XP-79 - The Flying Chainsaw
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
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During World War 2, the race for being the most technologically innovative country was more important than ever, particularly in aviation. As entirely new air forces were built from the ground up, almost a million aircraft were produced worldwide for warfare.
And even though the United States joined the war later than most of the other technologically advanced countries, they didn't want to be left behind. To keep up with wild new technologies such as jet-power and flying wings, they wanted to design something that had never been seen before. The XP-79 was, at a time, thought to be the answer.
The XP-79 was the first jet-powered aircraft of the United States. Its purpose was to attack enemy bombers at unusually high speeds by ramming into them, without suffering any damage itself.
Its unique shape and strong magnesium-covered armor would allow it to slice off the tails and wings from enemy aircraft. It was nicknamed "The Flying Chainsaw."
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Joined Magellan for you, pal. I really enjoy your content.
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@@aaronmills4238 I know, but I wanted to support this channel.
the Russians had a Better Idea, get in Close with your Propleller Plane and use the Prop to Chop up the Tail of the other Pane.
Love this guys voice an style.
This guy missed his calling as the Terms and Conditions annoucer at the end of every life insurance commercial.
Sorry, he reads to fast. His accuracy is perfection is narration though.
@@therugburnz it's the push to keep the videos around 10 mins because the average adult has an extremely limited attention span.
strange I didn't think he was talking fast enough I set the play speed up to 1.25x
@@the_hanged_clown I did that to a Black Sabbath download. I saw god man.
@@mastermnd22 the average adult under 45, yes
The US Airforce took the term "RAM-jet" a bit too literal.
LMAO!
😅🤣😂😅🤣😂
-ly.
Why use armor piecing munitions when the jet is anyway :p
LOL
Your subject matter is fine, and I appreciate what you are trying to do. However, your research is like your delivery. Rushed. The 163 was not designed to ram bombers. It was armed with 20 mm or 30 mm cannon. The XP-79 was to be designed with 4 .50 caliber machine guns. Both were designed as fast bomber interceptors. The prone layout was for g-forces not for ramming. The Me 163 was also rocket powered not jet powered.
That does sound a little less completely bat-shit crazy. I must confess I did have to check the date of the video to ensure it wasn't an April 1st release, because the notion of having a pilot fly a plane head-first at high speed into another does seem more in keeping with an April Fool's jape than a serious military tactic. I know they say the idea is to use the wing of this plane to shear the wing or tailplane of the enemy's. but at these kind of speeds who really has that kind of precision? And who really imagine that "bulletproof glass" would protect a pilot from the consequences of a head-first high-speed collision with a Luftwaffe fighter/bomber?
Anyway, thanks for your rather more realistic elucidation.
That would be a pretty cool idea if it could actually work lol, would not have to worry about ammo when you can just slice a plane in half
Play it at .75 speed. I think the vid was actually sped up.
@@kevinjohnson7300 still gotta worry about fuel tho
@@notDonaldFagen he sounds depressed lol
Unfortunately, the XP-79s ramming capabilities are a myth, and have been for a very long time. The prototype was very strong structurally, but was never designed to be a rammer. Someone in marketing called it the “flying ram” at one point, and it’s been a myth ever since.
Just look at how it’s designed, any hit in the center would have likely damaged the engines and/or killed the pilot, and any hit in the wing probably would have sent it into a spin. Makes no sense.
"and any hit in the wing probably would have sent it into a spin."
The question would be is the spin significant/unrecoverable. If the aircraft was built to be beefy, then I can't see it getting that much yaw from its wings slicing through an enemy bomber's wings. Just too much mass to turn at fast rate. Although it is also a flying wing, and I don't know much about their properties during yawing.
Occams razor still points to you being correct, though. Makes more sense that it was a myth birthed from a misunderstooding with marketing; rather than it actually being designed for ramming.
@@josephburchanowski4636 if it hit an armour plate, a bomb, a wing spar, an engine block, at 400mph you wouldnt have to worry about a spin because there would be nothing left to spin
I agree. The idea of a jet powered wing whose job it is to ram other aircraft is laughable. "The flying ram" concept sounds like a cover story designed to obscure the real concept, which was probably a fighter or bomber.
