What happened to flying cars? Air Car 2500

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  • Опубликовано: 11 дек 2024

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  • @FoundAndExplained
    @FoundAndExplained  18 часов назад +10

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    • @MedoThe78
      @MedoThe78 6 часов назад

      So what is wrong with being or looking like a janitor?

  • @9an13l
    @9an13l 17 часов назад +183

    Hovercrafting and cornering are natural enemies

    • @9an13l
      @9an13l 17 часов назад +9

      Also regarding hoverbikes: wasn't there some australian dude on kickstarter who designed and built a fully functioning hoverbike like 10 years ago? (But with low range)

    • @danielhandika8767
      @danielhandika8767 17 часов назад +13

      Oh those can drift very well
      In a straight line 😂

    • @CSAdityaHoon
      @CSAdityaHoon 12 часов назад +1

      ​@@9an13l I think it was more like a hoverboard with set track and set path to hover on!?

    • @9an13l
      @9an13l 12 часов назад

      And how exaxtly would you set that path? I'd really like you to elaborate on that....

    • @CSAdityaHoon
      @CSAdityaHoon 8 часов назад +1

      @@9an13l like a magnetic track like for rail but the difference is that track line would be magnetic and there would be some kind of system or technic for both the poles stays at the same and won't let them touch eachother! and you get a hoverboard

  • @JLAvey
    @JLAvey 17 часов назад +106

    If you think tires are noisy; just imagine those lift engines.

    • @roryhennessey1983
      @roryhennessey1983 13 часов назад +2

      We've got earbuds now. This would have been the perfect video for a raycon advert

    • @roryhennessey1983
      @roryhennessey1983 13 часов назад +1

      Imagine trying to stop short in that

    • @PakistanAviation-47
      @PakistanAviation-47 10 часов назад

      ⁠@@roryhennessey1983ear buds? What about the hearing sense?

    • @zh84
      @zh84 8 часов назад +2

      The Berin Aerotrain was a hovertrain which was trialled in France. Having no contact with the "track" it had to be driven by an aircraft propellor. The appalling amount of noise it made was one of the reasons it never progressed beyond experiments.

  • @digitalfortressmining5004
    @digitalfortressmining5004 16 часов назад +69

    It looks like a GPU made to look like a car lmao

    • @pacus123
      @pacus123 13 часов назад +1

      Hahaha! Super comment buddy!

    • @NobodyQuiteLikeMe
      @NobodyQuiteLikeMe 12 часов назад

      It really does. The hotwheels GPU lol

    • @LIONGOD
      @LIONGOD 10 часов назад

      not a bad idea for a colin furze youtube video

  • @whiteoutgotu
    @whiteoutgotu 15 часов назад +13

    I *love* your renderings, dude.
    That absurdly boxy, yet, still perfectly smooth and round at the edges is so aesthetically pleasing to me.

  • @presidentirinavladimirovna7054
    @presidentirinavladimirovna7054 17 часов назад +31

    The design of this hovercar really wants me to take a hard right on Saratoga with it.

    • @markmendez1358
      @markmendez1358 16 часов назад +1

      Dang that reference goes hard!! 😂

  • @Driveby-Viktum
    @Driveby-Viktum 17 часов назад +10

    Looks like a video card with a convertible top. Crazy.

  • @seanbigay1042
    @seanbigay1042 16 часов назад +8

    Holy landspeeder, Batman! 😂

  • @MTTT1234
    @MTTT1234 11 часов назад +3

    Any time that thing goes into a curve, it plays 'Deja vu' , when you start drifting.

  • @yudodis
    @yudodis 15 часов назад +7

    If we allow Karen to fly over our homes in 10,000 lb cruise missiles, we're finished 😂

    • @NobodyQuiteLikeMe
      @NobodyQuiteLikeMe 12 часов назад +2

      Can you imagine? Jeez i mean i think its crazy enough that we put 16 year olds behind the wheel of a multi ton piece of speeding steel and plastic even though their frontal lobe ( thats reasoning skills) isnt fully developed. But on the other hand we got to get those young people to work to line the pockets of the CEOs. Greed lines the box of humanities coffin.

  • @mtssman
    @mtssman 9 часов назад +5

    8:55 - Those ears could hear Stalin farting while sitting in Washington.

  • @SomeOrdinaryJanitor
    @SomeOrdinaryJanitor 16 часов назад +6

    being able to lift 1,000 lbs of of weight is pretty respectable honestly, for a hover car made in the 1960s anyway.

