The thing Dr Christmas forgot to say was that the claimed max speed (200 mph) only happens when the plane has lost it's wings and in the middle of falling nose first towards land.
This is like, the first ScrapMan has shown genuine distress at a real person's existence. And also, the first time he has shown major negative tones to such a person (Obviously talking about him on camera). Not saying that I blame him.
When you said "the worst plane ever made" I KNEW it was going to be the Christmas Bullet. I first came across it in Bill Yenne's "The World's Worst Aircraft". Yenne expressed a wish that Dr Christmas had been tarred and feathered. After that I suppose someone could have pushed him off a bridge to see if he could fly.
It's so sad how the guy that died felt so happy and proud, even inviting his mother to watch the test flight because of which the mother had to witness her own son's death😭
There’s not a single word to describe how much I love these videos, as soon as I see a scrapman video, no matter how #### my day had been it automatically gets 100 (add more zeros) times better :)
I love the video of rebuilding historical invention, not just focus building but to give an insight about its historical story. I love this kind of video concept
"Actually it will increase the safety factor by 7," Dr. Chirstmas stated "7 what?" The aeronautical engineer asked, "Hundred...?" Dr. Christmas answered "No that's not what I mean-" *cuts*
A good conman can easily live their entire life suffering few consequences for their actions. Make the right friends, say the right things, know the right laws and nobody with any power would ever think to stop you. From what I have read, Christmas made so many powerful people money that the victims of his many schemes were powerless to do anything to them, in fact many of them were tricked into thinking Christmas was just as much a victim of the situation as them so few even walked away hating the guy. It was only after his death that his life story was compiled enough for anyone to realize all the crazy stuff he did.
Part of it was because he had connections in high places. The only real reason he even got as far as he did was because he knew a senator in New York by the name of James Wolcott Wadsworth, who probably twisted the Army's arm into letting him have a Liberty L-6 engine. The Army eventually only agreed to lend him the engine on the condition that he would only test it on the ground, because I believe it was actually a prototype L-6, the war was still going on, and they understandably didn't want it destroyed in a crash. Christmas, of course, ignored this and the engine was destroyed with the rest of the airplane in the first crash. The Army eventually did find out about what happened to both of their engines, of course, but by that time Christmas had used his influence to escape the consequences of all the awful things he had done.
The wing warping thing is a legitimate control method used by many early planes. It wasn't folding like in this build, but rather a twist. It would be better modeled in Trailmakers by having servos between every segment of the wings and introducing progressively greater or lesser pitch along the length.
I feel like it worked so well because the wind didn't flex in itself. Add a steering hinge in the middle of the wing, or between all wings, and see how that goes
I think the best way to simulate the bending would be to add a low strength hinge separating each wing segment, allowing each section to bend and flex independently
18:11 You can't roll right becouse hinges in this game are very unreilable. Some of them are stronger than the others even tho strengh is set on the same value. I dont know how to fix that.
Ey ScrapMan! ThatDomGuy recently made a map mod that adds a freakin huge castle to Treasure Island. We'd all love to see a video of you reviewing that. Or even maybe a multiplayer game with the boys? Please!
How well-connected was Mr. Chirstmas? Dude must have been close to quite a few "higher ups" to get away with all that nonsense...and two counts of murder.
Somehow, Scrapman has made history far more interesting than any of my teachers throughout my whole life. I love the history segments at the start of each if these re-creation videos.
I think the weird wobbling bumblebee-like flight pattern on your recreation is kind of cute, it adds a lot of character for a video game vehicle It's terrifying to imagine a plane moving like that in real life, but it's cute in the video game
There have been strutless aircraft built by Cessna and other companies that have flown very successfully. But, that does not excuse this man and what he did.
