The Most Unusual VTOL Vehicles of the Last 100 Years

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[@seandawson5899]

5:30 I am dying that Simon said a plane was "dummy Thiccc". My first great laugh of the year!

[@budbud13411]

Best part of the video - Some of Simon’s commentary is hilarious!

[@GraemeLeRoux]

Ahhh the 1950s. The golden age of bonkers military design and a gold mine for KZbinrs. Thanks Simon for another excellent video.

[@earlyriser8998]

and an age of discovery about flight that we all benefit from now

[@williamchamberlain2263]

1920s was pretty spectacular for massive multi-winged aircraft, but the '50s were replete with aircraft with powerful engines and problematic control characteristics.

[@johnfisher3380]

“A vicious cycle of wobbles.” Perhaps the most terrifying sentence an engineer can hear.

[@SimonTekConley]

Hot air balloons have nailed the vertical take off part.

[@mho...]

just having a tough time going supersonic 😏

[@craigstoner2632]

Id love to see a modern jet that pops a balloon and a bunsen burner out the canopy to take off and land 🤣

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Can you do the history of The Thunderbirds? It's a tragic, wonderful story of military grade aircraft that wondered millions.

[@OGTylerP]

Thunderbirds Are Go

[@Sideprojects]

Sure! Suggesting it to the writers :)

[@brett4264]

Lol, "The insurance rates rise to literal DEATH if you mess up." Good one!

[@Icini]

Lol

[@liamwinter4512]

I remember seeing the airjeep on extreme machines back when TLC stood for "The Learning Channel".

[@Fortunes.Fool.]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the testicular fortitude of the men who actually strapped into things like the Pogo to fly it? I wouldn't get within a ZIP code of that thing.

[@Icini]

Lol

[@mpetersen6]

As the man moved about the surface of the Earth is introduced a wobble in the Earth's rotation.

[@phantomechelon3628]

Thats why they originally recruited astronauts from the ranks of test pilots.

[@jackryan4313]

Only reason they all failed was because the payload wasn't rated for the weight of the pilots balls

[@gabbyn978]

fyi: the MAN acronym means Maschinenfabrik (machine factory in) Augsburg-Nürnberg (Nuremberg), and their usual staple was the construction of trucks and buses

[@Ozuhananas]

It's still their usual staple I think, I see plenty of MAN trucks and buses on the road around where I live

[@jacoboconnell7518]

Hearing Simon say the words "dummy thicc" made me literally spit my drink out. starting off the new year right!

[@shadowstar6257]

Those flying jeep concepts remind me of the modern flying car /rideable drones of today's designs. The more things change the more they remain the same.

[@mattfleming86]

And I firmly believe that a similar product will be of military worth in short order, especially if they can be produced such that many of them can be folden/packed into a standard shipping container and have decent load bearing capacity and/or range. Electric quadrotors would also have quite a low heat signature- helping survivability.

[@RCAvhstape]

They are as worthless as flying cars. More so, since an actual Jeep or a conventional helicopter can actually carry a decent payload, while these things are doing all they can to just not kill you.

[@electi0neering]

@@mattfleming86 but now there’s no need for a pilot so it’s just a drone

[@eliahabib5111]

This was the period when sf was describing a future where flying car would be used instead of regular cars. So a flying jeep isn't so strange. Never mind that the only reason given to needing flying car is avoiding trafic. There are very few cases where the reason is not building a road infrostructure. I never found a case where the reason for flying cars is: going in a strait line not following road, or higher speed. This look like 3D film that don't seems to have any reason to exists outside of "a more immersive experience". And that is still going today.

[@craigstoner2632]

Life is a wheel, not a road.

[@wormyboot]

That last shot of the flying Jeep is my favorite. I love how they've got a .50 cal up there. It's not, like, manned or anything. It's just up there, on a tripod, like an afterthought.

