Short answer. Engines need air. There is no air in space. Your welcome. Little more info: A craft can go to space... as we have seen. But to go to space the craft will need directional thrusters (wings won't work in a vacuum). The craft will need to bring it's own solid/gas fuel mixture for propulsion (again no air in space).
The journey… not the destination is the true pleasure. I watch these videos for the narrator voice, interesting topics and great animated visuals…. I don’t care about getting quick answers. I’m here to relax. Most of us are here to relax.
Let me get this straight. They got the okay to go higher to test the limits of the plane. Im not arguing that the pilots are not at fault, but they were given the okay by someone. The airline should be held responsible as well.
Not at all. They were simply given the clearance to climb to 41k feet by air traffic control, meaning that the airspace at the flight level they wanted to fly at was clear of other air traffic. As long as the airspace is clear and there are no rules in place where you’re currently flying (such as a no fly zone or altitude restriction) then air traffic control is not going to deny the request, because they don’t know the pilots reason for requesting that altitude. Whatever company the pilots worked for would never have allowed this, so this was basically a case of two pilots wanting to be cowboys or daredevils and ignoring the limits of their aircraft. What happened here is completely the result of their reckless actions and the fault lies with no one else.
A few corrections here. First, there is no point at which the air above the earth just "stops". In order for an aircraft to keep flying higher and higher it would have to reach higher and higher speeds, resulting in it being able to collect the same amount of air into the engines and to still get lift from the thinner and thinner air. This both means the engine has to be able to ingest supersonic air as well as the airframe dealing with the heating from the air molecules hitting the aircraft at higher and higher speeds. Second, the heating the space shuttle and other reentering vehicles deal with is primarily because they are trying to slow the aircraft down for reentry, and that takes loosing energy, which is done by atmospheric friction. Its not inherent to flight in the thin upper atmosphere. Further, the higher speed of hitting air molecules and generating heat is balanced by the fact that there are fewer air molecules. The negative factor is that there are fewer air molecules to carry the heat away. In short, we know how to fly in the thin atmosphere of near space. What we don't know (yet) is how to build engines that will do that, and further, the worth of doing it is debatable. It would take longer to fly to space (if we could) by atmospheric lift than to just go straight to space because of drag. Thus the whole idea of "flying to space" would be to negate the need to carry oxygen, and its probably simpler and more energy efficient just to carry oxygen (in liquid form) and go straight to space. This argument is not irrelevant. Elon musk has proposed use of rockets as terrestrial transport, and it may be as or even more fuel efficient than standard jet airlines. Why? Drag. Atmospheric jets have it. Spacecraft mostly don't (boost phase and terminal phase only).
The X-15 rocket plane was an early hypersonic vehicle. I knew one of the X-15 pilots. He eventually got his astronaut wings, almost 35 years later. The highest the X-15 reached was about 67 miles.
@@Robert_Douglass It was a rocket-powered plane that used aerodynamic control at lower altitudes and reaction control thrusters at higher altitudes. IIRC, 3 flights got above the Karman line. At the time, the FAA had set "space" to be 50 miles. Since the wings were not being awarded to aircraft pilots then, many pilots got into "space" by the FAA definition but never got the wings. I think the space tourism companies still use the old FAA standard to hand out astrotourist wings.
Spaceplanes offer the ability to travel from New York to Tokyo in roughly an hour. The commercial potential is amazing. Now, for reference, the first flights from NYC to Pittsburg in a Ford Tri-motor was similar in cost (with inflation) to flying Concord from NYC to Paris.
Just because it is potentially fast, doesn't make it a good idea. The amount of stresses put on an aircraft during re-entry of Earths atmosphere means the aircraft would have absolutely insane maintenance costs and scheduling, as parts would need replaced every single flight.
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The way most rocket propelled ships stays in space is by reaching orbital speed that is MUCH higher speed than what a normal plane usually reach. At this speed is where the reentry temperature will be too high for normal plane. But since they won't be reaching that speed with their puny engines, it's not a problem. If a normal plane is dropped from the Karman line straight down, it won't "burn up" like if you're reentering at orbital speed. It will reach its terminal velocity and then gain control by gliding. But if a normal plane is dropped from the ISS that is orbiting the Earth at orbital speed, then it better have a good heat shield or it WILL burn up on reentry. Also, weightlessness is a feature of a freefall. You're still technically falling being pulled by Earth's gravity but since the floor is falling with you, you won't feel your weight. That is until you reached the ground. If you reached orbital speed, then you won't be touching any ground for a very long time.
2:05 This section about heat during re-entry is just wrong. Space shuttles need heat shields because they enter the upper atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound and they're using air friction to slow down. If an airplane were to go that fast at typical cruising altitude, the dynamic pressure would cause it to disintegrate instantly before it had the chance to heat up.
