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@@Thomasnmi There's a 1960s comedy film based in the 1910s about an "aereoplane" race across the English Channel: "Those magnificent men and their flying machines".
they go up tiddly up up, they go down tiddly down down. They enchant all the ladies and steal all the scenes, with their up tiddly up up and their down tiddly down down.
In the beginning, an Ultralight before there were Ultralights. Followed by what is probably one of the first examples of the Canard Wing, the Flying Wing itself, Pusher Propellers, Winglet's (though not for range extension/fuel conservation), and Auto-Pilot. Who knew?
Some of these ideas were later actually experimented by both the USN and USAF. The disc wing was taken as a test-bed for possible STOL planes for carriers, after WW2, thus the famous 'Flying Pancake', for example.
The Italian plane at 3:37 looks like a F-86 Sabre and a Gee-Bee had a baby:) The guy on the bike at the end was hilarious! He was trying his best to get away from that thing but his leash had him!😂
As a cyclist , love the "Aero Bike" ( 9:32) As a Maryland resident: "...that's why we call them 'Baltimorons'." Actually, they got the human-powered flight thing accomplished. 😁
3m20s is a kinda weird 1930s pre-imagining of a modern "jet" engine as found on a 737 i.e. it's fan driven bypass air engine just without the jet turbine in the middle to drive it so massively fast (thus, also, no "bypass").
The bird man did not have the smarts to stop when he crashed jumped of the rock. What was he thinking. The helicopter guy with the umbrella was a real winner too. These shade tree mechanics/inventors were a hoot to watch.
If it wasn’t for the seemingly crazy inventors (and some were crazy) taking huge risks perfecting maned flight I wouldn’t have had a 24 year service career in the RAF, and the average person wouldn’t have been on holiday to the far flung corners of the world. The film “those magnificent men in their flying machines” is a brilliant film for slapstick comedy and even more crazy flying machines than you “can shake a sh1ty stick at”. Thanks for sharing this really interesting and funny documentary film, what were some of these people thinking 💭, thanks again. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Some 20 years before the film, the Wright Brothers used science to make their airplane fly. Some 30 years after the film, passengers traveled comfortably at great speed by jet aircraft.
What a trip it must have been growing up in that Era? "Martha! What is that infernal racket?!" "Oh dear, it's old man Ohennesy and his flying machine again." "That damned quack. If God wanted us to fly he would have given us feathers."
@@mpetersen6 Yeah, looks like an ultralight. What I meant by flying car is that he drove it from the road, flipped the wing and just flown off in which some flying car concepts today have been designed to do a similar thing. Even the narrator said that the inventor figured that he could just *drive from the road and just fly.
The first one with the forward canard wing was actually a decent design. Virtually stall proof. There was a designer in the 1970s who produced a higher performance version of the same type of plane.
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@Toothless Blues Boy Norman, some of these people construted things from several ideas, that others had in the past... The term 'Helicopter' was used in one of them... They did it with the things that they had access to with very limited money... Many were not high-tech, but still they gave it a try... Some died doing this, but others became Sucessful. I call it courage...
Reminded me of the Monte Python skit about flying sheep. Reporter and farmer are talking about the sheep that have climbed a tree (shown in the background). When the reporter asks about them flying, the farmer says, "Well, they try, but they mostly just plummet."
3:24 Whammo, the toy manufacturer, marketed the TurboTube back in the '60s. If you put enough spin on it TurboTube could be thrown forward and slightly downward and it would climb after thirty feet of so. It was made of brittle plastic because it had to maintain its round, tubular shape when thrown with some force. The front end of the tube was fairly thick and tapered to razor-thin on the backend. Once the backend got chipped up too much the airflow through TurboTube was disrupted and the delicate aerodynamic balance was lost.
A friend had something similar about 25 years ago - a rubber tube, thick in the middle and tapered outward at both ends- you could throw it like a football and it was stable in flight and easy to catch.
@@lawrencelewis2592 I'm guessing that it would have been fairly rigid too so as not to deform if thrown hard. The taper you describe would enhance the Venturi effect of the air passing through its center.
@@TralfazConstruction As I recall it was a soft rubber but did hold it's shape when thrown. The middle part was round and both ends looked like the bell of a horn.
I think the spinning barrel attempt is not as silly as it looks. The intention is, I think, to use the Magnus effect to produce lift without the necessity for forward motion, hence his prediction of very low landing speeds. I'm not sure it's a very practical idea but it might be made to work in a model.
