History Wanted This FLYING SUBMARINE, But Failed... SO I BUILT ONE

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I am recreating a flying submarine concept originally designed by a man named Boris Ushakov in the 1930's. Sure it had some issues and never got passed the drawing board, but at least it looked cool! Will it work in Trailmakers?
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About Trailmakers:
In the toughest motoring expedition in the universe, you and your friends will build your own vehicles to cross a dangerous wasteland. Explore, crash horribly, use your wits to build a better rig, and get as far as you can with whatever spare parts you find on your way.
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Journey over grueling mountains, hazardous swamps, and bone-dry deserts on a distant world far from civilization - it is just you, your fellow adventurers and the amazing, jet-powered hover-buggy you built yourself. Explore, crash your vehicle, build a better one, and get as far as you can with whatever spare parts you find along your way.
Trailmakers is about building very awesome vehicles and machines, but you don’t need an engineering degree to get started. The intuitive builder will get you going in no time. Everything you build is made from physical building blocks. Each block has unique features like shape, weight and functionality. They can be broken off, refitted and used to build something new. Individually the blocks are fairly simple, but combined the possibilities are endless.
Expedition Mode is the challenging campaign mode of Trailmakers. You are competing in an off-world rally expedition with only a few building blocks to get you started. You must build, tinker with and rebuild your machine to progress. Journey through a big world, overcome deep gorges, angry wildlife and dangerous weather to progress and find new parts that will juice up your machine. The world in Expedition Mode will test your survival skills and ingenuity.
Sandbox Mode is where you want to head for an unrestricted, sandbox, vehicle-building experience. Here you can build anything you can dream of, and play around with it in the world of Trailmakers. It is a great place to test out crazy machines, and experiment with the physics engine. With tons of different blocks, hinges, thrusters and interactive vehicle parts - the skybox is the limit.
Trailmakers is even more fun if you play it with other people. Build cool vehicles and compete in mini-game modes with your friends or other Trailmakers online. Build a helicopter, send it to your friend, and shoot them out of the sky. Put two seats on a tank, and let your friend control the turret. As we get further in Early Access development Expedition Mode will also be adapted to multiplayer.
Learn more about the game on www.playtrailmakers.com #scrapman #trailmakers

[@TheJudge_GER]

2:25 Pressure. In the moment the cockpit got flooded too, there is no pressure difference inside to the outside, which helps to not shatter the cockpit windows. Same is done with some russion submarines with the lookout, which is "inside" but get flooded too

[@communistpingu5255]

Yeah. That's why the windows are in the conning tower, in the light hull and not part of the main pressure hull. The reason Russian subs have windows unlike cutouts on British and US subs is that the Russians have to deal with harsher conditions in the arctic waters meaning they had to find a safer way to observe the environment without their seamen dying to the sea

[@braydonattoe2078]

@@communistpingu5255 Russia has a horrible history with killing it's own in "tested" submarines so I can see why they'd do this

[@user-ve5ei2xe8h]

Also to counter 1m³ of airspace in the cockpit you would need one ton of counterweight - which would make for a pretty heavy plane.

[@Nike7nPlays]

this is very true

[@reaper101games7]

This is true.

[@ThatDomGuy]

Nicely done:) Your getting pretty good at building those strange designs on the first try lol. Shows how well you know the Trailmakers mechanics:) Keep up the great work holmes!

[@serpentinious7745]

I immediately recognized what he was building just from the thumbnail. Very good work indeed

[@braydonattoe2078]

Holmes. Lol

[@ThatDomGuy]

@@braydonattoe2078 ikr...lol, my accents even come through in my texts;)

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

it’s his 👁👄👁

[@The_Bhaskar305]

Just imagine a collaboration between @ThatDomGuy and @Scrapman. A builder and a tinkerer!

[@bbittercoffee]

"There are more planes in the ocean, than submarines in the sky... But this could change!" -The guy who came up with this idea

[@lynx8779]

The flooded cockpit is very logical; when underwater, the aircraft’s windows would have an extreme amount of stress. By flooding the cockpit, the stress is removed, and the aircraft is still useable, instead of breaking the control center every time you went underwater

[@Echo_the_half_glitch]

Just make the windows out of enameled glass, you just need stalker teeth and quartz

[@lynx8779]

@@Echo_the_half_glitch and have a extreme, heightened, exponentially rising amount of pressure as you go lower? Doubt the effectiveness there is a reason why submarines or at least military ones don’t usually have windows.