My biggest problem, the thing that makes me the most angry Is that the mother had to watch her son die in that incident, and then it was just covered up like nothing happened That conman is lucky there is no god(that I know of)
You think that "Dr. Christmas" got away? This life is a dressing room for eternity and Dr. Christman left it with clothes drenched in blood and stains for each lie he told. Not that most of us leave this life much cleaner... Jesus Christ is Lord
@@siegfriedk.6276 if that’s what you believe, I’m not Christian and I personally believe that any kind of eternal suffering is cruel, no one can ever do anything to deserve eternal torment.
@@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 I thought you wanted justice? "Mr. Christmas" made his choice in this life, just like all of us do. A just God is the only God there is... and a merciful one calling us to repentance.
@@siegfriedk.6276 justice yes but eternal suffering goes beyond they, they will suffer long past what the consequences of their life warranted, something they didn’t deserve, after what he did, he deserves a painful death, and little beyond that, a just and merciful god wouldn’t be so cruel as to condemn someone to eternal suffering.
Unfortunately, Dr.Christmas was ahead of the times to some degree. Most modern airliners wings actually are designed to flex to quite a significant degree. What was flawed with the design is trying to also incorporate wing twist as a means of control, this only works with a fabric skinned based wing as it's structurally different to a sheet metal skinned wing. So uh yea.....bit conflicted on this one as some of the principals/concept ideas can work, but not at the current technological level when it was designed.
My thoughts. Yes, what he build wasn't functioning at all and could not in its state, but as you said modern wings flex in some degree. Some like the B52 have even a small gear at their wingtip to keep it up on ground. Look at the wings of a starting plane (if you can see the wings in a passenger flight just look at them). You can say they have the lift off first. Impressive sight and also an impressive design and the stress to the material must be immense over time.
@@mme.veronica735 I think many inventions followed that road. The problem is often if you are so taken up by your problem you might not see the easiest solution. Therefore you need someone else to look at it too and this person might see it. But if you are thinking, that no one is as good as you are and no one could do what you can and for sure not better, you won't ask someone else and if someone gives you a hint you will totally ignore it.
5:36 / “According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. It's wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.”
The strutless part of the plane actually makes some sense in theory if you ignore the good Dr.s reasoning. The struts on a biplane do ad a significant amount of drag so getting rid of them would improve the planes performance. The issue would be that you would need much stronger wing boxes in the fuselage to take the load since you don't have that nice big box geometry formed by the struts to work with any more and your wings would need to be much much stiffer, probably not something possible with the technology of the time and probably prohibitively heavy. At that point it would also basically be a stacked monoplane with double the drag, better to just go full monoplane and use a larger wing to make up the difference in lift.
12:30 Somehow that takeoff was likely more successful than Christmas' actual test flights. At least it landed in water which could have saved the pilot.
I just realized this, the intro music and animation with the channel logo has been gone for a few months. Was there a liscensing issue with the intro music or something like that?
To make the wings even more unstable, you could try making them a separate creation and attatch them using the ANCHOR BLOCKS. That could be interesting to try.
Dear Sir scrapman, I highly advise you to re-visit Terratech I loved the series and I really would want more -By yours truly, Cubed00… Day 14 (I think)
Day 27 of Asking scrapman to make a Machine that make that uses the steal balls and magnets to make the steal ball orbit around your creation with out any thing touching them and try to take out a building with it in instruments of destruction
I don’t know what the materials In the wing are made from, but the cables connecting to the lower wing should provide more strength to the upper wing, it is true that the motor could never power it to 200 mph.
I mean, Bob semple's tank, was supposed to be...well simple,it was supposed to be a war time design for taking caterpillar tractors and Turing them into tanks. dr Chrismas was just a con man who wanted to make a quick buck
I'm going to assume that the plane in question probably flew just fine until it either A surpassed a particular speed, or B the pilot attempted to turn, rise or pitch too much, considering the fact that both points were high enough up or moving fast enough to cause death.
scrapman i know your probably not gonna see this but at 10:45 you say the plane turns by having its wings flex and you said you didn't know how you would do that but now with the latest power coupling update you could definitely do that
I amso mad about trailmakers right now. I hate how they re use creations for main menu screen. There is so much amazing stuff on the workshop and they somehow decided to just keep roll the old ones...