Actually 2:05 is right. Because of the nuclear propellsion thermo reaction injection that happens when X9.0006% is divided by the square root of Pi. It's simple math.
The gravitational force isn't gone in space. Lift would be virtually gone as you rise higher but gravity would still be there virtually as strong as ever preventing the plane from rising nearly high enough to enter space.
Basically Space-Ship One was a civilian version of the old X-15 program. Ideally you would want a reusable space program to consist of a space plane for personnel that could be launched directly from the ground, or air launched from some type of carrier aircraft, and a heavy lift booster/second stage that would be used to put massive pieces of hardware (like say parts for a Mars rocket) into Earth orbit for assembly.
Yeah.. I've always dreamed of aeroplanes going into space easily... we were so motivated and not bound by rules and maths the first rocket ideas they were drawing DC3s pointing up like a rocket lol! Someone will probably do it someday...
It has already been done. The SR-71 was designed to do it and it has been tested. It has been retired for a long time, because they're crazy expensive to run. There's just not a lot of practical application for leaving the atmosphere as an individual flight crew.
@@jonasga did the SR-71 completely leave the atmosphere though or did it just get really close? It didn't have any sort of thrusters or anything so I'm not sure how exactly that would have worked?
Even if you managed to bring a plane up into space, there's also the question of having breathable air, since the air gets thinner the higher you go, eventually a pilot would pass out without some kind of oxygen supply (not to mention the passengers onboard!)
@@jessehachey2732 @isaacmaners6435 Planes essentially just compress the thinner outside Air with their Engines to pressurize the Cabin. (by tapping off one of their compression Stages) they dont have any remotely sufficient oxygen/air supply to keep people alive in space. (and no, the Oxygen masks that drop down during a deppressurisation event wont help, they are just good for 2-3 minutes)
If you can go fast enough straight up with air breathing engines (such as afterburning military grade turbofans) you could actually reach the speed required to escape the atmosphere before your engines run out of air. Although you wouldn't reach orbit, you would be a glorious man who made it to space with only air breathing engines before your plane loses control while reentering the atmosphere.
There’s a scene in ‘For All Mankind’ where the next generation shuttle is flown up to a certain altitude piggyback on a C-5 and then it takes off on rockets into space.
In theory, it should be possible. You just keep gradually increasing your angle to go up in segments. And in no time, you should reach the barrier between our Earth's atmosphere and space. Worst case scenario, the engines cut out because of the lack of combustion due to a lack of oxygen, and once you reach a safe altitude you can just restart the engines or simply glide back down to the ground.
Well, there is no Air to ”plane” outside the atmosphere 🙂 And too high in the atmosphere, there isn’t enough air pressure to get lift from the wings shape (with normal airplanes traveling speeds).
Short answer, pressure = force over area, force is what keeps a plane aloft. The force of X on wings; the lower the pressure the lower the force available to impart newtons 3rd law onto the frame of an airplane. Not to mention jet engines require oxygen to operate.
Extra bit of trivial FYI: The NASA Space Shuttle would land at Edwards Air Force Base in California after missions (with "White Sands" New Mexico being an emergency alternate.) Just north of Edwards AFB is an airfield for conducting experimental aircraft flights by private entities. This private airfield was from where Space Ship One took off and then returned for landing.
I am glad this video has been made because I don’t think young people are getting this basic scientific information from school anymore 😢 Share with your young friends 🙏🏻
I wonder what the highest altitude that a plane could "throw" itself to is. Like, how much momentum could a plane get going, and how big would it have to be?
Highest altitudes of any planes flying would be US and Soviet fighter jets up around 128,000 feet, there may be others but that's the highest I know of
Re-entering the earths atmosphere doesn’t necessarily generate lots of heat. A commercial plane traveling at cruising speed entering the atmosphere would produce as much heat as it does cruising at 20,000 feet. Space shuttles entering the earths atmosphere aren’t traveling 500mph like a jet, they’re traveling 12,500mph. Hence the heat generated.
Strictly speaking, "drag" doesnt push a plane backward, it only impedes it a certain amount while going forward through the air; forward friction essentially.
It's interesting. For the new generations could make learning fun and interesting, even for those of us who may be unaware of some of this etc and so on. And there's a lot of information within the actual video. It's pretty good. Not against you or anything just good for thought. Because together we rise.
It amazes me that people still think people landed on the moon. Also just to ask if they did how did the rockets leave the moon when there's no oxygen.
