point sitting angle eventually had their tail yokes extended to raise the sitting angle. Most aircraft had some combination of the above.
"Found and Explained" should celebrate Dr Richard Vogt of Blohm and Voss's birthday as he gave so many odd looking aircraft that actually worked and helps us to understand aerodynamics.
Ladies and gentlemen of the internet, I present to you the winner of the Longest Comment Award. 🎉🎉🎉
I came here to say the same. When you put a high torque motor on a large prop and jump on the throttles at low speed the P-factor causes you to roll left, and given enough power that roll can be a snap inversion. The Corsair you mentioned had a habit or turning turtle when landing when handled by the unwary and yes, it eliminated many a "butter bar". I used to build and fly RC aircraft and mounting the engine on a wedge to angle it as you mentioned is common practice to even out the handling. Blohm & Voss had some brilliant engineers to come up a novel solution to the P-factor problem along with designing and building some other incredible aircraft, in particular the BV 222 flying boat.
Great point
@@larrybremer4930 A BV-141 would make a very interesting and fascinating RC aircraft. it would certainly attract a lot of curiosity.
Do you remember the original 1965 movie "Flight of the Phoenix" with Jummy Stewart. They crash land a Fairchild C-82 Packet twin boom plane in the dessert and the Heinrich Dorfmann, an aeronautical engineer build a sort of asymmetrical BV141 out of one of the booms. It turns out Heinrich Dorfmann is only a radio controlled model builder and the team became demoralised but Dorfmann has done his calculation correctly and they fly out on the asymmetrical aircraft.
@@larrybremer4930 Isn't there a video from a F4U carrier start , were it rolls to the left after starting and crashing into the ocean .
Blohm and Voss' design department lived by the credo, "Normal is boring."
And yes, we would love to have you cover the Ares and the other Rutan designs.
Flying industry Kel-tech
@@snake45aiman Damn straight.
Nazi skunkworks
@@snake45aiman Including how they never actually got any military contracts.
Yeah their designs all have a interesting take and never look boring
8:24 I love how you pronounce it the german way as "Bee-Em-Vee" since it has always amazed me how clumsy that abbreviation sounded in English.
Every single pilot on the planet who started training in C172s/C152/Piper/Cirrus is going to be very disturbed to hear they couldn't see through the propeller this entire time.
or like any pilot flying a ww2 fighter and trying to aim at a plane ahead of it to shoot down💀
I didn't realize that I wasn't seeing that whole time. The instructors never told me. I guess they thought they were seeing, too.
when they mean propeller i think they mean the engine compartement
I always love weird wacky designs like this goes to show you that you don't always have to follow the rest of the crowd
And also that sometimes function is over looks
My favorite Luftwaffe Airfix 1/72nd scale model from my early teen modeling days, in the 1970s, was this unconventional (to say the least) recon plane. I still have that kit and many others in boxes tucked away in the garage.
You got high sniffing the glue that Testers made, didn’t you? Of course, before they added mustard to it.
@@Matthew_Eitzman haha No, I didn't, but damn if just seeing the word Testors didn't give me a sudden nasal flashback on that distinct smell.
A prime example of how if something looks stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
1:30 I fly a lot of propeller driven aircraft and it takes a reasonable amount of effort to notice the prop, much less have it block your vision
Some people just love weird shit and I can appreciate the guys at B & V attempting to scratch that itch for the rest of us.
You should do more aircraft designed by B&V
They designed alot of asymetrical plane.
Gidday Nick.
Asymmetrical aircraft is a very interesting concept. I am very interested in ww2 aircraft, and i have spent many hours reading books and watching videos about them. I am very surprised l have never heard about them. But I guess it goes to show that you are definitely a pro at researching and finding out about exotic aircraft and concepts. Thanks so much for all the effort you put into these videos.
Kia Ora from nz
Seth
...but you can see perfectly fine through a moving propeller. The engine being forward of the pilot restricting visibility below the horizontal is a problem, but your diagrams and narration seem to imply that pilots flew while looking at a circular wall immediately in front of them...
Thisis such an interesting aircraft and possibly my personally favourite WWII era plane. I want there to be a modern version of it adapted for recreational use. I bet the detached gondola would make for stunning vistas while flying this thing around.
Rutan Model 202 Boomerang: asymmetricalplane lives!!
Aesthetically great. Economically not as much.
thank you for mentioning this!!! exactly what i was looking for
I was wondering if this one was left out because it was civilian instead of military like the other ones mentioned in the video
Awesome work!
Don't forget the Rutan Boomerang :D
This thing would give a big emotional damage to OCD people
My beloved recon plane. Ever since I knew its existence I knew that it would be my favourite recon plane of WWII
Same here.
Mine too.
I was not aware that Rutan had proposed a warplane. I'd love to see that video!
11:56 That's a very happy shark 😁
13:39 One on display at the Royal Air Force Museum in the UK, another in Technikmuseum Speyer Germany.
No dude. Zero 141s survive let alone many blohm and voss planes at all
Give yourself a pat on the back for actually using the word ‘WACKY’ in your title card. It made me laugh out loud. I love the BV-141 design. Usually it’s ’Cutting Edge, Ahead of its time, or Extreme’ when discussing the unique concepts of the Luftwaffe.
