@@FoundAndExplainedWe all love your videos and it inspires many of us within the aviation community, keep up the fantastic work! Love from a fellow Aussie! (P.S. would love for you to have a look at the Bristol Type 188 / Avro 730, it seems like an interesting aircraft program!)
I recently found this channel a few days ago and man I love binging it on my big TV. I studied Aerospace Engineer and it brings back the child-like excitement I have for all things aviation related being the avgeek I am.
@@FoundAndExplainedThe only problem with the video was you giving the Nazis credit for Delta wing designs. Even though a few other countries had their own research. There's still too many people that give the Germans too much credit for literally everything
@@Rico-v7rand that’s because they were in large part the ones to thank for a lot of modern day technologies that they likely researched but WE pioneered.
@@Rico-v7rhe downplayed it in the video. It wasn’t just “Americans poring over documents.” They gave Nazis amnesty to develop weapons for the US. Just need to look up Dr. Wernher von Braun / Operation Paperclip. It’s not exactly a secret.
Hi! Autistic person here, I do not know how to explain the joy that I got when you brought up the B-58. I smiled and felt like my internal organs were tweaking, I fucking LOVE the B-58
Have you ever considered that most 'autism' and 'adhd' is misdiagnosed fetal alcohol syndrome? I finally got my mother to admit she consumed alcohol and chain smoked while she was pregnant. They use the autism label, because otherwise the parent will deny responsibility and the kid won't get any help.
@@ianwalton284 you realize how fucked of an insult that is right...??? You don't just tell someone "oh yeah you're not neurodivergent you're mother just drank and your fucked up" like what dude 😭 I'm sorry to hear that happened to you but what kinda comment is that
Hi left handed person here. Just wanted to express the utter bliss I was in because this video had stuff in it. I grinned inanely and felt like my colon was pureed and my brain was being massaged with a meat tenderizer. I love stuff.
Best couple of hours on RUclips ever. What's amazing is that these aircraft were being tested a few years post ww2! Advances in aviation have been incredible.
Absolutely beautiful aircraft. One of my top-3 favorites. I knew a gentleman who flew that aircraft; in fact, he made the last B-58 flight, taking the last one in service to the boneyard. When he’d start talking about that aircraft, you could immediately see the adrenaline getting into his system. He had some amazing flight stories, even though he never flew any “combat-type” missions. My takeaway is that it was basically a rocket with wings, and a seat for the pilot. It still holds several speed records to this day.
I’ve watched every video you made about these amazing planes and what I’ve noticed was convair were the most ingenious in their designs and it’s crazy we always hear Lockheed Martin Northrop but no one ever talks about the amazing convair. They were some truly great engineers even in their failed designs they were still so original
@18:30 Hehe I'm such a child, he said "beating off the Boeing B47 Stratojets and B52s". This was hilarious, I think beating out would have been a better choice of words. Nonetheless, this is an amazing documentary. Great work!!!
That's just American. " Beating off" as in fighting off or fending off is used fairly commonly in speech here (Oz) like "I had to beat off the flies to get in the door" or " If you walk near that tree you'll have to beat off the Magpie to get past" during Magpie-attack season...and don't bother about a "better choice of words". It's very clear when it's meant in the other sense so we don't worry about it.
Who recalls when you first started off and you barely had 10k subscribers? People made fun of you for being a "mustard" knockoff but actually, you're better than them cause you cover lessor or little known projects?
Please implement all of the suggestions for future videos. This video was very impressive and the longer format is the best for me. Thanks for sharing your research and the skills necessary to produce such detailed content, yet not so detailed as to confuse us amateurs. 🙈🙉🙊 😎 🇺🇸
as an airplane mechanic seeing these blueprints is actually really really cool considering how complex things are now as to how simple they were back then especially the APUs
This is such a quality CONTENT! yes, THIS is content. Congrats on your amazing work, i'm passionate everytime i speak about this channel 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎 greets from 🇦🇷
In my 35 years of airline career. I was fortunate to fly with an ex B-58 aircraft commander. Additionally, he was one of the few survivors of a B-58 low altitude engine failure during takeoff. He told me that the roll component upon outboard engine failure when it occurred would over power the rudder. The individual crew pods fired sequentially, upon USAF review, he ejected at 87% to vertical, the radar officer’s capsule ejected at 91 degrees, and survived, but the third crew member, the tail gunner’s pod, was ejected beyond 90%. The actual ejection angle remains redacted.
