This Real VTOL Concept Was So Bad They Gave Up... SO I MADE ONE!

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I am attempting to recreate a failed VTOL concept known as the Grumman G-674 Nutcracker. It was a plane that had a folding fuselage allowing the tail to fold down 90 degrees from the cockpit, along with the engines. It was then intended to be able to hover in the position to vertically take off and land. Even at face value, it's questionable how good of an idea this was, but it's even worse than I had imagined.
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[@sirpanda5962]

the nutcracker is embodiment of how childishly creative grown ups can be xD

[@bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132]

I feel like if a bird and a plane merged into one . . . this seriosly messed up aircaft could be it

[@bofajimy4609]

well it was probably made for aircraft carriers to save space on it keep in mind that back then vtol was a new concept

[@brrrrrr]

W- well y- you see it would fold like a nut cracker. what? W- well it's gonna land on a folding landing pad This was probably how it went

[@thatguy5699]

I have a request scrapman, it's the 'praying mantis' tank, I think it was supposed to raise it's turret up so it can shoot from behind a wall,you can do more research for clear info

[@locke_ytb]

After some researching, I think it's worthy for Scrapman's attention. Not too overcomplicated, simple in concept, could be upgraded by Scrapman.

[@roningaming8238]

@@locke_ytb lol, I literally saw this after I posted a comment about this same tank. great minds think alike.

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

simple yet practical, my favorite

[@anzion1037]

It got heartEd, it's getting made

[@PNPPLPRSMPLS]

GET THIS TO THE TOP!!!!!!!!!!

[@anthonystahl8996]

You , going through this, with the scrapman comb, is honestly, the best.

[@arthurting1857]

Imagin manning the AA turret, you're told something is being picked up from the east, you look over, and you see a squadron of T-posing jets approaching, you freeze up unsure if it's the ridiculousness of the situation or the dominance asserted by the plane

[@glauberglousger6643]

I’d end up thinking they’re giant insects... That would be quite effective paintjob

[@brrrrrr]

@@glauberglousger6643 that's terrifying

[@buggy730]

I would shoot myself if I saw this

[@Silverauren]

All of them parking in a bridge like bats sleeping

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

quality content + history lesson + interesting creations + scrapman = yes

[@nixyndixy9431]

nah, I think you just wrote the equation for entertainment

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

@@nixyndixy9431 any can be entertaining, but scrapman is the most (imo)

[@kosuuqwk]

Quality content + history lesson + interesting creation = ScrapMan

[@ayushkumar-dh7ef]

Trailmakers+Scarp machine+quality content+history lesson +interesting creations +Scarp man=Ultimate Scarp man videos

[@Racetta]

Yes

[@chettiarsirusraj9501]

Hey, Scrapman this creation reminds me of a Humming trying to use its long beak to drink nectar from flowers and it feels more like it when you count in the boom arm and the special landing pad made for it altogether.

[@xkagamex1064]

When the landing mechanism is acalled a “boom arm” things are guaranteed to go wrong

[@manmeh4r]

hehe plane go boom boom

[@RedFissionStudios]

ScrapMan's videos are just the best, he has a really good production quality, he has a great personality and there is so much more but I am not here to write an essay. I just want to congratulate ScrapMan on becoming one of the best youtubers of all time, if not the best youtuber of all time. In my opinion he deserves to have over 10 million subscribers.

[@armarm4504]

True

[@filippachta1201]

I love the "failed inventions" videos!

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

petitions for scrap to get his own gaming history TV show XD

[@devastation2005]

I’ve got three ideas. All of them have been built but never got past the testing phase. They are called tail sitters, rotodyne, and ekronoplan. You can find some good sources of it, including on a KZbin channel named “Mustard” which was how I found them. It should be fun to see.

[@shwellava]

You could make a Cyclocopter?

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

*Cyclotech VTOL*

[@rox2225]

Or a skatopticor

[@omegafalconoriginal]

actually if looked at from the aircraft carrier view it makes perfect sense as you could land launch these off the sides of ships not just carriers. could also hug buildings most ships and buildings could be adapted by adding 3 small platforms specifically for the lander gear instead of having full Heli pads installed i can see the money saving aspect if it hat actually flown and worked.