  • @Norfolkandwestern-ex1oq
    @Norfolkandwestern-ex1oq 17 часов назад +11

    Sounds like something from fallout

    • @CoPoint
      @CoPoint 14 часов назад

      And in the animations here, it has the look to match, too 😁👍... If the original had been shaped a bit less like a floating brick, it would have been indistinguishable 😄...

    • @BobAbc0815
      @BobAbc0815 11 часов назад +1

      Looks like Luke Skywalkers Speeder.

  • @ColdWarAviator
    @ColdWarAviator 12 часов назад +4

    I definitely encourage your viewers to visit the U.S. Army Transportation museum at Ft Eustis (now joint base Langley-Eustis).
    Many vehicle prototypes there and definitely a fun time. Not sure if they still have it but at one time they also had the Avro Car or Army Equivalent of a flying saucer 😮 using much the same concept as the air car here, except it was disc shaped and was also supposed to be able to transition to high altitude flight!
    Great content as usual. 👍

    • @zh84
      @zh84 8 часов назад +1

      The Avrocar was one of the most magnificent failures in aircraft history. It was actually slower than Jeep, and couldn't fly much higher either!

    • @dsdonovan
      @dsdonovan 3 часа назад

      Saw it there years ago. Fascinating!

  • @YSekiai
    @YSekiai 10 часов назад +3

    A hovercraft that can only reach a speed of 38 miles per hour will be completely unable to move forward when facing a 38-mile-per-hour headwind. It is also highly vulnerable to crosswinds, making it extremely difficult to drive straight on the road on windy days. In the first place, this machine would likely be incapable of climbing San Francisco's steep hills, and I doubt it could even stop at a traffic light on a downhill slope.💦

  • @captain_commenter8796
    @captain_commenter8796 17 часов назад +11

    Imagine drifting this thing 😂

    • @JLAvey
      @JLAvey 17 часов назад +5

      Starting the power slide is easy. Stopping it----

    • @RakaiVDentist
      @RakaiVDentist 16 часов назад +5

      Imagine NOT drifting it

    • @zh84
      @zh84 8 часов назад

      @@RakaiVDentist You wouldn't get anything BUT drift in this thing.

  • @Azukaae
    @Azukaae 13 часов назад +2

    - Make it hover so there are less friction
    - Hard to turn? Build a dedicated "encasing" track so that they need no worry about turning anymore
    - Pair them a lot so that it can transport a lot at once
    - ???
    - Profit

    • @zh84
      @zh84 8 часов назад +2

      Britain and France both tried making hovertrains, but it was never practical. They were horribly noisy (see Bertin Aerotrain) and, unlike a regular train where the cars are supported on wheels, if there really were multiple cars every single one had to be powered to supply the lift engines.

  • @WaVeTECH-b9z
    @WaVeTECH-b9z 4 часа назад

    The strength and durability of these machines are truly remarkable!

  • @GB-tc4hr
    @GB-tc4hr 5 часов назад +2

    Flying cars are bad idea
    You'd have to get a pilot's license to use one
    Unless they're VTOL, you'd need a runway
    You'd have to do so many more before trip checks and procedures
    If it is VTOL, you'd might as well have a helicopter

  • @Brocki1704
    @Brocki1704 5 часов назад

    Every time I hear the Question "what happened to flying cars?" I have to think of this IBM commercial with Avery Brooks. 😂😂
    "Where are the flying cars. I was promised flying cars"

  • @saprumk4
    @saprumk4 5 часов назад +1

    So basically just reverse Fan Car?

  • @abarthcorsa3493
    @abarthcorsa3493 Час назад

    I love how funky the engineers in the 50s and 60s were. They just did random things cause “wouldn’t it be cool if we did this?” and then did it. Sometimes successful, often death traps, and countless abject failures, but all weird interesting and cool ideas.

  • @lindelheimen
    @lindelheimen 12 часов назад +2

    Straight outta fallout 💯

  • @EonityLuna
    @EonityLuna 11 часов назад +1

    4:40 Christine?!

  • @哇咖哩貢-d5d
    @哇咖哩貢-d5d 17 часов назад +2

    looks like my fancy pencil box when I was child.✏

  • @Dumbo_Bat
    @Dumbo_Bat 45 минут назад

    I never saw the hovercraft as a thing from the future, but rather a boat that can be driven on land as well as in the water

  • @VacuousCat
    @VacuousCat 16 часов назад +1

    That car will kill so many people in the city because it can't brake fast enough.
    I tried to search what's the anatomy inside but found nothing.

