A very entertaining video of a pretty weird airplane. However, the airplane shown at 12:16-12:25 is not the Convair XFY but the Ryan X-13 Vertijet, another tailsitter project that was a few years later. As Ryan Aeronautical was based in San Diego first flights of the X-13 would have been there at Lindbergh Field, while Convair's test flights five years earlier were elsewhere in California.
Both Convair and Ryan were located in San Diego, California. Ryan, of Spirit of St Louis fame, completed testing of their X-13 at Edwards AFB in Southern California. Convair did their flights of the Pogo at nearby Brown Field, then a Naval Auxiliary Air Station.
This aircraft should do a comeback we are able to computerise all aspect of flights specially the complex ones like hover and landing it would be the perfect personal flying car being able to land anywhere
The harrier and osprey both came from this plane take the engine and direct it downs to make the plane go upwards. The f-35 is a little weird and actually and most of the thrust for vertical takeoff doesn’t come from the engine but same principles of direct force downward.
This has to be F&E's best video yet. Videos are always relevant (yep, even the sponsorship part) to the topic and use of graphics to explain is quite good.
@@FoundAndExplained Except it would be nice if you could tell the difference between a propeller airplane (the Convair "Pogo") and a JET (the Ryan Vertijet that you have shown at 12:19 in the video.) You ought to do a separate video about it.
When I was in the 7th grade I built a U-control Pogo, and I flew it in front of our house on 3rd Avenue in Arcadia, CA!! Thanks for bringing back that happy memory 👍!!
I wonder how stable the same exact design would be with modern fly-by-wire controls (with computerized calculations making the aircraft stable in all conditions). Wouldn't that make it one of the best close-air-support aircraft? Imagine just having this in reserve, camouflaged near the front. A minute later and it would take to the sky and start supporting troops on the ground. Almost as fast as a jet when needed, but also almost as slow as a regular fixed-wings aircraft when required. And how many of those could you fit on a support carrier? And I see it being relatively straight forward to maintain since it looks like the engines were built as a compact power plant that seems quite modular. So you could swap-in another power plant and put the aircraft back into service with some expediency. Try doing that with a chopper...
It can but tilting rotor already exist. And it is better in everything. So, why bother to use tailsitter again when it was use solely because tilting rotor wasn't viable at that time
@@bocahdongo7769 Tiltrotors are more complex and dangerous. More complex because you need the tilting mechanism. More dangerous because if one rotor fails, you're doomed. Tiltrotors still make sense when you have to carry cargo/personnel, because you need to keep it horizontal. And also when you have to hover with precision or go very slowly. Otherwise, if you only need a fighter jet, these tail sitters make more sense.
@@jorehir Tailsitter also doomed because if 1 rotor fail, well same thing exactly happen. If we talk about horizontal flight, both still landed exactly like glidder Indeed it's more complex, but it capability and flexibility outweight the tailrotor. In terms of jet fighter, standar VTOL trust vectoring is already mature enough. Again, tailsitter isn't one of kind design, but rather of stopgap for quick design VTOL at that time. Unflexibility in terms of both maximum size (which matter of how much fuel and weapon can carry) and ground crew hadling is no joke. If you wanted small interceptor anyway, future technology called "missile" does exist, it's not like we live in Ace Combat universe or some sort
@@bocahdongo7769 You're "more" doomed on a tiltrotor, since the first thing you experience when a propeller fail is a heavy imbalance of thrust/lift (especially at low speed). Standard VTOL planes still have BIG complexity issues. I'm not saying that a Tail Sitter would be trouble free, but i see more potential in it. Also, some modern jets can lift themself at almost MTOW when vertical. I don't see many limitations in that regard. A proper VTOL/TailSitter would be a great thing to have, eliminating the need for large aircraft carriers or landing strips.
In one of his Astro Boy Mangas, ("the hot dog corps" March-October 1961) Osmau Tezuka showed a strange aircraft, which was the Pogo. He even got the counter rotating props correct.
This aircraft sat at NAS Norfolk for several years in the 60's -early 70's. I always liked seeing the unusual looking Pogo. Enjoyed your video. Thank you
Move the cockpit to the rear and have the cockpit rotate 90 degrees during the transition so that the pilot would be looking through what would be the bottom of the plane in horizontal flight. This would give the pilot a good view of the ground while landing and make it easier to get out after landing.
