The plane that was unbalanced... on purpose - BV 141

[@ltdada74]

And this is how the TIE-bomber was born.

[@Pixel22-fs3tt]

And the B-wing

[@inthemoment9910]

George Lucas, we see you.

[@MangoTroubles-007]

This is probably the only "compare everything to Star Wars" comment that's actually relevant

[@notagooglesimp8722]

My 2005 ish Tie bomber toy is mint and one of my favorites. I just wish it was more accurate and would hold 2 crew. My LAAT can hold like 12 guys, 2 pilots and 2 addon gunner stations, not included.

[@EikaiwaGakko]

And probably many of the "Uglies" from the Star Wars Legends universe Kilrathi designs from Wing Commander 3 and onward.

[@williamzk9083]

"Normal" single engine propeller aircraft are not symmetrical and have hidden asymmetry to deal with propeller rotation and circulation that often gave them notorious and dangerous handling. The Grumman Bearcat had its engine canted down and to one side to deal with asymmetry. The Corsair had to have stall strips added on one wing to ensure it stalled at the same time as they other. The aircraft was called the ensign eliminator before this. The Macchi C.202 Folgore left wing 21 cm (8 3/8 in) longer than the right wing. The larger wing created more lift which tended to roll the fighter right, opposing and thereby counteracting the torque and P-factor. The Me 109 had the vertical tail fin built like a wing to counter p factor. Many aircraft had the exhaust canted to create thrust to counter prop torgue. Both the Corsair and Me 109 had one wing stall ahead of the other due to propeller rotation in the 3 point sitting angle eventually had their tail yokes extended to raise the sitting angle. Most aircraft had some combination of the above. "Found and Explained" should celebrate Dr Richard Vogt of Blohm and Voss's birthday as he gave so many odd looking aircraft that actually worked and helps us to understand aerodynamics.

[@lighthousegravyP51]

Ladies and gentlemen of the internet, I present to you the winner of the Longest Comment Award. 🎉🎉🎉

[@larrybremer4930]

I came here to say the same. When you put a high torque motor on a large prop and jump on the throttles at low speed the P-factor causes you to roll left, and given enough power that roll can be a snap inversion. The Corsair you mentioned had a habit or turning turtle when landing when handled by the unwary and yes, it eliminated many a "butter bar". I used to build and fly RC aircraft and mounting the engine on a wedge to angle it as you mentioned is common practice to even out the handling. Blohm & Voss had some brilliant engineers to come up a novel solution to the P-factor problem along with designing and building some other incredible aircraft, in particular the BV 222 flying boat.

[@darrencrosby4520]

Great point

[@williamzk9083]

@@larrybremer4930 A BV-141 would make a very interesting and fascinating RC aircraft. it would certainly attract a lot of curiosity. Do you remember the original 1965 movie "Flight of the Phoenix" with Jummy Stewart. They crash land a Fairchild C-82 Packet twin boom plane in the dessert and the Heinrich Dorfmann, an aeronautical engineer build a sort of asymmetrical BV141 out of one of the booms. It turns out Heinrich Dorfmann is only a radio controlled model builder and the team became demoralised but Dorfmann has done his calculation correctly and they fly out on the asymmetrical aircraft.

[@5co756]

​@@larrybremer4930 Isn't there a video from a F4U carrier start , were it rolls to the left after starting and crashing into the ocean .

[@LaraineBouguer]

Blohm and Voss' design department lived by the credo, "Normal is boring." And yes, we would love to have you cover the Ares and the other Rutan designs.

[@snake45aiman]

Flying industry Kel-tech

[@26th_Primarch]

​@@snake45aiman Damn straight.

[@edwardnormal]

Nazi skunkworks

[@Bacteriophagebs]

@@snake45aiman Including how they never actually got any military contracts.

[@CraigCholar]

My favorite Luftwaffe Airfix 1/72nd scale model from my early teen modeling days, in the 1970s, was this unconventional (to say the least) recon plane. I still have that kit and many others in boxes tucked away in the garage.

[@rifqifm6434]

You should do more aircraft designed by B&V They designed alot of asymetrical plane.

