Why Airbus Spent Billion $ to Make its Massive A400M TakeOff Vertically
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
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There is a big difference between vertical take off and vertical climb.
It's not like the content creator actually cares about facts... just any BS that gets the views.
Thanks for commenting this. Now I don’t have to watch it 👍🏼👍🏼
🇬🇧 Good ol’ BRITISH air power! 🇬🇧
This makes me so proud to be British.
@@royalbloodedledgend But is intereuropian project...
*It is
What's truly impressive is how little the video creators know about the topic they just spent 13 minutes explaining
And less than half of it is about the A400M
It was good comedy value atleast, but it was less informative than a 9 year old's school research project using Wikipedia exclusively...
In fact they spent 7 minutes explaining and 7 minutes of letting footage roll without any talking.
thank you for saving me and proving my feeling at 2nd minute ... when artificial prolonging was already unbearable.
Lulz
"The cockpit is located at the front of the fuselage , as the most of the aircraft's space is saved for carrying cargo." Okay, what plane has the cockpit in the tail or the middle then?
I think it's at the front for the same reason as every other plane.
I was looking for this comment! I figured someone else would beat me to it. It's certainly the weirdest comment I wasn't expecting!
well..war planes had a huge engine under the hood then the cockpit behind...at the back..
@@HAL900032 Good point
I thought I did not understand something. But no. Not only me
Another pointless comment to pad watch time: "Before each flight, the plane is loaded with the cargo for it's mission". You don't say?
“Before each flight, the aircraft loaded with the cargo for its mission”
Wow. What a surprising revelation.
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Shocking!
3:30 The cockpit is at the front is really sheer genius!
A unique feature is that the cockpit is at the front? Who would have thunk?
Pretty easy to go almost vertical if you have a bunch of power and are without a payload. Displays like that are mostly intended to show the aircraft has decent handling characteristics - not necessarily to demonstrate in-service performance capability.
my thoughts exactly
I was very lucky. I passed my driving test when it was ok to do the whole thing in reverse, so I was at the back of the vehicle all the time. I still have not managed to master sitting in the front and looking forwards. Maybe it is easy if you were taught that way. By the way, do you know a good panel beater?
@@MrDickBills At the risk of getting shouted at, did a spitfire or mustang have the cockpit at the front, or was it 1/3 of the way down the plane?
@@alexanderjones8914 Exactly the same as my car, as far forward as possible. I sit about 1/3 from the front.
The A400 was never intended for verticle capability. It was designed to have short field takeoff and landing. It is a very capable aircraft. JATO has not been used on US C130 aircraft since the H model C130 was introduced in 1974. The H model -15 engines create the same power as the E models -7 engined aircraft with JATO. However, there are a few special models that still use JATO, but they are few and highly specialized.
You sure about no JATOs on the C-130H. They were using them on the LC-130s when I was working in Antarctica and those were LC-130Hs from the NY ANG.
@@york2600 As I said, not on H models, except a few specialized ones. LC130 being one of those exceptions. I flew on 7 variants of the C130 for over 22 years. There's about 50 or so variants, some pretty strange!
I thought they discontinued the production of jato rockets?
Is this Thee Bobby Kelly?
@@lukenichols9647 to whom are you referring to?
epic commentary. "the cockpit is located at the front"........revolutionary.
Does the nose open under the cockpit
There is a difference between VTOL(vertical take off and landing) and STOL(short take off and landing). The STOL feature is mostly used when the aircraft is also to take off and land on makeshift airfields, as these do not have the necessary runway length.
I never fail to be impressed by the leaps in modern technology - if my grandfather who flew Spitfires in the war was around he wouldn't believe that a plane could now have its cockpit at the front of the fuselage.
It is impressive, but then also I find it interesting that pilots will often fly frontline aircraft which are as old, or even older than they are, yet would never consider having a mobile phone that was 6, 8, 10 years old.
He probably would actually. Bombers were around long before Spitfires.
What? They have a cockpit at the front of aircraft?! Unbelieveable
@@admacdo Did you read the comment you replied to or not? I think not
i was looking for this comment. were was my coffee i wouldve spat out, when i heard that sentence? um, i mean, truly revolutionary design! many people do not know this, but early aviation pioneers struggled with this idea. many failed designs did not consider to have the cockpit flight deck at the front of the fuselage
Love how in the opening scene they show a Boeing.
