Bell X-22 VTOL non male come sistema (inizio video)ma ha le eliche + protezioni troppo grandi. Meglio usare 2 eliche più piccole a ogni motore, contro rotanti a passo variabile e come questo :it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-22
My dad was an instrumentation engineer for the X22-A project at Bell Aerospace. When I was in grade school (during the 60's) there were drawings, metal piece-parts, brackets, levers, instruments all over the coffee table at almost all times. Good memories. Thanks for this!
I recall seeing quite a few ducted fans on the TV news. But I was most impressed with a larger osprey concept that could fly a complete operating room into disaster area.
the history of american aviation: a truly unique and potentially game-changing concept gets drafted, then killed by corruption, political infighting and bureaucracy. every single time
@@Ushio01 Its called money. If it won't make a profit its not worth getting. If its too exspensive to bad you can take your dreams elseware but we still have your trademark so guess what you can't build it anyway >:D
@yo yo sad yf23 noises; what about the xv5 vertifan?- you can't convince me there is enough vtols in the world (although the f35b has improved it a little)- and that is mainly due to politics from the sories I heard
I grew up near the Buffalo international airport where some of the testing was done. It was always followed by one or two helicopters, and had an unusual sound (for people who lived next to an airport) and in the neighborhood we called it "Baby Huey" after a bumbling fat duck cartoon character
Yeah, you could hear that distinctive sound coming miles away! Calspan took over some of the flight testing and that sound changed pitch slightly. They were trying a different shroud material made of plastic-honeycomb laminated within nylon to reduce weight specifically around the rotors for some reason. Carbon fiber existed, but it was incredibly expensive and mostly unknown at the time.
@@captain_commenter8796 How design concepts in a never-produced aircraft led to the creation of mass-produced designs like the Mirage G inspiring Russia to make the MIG-23 Flogger swing-wing fighter
I have a Bell-made model of the X22A. It was given to an Air Force Project Manager at Wright-Patterson AFB who was on the project. The fan ducts rotate and it is mounted on a bespoke Bell stand in a flying position. I stumbled on it at an estate sale and was astonished (I was aware of the plane but it was a footnote and no commercial model ever existed). His widow said it wasn't for sale but realized I knew exactly what it was and said her husband would have appreciated another pilot's enthusiasm for the real X-22 and gave it to me. It's my coolest thing.
I love helicopters and any type of VTOL aircraft. The designers really had imagination and skill to build all those strange looking ships and get them to work..
Love the channel. A small note on the animation. Half the blades should rotate CCW. Not only does it make sense on a theoretical level, the angles of the blades indicates this is the intended direction.
Additionally, the back rotors are mirrored to the front ones, so for example front left turns ccw, back left cw, front right cw, back right ccw. Just like most quadcopters are cofingured.
X22 so osprey is the eventual success. Even though that took a decade (and lots of money) from prototype to deployment. Interesting there was/is a proposed variation of design of the osprey with 4 rotors/engines across 2 wings.
I am a fan of your work. And have been waiting anxiously for your next video. One suggestion, can u do videos of some unbuilt modern fighter aircrafts. Such as the proposed F-16IN, F-15SE, RAH-66 Comanche etc. I guess material on these projects would be easily available. With love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
I grew up in the Buffalo/Niagara area and I actually got to see the remaining X-22 when it was on display, sadly as far as I know that museum shut down and the aircraft is now in storage.
vtols aren't as useful as they seem ,the f35 alone is slow as hell and cant turn well compared to other stealth fighters in the same category, and this thing wont replace the osprey in all honesty as its bigger and carries similar amount as the osprey
When I volunteered for the Elmira New York Regional airport's national warplane museum in 2006 the first model prototype x22 fuselage cockpit (the one that crashed) was stored in the restoration hangar
John " Jack " Beilman ( my grandfather) designed and obsessed over this model. He told me it cost a fortune to run it. Interesting fact, The musician Ani Difranco's dad, was my grandfather's friend and they made this VTOL aircraft.