  • @_TAGP
    @_TAGP 17 часов назад +2

    Wonderful video, as always! 👍

  • @ramiroezequielperez
    @ramiroezequielperez 17 часов назад +4

    Full Throttle vibes ❤

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  17 часов назад

      right?!! as i was making it i was like there is no way someone will make that connection

  • @Johnnyynf
    @Johnnyynf 2 часа назад +1

    the RTX 6090 car

  • @Happymali10
    @Happymali10 10 часов назад +1

    Does anyone else get a serious rendering-error by 5:39?
    Whole image is pixelated.

  • @urownpersonalgod
    @urownpersonalgod 17 часов назад +2

    Need some inertial dampeners..

    • @2acritter4life
      @2acritter4life 16 часов назад +1

      To fight the goa'uld? I mean we are working on those X-302's.

  • @rieger.design
    @rieger.design 7 часов назад

    As Neil deGrasse Tyson once said: those machines just "beat the air to submission". The only smart flying mahines are airplanes that are equiped with NACA airfoil - aka wings. Those convert forward motion to lift. Much smarter. much more efficient

  • @TheKulu42
    @TheKulu42 8 часов назад

    Imagine driving a 2500 during a windy day! 😳

  • @X85283
    @X85283 2 часа назад

    "so why did we never get an air car?"
    "you have to understand where the build was financially...."
    No, no you don't. It has nothing to do with Curtis-Wright, it has to do with the fact that the whole thing is worse than a car in basically every way. Perhaps somewhat viable as a military Jeep replacement (35mph isn't that much slower than the top speed of a WWII Jeep), but it was never going to replace a personal car.

  • @atm9023
    @atm9023 8 часов назад

    Amazing how gullible we were merely 60 years ago thinking something like that could be practical.

  • @NecroFlex
    @NecroFlex 2 часа назад

    I see talk about noise and drivability, but imagine the fuel consumption on that thing. It would put any muscle car to shame.
    imagine driving to work an needing to fuel up half way every time.

  • @CarsSimplified
    @CarsSimplified Час назад

    Superb renders!

  • @MattP5000
    @MattP5000 3 часа назад

    the only upside I see to this- is how clean the streets would have been.

  • @blue6gun
    @blue6gun Час назад

    Hovercraft drag racing times can be counted on a calendar

  • @logicalfundy
    @logicalfundy 14 часов назад

    Taking a turn is easy: Put the front of your car halfway into the lane next to you, and the back halfway into the other lane next to you. 😂
    More realistically, you'd want computer control over vanes that can control lateral movement, and I doubt computers were capable enough to handle that kind of thing back then.
    Also one thing I noticed is that you'd basically have no trunk on the car, since it needed engines and fans in both the front and back.

  • @YouCoday
    @YouCoday 16 часов назад

    Nice (Dang thats more high quality than my whole life)

  • @JenniferBean-k3z
    @JenniferBean-k3z 16 часов назад

    Box cars do a new level

  • @clarkdsaf
    @clarkdsaf 13 часов назад

    Imagine seeing this on road with a 4090 paintjob..

  • @TKAandMore
    @TKAandMore 13 часов назад

    Imagine taking that thing down a dirt road

  • @AubriGryphon
    @AubriGryphon 7 часов назад

    Nope, no good, I know too many drivers. Take their behavior and add a lack of friction and needing to steer way ahead of the car? Nothing doing.

  • @joshuabessire9169
    @joshuabessire9169 5 часов назад

    Tailfins would have helped. Aesthetically and manouverbilty-ly.

  • @mpetersen6
    @mpetersen6 4 часа назад

    This was Curtiss-Wright being Curtiss-Wrong

  • @lycossurfer8851
    @lycossurfer8851 16 часов назад

    Should be interesting to parallel park on a driving test.

  • @DJonesAviation
    @DJonesAviation Час назад

    Quite literally a "Belle Air".

  • @Jaggerbush
    @Jaggerbush 17 часов назад

    Looks like a floating Corvair.

  • @EduardGenardAndalis
    @EduardGenardAndalis 15 часов назад

    4:43 Wow! Ms. Christine Belvedere!😍😍😍

  • @MizanQistina
    @MizanQistina 17 часов назад

    They could make it like Harrier jump jet

  • @gaviningalls3549
    @gaviningalls3549 17 часов назад +1

    Try new jersey

  • @tonikakueumlixo7817
    @tonikakueumlixo7817 17 часов назад +1

    Could you make a video about the Gyro-X two-wheel car?