It’s a scam those billionaires are just going up around 50 miles where the difference in gravity is less than 1%… cutting the engines and free falling back to earth for a couple minutes of zero gravity time… the line they made up to represent space gravity is basically the same as on earth…
JATO (jet assist take-Off) rockets would help perhaps a little in accelerating to orbital/high altitude, but decelerating would be another massive problem for an aircraft, the friction on the wings would melt them without extra assistance back to normal flight conditions.
My short answer; Attempting plane into space is equivalent of attempting to fly the ocean going ship like a plane on air. Even if you replace the jet engine with rocket engin, you still can't control the plane using it's flight control surfaces in the space although the rocket engine can push the plane into the vacuum of space.
I'm pretty sure If I had the cash I could make this happen. My thoughts a Boeing dream liner, engines on a tilt swivel and rotate. Convert the cargo bay to a liquid O2 tank. Go as high as possible, turn on the O2, then for the last bit a couple of rocket boosters on the wings. For the last push into space. I would love to try that. O yeah that plane in particular because it's the largest one part plane. Less parts to worry about keeping sealed from the vacuum of space.
A more childish sentence: alright so there is no air in space, and the engines in the plane need air to work,and for space ships, there is air inside the ship, and you might be thinking:but then what of the austronouts come out?: well, inside the suit of astronauts there is an object, and the objects connects to an oxygen tank and if a plane goes to space, the plane engine will not work (I hope this was easy to read 😊)
It's called the firmament that separated the waters above from the water below. Hillary ckinton reminded us about that highest glass ceiling on multiple occasions
There is a TV move: Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983) about a plane that goes into orbit by mistake, but they somehow use the Space Shuttle to rescue them.
easy question to answer, first of all, in order for fuel to burn it needs oxygen, 2nd, aerodynamics only works if there's enough gravity to keep a center of balance during flight, and 3rd, planes would need re-entry shielding just to fly back down from the exosphere
Reentry into the atmosphere gets very hot only because a spacecraft is decelerating from speeds as fast as 17,000 mph. If it were hypothetically flying only 500mph, the speed at which commercial jets fly, then the air molecules in the atmosphere would not be hitting the plane as hard, generating much less friction and heat compared to the space shuttle. It wouldn't necessarily burn up in the atmosphere. Remember, planes are cold, flying at 500mph in the air. Not enough air friction to heat the body.
2:00 You kind of blew it on this one. There have been airplanes built to fly into space. The X-15 was a rocket plane designed to fly into space, but it kind of strains the definition of "airplane" as it was launched from another airplane. The modified an F-104
In aerodynamic terms, Coffin Corner is referred to the region of a flight envelope where the aircraft's critical Mach number and stall speed are within a few knots of each other. In other words, the region (or speed) where any greater speed will cause flow separation over the wings and lose lift and any lower speed will stall the airplane and lose altitude. In both cases, the aircraft will fall out of the sky, with minimum or no control. (Simple Flying)
re entering the earth's atmosphere doesn't cause spacecraft to heat up by itself. Its because spacecraft are travelling at an incredible speed that makes the air compress ahead of them and heat up. if an aircraft somehow mananged to get into space and then decided to enter back into the atmosphere, it wouldn't heat up to the same extent. There is a layer of atmosphere called the thermocline that is at about a 100C or something, but it won't cause the sort of heat spacecraft face upon reentry.
The reason re-entering the atmosphere generates so much heat is because space shuttles fly at like, what? 40.000 Miles per hour? Typical airliners cruise below 1000 km/h .
80,000 ft is nowhere near space as the atmospheric pressure there is 4-5 times higher than on the surface of Mars. The altitude record for a balloon is 53.7 km (176,000 ft) and that still isn't true space since space can't produce any buoyancy. During their re-entry, the space shuttles experienced their maximum heating at around 70 km altitude.
There is a common misconception that entering the earths atmosphere automatically heats up your vehicle. This is only true due to the extreme speeds that space craft have when entering the atmosphere. In theory, if you could slow down the vehicle sufficently, by using for example the vehicles engines, the vehicle wouldn't heat up. This however isn't practical at all with the current technology. Since the fuel required for such a breaking manuver would weigh almost as much as the fuel needed to get in to orbit. And taking that amount of extra fuel in to orbit would require even more fuel.
X-15 flew to the edge of space, and the space shuttle was a space plane, so I'm not sure why the title says you can't fly a plane to space. It's already been done.
Whatever happened to the projects to get a spacecraft into orbit without using rockets? Wasn't there some theories like using magnets or a railgun or something?
The F 15 reached almost to the edge of space. We could construct a combination aircraft if we need to, or piggyback a rocket ship on top of a larger plane
Another good video a always, maybe you guys should make a video about why the CIA, FBI, NCIS etc always fight for jurisdiction. I mean isn't it better to have everyone possible to work on catching a killer? I just don't understand why they always fight for jurisdiction.