After just recently learning to walk upright, hew-mons decide to really give their brains a workout!😂🤣thank goodness for advancements in aviation and breaking out in late '47 to become our beloved USAF!
Some did very well, some almost made it off the ground, while others did not do so well at all... But they all brought out the spirit of adventure, with the dream of flight....
A pair of assbestos pants… 😆 I’m certainly here at the wrong times. I got the dial off by a few decades or century… I’m gonna try again. Next filming you will see me fly my invention off a rock into a face plant or maybe I will just be included on this film when you watch it.
Interesting reading thru comments ... VERY MANY PEOPLE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF AIRCRAFT DESIGN ...again many ideas have been shown very flight worthy !!!!
That's a pretty cool coincidence. I did a double-take hearing/seeing Coatesville mentioned right at the outset of this quaint video. Haven't been up that way in several years.
@@MattsInTheBelfry Funny! Not one of those. Only Piper Archers and Arrows, and Cessna 172s and 182s. I suspect that the current airport is at the same location as in this video. It is now a paved 5400' runway with an ILS.
At 13:21 they have something that would almost kinda work.CG is their enemy in this design and the really need a faster cycle time but it could hypothetically fly. Would be totally uncomfortable and directional control would be a challenge (selectively defeating blades in one direction?), but it almost kinda sorta could work.
The Stipa tubular fuselage has an airfoil-shaped profile in duct, inventor said the machine had increased drag respect to others, would be an advantage if just the lower part of duct has an airfoil section , providing lift, as in Custer Channel Wing, the upper half of duct being left flat? Blessings +
I was thinking that it more or less prefigured the design of the jet engine by putting the prop in a tube; it’s just missing the critical idea of having the tube be the combustion chamber and using the exhaust gas to drive the fan.
The ones that involve human-powered or -assisted flight seem to be the worst. I don't know if any had a serious athletic background, but common sense should tell you that the level of performance and endurance required for any substantive flight would be tremendous.
The problem with most of these failures is the ignorance of the designers. We looked at birds and though if we just create a device that flaps wings it will fly. What we didn't understand was first - the aerocurve, the shape that produces lift by moving air over it. The other was that we didn't know that as birds lift their wings the feathers rotate to let air flow through, the back to close of and produce lift. The third is the lift to weight ratio. Some of these monstrosities weighed as much as a car but could only lift an ounce. The wright brothers (and others of the time) worked this out, testing various wing shapes, fixing the wing surfaces in place to let air move over them, and making the craft as light as possible
There’s a time, early in the development of many technologies, cars, guns, airplanes, tractors, etc. where MANY inventors are trying MANY different things, before it all settles down to “this is how we do it.” Some inventions work, many don’t, but all are interesting, and testaments to human imagination.
4:13 The Arup S-2 from Indiana 6:57 the Nemeth "Parachute Plane" Both defy "if it looks right, it'll fly right", and they fly better than "normal" planes.
Mr Kindree's Sky Car bouncing around was the funniest thing I ever saw. Do you suppose he was defeated by this test? Did he get angry drunk one night and destroy that flappy parasol? I would bet that he KNEW he had discovered an important principle (though he had not) and that others would follow his work and [invent the helicopter]. Sikorsky knew not of Kindree :(
I've watched that part four times in a row and I can't stop laughing. Every time I go back and watch it thinking "no, it's not going to be as funny as the last time I saw it" and I am immediately proven wrong. It's damn hilarious and it's going to haunt me with fits of laughter as I try to fall asleep.
Magnus effect aircraft (the "spindle" type) are so cool. The downside is they're just not as safe as a fixed-wing aircraft and you can't really make a practical gearing mechanism to let them do an autorotation landing like you can with a helicopter or autogyro.
Not Coanda effect. Coanda effect is the natural way that a jet of air follows a curved surface due to pressure differences in the air jet and the surrounding air.. Its his way to exploit the Magnus Effect. But the craft needs to be moving forward at a considerable speed. Easier to just use a regular wing--and then you would call it Circulation Theory.
When you mix inventions with excitement applying it to work sometimes you gotta pass away to prove others wrong or right what should work or not. Remember you only get 1 life so don't waste it on making yourself a cripple and having to live through it. Take care of your fellow man the only reason life is easier today that 200 years ago is because of others and we are all others. God speed for your blessings
Imagine had they seen the Future & the advances in long term Fights , now made in Glider looking Planes that are Solar powered. It blow their minds, as this has blown mines.