@@leeboy29680-ol7gf Pretty sure if you ram your armored wing into the enemy bomber's armor plate or engine block, you don't just disintegrate. Well your own wing ends up getting torn off; so you are still screwed, but I wouldn't call that "nothing left to spin".
Again occams razor is that ramming wasn't the design; just something some idiot in marketing said and turned into myth.
@@josephburchanowski4636 you get my drift. and it wouldnt just tear off the wing so a wing and the rest fell to earth, if you could recognize anything of the jet it would be amazing
Until dark skies, I never knew I loved experimental aircraft this much.
feel the same bro!
Agree!
Me too
Same here James..
Why? Most of these videos are riddled with errors.
Nobody:
Teacher: you have 5 minutes to read the whole 200 page book
Dark skies: hold my breath
Gotta give the man credit. It's fast and clear!
@@MadmanJnr not hard to do when you speed up the recording.
@@LysisAG rite at least 1.7 x normal speed
@@MadmanJnr And chock fulla commercial$!
@@LHGII go to .75x and it sounds about normal maybe slightly slower but better then his normal video speed
This guy can recite the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica in 10 minutes flat.
True
@@osamabinladen824 amazing name
@@mattmumford430 Thanks baby
Maybe, but you’d only understand every third word!
Eh, it's easy to speed up a digital file.
Unpopular opinion: I actually LIKE his rapid speech. Gets the information across without padding the video length with useless filler video or stills. Then again, I get so annoyed at other videos that I usually play them at 1.25 speed. Takes all kinds, I guess.
Just came here to say that "Bomber Boys" is actually a fantastic show. I can highly recommend it. Colin McGregor (Ewan's brother) is an RAF pilot, and his call sign is "Obi Two". How cool is that?
That's awesome, I'll have to check it out!
Damn yeah thats cool.
Their uncle Denis Lawson, another Scottish actor, played Wedge Antilles in A New Hope.
He was. Now he works as a management consultant (iirc!)
Thanks for the suggestion, i will put this in the list and watch it after i finish The Man In The High Castle
In Chuck Yeager's autobiography, there was a flying wing under test at Muroc. It was forever breaking down and earned the
title 'hanger queen' Anyhoo it caught fire once on the runway, the pilot jumped out and tried to prevent the firemen from
putting out the flames. (he was just pissed off at the planes continual attempts at trying to kill him)
This is the dude who reads the spanish listening questions
“Spanish listening questions”... what is that? Spanish language study questions? They ask them in English? That sounds counter productive
@@haruruben no they read them in Spanish, too practice listening to Spanish. They typically however read them wayyy faster then anyone in the room is used too.
Yes
I genuinely love his videos but hate his voice, its like dramatic for no reason
@@advaitshrestha7764 I just imagine him nervously smoking a cigarette, standing at a window, peering out with paranoid energy, as if he has to tell us this information before somebody comes for him
I love the narration of dark skies...
He speaks like he’s on a timer and racing to get as much information as possible in before the video explodes.
My favorite YT content creator by far.
What if I told you this video is full of inaccuracies ?
One of Northrop test pilots told me that when shown the prone position he told Jack he didn't like the idea of a thin piece of sheet metal between him and the ground in a wheels up emergency landing. He described the chin rest that held his head up so he could look forward. He said the controls and chin rest made it tiring to operate the controls. All this led to the F16 having the pilot almost flat on his back instead.
I've imagined that would be the case. There was such desperation for development during the war, men were pushed to the edge of the envelope in all areas and the XP-79 was way out there. The human physique was just a hurdle to be jumped, little consideration for anything beyond being a biological machine - big error there. That attitude prevailed for decades until it came to be shown our existence is more than just our physicality. I knew one of the YB-35 crew members: O.H. Douglas was a flight engineer, came to work at Boeing/Wichita. I went to school with his son and we shared interests in aircraft, hot topic at that time.
The F-16's seat is reclined 30 degrees, and I kinda doubt that design choice was a reaction to Northrop's 1942 death machine prototype. 🙂
@@RaquelFoster You're correct, it was to delay the onset of G force during maneuvering. My experience sitting in the F-16 for hours of engine runs shows me it may be comfortable in combat, but without a helmet to space your head from the seat, it's not. The F-4 was like sitting in a desk chair, but not the best for combat.