[@Shinzon23]

I always love weird wacky designs like this goes to show you that you don't always have to follow the rest of the crowd

[@LastGoatKnight]

And also that sometimes function is over looks

[@franklinpresident4990]

imagine if war Thunder added German prototype. Germany will never be greater

[@Sturmvapor]

Awesome work! Don't forget the Rutan Boomerang :D

[@rocketguru9298]

Give yourself a pat on the back for actually using the word ‘WACKY’ in your title card. It made me laugh out loud. I love the BV-141 design. Usually it’s ’Cutting Edge, Ahead of its time, or Extreme’ when discussing the unique concepts of the Luftwaffe.

[@lamia197]

Rutan Model 202 Boomerang: asymmetricalplane lives!!

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Aesthetically great. Economically not as much.

[@anaviationenthusiast]

thank you for mentioning this!!! exactly what i was looking for

[@LegorocketsAnimation]

I was wondering if this one was left out because it was civilian instead of military like the other ones mentioned in the video

[@AubriGryphon]

I was not aware that Rutan had proposed a warplane. I'd love to see that video!

[@jet_flyer]

You mentioned Ares but not Burt Rutan's other asymmetrical masterpiece Boomerang lol. it's asymmetry was actually on purpose to try and mitigate the adverse yaw from an engine failure

[@Historyfreak-f7o]

That was my comment too. A true visionary and a man ahead of his time.

[@LastGoatKnight]

My beloved recon plane. Ever since I knew its existence I knew that it would be my favourite recon plane of WWII

[@kennys9644]

Same here.

[@CraigCholar]

Mine too.

[@SethAriel-ey4ux]

Gidday Nick. Asymmetrical aircraft is a very interesting concept. I am very interested in ww2 aircraft, and i have spent many hours reading books and watching videos about them. I am very surprised l have never heard about them. But I guess it goes to show that you are definitely a pro at researching and finding out about exotic aircraft and concepts. Thanks so much for all the effort you put into these videos. Kia Ora from nz Seth

[@TylerR909]

Every single pilot on the planet who started training in C172s/C152/Piper/Cirrus is going to be very disturbed to hear they couldn't see through the propeller this entire time.

[@robin5395]

Finally someone who says bmv and not bmdouble-u

[@StefOne-nw9un]

glad you mentioned scaled composites in the end, but i missed their boomerang ;-)

[@CGM_68]

13:39 One on display at the Royal Air Force Museum in the UK, another in Technikmuseum Speyer Germany.

[@seranonimo6770]

How did bro not talk about that civillian plane in the end 😭

[@Historyfreak-f7o]

Burt Rutan made his own version of this. Very cool!

[@gabbyhayes4561]

As young preteen, I would seek out unusual model planes to build. Found the BV 141 at the local model shop. This was the most unusual plane I've built. I do believe it was in a "Raiders of the lost Ark" movies. 🇺🇸😎

[@TheNewOrder-DaysOfConflict]

This thing would give a big emotional damage to OCD people

[@majorbloodnok6659]

How about the asymmetric, biplane Gotha bomber from WW1?

[@BackyardEngineering123]

Thats some real backyard engineering right there!

[@x_hibernia]

Really is there not a huge blind spot on the left of the plane?

[@blendpinexus1416]

i sorta want a little private ownership aimed plane that follows this sort of design. it's really strange and cool.

[@NoPegs]

Happy Seasonal Thingy F&E! =3

[@300guy]

You mean HaloThanksMasYears?

[@notagooglesimp8722]

Last version of the BV 141 with prop and jet. NOW THIS IS POD RACING

[@LeandroCB-w8h]

I would really like a video on the ARES

[@spud4839]

I forgot about this thing 😭😭😭

[@tirebiter1680]

Trump thinks we should get some of these for the USAF. Why? Because both the pilot and the passenger are in the right wing.

[@pawarom_0790]

😂😂😂

[@26th_Primarch]

Cringe

[@PhilbyFavourites]

Underrated sir 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

LoL

[@Wills420913]

good one...

[@pablogodoy9241]

Waited for this one,another weird desing is the Piaggio p180 avanti

[@silwerwing]

The dive bomber concepts reminds of the planes of Crimson Skies.