Man they thought lift cane from pushing against the air. Kind of funny as we know now its the high pressure under low pressure over. Helicopters where how they saw it but didnt realize the amount of air pushing you'd need. Funny thing is Wright bros did make an early small wind tunnel to test wing shape lift. Lot of these guys shoulda looked at that. They really thought they could push themselves up when really you get lifted up by pressure differential
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Hats off to all these amazing and brave inventors and thank You for sharing this !
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Those daring young men and their flying machines
Yes. Add a question mark to some of those flying machines. ballsy bunch for sure.
That's catchy. Might make a good title for a movie.
@@Thomasnmi There's a 1960s comedy film based in the 1910s about an "aereoplane" race across the English Channel: "Those magnificent men and their flying machines".
I hope everyone got this reference
they go up tiddly up up,
they go down tiddly down down.
They enchant all the ladies and steal all the scenes,
with their up tiddly up up
and their down tiddly down down.
Its like they made planes without testing them first and just came up with what popped up in their heads
That's the secret to a lot of breakthrough engineering I bet.
OG ultralight with a freaking lawnmower engine on it. I want one!
In the beginning, an Ultralight before there were Ultralights. Followed by what is probably one of the first examples of the Canard Wing, the Flying Wing itself, Pusher Propellers, Winglet's (though not for range extension/fuel conservation), and Auto-Pilot. Who knew?
the Wright brothers first plane WAS a canard wing with a pusher prop
Some of these ideas were later actually experimented by both the USN and USAF. The disc wing was taken as a test-bed for possible STOL planes for carriers, after WW2, thus the famous 'Flying Pancake', for example.
That design did break all records for speed and stability, just a with a few modifications (jet engines)
The Italian plane at 3:37 looks like a F-86 Sabre and a Gee-Bee had a baby:)
The guy on the bike at the end was hilarious! He was trying his best to get away from that thing but his leash had him!😂
"Help from everything...except gravity." Lol
As a cyclist , love the "Aero Bike" ( 9:32)
As a Maryland resident: "...that's why we call them 'Baltimorons'."
Actually, they got the human-powered flight thing accomplished.
😁
Good stuff, Periscope! I will definitely remember to wear my asbestos pants for next video.
5:27 "The large one's are the main lifting... lifters" Oh yea that Inspires all sorts of confidence.
He didn't even try to explain that other thigamabob though!
Seems like a fun, safe hobby for anyone.
Especially the neighbor's children.
12:11 As featured in Airplane
15:50 ‘What he should have, is a pair of asbestos pants.’
Yeah… about that.
Does he need them for the rocket or the sick burns from the reporter?
Asbestos is perfectly fine until it becomes a powder and you inhale it...
@@rockets4kids It’s fine in buildings, but readily sheds fibers when used as a fabric.
But with the fire-resistant fabrics of a century ago, it was asbestos it gets.
the music is as demented as most of the “flying” machines.
3m20s is a kinda weird 1930s pre-imagining of a modern "jet" engine as found on a 737 i.e. it's fan driven bypass air engine just without the jet turbine in the middle to drive it so massively fast (thus, also, no "bypass").
That's the Stipa-Caproni and the narrator is only half-correct, it was very stable but not fast.
Was thinking the same thing myself, a lot of these guys had the right idea's but the technology needed was years ahead of their time.
you can put times as 3:20 and it will automatically be a blue link people can click to go right to that part in the video
@@tz8785 they could have made the hole at the back smaller and sped up the air flow out the back, at least i think it would be faster
Loved the video. Just every time I watch something really old all I can think about is all these folks are dead and gone now:(
The bird man did not have the smarts to stop when he crashed jumped of the rock. What was he thinking. The helicopter guy with the umbrella was a real winner too. These shade tree mechanics/inventors were a hoot to watch.
O God, it's the early years of Red Bull Flugtag!
If it wasn’t for the seemingly crazy inventors (and some were crazy) taking huge risks perfecting maned flight I wouldn’t have had a 24 year service career in the RAF, and the average person wouldn’t have been on holiday to the far flung corners of the world. The film “those magnificent men in their flying machines” is a brilliant film for slapstick comedy and even more crazy flying machines than you “can shake a sh1ty stick at”.
Thanks for sharing this really interesting and funny documentary film, what were some of these people thinking 💭, thanks again. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
I liked the Italian tube plane. Just any ducted engine...
