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I saw the Goblin at the USAF museum when I was around 10 years old and remember telling my dad I was so glad they finally started making planes kid's size after WWII. Thanks Simon for ruining my dreams of stuffing my own child into an experimental aircraft and dropping him from a high altitude bomber. "Difficulty reattaching." Such a cop out.
The second XF 85 and the one that made most of the flights and had the crash is on display at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace museum in Ashland Nebraska. Used to be an educator there and while I didn't get a chance to get inside the goblin, we used to explore the B36 it sits under (though never did get to go down the tunnel in the 36). Would love to see an episode on the B47 stratojet bomber!.
I absolutely love the ugly little goblin. I have here a completely useless what-if scenario but it's just fun to imagine. Imagine a navy version of the XF-85. *20% longer. *replace Westinghouse J34-WE-22 (3,000lb thrust) with J34-WE-17 which has an afterburner giving 3,350lb thrust without afterburning and 4,850lb thrust with afterburning. *Increase fuel stores from 110 gallons to 250 gallons. *Very short, compact landing gear. *Aerial refueling boom in nose that can double as a tow-cable. *equipped with two 20mm cannon instead of 4 MGs. *Able to carry two Sidewinder missiles either on wingtips or on top of each wing. *Able to carry two 500# bombs or two 70 gallon drop tanks. *Empty weight 4,800-5,200#. *Max takeoff weight 6,500-7,500#. Max speed would probably be the same 650mph without afterburning and 750-780mph with afterburning. Endurance would be ~ 2 hours, giving an operation radius of 600 miles. Since the wings fold up and it's so small a carrier could carry a whole bunch of them. Since the refueling boom is also able to tow the craft, longer range missions could utilize "air ferrys". With a refueling plane towing four or five fighters close to the edge of the combat zone before releasing them to complete their mission then collecting them afterwards and towing them back close to the carrier or airstrip for them to land. If there was more then five planes in the mission they could rotate turns on the tow-line. The rest flying behind in formation waiting their turn to refuel and rest while being towed. Just a silly mind game but fun to consider.
I live outside Cincinnati Ohio which is roughly an hour or so from Dayton, I've been to Wright patt a few times and see the goblin , it looks even weirder in person. That museum would make for a good side project video though, lots of neat stuff on display there.
@@cleverusername9369 Many people, as Simon was very closed to here, enunciate the "t" too much, leaving a "day-tonne" rather than an almost swallowed pronunciation, "d8n"
proabbly crazier with airships espically in the middle of a storm. one strong gust of wind you can of guess what will happen to an airship. poor dude in parasite fighter hanging underneath in an open cockpit. at least the gobblin had a enclosed cockpit.
I'm accustomed to people butchering the pronunciation of the family's surname (think "shhh" - as in "be quiet" followed by "oak" - as in "oak tree."), and I've heard far worse than Simon's. Two prototypes were built and flown. One is at Wright-Patterson AFB outside Dayton, OH, the other is at the Strategic Air Command Museum outside Ashland, NE. Ed Schoch (my father) has a Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Foresman_Schoch
The movie "Jet Pilot" with John Wayne (great movie btw) had the Russians working on a parasite fighter program. I never gave it much thought..till now.
It's news to many Americans that the first all-metal, modern monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear, well ahead of Western designs. The brief flourishing of Soviet aviation in the late 1920's and early 1930's didn't last, but they did do many notable things. American fighters didn't match their European counterparts at the start of WW2, though the US had the advantage of remaining remote and out of the war for over 2 years.
I know you don't care for pronunciation corrections, but I gotta say it: the U.S.S. Macon is named for Macon, Georgia. Local pronunciation only emphasizes the first syllable in Macon, with a hard 'a' and a soft(?) 'o'. Since southern accents feature "G-dropping" (sitting >> sittin'), "Macon" sounds like "making" with a dropped G: makin'. This has been used for silly wordplay since the dawn of time: Macon Whoopie is the city's defunct ice hockey team, Macon Money was a lottery-like program, Macon Bacon is the current baseball team, and Macon Progress is a variety from the Macon Beer Company.
It's one of those ideas that looks good in the mind at first. Then can be made to look just good on paper to get funding. Hey, it keeps the factories open.