[@Matthew-kb7xk]

I joined just as it ended

[@notagooglesimp8722]

That thing could have been the replacement for the JU-87 and a great costal defence plane. Could scout. Carry one big central torpedo, long range. Lots of variants. While the 109 should carry on but be more standardized rapidly like the K was with wrapping things up into one total package.

[@ltdada74]

@@notagooglesimp8722 ze Germans fckd up with all their non-standardized variants of everything…and they still do it till this day, just look at all the 911’s types on the market

[@ummabdullah5948]

Please Make next animation video about Turkeys new Kaan TFX 5th gen fighter

[@Kruger_Mk1]

This plane got my interest a few hours ago then this 🔥 dropped.

[@Blindbrick2]

11:56 That's a very happy shark 😁

[@KhaoticKalm]

As someone who has found apathetic comfort being slave to their ocd, I hate asymmetric planes 😂

[@user-2uf2kr2c]

Looks like giant flying "blind spot"....

[@TheKingTiger503]

That's a BV-141 Scout plane, The Second one is BV-237 A-1 with single engine While the Other one is BV-237 B-1 with two different engines the Jet Engine and the single engine propeller..

[@Clark-l6z]

Can't see thru the prop. That explains why so many walk into a spinning propeller. Sarcasm intended.

[@BobPruett]

14:00 More superior than the A-10? BLASPHEMPY!

[@gbresaleking]

I need to build a model kit of this!

[@alfnoakes392]

There is a better one than the Airfix kit cannot remember the maker though (too long ago) ... I'm sure someone will help ...

[@MarkusSnyman-t5o]

Hobbyboss​@@alfnoakes392

[@normalwaffle]

This thing reminds me of the Rutan Boomerang so much

[@sparky4878]

Did he say it’s hard to see through a spinning prop and it blocks the view?

[@gamegalaxy7229]

Makeup video about the project pluto

[@300guy]

Yes, the Argus engines of the FW189 were surplus to requirements, whereas the BMW-801 (WHY you call it BMV?) were pretty much all reserved for the FW-190. By the time they started using Junkers Jumo and Daimler Benz 605's in the Later 190D and TA152 the BV time had passed.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

The german pronunciation of w is pretty much veh, so bae EM veh

[@mpow3r972]

Yeah, I didn't know "W" was now V. I'm normally not the type of guy to be a stickler for mispronunciations, especially if things aren't in your native tongue, but dude "W" doesn't not equal "V" in English, even in Aussie or Kiwi English lol

[@wmcapriceforum]

The German pronunciation of BMW is bee em vee.

[@conradmcmahon9323]

Bayerische Moteren Werke, werke being pronounced 'vairker', seems odd to us English speakers

[@vidarhenning9025]

The "V" would also be pronounced as "Fau" in german... VW is FolksWagen as you know.

[@bigmock141]

Right hand drive to absolute

[@Dododo7397]

this has been my favorite plane for years lol

[@gamegalaxy7229]

Makeup video about the Boeing yA1

[@bukwok]

the voice very familiar, is the guy from top gear youtube channel ,his last name ford?

[@dannypipewrench533]

I always find asymmetrical designs interesting.

[@wheelwrightpl9429]

The 3d quality of models used is abysmal.

[@Shinzon23]

...he's not made of money you know.

[@unknown_user-0000-oooo]

Why not?

[@plunder1956]

Was someone ar B&V talking to CLUNK from the Vulture Squadron? Because this looks like an aircraft from a cartoon.

[@joechess7649]

You should do the bv pod racer! P-170

[@C.I...]

...but you can see perfectly fine through a moving propeller. The engine being forward of the pilot restricting visibility below the horizontal is a problem, but your diagrams and narration seem to imply that pilots flew while looking at a circular wall immediately in front of them...

[@MizanQistina]

It's like Millenium Falcon

[@victorgastonhernandezmarti5451]

I Call it “the Star Wars plane”

[@anotherbacklog]

This video tortured my symmetry OCD for 14 minutes. I can imagine the German general got his symmetry fix after seeing the Fw189. And this channel really needs some War Thunder sponsorship.

[@MbahGundam9021]

I guess BV really hates OCD people

[@p51amustang]

Rather than unbalanced, maybe asymmetric is a better term.