Here's a twist as built by the French. ruclips.net/video/unz6mfjS4ws/видео.html
Some 20 years before the film, the Wright Brothers used science to make their airplane fly.
Some 30 years after the film, passengers traveled comfortably at great speed by jet aircraft.
35 years after these ideas, we went to the moon
I was lmfao at some of these. We had everything from mixers on wheels to bouncing umbrella cars to a guy lighting his pants on fire. 😂😂😂😂😂
My favorite was the car that tries to be a helicopter. "I think I can" turned into "No you won't."
What a trip it must have been growing up in that Era?
"Martha! What is that infernal racket?!"
"Oh dear, it's old man Ohennesy and his flying machine again."
"That damned quack. If God wanted us to fly he would have given us feathers."
Amazing how many ideas presented in this movie were later incorporated into military aircraft.
By George that film was just swell!
Yeah! Golly-gee willikers!!
Dude, the first aircraft shown is basically how almost every flying car concept today works like lmao.
What he really had was an ultralight
@@mpetersen6 Yeah, looks like an ultralight. What I meant by flying car is that he drove it from the road, flipped the wing and just flown off in which some flying car concepts today have been designed to do a similar thing. Even the narrator said that the inventor figured that he could just *drive from the road and just fly.
The first one with the forward canard wing was actually a decent design. Virtually stall proof.
There was a designer in the 1970s who produced a higher performance version of the same type of plane.
Bert Rutan was the designer and the plane was called the VariEZ.
The Granville Brothers made those World Champion GB Supersportster racing planes
I was wondering if anyone noticed that was Zantford Granville!
Doolittle Flew it. .Heavy Torque...
@@finddeniro thanks .
wasn't the GeeBee racing plane built on the lines of a bumblebee? or was it a milk bottle?
Back when getting high in Coatesville, Pa meant something different. Good times.
Great video! Just a gem.
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Well that was cool, I like how dude tried to take credit for Leonardo's idea.... actually I think there were 3 of his ideas there .. very cool!
@Toothless Blues Boy Norman, some of these people construted things from several ideas, that others had in the past... The term 'Helicopter' was used in one of them... They did it with the things that they had access to with very limited money... Many were not high-tech, but still they gave it a try... Some died doing this, but others became Sucessful. I call it courage...
What an amazing video of life and human growth. Wow.. scary though.. and who are each of these envelope pushers. Thanks again and again etc
Reminded me of the Monte Python skit about flying sheep. Reporter and farmer are talking about the sheep that have climbed a tree (shown in the background). When the reporter asks about them flying, the farmer says, "Well, they try, but they mostly just plummet."
Imagine if someone made a non powered replica of some of these and entered it to a Red Bull Flugtag.
3:24 Whammo, the toy manufacturer, marketed the TurboTube back in the '60s. If you put enough spin on it TurboTube could be thrown forward and slightly downward and it would climb after thirty feet of so. It was made of brittle plastic because it had to maintain its round, tubular shape when thrown with some force. The front end of the tube was fairly thick and tapered to razor-thin on the backend. Once the backend got chipped up too much the airflow through TurboTube was disrupted and the delicate aerodynamic balance was lost.
A friend had something similar about 25 years ago - a rubber tube, thick in the middle and tapered outward at both ends- you could throw it like a football and it was stable in flight and easy to catch.
@@lawrencelewis2592 I'm guessing that it would have been fairly rigid too so as not to deform if thrown hard. The taper you describe would enhance the Venturi effect of the air passing through its center.
@@TralfazConstruction As I recall it was a soft rubber but did hold it's shape when thrown. The middle part was round and both ends looked like the bell of a horn.
Looks like a Burt Rutan at 2:30. I thought everyone was broke and selling apples on the street during the Depression?
I think the spinning barrel attempt is not as silly as it looks. The intention is, I think, to use the Magnus effect to produce lift without the necessity for forward motion, hence his prediction of very low landing speeds. I'm not sure it's a very practical idea but it might be made to work in a model.
isnt that just a ekranoplan
Yeah, but I think he discounted the value of barndoor lift.
You would think that the inventors of these flops would have tried them a few times before allowing a camera to humiliate them.
Then again you wouldn’t think anyone would vote for Joe Biden.
@@wfdix1 ... or for that matter that psycho pervert mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot.
After just recently learning to walk upright, hew-mons decide to really give their brains a workout!😂🤣thank goodness for advancements in aviation and breaking out in late '47 to become our beloved USAF!
Some did very well, some almost made it off the ground, while others did not do so well at all... But they all brought out the spirit of adventure, with the dream of flight....