  • @DooMFan1994
    @DooMFan1994 13 часов назад +1

    man these vids are always so awesome but your voice is always so quiet

  • @filadelfiareyes3689
    @filadelfiareyes3689 17 часов назад +1

    vroom vroom

  • @WayneKitching
    @WayneKitching 15 часов назад

    It looks like the cardboard models I built as a child.

  • @vegasflyboy67
    @vegasflyboy67 17 часов назад +10

    Americans in flying cars would end up in chaos and destruction.

    • @mastathrash5609
      @mastathrash5609 17 часов назад +8

      If you think that’s bad, imagine Italy…. Or India.

    • @2acritter4life
      @2acritter4life 16 часов назад +4

      Hell India looks tame vs Vietnam, those tuk tuks and mopeds are a hazard.

    • @merafirewing6591
      @merafirewing6591 16 часов назад +3

      Essentially an American Flying Car Demolition Derby.

    • @gaviningalls3549
      @gaviningalls3549 4 часа назад

      @vegasflyboy67 have you seen new jersey recently. I think some of the large drones are actually manned and are flying cars. It is chaos

    • @bairdjebo1106
      @bairdjebo1106 2 часа назад

      Hover cars float a maximum of six inches off the ground. They are NOT flying cars.

  • @KarmukilAlagar
    @KarmukilAlagar 14 часов назад

    So we had nvidia rtx4090 with leather seat way before rtx4090 got released?😅

  • @maciek19882
    @maciek19882 3 часа назад

    My hovercraft is full of eels

  • @BobAbc0815
    @BobAbc0815 11 часов назад

    Would Side Winds drive it of the Lane?

  • @imnotsure9407
    @imnotsure9407 10 часов назад

    Of course they will make it into car

  • @CanisLupus1983
    @CanisLupus1983 4 часа назад

    James bond is amphibious ?

  • @Villy-dv5yn
    @Villy-dv5yn 12 часов назад +1

    How long dos it take you to reserch, animait and ediet all the videos? Cus its like you make a video 1-2-3 a week

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  11 часов назад +1

      Takes a day to write the script, a week to edit it and a week to do the animations :)

    • @Villy-dv5yn
      @Villy-dv5yn 11 часов назад

      @@FoundAndExplained holy banana how do you get time to do that? impresive!!

  • @erasmus_locke
    @erasmus_locke 16 часов назад

    Hovercraft are nothing but a novelty. They suck and blow

  • @seraphlord
    @seraphlord 28 минут назад

    looks like my GPU XD

  • @NobodyQuiteLikeMe
    @NobodyQuiteLikeMe 12 часов назад

    Pak-ard. Not pi-card

  • @BAPY90925
    @BAPY90925 8 часов назад

    Hi

  • @EwanRoss-u8t
    @EwanRoss-u8t 8 часов назад

    G10n next vid 😮😮😮😮😮😮

  • @gplay4805
    @gplay4805 17 часов назад +1

    42 minutes ago
    25th comment!!!

  • @NetFlight_26
    @NetFlight_26 17 часов назад

    915 views in 25 mins?
    bro fell off

  • @Grailtabuzo19
    @Grailtabuzo19 17 часов назад

    11th comment

  • @Edison-pm1lk
    @Edison-pm1lk 18 часов назад +1

    Hate to be that guy but hey why not I’m here 1st

    • @Edison-pm1lk
      @Edison-pm1lk 17 часов назад

      If you don’t count the man of the hour himself that is 😉

  • @PhilBurnell1982
    @PhilBurnell1982 12 часов назад +2

    Unskipable adverts AND a paid promotion very, very greeedy conent generator. Not watching another video on this channel again.

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  11 часов назад +3

      Hey there! its completely valid to be spoiled by an advert, especially the same one you have seen a million times. However, I don't actually choose the adverts for the video thats on RUclips, and the sponsored content is only there to pay for the animations and the team that the work does. You are more than welcome to become a patreon, or get RUclips premium to avoid the content.
      If you don't want to pay by watching, or by sponsoring content that you enjoy then you are welcome to watch TV instead or sell your data to Facebook. Which, you will find doesn't have 15 second skippable adverts. So I think honestly this is the best situation you can get. But again, sorry I wasn't able to work for free for a week and eat nothing.

    • @jonhurley7889
      @jonhurley7889 11 часов назад

      How else would you expect him to get paid? You know your cheap ass isn't going to send him any money. Pound sand!

  • @brianshindler4676
    @brianshindler4676 14 часов назад