Hello Foundandexplained, thank you for your awesome documentaries. You explain everything very well. Since you started with the B-58, I was wondering if you could provide a documentary about the never-built Convair 60 and Convair 61 passenger planes? I happened to come across some info, but I became curious as to why they were never built. Was the competition with Boeing and Douglas too strong? Was there no market? Was the failure of the 880 and 990 the reason why Convair ditched these ideas? I look forward to hearing from you soon. Keep up the great work!!!
The Convoy Fighter concept could absolutely live on today as a drone. Especially the C model. Be a great and cheap way to protect a fleet from smaller threats, like speedboats, other drones and "fishing trawlers."
Hi! Autistic person here, I do not know how to explain the joy that I got when you brought up the B-58. I smiled and felt like my internal organs were tweaking, I fucking LOVE the B-58 ...
Counter rotating props beneath you? Mad absolutely mad! That is under testing/ normal circumstances. In combat of any description - absolutely insane! 12 yrs as infantry officer at war - we really needed mobility. how could this ever get to prototype stage?
So hyped, for the next few weeks I’m going to use this as my fall asleep video. Nothing like information about Cold War aircraft to help me stop the voices of crippling self doubt and fear.
The B58's GE J79 turbojet became very popular with the land speed record gang in the 1960s, both Craig Breedlove's Spirit Of America Sonic 1 and Art Alfons' Green Monster utilised this engine to capture the Land Speed Record
Makes me wonder how many bears went back to the wild with a story no other bears would believe... "you'll never guess what happened to me...", "stop with the bull, you're scaring the cubs"..
1:48 - nice CGI but sorry the B-58 never carried missiles just regular gravity nuclear bombs. Looks like someone mistook the underwing B-43 bombs for missiles.
Thank you, I came here to say this as well. The B-43 was a gravity bomb only, but could be selected as free-fall, retarded (parachute delivery), air burst, ground burst, or delayed laydown. This was a type of delivery where the bomb was dropped at extremely low altitude at high speed. The bomb essentially skidded to a stop on the ground and detonated after enough time to allow the drop aircraft to escape
If you type in gear retraction on B58 on u tube you will see some live shot's of the gear retraction it actually folds in have it's a pretty cool thing to see when you see the film
The B-58 first flew the year I was born. Still looks sleek and beautiful after all these years. It gets a bad rap because the delta wing was challenging to fly at low speeds, taxing the abilities of under-qualified pilots.
I would bet that watching an SR-71 Blackbird launch from a carrier the first time, just might be one of the most anxiety filled moments in military history.
As was said in other videos about this aircraft, if you are a little boy in this era, you probably wanted a model of this plane or thought this was the baddest plane ever made because it just looked fast while sitting still!
The Convair XFY-1 Pogo was, with its jet offspring, covered at the time in the comic strip Buz Sawyer. Its development and subsequent fate were followed in detail.
Germany was not only close to a vtol aircraft, Germany actually had the Dornier Do 31 VTOL Transport Aircraft... but nobody wanted it so it was abandoned
@@Brocki1704he is some kind of anti-wehraboo and claims that pretty much in every other second comment lol. The Dornier prototype is in the german museum in Munich btw.
Ok, the B-58 made me think "they started with batshit crazy designs and continued as long until nukes were small enough". 😂 I mean holy crap... Double parasite design, dropping your engines...
My 99 year old dad worked for Convair when the B58 was being developed. He said it was built when their was a concept of unlimited budgets for new weapon systems. It became clear that bankrupting the nation was a bad idea and the cost of new weapon systems was an important factor. In dad's opinion this doomed the Hustler. What is amazing is that B52 is still flying. Performance wise the B52 is mostly inferior. My assistant at Northrop said that B52 should be replaced by Boeing 747s with bomb bays. The reality is that the B52 is one of longest in service military aircraft. It's companion is the Northrop B2. The B2 will be replaced by the B21. Both B2 and B21 are excellent platforms for conventional warfare. The B21 potentially has lower operating costs than the B2. One of the high cost items for the B2 is repainting it often. A lot has been learned since the B2 was developed, especially how to build stealth aircraft at lower cost and lower maintenance.
Was involved in an emergency landing as a kid, our Quantas plane could not retract its Gears. Had to circle over the ocean for a while to dump fuel, then flew back to Singapore airport where all the emergency services rushed towards us.