[@manilove2pwn]

That family guy cut was done perfect well done editors

[@thejudgmentalcat]

My jaw dropped when Brian's did 🤣

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Lockheed XFV convair XFY 4:00 - Chapter 2 - Snecma coleoptere 7:15 - Chapter 3 - VJ 101 11:00 - Chapter 4 - The flying jeep 14:20 - Chapter 5 - Avrocar 17:50 - Chapter 6 - The skies as they are

[@thatjewishbitche9719]

5:30 Simon says dummy thicc

[@iteerrex8166]

Who knew, the quadcopter was invented in ‘58. Happy new year Simon, everybody.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

that german tiltjet fighter and also the german tiltjet bomber only mentioned tangentially here were clearly the best ones.

[@mpetersen6]

The Dornier was designed as a transport.

[@01oo011]

5:30 never thought I’d hear Simon say that

[@alexbarnett8541]

I love how they added the Bazooka to the prototype jeep. Wishful thinking.

[@SpacePatrollerLaser]

You have no idea of how many 11 year old boys drooled over the models of the XFV-1 and 2 in 195 What happened to the Ryan X-55 We never did get the VTO interceptor Chance-Vought had something like that called the "flying flapjack" that had two propeller engines in about 1945 but the jet engine kind of scratched that one

[@richardvernon317]

Yep loads of VTOL designs missing from this. Ryan X-13 Bell X-14 Hiller X-18 Curtiss-Wright X-19 Bell X-22 Lockheed XV-4 Hummingbird Ryan XV-5 Rockwell XVF-12 Shorts SC-1 Canadair CL-84 Dassault Mirage IIIV Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) XC-142

[@dreamCatV6]

Simon with the BF2042 references....lmao. My year is off to a good start

[@chesspiece81]

Simon never reads comments but I've been watching since the pre beard days and have enjoyed the content. Happy new year

[@MacktasticSlick_]

My grandpa had a cool color picture of the Convair XFV always on the wall when I was a kid I never knew much about it but I always loved looking at it, what an unlocked memory that was. I forgot about that since the 90s holy shit. I wonder where all that stuff went when he died, that would have been cool to keep.

[@ljphoenix4341]

5:31 I never thought I'd hear those words be spoken by Simon, in that order. To the writer of this video, THANKYOU.

[@patrickhasachannel]

I don't want to distract from the topic entirely, but the V-22 Osprey has its fair share of critics and for good reason. for such a "new" aircraft it has a notable incident record

[@liamwinter4512]

My buddy flys them. I brought up the incident record and he stated that they have to read aloud all the names of the personnel that died during it's polishing phase.

[@RCAvhstape]

It's new tech. Wait until it's been in service for a few decades and see how it pans out. Compare with the first jets, which were all deathtraps too.

[@rooseveltbrentwood9654]

1:09 The first time i’ve seen Simon sit (at least with his legs in frame).

[@UncleManuel]

Pffffffffhahahaha, that Flying Jeep meme was ON POINT! 😁😁😁

[@UncleManuel]

Some VTOL aircraft didn't need engines to take off - they were so ugly that Earth repelled them. 🤪😁

[@markthetrois420]

Bro I'd do some ILLEGALLY COOL shit to have a flying jeep for me and the homie to bop around in

[@archstanton6102]

The Smithsonian currently has a flying taxi on display in Futures exhibit. Not for roads just VTOL

[@markthetrois420]

@@archstanton6102 but can I have it, for shennanigans and beer runs?

[@archstanton6102]

@@markthetrois420 Didn't see a cost but yes

[@rockstarJDP]

"A vicious cycle of wobble" is how I'm going to describe being drunk from now on.

[@ljphoenix4341]

Nick Suarez, you are a legend for this script!

[@franks471]

Fun Fact: the designer of the vz-6 also designed the tune-o-matic for Gibson.

[@ThisAintMyGithub]

The Battlefield jokes had me dying, they were so accurate

[@Derekzparty]

Watched this channel for years, but I've never seen Simon whistle. Can Simon whistle?