That was really interesting! I had considered myself somewhat of a military aviation buff back when I was actively pursuing flying as a career, and have been to the Air Force Museum in Dayton (definitely worth a visit!), and I don't recall the XF-85 at all. The limitations are somewhat obvious, but a cool concept nonetheless!
ASIDE: One of my engineering professors at Ohio State in the early '90s had worked on the B-36 when he had worked in industry in the '50s, and he did not have kind things to say about it. In particular, he said that the monstrous 28-cylinder piston engines used in the B-36 were basically impossible to keep cool without having the cowling around it producing inordinate amounts of drag.
Somehow I think this concept could only work with small fighters with angled back wings that moved forwards mechanically after dropping out the back of a big jet powered cargo plane that flies with the other bombers.
Did a quick search & couldn't find a video on it, but the "SkyHook Program" would be really cool to see! I want to say it was called the Fulton Skyhook, for aerial extraction of say a downed pilot. Like Batman's use of it when taking Lau out of his high-rise tower in Hong Kong, was obviously very cinematic and all for the movies.
I'm not usually interested in anything any channel advertises with sponsorships and such, but dangit now I'm mad because I literally just bought new glasses (with a new prescription) last month and I thought they were fairly decently priced but I don't actually like them as much as I'd hoped and now I really wish I'd looked at this GlassesUSA first!
Goblin was built in 1948, the U.S.A.A.F. ceased to exist in 1947 when the U.S.A.F. was created by an act of congress. So the goblin was not a WWII project, but a cold war project.
Do you have a video on the development of in air refueling and the history of it? I searched in Sideprojects and Megaprojects and did not find anything. I think that would be a very interesting topic to cover.
maybe you'll get to this but no one thought of a four engine plane where the outside two engines and wing were fighters? so the return for the "mothership" would be a stubby wing two engine thing, and a fighter escort?
How do these online glasses companies measure your face to get the correct fit? Even after the optician measures my head and I get the glasses on for the first time they often have to adjust the ear rest part so they fit tighter. How does an online company solve that issue?
The adverts that RUclips put on this video are stupid and damaging. I have abandoned this video part way through because I can’t cope with the irritation.
Simon, while you had some experience in the Cadets while in school, you clear lack an understanding of how Fighter escort worked. Listen to your opening commentary about “…scrambling fighters to met enemy interceptors…”, it was 100% wrong.
Simon, you need to get a new channel where you sit at a bar and just talk about what you had for breakfast and sprinkle in some sports news or your last car trip or why dishwashers only go under the counter top. I mean, just anything. I'll watch that. But whatever you do please don't get some butt implants or release a sex tape. That's for reality TV people with nothing interesting to say.
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Good Lord! A 2:25 minute advertisement??? I will never buy from glassesusa. Side projects screwed this up for me.
I used Selectspecs here in the UK for my current pair after my big bum flattened my previous optician-supplied pair, paid less than £20, and that included a neat little screwdriver kit I added to my order, not an ad, just happy with my glasses... :D
Glasses USA is one of your old school sponsors, way before the glorious beard.
2.25 minutes of adversitement... I dont mind 1.30 min at best. You guys need to eat but damn
Went to check them out. Clicked, “Shop Men’s” and it said there were no results. Actual garbage, but I’m glad you’re getting that money.
I saw the Goblin at the USAF museum when I was around 10 years old and remember telling my dad I was so glad they finally started making planes kid's size after WWII. Thanks Simon for ruining my dreams of stuffing my own child into an experimental aircraft and dropping him from a high altitude bomber. "Difficulty reattaching." Such a cop out.
The second XF 85 and the one that made most of the flights and had the crash is on display at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace museum in Ashland Nebraska. Used to be an educator there and while I didn't get a chance to get inside the goblin, we used to explore the B36 it sits under (though never did get to go down the tunnel in the 36). Would love to see an episode on the B47 stratojet bomber!.
Definitely the B-47, it was revolutionary
I go there all the time just to see the goblin. I love that thing it's hilarious to see in person
I remember when it was still dangling over the cafe. I remember eating a hotdog one time and thinking "I hope that doesn't fall."
There is one at the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio. That thing is tiny.
4:05 - Chapter 1 - Evolution & history
5:35 - Chapter 2 - Enter the goblin
8:40 - Chapter 3 - Performance & weapons
9:50 - Chapter 4 - Takeoff & tethering
11:20 - Chapter 5 - Tests flights
15:10 - Chapter 6 - Further development
it starts at 2:33 lol
The B-36 is worth a side projects or mega projects video. It’s a fascinating and massive aircraft
I've got a 1/72nd scale model of the B-36. With one or two exceptions it totally dwarfs every other aircraft model I have!