[@scrap-godsuper-zo4740]

@@lynx8779 r/whooosh

[@antsila5825]

​@@Echo_the_half_glitch "detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region, are you certain whatever you are doing is worth it?"

[@All-Rounder_Channel-AP-Adrin]

Makes sense. I thought why they would do that. That answers it.

[@patrickhector]

About flooding the cockpit- glass is a really risky thing to have under pressure underwater, so rather than deal with that massive weak point you can just flood any compartments with windows. No pressure differential between the inside and outside of the pane of glass means it's not under any stress, and then when you need the glass-filled cockpit to see out of when flying around you can just drain it out again.

[@dvddestroyer9981]

Yeah, the Russian do this with their subs because when on the surface you generally gave some people sitting or standing on the sail to help with navigation, the Russians couldn't do this as easily being in the Arctic ocean a lot more that other submarines, so instead of having people outside they have windowed compartments that get flooded when submerged.

[@patrickhector]

@@dvddestroyer9981 I see we saw the same video lol

[@littlerambo]

@@patrickhector We all did apparently lmao

[@tekbox7909]

@@patrickhector how about a link?

[@patrickhector]

@@tekbox7909 kzbin.infowlhTjLLskHE

[@royalphrog]

Flying submarine. "There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky" the inventor wanted to prove that wrong also, make the kugelpanzer

[@AcedamiaFunkin]

Recreate the "Christmas Bullet Plane" also known as the "Cantilever Aero Bullet", was an American single-seat cantilever wing Biplane used during WW2 (?)

[@Playlost]

Yessd crapman has smart fans

[@AethenTheProotTheSecond]

@@Playlost crapman 😳

[@warrmalaski8570]

@@AethenTheProotTheSecond lol

[@Carma281]

Not quite

[@mcfly6976]

Hey scrapman, I think for your next vehicle in this series you should look at the Fairey Rotodyne. It's a combo of a plane and helicopter only that the rotor is unpowered. Seems like it would be a fun challenge

[@tuckibo3019]

I strongly agree.

[@AcedamiaFunkin]

So it's a helicopter with more lift basically?

[@mcfly6976]

Nope it's a plane with an unpowered helicopter rotor

[@mcfly6976]

So a plane with more lift

[@barrybend7189]

There was a flying sub concept. It had 3 upwards mounted engines and was a pretty small sub. You could improve the current build by replacing more blocks with wing pieces.

[@lahaire4389]

02:05 That is why 'military' submarine don't usualy have window "the glass can only take a certain amount of pressure before breaking depending of the thickness & type of glass" You can find some on the conning tower of a few submarine but the space where the windows are place are flooded to eliminate the presure on the glass to prevent it from breaking, they have done the same thing to this "plane-submarine"

[@jamesTBurke]

Ummm research subs have lots of glass. But super thick

[@lahaire4389]

​@@jamesTBurke When I made the comment I was thinking about military subs ,but yea some research/civil subs have glass and can have a lot of them. I've made my research there are some glass spheres that have been rated to go almost 9,000 meters. (30,000 feet) Fixed my comment by the way.

[@jamesTBurke]

@@lahaire4389 Russian subs have them. But that area gets flooded when they submerge

[@jamesTBurke]

@@lahaire4389 your good. If people have knowledge they should share it

[@felix________________]

Tip: use oars as rotor blades as they’re bigger than the small ones but bigger than the big ones

[@boxed_in4357]

they're not angled though, they wont produce any actual thrust

[@KergylKraft]

I think I speak for everyone when I say that I absolutely love the daily videos. Just always something to enjoy after a hard day. To get home, and always have some amazing content to watch is a great feeling. But per usual, take any brakes that are needed.

[@KergylKraft]

Well, time off along with time for Catarinth. I'm loving the River Fallen song.