@@williamhudson4938 And I hear the F-4 also had your knees basically tucked under a desk! One of my dad's best friends (who was really tall) had to eject from an F-4 and it really messed up his knees.
I think when the F-16 was designed it was super futuristic and seemed insanely reclined. The F-16 was the first fly-by-wire jet with the 1553 avionics databus. That was pretty revolutionary. 1553 is ubiquitous now (and the civilian version, ARINC-429). 1553 is triple-redundant with all kinds of backups, and even if you lose a wing, or if something breaks and sends tons of bad data, your other control surfaces keep working. I'm a software engineer, and I worked on adapting 1553 for the F-35. That's called 1773, but it's mostly just a fiber optic version of 1553 which has exponentially more bandwidth and is resistant to electromagnetic jamming.
It's just funny how many times I've heard people say the F-16 is like lying down when it's only 30 degrees. When I was little I remember my dad saying that. He flew F-100s and then A-7s for the ANG, and I felt bad for him that they got F-16s the year after he left and got an airline job. Everybody said it was primarily to help with G-forces, but I've also heard non-pilot engineering nerds (like my best friend's dad who worked on the ergonomics of the F-16s side stick) say it was just as much because of working with the available space in the bubble canopy. And they point out that the thing that actually helps keep you from passing out is getting your legs more elevated vs. the height of your head (which reclining does help with some). The F-22 is reclined 19.5 degrees, which is a lot better for your neck.
@@RaquelFoster amazing! what people one could meet up on Internet!
I would like to suggest a couple of interesting ideas for pilot seating.
Just throwing thoughts here so don't mind them if you don't like them.
What if the pilot is seated in a "bubble" seating.
That adjust itself accordingly to the gforce.
So the g forces and turns don't compromise the pilots.
It would be worse than sitting on your computer playing dcs world but better than anything available.
That said, I guess soon the pilots would be the thing of the past as soon as pilotless ai assisted warplanes catch the fancy of the powers that be.
There is an anime " macros zero" , only 4 or 5 episode long.
In first episode they had f14 battle an advanced fighter and lost. Then we see the heroes using advanced planes and some science fiction level technology but very interesting to watch.
You have just proved you can talk faster then I can listen.
Thank you for posting this. The XP-79 is a plane that almost never gets talked about, despite its amazing appearance.
Flying chainsaw:
Doomguy: *RIP AND TEAR INTENSIFIES*
redditor
0:37 "The XP-79 was the first jet powered aircraft in the United States"
P-59 Airacomet: Laughs in jet...
My thought too
well, he said rocket powered not jet powered
@@joemama.556 check the timestamp. he said "jet powered", you can even hear the emphasis on the word _jet._
Dark Skies is a JOKE! Their videos are so bad, makes me want to puke.
Joe Kdr don’t watch it then..
Stop whinging
5:36 is the most impressive part of this video, handling thin sheets of metal like that with no leather gloves is a good way to lose a finger.
The flying wing always fascinated me. My parents had many multi-volume book sets and "The Book oh Knowledge" had a dust jacket featuring the Northrop Flying Wing.
There were quite a few Northrop flying wings in six different variants.
At 0.75x playback speed, this is actually comprehensible.
Toooooo funny!!!!! You're right!!!!
Hmm.........yeah, but now he sounds drunk.
My guess is this is his proper voice. The way it sounds normally frustrates me too much and I can't do a whole video. But at 75% I can! Thanks!
Meanwhile I played it at 2x speed. Y'all just slow. Then again I have been watching all my youtube videos at 2x speed for a while now to save time, so I guess I am now used to fast talking. Whenever something is tough to understand, I can just reduce it to 1.5x or normal speed. Also I have a habit of using the J key; but that is more because when I am focused on the imagery, my ears basically turn off.
@@josephburchanowski4636 Your many wives and children must be so impressed.
Pretty sure the slicing bombers in half had more to do with its being called the flying chainsaw then the pilots prone position.
im just wondering, is this what kenneth arnold saw over mount rainier in 1947 ?
A lot of this guy's lines make no sense but that one was like toddler-level nonsense.
well, since this plane was NEVER intended to ramm anything, it has to do more with the pilots position. that the plane was made to ramm or slice enemy bombers is a myth. the whole video is stupid and misinforming.