I absolutely love the ugly little goblin.
I have here a completely useless what-if scenario but it's just fun to imagine.
Imagine a navy version of the XF-85.
*20% longer.
*replace Westinghouse J34-WE-22 (3,000lb thrust) with J34-WE-17 which has an afterburner giving 3,350lb thrust without afterburning and 4,850lb thrust with afterburning.
*Increase fuel stores from 110 gallons to 250 gallons.
*Very short, compact landing gear.
*Aerial refueling boom in nose that can double as a tow-cable.
*equipped with two 20mm cannon instead of 4 MGs.
*Able to carry two Sidewinder missiles either on wingtips or on top of each wing.
*Able to carry two 500# bombs or two 70 gallon drop tanks.
*Empty weight 4,800-5,200#.
*Max takeoff weight 6,500-7,500#.
Max speed would probably be the same 650mph without afterburning and 750-780mph with afterburning.
Endurance would be ~ 2 hours, giving an operation radius of 600 miles.
Since the wings fold up and it's so small a carrier could carry a whole bunch of them.
Since the refueling boom is also able to tow the craft, longer range missions could utilize "air ferrys". With a refueling plane towing four or five fighters close to the edge of the combat zone before releasing them to complete their mission then collecting them afterwards and towing them back close to the carrier or airstrip for them to land. If there was more then five planes in the mission they could rotate turns on the tow-line. The rest flying behind in formation waiting their turn to refuel and rest while being towed.
Just a silly mind game but fun to consider.
how exactly can a company "cut out the middle man" if they are selling oakleys and raybans YET they arent oakley or rayban?
Shhh
You are not supposed to think about it that deeply.
Just blindly accept what the marketing department says
a 2:27 minute introduction advertisement!
That's almost a side project by itself! :)
Please do the battle to see who would become the Next-gen fighter.
The YF-22 vs the YF-23.
I'd love a video on Akron and Makon! They were so huge their hangars have their own internal weather systems
Good idea :)
@@Sideprojects The source book is "Ships in the Sky" by John Toland.
Bro this is litterally a tiny eggplant looking aircraft that fit into a bomber. Litterally feels like a fever dream
+Ultra Gaga You literally just misspelled literally twice.
@@tomg2217 cope
I live outside Cincinnati Ohio which is roughly an hour or so from Dayton, I've been to Wright patt a few times and see the goblin , it looks even weirder in person. That museum would make for a good side project video though, lots of neat stuff on display there.
I love how any video about military machines ends up sounding like a bunch of chess moves or someone playing Battleship against themselves.
Grew up right near WPAFB, love to hear dayton (pronounced D8n if anyone ever asks) in anything, really fascinating adorable little sideproject there.
Just out of curiosity, who doesn't know how Dayton is pronounced? It's not exactly Albuquerque, is it
@@cleverusername9369 Many people, as Simon was very closed to here, enunciate the "t" too much, leaving a "day-tonne" rather than an almost swallowed pronunciation, "d8n"
Do an episode on the A10 Thunderbolt
BBRRRT!
Simon makes things that are common knowledge fun and interesting. Thanks Simon. I bet Simon could make a story on pocket lint interesting.
Oh I could tell you a thing or seven about the history of pocket lint...
@@Sideprojects Do it!
@@Sideprojects We need a Sideprojects episode on sidecars.
Simon without glasses gives me the same feeling as seeing your dad without a beard for the first time.
Hey sir you can't just walk in here this is a private residence... oh shit it's dad!
Nice job on the video selection. A nitpick or two at the end but the video editor got it right for a change.
From ticks to parasites, what an evening of entertainment... :P
my god, it’s _adorable_
The Goblin was an odd little wierdy. Have you ever done a video on the BAC TSR-2? Perhaps though, that's more a Megaprojects topic.
Parasite Fighters: Kind of crazy with airships, utterly insane with 1940s bombers.
proabbly crazier with airships espically in the middle of a storm. one strong gust of wind you can of guess what will happen to an airship.
poor dude in parasite fighter hanging underneath in an open cockpit.
at least the gobblin had a enclosed cockpit.