[@LtNduati]

The first Lockheed XFY look like someone went back in time to describe a helicopter but did a terrible job and left for the future a bit too early 😂

[@Jay-wo9vk]

Simon coming in hard with the shade at BF2042 >_< lol

[@hampuskall3749]

Not sure if it would be a megaproject or sideproject, but i would love a video of the Swedish Archer system, or mabye the Saab 37 Viggen, like when they locked on to a Blackbird

[@chrisshorten4406]

The Treibflugel designed by the NAZIs, while never put into service, was also a very strange VTOL aircraft.

[@mandernachluca3774]

Not only that, they also developed a conceptual twin rotor vtol recon aircraft, equal in design to the Ospray. It was build and tested after the war, thought only as a Stol vehicle, as the rotors were not tilted the full 90°.

[@johnhill6673]

The AVRO car couldn't really fly, but it sure hovered well. Oh, wait, the first hovercraft, but no one at that time realized what they had.

[@ericstromberg9608]

It was one rubber skirt away from greatness!

[@owenshebbeare2999]

@@ericstromberg9608 Pretty much.

[@The-three-eyed-Prophet]

you can see the evolution of simons beard over the years it seems like it gets longer and longer it probably will reach the floor in 10 years lol #BeardGang #Respect

[@JerryListener]

This was an extremely informative video - Cheers! The avrocar.. soaring at heights of your waist! As hard as it is to keep a drone flying your first time - imagine having to SIT in it!

[@thejudgmentalcat]

"DeHavilland Vampire" can't believe that name went past first drafts of its design

[@mikejohnson5900]

The DO-31 was fantastically engineered and well executed. At a time when computers were still relatively basic, it was reportedly easy to fly without requiring them, and without bad habits. It was also a beautiful aircraft.

[@jeffrobourn]

Happy new year man. Always enjoy your content.

[@itzmistah_1874]

"The first thing that's probably gonna catch your eye about this plane is that it is Dummy Thicc." 5:27 ~ Simon January,2022

[@kschepelern]

HEY beard blaze!! happy new years and thanks for all of the things upload

[@lemmonsinmyeyes]

it would be cool to see more yak 131, it was 'mass produced' in a sovet flavored morgan kind of way, but it paved the way for the 'modern' style vtol now

[@christse3467]

You mean Yak-141

[@Sutterjack]

I'm actually surprised 4-rotor large-sized drones haven't been more fully developed both commercially and militarily. We've learned so much from personal drone aircraft and the technology and electronics are so sophisticated now that literally a child can fly one. Far more stable than a helicopter-

[@absalomdraconis]

Well, the deal is that larger rotors are usually more efficient, and quad rotors only seem to be _as_ stable as they do because of computer control, which is an advantage that you can apply to conventional helicopters too...

[@RCAvhstape]

If one rotor fails, you die. I'd rather fly on a Huey, thank you.

[@883mustang]

Loved the family guy cutaway 😂

[@rjspires]

11:32 Even Simon giving the burn to Battlefield 2042.

[@MrChasejones24]

Omg his comments on battlefield 2042 had me reeling 🤣🤣🤣

[@DiracComb.7585]

5:30 definitely had to take a double take there

[@shugadaddy4841]

The writers dig at Simon @ 13:40 was great 😆

[@thefretfiend]

No mention of the Hiller X18?

[@bartjohnson8139]

🎉🍾Happy New Year Big Brain Boy! 💫🥂

[@mikearmstrong8483]

The Avrocar. Projected performance: mach 3 at 100,000 ft. Actual performance: never exceeded 30 mph and could not get above 4 ft off the ground at best. That guy had a lot of nerve calling himself an engineer.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@52Megaton]

Flying jeeps, flying tanks but no flying bicycles...? Darn it, they make this too hard.