@@billy5179 because everybody uses a chainsaw while laying down.......
Have you ever been in a car accident at a speed difference of only 30mph? Imagine a 200mph difference. The pilot would be stunned at best, more like knocked unconscious or killed on impact.
No worries - the bullet proof glass and magnesium will protect his craft. NOT.
The commentary style is what makes the commentator stand out and the videos all the more special.... Thanks for another interesting video.
next time they build this kind of plane, add an actual chain that runs along the aircraft's center fuselage to really doomguy chainsword the enemy bombers!
kingofchebureki bombers are cute but doom is eternal
@@voa2039 And what is “doomguy chainsword”?
Fuck yeah man!
"the xp79 was the first jet powered fighter of the United States"
sad p-59 noises
Ikr
I'm pretty sure he said it was the US's first ROCKET powered fighter TBH...
@@feverdiscordia4404 rocket, jet, same thing
Sean Everard - the narration uses both terms even though they are quite different. The script is not written and edited at a scholarly level.
@@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10 wrong, Rocket is not the same as Jet
God damn it. He's back, narrating without breathing.
I read somewhere that as an old man, confined to a wheelchair, Jack Northrup was taken to a secured hanger and shown the new B-2 Spirit, Stealth bomber, a flying wing design. His reported comment was: "Now I now why God has let me live this long"! He was a brilliant designer.
His flying wing would eventually get adopted in the late 90s
actually in the mid-60s. The current Flying Wing [B-2] in the US Air Arsenal was conceived then. But it would take decades for an advanced computer(s) along with some exotic propulsion systems to coordinate the "fly by wire" features in its design.
His flying wing got adopted in the 40's with the YB-35
@@1993Crag And was modified to the YB-49 for jets. Jack Northrop was briefed into the B-2 program, he said he knew why God had kept him alive. He checked the detailed model out, and stated 'The next thing I wanted to do is get rid of the small vertical fins on the YB-49. "
technology so advanced by Nazi Germany during WW2.... HO 229... Flying wing.. taken back to the U.S.A... and only then did the U.S.A.... after 40 years of development , trying to work out how this technology worked , . did they have a real true Flying wing...
@@michaelleese2454 No. Flying wings had been attempted for many years, but certainly Jack Northrop's flying wings didn't depend on the Horton brothers, who didn't understand elliptical lift distribution. warbirdforum.com/northrop.htm
My guess is that even if the plane got into production, the Air Force was going to have a VERY difficult time rounding up pilots to fly it.
Do you want to fly this bird? *HELL NO*
That would have most likely been the general answer.
I don't think the "hazardous" duty pay would've been much of an incentive.
Pilot : Sir, you must be out of your g** d*** mind! If I get in that thing, I'm probably dead!
Officer : {draws sidearm} True... You're PROBABLY dead if you get in and fly. You're DEFINITELY dead if you don't.
Suddenly, it's not so hard to get pilots into planes... HOWEVER, stunningly, recruitment drops right off thereafter... ;o)
So I love WW2 history and I usually listen to it in the background. You have made several videos where I have actually stopped what I was doing and watched because I was so curious and drawn in. This literally made me stop cooking. Great video!
Man Dan Cummins sure does a great job as a narrator!
A *Flying Boomstick* needs to be paired with the *Flying Chainsaw* to make it effective.
groovy!
I understood that reference.
You would also need a couple *flying* *pancakes* at breakfast to start the day right.
No, you should eat Luftwaffles, they’re a wunderbar way of starting your day!
No boom today.
Boom tomorrow
There's always a boom tomorrow.
Pilot: I got a bad feeling about this.
I often think to myself..."I wonder when I'll get a small fighter jet of my own". This guy is a mind reader!
Since the only XP-79 ever made crashed on its first attempted flight, it's a bit of an exaggeration to call it the *Flying* Chainsaw.
"The failed aerial battering-ram project" might be a better title for this breathless little video.
This narrator needs to hire out doing farm auctions
Tbh those auctioneers practice rolling repetitions that is only an approximation of the amounts they announce, its actually lame nonsense but was seen as good entertainment in the old days and now it has become a cultural thing in the usa.