'Little Boy', the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, wasn't an 'implosion" bomb, it was a 'gun assembly' bomb (using Uranium 235). 'Fat Man', dropped on Nagasaki, WAS an implosion type, using Plutonium 239.
I think Rivian will use the smaller Volkswagen MEB platform for their new smaller vehicles. I think VW group will use the larger R1T platform for premium vehicles like the Audi Q7, Porche Cayenne, Bentley Bentayga. A perfect partnership.
---Not an expert. Personal view here. 1:10:00 The problem jet age engineers conveniently ignored is that a jet plane on a runway OR in the ocean is subject to FOD; especially ingesting objects that cause engine failure or damage to the landing gear. An airfield can be visually examined/inspected and carefully swept by a perceptive team specialized in the task. That's impossible on the sea, unless you're a friend of Aquaman's. The Sea Dart was doomed from inception. Re: Seaplanes. Seaplanes were only useful when land planes had insufficient range to fly safely between far flung airports. Once land planes had enough range, seaplanes as a concept in transportation died out. There are still some brands out there, but short range, small capacity floatplanes are far more common. It's even worse for fighter planes, which have less clearance on take-off and landing. There's no reason for a jet powered ski plane, other than technological hubris (characterized as "the can-do attitude"). Ingest any object and the plane is dead in the water. And the very surface used for takeoff and landing is mutable, and subject to ingestion. Any malfunction of the ski and the plane goes to the bottom . . . that makes it insane as a military standard.
IMHO, I believe that between aluminum air batteries & solid state heat engines providing electricity planes like these could be reimagined. I'm not sure how they would get the speed needed, but the VTOL concept lends itself electric power especially when considering the power density is higher for both aluminum air batteries & solid state heat engines than that of kerosene! I think aluminum batteries are much more mature of a technology than the heat engine concept.
As far as I know, from photos of the time, barnstormers in ex-WW1 biplanes demonstrated air2air refuelling. If they were able to catch a hose pressed down by the tanker they could pull it towards the top of their upper fuel tank. It would be even easier in a pusher so they couldn't demonstrate skill.
55:20 The competition was doomed to fail, due to the T40 Turboprop Motor. This was buggier than an ant farm. All planes designed around it (mostly tail sitters) were failures. Agreed, they were ideas waiting modern CCV technology solutions to be made feasible, but, a crappy engine can doom the best design. Consider the troubles Germany had with the Junkers Jumo and BMW turbojet engines. The "Tail First" fighters (Ascender, et al) were also cursed by buggy engines, like the P&W X-1800. Heck-even the B29 was plagued by engine malfunctions- especially fires. Its R2800 Double Wasp engine was really insufficiently developed when introduced into service.
The Convair B-58 was billed as "the plane that cost its weight in gold". At gold prices in 1960 it was really more like half the weight in gold at $12.5 million per plane. A B-52 cost $9 million and a B-47 cost $3 million.
There's a mistake: the French technology demonstrator fighter was the Mirage 3V (that's the way it was called, the only "Mirage 8" was the G8, a variable sweep twin-engined prototype that was curtailed by the 1973 OPEC crisis as result of the Yom Kippur War.
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gotta love this guys videos, im currently studying aerodynamics and this makes me feel warm inside knowing how big the aviation community is
You are exactly the type of person that I work so hard to make all these videos for thanks for watching 😍
@@FoundAndExplainedWe all love your videos and it inspires many of us within the aviation community, keep up the fantastic work!
Love from a fellow Aussie!
(P.S. would love for you to have a look at the Bristol Type 188 / Avro 730, it seems like an interesting aircraft program!)
I recently found this channel a few days ago and man I love binging it on my big TV. I studied Aerospace Engineer and it brings back the child-like excitement I have for all things aviation related being the avgeek I am.