But then forward visibility would be crap and that is kind of important for an fighter plane. Down the line more automation makes tailsitter landings much easier. It still has two downsides over traditional VTOL like the harrier: It require an higher trust than weight to take off, an harrier does not if you have an flight deck and not only an helipad. its also far taller than other planes and helicopters so unlikely to fit in existing hangars and probably hard to do maintenance on. However this idea make so much sense for UAV
I remember as a teen I made plastic model airplanes. This was one of those I made. Many years later I got to see it in real life at an air show. I have the photo of it somewhere among my hundreds of slides. I came to the air show on the day that it wasn't going to be flying. RATS!!!!
My Dad tool me to watch this plane at Brown Field in Otay Mesa. I was very young like about 8 yrs. It was impressive. When it took off it was very loud.
When I was about 10 or 11 years old I was fascinated by this plane. At that time, a blueprint for the Pogo as a tethered aircraft was published in a monthly technical publication. Unfortunately, I didn't have the money and support from my parents to build this plane. However, I remain fascinated by the Pogo to this day.
I remember as a child seeing a drawing of one of these on the front of a Cornflakes packet, I believe there were a series of aircraft printed on the reverse of the box to be cut out and flown as gliders. I've looked for years and have been unable to find even a mention of these cutouts, I'd certainly love to be able to print on some cardstock and fly one.
Er, at 12:08 why do we suddenly go from the Convair XFY to the Ryan X13? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY_Pogo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_X-13_Vertijet I"d suggest the VertiJet deserves it's own video actually :) But I agree the XFY was a plucky and awesome 'little" aircraft.
8:16 My reaction was: hey that's Boba Fett's Slave! Its cockpit pivots when taking off and landing. The Slave also lands on its back and flys standing straight.
One of your best 3D models, but you should angle the axes for those control surfaces (elevators, ailerons, rudders). The hinges on real planes follow the angle of controls' leading edges so that they can be attached at multiple points. You can do this by rotating their origin. Controls also don't move that much, usually 12-25 degrees and 25 is very much on the high end for anything except rudders. Flaps depend on the plane, ranging from 40 to 90 degrees.
Not that much difficult shipboard but it would have required major modifications to aircraft carriers As for ground bases they would have required a lot of specialized equipment
Seems this type of craft would be great as a ground attack vehicle today. You could base it almost anywhere and at over 500mph it would be quicker than a helicopter. You could even base it on remote islands to intercept smugglers or naval vessels. With the new and better turbojet engines of today, it could probably go even faster and have more range.
Part 1 Can you do a vid about Questioning and Answering the existence of orbital weapons such as ION cannon or Particle cannon or orbital cannons generally I just want to know if there is ones or underproduction or at least planned for but if no info made probably it would be a no joke top secret project such as Earthquake maker weapon and Project Mjolnir. Part 2 (Project Mjolnir) simply a tank with new kind of weaponry but it’s unknown what exactly are these projectiles that the tank launches and the way it launches these underground projectiles and yes they’re like torpedos but they as I said travel underground like worms but faster bigger and deadly and anti structure tank or weapon if you will and the way it works imagine a tank on top of it a hammer and yeah it’s a hammer but in this hammer has these projectiles of some kind and the hammer hammers down launching these projectiles also while it goes to the target it also leave behind it a track of poisonous liquid that doesn’t only effect humans but also vehicles causing them to melt down and also moving in it’s the ground up forming a crystal rock that if that crystal rocky form beneath a vehicle it would pierces through it no matter how strong it is well it depends on the sharpness on the rocky crystal form and the there is a bunch of info about this weapon but unfortunately it’s top secret this is the only info I could’ve gotten about that project and if you ask of the source it’s anonymous I’ve gotten this info from anonymous source but that’s all peace
The Convair "Pogo" is on permanent display at the "NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM" in Suitland, Maryland. The noise of the counter rotating props when standing on the ground would loosen your fillings in you teeth! But watching it fly was awesome for an 11 year old boy! Me! ...B.K.