One of Northrop's 4 prototype flying wings is on display at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California. I saw it fly once there during the museum's annual air show. The bright yellow wing was flying on its original franklin engines.
No it's not! It crashed a while back killing the pilot...
Crash and burn....
And a new world record, aviation history in 10 seconds!
Something about the guy in the thumbnail zooming to separate a tail gunner from the rest of the crew is both funny and terrifying
Good old American tradition lol just ram the planes like we do cars
Raming was a concept used by the IJN and IJA in the form of the kamikaze and kaiten,the german air force in ww2 also had a ram unit called sonderkommando. The allies,US,Uk, even Russia under Stalin never had such tactics, nor such a tradition!
@Loli4lyf As did the Chinese, picking up the guns of their dead comrades as they advanced, it's the always plenty more where they came from mentality as used by the cretin generals that where in charge of both armies in WW1, It's never the generals that are getting slaughtered though
Jack Northrop’s flying wing dream didn’t really come true until the B-2. Just before his death he was granted special permission to see the prototype, which is amazing considering the secrecy around the program.
You really believe he died of natural causes?😂 dead men tell no tales, Jack was in his prime.
here's to all the men and women who have died not neccessarily in combat but in the various training missions around the country and around the world...your names and faces my not be well known but your service will never be forgotten.
Inspiration, no doubt, for the game "Luftrausers" about the secret Nazi Wunderwaffe "Wonder Weapons" employed in WW2 airplanes. There was a nose cone with a chainsaw like blade that would cut through enemy airplanes and negate the damage from collisions.
Feels like watching a normal video if you watch it with 0.75 speed
Just a little drunk
I can just imagine the reaction of the first pilots when the concept was explained to them. "You want me to do WHAT with this aircraft?"
I imagine that would be one of the worst parts of being a test pilot being expected to think the engineers know what they are doing , but
when they see what they are expected to fly it must at times strike terror in their hearts .
I really like the fast paced commentary with this video. It is concise and VERY clear unlike many commentaries that are long a dragged out in such a way as to bore me silly. Congrats on your EXCELLENT speaking abilities. Keep it up!!!
I think a video on the p-61 would be pretty cool
8:30 “The pilot would face little danger” In an airplane designed to ram enemy aircraft?
Except it was never designed to ram anything. This is a myth that was added to its history after the tests were over. The US Army Air Force always intended the production version to carry guns.
@@FireAngelOfLondon That makes sense. I'm pretty sure that you can't make armor out of magnesium either.
@Agent J Have any documentation for the idea that this plane was meant to ram?
@@soaringvulture Well if it's thick enough almost any metal could be armour, but the XP-79 had fairly thin skin so...
@Burton Knighten That too. Almost all metals will burn but Magnesium burns particularly well once you reach the ignition temperature. The same is true of Aluminium by the way, it is very difficult indeed to extinguish an aluminium fire.
Test pilots are one hell of a crazy breed. The amount of them that died in those days is insane.
I love it when people try to tell someone how to run their channel when their video has over 1/2 million views and has almost 150,000 subscribers. If you don’t like it, bugger off as they say.
Ramming into bombers? what type of crazy idea is that? How is it possible to not damage its own wings or crush it's canopy?
easy, you only use the WINGS to slice through otter Aircraft Wings.
and the Canopy is Bulletproof.
It was never intended to ram other aircraft, that is a public relations spiff created after the fact that took off: note that no official documents on it mention ramming and all have it armed with guns.
Use wings to cut: ok. But how do you regain control of your own spinning plane after it??
@Hansel Franzen what?? The U.S. government lying to it's own citizens??? They really would do such a thing????
@Hansel Franzen No. I mean Northrop may have just taken a idea someone had based on its appearance (original nickname for it was "Flying Ram" based on the shape iirc) and run with it. The idea of it being used to ram planes first appeared in a press conference. This is much more interesting then "US 1940s flying wing #12" and so it was repeated again and again and became semi official, despite the aircraft never having been designed with ramming in mind.
This guy sounds like he just dropped a few more rounds in the pistol during a game of Russian Roulette.
the idea with today's technology and creative minds is definitely something to reconsider
Production value and narration is so good on these videos. The cadence of the narration is super engaging
More tolerable if played back at .75 (see settings).
