The Flying Ship Company Concept (Full Length)

[@theflyingshipcompany6041]

Our concept video has broken 100k views! We are humbled to see the enthusiasm and we are looking forward to sharing videos of the prototype as soon as we can.

[@lukalukin4177]

I hope you can make a RC model that could do the same

[@ShepherdOfFools]

Except it’s actually a real thing, albeit not as “refined” looking. Here be the proofs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eV7WiKKhps6Jftk

[@ShepherdOfFools]

@@lukalukin4177 techincly and RC model would be too light.

[@anoopnair3668]

Is it me or did the concept vehicle shrink in size after take off? A fork lift loaded the cargo and a giant human revived it... If this company was real would have loved to join

[@ShepherdOfFools]

@@anoopnair3668 the whole thing is Computer generated over water. Its not really there.

[@miltonmiller]

Everything works in CGI or Power Point.

[@oliverauskoeln]

so true

[@DrawdeThePotato]

Except the wheels of that lift hahahaha

[@errolfoster1101]

@Chris Keeley why worry about sand when there is absolutely no wake or wash

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

They should call this a promotional film.

[@TheA.K.]

Unless I'm using it and then nothing works lol

[@starguard4122]

The Russian made a real version of this back in the 1960s

[@mic08242000]

and bigger as well

[@DesertfoxFRANCE1]

And his flight and have nuclear weapons

[@SuccessShared]

Ekranoplan I believe. Huge thing. This looks great on flat, calm seas but susceptible to weather conditions methinks

[@Hope-dp8qz]

@@SuccessShared Caspian Sea Monster

[@thealmightyaku-4153]

And others built a craft like this more recently. That's why this isn't necessarily a pipe-dream - but let's see them do it.

[@Ozzypup1]

Russia was building and testing huge versions of this years ago. Called the Ekranoplan or the Caspian Sea Monster. One version being tested could even fire large missles.

[@sw5824]

Google Wigetworks the design is un service in the Caribbean presently it holds 8 passengers or youtube it. It flies 5ft above the water with a v8 engine

[@tuahmusafir2598]

Any link of it ?!

[@jboydayz]

That's kinda ironic becuase whilst scrolling for vidéos from the right side, I see a video fro thay

[@spereira704]

@@tuahmusafir2598 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZyomJuXqdR9sM0

[@potatoai9910]

The kun class Ekranoplan is being moved to a museum right now

[@andymercator6401]

I was 16 when I first saw the ekranoplane "Lun" with cruise missiles on the board. It was a test on the Caspian Sea, where I rested with my parents.

[@notapplicable4567]

First and only

[@shokabull]

You forgot to add the part where it kart wheels into a million pieces when the wingtip / pontoon touches the water

[@johnwood551]

Ground effect aircraft have been around for years and tried different ways. The problem is Rough water with high waves and troughs,the “boat/aircraft relies on the cushion of air between it and the ground ,usually no higher than their wingspan.

[@Hiawathado]

Caspian sea monster. Was build back in 1960 and was operating from 1966. Top speed - 500km/h Length - 92 m Weight - 240.000 kg.

[@willipine1863]

that may the calmest ocean I've seen, come try that in hawaii

[@notapplicable4567]

Waves in hawaii are awsome, but arent the mostly a shore phenom as opposed to a harbor setting.

[@robboisme5225]

Most expensive Papa John's ever delivered.

[@steviepii]

Papa bless🙏

[@ralikdiver]

W.I.G., wing in ground effect. There are some of these flying for real. Even some KZbin videos of them. They’re legally treated as ships so easier to license than a plane.

[@fedra5873]

Ik these ships exist

[@user-ue3pl2gf4o]

i want one for boatlife

[@greghutchison5617]

Glad the ocean is always this smooth !

[@soularzensei1754]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eV7WiKKhps6Jftk

[@shibilimujeebshibili6410]

Yeah, ocean water is so stable. I'm pretty sure he hasn't seen ocean enough.

[@tradealotinjj9464]

@To Liberate nope but he has every right to judge. and besides hes not wrong

[@shibilimujeebshibili6410]

@To Liberate I worked in cruise ship for four years. So, I had first hand experience, enough point out a flaw in this illustration. This is not my concept. I don't have to fix it if I don't want to. Just like my previous comment, we don't need to give references to a commen. It just a comment.

[@matthews1082]

@To Liberate It's not baseless - the Soviets tried to build something like this decades ago, but abandoned it because it only travels in calm waters. Go a few miles away from the coast and the waves can get really rough - people don't have to know about engineering, all they have to do is to have travelled on a ship in the ocean to know how rough the waves can get - especially with other vessels nearby.