I first learned about this aircraft when I was in Grade 5, back in 1975, when a friend who was into building lots of aircraft kits told me about it. I clearly remember looking at him strangely to see if he was trying to pull my leg, but as we can see, he wasn't. 😊 It's funny how we accept as normal an aircraft that is symmetrical, when for a propeller powered aircraft, the rotation of the propeller against the mass of the engine causes problems. Engine torque is an issue for nearly all propeller aircraft. Numerous pilot stores relate having to give a boot full of rudder to counteract the tendency for an aircraft to pull to one side. Of note, pilots flying Spitfires had to be extra careful when changing from the Merlin engine Marks to the later Griffon engine Marks as the propeller rotation was opposite. If they applied rudder and trim as they would for a Merlin engine, while in a Griffon engine Spitfire, they would quickly find themselves in double the trouble and destined for a ground crash because they were now experiencing double the pull to one side instead of countering the torque. As you can imagine, there were plenty of experienced pilots who failed to take note of the change in propeller rotation and set up the aircraft as they had done many times before and then proceeded to ground loop the aircraft and crash. Hopefully, luck would be on their side, and they might escape witha damaged aircraft and bruised ego.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
imagine if war Thunder added German prototype. Germany will never be greater
This plane is just a scout plane though :(
But its cool!
Add a scout plane teir 😂
@@Nafinafnaf
@@Nafinafnafngl better spotting bonuses and mabey a 15 second spawn boost bonus or 30 to get to altitudes could do somp
It would be scouts and bombers first then heavier fighters later on in the uppers so that's kinda cool. But dangerous mabey not that mode mabey for rb tanks
Thats some real backyard engineering right there!
I can't believe I didn't notice the twisting motion of the engine, same reason why helicopters have a 2nd prop out the back
Can't see thru the prop.
That explains why so many walk into a spinning propeller.
Sarcasm intended.
glad you mentioned scaled composites in the end, but i missed their boomerang ;-)
You mentioned Ares but not Burt Rutan's other asymmetrical masterpiece Boomerang lol. it's asymmetry was actually on purpose to try and mitigate the adverse yaw from an engine failure
That was my comment too. A true visionary and a man ahead of his time.
Trump thinks we should get some of these for the USAF. Why? Because both the pilot and the passenger are in the right wing.
😂😂😂
Cringe
Underrated sir 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
LoL
good one...
The dive bomber concepts reminds of the planes of Crimson Skies.
Happy Seasonal Thingy F&E! =3
You mean HaloThanksMasYears?
THE WHOLE OF MY CHILDHOOD SINCE I CAN REMEMBER. THE MODEL SHOP IN MY VILLAGE. HAD THIS PLANE AS A SCALE MODEL IN THERE SHOP CEILING. I NEVER ASKED ABOUT IT. IT WAS ALWAYS THERE. cheers i'll watch ya stuff now. i HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
Mooney designers seeing a backwards fuselage: hold my beer
RLM each time when BV proposes the same wacky plane in a bit changed configuration:
"Ah shit, here we go again..."
This plane got my interest a few hours ago then this 🔥 dropped.
How about the asymmetric, biplane Gotha bomber from WW1?
How did bro not talk about that civillian plane in the end 😭
The prototypes around 4:30 has full tail empennage ?
Exactly what I saw, perhaps they didn't go through with the extra view for the gunner
The F-(either 15 or 16) also has an auto cannon on one side but not the other
As young preteen, I would seek out unusual model planes to build. Found the BV 141 at the local model shop. This was the most unusual plane I've built. I do believe it was in a "Raiders of the lost Ark" movies. 🇺🇸😎
Burt Rutan made his own version of this. Very cool!
Waited for this one,another weird desing is the Piaggio p180 avanti
That thing could have been the replacement for the JU-87 and a great costal defence plane. Could scout. Carry one big central torpedo, long range. Lots of variants. While the 109 should carry on but be more standardized rapidly like the K was with wrapping things up into one total package.
@@notagooglesimp8722 ze Germans fckd up with all their non-standardized variants of everything…and they still do it till this day, just look at all the 911’s types on the market
I smell WT premiums...
I would really like a video on the ARES
Did he say it’s hard to see through a spinning prop and it blocks the view?
I think he meant to say the spinning prop blocks the path of a machine gun that needs to fire through it. i think the allies had a mechanism to link the gun to the engine rotation to avoid damaging the propeller. this design wouldn't suffer from that problem.
Last version of the BV 141 with prop and jet. NOW THIS IS POD RACING
Yes, the Argus engines of the FW189 were surplus to requirements, whereas the BMW-801 (WHY you call it BMV?) were pretty much all reserved for the FW-190. By the time they started using Junkers Jumo and Daimler Benz 605's in the Later 190D and TA152 the BV time had passed.