Yes but AIRBUSdon't dive into the deck
In addition to the other comments about the gaffes in the narration, there is one serious misconception: the F-22 pilots' 'special suits' are to counter high g-forces, not high speed! Flying straight and level at Mach 2 is no more tiring than sitting in a chair at the library, but taking a turn is a different situation altogether.
Yup, this video is weird...
Yeah, Concorde passengers travelled at Mach 2 while dressed in a lounge suit and sipping champagne 😃
Video about the A400M. 4/5ths of the content is F22. Well done.
The cockpit is in front of the aircraft, wow. There I thought it be at the tail.
the whole video is a joke lmao
@@ccllvn that's the problem with idiots making videos of things they have no clue off. However it was entertaining how screwed up it is.
And on the B747? It may sound obvious but almost no fighter aircraft have the flight deck at the front…..
@@markherzog9484 well we talking about a cargo plane, show me any transport plane, large bomber with a cockpit set towards the rear. Comparing a fighter with a cargo plane is like a pigeon to an Eagle
probably in ruzzian shit it is
since it never really answers why they spent a billion dollars. inferred was it was a over weight turd. the vertical takeoff is a side effect not a sought after feature in design. the 8 blade props are the reason why they can take off like that. c-130 hercules uses the same prop configuration. the reason for the switch was they were running out of Jet assisted take off(JATO) rockets. re tooling and manufacturing new ones to re supply a 60 year old technology was a giant waste of money. the 8 blade prop was the answer to same takeoff capabilities without having to bolt on new rockets each flight.
You mentioned the Jato assist. I used to make some of the aluminum burst diaphragms used in those rockets.
@@davidl.williams7366 Now that really is badass!
@@davidl.williams7366 tell us more about it please! I served for 7 years and have always had an interest in how the machines I used worked. Just so I’m clear I am Canadian and I was in the Army. I don’t believe the Hercs we used ever had jato’s.
@@davidl.williams7366 you from wichita
Will P ,
That is an excellent comment! thanks for chiming in !
Common misuse of "vertical takeoff", it's just known as climbing. Vertical takeoff is what the Harrier, F35, etc does. Parallel to the ground :p
Yes, this is STOL, kinda, as is the older C-5
@@billd9667, yes that’s it. I couldn’t think of it at the time. Thank you
orthogonal
Perpendicular
@@dforrest4503 I too was going to clarify his clarification. I guess it goes to show just how easy it is to mess up. With his other comment he obviously had the right concept, unlike the video presenter. I was thinking I'd love to see a huge airbus take off vertically!
New definition of *vertival takeoff* : The aircraft takes off and changes position on the vertical axis (regardless the location on the horizontal axis). In other words, it gains altitude.
Right? I was like? Wth, this is vertical climb but not vertical takeoff..... a cargo VTOL would be truly impressive XD
@@danf849 Cargo VTOL is old news.... Dornier DO 31 made in the 60's. Project never took off but was designed to support a VTOL multi role fighter they were planning to build at the time. I'm sure you can find flight footage of the Dornier on youtube.
@@trevoC132 yea, vtol fighters are old news, if pull notice I said cargo plane... I do not know if any prototype attempts or a vtol cargo plane but if u know of one that’s cool af.
Sorry for that not making sense. Mobile auto correct is the kryptonite to my sausage thumbs.
@@danf849 no worries, just to be clear, the do 31 is a vtol cargo plane. It's pretty cool. They had flying working aircraft.
I know sensationalism is the way of the internet, and that is an amazing plane....but nothing vertical about that take off
And far too much about the f-22
I'm glad to hear that they put the cockpit in the front 🤣
The cockpit flight deck is located at the front of the fuselage. You don’t say, Einstein.
That’s one of many new design features, never seen before
I'll admit that it looks like it can climb super steeply, but if that's called vertical then what does the F35B do?----Super vertical?
The F35B has vertical takeoff capabilities, the A400M and F22 Raptor don't...the authors of the video just made the mistake of not knowing a single thing about their topic.
You did not do your homework: the A400M program was just full of problems right to this day
Nice footage of the A400M taking off horizontally then transitioning into a (near) vertical _climb,_ but I'm still waiting to see some footage of the aircraft taking off vertically.
This video singlehandedly could solve fresh water crisis in Africa and there would still be enough water for all the essays in all the schools for the next 200 years.
This video is all over the place
I will Never last as long as the C-130 Mighty Hercules.
who writes the copy for these videos???