The modularity, faster speed, and easy control of this concept would be really good for Coast Guard search and rescue, counter piracy, and trafficking operations since it has finer control, carrying carry a team of six. This is engineering done right
The family was stationed in Niagara Falls in the mid-60s we used to watch this thing fly we lived across the road from the runway some people called it the flying garbage cans
In addition to what I just mentioned they could be outfitted with emergency surgical pods that could provide a seemless surgical transformation from scene to hospital. They could be manned by a pilot, copilot, navigator, trauma surgical team, and a boom handler. Where the paramedics on seen could easily put a patient on a gerney and the patient could be hoisted up to the vertol craft. These pods could de designed to be pulled directly to a surgical unit at a hospital. Bell should look at this idea and forget about the military. What I am describing is an EMTs dream come true. Lives would be saved.
Surprised you did not include the Flying Pogo . My Father worked on part of that aircraft and said it was a flying death trap as well as the " silver bug " craft. Thanks for the share . :O)
When I was growing up in a suburb of Buffalo, we would sometimes see the prototype flying overhead. The flights were always slow and accompanied by a helicopter or two.
@@startedtech that's mostly due to the physical size being smaller. The Osprey has more fuel capacity because it's about twice the size. I'm talking more about the design. If it was scaled up to the Ospreys size/weight, I'm sure it would have a more comparable range.
Those dimensions listed are not that far off from the osprey but it also had less horsepower combined than 1 osprey engine. It would be pretty capable with newer engines.
Right off the Hop, it is *not* at all difficult to spot the influences that helicopter design had on this airframe, and *not* because of the ducted fans, but the fuselage.
Zero-Length Launch is a better idea for how to get a fighter aircraft airborne without a runway anyways, as you simply discard the hardware needed to get it airborne once you're up to flying speed. ZLL is basically what you get when you strap a fairly sizeable solid fuel rocket motor to the underside of an otherwise normal fighter jet in such a way that it provides both vertical and horizontal acceleration (usually achieved by aiming the entire aircraft at a significant pitch angle relative to the horizon). Upon burnout of the solid rocket motor, it would simply drop away, leaving the aircraft with enough forward velocity to continue to accelerate using its own engine(s). In testing they made it work with an F-104, there's no reason they couldn't get it to work with something much more modern like an F-22 or F-35A provided a sufficiently reinforced location on the aircraft to carry the high thrust of a large enough solid rocket motor. Solid rocket motors that are up to the task already exist for use in sounding rockets, and are either stockpiled, currently in production, or are easily able to re-start production if needed. Alternatively, a group of smaller solid rocket motors could be used. The concept does not particularly depend on the exact solid rocket motor used. As far as how to make a helicopter go faster, as the video states we got the start of the V-22 program out of the end of this one. However, there's really no will to put much if any ordinance on that airframe, but I suppose solutions would be developed as and if needed.
Project like this one, and the similarly cool Fairey Rotodyne, always strike me as being ideal for the Royal Navy, with their focus on V/STOL carriers like the _Invincible-_ and _Queen Elizabeth-_ classes. Unfortunately, the RN has been working so hard just to _get_ a new carrier class that they probably don't have much politcal capital left to develop aircraft for it.
Let's be real here, in any REAL conflict the RN would be completely dependent on US Carrier Strike Groups for any serious power projection... It doesn't make sense for the RN to go all in on largely redundant capabilities. Practically the only reason Britain still has aircraft carriers AT ALL is politics and self image. (That whole "real navies have carriers" perception is still as prevalent as ever.)
@@Cooe. Let's be real here, the entire purpose of the carriers is to NOT be dependent on the US. The RN has extensive experience with STOVL operations; STOVL carriers have advantages and disadvantages, like any other design. The assumption that the only "right" way to do something is the American way is pretty childish, honestly.