![Perhaps The Worst Plane Ever Built? | The Christmas Bullet [Aircraft Overview #54]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/q6akp_kxHJg/mqdefault.jpg)
The thing Dr Christmas forgot to say was that the claimed max speed (200 mph) only happens when the plane has lost it's wings and in the middle of falling nose first towards land.
technically he wasnt wrong for that part
Yeah... most planes at that time were struggling to go over only 100mph
This is like, the first ScrapMan has shown genuine distress at a real person's existence. And also, the first time he has shown major negative tones to such a person (Obviously talking about him on camera). Not saying that I blame him.
Very fair considering the fact of what happened in the story.
I mean, that guy was actually evil :/
Scrapman's dark arc
Yea, scrapman is always happy and full of energy
Just got to say this guy pulled a Mojang and made a bug a feature
Should've had detachers on the wings that activate once it reaches a certain height/speed to make it accurate
I'm just glad the mechanic can't die in creative mode rn
Legit thought this was a scrap mechanic vid either way pilot can't die
Exactly what I was thinking
I thought the same thing. Similar to the plane afraid of heights video.
@@johnweber80Which one is that?
When you said "the worst plane ever made" I KNEW it was going to be the Christmas Bullet. I first came across it in Bill Yenne's "The World's Worst Aircraft". Yenne expressed a wish that Dr Christmas had been tarred and feathered. After that I suppose someone could have pushed him off a bridge to see if he could fly.
He ego probably would've kept him afloat
He best get to flappin
His ego would make hi. Float
my favourite thing about the aircraft is the STRUTS between the front landing gear
It's so sad how the guy that died felt so happy and proud, even inviting his mother to watch the test flight because of which the mother had to witness her own son's death😭
I love these videos. The history segment at the beginning is really interesting, and having them recreated in a 90 degree build grid is very cool
Who would doubt such a man? I'm not seeing anyone else increasing the safety by 700.
That's what I'm saying
Of what?
…
Thousand.
yeah i agree *chuckles *
:)
I mean 0 * 700 is still zero
There’s not a single word to describe how much I love these videos, as soon as I see a scrapman video, no matter how #### my day had been it automatically gets 100 (add more zeros) times better :)
100 what? 100 hundred?
@@nvcbl 100 thousand
You should consider adding detachment blocks on the wings for extra historical accuracy
I think you should add dynamite to the wings to simulate the snapping of wings to make it much more accurate
I love the video of rebuilding historical invention, not just focus building but to give an insight about its historical story. I love this kind of video concept
That plane is like making a building without a foundation.
Mr. Christmas sounds like a *great* dude to be around.
Good work building it, looks great.
-He seems like a great guy-
Excuse me, it's *_Dr._* Christmas!!
@@aeolus3145 yurp
@@limonlx7182 oops
The concept of re-bulding planes from history is awesome! Keep on going! I Love your content!
"Actually it will increase the safety factor by 7," Dr. Chirstmas stated "7 what?" The aeronautical engineer asked, "Hundred...?" Dr. Christmas answered "No that's not what I mean-" *cuts*
Missed an opportunity to insult the "inventor" by calling him The Grinch
you know this story is ptettymuch all Cringe so it would be quite fitting here
True that
Even the Grinch wasn't that evil
aaaaand.. its baack!!! these historically accurate failures are great!
These strange creations from history are such a different idea and I have truly enjoyed each and every video. Great job Scrapman!
My day gets 700 times better when you upload
Challenge:
Build a working plane with 0 hinges strengh.
Easy. Use struts to brace the parts so the hinges don't move.
@@Spott07 And steering? Hmm. Heli engines. But if we wanna actual plane, no heli engines allowed.
@@moroblizniak4457 mini thrusters.
yes, it actually is a considered technology.