Wow, this vid tells me that planes are made for travel! I never knew that, thanks video!
Thanks for letting us know that the cockpit flight deck is located at the front of the aircraft. 👏👏👏.
So, what did they spend billions on ??
Also, thanks for letting us know that cargo is loaded on the aircraft before its mission.
Yes I too found that hilarious. I clicked on this hoping for some juicy inside info, but it reads like a corporate video ad for the plane from the manufacturer. The kind of video they'd loop at Trade Shows.
i did not expect this aircraft to sound like a jet. the new props being used on these military aircraft are so much quieter that i hear that turbine much more pronounced
Thanks for 13 minutes of 'we dont show it taking off vertically'
I gave this video a thumbs down for its lies
However, one must not overdo this steep climb on transport machines for several reasons.
1. at such steep angles of attack, stall can occur very easily
2. the load can shift if it is not properly lashed down, causing the aircraft to reach an even higher angle of attack (--> stall).
3. the glide ratio of an airplane depends on the angle of attack, i.e. indirectly on the speed, and the gustiness of the surrounding air, as well as on the pilots' control skill.
The background "music" of this video could be used to extract confessions from innocent prisoners.
Opinions differ, but I found nothing objectionable about it at all. It wasn't too loud, and it wasn't a distraction. Seemed fine to me.
Innocent? Innocent of what???
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This video is 95% B-roll footage, 4% apparent facts, and 1%interesting piece of information.
At 3:32 “The cockpit flight deck is situated at the front if the fuselage as most of the fuselage space is used to carry cargo”
No really !? 😂😂😂
Can’t wait to see a cockpit flight deck situated at the rear of the fuselage! 🤣🤣🤣
It shocked me too - it's really radical, outside the box thinking. It amazes me how mere humans can come up with impossible concepts like this. The future of the human race is in safe hands, thank God.
Vertical take off..by transport plane..so intresting and worthwhile ❤
That thing looks suspiciously like a globemaster.
Its a jet propelled version
I just love these videos!!!!!!! WHO'S THE "BROTHER" PILOTING THE F-22!!!!!!
Me
@@freskoclipz2733 Where did you receive your UPT?
No, it’s me!!
@@ChristianityRecap Where did you receive your UPT?
@@garyhilson7220 Georgia
"The cockpit is located at the front of the fuselage."
you didn't have to cut me off
Clicked on this video for the sole purpose to look at all the comments pointing out how dumb it is to call an A400's takeoff 'vertical'.
Vertical used to be 90 degrees.
how unusual to load the plane before the mission
In flight would be more efficient, surely.
Whoever, or whatever, did the 'facts' research for this video needs to be fired.
🇬🇧 Good ol’ BRITISH air power! 🇬🇧
This makes me so proud to be British.
But AirBus is a conglomerate of more than only british air, though I'll admit RR does make some impressive engines
If i wanted a f22 video id watch an f22 video...
How unusual to place the cockpit at the front of the fuselage!
Don't for get the "cargo is loaded "before" each mission" .. I assume they determined it too dangerous to load "after " it took off.... or better yet "after" the mission....gotta wonder who wrote this script... not to mention we are shocked that it is only a "nearly vertical" takeoff... and not "vertical take off"
lol indeed what a stupid video.... I can't stop laughing about how a waste of my time this video was...
Awsome how they jump between total different aviation topics without answering the topic. Maybe it is because the A400M can't climp vertikal.
Two nicely produced adverts.
Looks like a Hercules knock off
WTH? Something went wrong with the video
"The cockpit flight deck is located at the front of the fuselage ... Before each flight, the aircraft is loaded with the cargo for its mission." Wow! These things are so radical! It's a pity this video is wrecked by the script written by Captain Obvious.
Only Airbus would think of putting the cockpit in the front of the plane with cargo behind it. They're such an innovative company...
This aircraft was not designed to take off vertically, ever…..who’s running the show in your research department, or do you even have one?….It’s an airplane, not a helicopter……or are you guys just not understanding words?
Fantastic ! 👍
"Why Airbus Spent Billion $ to Make its Massive A400M TakeOff Vertically."
Ooh a video on the A400, nice.
Ahh yes, the Airbus A400M Atlas. Also known as the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
Neither of these aircraft are capable of "taking off vertically."
DANG IT DANG IT DANG IT. They just got 1 ad revenue, 1 full watch time, 1 dislike, and 1 comment out of me. Dang it. No wonder these video never cease to exist.