Little smaller thanks to Boeing ….😂
@@FoundAndExplainedThe only problem with the video was you giving the Nazis credit for Delta wing designs. Even though a few other countries had their own research. There's still too many people that give the Germans too much credit for literally everything
The compilation videos are really fun to watch. Thank You for making it. 😃
Timestamps for the video:
0:00 - 29:17 Convair B-58 Hustler
29:21 - 44:39 Lockheed CL-346
44:49 - 56:08 Martin 262 Convoy Fighter
56:11 - 1:11:54 Convair SFY-1 Pogo
1:11:57 - 1:21:40 Convair Sea Dart
1:21:42 - 1:36:15 Martin P6M Seamaster
1:36:16 - 1:50:26 Martin XB-51
1:50:28 - 2:01:11 Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
2:01:12 - 2:27:48 Submarine Aircraft Carrier
2:27:49 - 2:39:58 Flying Platforms
2:39:49 The Walking Machines
Thanks for that! I’ve added it to the description
legend. 👊
i do not think so, i like 56:11 Convair SFY-1 Pogo more , do u?
The B-58 was still one of the coolest Bomber design ever
It still mind blowing how since first Messerschmitt combat flight in 1942 and then only in 10 years we have been flying these beasts.
The Messerschmitt was not the first and was not the only jet used during the war. Why do people think the Nazis were the first to do everything 😂
@@Rico-v7rfirst used in combat was a heinkel he 178
@@Rico-v7rdo you even know or???
@@Rico-v7rand that’s because they were in large part the ones to thank for a lot of modern day technologies that they likely researched but WE pioneered.
@@Rico-v7rhe downplayed it in the video. It wasn’t just “Americans poring over documents.” They gave Nazis amnesty to develop weapons for the US. Just need to look up Dr. Wernher von Braun / Operation Paperclip. It’s not exactly a secret.
"tested on live bears". One of the stranger pieces of information one learns when watching an aviation video.😂
Yes I needed to rewind and listen it again because I thought I heard it wrong 😂
Thanks!
Hi! Autistic person here, I do not know how to explain the joy that I got when you brought up the B-58. I smiled and felt like my internal organs were tweaking, I fucking LOVE the B-58
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Have you ever considered that most 'autism' and 'adhd' is misdiagnosed fetal alcohol syndrome? I finally got my mother to admit she consumed alcohol and chain smoked while she was pregnant. They use the autism label, because otherwise the parent will deny responsibility and the kid won't get any help.
@@ianwalton284 you realize how fucked of an insult that is right...??? You don't just tell someone "oh yeah you're not neurodivergent you're mother just drank and your fucked up" like what dude 😭 I'm sorry to hear that happened to you but what kinda comment is that
Hi left handed person here. Just wanted to express the utter bliss I was in because this video had stuff in it. I grinned inanely and felt like my colon was pureed and my brain was being massaged with a meat tenderizer. I love stuff.
@@Booze_Rooster Dawg I just really like planes what are you on about 😭
Best couple of hours on RUclips ever. What's amazing is that these aircraft were being tested a few years post ww2! Advances in aviation have been incredible.
The b58 hustled it's way...into our hearts. That's magnificent sir. Keep up the good work
Absolutely beautiful aircraft. One of my top-3 favorites. I knew a gentleman who flew that aircraft; in fact, he made the last B-58 flight, taking the last one in service to the boneyard.
When he’d start talking about that aircraft, you could immediately see the adrenaline getting into his system. He had some amazing flight stories, even though he never flew any “combat-type” missions.
My takeaway is that it was basically a rocket with wings, and a seat for the pilot.
It still holds several speed records to this day.
I put this guys videos on in the Background when i wanna build small plane models out of clay for fun. This inspires me and i love it
I’ve watched every video you made about these amazing planes and what I’ve noticed was convair were the most ingenious in their designs and it’s crazy we always hear Lockheed Martin Northrop but no one ever talks about the amazing convair. They were some truly great engineers even in their failed designs they were still so original
My father flew the last B 58 Hustler to the boneyard in the 1970s. I believe he may be the sole surviving pilot.
@18:30 Hehe I'm such a child, he said "beating off the Boeing B47 Stratojets and B52s". This was hilarious, I think beating out would have been a better choice of words. Nonetheless, this is an amazing documentary. Great work!!!
That's just American. " Beating off" as in fighting off or fending off is used fairly commonly in speech here (Oz) like "I had to beat off the flies to get in the door" or " If you walk near that tree you'll have to beat off the Magpie to get past" during Magpie-attack season...and don't bother about a "better choice of words".
It's very clear when it's meant in the other sense so we don't worry about it.
How does a two hour compilation of aircraft mini documentaries have only 5k likes?