[@stianberg5645]

they had vtol propeller planes doing mach 1!? I thought there was only one prop plane able to do that ever

[@VWdude278]

What does a flying geep look like? Well……. 11:23 Brilliant!!

[@wills2140]

the Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 looks a lot like scaled up version of several different modern drones ... I wonder if Simon will talk about things like the drones we can buy.

[@anthonyhayes3991]

I thought helicopters may be involved in this video. Maybe a seperate video for their history

[@hernerweisenberg7052]

2:46 "Two sets of three propellers" - so it has 6 propellers? xD More like two 3-bladed propellers :P

[@Sassquatch0]

"Imagine if everyone had one of these." ...see Colin Furze's personal hover bike. ;)

[@bobthompson4319]

The tail sitters are great for take off but terrible to land when you have no way to see behind you and no idea what your altitude is.

[@robertmacpherson9044]

Thank you for making an effort to pronounce words and names in foreign languages! I was surprised to hear Piasecki pronounced that way, but then went back and looked at the spelling. If it's Polish, that's just about right. Kudos!

[@RCAvhstape]

I went to school in the US with a classmate of Polish decent whose name was Piasecki and he pronounced his name the anglicized way: PIE-ah-SEK-ee

[@nigozeroichi2501]

The flying geep, probably the first manned quadcopter?

[@AcornElectron]

Harrier FTW. Always!

[@rulingmoss5599]

It makes me sad we dont see wacky and downright cool experimental vehicles like this, although it probably makes the test pilots happier lol

[@mirzaahmed6589]

They still exist, they are classified.

[@seandawson5899]

@@mirzaahmed6589 yeah in 30 years we will be talking about how they never have invisible helicopters anymore or something. Everything we know is just what everyone else has now.

[@nicmainville9954]

We’ve figured out the physics already and have proper computerized modeling programs to test new aero designs without having to build prototypes until the design is near production ready.

[@shakiMiki]

You want to see designs that don't work?

[@brucebaxter6923]

Black fly. Start there and then go into the various battery powered air taxis

[@garychurch9740]

I really have always liked the coleoptere. Sooooo cool looking.

[@JJadx]

there are a lot of flying cars in the works, the key is to make them remote or computer controlled.

[@var1ares]

Does anyone know if Simon has done a video on the tank that busts land mines? It’s got massive chains that whip the ground in front of it and they detonate mines or breaks them with the force and looks super weird

[@binaway]

With modern computer control a tail sitter would now be possible. Whether practical is another story. The VJ101's similar looks to the Starfighter is no coincidence. With the Starfighter already in W-German production the VJ101 is basically a 6 engine VTOL version of this single engine aircraft.

[@gordonwallin2368]

Yay Canada; flying saucers, X-files, Avro Arrow, wo hoo! Cheers from Vancouver.

[@jtjames79]

Tail sitters could definitely make a comeback. If Falcon 9 can hoverslam, then it's just an autopilot problem.

[@brucebaxter6923]

Yes. But why put pilots in?

[@jtjames79]

@@brucebaxter6923 to feed the dog.

[@brucebaxter6923]

@@jtjames79 Win

[@brucebaxter6923]

@Cancer McAids and there we have the reason 2/3 of accidents are pilot related

[@eaphantom9214]

Very strange but interesting machines 😂🛩️ That third 1 looked like a manned Nuclear Bomb, whilst that EWR VJ101 looked like a Thunderbirds plane! Good 1 on that insurance joke! LOL 🤣🤣

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Tail sitting aircraft can return as drones now

[@patpopov]

No Flying Bedstead? What a swizz!

[@lesliereissner4711]

The Avrocar was not scrapped but can be found in all its glory (ha ha!) at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. A second protototype apparently exists at another museum.