Weapons systems operator? For what weapons?
The British government spent billions on this, at least i think they did, Airbus simply manufactured.
Ps why not make the complete video about this aircraft. I don't get it why halfway through we get something completely differentt
"I have no fucking clue what a vertical take-off is, bUt iMmA gOnNa mAkE a vIdEo aBoUt iT aNyWaYs, herp derp!"
What's next, are you gonna tell us that it also lands vertically, because by your definition, it totally does - right?
Thanks for the advertisement! Very much looking forward to fighting World War 3 with this and all the other amazing technological advances in separating souls from their bodies. It should be over in no time and we'll all be home for Christmas.
this feels like an AI generated youtube video
Did an 8-year-old write this? They felt the need to note that the A400 is loaded BEFORE a mission, with the cockpit at the front to make room for cargo, but felt no need to explain how a g-suit works? Exit, stage left.
Flying in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan they did these awesome combat landings and take off. Just dive towards the ground to land and straight up when taking off.
'Sarajevo approach' or 'Sarajevo landing'
If they were aiming for vertical takeoff, they clearly failed dramatically.
It can’t take off vertically. That’s nonsense. Just about all transport aircraft are limited to 25-30 deg pitch attitude for safety reasons. This is a full fbw aircraft and it will certainly be limited in pitch like all other airbus aircraft. And it can only achieve that at its lightest weight. So stop with the vertical takeoff nonsense.
The author of the narration of this video needs to learn a LOT more about airplanes. So many unsmart comments.
To "make A400M takeoff (almost) vertically" costs - among other things - making crew and pilots be like astronauts. In the sense of being forced to stand on their heads during flight. Reminder: the high speed VTOL has already been invented! It is called tiltrotor. Works without the headstands.
To those who can't see the downvote ratio - 3,9k thumbs up, 4,1k thumbs down currently.
I think you and I have different definitions of 'taking-off vertically'
Although I'm a huge fan of the C130, even I have to admit that it's starting to get a little long in the teeth now, and needs to be replaced. The A400M is a brilliant replacement. Very similar to the A400 in looks purely to keep old traditionalists such as myself happy ;) but with vastly improved performance in all aspects! I remember seeing it fly for the first time a few years back, and being absolutely amazed and very impressed! Although the old Herc still has many years left in her, the A400M will forge a long and interesting history during her service life!
A400M has a much higher payload than C-130 (37 ton vs 20 ton) and is not meant as a direct replacement to C-130. A400M's closest match is the Japanese Kawasaki C-2 (also 37 ton), while the current closest matches of C-130 are the Chinese Shaanxi Y-8 / Y-9 and the Brazilian Embraer C-390. The C-390 has a 26 ton payload. The Y-8 has a 20 ton payload and was based on the Soviet Antonov AN-12. The Y-9 has a 25 ton payload, and is more like the stretched C-130-30 in size. The modern Y-8/9 have been significantly improved in materials, construction and electronics from their AN-12 predecessor.
The A400M did not replace the C130 because the payload from the A400M is ~twice: for example the french airforce did use they brand new C130H to replace the retired C160 Transall and for commando missions who was made with C160 Transall, they use they Casa CN235 who are smaller, and for the big transports they use the services from Antonov AN124's or the AN22 both from Antonov Airlines...
Agree with the comments. But the
"April 1996: First Flight of C-130J Super Hercules"
is getting long in the tooth.
I image new engines and maybe a revisited wing could work wonders. YES GUESSING
Well…there is the C5 Galaxy.
Yeah, but I'd like to see them try to land a M400A on a carrier!
NO! NO! NO! I'm not issuing you a challenge, please for everyone's same do not attempt that, at home, abroad, in your bathtub or anywhere.. Yeah, we DID land a C130 on a carrier...ONCE. ONCE. And there is sat until the carrier could reach port to unload the damned thing.
Better investment of $1b than Amazon’s Rings of Power, anyway
Ok thank gods I checked the comments before I wasted my time on this video.
I bet all the other aircraft manufacturers are thinking "so it's a good idea to put the cockpit at the front, they must be onto something here"...That's about as dumbed down as saying this plane travels in the sky otherwise it'd be called a lorry.
So, it's the best of a C-130 and C-17 combined. FYI, this is not a vertical take off. Just a rapid vertical climb.