Am watching as I,m thinking about breakfast . Fabulous production as usual ! . Thanks /regards . Dave
Who recalls when you first started off and you barely had 10k subscribers? People made fun of you for being a "mustard" knockoff but actually, you're better than them cause you cover lessor or little known projects?
Musturd is way better, he explains things WAY better
@@Justbecauseconsulting different styles of the same genre of content
@@Justbecauseconsultingtrue but found and explained posts way more often. i do still like mustard more tho.
Fun fact my grandma witnessed the pogo being tested and what she said was "it just bounced up and down up and down everyday"
My grandpa witnessed your grandma and he said the same thing
@@DanteGuerrilla Your grandpa too? That's crazy, I bet our grandpas knew each other!
Please implement all of the suggestions for future videos.
This video was very impressive and
the longer format is the best for me.
Thanks for sharing your research and the skills necessary to produce such detailed content, yet not so detailed as to confuse us amateurs.
🙈🙉🙊 😎 🇺🇸
Well since it's best for you....
this is the type of videos i watch while eatin, keep it up man!
as an airplane mechanic seeing these blueprints is actually really really cool considering how complex things are now as to how simple they were back then especially the APUs
Always enjoy you videos
This is such a quality CONTENT! yes, THIS is content. Congrats on your amazing work, i'm passionate everytime i speak about this channel 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎 greets from 🇦🇷
Thanks for the timestamps in the video info.. HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!! 👍
I enjoyed this. Thank you.
Yes, let’s see a video about the SST version of the B-58!
In my 35 years of airline career. I was fortunate to fly with an ex B-58 aircraft commander. Additionally, he was one of the few survivors of a B-58 low altitude engine failure during takeoff. He told me that the roll component upon outboard engine failure when it occurred would over power the rudder. The individual crew pods fired sequentially, upon USAF review, he ejected at 87% to vertical, the radar officer’s capsule ejected at 91 degrees, and survived, but the third crew member, the tail gunner’s pod, was ejected beyond 90%. The actual ejection angle remains redacted.
Hello Foundandexplained, thank you for your awesome documentaries. You explain everything very well. Since you started with the B-58, I was wondering if you could provide a documentary about the never-built Convair 60 and Convair 61 passenger planes? I happened to come across some info, but I became curious as to why they were never built. Was the competition with Boeing and Douglas too strong? Was there no market? Was the failure of the 880 and 990 the reason why Convair ditched these ideas? I look forward to hearing from you soon. Keep up the great work!!!
Nice cg rendering. Very sweet. What did you use?
The Convoy Fighter concept could absolutely live on today as a drone. Especially the C model. Be a great and cheap way to protect a fleet from smaller threats, like speedboats, other drones and "fishing trawlers."
it is amazing how beautiful bespoke engineering for the military is. they created something this beautiful and badass and never even used it once.
17:33 Ladies and gentlemen, behold! Your tax dollars hard at work! Shooting bears out of supersonic bombers. How American is that? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nice, thanks!
Hi! Autistic person here, I do not know how to explain the joy that I got when you brought up the B-58. I smiled and felt like my internal organs were tweaking, I fucking LOVE the B-58 ...
Can you do video on the x15 and a10
Note to author: General Electric and General Dynamics have never been part of the same company, as far as I know.
Veri gud vid 💯😀
Counter rotating props beneath you? Mad absolutely mad! That is under testing/ normal circumstances. In combat of any description - absolutely insane! 12 yrs as infantry officer at war - we really needed mobility. how could this ever get to prototype stage?
So hyped, for the next few weeks I’m going to use this as my fall asleep video. Nothing like information about Cold War aircraft to help me stop the voices of crippling self doubt and fear.
Love to hear about the sst civil version.
“Jammie bring up that video of bears going Mach 1.8” 😅😂😂
The B58's GE J79 turbojet became very popular with the land speed record gang in the 1960s, both Craig Breedlove's Spirit Of America Sonic 1 and Art Alfons' Green Monster utilised this engine to capture the Land Speed Record
SR-71's taking off from a carrier? LOL!
Seemed like a good video until then.
@@deereboy8400 ridiculous, i was like ,WTF?
Glad I’m not the only one questioning that. I had to go back and reply it to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. Some shameful AI there I guess.
18:30 oh it beat off the competition, eh? 😂 “Hustler” title working on many levels 😅
I 😅
Makes me wonder how many bears went back to the wild with a story no other bears would believe... "you'll never guess what happened to me...", "stop with the bull, you're scaring the cubs"..
is this a reupload? i swore i watched this before
Why drop the camera?