@@Werrf1 ... And the current capabilities of Britain's carriers aren't even FUCKING CLOSE to being able to operate completely independently of US Carrier Strike Groups in an actual war scenario, meaning they utterly fail at the purpose you describe. They are nothing more than extremely expensive political props. A way for Britain to still feel like it's "still a world superpower" when that hasn't been the case since Eden invaded Egypt in literally the fucking 50's...
@@Cooe. And yet shockingly they managed to do exactly that for several decades with the _Invincible_ -class. As effective as a US carrier? No. Able to operate in an actual war scenario? Absolutely. I suggest you get your head out of your arse.
@@Werrf1 Lol Argentina isn't a real near-peer enemy. 🤣 Get the fuck outta here with that nonsense. That's like an adult picking on an elementary schooler and saying "See! I told you I was strong!".
Isn't this basically what Tesla's electric airplane is now being rolled out as? A ducted fan VTOL, where the fan is electrically powered instead of jet-powered. I read reports from the Navy, and they were complaining about the lack of visibility past the huge ducted fans. It was the lack of visibility that killed off the design. In a battle, if you can't see the enemy, the enemy ends up killing you.
Yet another squandered opportunity to produce a truly unique and versatile aircraft. Any objections to this designed could have easily been worked out.
Great re-creation of a concept ahead of it's time, but like the YF-23 and the P-39 Aerocobra, they dared too much with the tech they had, but what about now? I can see why it fell short of it's range and performance goals, the reduction gearing, hydraulic pumps, motors and powertrain would have been a mechanic's nightmare. The Canadair Dynavert was a much more straightforward approach for that era. Electric and hybrid power are coming on strong now, with capacitors for jump take-off greatly reducing the overall engine size and fuel requirements. Maybe they'll be one around to whisk me to the big-city airport the year after next.
I grew up around this aircraft as a kid, my dad worked on the project. we had a metal scale model of the X-22A in the living room. I wasn't allowed to touch it 🤪
Here's a question for you. It's a functional design that never made it to production. But it is a functional design whatever you were to build it today what would you change in the build of the fuselage it couldn't use electric hybrid system to to solve some of the noise problems
It was never developed because of ducted fans were more efficient than helicopter rotors but the associated weight of the ducted fans eliminated the efficiency advantage
Flaws are just problems the engineers haven’t fixed yet” Throughout aviation and aerospace history, there I’ve seen countless designs that might’ve worked if more effort (and money) was thrown at them. Hindsight is 20-20.
It actually looks like something that might be good use in the US coast Guard’s arsenal!!! I mean it looks like it could have more control and stability in the heavy weather storms then most single rotor helicopters!!!
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Wait so if the engines would burn the carrier deck how come we have f35s with vtol? Not used on carriers?
@@B01 the jet exhaust isn't used for the F-35 VTOL, it's a separate ducted fan driven off of the turbine.
А я в России - курю гнилую труху.
Bell X-22 VTOL non male come sistema (inizio video)ma ha le eliche + protezioni troppo grandi.
Meglio usare 2 eliche più piccole a ogni motore, contro rotanti a passo variabile e come questo :it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-22
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My dad was an instrumentation engineer for the X22-A project at Bell Aerospace. When I was in grade school (during the 60's) there were drawings, metal piece-parts, brackets, levers, instruments all over the coffee table at almost all times. Good memories. Thanks for this!
The Bell X-22 is a really underrated aircraft,
I glad you did a video about it.
It's cool, but it be usless in real life
Looks like scorpion helicopter from avatar
So that’s what it’s called
I still want to know the name of the mothership though
(Edit) thanks for telling me guys
@@bmac7643 Dragon Gunship
@@bmac7643 C-21 Dragon Assault Gunship
"Dragon Assault Ship | Avatar Wiki | Fandom" james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Assault_Ship
mini version of Dragon gunship from avatar
Scorpion Helicopter AT-99
Big Gunship Helicopter C-21
Valkyrie space Shuttle TAV-37-B
I recall seeing quite a few ducted fans on the TV news.