[@Kozzado]

Seeing as you seem to enjoy weird vehicles and having built many myself i challenge you to build your best realistic looking, working flying wing without any vertical or horizontal tailfins

[@pascal2085]

This looks more like a diving plane than a flying submarine :D

[@marcosacceleronhotwheels2806]

scrapman: * talking about flying while wet * me: well my friend, in the industry we call that ''frostbite''

[@ulfurkjalkur5165]

I’d love to see a version of this where after building the accurate recreation, you build a real-life-applicable improvement on what they were going for

[@WhitzWolf92]

I have a guess for possibly why the original needed to flood the airplane cockpit. When flying a plane, you want to sit as far forward as possible for the best field of view, but a submarine probably wants a ballast near the nose to aid with pitch control.

[@daanoffline5716]

Nope, it is against waterpressure bursting the windows, it's still done on russian submarines.

[@WhitzWolf92]

@@daanoffline5716 Ahhh, that makes perfect sense too. I'm not used to thinking about windows on a submarine.

[@mafianation4386]

well done man! this is awesome! best one ive seen in awhile!

[@colekam6443]

I love this guy anyone can make a sea plane but this guy takes it a step further and models real historic vehicles and makes them not just a propeller and diving bell

[@mewingspider1990]

This is the earliest I have ever watched a Scrapman video

[@ydoiexisthelp1663]

Same

[@rip1597]

i look so forward to your channel hitting 1m subs! you of anyone deserve it!

[@ethankilpatrick6338]

I really enjoy this series, thanks

[@ArttuT9]

Someone suggested in a older video but The xf-85 goblin. A small fighter that would detach from a Bomber.

[@buckduane1991]

The top protrusion is a periscope, yes. The reason the cockpit was flooded was due to having windows, since trying to pressurize it or waterproof it would have made it a deadly weakness. The periscope comes out of the conning tower / sail, where the submarine controls are located. The design and tarot is mainly why it wouldn’t have moved fast in either air or water, just too much drag. Front propellers would have been locked in place and feathered when submerged, but still caused drag. Average U-boat of the time had a speed of 7 knots. The pontunes folded up when submerged as well.

[@verdyst4032]

Hey Scrapman, try recreating the Yakovlev VVP-6, a massive experimental VTOL design that could potentially carry surface-to-air missile equipment and possibly even be a flying aircraft carrier

[@derFleetadmiral]

Well done. The cockpit has windows so it have to be flooded to prevent the windows from bursting due to the pressure difference.

[@harishrajnish7207]

They probably made the cockpit submergable because at greater depth glass of the cockpit would break due to pressure difference inside and outside the cockpit, so they had to do that.

[@fuff999]

Wow nice job you are the best builder I’ve seen

[@JustIn-sr1xe]

You should check out the Convair Model 49, for weird floating fire support platforms. It was like an odd version of a vtol made to supply suppressive fire.

[@Playlost]

@ScrapMan , because the glass windows of the cockpit, they could not be that strong and would collapse under the water pressure. If there's water on both sides, pressure is same, and also the sub is more balanced

[@hazlihakassim6719]

Your my fav youtuber btw I've been subscribed for 3 years

[@HarbringerGeneral]

Hey Mr Scrap. Have you ever played "From the Depths"? It has a lot more resources (blocks, materials, WEDGES, machine parts, etc.) To make some really wicked creations. You might really enjoy it. And you could do a series in the campaign too 😉

[@withercrafter8993]

I love the fact that basically you made it a submarine and a floatplane

[@axolotlsinovertime1496]

I think you should make a RCXD in Instruments of Destruction. Pretty much a RC car that can squeeze into buildings and explode. Good luck with the exploding part. Day 13.

[@emciee__]

I like how you create original content that will get copied because of how good it is

[@franciskurian9392]

Scrapman, I got an idea. Make a beyblade and surround it with magnets facing outwards and use thrusters to rotate it. Use a swivel to cancel out the beys rotation and place another swivel on top of it and place some thrusters to use for changing directions (in instruments of destruction)

[@DakkaScrappa]

this is the second time that france created a submarine that is really not in the naval treaty guidelines first was the surcoff submarine cruiser

[@billgurkins9500]

you should build the pby-5a catalina, i kinda think it looks unique cause it looks like the wings are kinda pushed off the plane

[@BIGMILKYo24]

you should try to build the Elytron 2S its not really historical but its cool and id love to see your way of building it in Trailmakers

[@wyattttison6918]

I'm so early😁😁. Hi scrapman thanks for all of the amazing content.