[@jadenrhys_4987]

YES, i’ve been waiting for this!!

[@Dxniel09]

you play plane crazy?

[@jadenrhys_4987]

@@Dxniel09 yes

[@Dxniel09]

@@jadenrhys_4987 cnxrw.

[@foxracerdrew]

A build suggestion, the "Aerotrain". It's supposed to hover but not like the Japanese maglev trains.

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

:o

[@cobuck13]

i had a feeling this one was only a matter of time to be made since i learned about it last week lol

[@m.l.pointless9903]

Thank you for starting to make videos in trailmakers - i love it!

[@Sh00ming]

Super enjoying this series. Really inte1resting concept and rather well executed. Good effort, good sir

[@Pluspython]

Hey scrap man, thank you for choosing my idea, I didn’t really expect you to choose my idea, I also thank found and explained for giving me the inspiration to ask you that.

[@kingofbento64j.h.20]

Love your videos man! I work 6 days a week 11 hours a day no cap, you get me thru it most of the time! So thank you for making such awesome content!

[@Jengamouse]

you should try making the christmas bullet - a biplane which was supposed to flap it's wings like a bird

[@lavaleopard2961]

M270 MLRS rocket artillery. You may even be able to make it in instruments of destruction, though it would be easier in trailmakers or heck even scrap mechanic

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

yes

[@DistantWaterFarms]

Doesn't he only build interesting and quirky stuff? At least for now he does so i don't think he'll build it.

[@DistantWaterFarms]

@@nikkiofthevalley it's cool but it doesn't have any quirky ideas like the thing that is shown in this video

[@Ivan.A.Churlyuski]

4:38 the V-22 Osprey is kind of an airliner.. not civilian, but it’s a transport VTOL of troops and equipment.

[@xkagamex1064]

I love it when you research these things and build them in trailmakers or scrap mechanic its very entertaining to see you keep essentially saying BUT WAIT THERES MORE since you now have become the most knowledgeable person in the world on some random failure XD

[@dantheveganman]

it so neat to see these machines recrated, and learn about them and why it failed

[@darealkosmo]

damn, I was building this for tomorrow lol, guess I’ll throw that one in the trash as well xD

[@wyrdean_9649]

Would still love to see your take on it :)

[@tropicalvikingcreations]

Wow impressive. I honestly was already starting to give up on this being viable after seeing the model version. This is very interesting that you were able to get this to react so stably as well as the control method they chose. Personally I feel like with some central venting ports facing forwards and backwards from a turbine, this could be somewhat viable for a drone with current technology and calculation speed. However idk about on a boat, any sort of strong gusts to contend with and this wouldn't be able to launch or land / dock. VTOL would present way too unstable a surface for any sort of flight. Easy way to test or show an example of this would be to take it into the high seas, and put it in Vtol, you don't even need to try any manoeuvres, it's just going to flip all over the place probably. Love this sort of technical engineering from the past series of videos and creations.

[@pjamestx]

Wonder if this inspired Robotech/Macross... 🤔 Great job on another build!!

[@Masafu2000]

This thing reminds me of the Dragonflies in Black Panther… maybe that’s where they got the inspiration for their vertical takeoff sequence

[@josefranco7186]

And in this day we have the V 22 Osprey, An aircraft that accomplish this by combining a helicopter with a plane, of course by only moving its propellers.

[@anthonystahl8996]

It's a bird, it's a plane, nope it's scrapman, DUCK, loving it brother lol

[@_The__Legend_]

Inspector: how are you supposed to land Creater: Haven’t ever thought about that Best advise ever to receive

[@hawkeye2b715]

Amazing series, love the content You should build the Lockheed flatbed, its a plane that is "pickup truck"

[@vex3488]

This made me wanna rewatch Planes for some reason.

[@RzExfeL]

I really enjoy watching these historical failures!

[@lepels]

The music when you finally managed was epic.

[@jellynightthenight8796]

16:50 Scrapman getting "historically" streesed

[@JustanOlGuy]

How different a world it would be. Thanks fer the link, My Dad had subscriptions to the Popular(Science, Mechanics) series of magazines.