But I was most impressed with a larger osprey concept that could fly a complete operating room into disaster area.
the history of american aviation: a truly unique and potentially game-changing concept gets drafted, then killed by corruption, political infighting and bureaucracy. every single time
Considering the crap that gets put in production despite glaring flaws makes me suspect that these failed types must have been down right atrocious.
Yeah, or it just didn't work as desired with the technology of the time.
@@Ushio01 Its called money. If it won't make a profit its not worth getting. If its too exspensive to bad you can take your dreams elseware but we still have your trademark so guess what you can't build it anyway >:D
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent You can't trademark a design. This would be patented and they only last a couple of decades.
@yo yo sad yf23 noises; what about the xv5 vertifan?- you can't convince me there is enough vtols in the world (although the f35b has improved it a little)- and that is mainly due to politics from the sories I heard
It is beautiful, still looks futuristic, if only someone started this program from scratch, it would be an amazing plane or drone...........
That "pew pew" caught me off guard LOL
I grew up near the Buffalo international airport where some of the testing was done. It was always followed by one or two helicopters, and had an unusual sound (for people who lived next to an airport) and in the neighborhood we called it "Baby Huey" after a bumbling fat duck cartoon character
Ha ha...
Yeah, you could hear that distinctive sound coming miles away! Calspan took over some of the flight testing and that sound changed pitch slightly. They were trying a different shroud material made of plastic-honeycomb laminated within nylon to reduce weight specifically around the rotors for some reason. Carbon fiber existed, but it was incredibly expensive and mostly unknown at the time.
Awesome aircraft! My grandfather was a test pilot on this program and has some great old photographs of it. Loved watching this.
Imagine what a company like textron could do with this design as a General Aviation aircraft using modern composites and hybrid PowerPlants.
Oh damn, I remember looking up about ducted tiltrotor turboprops, and I think this is one
When a V22 and a quad rotor drone has a kid this is what we get:
Neither of those aircraft were even conceived back then.
@@superskullmaster I am aware, it is just a joke
@@captain_commenter8796 How design concepts in a never-produced aircraft led to the creation of mass-produced designs like the Mirage G inspiring Russia to make the MIG-23 Flogger swing-wing fighter
That makes the X22 a cougar.
PLEASE NEVER STOP DOING WHAT YOU DO
Bell’s VTOL game has always been strong!
Actually now Bell is falling behind, just milking the defense contracts...
@@electricaviationchannelvid7863 not anymore. Seems they finally nailed the tiltrotor design.
This would be perfect for fighting the Brotherhood of Nod.
Yes. Reinforcements have arrived
ahead of its time
I have a Bell-made model of the X22A. It was given to an Air Force Project Manager at Wright-Patterson AFB who was on the project. The fan ducts rotate and it is mounted on a bespoke Bell stand in a flying position. I stumbled on it at an estate sale and was astonished (I was aware of the plane but it was a footnote and no commercial model ever existed). His widow said it wasn't for sale but realized I knew exactly what it was and said her husband would have appreciated another pilot's enthusiasm for the real X-22 and gave it to me. It's my coolest thing.
I have one too. My father worked on that project until 1972
The animations were absolutely fantastic!
Thanks you made my day
Agreed love these. What software did you use for modeling/animation/rendering
Amazing concept
Great design, huge rudder, wings for lift at speed. Could of seen many uses outside of military applications. Pretty stable aerial platform.
It did though. The v22 osprey. It just looks a bit different.
I remember the videos when you've just started the channel. Holy darn you've improved so much!
Thanks for sticking around! I’m courious where we will go next!
The x-22 has always been one of my favorite aircraft design.
I love helicopters and any type of VTOL aircraft. The designers really had imagination and skill to build all those strange looking ships and get them to work..
Got to hand it to 1960's engineers, they were designing the future
Oh just noticed that you're premiering, was just watching a few shorts.