[@soularzensei1754]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eV7WiKKhps6Jftk

[@HDTomo]

@To Liberate toxic? Wtf

[@arizonaadventureriders9384]

That must’ve been a tiny forklift or a giant dude waiting for delivery

[@UFOBobTV]

I vote: giant dude!

[@IamMarkwei100]

Giant dude I guess

[@sukeerthhunny6770]

Lol

[@atigerclaw]

Has to be a giant dude. Otherwise, all those ships at the port are tiny as well. The waves in that 'jump over the large wave' would also be small. Now load a full size version of this with 20,000 tons of cargo.

[@charlestaylor3195]

it was both

[@seancraven2361]

A friend of mine used to build these things 20 years ago in Australia, proved to be un economical. Company folded. Flight ship.

[@Bramon83]

Everyone's gangsta till there's 1 foot seas.

[@Justmethinaround]

🤣

[@dimanxgermanist1327]

That's exactly why the Soviet ekranoplan program was ultimately scrapped. These things operate just in perfect weather or in minimal wind.

[@ΚωνσταντῖνοςΜεταβλητός]

@@dimanxgermanist1327 ошибаешься! Программа была свернута во-первых из-за гибели СССР (тогда все было свернуто), а во-вторых уже к середине 90-х развитие радарных технологий позволило уверенно обнаруживать и перехватывать экранопланы. Так как исходно он проектировался как сверхскоростное десантное судно и был интересен невидимостью (в 80-х) для радаров, то уже в 90-х он фактически превратился в огромный тихоходный самолет с точки зрения ПВО. Таким образом военное применение его потеряло смысл, а гражданское применение современному миру не нужно: это могло бы привести к большим убыткам морских и авиаперевозчиков. Что касается штормов и погодных условий - экраноплан показал большую надежность, это вовсе не было проблемой данной технологии.

[@jtegland]

Good luck dealing with the large jumping fish impacts.

[@malcomflibbleghast8140]

they dont exist in the north sea....

[@stallagiardino7877]

The Ekranoplan is a great idea in theory, but how would it perform in real sea conditions?

[@rockspoon6528]

It doesn't, which is why they aren't used.

[@josephastier7421]

Performance was so poor even Russia didn't want them.

[@craftpaint1644]

You need more than CGI films and hero music, where's the product?

[@notapplicable4567]

Aint been made yet, its a concept design

[@potterpenguin7285]

Just search for Airfish 8 on YT, you'll find footage of a flying boat like this one, which actually works.

[@craftpaint1644]

@@potterpenguin7285 Thanks for the update 🥴

[@soularzensei1754]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eV7WiKKhps6Jftk

[@grippen3273]

We'll be needing stuff like this when all the ice melts.

[@neiltaylor4897]

Oh dear im guessing you want the vax

[@muhammadsarfaraz2995]

Being Engineer I don't believe this idea can replace giant ships, moreover cargo aircraft are already in service.

[@notsure1277]

Exactly.

[@antonio-yz9eu]

I dont know if turning would be that easy with the ground effect

[@f.w.1318]

It won’t, Boeing played with this concept years ago in simulations, the air craft would need to climb in altitude, to commit to a turn, this was the issue that plagued the Russians with their WIG air craft, if you climb to high you loose lift on the wing in the direction of the turn, if you didn’t climb high enough and commuted the turn to sharp you could cause a wing strike in the water.

[@notapplicable4567]

Now with the use of vtol/tilt rotor tech it maybe able to achieve such turns

[@bigbossimmotal]

@@f.w.1318 Perfect explanation. They could turn, and quiet well, as long as you weren't in any great hurry to do so. Very much like the giant tanker, or Cargo ships of today, it's just a downside you learn to live with. Once back in the water, it's just a big ass boat, subject to the laws of Hydrodynamics, so you could maneuver in and out of port fairly easily, once the infrastructure was built. I personally can imagine a reintroduction of this technology using newer lighter weight materials, and more powerful engines than were available when Russia built the first Ekranoplans. We would just have to accept their downsides, like the turning radius, the God-awful amount of noise they make in flight, and the fact that they don't take well to rough seas. Skipping from South Sea island to South Sea island in one would be an absolute hoot though. :-)

[@danmcguir6984]

@@f.w.1318 g:

[@philvideodrone]

I love it . I would be grateful to see this technology fly once again.

[@gunnarkrug469]

too many moving parts for salt water...love the idea though

[@gunnarkrug469]

@Waxoff Waxon ...thanks buddy had a serious thought into getting one for about $1 million...and still on it

[@thehornwortofhornwort9832]

Why are there so many people writing negative comments? There’s already working versions.