[@hikyuu1]

Have you thought of videos on the JRM Martin Mars flying boat or the AH-56 Cheyenne?? The Mars was produced in 1945 and still used today and the Cheyenne was a design for the the AAFSS program where both it and S-67 Blackhawk were too ahead of their time. BTW love the videos

[@simonrancourt7834]

You forgot the Canadair CL-84

[@earlyriser8998]

a nice version of forgotten weapons - vtol

[@chadcuckproducer1037]

Bj101 sounds like a class that should be combined with home economics.

[@charlesseymour1482]

Someone should do a video on rc aircraft. Radio control models speed record held by a glider.

[@Quenstar]

To find what works, you often have to find what doesn't work.

[@sensualchocolate4928]

Simon first let me say I enjoy all your channels but I gotta call bs on the Ace Combat Seven reference lol. But before I do I want to ask something, I hope you see this too answer lol, ok what "air refueling" mission are you talking about. It's been awhile since I played but I only remember aerial refueling before one maybe two main missions and also what difficulty were you on? I play many flying games and sims with expert control schemes and for some it is very difficult but for the Ace Combat games (admittedly I've only played 6 & 7 along with a bit of 5 and whatever that one was that had helicopters in it) refueling is pretty straightforward. As long as you don't pitch, yaw, or roll in 6 & 7 at least you can line up with throttle alone. Well wait 6 I think you have to actually fly in if I'm remembering right. Now also I only played on expert difficulty once and don't remember how it worked then so maybe that was the difference. But I was just wondering, I understand you're insanely busy with all the content you produce for us your fans so you'll probably never see this lol but if you do please allow a heartfelt thank you to you and your team for all you folks do. From Megaprojects to Business Blaze to Side projects to Top Tenz where I believe is where I originally saw you, your videos are always a highlight to my day, filled with great information and delivered with an awesome style. So really though this post was intended just to be a lil bit of a cheeky ribbing it turned into a very honest thank you. I suffer from severe depression and on December 28th my mom was diagnosed with cancer again, knock on wood the doctors caught it early and hopefully all will be well, but your videos provide a much needed distraction when I'm feeling to sorry for myself lol. Seriously though you and your team do an amazing job on all your channels and I look forward to seeing your videos. So thank all of you folks and may you Simon and Simon's team have many blessings and much joy this year.

[@thomasheyart7033]

The only thing the AvroCar was missing was a rubber skirt. It's seen as the grandfather of the hovercraft

[@Pupil0fGod]

I almost smell the BLAZE on this one 👍

[@mrsDeborah]

Great video. you've remind me of what someone once said💖 "The mind is the man, the poor is in it and the rich is it too". This sentence is the secret of most successful investors. I once attended similar and ever since then i been waxing strong financially, and i most tell you the truth..

[@semaj_5022]

What the fuck is all of this nonsense

[@mho...]

Cant Wait for the Day, when we adopt something like GDI's Orca! .... we can dream, can we?!

[@J3scribe]

Some of these projects are worth revisiting, if only because of "what if?"

[@brandonthornborough4433]

Dude! You make a lot of content! I can't keep up!

[@codyandrews8858]

I'm really waiting on the black fly vtol, it's design is close to that of a drone, big enough for a single human to fly

[@jamesstuckey2732]

Happy New one man

[@TheMattc999]

@ 11:25 oh sh#t, that's the world's first quad-copter/food processor/sausage grinder- I _really_ wouldn't want to be the guy in that seat when that thing goes down...

[@vomder]

How about a video on Project Habakkuk from World War II?

[@weatherman667]

The Avrocar did lead to modern hovercraft.

[@MrHeems]

Is that a keyboard under Simon's shirt, or is he just happy to see us watching? Seriously though, what the heck is on his lap?

[@ramons8908]

-flying saucer- nope, what the canuck designed was a skirtless hovercraft. There's a reason why a hovercraft has a skirt, something to do with stability.

[@VicariousAdventurer]

How can you miss Sir Stanley Hooker and the light jet that made the Harrier possible?

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

09:14 now I know where the inspiration for dasa-kamov havoc from g police came from