[@erridkforname]

I just watches found and explained for this and this thing is just weird lol

[@nehemiahsstuff]

Thank you for making this video! 🙂

[@Shayzis]

Always love the bits of history of these videos, and always interesting to see how they could have worked in a simulated environment Unrelated but I really liked that song at the end of the video when you finally landed, what is it from?

[@TheKamiBunny]

If you think about it, the rotating exhaust hood thing of a F35 is similar in concept, although it'd got a secondary lift fan in its mid section to help its stability and lift.

[@shiny4984]

Failed war creations are cool and all, but it would be really cool for you to try to build the arctic snow cruiser, a HUGE truck that was made to... Well... Cruise trough the arctic and it have a mini bi-plane to aid in recon or help stranded expeditioners, if failed for so many reason, it was abandoned somewhere for so long, it got covered in snow and NOBODY KNOWS WHERE IT ENDED UP, so that's a pretty good title too: "This arctic snow cruiser was so flawed, it got abandoned and nobody know where it ended up"

[@kamrokosz1600]

i never even realized this is what the dragon fly plane that was in black panther!!

[@endertgyjvcvcdfg]

The magazine looks like something you would see in Fallout.

[@BLKBRDSR71]

Son of Nutcracker: Concept ScrapMan: "This never made it past the design stage". V-22 Osprey: Am I a joke to you?

[@Seeker_903]

Lol you should’ve added that interstellar docking song when you were trying to get it up onto the bridge on the last try.

[@lightningmansz9542]

Hey scrapman if you use the liner chrome extension it will make your life much easier for searching things.

[@devonp4057]

If it took that many tries, imagine they are testing this with people, how many lives just fly away

[@Ivantober]

scrapman sead it wrong scrapman should say i will tank this creator for giving me a good content

[@philhope2842]

Great content as always Scrapman. Am I missing somethimg but would control on the rudder help? this would be another axis to control 😜😜

[@eframvass1060]

This just looks like a semi-normal plane T-posing to assert dominance

[@syndican_]

WOOO MORE FALIURES AND WEIRD STUFF FROM HISTORY IN VIDEOGAMES!!!!

[@sparking023]

More 8 minutes of Scrapman dissing the ingenious naivety of the engineers of old. Loving the historical rebuilds

[@bestmeme8902]

you should revisit this one but build a platform that folds flat or 90 degrees to take off with

[@t.kronenberg7222]

This would be a rather cool albeit still nonsensical concept for some kind of alien (star)fighter. I imagine huge carrier vessels with entire swarms of those fighters perching on rows of those 90° racks like giant insects....

[@nonyabissniss7526]

I learned more about practical engineering in this channel than in uni.

[@benlabuda3640]

I just played the song in the background at 4:20 at a concert 2 days ago. Funny coincidence!

[@lechking941]

i hope to god its on the workshop because i WANT IT!

[@DeadBread.]

This video got me thinking. Could you make a tiltrotor aircraft, like the Boeing V 22 Osprey, Bell V 247 or XV3? I think it'd be cool to see those aircraft in Trailmakers

[@seeker1795]

He's already built a v-22 a while back

[@daytopotato8613]

I heard the blunderbirds intro, im ready

[@willbgm5x5]

I just realized that your intro song reminds me of DanTDM's intro song I mean this in the BEST way!

[@ianbrooksher1371]

I just realized that the one where only the thrusters turn was the inspiration for the V22 Osprey

[@chilledout_5486]

14:10 Basically how unstable my DeLorean fly mode is

[@brianshea2515]

After seeing this, I'd love to see a build of a 1980s Starscream toy.

[@hfpewe7872]

Oh hey scrapman never gives up and never lets down

[@whizkidbricks9740]

Can you do a screw drive vehicle in trailmakers?

[@Ender_M4n_]

The plane when folded has the posture of COME AT ME BRO

[@nunya5352]

Looks more like a hummingbird than a nutcracker. I'm wonder why Son of Nutcracker wasn't build since it's basically a V-22 Osprey.

[@FoundAndExplained]

I did a full video on it on my channel

[@FruitJuice92]

Hi Scrapman I really love this serie... But as real ingineer I have to say that I struggle every time you bring us one more wierd failure project 😣 how can a man imagine such complex and crazy ideas 😂 I mean my purpose everytime I start a new blueprint is make it simple

[@zalto5619]

Could you try building an AD-1 Oblique Wing or a Convair XFY-1 Pogo? I think both would be very interesting and I would like to see you would make them work. Great video as always, keep it like that!