[@pauleveritt3388]

That does not make the practical or economically viable either.

[@andyjohnson3790]

Whoa dam a flying ship! What should we call it? Let's call it a Airplane.

[@rdubs1705]

Haha... This works on different flight principles though

[@666toysoldier]

The Ekranoplan---a bad idea that just won't die.

[@666toysoldier]

@Panakeje Then why has it been around for a half-century, without success?

[@Timolucas]

cool, never understood why ground effect planes are not used more widely. Ships are only useful if you need to stand still on a point at sea. For transporting people or goods from A to B these planes are more logical

[@funfreq9282]

I don't know much about ground effect vehicles but I would imagine weather and sea height has something to do with it. They look like they might be a fair weather type flying machine! I could see them being used more widely especially where there are a lot of islands, Hawaiian islands, south pacific areas would benefit from vehicles like this.

[@xpeterson]

I’m having a hard time imagining a fully loaded tanker or cargo ship being made more efficient by adding the sheer amount of horse power it would need to get it off the water, not to mention the added weight of wings that can support that load. Not sure how it would deal with open ocean swells or winds, hydrofoils seem like they would be better suited for those conditions and they seem to have never caught on. Also, you better hope it can fly over the Panama Canal, cause its certainly not going to fit.

[@SteveJones-om6ks]

The technology doesn’t work over rough seas is the main reason. If you have sheltered inland waters that you just want to shuttle across maybe this works but it’s a pretty niche use case. You’ll never sell enough units to make back any real investment. Shame as, like the vid shows, it’s off the charts cool!.

[@Hypnotized81]

If it worked you would have seen it

[@josephastier7421]

No good in storms or high seas.

[@charlespetrie8297]

What does this concept video show us about the practical usefulness of this project. How do you suppose it will make transportation better and more efficient than it already is. These are the kind of details we need in order to actually make changes that are beneficial to everyone.

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

Can we get ground effect cars? I'm sick of buying tires

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

@Mist it'd still have wheels for parking and driving at speeds lower than ground effect, which would have significantly less wear than highway speeds

[@philippepetit3105]

could work till the first corner

[@josiahvantassell]

@@philippepetit3105 well kind of depends if you use just rudder controls while being able to control your roll through a corner you can make a pretty flat corner

[@josiahvantassell]

An example would be airboats and hovercraft

[@JesusTorres-qr1gz]

If you are handy with tools you can retrofit your car with small propellers in the wheels well and take it for a joy ride stealing all those beatiful girl's hearts.

[@someolddude7076]

Amazon Prime delivery is really stepping up their game

[@davidkamen]

Yes, they even have a smaller model that can land, deliver your parcel and then takeoff from your backyard swimming pool !

[@lnwolf41]

Actually they have them over in Asia, for short hops as a people carrier right now, They are considered a boat, so operating cost, and parts reasonable

[@jebise1126]

how did guy on end of video got cargo out? he didnt have any gear to get it out

[@craftpaint1644]

They left that part out because as soon as this company's investors make the owners a fortune they will declared bankruptcy and leave the country.

[@Arcadian888]

the hacker was after the plane not the box

[@AlejandroLara-nz5bv]

just open the door and hand carry the stuff you want. get the kids to help you.

[@Zetler]

Can't wait to see what the Floating Ship Company's concept is.

[@Sashaaap-j2p]

Экраноплан на доставке пиццы... замечательно

[@atom1236]

To everyone that saying this thing work Yes this thing work, but there's a few limit for the ground effect vehicle -Waves/terrain was the biggest problem for ground vehicle, those can damage the plane, but waves was the most dangerous because pacific and atlantic sea waves was so high at the point that it can capsized the entire ship which make this thing literally useless in situation like that. -Salt water is also a big problem for the engines. Some of you might says then put the engines as high as possible, but it's not that easy because of the aerodynamic stability and center of mass. -Yes, Airfish could fly like this so some of you might wonder why this thing cant do the same thing airfish did. This plane could fly like airfish did, but this thing and Airfish literally have the same problem as well as the soviet ekranoplan. -aerodynamic stablizing isnt a big of a deal, but wind direction does. This thing cannot be used in places or situation when wind is raging because aircraft it self is flying low and crosswind may make this aircraft having some problem trying to keep the aircraft above the water. -the concept of the aircraft in this video also show a massive problem. The landing part. Since the aircraft is going very fast so when it landing (in video) when it hit water it would make so much drag that can literally tear wings into pieces. This problem also applies everytime anypart part of the aircraft hit water (except part that near the COM if meterial was strong enough.)