Thanks, that was driving me nuts
If you really want a thrill, crank it up to 1.25.
I always forget with this dude, thank you : ) .
0.9 is better
Why do they speed up this dialog. It’s has been altered after recording. Very good content, but annoying that you have to slow it to .75 to sound correct.
I understand it perfectly. New Yorkers talk faster than this on a daily basis.
those first two minutes ...priceless
Pilot: Is this a kamikaze mission?
General: No, no, no, no.... how dare you? you are well protected, the latest technology!
Yes, bullet proof glass will protect you!
As a child I drew a small fighter plane in which the pilot lay. Never thought anything like it was ever built.
I learned long ago that pretty much any original idea I ever had has been thought of by others already, hundreds of times over.
As a child, I drew small concentration camps filled with tiny little politicians and economy bosses...
@@MothaLuva Your parents must be very proud.
poppedweasel Totally. They even helped me with some details here and there...you know, if I didn’t get the ovens right, oversized the crematorium, misshaped the watchtowers...stuff like that.
@@MothaLuva So You are a victim of left hate ideology.
"... American bomber formations in Europe were frequently attacked by a new rocket powered jet, the ME163 Komet..."
SO many contradictions in just one sentence.
Not seeing any contradictions at all, plus the facts and descriptions are accurate. And before you get whiplash with a jet/rocket comeback: 1.) What shoots out of a rocket? A jet of exhaust. 2.) You've heard of JATO of course.
Watching these videos of experimental aircraft is always interesting but my eye is always drawn to what’s shown in the background. To see these cutting edge high tech machines against the backdrop of old automobiles which were new at the time is mind blowing.
If you don't have magellan and don't want to get it, Bomber Boys is on Prime as well
Is this the narrator's normal speaking voice? It sounds like he's trying too hard to be "serious" and too fast. It's distracting to an otherwise interesting topic.
My guess is that he is trying to speak like a WW2 narrator. Like those hyper quick style of speaking you often hear on WW2 footage.
Dont forget that he also has his facts completely wrong.
@@firecrow7973 list the facts he got wrong or just shut the hell up
IN THE EARLY STAGE THEAMERICANBOMBE BEGANDNF TO SKSEKFKFNF
Interesting, a plane I never even heard of before...
I love the content of this channel, but you guys seriously need a new presenter - the lisp, the rushed sentences, the “cool guy” voice, they take away from the experience. Most of the time I just mute and run subtitles. I feel like even just slowing down would help out a lot. I’m not hating, I think this channel is awesome, just hope you guys can take some feedback here. Cheers!
This airplane is the physical manifestation of a fever dream.
Love how content your putting out. Every video is quality. Keep it up!
The first jet-powered U.S. aircraft was the Bell P-59
Even though the jet was a failure, the design is still pretty awesome.
Making a plane solely designed to ram planes and walk away unharmed is metal af.
Except that's a myth. It was never designed to ram and was designed to carry four .50 cal machine guns.
@@DavidBromage damn but the concept still
The flying Dorito is a powerful, experimental super weapon designed to dispense crunchy missiles and toxic cheese dust over enemy fortifications.
Fly straight into them? This would be perfect for War Thunder win by proxy crew lock the whole german playerbase = Profit!
@FangABXY FangABXY I think if you crit the the other guy before contact you get the kill :)
A fellow war thunder player i see... Lets suffer together.
@@untruehunter1828 The amount of hours I have suffered on War thunder could have been used to train to fly a 747 :)
Meanwhile the Germans get the Zeppelin Rammer?
You need to study Soviet fighter tactics. I believe the have a fighter ace that crashed into other fighters and lived, three times. This sort of attack was encouraged by the Soviets.
Dude you totally missed your calling as a air traffic controller... I've been told I talk slow but you take the cake for talking super fast.. Brovo
I find very funny how people will claim Jack stole from the Horten brothers and can not accept geniuses exist everywhere
"Jet" and "rocket" propulsion are different. Calling the Komet a jet is incorrect.
Was just going to say this...
Any documentation on the ramming? I've heard that was a complete myth.
Or deliberate misinformation.
If you, like I, find the narration too fast, go into the settings and slow it down to 0.75 speed. Sounds soooo much better. And regarding the narrator, I think it's an app we're hearing.