The german pronunciation of w is pretty much veh, so bae EM veh
Yeah, I didn't know "W" was now V. I'm normally not the type of guy to be a stickler for mispronunciations, especially if things aren't in your native tongue, but dude "W" doesn't not equal "V" in English, even in Aussie or Kiwi English lol
The German pronunciation of BMW is bee em vee.
Bayerische Moteren Werke, werke being pronounced 'vairker', seems odd to us English speakers
The "V" would also be pronounced as "Fau" in german... VW is FolksWagen as you know.
This planes side profile began looking awfully like an a-10s
I have heard a modern version is planned to be produced again. Is that a thing? I mean it would safe a lot of developing costs and i can imagine a good use in the private aviation sector.
It's like Millenium Falcon
i sorta want a little private ownership aimed plane that follows this sort of design. it's really strange and cool.
What would be the advantages to this kind of design?
I love how you show an airplane with an invisible propeller while claiming the propeller blocks forward visibility.
How can we trust what you say when you make such statements?
This thing reminds me of the Rutan Boomerang so much
I joined just as it ended
One of the now famous - "NJ Drones" - uses this design, and some other unique details, much to my surprise, I seem to be the only one to have figured out what these craft actually look like.
Humans are just... weird...
Whats that awesome rock song playin in the backround starting at 12:17?
I need to build a model kit of this!
There is a better one than the Airfix kit cannot remember the maker though (too long ago) ... I'm sure someone will help ...
Hobbyboss@@alfnoakes392
@Foundandexplained I have an idea for a video. Do you ever heard of the insane idea from a Japanese admiral named Kadena to build an insanely huge battleship IJN zipang (3 times bigger then the Yamato).
I forgot about this thing 😭😭😭
This is like me when im trying to convince my parents to buy me that thing even tho i know i wont use it or it wont work but still do it because it just looks great
Lack of balance and lack of symmetry are two very different things.
I actally got a model of one those weird looking planes.
You should do the bv pod racer! P-170
Looks like giant flying "blind spot"....
I miss your old sort little intro. I miss that little jingle 😂🤪
seeing this hurt my brain
Looks like its straight out of Star Wars.
Or was Star Wars influenced by it?
Was someone ar B&V talking to CLUNK from the Vulture Squadron? Because this looks like an aircraft from a cartoon.
Makeup video about the MOLNIYA - 1000 HERACLES
Give me a squadron of spitfires (the german air commander said) most stylish war plane ever! Although the hurricane had many more kills it did not have the style of a spitfire or recognition for the work it did what do you think? Rolls Royce merlin engine's rock 👍💯💪
Makeup video about the Boeing yA1
You heard about Heinkel He 111 Zwilling? That's interesting Aircraft. Can i request to explain this plane? Thanks
14:00 More superior than the A-10? BLASPHEMPY!
ih brom and Viss the V222 was it copied in 747 its very similar?
Yes sir we would really love to see it
the voice very familiar, is the guy from top gear youtube channel ,his last name ford?
Makeup video about the project pluto
I smell a new premium…
Do the scaled composite ares
Really is there not a huge blind spot on the left of the plane?
yes but gosh forbid we force the pilot to try to see through the very vision-blocking spinning propeller😭😭😭😭
@hawkstripe. To the left is the fuselage not a spinning propeller unless you're the sort of person petty enough to face plant the wind screen to prove a point oh a god forbid using sarcasm
@@x_hibernia throughout the video he mentions that one of the pros to using this experimental design was better vision, and he highlights how the propeller would block the pilots vision but obviously pilots can see through a spinning propeller just fine I was being sarcastic dawg
German aircraft only fly in right hand circles.
Why not?
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this has been my favorite plane for years lol
I love those!
Forgetting the Rutan Boomerang?
This video tortured my symmetry OCD for 14 minutes.
I can imagine the German general got his symmetry fix after seeing the Fw189.
And this channel really needs some War Thunder sponsorship.
Right hand drive to absolute
I always find asymmetrical designs interesting.
As someone who has found apathetic comfort being slave to their ocd, I hate asymmetric planes 😂
Better ground attack craft than the A-10? That's a bold claim
I'm curious why you call the engines "BMV" when the text says "BMW"?
Because in German that's how you spell BMW. W is 'vee' and not 'double u'
Okay but he's not speaking German, he's speaking English.
@@dj_fission ok, now I'm confused. There isn't a single video out there where the narrator doesn't attempt to spell out the German name of a weapon, plane, tank, city, person, scientific theory, etc and it goes terribly wrong.
Yet, when someone does indeed succeed, all anglophones jump him as if he was committing a crime.
@@almerindaromeira8352 Noted. Anyway....
@@dj_fission you should see the comment section then. Pretty much half of the interactions on this video are about his pronunciation
Please make a video of the ares
Please Make next animation video about Turkeys new Kaan TFX 5th gen fighter
I Call it “the Star Wars plane”
Pretty sure you can see through the propeller ... otherwise how would 99.9999999 percent of aircraft with a single propeller ever see where they are going?
FaE in the title: "The plane that was unbalanced... on purpose"
FaE few seconds in: "It's more stable than a mirrored plane"
So that title was a total lie.
I bet load balancing as fuel was consumed was "interesting"