Didn’t you play GTA5? It’s all about funding. Government decided whichever force proves itself capable gets more resources they don’t wanna waste resources on officers that sit eating donuts.
Okay, I'm going to put one guess here, and that is "planes move either by propellers or jets, and both need air or oxygen, space doesn't have that" More than likely more reasons but that's my guess
Simple: no air, no possibility of fuel combustion in the engine. So therefore the engine will not work, since it needs air and fuel. Also, since theres no air in space, no air flow, which means no airflow around the wings. So the wings on an airplane are pointless in space as well.
I’m pretty positive that in the next 100 years we would have found out how to make ships capable of acting like an airplane while being able to go into space if needed
Short answer. Engines need air. There is no air in space. Your welcome. Little more info: A craft can go to space... as we have seen. But to go to space the craft will need directional thrusters (wings won't work in a vacuum). The craft will need to bring it's own solid/gas fuel mixture for propulsion (again no air in space).
You saved me 18 minutes. Now do the rest of the Infographics videos.
Space plane
While I appreciate the effort Infographics put into these videos, you proved the point can be done in two sentences.
The journey… not the destination is the true pleasure. I watch these videos for the narrator voice, interesting topics and great animated visuals….
I don’t care about getting quick answers. I’m here to relax. Most of us are here to relax.
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Yall managed to turn "because there's no air" into a 20 minute animated video..
Ik bruh
@@midgarw6775 exactly. They put so much unnecessary info on it. Video was way too long.
Your comment sir saved me 18mins
The "no air" reason was given at the very last 😅😅😅😅😅😅 from Malaysia 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾
Too high, no air get to engine. Engine stop, plane stop, plane fall...KAABOOOOM. LOL
Let me get this straight. They got the okay to go higher to test the limits of the plane. Im not arguing that the pilots are not at fault, but they were given the okay by someone. The airline should be held responsible as well.
Not at all. They were simply given the clearance to climb to 41k feet by air traffic control, meaning that the airspace at the flight level they wanted to fly at was clear of other air traffic. As long as the airspace is clear and there are no rules in place where you’re currently flying (such as a no fly zone or altitude restriction) then air traffic control is not going to deny the request, because they don’t know the pilots reason for requesting that altitude. Whatever company the pilots worked for would never have allowed this, so this was basically a case of two pilots wanting to be cowboys or daredevils and ignoring the limits of their aircraft. What happened here is completely the result of their reckless actions and the fault lies with no one else.
Now explan why you cant eat driveway salt.
A few corrections here. First, there is no point at which the air above the earth just "stops". In order for an aircraft to keep flying higher and higher it would have to reach higher and higher speeds, resulting in it being able to collect the same amount of air into the engines and to still get lift from the thinner and thinner air. This both means the engine has to be able to ingest supersonic air as well as the airframe dealing with the heating from the air molecules hitting the aircraft at higher and higher speeds.
Second, the heating the space shuttle and other reentering vehicles deal with is primarily because they are trying to slow the aircraft down for reentry, and that takes loosing energy, which is done by atmospheric friction. Its not inherent to flight in the thin upper atmosphere. Further, the higher speed of hitting air molecules and generating heat is balanced by the fact that there are fewer air molecules. The negative factor is that there are fewer air molecules to carry the heat away.
In short, we know how to fly in the thin atmosphere of near space. What we don't know (yet) is how to build engines that will do that, and further, the worth of doing it is debatable. It would take longer to fly to space (if we could) by atmospheric lift than to just go straight to space because of drag. Thus the whole idea of "flying to space" would be to negate the need to carry oxygen, and its probably simpler and more energy efficient just to carry oxygen (in liquid form) and go straight to space.
This argument is not irrelevant. Elon musk has proposed use of rockets as terrestrial transport, and it may be as or even more fuel efficient than standard jet airlines. Why? Drag. Atmospheric jets have it. Spacecraft mostly don't (boost phase and terminal phase only).
You teach? You should.
Air compression in font of the craft causes the most of the heat buildup
@@goldenalbatross9462 Especially Helvetica 🙂
Air doesn't "stop"? Does that mean that the moon is orbiting through very light atmosphere?
@@tschmal2579 space isn’t a 100% vacuum
So in a very loose sense, yes
There just isn’t anywhere near enough “air” to apply a significant force
Short answer - wings need air for lift. Planes will stall out before they can escape Earths gravity or reach orbital velocity.
Why don't space ships just open their windows to let the hot air out when re-entering Earth's atmosphere? Works in cars.
Well the difference is travel speed lol
Underrated comment here
You'll need a space conditioner for that ;) .
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@@CNCmachiningisfun LOL
The X-15 rocket plane was an early hypersonic vehicle. I knew one of the X-15 pilots. He eventually got his astronaut wings, almost 35 years later. The highest the X-15 reached was about 67 miles.
