AVIATION ODDITIES | Aircraft Innovation And Research Pioneers | Episode 2

➤➤ AVIATION ODDITIES PART 1: • AVIATION ODDITIES | Ai...
A look inside different aircraft designs and flying machines such as the Hughes H-4 Hercules also known as the Spruce Goose; the Ryan XV-8 Fleep, the Ryan VZ-3 Vertiplane, and the Douglas X-3 Stiletto. Learn the secrets behind Howard Hughes D-2, the North American fighter and bomber project. this was a private venture. While It never proceeded past the flight testing phase, it was the predecessor of the Hughes XF-11.
Learn about the Northrop XP-79, nicknamed the "chainsaw".
In a little over a century, the aviation industry has gone from learning to fly, to learning to fly faster, learning to fly further, learning to fly heavier planes, and now to having 100,000 plus commercial flights occurring worldwide every day. Aviation has truly been at the forefront of innovation to become one of the world's safest and most reliable modes of transportation today.
The video presents a brief but comprehensive overview of the variety of innovations related to aviation.
From ancient times onwards, flight has been a measure of scientific progress, a symbol of wealth and status, and a catalyst for interpersonal and international competition. It is a field that has been pioneered largely by the dedication of individuals rather than corporations or governments for the majority of its history. The history of aviation is extensive and complicated, so much so that its entirety couldn’t be easily contained in any single written source.
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[@tommytwotacos8106]

You guys really are the top tier of KZbin documentary makers. The unfortunate amount of time and viewer trust that has been sacrificed on the altars of channels like Dark Docs is truly lamentable when one considers what we could've had the entire time.

[@PRH123]

All the Dark xxxx channels are useless. He just takes very well known info from other sources, puts mysterious music and an eerie voiceover over it, adds some historical inaccuracies, and pawns if off as something revealing.

[@joemungus6063]

@@PRH123 and talks so weird lmfao, its like burst sentences. Cant stand his voiceovers

[@40jayc]

Fry's open time

[@dlemon90]

I don’t like dark docs for the weird, rushed voiceovers and for the repeating stock footage… sometimes footage that isn’t even of the plane being covered

[@robertclark3010]

Huh

[@docJamesE1318]

I have been through it in McMinneville, OR . What an amazing Plane for its time!

[@ianadams3739]

Interestingly, the Evergreen Aviation Museum never finished paying off the purchase of the Spruce Goose; which puts the legal ownership in question.

[@docJamesE1318]

@@ianadams3739 well they sure do charge you to see it so they should have paid it off by now!

[@larrydugan1441]

Great men doing great things

[@PhoenixA380]

Great episode, thank you!

[@joshuajuarez3471]

I love these

[@imransharif443]

Nice old technology airplane beautiful

[@larrybremer4930]

On the XP-79 how did not a single engineer point out that slicing with one wing in a collision would induce a very rapid yaw spin (think of a boomerang) that would probably kill the pilot. Even if the aircraft was infinitely strong to withstand the collisions and the whole spinout could be avoided how would it keep from ingesting debris into its turbojet engines? There are so many red flags here its hard to fathom that engineers the likes of Jack Northrop could not convince the War Department it was a crappy idea.

[@t5ruxlee210]

One of the less stressed in public early motivations for building a fleet of these enormous aircraft was some way to quickly cope with transporting the future massive casualty numbers that were being anticipated re the future liberation of nazi held Europe and the complete conquest of Japan...

[@user-nr3ss5hk9s]

I went to see this plane in Long Beach and it’s size is staggering

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

Howard Hughes was the poster child for the Highly Eccentric Genius, in fact he bordered on insanity at times.

[@tommytwotacos8106]

I really don't understand how you guys and gals are able to fall asleep to this. There's so much mental engagement for me to 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I trust that I've made my point.

[@PRH123]

Yes you made your point. We all understand now that you're a dummy :)

[@MrCenturion13]

Wait, what?

[@tommytwotacos8106]

@@MrCenturion13 That's supposed to represent me falling asleep on my keyboard. It's a crude attempt, I admit.