Love the channel. A small note on the animation. Half the blades should rotate CCW. Not only does it make sense on a theoretical level, the angles of the blades indicates this is the intended direction.
Additionally, the back rotors are mirrored to the front ones, so for example front left turns ccw, back left cw, front right cw, back right ccw. Just like most quadcopters are cofingured.
One of the first true quadcopters, with all the benefits that came with it. A shame this concept was never pursued.
This is one of those projects which don’t sound overly ambitious, but still extremely cool.
That looks crazy!
X22 so osprey is the eventual success. Even though that took a decade (and lots of money) from prototype to deployment.
Interesting there was/is a proposed variation of design of the osprey with 4 rotors/engines across 2 wings.
Great video! One point - the props on starboard side should rotate in the opposite direction to the ones on the port side.
Thanks!
I am a fan of your work. And have been waiting anxiously for your next video.
One suggestion, can u do videos of some unbuilt modern fighter aircrafts. Such as the proposed F-16IN, F-15SE, RAH-66 Comanche etc.
I guess material on these projects would be easily available.
With love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Sure what a great idea!
I mentioned it earlier, but for this video it seems extra fitting. Will you make a video about Darpa’s VTOLX?
Ahh yes good old 60s
I grew up in the Buffalo/Niagara area and I actually got to see the remaining X-22 when it was on display, sadly as far as I know that museum shut down and the aircraft is now in storage.
Fixed-wing VTOLs are awesome, I hope to see them in general aviation market soon
vtols aren't as useful as they seem ,the f35 alone is slow as hell and cant turn well compared to other stealth fighters in the same category, and this thing wont replace the osprey in all honesty as its bigger and carries similar amount as the osprey
@@HighFlyer6969 No one said anything about selling supersonic stealth VTOLs to general aviation
When I volunteered for the Elmira New York Regional airport's national warplane museum in 2006 the first model prototype x22 fuselage cockpit (the one that crashed) was stored in the restoration hangar
John " Jack " Beilman ( my grandfather) designed and obsessed over this model. He told me it cost a fortune to run it.
Interesting fact, The musician Ani Difranco's dad, was my grandfather's friend and they made this VTOL aircraft.
Nello?,
Love these videos man!
Flying wing in the background. Nice touch.
07:54 - I like the sound of the X-22 firing guns.
Great video, as usual...thanks from Rome!
The modularity, faster speed, and easy control of this concept would be really good for Coast Guard search and rescue, counter piracy, and trafficking operations since it has finer control, carrying carry a team of six. This is engineering done right
Great Video!!
That design is perfect for space station , super aircraft carrier
Thank you for doing the "pew pew" sound effect :)
the speed and height ceiling could make this a great rescue aircraft, especially for immediate sea and mountain rescues.
1:28 ironic because the V-22's exhaust also burned the deck of aircraft carriers
The family was stationed in Niagara Falls in the mid-60s we used to watch this thing fly we lived across the road from the runway some people called it the flying garbage cans
In addition to what I just mentioned they could be outfitted with emergency surgical pods that could provide a seemless surgical transformation from scene to hospital. They could be manned by a pilot, copilot, navigator, trauma surgical team, and a boom handler. Where the paramedics on seen could easily put a patient on a gerney and the patient could be hoisted up to the vertol craft. These pods could de designed to be pulled directly to a surgical unit at a hospital. Bell should look at this idea and forget about the military. What I am describing is an EMTs dream come true. Lives would be saved.
Gotta love the "pew peeeew"
“Niagara Falls...slowly I turned...step by step...inch by inch...”.
😆😆😆
Cool !
Awesome aircraft! X-22 should be resurrected and produced for all time to come. Cheers!
The good year blimp of VTOLs
I want one. It looks like the illegitimate love child of a Huey, a Hovercraft and an Ekranoplan.
Surprised you did not include the Flying Pogo . My Father worked on part of that aircraft and said it was a flying death trap as well as the " silver bug " craft. Thanks for the share . :O)
5 days ago I had the idea to build a drone like this.