[@FoundAndExplained]

i couldn’t think of a way to describe it to someone who doesn’t know what asymmetric means

[@mv6113]

Blohm Voss doing LSD before LSD

[@collinwatson2857]

Do the scaled composite ares

[@paulgeorge7557]

Yes sir we would really love to see it

[@bsquaredbundles]

I smell WT premiums...

[@KomradZX1989]

I miss your old sort little intro. I miss that little jingle 😂🤪

[@julianreymus1721]

Forgetting the Rutan Boomerang?

[@RetroAmateur1989]

FaE in the title: "The plane that was unbalanced... on purpose" FaE few seconds in: "It's more stable than a mirrored plane" So that title was a total lie.

[@kevroodenman3283]

ih brom and Viss the V222 was it copied in 747 its very similar?

[@boogerbombstudios-jn3ed]

How does this thing even fly…

[@konekillerking]

Asymmetrical yes, unbalanced no.

[@emanuelsanchez9362]

Please make a video of the ares

[@roelantverhoeven371]

I love those!

[@stefaneer9120]

This plane inspired George Lucas for the #Bwing Bomber in the 1983 Star Wars Movie.

[@curbowman]

Please, do the ARES video!

[@MangoTroubles-007]

Happy Holidays from Christmas Island 🇨🇽

[@eduardostapenko6808]

WW2 was not in russia. there were no russia there.

[@sparky4878]

Russia was a state in the USSR

[@eduardostapenko6808]

@@sparky4878 so was ukraine and others

[@MrMaximkozin]

Yes ARES video please!

[@harrythedemigod]

I honestly think its kind of a beautiful plane

[@MaticTheProto]

Why are you saying the bomb weight in pounds? The Germans back then already used modern units

[@navigatorstrato7232]

非常棒的动画

[@kennys9644]

Its so beautiful.

[@Opozit1]

Nah - I like symmetry

[@Concavenator_corcovatus]

Let’s go!!!!!

[@divermike8943]

Wasn’t that plan in Raders of the Lost Ark?😜

[@JohnSmith-lw2bm]

Bmv engines? You mean BMW?

[@sparky4878]

W is pronounced as a V in German.

[@stealthpro123]

I love this plane

[@MartinCHorowitz]

engines were BMW not bmv

[@sparky4878]

In German W is pronounced as a V.

[@MartinCHorowitz]

@@sparky4878 yes but this video is in english

[@prajwalnandan8728]

Brother how about you make a video HAL Marut first indigenously developed jet fighter-bomber in India

[@FlywithMagnar]

Unsubscribed. It is not the propeller that prevents you from seeing, it is the engine.

[@elektrykandrzej]

1:27 propeller? bro just forgot about the entire engine

[@hugoramalho5557]

YES !!!

[@roadsofjapan6009]

No idea why the BF110 could have easily done this job with slight adjustments, it was fast enough in the early years of the war and with the right pilot could have out run all allied planes of the time, truely a wonderful plane, it could take the damage and it could be trimmed to absorb the damage.

[@konekillerking]

Engines. Engines played a big part.

[@alganhar1]

And vision. This was a RECON plane, it needed better vision, especially down, than the 110 allowed for. Thats the reason for that fully glazed nose section. The 110 would have been alright early war as a Photo recon aircraft, but that's a slightly different role to a pure recon aircraft. Though its worth putting some perspective on PRU aircraft fielded by the allies here. The British used modified Spitfires and Mosquito's for their Photo recon aircraft. Completely unarmed, and blazingly fast. Much, much faster than a 110.... You want a PRU aircraft to be able to survive to bring back its photographs. That means either a higher altitude than the enemy can comfortably reach, or speed greater than the enemy can easily manage.... The 110 could do neither of those mid to late war.

[@AllisonCollins-r8w]

yes :)

[@STAROMEGA54]

Absolutely useless

[@alexander1485]

BMV? It's BMW.

[@williamzk9083]

Yes the W sound in the German alphabet sounds like a V and the V sound is like an F. The narrator pronounced correctly, according to German alphabet sound but the speech to text treated it as English.

[@thomasmcalear8673]

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[@jaydenmojulingkong7055]

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