The Short SC.1 was the first VTOL jet aircraft in the world predating the Harrier by 10 years and predating the Yak-38 by 15 years and even then the American XFY-1 Pogo was first flown 3 years before the British Short SC.1
My grandmother when she was 7-10 she watched them test it and she called it the "Pogo stick" and she has photos of it in her house and if you don't believe me if you look up a test flight for it and you can see her house in 1
The POGO had an Allison T40 turboprop engine. This engine had two gas turbine power sections driving into a combiner gearbox which drove a counter rotating propeller. Each power section had a wet, multi-disk clutch between it and the gearbox to allow operation on one power section if necessary. The clutches used bronze friction disks with steel separators. That engine graphic is not what the engine looked like.
I feel like with modern computing being where it is, much of the descent rate and like could be automated, or at the very least, computer assisted. Be interesting to revisit this design with modern ideas. . .
You got a cool Channel here, man. Really dig. - I'd like to know more about some of these project's secrecy at the time, if it was developed clandestinely. The public's awareness, or lack of it, spin-doctors, cover-stories, etc. - ✌❤ NY
It was ahead of its time in many ways. Of only they had fly by wire and better computers to make it easier to control it world have probably been more of a success or at least be more then just a prototype concept aircraft that ended up in a museum. The V-22 osprey had problems with pilots being able to control it in early developement. It ended up with a fly by wire system that greatly enhanced the planes usability by its pilots. I think similar technology would have made alittle bit of a difference in Lockheeds plane. Today v-tol drones are sold at Wal-Mart's. The technology has advanced so far that previous classified and priceless technology only known and used by governments and the rich are sold online to anyone with a smart phone. I know little camera drones are different from a full size aircraft, but the technology is generally the same. It's only upscaled and might use different building materials. I think today with today's technology the concept would have been much more feasible. That's just my thoughts!!!!
I always thought that the landing problem could have been solved by dropping a cable from the aircraft , and having it slowly winched down against the thrust of the engine.
That might be a one solution at but you'll need something on the ground for the cable to latch onto, so for fixed bases or ships that's ok but outside of those you may run into problems.
My favorite part of these videos is all of the postmortem inventive conjecture by enthusiasts. This technique is used to land helicopters on small ships. So maybe that's your inspiration?
Computers and digitally operated flight surfaces - like on the F-117 and B-1 - would have solved ALL the Pogo’s issues. The only thing stopping production right now is that Convair is no longer with us, and its surviving competitors have gobbled-up the blueprints.
They could have just designed it to land in the water, and have a crane pluck it out. It could even land horizontally that way, gliding without removing that bottom fin. They needed to think just a little further outside the box than they did. The upsides are big. You can store a lot of these in an aircraft carrier, and it can take off, right off the elevator, before it gets to the flight deck. Though, I am not sure how tall the storage deck is. They may need taller aircraft carriers. Somehow, I suspect they have enough vertical space, or this is a silly design. It could even be possible to fuel it up, and rearm it in the water after landing on the water, and takeoff from there.
The transition to the sponsorship was perfect and bloody hilarious
And then the transition back about the Pogo being shorter than average…very relatable! 😵
I built a model kit of this as a kid
Considering the aesthetics of the pogo, Adam & Eve is the perfect sponsor
hopefully they're working on a run of xfy-1 replica's XD
When I seen who the sponsor was I was like "Seriously!? Don't kids watch this?
But how you handled this was an exercise in brilliant vaguery! 👏 👏👏
Omg I paused it as my mum came in to my room and then saw the sponsor after she left lol 😂
i had to replay it because i thought i heard it wrong lmaoooo
I searched it up since I didn't know what it was, I regretted that.
I had desires at that age too, apparently not common
Mabie it's the broken home
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A very entertaining video of a pretty weird airplane. However, the airplane shown at 12:16-12:25 is not the Convair XFY but the Ryan X-13 Vertijet, another tailsitter project that was a few years later. As Ryan Aeronautical was based in San Diego first flights of the X-13 would have been there at Lindbergh Field, while Convair's test flights five years earlier were elsewhere in California.