That's about three miles past the Karman line, three miles into space officially.
@@Robert_Douglass It was a rocket-powered plane that used aerodynamic control at lower altitudes and reaction control thrusters at higher altitudes. IIRC, 3 flights got above the Karman line.
At the time, the FAA had set "space" to be 50 miles. Since the wings were not being awarded to aircraft pilots then, many pilots got into "space" by the FAA definition but never got the wings. I think the space tourism companies still use the old FAA standard to hand out astrotourist wings.
Actually the X-15 reached 67.000000000000000000012 miles. Your information is a little off.
@@SlawRaw-sb8qf _Just_ a little, eh?
Spaceplanes offer the ability to travel from New York to Tokyo in roughly an hour. The commercial potential is amazing.
Now, for reference, the first flights from NYC to Pittsburg in a Ford Tri-motor was similar in cost (with inflation) to flying Concord from NYC to Paris.
well also jets still need air for life support if you got a jet to fly into space you would suffocate plain and simple cause the jet
How do you know this when it's obviously not happened yet has some one been huffing Elon musk's farts again
But it will still take 3.5 hours to get through to a customer service agent
An 2.5 seconds to get there survey "tell us - how did we do"
Just because it is potentially fast, doesn't make it a good idea. The amount of stresses put on an aircraft during re-entry of Earths atmosphere means the aircraft would have absolutely insane maintenance costs and scheduling, as parts would need replaced every single flight.
@@PotatoeJoe69 sounds like jobs and the birth of an industry I mean we have dumped money into less fortunate areas before
As I heard the word "Axiom"
I had the feeling just maybe one day, we could build a real life Axiom Spaceship as seen in Wall-E. That would be dope.
Right i love the narrative, you can always just Google an answer, but these guys take u on an intellectual journey
RUclips has guidelines for monetization pertaining to the length of the video. They HAVE to make this video at least 10 mins (it actually went up) long to get paid on it.
@@cbreezynow isnt that cap you dont need a video to be 10 minutes long to get paid for it you get paid for every video
@@Artwithmemes Please explain then. Because I know for a fact you’re not getting any (good) money from anything under 10 mins if they’re not shorts generating 500k views.
The way most rocket propelled ships stays in space is by reaching orbital speed that is MUCH higher speed than what a normal plane usually reach. At this speed is where the reentry temperature will be too high for normal plane. But since they won't be reaching that speed with their puny engines, it's not a problem. If a normal plane is dropped from the Karman line straight down, it won't "burn up" like if you're reentering at orbital speed. It will reach its terminal velocity and then gain control by gliding. But if a normal plane is dropped from the ISS that is orbiting the Earth at orbital speed, then it better have a good heat shield or it WILL burn up on reentry.
Also, weightlessness is a feature of a freefall. You're still technically falling being pulled by Earth's gravity but since the floor is falling with you, you won't feel your weight. That is until you reached the ground. If you reached orbital speed, then you won't be touching any ground for a very long time.
where is Karman line? Also wont you get motion sickness when it falls?
2:05 This section about heat during re-entry is just wrong. Space shuttles need heat shields because they enter the upper atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound and they're using air friction to slow down. If an airplane were to go that fast at typical cruising altitude, the dynamic pressure would cause it to disintegrate instantly before it had the chance to heat up.
Actually 2:05 is right. Because of the nuclear propellsion thermo reaction injection that happens when X9.0006% is divided by the square root of Pi. It's simple math.
Isn't it crazy there are only 2 ways to get to space .. 1. A rocket shuttle ., an 2. A Balloon 🎈 lol😂
I'll take the balloons 🎈 😂
🎈 yippeeee 🎈💭💭
Actually 3 ways. An alien abduction 😂
Balloons can't get to space.
They can mr@@xdvvm
"Can't we just fly our planes into space?"
"The law requires that I answer no."
The gravitational force isn't gone in space. Lift would be virtually gone as you rise higher but gravity would still be there virtually as strong as ever preventing the plane from rising nearly high enough to enter space.
Flat earthers just left the chat
_Ooga booga no air for engines/wings in space…_
I might be dumb, but I thought of lack of oxygen.
I thought that too
At 35,000 you can’t breathe either
Basically Space-Ship One was a civilian version of the old X-15 program. Ideally you would want a reusable space program to consist of a space plane for personnel that could be launched directly from the ground, or air launched from some type of carrier aircraft, and a heavy lift booster/second stage that would be used to put massive pieces of hardware (like say parts for a Mars rocket) into Earth orbit for assembly.
Yeah.. I've always dreamed of aeroplanes going into space easily... we were so motivated and not bound by rules and maths the first rocket ideas they were drawing DC3s pointing up like a rocket lol!