I'm sorry, as a non-native yet trained english speaker this is really uncomfortable to listen to. The talking speed is just way too fast. .75 is too slow and the video footage is obviously played at the incorrect speed then. Besides that huge compliments for this kind of content.
Magnesium armor.....so had this thing entered combat somehow, it would literally be a flying bomb meant to kill only one person - it's pilot.
You really don't have to hit an aircraft tail very hard to break it. An A-10 (not a particularly fragile plane!!!) was once downed by a bird strike hitting it from the rear onto on the trailing edge of a rudder.
Also solid magnesium is extremely hard to ignite. It's the powder that flashes real easily. It does burn,but it takes a really high and sustained heat to ignite it!
there are laptops made out of Magnesium
tom cline they banned solid magnesium car rims because of fire danger 🤷♂️.
@@MatanuskaHIGH they ban lots of stupid shit. There are tons of types of knives banned, yet spring assisted pocket knives are even faster to use
Micheal Reaves: Today im going to build a plane inspired by a dorito.
The outcome:
Hey, rotary engines were also Dorito inspired.
You need to make a channel reading horror stories. Your voice and thebway you read is so relaxing omfg
Love the video, but could you slow down the speaking? I'm a native English speaker and I had trouble keeping up. I imagine our international friends would have a hard time. Keep up the good work.
Skip to 2:04
It seemed that flying wings always had stability issues until the onset of computers to manage control surfaces.
Flying Wings are Inharently unstable, thats what makes them so good.
and you are Right, Modern Computers and Avionics helped Flying Wing Designs be Successful.
@@markplott4820 Not necessarily so, please see aircraft such as those designed by Horten. Northrop wings tended to have stability issues, mostly because they still tried to stick with an eliptical spanwise lift distribution. Successful swept wings have been made using a bell shapped lift distribution which, in no way, needs a computer to be stable, is almost as efficient, and has some advantages structurally. This work continued under Albion Bowers at NASA. There are many examples of many configurations of wings that fly fine without computers.
Sadly the flying wings could be unstable and dangerous in certain flight regimes as was discovered during the testing of the B-35 when one entered an uncontrollable flight mode and crashed. The restored N9M took the life of an airshow demonstration pilot recently at Chino CA. A man familiar with the aircraft. To say that this design could be both treacherous and very unforgiving would be correct. The B-2 Stealth bomber utilizes very sophisticated flight control computers to both stabilize the aircraft and to help prevent the flight crew from entering an unrecoverable flight situation. Yes the wing does have less aerodynamic drag and good lift capabilities but to me it's inherent instability issues make it a more risky aircraft.
The Horton brothers would be proud . That there plane was used for this project, nobody sees the Horton 229 in this ??????
The narrator be talking faster than the time it took for my dad leave.
Dayum
Can the narrator talk any faster?? He's not irritating enough.
I disagree.
I disagree as well
(3:55) that can't be 1939 because that equipment in the background is a Tektronix 511 series oscilloscope (circa 1947).
I love this channel reminds me of some nerd on TV that always talks with his retainers in ❤️
"Very little danger to the pilot" becomes inapplicable once the thing begins moving.
The comet wasnt a jet, It literally was a rocket.
I love the Vega! Amazing aircraft!!
CO:"Have you ever had suicidal thoughts?"
Test Pilot: "No."
CO:"If I give you 5 minutes, will you think about it?"
First of all Me 163 wasn't a jet
Rockets still fall into the "Jet Propulsion" category, just not air-breathing like turbine engines, pulse-jets and ramjets/scramjets.
The speaker will put you to sleep or drive you nuts!
Jack Northrop was an Aeronautical Genious.... He created designs that were 50 years ahead of their time.... The main limiting factor of the B-49 was the Yaw stability. Not extremely bad, but it made it difficult to deliver a non-remote controlled bomb accurately to a target... If Today's Fly by wire systems, 'Smart' bomb guidance systems and GPS navigation was available back in the late 1940's, the B-49 would have been a very good choice for the AIR FORCE for a bombing aircraft... Jack Northrop was a great guy... He cared about his employees, and they respected him for that....
9:40 That firetruck was a bad omen.