Both Convair and Ryan were located in San Diego, California. Ryan, of Spirit of St Louis fame, completed testing of their X-13 at Edwards AFB in Southern California. Convair did their flights of the Pogo at nearby Brown Field, then a Naval Auxiliary Air Station.
This aircraft should do a comeback we are able to computerise all aspect of flights specially the complex ones like hover and landing it would be the perfect personal flying car being able to land anywhere
Maybe when people get richer someone will do a personal project but right now it's only multibillionoires
Electric version, nice little commuter.
Or just you know
Use tilting rotor. Same complexity, but you don't need to do awkward landing position
@@cedriceric9730 spaceX could do that or even Tesla
I'm sure the military could still find a use for it , close air support etc etc.
With modern technology and an automated flight system, I think this design could still be viable today.
The harrier and osprey both came from this plane take the engine and direct it downs to make the plane go upwards.
The f-35 is a little weird and actually and most of the thrust for vertical takeoff doesn’t come from the engine but same principles of direct force downward.
The competition today is way more advanced tho, i dont think this could intercept effectively anymore in today's age of military forces
@@apex_blue Not really. There was a 1948 vtol concept that flew in exactly the same way as the Harrier and F-35, the Pogo is no direct relation.
Tilrotor already exist, and it's way better in everything both control and ground hadling
Northrop Grumman is doing something like this
This has to be F&E's best video yet. Videos are always relevant (yep, even the sponsorship part) to the topic and use of graphics to explain is quite good.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@FoundAndExplained Except it would be nice if you could tell the difference between a propeller airplane (the Convair "Pogo") and a JET (the Ryan Vertijet that you have shown at 12:19 in the video.) You ought to do a separate video about it.
Another great video with amazing 3d models .Keep up the great work and have a nice week .
Thanks, will do! appreciate your support for so long!
It's downright impressive how far the project went before cancellation. I've read that one of the reasons was the unreliability of the engine...
When I was in the 7th grade I built a U-control Pogo, and I flew it in front of our house on 3rd Avenue in Arcadia, CA!!
Thanks for bringing back that happy memory 👍!!
Boss: Come up with a new design for an aircraft! Looks at the dart he is about to throw, and things of his children's pogo stick. Boss: Well done!
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I wonder how stable the same exact design would be with modern fly-by-wire controls (with computerized calculations making the aircraft stable in all conditions). Wouldn't that make it one of the best close-air-support aircraft? Imagine just having this in reserve, camouflaged near the front. A minute later and it would take to the sky and start supporting troops on the ground. Almost as fast as a jet when needed, but also almost as slow as a regular fixed-wings aircraft when required. And how many of those could you fit on a support carrier?
And I see it being relatively straight forward to maintain since it looks like the engines were built as a compact power plant that seems quite modular. So you could swap-in another power plant and put the aircraft back into service with some expediency. Try doing that with a chopper...
Or the Ryan X-13 Vertijet.
It can
but tilting rotor already exist. And it is better in everything. So, why bother to use tailsitter again when it was use solely because tilting rotor wasn't viable at that time
@@bocahdongo7769 Tiltrotors are more complex and dangerous.
More complex because you need the tilting mechanism. More dangerous because if one rotor fails, you're doomed.
Tiltrotors still make sense when you have to carry cargo/personnel, because you need to keep it horizontal. And also when you have to hover with precision or go very slowly. Otherwise, if you only need a fighter jet, these tail sitters make more sense.
@@jorehir Tailsitter also doomed because if 1 rotor fail, well same thing exactly happen. If we talk about horizontal flight, both still landed exactly like glidder
Indeed it's more complex, but it capability and flexibility outweight the tailrotor. In terms of jet fighter, standar VTOL trust vectoring is already mature enough.
Again, tailsitter isn't one of kind design, but rather of stopgap for quick design VTOL at that time. Unflexibility in terms of both maximum size (which matter of how much fuel and weapon can carry) and ground crew hadling is no joke. If you wanted small interceptor anyway, future technology called "missile" does exist, it's not like we live in Ace Combat universe or some sort
@@bocahdongo7769 You're "more" doomed on a tiltrotor, since the first thing you experience when a propeller fail is a heavy imbalance of thrust/lift (especially at low speed).