I just want to say you make my sleepless nights better (6 in the morning) Scrapman I just want to thank you for making content for so many to enjoy
It’s crazy to imagine People like Christmas were even able to be trusted as far as he had
A good conman can easily live their entire life suffering few consequences for their actions. Make the right friends, say the right things, know the right laws and nobody with any power would ever think to stop you.
From what I have read, Christmas made so many powerful people money that the victims of his many schemes were powerless to do anything to them, in fact many of them were tricked into thinking Christmas was just as much a victim of the situation as them so few even walked away hating the guy. It was only after his death that his life story was compiled enough for anyone to realize all the crazy stuff he did.
Part of it was because he had connections in high places. The only real reason he even got as far as he did was because he knew a senator in New York by the name of James Wolcott Wadsworth, who probably twisted the Army's arm into letting him have a Liberty L-6 engine. The Army eventually only agreed to lend him the engine on the condition that he would only test it on the ground, because I believe it was actually a prototype L-6, the war was still going on, and they understandably didn't want it destroyed in a crash. Christmas, of course, ignored this and the engine was destroyed with the rest of the airplane in the first crash. The Army eventually did find out about what happened to both of their engines, of course, but by that time Christmas had used his influence to escape the consequences of all the awful things he had done.
The wing warping thing is a legitimate control method used by many early planes. It wasn't folding like in this build, but rather a twist. It would be better modeled in Trailmakers by having servos between every segment of the wings and introducing progressively greater or lesser pitch along the length.
1:05
Scrapman: Look at the second set of wings.
Me, reading "the first Bullet killed its pilot": Yes...this will be a fun video.
love the work and effort u put into these vids, its awesome hearing the back stories of the builds
I feel like it worked so well because the wind didn't flex in itself. Add a steering hinge in the middle of the wing, or between all wings, and see how that goes
One of my favorite things in the recreation videos are the short history lessons
Thx for your emotions talking about Dr. Christmas. I don't think i could have stand an ironical tone here. Good content as always.
I think the best way to simulate the bending would be to add a low strength hinge separating each wing segment, allowing each section to bend and flex independently
7:06 i love how even the article itself humiliates the design, calling it "the thing" and not a plane like Scrapman said
Hey, thank you. Words cant describe how ive been feeling lately but your videos have been helping
This is really something that this channel is teaching me more about the early days of aviation than anything else has
Day 121 asking scrapman to play SimplePlanes
True, i second this ^^^
Dont you mean ksp?
I third this
@@AFG.1 how long do you want your name, jesus
18:11 You can't roll right becouse hinges in this game are very unreilable. Some of them are stronger than the others even tho strengh is set on the same value. I dont know how to fix that.
Ey ScrapMan! ThatDomGuy recently made a map mod that adds a freakin huge castle to Treasure Island. We'd all love to see a video of you reviewing that. Or even maybe a multiplayer game with the boys? Please!
So glad scrapman is back to trail makers! Love these videos :)
How well-connected was Mr. Chirstmas? Dude must have been close to quite a few "higher ups" to get away with all that nonsense...and two counts of murder.
Loving these historical videos, gotta trick the youngins into learning somehow lmao
Somehow, Scrapman has made history far more interesting than any of my teachers throughout my whole life. I love the history segments at the start of each if these re-creation videos.
Can you try to build an ekranoplan in trailmakers? Seems like a very fun challenge!
I think the weird wobbling bumblebee-like flight pattern on your recreation is kind of cute, it adds a lot of character for a video game vehicle
It's terrifying to imagine a plane moving like that in real life, but it's cute in the video game
Hi SrapMan you should add a detachable block with angel sensor on wings or something to create a snap. I don't know if it could work though.
You should recreate the Christmas's bullet plane in main assembly to see if it works in that game also.
Definately this time it's the "Task Failed Successfully" situation. Good job on that one, man.
There have been strutless aircraft built by Cessna and other companies that have flown very successfully. But, that does not excuse this man and what he did.