Someone will probably do it someday...
It has already been done. The SR-71 was designed to do it and it has been tested. It has been retired for a long time, because they're crazy expensive to run. There's just not a lot of practical application for leaving the atmosphere as an individual flight crew.
@@jonasga did the SR-71 completely leave the atmosphere though or did it just get really close? It didn't have any sort of thrusters or anything so I'm not sure how exactly that would have worked?
@@DarkestVibezgoogle says 85.000 feet sustained Flucht altitude is the record
@DarkestVibez Well the X-15 passed the 100km kármán line in 1959 in a sub orbital flight
@@vileguttsrocket engine is why, also launched from a carrier aircraft flying at 50,000ft or so.
Even if you managed to bring a plane up into space, there's also the question of having breathable air, since the air gets thinner the higher you go, eventually a pilot would pass out without some kind of oxygen supply (not to mention the passengers onboard!)
It's called a sealed space plane
That issue already exists. Without pressurized jet aircraft, you would die at 30,000 feet. And people have.
Airplanes are pressurised buddy 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏼♂️
And they have oxygen on board already and masks lol
@@jessehachey2732 @isaacmaners6435
Planes essentially just compress the thinner outside Air with their Engines to pressurize the Cabin. (by tapping off one of their compression Stages)
they dont have any remotely sufficient oxygen/air supply to keep people alive in space. (and no, the Oxygen masks that drop down during a deppressurisation event wont help, they are just good for 2-3 minutes)
If you can go fast enough straight up with air breathing engines (such as afterburning military grade turbofans) you could actually reach the speed required to escape the atmosphere before your engines run out of air.
Although you wouldn't reach orbit, you would be a glorious man who made it to space with only air breathing engines before your plane loses control while reentering the atmosphere.
Then you parachute
Doesn't work. That's why they use huge rocket engines to reach space.
Planes needs air
facts
The space transborders were airplanes
And gravity
There’s a scene in ‘For All Mankind’ where the next generation shuttle is flown up to a certain altitude piggyback on a C-5 and then it takes off on rockets into space.
In theory, it should be possible. You just keep gradually increasing your angle to go up in segments. And in no time, you should reach the barrier between our Earth's atmosphere and space. Worst case scenario, the engines cut out because of the lack of combustion due to a lack of oxygen, and once you reach a safe altitude you can just restart the engines or simply glide back down to the ground.
No. The engines would shut down long before you reached space, not to mention the lack of lift.
Well, there is no Air to ”plane” outside the atmosphere 🙂 And too high in the atmosphere, there isn’t enough air pressure to get lift from the wings shape (with normal airplanes traveling speeds).
Short answer, pressure = force over area, force is what keeps a plane aloft. The force of X on wings; the lower the pressure the lower the force available to impart newtons 3rd law onto the frame of an airplane.
Not to mention jet engines require oxygen to operate.
Extra bit of trivial FYI: The NASA Space Shuttle would land at Edwards Air Force Base in California after missions (with "White Sands" New Mexico being an emergency alternate.) Just north of Edwards AFB is an airfield for conducting experimental aircraft flights by private entities. This private airfield was from where Space Ship One took off and then returned for landing.
🫡 thx for saying this
Ticket prices getting cheaper? What earth u live on
Earth
I am glad this video has been made because I don’t think young people are getting this basic scientific information from school anymore 😢
Share with your young friends 🙏🏻
*No one gets past THE DOME*
Right that part
Only through the oceans you can
Exactly. Iykyk.
I wonder what the highest altitude that a plane could "throw" itself to is. Like, how much momentum could a plane get going, and how big would it have to be?
Highest altitudes of any planes flying would be US and Soviet fighter jets up around 128,000 feet, there may be others but that's the highest I know of
Mig-25 Foxbat went to 123,500 in 1977
That's what the X aircraft actually did. They went straight up instead of trying for higher speeds.
bout as big as a saturn v - thnk dude - think
I don't recall any of the "X" planes going straight up? In fact I am sure they didn't. They went pretty high but at an gradual asscent.
Re-entering the earths atmosphere doesn’t necessarily generate lots of heat. A commercial plane traveling at cruising speed entering the atmosphere would produce as much heat as it does cruising at 20,000 feet.
Space shuttles entering the earths atmosphere aren’t traveling 500mph like a jet, they’re traveling 12,500mph. Hence the heat generated.
Flat earthers:
"Because you'll crash into the firmament!"
It’s called an AIR plane for a reason.
I’ve always wondered this! Thanks 😂😂🤣🤣
Strictly speaking, "drag" doesnt push a plane backward, it only impedes it a certain amount while going forward through the air; forward friction essentially.