I'm accustomed to people butchering the pronunciation of the family's surname (think "shhh" - as in "be quiet" followed by "oak" - as in "oak tree."), and I've heard far worse than Simon's. Two prototypes were built and flown. One is at Wright-Patterson AFB outside Dayton, OH, the other is at the Strategic Air Command Museum outside Ashland, NE. Ed Schoch (my father) has a Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Foresman_Schoch
Thank you sir for your content. Its helped me deal with my ptsd. Your special
I can see him
his bald scalp shinin' in the sun
He's got his beard slicked back
and those Wayfarers on
some of your ads are fascinating. an old quote: "simon, you could sell ice to eskimos."
The U.S.S. Macon is a museum airship not too far from me. It's in the Monterey Trench, very popular with marine visitors.
Some UK sponsors would be good!
Agreed but I think they can’t be picky with who sponsors them so they can get some revenue to continue making videos.
FYI the other XF86 is at the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska.
2.33
Of advertisement for a 16 min video is a tad much...
@@nemodl So you can't Fast Forward past the ads? It's seems like a fairly obvious solution for avoiding the ads.
Gotta say, fact boi looks dashing with those sunglasses
HOLY SH.... no glasses... That was different. Good plug, btw!
The movie "Jet Pilot" with John Wayne (great movie btw) had the Russians working on a parasite fighter program. I never gave it much thought..till now.
It's news to many Americans that the first all-metal, modern monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear, well ahead of Western designs. The brief flourishing of Soviet aviation in the late 1920's and early 1930's didn't last, but they did do many notable things. American fighters didn't match their European counterparts at the start of WW2, though the US had the advantage of remaining remote and out of the war for over 2 years.
@@owenshebbeare2999 The Polikarpov I-16?
I know you don't care for pronunciation corrections, but I gotta say it: the U.S.S. Macon is named for Macon, Georgia. Local pronunciation only emphasizes the first syllable in Macon, with a hard 'a' and a soft(?) 'o'. Since southern accents feature "G-dropping" (sitting >> sittin'), "Macon" sounds like "making" with a dropped G: makin'.
This has been used for silly wordplay since the dawn of time: Macon Whoopie is the city's defunct ice hockey team, Macon Money was a lottery-like program, Macon Bacon is the current baseball team, and Macon Progress is a variety from the Macon Beer Company.
It's one of those ideas that looks good in the mind at first. Then can be made to look just good on paper to get funding. Hey, it keeps the factories open.
That was really interesting! I had considered myself somewhat of a military aviation buff back when I was actively pursuing flying as a career, and have been to the Air Force Museum in Dayton (definitely worth a visit!), and I don't recall the XF-85 at all. The limitations are somewhat obvious, but a cool concept nonetheless!
The other one is at the Strategic Air Command museum in Nebraska
ASIDE: One of my engineering professors at Ohio State in the early '90s had worked on the B-36 when he had worked in industry in the '50s, and he did not have kind things to say about it. In particular, he said that the monstrous 28-cylinder piston engines used in the B-36 were basically impossible to keep cool without having the cowling around it producing inordinate amounts of drag.
Somehow I think this concept could only work with small fighters with angled back wings that moved forwards mechanically after dropping out the back of a big jet powered cargo plane that flies with the other bombers.
Did a quick search & couldn't find a video on it, but the "SkyHook Program" would be really cool to see! I want to say it was called the Fulton Skyhook, for aerial extraction of say a downed pilot. Like Batman's use of it when taking Lau out of his high-rise tower in Hong Kong, was obviously very cinematic and all for the movies.
Reminds me of the hydra mini fighters from captain America
I work at the Air Force museum. I should probably check out that exhibit sometime.
I've seen one of the few existing Goblins in person before!
I'm not usually interested in anything any channel advertises with sponsorships and such, but dangit now I'm mad because I literally just bought new glasses (with a new prescription) last month and I thought they were fairly decently priced but I don't actually like them as much as I'd hoped and now I really wish I'd looked at this GlassesUSA first!
Check out Costco if one is close to you
Nice job fact boy! This one is super cool!
@4:51 Dirigibles, dude, dirigibles!
6 turning, 4 burning. As is required every time someone mentions the Peacemaker.
Could you do the Smithsonian here or on Mega projects?