I really love your actor scenes and your humor in this video !
this story reminds me of the history of the cresent hotel
SCRAPMAN THIS IS WHY WE HAVE GROUND CONTROL CHECK, THE ROLL IS INVERTED
I Love these historic rebuild videos. Keep up the fantastic content!
>>He's called "Dr Christmas", but trust me: there's nothing jolly about this...
My biggest problem, the thing that makes me the most angry
Is that the mother had to watch her son die in that incident, and then it was just covered up like nothing happened
That conman is lucky there is no god(that I know of)
If there is a hell.
He has a special place in it.
You think that "Dr. Christmas" got away? This life is a dressing room for eternity and Dr. Christman left it with clothes drenched in blood and stains for each lie he told.
Not that most of us leave this life much cleaner...
Jesus Christ is Lord
@@siegfriedk.6276 if that’s what you believe, I’m not Christian and I personally believe that any kind of eternal suffering is cruel, no one can ever do anything to deserve eternal torment.
@@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 I thought you wanted justice? "Mr. Christmas" made his choice in this life, just like all of us do.
A just God is the only God there is... and a merciful one calling us to repentance.
@@siegfriedk.6276 justice yes but eternal suffering goes beyond they, they will suffer long past what the consequences of their life warranted, something they didn’t deserve, after what he did, he deserves a painful death, and little beyond that, a just and merciful god wouldn’t be so cruel as to condemn someone to eternal suffering.
these decals are going to be a game changer, would it be possible for you to do more trailmakers?
Unfortunately, Dr.Christmas was ahead of the times to some degree. Most modern airliners wings actually are designed to flex to quite a significant degree. What was flawed with the design is trying to also incorporate wing twist as a means of control, this only works with a fabric skinned based wing as it's structurally different to a sheet metal skinned wing. So uh yea.....bit conflicted on this one as some of the principals/concept ideas can work, but not at the current technological level when it was designed.
My thoughts. Yes, what he build wasn't functioning at all and could not in its state, but as you said modern wings flex in some degree. Some like the B52 have even a small gear at their wingtip to keep it up on ground.
Look at the wings of a starting plane (if you can see the wings in a passenger flight just look at them). You can say they have the lift off first. Impressive sight and also an impressive design and the stress to the material must be immense over time.
So he's like Sigmund Freud? Only found one important aspect to further a field of study but did it completely wrong himself.
@@mme.veronica735 I think many inventions followed that road.
The problem is often if you are so taken up by your problem you might not see the easiest solution. Therefore you need someone else to look at it too and this person might see it. But if you are thinking, that no one is as good as you are and no one could do what you can and for sure not better, you won't ask someone else and if someone gives you a hint you will totally ignore it.
I would love to see ScrapMan tackle a monobike in future episodes of recreating odd/bad inventions from history.
Do i remember right that Trailmakers has wind in some parts of the map? Would love to see how that thing works in weather conditions.
5:36 / “According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. It's wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.”
The strutless part of the plane actually makes some sense in theory if you ignore the good Dr.s reasoning.
The struts on a biplane do ad a significant amount of drag so getting rid of them would improve the planes performance. The issue would be that you would need much stronger wing boxes in the fuselage to take the load since you don't have that nice big box geometry formed by the struts to work with any more and your wings would need to be much much stiffer, probably not something possible with the technology of the time and probably prohibitively heavy.
At that point it would also basically be a stacked monoplane with double the drag, better to just go full monoplane and use a larger wing to make up the difference in lift.
I love how scrapman is always calm in every video hes never angry
Even in this vid
Scrapman you should have added detachable blocks to the wings to make it more realistic
12:30 Somehow that takeoff was likely more successful than Christmas' actual test flights. At least it landed in water which could have saved the pilot.
I think the problem was that unlike the "real" craft, Trailmaker's wings aren't heavy enough to prove to be the vehicle's downfall.
I was harmed in the making of this version of the Christmas Bullet... My faith in some forms of humanity is substantially decreased.
This is the best series in the channel!