A pair of assbestos pants… 😆 I’m certainly here at the wrong times. I got the dial off by a few decades or century… I’m gonna try again. Next filming you will see me fly my invention off a rock into a face plant or maybe I will just be included on this film when you watch it.
Interesting reading thru comments ... VERY MANY PEOPLE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF AIRCRAFT DESIGN ...again many ideas have been shown very flight worthy !!!!
Makes me wonder who came up with the first helicopter concept. That guy is the great grandfather of drones.
7:36 - 8:15, the B-2 Bomber's great great grandfather !!!
Still a great opportunity for the man that perfects the flying bicycle.
That’s what drives AOC’s green new deal.
Funny as hell but they learned from their mistakes.
Did they though..? 😆
Many of these designs are ahead of their time . Some are used today in aircraft such as the canard .
The original Wright Flyer had a forward elevator, which is pretty much a canard.
Round wing became rounded wings, even the funny paris one demonstrated modern tail air brakes for control.
Really interesting stuff
When I saw a jumping helicopter, I got hiccups just from looking at it.
Be right at home in L.A. next to the Low Riders at the bouncing competition.
Can also be used as a spine compressor.
The wife must like it.
Originally named, 'The Decapitator.'
@@Misha-dr9rh,
Yep, the dirty goil.
Funny thing is that I actually learned to fly at the Coatesville, PA airport: KMQS in 1993.
That's a pretty cool coincidence. I did a double-take hearing/seeing Coatesville mentioned right at the outset of this quaint video. Haven't been up that way in several years.
Very unique to get to say that.
Sadly it’s a bit hurt looking now.
Outside of towns nice
Did you fly one of these?
@@MattsInTheBelfry Funny! Not one of those. Only Piper Archers and Arrows, and Cessna 172s and 182s.
I suspect that the current airport is at the same location as in this video.
It is now a paved 5400' runway with an ILS.
At 13:21 they have something that would almost kinda work.CG is their enemy in this design and the really need a faster cycle time but it could hypothetically fly. Would be totally uncomfortable and directional control would be a challenge (selectively defeating blades in one direction?), but it almost kinda sorta could work.
Depending on your definition of flying he may have. He was airborne during those hops.
Yep, his noggin got really close to that shredder a few times though!! Lol
Got a Sel. ticket in 86,2 of the instructors i flew with had original tickets signed by the Wright Brother who had become head of FAA
Truly, Men of vision. Some a bit nearsighted. The flying wing did see the future.
Nearsighted ? Try totally blind lol !
The Stipa tubular fuselage has an airfoil-shaped profile in duct, inventor said the machine had increased drag respect to others, would be an advantage if just the lower part of duct has an airfoil section , providing lift, as in Custer Channel Wing, the upper half of duct being left flat?
Blessings +
@13:30 😂😂😂 What were folks thinking back in those days. 😂😂
13:00 Although it didn't fly as a helicopter, it went on to a long and successful career in the treatment of constipation.
⚠️Nothing less than Epic !! 😲👍 ..Respect ya !!
Haha the Helicopter one got me! LMAO
Interesting ... that MANY of these ideas have been proVEN TO BE VERY REASONABLE IDEAS!!!
Why did they put the big guy on the bike in that last clip?
Italian tube plane seems to be the predecessor of later jet planes like the F-86 and MiG 15
I was thinking that it more or less prefigured the design of the jet engine by putting the prop in a tube; it’s just missing the critical idea of having the tube be the combustion chamber and using the exhaust gas to drive the fan.
I assume that the tube was configured as a venturi. it shows sound engineering practices.
You won't know if it works until build it.
It boggles my min why autogiros didn't become popular. Much simpler than helicopters and way earlier.
@darkwood777 There's a flyable one at the museum at Duxford, U.K. I didn't see it fly, unfortunately.
Just a teensy bit between a dream and a NIGHTMARE
Aww shucks. That really seemed like a winner.
Good Grief! What were some of these people thinking?? Some actually worked, others were nothing but a Fool's Folly at best!
The ones that involve human-powered or -assisted flight seem to be the worst. I don't know if any had a serious athletic background, but common sense should tell you that the level of performance and endurance required for any substantive flight would be tremendous.
Great examples of "thinking outside the box"
Unfortunately ...
12:12 “Oh S___t”
I think every single one of those aircraft had a screw loose in the cockpit.