Now I find out there's old designs to copy 😆
5:02 Didn't the X-22 have counter rotating blades to cancel out torque?
Just knowing how loud tiny RC quadcopters are, I can only imagine how loud this damn thing was. Lol
When I was growing up in a suburb of Buffalo, we would sometimes see the prototype flying overhead. The flights were always slow and accompanied by a helicopter or two.
Wow. So good to know about this one. Will you be talking about the dream VTOL Aircraft ??
that's a real-life LAAT!
This makes so much more sense than the Osprey.
The Osprey has more than double the range
@@startedtech that's mostly due to the physical size being smaller. The Osprey has more fuel capacity because it's about twice the size. I'm talking more about the design. If it was scaled up to the Ospreys size/weight, I'm sure it would have a more comparable range.
Tiltrotor was developed from the ducted fan in order to offset the weight penalties of the ducted fan hardware
Those dimensions listed are not that far off from the osprey but it also had less horsepower combined than 1 osprey engine. It would be pretty capable with newer engines.
This thing was incredibly loud! You would hear it 10 min before you could see it.
Right off the Hop, it is *not* at all difficult to spot the influences that helicopter design had on this airframe, and *not* because of the ducted fans, but the fuselage.
1:40
Marines and Coast Guard: *Am I a joke to you?*
Zero-Length Launch is a better idea for how to get a fighter aircraft airborne without a runway anyways, as you simply discard the hardware needed to get it airborne once you're up to flying speed. ZLL is basically what you get when you strap a fairly sizeable solid fuel rocket motor to the underside of an otherwise normal fighter jet in such a way that it provides both vertical and horizontal acceleration (usually achieved by aiming the entire aircraft at a significant pitch angle relative to the horizon). Upon burnout of the solid rocket motor, it would simply drop away, leaving the aircraft with enough forward velocity to continue to accelerate using its own engine(s).
In testing they made it work with an F-104, there's no reason they couldn't get it to work with something much more modern like an F-22 or F-35A provided a sufficiently reinforced location on the aircraft to carry the high thrust of a large enough solid rocket motor.
Solid rocket motors that are up to the task already exist for use in sounding rockets, and are either stockpiled, currently in production, or are easily able to re-start production if needed. Alternatively, a group of smaller solid rocket motors could be used. The concept does not particularly depend on the exact solid rocket motor used.
As far as how to make a helicopter go faster, as the video states we got the start of the V-22 program out of the end of this one. However, there's really no will to put much if any ordinance on that airframe, but I suppose solutions would be developed as and if needed.
I wish we had these today.
Looks good on paper
Project like this one, and the similarly cool Fairey Rotodyne, always strike me as being ideal for the Royal Navy, with their focus on V/STOL carriers like the _Invincible-_ and _Queen Elizabeth-_ classes. Unfortunately, the RN has been working so hard just to _get_ a new carrier class that they probably don't have much politcal capital left to develop aircraft for it.
Let's be real here, in any REAL conflict the RN would be completely dependent on US Carrier Strike Groups for any serious power projection... It doesn't make sense for the RN to go all in on largely redundant capabilities. Practically the only reason Britain still has aircraft carriers AT ALL is politics and self image. (That whole "real navies have carriers" perception is still as prevalent as ever.)
@@Cooe. Let's be real here, the entire purpose of the carriers is to NOT be dependent on the US. The RN has extensive experience with STOVL operations; STOVL carriers have advantages and disadvantages, like any other design. The assumption that the only "right" way to do something is the American way is pretty childish, honestly.
@@Werrf1 ... And the current capabilities of Britain's carriers aren't even FUCKING CLOSE to being able to operate completely independently of US Carrier Strike Groups in an actual war scenario, meaning they utterly fail at the purpose you describe. They are nothing more than extremely expensive political props. A way for Britain to still feel like it's "still a world superpower" when that hasn't been the case since Eden invaded Egypt in literally the fucking 50's...
