What Happened To Ring Wing Planes?

[@FoundAndExplained]

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[@axialcompressorturbojet]

Hey mate. Great video once again 👍. Just out of curiosity though, I'm wondering if you went to the Avalon Airshow at the beginning of March haha, considering you're an Aussie too. Or don't you live Victoria? If you did though, how was it?

[@ahha6304]

Hi Nic, have you consider doing video about Heinkel Lerche?

[@techie8359]

So I watch an ad, to watch a video, 1 minute in I get an embedded ad asking me to buy merch, 4 minutes in I get a KZbin ad, the ad ends, and the video presents another embedded ad, this time for a beauty scam. Seriously, so trashy, this is more ads than TV!!!!! Unsubscribing, stop being a greedy pos.

[@artlew6547]

For 10 min video there was 5 mins ads. Enough. I paid for KZbin premium to not see that shit. Dislike this time.

[@therewontbetillwefall9105]

Hey, can you make a pillow case that has tiling of aircraft blueprint on it with white and black or however color people want?

[@fixedG]

As difficult as powered heavier-than-air flight was to first achieve in human history, it sure seems like there are a ridiculously wide array of designs that can work.

[@ToastyMozart]

Yeah once you've got the basic idea of an airfoil and centers of lift and mass hammered out the rest is pretty flexible. Of course it's still a big leap from something flying and something flying _well._

[@BrooksMoses]

Yup. The hard problem at the time wasn't so much wings as engines.

[@axiezimmah]

The problem was not wing design, the problem was an engine that was powerful enough while also being light enough

[@Wi-Fi-El]

It was the engines that were the problem. We had airplane-like gliders in the civil war, and soldiers would use them to spy on the enemy. They had to be sent up like a kite and wouldn't stay airborne for long though

[@metacob]

Especially home-built RC planes! I thought you needed a PhD in engineering and access to a wind tunnel to design a plane that stays in the air, but it turns out that even people with "I think I saw that somewhere" knowledge of an airfoil can glue some styrofoam together and make it fly.

[@cropcircle5693]

7 and a half minutes of "isn't it wacky," "you've never seen this before" and "this has never been done" before there is any real discussion of how this design works. And then it doesn't really explain much.

[@WhiteRhinoPSO]

And you can't forget the ad read, pushing his merch store, and the usual asking people to subscribe. Not a lot of actual information in this video.

[@ファティン-z2v]

Almost gave up halfway through vid, thinking whether this guy is really going to explain anything

[@WhiteRhinoPSO]

@@ファティン-z2v The videos I've seen him post in the past were much better. I don't know if he's suffering from KZbin burnout or felt the need to put out a video even if it wasn't up to the usual standards, or what.

[@OpoOnTheGo]

​@@WhiteRhinoPSO the ad read was under 20 seconds to be overly fair. That's a fraction of the slop most youtubers would serve us

[@OpoOnTheGo]

​@@WhiteRhinoPSO many thanks for your insight, that's definitely a shame. This guy seems like a cut above the rest when he puts the effort in

[@matsv201]

A yes.. the worst of both worlds. Both the downside of having a very long wing, combined with the downside of having two wings on top of each other. On top of that, the high pressure area on one part is the low pressure on the other part. So its almost like having a anti winglet, that guides air from the high pressure to the low pressure side. Will it fly, absolutely. But it will suck down fuel as if there is no tomorrow.

[@deptusmechanikus7362]

Like my engineering teacher used to say: _"With the right engine even a tram will fly"_

[@AaronShenghao]

Actually I think it will have varied cross sections, so the low pressure zone will always be the “top” side of the wing generate lift. Still the sides are not doing anything…

[@ridhosamudro2199]

​@@AaronShenghao is it viable to put rudders on that sections?

[@matsv201]

​@@AaronShenghao Well on the same side of the surface, what is top and bottom is really perspective. But it gets worse. There is just a infinitly shot bit of the wing that is vertical. Just next to it is parts that is have a horizontal component to them, hence generate lift. If they generate lift, they have a low pressure. So this put the low pressure of the lower wing just next to the high pressure of the upper wing. Guiding the pressure to collapse, and that is also true the other way around. So this is actually worse than if you had two semi circular wing and a gap between them

[@matsv201]

@@deptusmechanikus7362 yea... that would work, but it might have control issues

[@BlunderMunchkin]

Found and Explained, if by "Explained" you mean "Almost no information at all, stretched out to fill ten minutes."

[@supakuma8200]

Yeah for real. What a waste of time

[@nevinkishen6517]

Thanks saved my time 😅

[@jordankelly4684]

You're a god damn champion

[@circasurvive9891]

😭🤣😭

[@umbrellacorp.]

Ya know...🤷‍♂️

[@jaredkennedy6576]

Can you imagine an alternate timeline where this is how planes developed? It'd be wild

[@fromaggiovagiola9128]

Coital.