[@Fernybeme]

So is this meant to be a ground effect vehicle? The ducted fans may be efficient for moving air under the wings for take off, but the amount of drag they will cause durring flight will be high. It will basically be an air brake..... Will you be locking the props in place behind the supports or how will you prevent autorotation??

[@michaelbradley7529]

So if I create an unrealistic animation of something that doesn't exist can I call myself a company too? smh

[@samsno3667]

this video was done 3 years ago? Where is it? Looks great ... water transporter ... delivery service ... I want one. It's an ultra light ... no license to fly needed.

[@rahathasan92]

Fantastic creation ,,,from Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@shaunweaver2107]

It's called a ground effect vehicle. That's not a flying ship and this was not a demonstration. It was a CGI rendered concept visualization.

[@grahamtaylor3580]

Nice to see Ekranoplans are not dead yet.

[@АлександрГоловань-ь6ю]

До чего дошел прогресс, до не виданных чудес.

[@foodog3026]

Old Russian technology...Ekranoplane

[@BezumnyiMax]

Ещё не раз вспомним "Каспийского монстра". А даст бог и возродим.

[@edrisali6974]

And people mocks of human progress that 'in future we will have flying car' stuff, bruh We have flying ship....

[@msahakim]

Bottom line is what is the power to payload ratio and fuel efficiency in terms of payload and distance ratio also.

[@notyoureverydayvideos99]

What program do you use to make this kind of animation?

[@xpeterson]

We get it KZbin comment section. Russia made a ground effect plane way back in the day. We understand. It’s like people watch a new plane being designed and someone yells “the Wright brothers did that!”

[@fredtedstedman]

beautiful craft - so elegant .

[@arnoldmayii3563]

Great idea

[@thornerg2]

There was one a bit like this flying around on a river here a few weeks ago. A sit on jobby, but still the same ground-effect vehicle.

[@Ming1975]

It's that flying boat that served in ww2 already good enough and all it needs is updated material and engine to be even more efficient?

[@mdredheadguy1979]

Wow! That model was huge!!!! It's an awesome idea!

[@randomasian8715]

The Russians made a bigger one

[@lesteryee2875]

Is this supposed to be a drone or man controlled. No seated controls. Nice concept.

[@davidkamen]

Actually it is neither.

[@AxelBitz]

So, you have an ekranoplane with vector thrust

[@master-gbig1140]

It is vary deceiving in CGI, but; if an aircraft were to dip a, lift or right wing; into the surface of water while in flight, the sudden restraint of drag would throw the aircraft into violent cartwheels, thus; destroying the aircraft. Even if the aircraft were design to land in water, they don't do it "one wing at a time". Fantasy and reality can be dangerous bedfellows if you don't keep them separated when it comes to reality.

[@smidon]

Yeah, I looked at that and thought, no way. It needs to be able to fly above the water or it won't work. The Soviet ekranoplan was used on the Caspian Sea; I don't know how that compares to say the Great Lakes in terms of storm swell etc. And an open Ocean? But don't get me wrong, I would love this to work.

[@MsMizlicious]

Cool idea, but what if it encounters unstable sea conditions (e.g. high waves?)

[@AndyMatrix]

1:47

[@brunofrommars1323]

The turning radius is a big issue, and it is only suitable on calm sea level only.

[@tirechasershouston5537]

Can they design one large enough to recover a SpaceX Demo capsule? I'm guessing those astronauts would welcome a non-sea sickening ride back to land after months of weightlessness.

[@oliverauskoeln]

no its just for delivery of eggs

[@johnnyswatts]

If the sea is rough enough to make an astronaut seasick, it's too rough for these to fly. Same problem with hovercraft.

[@1ring2rule3pigs]

Uh...how is that different than a crash landing on water?

[@АндрейГорбунов-р4ь]

На последних кадрах хочется сказать: ну что стоишь? вытаскивай - как хочеш. 😁

[@seth1665]

how does the ekranoplan deal with bad weather and waves?

[@franciscoosuna259]

Make sure to incorporate a horn so the pilot can give a polite little beep to move pelicans and sea gulls out of the way

[@shalovitat]

that water touching would cause slightly different result

[@carbonite1999]

The tips of the wings need to be like hydrofoils it would lift at low speed reducing drag on take of ,

[@TheDeerInn]

I was waiting for the kids to come running out with the backpacks at the end.

[@doright8355]

Build RC and sell in the market. I will buy two.

[@mithunhaldar4866]

I well buy it s

[@thescubersteve5214]

I love a ground-effect craft!

[@alirc6995]

Meee tooooo

[@poochee2010]

I like it , it's a beautiful air sea ship, keep up the good work . God bless all of you an families, stay safe.