Goblin was built in 1948, the U.S.A.A.F. ceased to exist in 1947 when the U.S.A.F. was created by an act of congress. So the goblin was not a WWII project, but a cold war project.
Do you have a video on the development of in air refueling and the history of it? I searched in Sideprojects and Megaprojects and did not find anything. I think that would be a very interesting topic to cover.
Wow...2.30 minutes of ad at the beginning. New record
Makes me yearn for the standard back to back 10 second unskippable ads. Or at least a in-video progress bar like @DonutMedia uses.
"pint sized piston engine parasite", are you scoring points with yerself for alliteration? good man 😂
Video starts at 02:30
A great continuation of this would be the usaf Boeing 747 aac and the current hercules c-130 carrying the x-61 gremlins thats being trialed
parasite fighters would make for cool movie material
Southwest Airlines flies the XF-85 Goblin ?
You should do a video on concrete over ages. First concrete right up to latest and greatest!!
Next to everything else in that museum, that plane does actually not look all that weird....
Went looking for copper and found gold in your ad!
And currently sitting on display at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Mornin Simon
maybe you'll get to this but no one thought of a four engine plane where the outside two engines and wing were fighters? so the return for the "mothership" would be a stubby wing two engine thing, and a fighter escort?
How do these online glasses companies measure your face to get the correct fit? Even after the optician measures my head and I get the glasses on for the first time they often have to adjust the ear rest part so they fit tighter. How does an online company solve that issue?
A very good question
Fact boy. When you’ve ran out of things to factify on all your 429367 RUclips channels. You can be the new Billy Mays slinging products on the net.
Three successful hookups in seven flights.
Better than my average.
2:27 to skip the sponsor segment.
I mean really, two and a half minute ad. (Get your money Simon ;D)
Good video 👍
Airplanes have a tendency for the good looking designs to have inherently aerodynamic qualities.
I feel like there's something wrong with a British man shilling USA Glasses from the Czech Republic...
Globalization!
How did the poor pilot get in and out? Looks just terrifying, no matter how well it flew.
2:32 sec to skip the ad.
You have to make a video about that little russian i16 fighter.
Check your facts, Simon...
Keep asking myself which lunatic actually saw something viable in this kind of design. It has failure spelled all over from scratch.
I am impressed that the little plane could fly with the weight of Edwin Schoch's massive balls.
War is the mother of invention
They should have used an electromagnetic coupler system instead of a hook.
Am I the only one that hears Sopwith Camel and thinks of Snoopy flying his doghouse?
The woblin goblin!
What is this? The glasses USA show!?
A Cartoon Saber jet body, and three tails.
Video games! Where is this concept‽
Strange Ranger
Keep the glasses on and protect us all from the beautiful limpid pools and penetrating looks.
Brilliant guided missiles made it unnecessary.
Its definitely a 'sideproject'.
Crimson Skies intensifies.
The adverts that RUclips put on this video are stupid and damaging. I have abandoned this video part way through because I can’t cope with the irritation.
If the Mother-Ship was shot down before the Goblin got back to it what then?
The chaplain briefs that emergency procedure on Sunday mornings.
You'd be goblin up a bunch of ground lol.
@@theangrymarmot8336 lmfao!
M.E. not me? that is a first for me
You sound sick Simon, you okay?
He has eleventy seven video channels. He’s likely just talked himself hoarse.
Edit: hopefully
Macon is pronounced like bacon. Not...umm...Mack on?
Gasp. Jay Jay the jet plane
Nendoroid fighter.
2 minutes 30seconds
= 15% of video time...
Talking about glasses
c'mon
Simon, while you had some experience in the Cadets while in school, you clear lack an understanding of how Fighter escort worked. Listen to your opening commentary about “…scrambling fighters to met enemy interceptors…”, it was 100% wrong.
Glasses USA wonderful shame about the rest of the world!
A bit too short, having a hard time hooking up and difficulties docking despite several attempts..
This jet is like my sex life.
>>mesheshmit
ahahhaha
Bruh, love you an all, but your ad was straight up 2 minutes.
The mall ???????i take you have more US subscribers then Simon
Simon, you need to get a new channel where you sit at a bar and just talk about what you had for breakfast and sprinkle in some sports news or your last car trip or why dishwashers only go under the counter top. I mean, just anything. I'll watch that.
But whatever you do please don't get some butt implants or release a sex tape. That's for reality TV people with nothing interesting to say.