I flew into Coatsville numerous times while our tanker trucks were getting recertification at Keene Brothers.
Should still be part of the army or separate airplanes from navy to be consistent(?).
The suit and tie 👍 good boy George
That one at 3:38 is like a modern jet, minus the compressor.
The problem with most of these failures is the ignorance of the designers. We looked at birds and though if we just create a device that flaps wings it will fly. What we didn't understand was first - the aerocurve, the shape that produces lift by moving air over it. The other was that we didn't know that as birds lift their wings the feathers rotate to let air flow through, the back to close of and produce lift. The third is the lift to weight ratio. Some of these monstrosities weighed as much as a car but could only lift an ounce.
The wright brothers (and others of the time) worked this out, testing various wing shapes, fixing the wing surfaces in place to let air move over them, and making the craft as light as possible
Those pilots had guts
That was a neat Disney movie.
Познавательные концепции!!
@5:36 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin?
Pretty cool!
The one at 13 min might have flew if it had the right helicopter blades lol I love these old movies
Maybe they should put someone a bit heavier on the rocket bike and let this guy be a jockey.
🤣
Imagine just if
It had actually worked.
I can’t.
!11:35 the very first Red Bull Flugtag!
There’s a time, early in the development of many technologies, cars, guns, airplanes, tractors, etc. where MANY inventors are trying MANY different things, before it all settles down to “this is how we do it.” Some inventions work, many don’t, but all are interesting, and testaments to human imagination.
4:13 The Arup S-2 from Indiana
6:57 the Nemeth "Parachute Plane"
Both defy "if it looks right, it'll fly right", and they fly better than "normal" planes.
best video ever
Mr Kindree's Sky Car bouncing around was the funniest thing I ever saw. Do you suppose he was defeated by this test? Did he get angry drunk one night and destroy that flappy parasol? I would bet that he KNEW he had discovered an important principle (though he had not) and that others would follow his work and [invent the helicopter]. Sikorsky knew not of Kindree :(
I've watched that part four times in a row and I can't stop laughing. Every time I go back and watch it thinking "no, it's not going to be as funny as the last time I saw it" and I am immediately proven wrong. It's damn hilarious and it's going to haunt me with fits of laughter as I try to fall asleep.
Not really new. There was another type, same principle some years before in Europe. Same result...
Is that Howard Hughes at 1:48?
Granville, one of the designers of the GeeBee racers.
Magnus effect aircraft (the "spindle" type) are so cool. The downside is they're just not as safe as a fixed-wing aircraft and you can't really make a practical gearing mechanism to let them do an autorotation landing like you can with a helicopter or autogyro.
Not Coanda effect. Coanda effect is the natural way that a jet of air follows a curved surface due to pressure differences in the air jet and the surrounding air..
Its his way to exploit the Magnus Effect. But the craft needs to be moving forward at a considerable speed.
Easier to just use a regular wing--and then you would call it Circulation Theory.
@@2lotusman851 Oof. Fixed. I thought I'd fixed it while typing it out but I was half asleep and brainfarted.
When you mix inventions with excitement applying it to work sometimes you gotta pass away to prove others wrong or right what should work or not. Remember you only get 1 life so don't waste it on making yourself a cripple and having to live through it. Take care of your fellow man the only reason life is easier today that 200 years ago is because of others and we are all others. God speed for your blessings
“Surprisingly airworthy.”
That sounds like me in flight sim.
Barrell for stability ? Maybe the barrell could be used to increase cargo volume... Oh..
Imagine had they seen the Future & the advances in long term Fights , now made in Glider looking Planes that are Solar powered. It blow their minds, as this has blown mines.
The saucer shaped wing actually worked pretty good. 7:00
Shh! That’s the original flying saucer, the basis for today’s spacecraft.
Pretty typical for a high-winged monoplane, like the Morane Parasol (1911). There are no new ideas incorporated. They thing's halfway to an autogiro.
Man they thought lift cane from pushing against the air. Kind of funny as we know now its the high pressure under low pressure over. Helicopters where how they saw it but didnt realize the amount of air pushing you'd need. Funny thing is Wright bros did make an early small wind tunnel to test wing shape lift. Lot of these guys shoulda looked at that. They really thought they could push themselves up when really you get lifted up by pressure differential
The Stipa-Caproni! The first ducted fan airplane.
Guess the windmill plane concept just never took off.
4:15 managed to get dean venture to do the voiceover here neat
Made the hole. Forgot the jet.
Some of these people are just plain nutty.
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