@@Cooe. And yet shockingly they managed to do exactly that for several decades with the _Invincible_ -class. As effective as a US carrier? No. Able to operate in an actual war scenario? Absolutely. I suggest you get your head out of your arse.
@@Werrf1 Lol Argentina isn't a real near-peer enemy. 🤣 Get the fuck outta here with that nonsense. That's like an adult picking on an elementary schooler and saying "See! I told you I was strong!".
Does anyone know if the blades spun clockwise or anticlockwise! Thanks
Alex, I hereby command you to make videos on the following aircraft:
Edgley Optica
Nord 500 Cadet
Cassna Skymaster
Isn't this basically what Tesla's electric airplane is now being rolled out as? A ducted fan VTOL, where the fan is electrically powered instead of jet-powered. I read reports from the Navy, and they were complaining about the lack of visibility past the huge ducted fans. It was the lack of visibility that killed off the design. In a battle, if you can't see the enemy, the enemy ends up killing you.
spit coffee at my monitor at "pew pew" xD
Yet another squandered opportunity to produce a truly unique and versatile aircraft. Any objections to this designed could have easily been worked out.
Imagine it’s use for forest fires and rescue
Think the propeller would not all rotate the same direction, also, the radar cross section would be terrible
What are the black patches on the ring nacelles?
Tim, I believe those are reference points for prop rotation. Let me know if you find something else!
Can you please make a video about Hawker Siddeley P.1154?
Great re-creation of a concept ahead of it's time, but like the YF-23 and the P-39 Aerocobra, they dared too much with the tech they had, but what about now?
I can see why it fell short of it's range and performance goals, the reduction gearing, hydraulic pumps, motors and powertrain would have been a mechanic's nightmare. The Canadair Dynavert was a much more straightforward approach for that era.
Electric and hybrid power are coming on strong now, with capacitors for jump take-off greatly reducing the overall engine size and fuel requirements. Maybe they'll be one around to whisk me to the big-city airport the year after next.
For civilian aircraft, I prefer this plane with it's contain blades, extra safe.
I grew up around this aircraft as a kid, my dad worked on the project. we had a metal scale model of the X-22A in the living room. I wasn't allowed to touch it 🤪
Here's a question for you. It's a functional design that never made it to production. But it is a functional design whatever you were to build it today what would you change in the build of the fuselage it couldn't use electric hybrid system to to solve some of the noise problems
Have you ever heard of the Dornier Do 31?
They have developed it in the late 1960s and since then no other VTOL came close with its performance.
The Canadian Dynavert was first and did it better. Including US Navy Carrier trials
Will you be doing the V-44 concept;
It was never developed because of ducted fans were more efficient than helicopter rotors but the associated weight of the ducted fans eliminated the efficiency advantage
just a thought and not sure if it would work but what if a vtol plane had thrusters pointing down and normal jet engines pointing back
Any plans for Confirmation 49 or Doak VZ-4 videos?
Possibly!
AMAZINGNES!!!
There is a C-130 Size, Osprey like, Aircraft Planned for "Future Vertical Lift" or something right?
That and basically any tilt rotor stuff is amazing, and i'd love more content on it.
Flaws are just problems the engineers haven’t fixed yet”
Throughout aviation and aerospace history, there I’ve seen countless designs that might’ve worked if more effort (and money) was thrown at them. Hindsight is 20-20.
Can you make a video about the junkers j 1000? it's pretty cool. Thanks
This plane's design actually found it's way to Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Battlefield 2042.
Its like a modern quad copter. Just supersized.
The Osprey has an interesting design history and curious if this design helped with it.
Bell has a long history of experimenting with VTOL rotorcraft and the Osprey is from the same maker, so what do you think?
It actually looks like something that might be good use in the US coast Guard’s arsenal!!! I mean it looks like it could have more control and stability in the heavy weather storms then most single rotor helicopters!!!
Cool!!
Can you please do a video about the Moller Skycar?
imagine commenting before the premiere starts