[@brad270472]

I've just watched another video on the stratolaunch which has a wingspan 20 meters wider than the Hughes H4 making it the new largest aircraft to fly.

[@asdf9890]

I guess I never realized just how massive this plane was/is.

[@ThomasDoubting5]

Oh it's enormous

[@Aengus42]

Did the Spruce Goose ever get out of ground effect? By the looks of that clip, I don't think so. Hughes might've built the world's largest ekranoplan!

[@larrydugan1441]

No. Ground effect occurs until the aircraft is higher than it's wing span and which I believe was almost 100 meters or 320 feet.

[@Aengus42]

@@larrydugan1441 Nope, I checked (because I could've been wrong) on Wikipedia and it appears that ground effect occurs from half the wingspan down, getting stronger as you (often try too) descend as the ram air effect increases. Here's a pertinent paragraph from Wikipedia... "When an aircraft flies at or below approximately half the length of the aircraft's wingspan above the ground or water there occurs an often-noticeable ground effect. The result is lower induced drag on the aircraft. This is caused primarily by the ground or water obstructing the creation of wingtip vortices and interrupting downwash behind the wing."

[@danilorainone406]

at 34 mark, the pic of fdr grasping elliots rt arm, ( hopkins and roosevelt biography) fdr in public wanted the public to see the boss could stand and somewhat walk as anybody else elliot latter said his grip left my arm painfully black and blue with his powerful grip,,'

[@regdor8187]

And then....the helicopter removed the remains to the museum .....

[@reinhartvonzschock357]

You are wrong. Only the plywood skin would have been birch. Birch is much too heavy for structural members. Spruce or cedar being used.

[@PRH123]

That Ryan vertiplane was really a dog. The only bit that might be considered innovative was the vectored thrust nozzle. The multi fowler flaps and leading edge slats were widely used already in commerical aircrsft at that time. Ryan probably had some good friends in Congress or the dod to get such a thing financed for so long. Their main skill at that time seems to have been not aviation, but lobbying. A super cub has better stol and payload performance. Not to mention that remarkable stol designs like the Custer channelwing, fiesler storch, and others had been around for 15-20 years already at that point. The custer could do virtually vertical takeoffs. It was designed by a homebuilder though, and not by a well connected dod contractor. A shame, as funds better invested in super stol could have produced something interesting. As it was the potential customers decided to stick with cessnas, helio Couriers and helicopters. Not to mention that ridiculous Ryan powered hang glider... nothing a simple super cub can't do better....

[@Donmusicman]

The technology for STOL aircraft had already been developed, starting with the Vought V- 173 "Flying Pancake", and they demolished the final prototypes, just because the Jet age had taken over. Why was Ryan Aircraft trying to do this over again, instead of starting with the proven tech that had already been developed by Vought Aviation, during WWII ?

[@jameswhyard2858]

ALUMINIUM!

[@allangamayev3614]

!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jusjetz]

29:00 58:27

[@oat138]

It was NOT amphibian!

[@MrCenturion13]

Thank you.

[@bob2161]

Thank you! I was talking to my screen every time he called it an amphibian. "It's not an amphibian. It only flies from the water. Never from land".

[@bob2161]

It still isn't an amphibian. It still exists.

[@darrellcaraway6068]

Details

[@darrellcaraway6068]

Flying boat is used

[@Aengus42]

The F-104 Starfighter was a dog also! Incredibly difficult to fly the USAF would only let hugely experienced pilots anywhere near it. It didn't stop them selling it to Germany for their brand new young pilots to fly killing 116 pilots and injuring many more! Even Eric Brown, test pilot of our Fleet Air Arm & holder if the record for most types flown by a single pilot, said it was a handful for him to fly especially in poor weather. A disgusting blot on America's copy book. What people will do for money eh?

[@PRH123]

They even made a Hollywood movie called Starfighters to support flogging it to other countries. If you need a good laugh, look it up on u tube.

[@markhelmick8084]

450 square meters?