Standard VTOL planes still have BIG complexity issues.
I'm not saying that a Tail Sitter would be trouble free, but i see more potential in it.
Also, some modern jets can lift themself at almost MTOW when vertical. I don't see many limitations in that regard.
A proper VTOL/TailSitter would be a great thing to have, eliminating the need for large aircraft carriers or landing strips.
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In one of his Astro Boy Mangas, ("the hot dog corps" March-October 1961) Osmau Tezuka showed a strange aircraft, which was the Pogo. He even got the counter rotating props correct.
This aircraft sat at NAS Norfolk for several years in the 60's -early 70's. I always liked seeing the unusual looking Pogo. Enjoyed your video. Thank you
Man this guy is great.
thanks so much :)
If they can make a landing rocket, then this formula can be revived, especially as a giant drone
Unique insight - Nobody has ever considered that.
15:59 "stabibility" sounded cute :-D
Move the cockpit to the rear and have the cockpit rotate 90 degrees during the transition so that the pilot would be looking through what would be the bottom of the plane in horizontal flight. This would give the pilot a good view of the ground while landing and make it easier to get out after landing.
But then forward visibility would be crap and that is kind of important for an fighter plane.
Down the line more automation makes tailsitter landings much easier.
It still has two downsides over traditional VTOL like the harrier:
It require an higher trust than weight to take off, an harrier does not if you have an flight deck and not only an helipad.
its also far taller than other planes and helicopters so unlikely to fit in existing hangars and probably hard to do maintenance on.
However this idea make so much sense for UAV
It already did on France Tailsitter
Still shit. If not worse because of disorientation
The French had a similar plane that allowed the pilot to sit in the ground plane - It sucked too.
This will be a great configuration for a drone
Could you do a video on the Bell X-1?
I think it is famous but does not get many videos made about it, unlike the X-15.
Yes i would love to animated the x-15 or x-1
How about an X Planes series?
@@ScottSmith-me4nt yeah, that would be great!
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I remember as a teen I made plastic model airplanes. This was one of those I made. Many years later I got to see it in real life at an air show. I have the photo of it somewhere among my hundreds of slides. I came to the air show on the day that it wasn't going to be flying. RATS!!!!
Very nice and interesting mate. Keep up the good work.
Minute 07:30 An area of 355 square feet, is less than 33 square meters.
Always intriguing but between seat mechanics, gearbox and engines I doubt she had much fuel capacity.
My Dad tool me to watch this plane at Brown Field in Otay Mesa. I was very young like about 8 yrs. It was impressive. When it took off it was very loud.
When I was about 10 or 11 years old I was fascinated by this plane. At that time, a blueprint for the Pogo as a tethered aircraft was published in a monthly technical publication. Unfortunately, I didn't have the money and support from my parents to build this plane. However, I remain fascinated by the Pogo to this day.
I remember as a child seeing a drawing of one of these on the front of a Cornflakes packet, I believe there were a series of aircraft printed on the reverse of the box to be cut out and flown as gliders. I've looked for years and have been unable to find even a mention of these cutouts, I'd certainly love to be able to print on some cardstock and fly one.
Er, at 12:08 why do we suddenly go from the Convair XFY to the Ryan X13?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY_Pogo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_X-13_Vertijet
I"d suggest the VertiJet deserves it's own video actually :) But I agree the XFY was a plucky and awesome 'little" aircraft.
10:02 The Pogo's Tailpipe would make a good name for a gay bar.
WHy such beautiful aircraft are not roaming the skies today. Way ahead of its time.
Very nice video as always 🙂🙂
5:48 wow the Concorde ender airlines here
I had no idea that project got so far, great actual footage. With modern computers it could work with The landing
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Another good tail sitting aircraft was the The SNECMA C.450 Coléoptère, and would probably make a good video?
He literally said he won't make any video Mustard already did
Hence he review the german version instead
8:16 My reaction was: hey that's Boba Fett's Slave! Its cockpit pivots when taking off and landing. The Slave also lands on its back and flys standing straight.