Scrapman think u could try to make some tutorials for trailmakers? Like how to make jets and such
i don't think schooling is in the same path of creativity as scrapman visions
@@beaclaster yeah, the only teaching he does is explaining what he is building, I think other youtubers have made tutorials though
If anyone's grave deserved to be constantly watered by the spit of every passerby then Dr. Christmas would be eternally lush.
Christmas killed Jolly, ironic
I just realized this, the intro music and animation with the channel logo has been gone for a few months. Was there a liscensing issue with the intro music or something like that?
To make the wings even more unstable, you could try making them a separate creation and attatch them using the ANCHOR BLOCKS. That could be interesting to try.
Me: 7
Teacher: 7 what? Bananas? Potatoes?
Me: 7 hundred
I'd like to believe he's forced to fly his own plane in hell crashing into the blazing pits. Every crash is more painful then the last.
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a Christmas bullet should be able to fly.
Hi Scrapman, can you try to make a simple paperplane model plane? which you can fly it or glide it?
Petition for Trailmakers devs to add more realistic aerodynamics and aerodynamic strain on parts
I just want a whole set of one block mechanical pieces
Dear Sir scrapman, I highly advise you to re-visit Terratech I loved the series and I really would want more -By yours truly, Cubed00…
Day 14 (I think)
These kinds of videos are my favorite from Scrapman.
What a horrible horrid sad excuse for a person this Christmas is, I hope his victims may rest in peace whilst he does not
It looks like Mr. Christmas had to audacity to put struts on the elevators...
You should do a walker/mech evolution challenge based on combat. Haven't seen it done before.
this literally the irl version of "its not a bug, its a feature"
Thumbs up if you want scrapman to do videos where he just talks about weird and badly designed things. He narrates really well
16:13 Troubleshooting everybody!
I will watch as many adverts as needed to support your awesome channel
It would be cool if you put sensors to detect if the wing bent alot then it would detach
"it will increase the safety factor by 7"
"7 what?"
"Hundred"
Even in a non-realistic simulation, it sucks.
When you pitch up too hard and your wings fold in half, causing you to plummet to your death.
Day 27 of Asking scrapman to make a Machine that make that uses the steal balls and magnets to make the steal ball orbit around your creation with out any thing touching them and try to take out a building with it in instruments of destruction
I don’t know what the materials In the wing are made from, but the cables connecting to the lower wing should provide more strength to the upper wing, it is true that the motor could never power it to 200 mph.
Ah, history. Reminding us that for every M4 Sherman, there's a Bob Semple.
I mean, Bob semple's tank, was supposed to be...well simple,it was supposed to be a war time design for taking caterpillar tractors and Turing them into tanks. dr Chrismas was just a con man who wanted to make a quick buck
@@dimsum3329 I meant it that for every success, there's an odd failure that sticks in your head for a while.
@@dimsum3329 yeah . the background was very differend for these two failed designs
I'm going to assume that the plane in question probably flew just fine until it either A surpassed a particular speed, or B the pilot attempted to turn, rise or pitch too much, considering the fact that both points were high enough up or moving fast enough to cause death.
scrapman i know your probably not gonna see this but at 10:45 you say the plane turns by having its wings flex and you said you didn't know how you would do that but now with the latest power coupling update you could definitely do that
You are my favorite RUclipsr I never miss your videos😇😇😇
i am here again to visit the legend, LONG TIME NO SEE SCRAPMAN! i am now a grown man thank you for the memories
Already apologizing to your misses I didn’t stop you from testing that death trap. Rip scrap dude
5:57 got my dying more than the pilots😂😂😂😂😂
I amso mad about trailmakers right now.
I hate how they re use creations for main menu screen.
There is so much amazing stuff on the workshop and they somehow decided to just keep roll the old ones...
Scrapman's logic is awesome.
To be fair, i wouldn't trust anyone called "Doctor Christmas" either, sounds like a Disney villain.
7:55 and that's why you don't use a human to test poorly designed planes!
It's interesting to see that the flexing of the wings counteract the roll of the plane if your not level.