Who is your interior designer, Bob Guccione?
2:17:26 what’s this song?
Congratulations! You have made such a very well done documentary! This could be easily presented at Discovery Channel, or National Geographic!
1:48 - nice CGI but sorry the B-58 never carried missiles just regular gravity nuclear bombs. Looks like someone mistook the underwing B-43 bombs for missiles.
Thank you, I came here to say this as well. The B-43 was a gravity bomb only, but could be selected as free-fall, retarded (parachute delivery), air burst, ground burst, or delayed laydown. This was a type of delivery where the bomb was dropped at extremely low altitude at high speed. The bomb essentially skidded to a stop on the ground and detonated after enough time to allow the drop aircraft to escape
56:11 Convair SFY-1 Pogo that is so incredible, i can not imagine it can be at real time life @@
NICE
You should make a video on the H-20 (Chinese stealth bomber)!!!!!!!! I love your videos!
I still think this was one of prettiest plane ever made!
But how does the B58 retract frontal landing gear, if there is that huge pod in the way? I've been wondering that all the video 😬
If you type in gear retraction on B58 on u tube you will see some live shot's of the gear retraction it actually folds in have it's a pretty cool thing to see when you see the film
I’m not upset I’m disappointed ☹️ you left out the Avro Arrow
The B-58 first flew the year I was born. Still looks sleek and beautiful after all these years. It gets a bad rap because the delta wing was challenging to fly at low speeds, taxing the abilities of under-qualified pilots.
I would bet that watching an SR-71 Blackbird launch from a carrier the first time, just might be one of the most anxiety filled moments in military history.
29:41 Delivering a AV-8B?
What I thought. But after the design choices of the hustler I wasn't surprised anymore.
@@AllisterCaineit’s not the hustler
As was said in other videos about this aircraft, if you are a little boy in this era, you probably wanted a model of this plane or thought this was the baddest plane ever made because it just looked fast while sitting still!
Such a beautiful plane.
The Convair XFY-1 Pogo was, with its jet offspring, covered at the time in the comic strip Buz Sawyer. Its development and subsequent fate were followed in detail.
Somehow the word " symphony " comes to mind when looking at the Hustler .
Beautiful aircraft
Germany was not only close to a vtol aircraft, Germany actually had the Dornier Do 31 VTOL Transport Aircraft... but nobody wanted it so it was abandoned
There were other countries already working on VTOL aircraft
@@Rico-v7r nobody denied that... 🙄
@@Brocki1704he is some kind of anti-wehraboo and claims that pretty much in every other second comment lol.
The Dornier prototype is in the german museum in Munich btw.
17:13 - Finally the truth about dropbears!
When I was in the hospital as a kid, I remember reading about this
Ok, the B-58 made me think "they started with batshit crazy designs and continued as long until nukes were small enough". 😂
I mean holy crap... Double parasite design, dropping your engines...
If not mistaken, i think in this vdo i saw the excellent sofisticated mt09 key switch. Still there using key?
02:39:49 so this is where Star wars got the inspiration for the AT AT and AT ST walkers.
My 99 year old dad worked for Convair when the B58 was being developed. He said it was built when their was a concept of unlimited budgets for new weapon systems. It became clear that bankrupting the nation was a bad idea and the cost of new weapon systems was an important factor. In dad's opinion this doomed the Hustler. What is amazing is that B52 is still flying. Performance wise the B52 is mostly inferior. My assistant at Northrop said that B52 should be replaced by Boeing 747s with bomb bays.
The reality is that the B52 is one of longest in service military aircraft. It's companion is the Northrop B2. The B2 will be replaced by the B21. Both B2 and B21 are excellent platforms for conventional warfare. The B21 potentially has lower operating costs than the B2. One of the high cost items for the B2 is repainting it often. A lot has been learned since the B2 was developed, especially how to build stealth aircraft at lower cost and lower maintenance.
I want video about Qantas please
Was involved in an emergency landing as a kid, our Quantas plane could not retract its Gears. Had to circle over the ocean for a while to dump fuel, then flew back to Singapore airport where all the emergency services rushed towards us.
'Little Boy', the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, wasn't an 'implosion" bomb, it was a 'gun assembly' bomb (using Uranium 235). 'Fat Man', dropped on Nagasaki, WAS an implosion type, using Plutonium 239.