10:30 yeah but it wouldn't zoom past them like that bc it is barely faster
One of your best 3D models, but you should angle the axes for those control surfaces (elevators, ailerons, rudders). The hinges on real planes follow the angle of controls' leading edges so that they can be attached at multiple points. You can do this by rotating their origin. Controls also don't move that much, usually 12-25 degrees and 25 is very much on the high end for anything except rudders. Flaps depend on the plane, ranging from 40 to 90 degrees.
The model is fully rigged for this video. Although I admit I likely way over did it!
I would like to see a video about the G10 Fugaku, the intercontinental bomber thought up by imperial Japan
(13:48) "... the prestigious Harmony Trophy ...". Never heard of it.
I hope you'll make soon a video on the Vought XF5U and the Vought V-173 !
this plane looks like something out of a cartooon!!!
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Don't even think as a weapon platform, how difficult the ground crews would have to arm and re-arm this plane.
Not that much difficult shipboard but it would have required major modifications to aircraft carriers
As for ground bases they would have required a lot of specialized equipment
Seems this type of craft would be great as a ground attack vehicle today. You could base it almost anywhere and at over 500mph it would be quicker than a helicopter. You could even base it on remote islands to intercept smugglers or naval vessels. With the new and better turbojet engines of today, it could probably go even faster and have more range.
Mustard made a video on the XFY's jet-powered counterpart - the SNECMA C.450 Coléoptère.
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12:59 A LITTLE harrowing? I would think there would be rather alot of engine noise and wind from the prop wash too 😬
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give the little Pogo a rear cam & automatized stabilizers & this hummingbird would be a treat even today, seen how useful the A110 Super-Tucano is.
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What aircraft is present landing at 7:22? Another wacky civil/military plane like the Convair Pogo?
R there any more pogos still around? I’d love 2 see one close up
Great videos on interesting topics. Your voice is uncannily like the guy that does the RUclips channel ‘The Road Chose Me’ 😁
I watched one in California and was amazed.
Part 1
Can you do a vid about
Questioning and Answering the existence of orbital weapons such as ION cannon or Particle cannon or orbital cannons generally I just want to know if there is ones or underproduction or at least planned for but if no info made probably it would be a no joke top secret project such as Earthquake maker weapon and Project Mjolnir.
Part 2
(Project Mjolnir)
simply a tank with new kind of weaponry but it’s unknown what exactly are these projectiles that the tank launches and the way it launches these underground projectiles and yes they’re like torpedos but they as I said travel underground like worms but faster bigger and deadly and anti structure tank or weapon if you will and the way it works imagine a tank on top of it a hammer and yeah it’s a hammer but in this hammer has these projectiles of some kind and the hammer hammers down launching these projectiles also while it goes to the target it also leave behind it a track of poisonous liquid that doesn’t only effect humans but also vehicles causing them to melt down and also moving in it’s the ground up forming a crystal rock that if that crystal rocky form beneath a vehicle it would pierces through it no matter how strong it is well it depends on the sharpness on the rocky crystal form and the there is a bunch of info about this weapon but unfortunately it’s top secret this is the only info I could’ve gotten about that project and if you ask of the source it’s anonymous I’ve gotten this info from anonymous source but that’s all peace
The Convair "Pogo" is on permanent display at the "NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM" in Suitland, Maryland. The noise of the counter rotating props when standing on the ground would loosen your fillings in you teeth! But watching it fly was awesome for an 11 year old boy! Me! ...B.K.
Thanks 4 another great video ! What is the background music , @ 5th min , called ?
Can you make a video on the sea dragon
It’s a rocket
The Short SC.1 was the first VTOL jet aircraft in the world predating the Harrier by 10 years and predating the Yak-38 by 15 years and even then the American XFY-1 Pogo was first flown 3 years before the British Short SC.1
My grandmother when she was 7-10 she watched them test it and she called it the "Pogo stick" and she has photos of it in her house and if you don't believe me if you look up a test flight for it and you can see her house in 1
love this channel.
I want this guy to have a show on tv I WANT
The POGO had an Allison T40 turboprop engine. This engine had two gas turbine power sections driving into a combiner gearbox which drove a counter rotating propeller. Each power section had a wet, multi-disk clutch between it and the gearbox to allow operation on one power section if necessary. The clutches used bronze friction disks with steel separators.