[@johnrobinson4739]

Good luck in anything other than flat seas. This concept has been around for a long time. It's fun in Fair weather, dangerous in anything other than small swells.

[@hydroworld-soontobemigrate6160]

You could consider this as the New Hovercraft of the 21st century.

[@elnetini]

I think there is something very basic at fault. The fans should be under the wings. How are you getting higher speed air under the wings if the fans are above? In any case you would be pushing the ship down to the water with the fans

[@willycanuck]

If they can get over the salt-water corrosion issue, more power to them. I think the time is right for this tech to come back because the days of aviation will be severely limited in coming years due to the draw-down in combustion/jet tech. With this, I think there's a lot more options in terms of power plants and no danger if you run out of juice!

[@rockspoon6528]

If you want your Ekranoplan to be even remotely viable on anything other than the smoothest of waters, it has to be absurdly large. They don't scale down well, and scaling down also removes the economy-of-scale aspect, driving up costs. Cool plane, but it's not going to "disrupt the global logistics industry".

[@jeffellis1149]

From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle: "The demise of the seaplane [in the context of GEVs] was a result of its inability to take off or land in rough sea conditions even while flying conditions were good". Too fast and un-manoeuvrable for rivers, won't work with big waves. Works well on big lakes as originally used in Russia. It will be interesting to see how this is solved.

[@mibj8328]

why make a flying boat when we had planes that land on water and choppers? edit: the CGI looks awesome btw

[@alphaomg4626]

I had been waiting for this kind of flying ship since the 50s which I have seen in comic books

[@marketfluxadvertising]

Your design is good but it has a flaw you can see while taking off the front two rotors turn. If the do their thrust is applied directly on the wing giving a smaller surface area hence will give out very low thrust.

[@TheMullela]

How do you deal with waves?

[@thunderpants007]

Has been tried before see "Caspian Sea Monster". May be more viable now with lighter materials but the issue is water mass and surface tension, takes a lot of power to break it if you want to fly with any weight.

[@rockspoon6528]

Material density was not the reason that Ekranoplans died out, it was the fact that the phenomenon they rely on necessitates they stay about half a wingspan above the surface of the water. That's all well and good when the ocean's calm and there aren't obstacles, but what the fuck are you going to do when the waves themselves are half a wingspan in height? Answer: You don't even leave port. What the fuck are you going to do when a bird or fish suddenly shoots out of the water ten feet in front of you? Hell, what are you going to do when a freaking whale jumps in front of you?!?

[@TheElectricTides]

INCREDIBLE! Cargo ships built this size would be amazing!

[@randomasian8715]

Nah it wouldn't fly lmao

[@benwilms3942]

Is it electric. A short crossing ekranoplane is in my opinion the only application that's worth testing electric flight. The huge weight of batteries is less of a problem, and the position of battery weight and props is far more flexible. It's all the benefits of both, might work.

[@SHIVAMSINGH-id2wy]

Beautiful concept But isnt the both front rotors are too small?

[@parthmanjrekar4177]

so basically it is a ship+plane +ekranoplan

[@schlirf]

Looks perfect for big lake and ocean search and rescue.

[@float_sam]

a scale model version would be super rad

[@federicoxcc4966]

It's not an innovation. It's a cronoplane.

[@chaxologist2024]

Avatar The Way of Water shows a perfect example of such a flying ship

[@goddogtemple]

I think I saw something like that in Final Fantasy 8 - cool that you actually made it. I could make one from old used pallets if I know what engine you installed there ;) How much for one?

[@festo8885]

You have designed a plane that's lands on water, well done. Never see that before!

[@kentgladden4316]

Y'all are on to something. Think BIGGER. MUCH bigger.

[@joelnorton9742]

I want to see the prototype!!! Dragging a ski and ducting additional lift makes a lot of sense.

[@Random-rt5ec]

Has huge potential if it can land/takeoff in reasonable waves. In the Boston, MA area I could see these being used for trips from Boston to PTown or to Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket.

[@_Mentat]

They're good for rivers and lakes. The sea is often too rough for them.

[@justoldog]

the tech that Wakanda has come up with is truly inspiring.

[@HDTomo]

It's not a flying ship. It's called an ekranoplan

[@MrKnutriis]

Is the music included in the price?

[@ethanorians]

So it shrinks during flight?

[@pmoney5724]

So basically this thing is grounded unless u have calm seas.

[@martinmartinmartin2996]

What happens in stormy seas... or when a freak 30 meter wave erupts out of a calm ocean?

[@yannickille4049]

Submarine