[@superniger4822]

As always, I find myself very impressed with not only scrapman for his building skills, but also trail makers for the games incredible physics

[@Cssisabeautifulthang]

It would be cool if he did a scuba diving video

[@southcreekgaming3369]

I have been waiting for this

[@Hlebuw3k]

There was a submarine aircraft carrier. The airplanes were required to fold their wings to fit inside the aircraft carrier while it was submerged

[@frogsecretaryofswamp452]

Hello flying pancake guy

[@zetaswoop670]

I have a video suggestion. Try making Suzanna, the world record paper airplane for distance in two ways. First way with sails, and the second version with wing blocks and other non-sail parts. Give it a few of the small jets so it can move and see how it goes! If you don't feel like making two, just pick whatever one you feel will be more fun to build.

[@Zgosc]

I feel like hes like a cool uncle type of guy, very cool

[@penguingamer9882]

13:18 "So long and thanks for all the fish"

[@informatiqueman19]

fighter boat : torpedos this plane: goes flying

[@SkyEcho751]

You got to 6 knots, which is pretty good. I mean the best you could have done was add an extra propeller. Good job making something someone could feasibly use, as opposed to whatever "that" thing was.

[@RichardSJTol]

You should make a video on flying and submarining on highseas

[@MrCaptaincoffee]

kinda want to see a race from this concept now. I know you did a boat/car/plane race and sub/glider thing but how about a sub/plane marathon.

[@Quanta_i-guess]

I assume the cockpit is flooded so that the windows don’t crack under the outside pressure of the water, Russian submarines, which unlike US submarines, have windows on the top part of the submarine which helps with navigation when on surface level, with American subs the crew has to actually get out in order to see, anyway, this top part of the sub also gets flooded so that these windows don’t crack under pressure.

[@yes.254]

I had an idea for the Mars base please give hank his own room in the base because he is a part of the channel!

[@BENBOI_1]

Have a look at the kugelpanzer, it would be cool to recreate in trailmakers!

[@devilking8408]

Love your vids

[@jwgay7793]

I would love for you to make the Schofield Scotland tank. It seems good for you to build

[@Beregorn88]

There was one of these in "mikey mouse and the pirate submarine", published in 1923

[@baconsking930]

Please upload some of these creations to the workshop

[@projectsirius6574]

Built a centipede mecha with each segment having its own independent set of legs and hingest which allows it to turn freely.

[@scottaroondog1502]

Works very well but I feel like you could've definitely done more for aesthetics

[@tnapeepeelu]

why is it so beautiful

[@Duke00x]

I think flooding the cockpit had to do with the windows. If you dive too deep the pressure on the outside of the windows would cause them to implode which not only damages it but also floods the cockpit and kills the crew. But if they move the crew into a sealed windowless room and flood the cockpit the crew is now safe and the pressure is equalized on the inside and outside stopping the windows from being damaged.

[@Skyblade12]

What were you using to control buoyancy? Haven't seen that part before.

[@aaronelder5464]

Hey Scapman I got a interesting vehicle for you to create but it's not really much of a forgotten vehicle it's just impractical but if you made a video about it it'd make my day it's called spitstang or musfire it's off of a episode of home improvement fear of flying. I hope this makes the cut for a video 🤞 just a shot in the dark

[@stickboi9589]

Love ur videos

[@finnmarsh3956]

Yo I genuinely tried building this the other day lmaoo

[@06bradleydsouza46]

Can you do a olden days battering ram in instruments of destruction

[@loganmurphree3859]

Hey Scrapman I'm a normal viewer and love your vids but when I was watching this, an idea popped in my head. Why don't you try building the SR-71 Blackbird. It is not a failure but I do think it will be cool for you to build it. Thanks!

[@redneck_cowboy7826]

Hey scrap man you could recreate a human torpedo there were many versions of them in ww2

[@connormathewson]

I don't know anything about the effects of pressure on a human body in a submarine, but I've also done a lot of diving and one thing I know to look out for is altitude sickness caused by getting on a plane too soon after being underwater. Maybe that is another reason that these plane concepts keep getting abandoned? I could see the crew narcing themselves every time they take off being a pretty big issue.