I think Rivian will use the smaller Volkswagen MEB platform for their new smaller vehicles. I think VW group will use the larger R1T platform for premium vehicles like the Audi Q7, Porche Cayenne, Bentley Bentayga. A perfect partnership.
Is this the same as Turkish Taffy or Bonomo❓
That Convair FISH/KINGFISH is sooooooo fucking dope.
---Not an expert. Personal view here.
1:10:00 The problem jet age engineers conveniently ignored is that a jet plane on a runway OR in the ocean is subject to FOD; especially ingesting objects that cause engine failure or damage to the landing gear. An airfield can be visually examined/inspected and carefully swept by a perceptive team specialized in the task. That's impossible on the sea, unless you're a friend of Aquaman's. The Sea Dart was doomed from inception.
Re: Seaplanes. Seaplanes were only useful when land planes had insufficient range to fly safely between far flung airports. Once land planes had enough range, seaplanes as a concept in transportation died out. There are still some brands out there, but short range, small capacity floatplanes are far more common.
It's even worse for fighter planes, which have less clearance on take-off and landing. There's no reason for a jet powered ski plane, other than technological hubris (characterized as "the can-do attitude"). Ingest any object and the plane is dead in the water. And the very surface used for takeoff and landing is mutable, and subject to ingestion. Any malfunction of the ski and the plane goes to the bottom . . . that makes it insane as a military standard.
The B-58 was not experimental. It was fully in service.
Cool. The Sea Master still makes sense today for logistics. Probably needed forward canards. Maybe an F35 submersible carrier might exist one day.
Drop, Rock&Roll! 🤯
The B-58 powered by 4 J-79 howling engines 😂 what a dream ❤
IMHO, I believe that between aluminum air batteries & solid state heat engines providing electricity planes like these could be reimagined. I'm not sure how they would get the speed needed, but the VTOL concept lends itself electric power especially when considering the power density is higher for both aluminum air batteries & solid state heat engines than that of kerosene! I think aluminum batteries are much more mature of a technology than the heat engine concept.
43:11 I'm not so sure about that. Also C-130 - bomber - no.
As far as I know, from photos of the time, barnstormers in ex-WW1 biplanes demonstrated air2air refuelling.
If they were able to catch a hose pressed down by the tanker they could pull it towards the top of their upper fuel tank.
It would be even easier in a pusher so they couldn't demonstrate skill.
Now this is pod racing
Still the most Beautiful aircraft ever designed and flown by the US...period.
Uh negative.... That would be the f-14 tomcat
55:20 The competition was doomed to fail, due to the T40 Turboprop Motor. This was buggier than an ant farm. All planes designed around it (mostly tail sitters) were failures. Agreed, they were ideas waiting modern CCV technology solutions to be made feasible, but, a crappy engine can doom the best design. Consider the troubles Germany had with the Junkers Jumo and BMW turbojet engines. The "Tail First" fighters (Ascender, et al) were also cursed by buggy engines, like the P&W X-1800.
Heck-even the B29 was plagued by engine malfunctions- especially fires. Its R2800 Double Wasp engine was really insufficiently developed when introduced into service.
It’s really snarky to call the B-52 “unreliable”.
No, it’s factual
0:12 Live bears is a bold choice as an animal to strap into a rocket chair.
Ty nill
Luftwaffe ww2 porotype documentary when?
yeah! .. fecking cool!!!
Imagine if they’d discovered a crank arrow wing
Canada considered buying surplus b-58s and doing just this to them in the early 60s. They never did, because they built the DEW line
The Convair B-58 was billed as "the plane that cost its weight in gold". At gold prices in 1960 it was really more like half the weight in gold at $12.5 million per plane. A B-52 cost $9 million and a B-47 cost $3 million.
You missed the yak-38.
There's a mistake: the French technology demonstrator fighter was the Mirage 3V (that's the way it was called, the only "Mirage 8" was the G8, a variable sweep twin-engined prototype that was curtailed by the 1973 OPEC crisis as result of the Yom Kippur War.
Real sigma vid keep it up
Americans: we need multiple engines for a VTOL aircraft. The British: we only need one. As a brit, the harrier will always be my favourite aircraft.
if i remember corect this aircraft sparked aircrafts like mig-25 foxbat and m-50,
might have been xb-70 idk