For everyone making fun about the cockpit being in the front of the airplane, you just wait and see when the first equilateral-triangle-shaped airplane with fully-360-rotational-cockpit and with production-built-in flame-stickers on all 3 corners of the airplane, is built! Why? Because it is so silly that someone should built it just to prove that it can be done!😁
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
There is more useful information to be had in the first paragraph of it’s wiki page than this entire video
The cockpit flight deck is located at the front of the fuselage. Wow, that's revolutionary. Who would've thought the cockpit would be at the foremost part of an airplane.
A perfect example of why we need the dislike numbers back on screen RUclips.
The cockpit flight deck is located at the front of the fuselage. Really.🤨
Billions were spent!
3:44 “Before each flight the aircraft is loaded with the cargo for its mission”. What an astounding concept!
I thought i was the only one who's hearing this
Man, try to focus on a topic and not only show advertisement footage
3.35......Wait, what, the flight deck is located AT THE FRONT of the fuselage....."? WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?!?!
me when watcching this video:
I know more than you do
In my next life, I'm gonna pilot one of these.
as cool as it is, it still cant outclass the Antonov 225, thats what we really need.
كيف كان يومك انا سعيد بمعرفتك
10:24 Dang Air Force! Maybe layoff the apple pies and run an extra mile in p.t.
-US Army Iraq Vet
“The cockpit is located at the front of the fuselage”. Who wrote this script . . Captain Obvious?
It is not pronounced "Eads"! It is pronounced "E-A-D-S"! That is the first mistake in the video. The second one is your wrong use of the term "vertical take off"! 🙄🤦♂
55000 pounds of cargo? I guess you mean 24915 kg!
YT has vids of C-130 flying out of a football stadium (100 meters and vertical obstacles) using RATO units. It did land on its own.
C-130 landing and taking off on a Forrestall Carrier too, own power..
@@uingaeoc3905 But no aircraft parked on deck as usual.
A carrier deck is ~1000 feet and nothing in front of you. A football field is only 300 feet with (football seating stands) of 50-100 foot high. Landing in a football field is the impressive part. Note RATO unit was used in US military F100 fighter vertical launch system.
At a Seattle Blue Angels show they had a blue C130 doing acrobatics: loops, Immelmanns, barrel rolls; above us, under 1000 foot altitude.
One video about it that doesn’t show it happening, also it’s a heavily modified C130 with loads of rockets attached to it.
It looks like a C17 Globemaster with turboprops..
Quicker to list the facts this video got right than the errors... Here goes:
Done.
There seems to be some confusion as to what ‘vertical’ means.
No idea how the video switched from talking about the A400M to the F22 Raptor ...
Should have bought more Globemasters before they stopped production.
Its like watching a kids documentary. The od bit if obvious info mixed in with some video footage 🤣🤣
This is not a knock on the new A400M, just an observation. Can you tell the new A400M from a C 130 which has been around 50 plus years. I understand, engines, electronics, materials have all changed but the basic design of short take off military cargo plane has remained the same. The form follows the function.
My hamster knows more about airplanes.
bro there goes all the cargo lol
Despite all the gaffes, the airplane itself is incredible and it shows that when Europeans manage to put aside their, mostly silly, differences and really work together (despite those same differences) towards a greater common objective, they can really accomplish great things!... Unfortunately +/- half of the UK were so blinded by a silly sense of historical pride, that they didn't see the obvious benefit that was always laying there, right in front of them.
Narrators do not need to know the subject matter they are talking about. OBVIOUSLY!
There was only one transport aircraft that was actually equipped with VTOL, the Dornier Do 31, which is now on display in the Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen(Germany).
Quite a few helicopters and the V22 Osprey.
VTOL can be achieved through different modes of operation. The V 22 Osprey, however, does not use thrust deflection, but a tilt rotor. Therefore, the V22 is rather a "hermaphrodite" of airplane and helicopter.
@@karstendoerr5378 you wrote “transport aircraft”. Osprey is a transport aircraft. So are many helicopters, for example CH-47,
@@MeTube3 , That may be. I have posted the explanation for this. But the DO 31 uses thrust reversers, the V22 is a mixture of airplane and helicopter. If we now assume that VTOL is generated by thrust reversal, then helicopters and the V22 are out of the question.
@@karstendoerr5378 vertical take off is simply taking off without a runway roll. Like a helicopter. Like a V22. You don’t get to redefine vertical take off.