18 minutes to explain Planes need air?!
Is that a problem ? You didn’t make the 18 min video so what’s the issue ? Some people wanna learn
Jets run on a fuel mixture of air and jet fuel. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Lets all admire the amout of effort they put into these videos
I agree 🙂
well that trend just went beyond roblox **sigh**
Where are "ticket prices getting cheaper and cheaper as the industry develops" as you say? All I see are higher ticket prices every year.
You really need to explain this???
Considering 1 million people clicked on this to watch it I would say the answer is yes.
Remember.....not to long ago some people went down to see the Titanic and well um....
Yes
It's interesting. For the new generations could make learning fun and interesting, even for those of us who may be unaware of some of this etc and so on. And there's a lot of information within the actual video. It's pretty good. Not against you or anything just good for thought. Because together we rise.
Learning is never embarrassing.
It amazes me that people still think people landed on the moon. Also just to ask if they did how did the rockets leave the moon when there's no oxygen.
yes we get it, they work hard to make content for us
"Do not pay for an economy ticket to space folks, it's just not worth it" could be a controversial statement in the future
Would be nice if you would use kilometers / meters instead of feet or use both
If a plane is going fast enough, it can go into space. Virgin's rocket plane can go into space.
It’s a scam those billionaires are just going up around 50 miles where the difference in gravity is less than 1%… cutting the engines and free falling back to earth for a couple minutes of zero gravity time… the line they made up to represent space gravity is basically the same as on earth…
The fact that this needs to be explained is terrifying to me
Terrified like a lil girl 👉🤡🫵
I don’t know why, but the thumbnail makes me laugh.😂
JATO (jet assist take-Off) rockets would help perhaps a little in accelerating to orbital/high altitude, but decelerating would be another massive problem for an aircraft, the friction on the wings would melt them without extra assistance back to normal flight conditions.
Should've mentioned the SR71. It reached over 85,000 feet.
No it didn't. The SR71 reached 84,999.99991 feet. Everyone knows that.
My short answer; Attempting plane into space is equivalent of attempting to fly the ocean going ship like a plane on air.
Even if you replace the jet engine with rocket engin, you still can't control the plane using it's flight control surfaces in the space although the rocket engine can push the plane into the vacuum of space.
I'm pretty sure If I had the cash I could make this happen. My thoughts a Boeing dream liner, engines on a tilt swivel and rotate. Convert the cargo bay to a liquid O2 tank. Go as high as possible, turn on the O2, then for the last bit a couple of rocket boosters on the wings. For the last push into space.
I would love to try that. O yeah that plane in particular because it's the largest one part plane. Less parts to worry about keeping sealed from the vacuum of space.
The largest one deck plane is the B777
A more childish sentence: alright so there is no air in space, and the engines in the plane need air to work,and for space ships, there is air inside the ship, and you might be thinking:but then what of the austronouts come out?: well, inside the suit of astronauts there is an object, and the objects connects to an oxygen tank and if a plane goes to space, the plane engine will not work (I hope this was easy to read 😊)
It's called the firmament that separated the waters above from the water below. Hillary ckinton reminded us about that highest glass ceiling on multiple occasions
He has the best voice to fall asleep to
The fact that everyone think they know alot about “space” is crazy work.
There is a TV move: Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983) about a plane that goes into orbit by mistake, but they somehow use the Space Shuttle to rescue them.
Yeah Virgin Galactic :). Great company; should buy the stock!
"Shortly after the plane left its destination"? Transcending space and time huh?
easy question to answer, first of all, in order for fuel to burn it needs oxygen, 2nd, aerodynamics only works if there's enough gravity to keep a center of balance during flight, and 3rd, planes would need re-entry shielding just to fly back down from the exosphere
"After all,airplane tickets is getting cheaper every year"
SPIRIT ENTERS THE CHAT:
Its called the firmament!
A lot of contracts but no progress on artificial gravity for long term orbital flight.
Tell that to Dominic Torretto 😂
Reentry into the atmosphere gets very hot only because a spacecraft is decelerating from speeds as fast as 17,000 mph. If it were hypothetically flying only 500mph, the speed at which commercial jets fly, then the air molecules in the atmosphere would not be hitting the plane as hard, generating much less friction and heat compared to the space shuttle. It wouldn't necessarily burn up in the atmosphere. Remember, planes are cold, flying at 500mph in the air. Not enough air friction to heat the body.
2:00 You kind of blew it on this one. There have been airplanes built to fly into space. The X-15 was a rocket plane designed to fly into space, but it kind of strains the definition of "airplane" as it was launched from another airplane.
The modified an F-104
Yes, the X15 crossed the Karman Line, the boundary of space, but it was not an air breather. It was rocket propelled.