[@DeadBread.]

I just looked it up, and yeah, the Pogo would be pretty funny to see scrap try and land it. Also the Oblique Wing looks like a crash waiting to happen

[@wyrdean_9649]

Honestly, considering you're not a fighter jet pilot, this seems very practical for all that you bashed it, it seems to work great

[@QuirkyView]

What I've gathered from this is that for military this thing would be awful but for stunt flying this thing would be incredible

[@BoneKrusher]

You should try the old concepts and planes like this with the new updated airborn parts and tweaks. See if it is easier or harder to make/controll.

[@Mr_chopp_chopp]

That’s exactly what I was just thinking, I went to newest comments to find this, too (scrap man should pin)

[@pawedabek1445]

I justwatched q historical video of it i love your contet scrap man awsome machine

[@somerandomkid4088]

This guy should do a satisfactory playthrough

[@Person-xl6bj]

can you do a make a car challenge that has assistance features built-in with your multiplayer friends? You can go for any assistance feature but i suggest you go for a mid-air assistance that allows for smooth and no-damage landing

[@CaptainBara]

Hey Scrapman, you should try to make a Blackbird Vehicle in Trailmakers: High Seas. I would love to see you try that… day 3

[@sheep7930]

If you're looking for more unique aircrafts to replicate you should look at the VZ-9AV Avrocar or the LTV XC-142, both are experimental VTOLs

[@loudstone9193]

Son: Mom can we get an Osprey Mom: No we have an Osprey at home The Osprey at home

[@scottgreeff7043]

i think they say a humming bird and was like thats a good look for a vtol plane

[@xxkingbravoxx7684]

That second plane you showed looked really close to the Osprey so that's probably what lead into it I'm guessing

[@Dnh-Bear]

Bruh I just watched a video about this v tol thing last night, and now your building it 😀

[@nathanbarraud4349]

You should try to build the Parnall Peto and the HMS M2, it was a aircraft carrier submarine !

[@marluna_x]

it looks like a gun where you can rotate the barrel down to reload, but as a plane

[@turnedwheat2013]

Good job Scrap Man you made it on there

[@bballplayer5555]

Just totally ignored the whole torque imbalance lol. There is no way the thrust lines up with the center of mass in the hinged position.

[@isaiahTMP]

In my opinion as shown on 7:29 that the jet/engine/thruster is right in front of the wing and tail so I think that’s why scrap man ignored it? Edit I just finished watching the vid and he did exactly what you said in the comment

[@murdermystery7039]

Ideas:build a Lun(project 903) it's a military sea plane that never use it on wars .It might be harder to build it bc the thrusters has to put on the cockpit.

[@Firebuck]

Thrusters on the cockpit? What could go wrong!? 😆

[@adventlegofan1611]

You should try to make another failed vtol called the pogo aircraft

[@copiedcatagain151]

I can't believe I saw this same thing on my laptop yesterday.

[@just_chillin1010]

cant wait when i see video 100 of failed inventions and guess what, ill watch em all

[@RexxyBooy]

Scrap man the best Channel for history of machines

[@boxsterpontus]

It's similar to a tail-sitter. A drone/plane with rotors and wings that lands on it's tail. The tail-sitter is an actual good idea and they work very well.

[@foxidafluffy8294]

reminds me of a dragonfly, makes it look cute trying to land

[@Twisted1409]

I believe the Harrier is the first capable VTOL but was replaced by the joint strike force!.

[@boltgaming5582]

you should do the son of nutcraker as well, that would be cool too

[@eidolor]

Son of Nut became the harrier, they’re perfect for ships without runways but the powerful jets damage the deck

[@gaminggod8496]

When the landing mechanism is called a “boom arm” things are guaranteed to go boom

[@moroblizniak4457]

Son Of Nutcrasker next please!

[@anonymouscoward7559]

I could imagine test pilots would have looked at the model and said NOPE

[@derincattelane43]

You should try building the AVE Mizar, it was a literal flying car