[@stutterpunk9573]

I think the original design is actually a lot better than it looks because I believe the original intention was a plane that could submerse for safety rather than a submarine that can fly if that makes sense

[@mightygreen3364]

We just heard about DARPA in my CS studies (related to the internet)

[@guts60]

He could have used the space shuttle seat, which works underwater

[@lena96969]

The cockpit would be flooded so there is no pressure difference which could break the glass windows. Other soviet subs do the same thing with a glass compartment.

[@jasonbeatty6517]

Good job

[@thepatrioticpole2269]

You should try making a submarine hunting aircraft like a Fairey Gannet and then try to use it to hunt subs

[@lachlanwithers8864]

this was great

[@asankanu4578]

3:38 also the massive propellor behind their head

[@moroblizniak4457]

What about trying Starbase? Looks like you enjoy space stuff based of many your builds and challenges. sarbase Is space MMO, you can build your own ships and (take a wild guess) starbases. Its in beta but its really fun game and fits the channel so well. Maybe new series? If You like it? at least check this out

[@kaidenlemonaden]

scrapman I have asked many times. can you try make the goodyear inflataplane in trailmakers?

[@pdfoltin5076]

2:11 to 2:30 because if its not flooded the the glass will shatter they do the same thing on some Russian subs so when they are above water thay can more easily control the sub but when they are below they flood it so it dosent brack

[@BLKBRDSR71]

Hold up... ScrapMan, scuba dives? Is their anything you haven't done? I'm going to start calling you "Multi-man". 😁

[@iwazaru4440]

You should do a air boat race mm

[@isaaclitwin7893]

Up in the Sky is it a Bird, is it a Plane? No it’s a SubPlarine

[@danielmller5696]

Scarpman you should still try to make the dragon walker from he man

[@MarkLoves2Fly]

A submersible helicopter would be pretty cool. You'd need a way to collapse and stow the rotor, to keep it from being damaged by the water. (Thinking of the complex joints here.) If it had drivable wheels, that would be a bonus. What say you @ScrapMan?

[@fgjfjdfghjsfghjsfj]

A cockpit with enough visibility for a pilot probably wouldn't withstand the water pressure, so they just crack a window when going under :)

[@SuperRandomNinja1]

The reason why you can't control the sub from the cockpit is because the cockpit needs windows to be able to see to be able to fly but windows cannot hold the same pressure as metal. So if you submerged and were controlling from the cockpit those windows would break and you'd get crushed with water. You flood that compartment it equalizes the pressure the glass doesn't break.

[@johncage5368]

Well done.

[@bangbeastttv3355]

I thought of a mini game for multi player monday you build a car like normal and you have to race them but when you go too fast your car blows up!

[@hararc8767]

Do a battle where you all build tanks without turrets and build separate annoying turrets. You keep your tank and swap turrets each round

[@coltwalters9342]

Hey scrapman you should build a beaver sea plane!

[@carsonsiegenthaler7765]

The reason for flooding the cockpit was because of the glass, under certain pressure the glass would break, drowning everyone inside. Flooding the compartment equalized the pressure, preventing the glass from breaking. Sane concept is used on Russian subs

[@dagr._09]

Day 22 of asking scrapman if he can historically replicate an Ekranoplan in trailmakers

[@toddabbott781]

I think the pontoons raised when underwater... and likely when flying. The thick wings look horrible... do not double the thickness (double just the center for the fuselage). Likely the biggest issue was sealing the airplane engines from water. Luckily you do not need to worry about that.

[@mystlcgreatness]

Day like 20 of asking scrapman to play SimplePlanes for this kind of thing. Also I’m losing my memory

[@aaroncampbell429]

I'v made my own sub plain before it was a fun project mine is a biplane though

[@maxmachac9756]

On topic of of submarine x, try the tank submarine by Frank Tinsley

[@jamesTBurke]

Should've put the spaceship cockpit instead the shape would've looked more like what you're trying to build

[@Goreganacher]

now you have to do planes and a boat vs a submarine challenge with your friends. dropable bombs torpedoes and rockets please XD