We need air too. It is precious.
SR71 black bird. It could fly in space, just not outer space, just outside of the atmosphere
Some reports say SR71 can fly up to 100,000ft (30km). You need to fly past 100km to get to space (sub orbit)
In aerodynamic terms, Coffin Corner is referred to the region of a flight envelope where the aircraft's critical Mach number and stall speed are within a few knots of each other. In other words, the region (or speed) where any greater speed will cause flow separation over the wings and lose lift and any lower speed will stall the airplane and lose altitude. In both cases, the aircraft will fall out of the sky, with minimum or no control. (Simple Flying)
Space is not the final frontier, the evolution of human consciousness is. Mr. X
Don't forget about SR71. high and fast
re entering the earth's atmosphere doesn't cause spacecraft to heat up by itself. Its because spacecraft are travelling at an incredible speed that makes the air compress ahead of them and heat up. if an aircraft somehow mananged to get into space and then decided to enter back into the atmosphere, it wouldn't heat up to the same extent. There is a layer of atmosphere called the thermocline that is at about a 100C or something, but it won't cause the sort of heat spacecraft face upon reentry.
This guy sounds like a guy in my Taco Bell training course.
Both involve explosive gasses.
Bring back the I survived series!
The reason re-entering the atmosphere generates so much heat is because space shuttles fly at like, what? 40.000 Miles per hour? Typical airliners cruise below 1000 km/h .
What about the SR-71 Blackbird? Didn't it have an altitude of 80,000ft for spy missions?
80,000 ft is nowhere near space as the atmospheric pressure there is 4-5 times higher than on the surface of Mars. The altitude record for a balloon is 53.7 km (176,000 ft) and that still isn't true space since space can't produce any buoyancy.
During their re-entry, the space shuttles experienced their maximum heating at around 70 km altitude.
I taught that, coffin corner is when the stall speed is equal to the maximum speed the plane can move.
There is a common misconception that entering the earths atmosphere automatically heats up your vehicle. This is only true due to the extreme speeds that space craft have when entering the atmosphere. In theory, if you could slow down the vehicle sufficently, by using for example the vehicles engines, the vehicle wouldn't heat up. This however isn't practical at all with the current technology. Since the fuel required for such a breaking manuver would weigh almost as much as the fuel needed to get in to orbit. And taking that amount of extra fuel in to orbit would require even more fuel.
X-15 flew to the edge of space, and the space shuttle was a space plane, so I'm not sure why the title says you can't fly a plane to space. It's already been done.
Why do you use strange units like mile,feet,inch and gallon,and ignore metric units that most countries use?!
Why didn't you include metric measurements?
The end of this video sounds like the beginning of star citizen
This was very energetic. I ENJOYED THE THEME, SPACE HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FASCINATION AND IT EXPANDS AS I GROW OLDER. IT OR I?? I love it
The party in the USA reference you slid in there was cool af 💯
The thumbnail being a NW(pinnacle) airlines CRJ200 tail is some seriously cultured/lore filled Easter egg!
Whatever happened to the projects to get a spacecraft into orbit without using rockets? Wasn't there some theories like using magnets or a railgun or something?
The F 15 reached almost to the edge of space. We could construct a combination aircraft if we need to, or piggyback a rocket ship on top of a larger plane
No it didn't 🤣🤣🤣
Another good video a always, maybe you guys should make a video about why the CIA, FBI, NCIS etc always fight for jurisdiction. I mean isn't it better to have everyone possible to work on catching a killer? I just don't understand why they always fight for jurisdiction.
Didn’t you play GTA5? It’s all about funding. Government decided whichever force proves itself capable gets more resources they don’t wanna waste resources on officers that sit eating donuts.
Okay, I'm going to put one guess here, and that is "planes move either by propellers or jets, and both need air or oxygen, space doesn't have that"
More than likely more reasons but that's my guess
what about making a plane that can take off from an airport, fly to space, reenter with a heat shield and land
This could have been answered in 20 seconds. Wings require air to generate lift and there's not enough air beyond the stratosphere.
Chuck Yeager and Rober smith both gave it a go trying to set altitude records.
I just love the fact I'm seeing people give an aeronautics 101 class in the comment section. This is real nice
Shorter answer: no. There's a firmament.
How do satellites get into low Earth orbit then?
@@trayp324 bcuz LEO is beneath the firmament.
Simple: no air, no possibility of fuel combustion in the engine. So therefore the engine will not work, since it needs air and fuel. Also, since theres no air in space, no air flow, which means no airflow around the wings. So the wings on an airplane are pointless in space as well.
Well there goes my Friday night thanks a lot
I’m pretty positive that in the next 100 years we would have found out how to make ships capable of acting like an airplane while being able to go into space if needed