That engine graphic is not what the engine looked like.
5:44 that's a linear actuator, not a hydraulic ram
I feel like with modern computing being where it is, much of the descent rate and like could be automated, or at the very least, computer assisted. Be interesting to revisit this design with modern ideas. . .
It would be pointless and expensive.
I can imagine take off was a breeze, but landing on the other hand must have been a nightmare.......
You got a cool Channel here, man.
Really dig.
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I'd like to know more about some of these project's secrecy at the time, if it was developed clandestinely.
The public's awareness, or lack of it, spin-doctors, cover-stories,
etc.
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Very enjoyable video thank you
Did not expect the sponsorship
It was ahead of its time in many ways. Of only they had fly by wire and better computers to make it easier to control it world have probably been more of a success or at least be more then just a prototype concept aircraft that ended up in a museum. The V-22 osprey had problems with pilots being able to control it in early developement. It ended up with a fly by wire system that greatly enhanced the planes usability by its pilots. I think similar technology would have made alittle bit of a difference in Lockheeds plane. Today v-tol drones are sold at Wal-Mart's. The technology has advanced so far that previous classified and priceless technology only known and used by governments and the rich are sold online to anyone with a smart phone. I know little camera drones are different from a full size aircraft, but the technology is generally the same. It's only upscaled and might use different building materials. I think today with today's technology the concept would have been much more feasible. That's just my thoughts!!!!
It would be interesting to see what this design or similar could be designed today.
the wings look like the f5e freadom fighter plane
It'll be interesting to see if some of the same Engineers were involved
I always thought that the landing problem could have been solved by dropping a cable from the aircraft , and having it slowly winched down against the thrust of the engine.
That might be a one solution at but you'll need something on the ground for the cable to latch onto, so for fixed bases or ships that's ok but outside of those you may run into problems.
My favorite part of these videos is all of the postmortem inventive conjecture by enthusiasts.
This technique is used to land helicopters on small ships. So maybe that's your inspiration?
which aircraft is at 6:54 please make a video about it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_XF5U
@@lesliereissner4711 thanks
But how good was it as a fighter bomber after it pogoed
will you do australia's new Boeing support drone, or what ever type of drone it is
I did it last week :)
Aircraft engineer: I like Pogos!
Person: Pogo sticks, right?
Aircraft engineer: *No…*
So many of these projects had the simple problem of existing before computers
11:30
Theres going Captain America involved with that one right?
Big fan, Id love to see a F&E on the ASR-544-4 Grunman secret projects if its not already on your list.
POGGO , BUT HEAR ME OUT ...
*DRONE*
Very interesting aircraft
No, it is not contra-rotating for torque- it is to stop the aircraft rotating in the opposite direction to a single prop...
Probably inspired the Fantastic Four Pogo Plane. Any chance for a Convair 49 video?
Computers and digitally operated flight surfaces - like on the F-117 and B-1 - would have solved ALL the Pogo’s issues. The only thing stopping production right now is that Convair is no longer with us, and its surviving competitors have gobbled-up the blueprints.
2:00 Is drone wrangling the next Olympic sport?
Quite the interesting sponsorship hah!
You should do a video on the Piasecki VZ-8 AirGeep, the Army's Flying Jeep.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_VZ-8_Airgeep
damm thats crazy
3:29 Well that's no good only 1 or 2 planes per carrier & seen the size of em WOW
What's an autogiro
I’ve been waiting for this one.
They could have just designed it to land in the water, and have a crane pluck it out. It could even land horizontally that way, gliding without removing that bottom fin. They needed to think just a little further outside the box than they did.
The upsides are big. You can store a lot of these in an aircraft carrier, and it can take off, right off the elevator, before it gets to the flight deck.
Though, I am not sure how tall the storage deck is. They may need taller aircraft carriers. Somehow, I suspect they have enough vertical space, or this is a silly design.
It could even be possible to fuel it up, and rearm it in the water after landing on the water, and takeoff from there.
Suit and tie and flightsuits on the flightline what a time
We can probably do this today with robots or drones
What was that plane at 7:04 ~ 7:24 ? It looked really cool!
It's not real
@@galadato7425 oh
That's a smart way to sponsor adult thing