[@hitmusicworldwide]

That would require an alternate aerodynamics and in that sense, physics

[@JohnFrumFromAmerica]

can imagine an alternative timeline where engineers deliberately make bad decisions over and over again.

[@acthoundentertainment]

@@JohnFrumFromAmericaThey already do.

[@SirBlicks]

@@JohnFrumFromAmerica Sound familiar 🤨

[@anthonyjensen5524]

My engineering teacher in highschool had us all make paper airplanes to see which ones would glide the furthest. Nobody really made anything too out of the ordinary, but the teacher made a ring wing plane from a straw, a piece of paper, and tape. It flew further than any other design and it blew my teenage mind.

[@peoplez129]

Actually the best paper airplane design is this: Build a regular paper airplane, then make another one, but stop right before you fold it in half. Then slot that piece onto the top of the first paper airplane, taping them together under the wings. The overall shape is the same, but now you have a wing that opens like a pocket from the back. This creates a really smooth and long range glider, and there's multiple reasons why it performs better. Firstly, air gets pushed in from the front, inflating the wing, creating an area of high pressure, generating lift, while at the same time, also getting even more pressure from the default wing, even though it all behaves as one wing. So it essentially multiplies the high pressure surface area, without increasing the low pressure surface area, which generates more lift. It also fly's very smooth and stable. In a way it's like a ring wing meshed with a traditional wing, giving you the benefits of both with none of the drawbacks.

[@andy99ish]

I am afraid that he was a communist.

[@Shem-x2w]

😮😂❤😊

[@JohnAdam-t7p]

My science teacher did the same to my class growing up. Must be a well established teacher training exercise. 🤭

[@JP-ee2tc]

My middle school science teacher had us pad the inside of shoeboxes put a raw egg inside and dress up the outside with glider wings or whatever, anything that could slow it's fall from a second story window. Somehow someone won but I still don't think I learned anything from it. A few dozen messy boxes

[@buildintotrains]

Whoever makes the models you use in your videos needs to upload them to MSFS 2020...the texture and detail is so insane

[@MrDerpy-ns6sy]

Someone would need to add the whole cockpit though right? That would be cool though!

[@TinyBearTim]

It’s a Russian called Tim

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Or we can ride a train and crash into a wall up to you

[@edwardshaw7774]

​@@Dragon-Slay3r look again

[@edwardshaw7774]

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[@Theiliteritesbian]

Man there is 3 min of content in this 10 min video

[@RobespierreThePoof]

Yup. A lot of KZbin channels bloat their videos tremendously. Small benefit of the doubt : If you try to communicate information TOO quickly, you do lose quite a bit of your audience who are just ... A bit slow.

[@uingaeoc3905]

Bleriot = Blair-eeo. Voison = Vwow-sson. Bleriot was one of the greatest aviation pioneers, he made the first Cross English Channel flight in 1909.

[@saalkz.a.9715]

I guess it's standard (or a gimmick) on this channel that he always butchers the pronunciation... 😕

[@matthewstephenson1664]

Seriously. How hard is it to look up the pronunciation of one of the most famous aviation pioneers before you butcher it?

[@trance_trousers]

@@matthewstephenson1664 I know, it's so annoying. It's like he has no interest in aviation and is just brought in to do the voice overs. About to give up watching this channel.

[@TinLeadHammer]

Bad pronunciation is inexcusable in the age of the internet.

[@hidesbehindpseudonym1920]

I came here to say this I haven't even gotten to the second name yet. If somebody hasn't heard a lot of French names that might be harder to pronounce. Simon Whistler does the same thing he says he just doesn't care when he mispronounces a word here and there. It just makes me feel old but cultured to know how all of the words are pronounced...

[@ubertoaster99]

0:28 'Far more fuel efficient' : Long advert: Long advert: Another two adverts: 'Not efficient'. It's a downvote from me.

[@F1NN3YYYY]

It's called a dislike btw this isn't reddit

[@coaxl7940]

​@@F1NN3YYYY🤓

[@Propidium-Iodide]

* the maintenance team needs to have an Ironman suit to get to the engine * it is impossible to have fuel tanks in the wings * flaps - a nightmare for an engineer * ice, snow, or water on the wings will lift the center of mass this list can go on forever

[@NIGUAVIUS950]

Your right

[@Headloser]

You have too so you can show the "engineers whom design this um plane the problem they going to encounter."

[@isaacschmitt4803]

As I was watching, I too was trying to figure out how exactly the flaps are supposed to work. Like, even on working examples like that crop duster, it's more of a flat ellipse, where there's sufficient surface area to have working flaps, essentially like a biplane but it's two wings are connected with a curved wing section. This would have to have some kind of German space magic to even have a chance of having working flaps.

[@davidrobertson5700]

Please do

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

Why can’t you have fuel tanks in these wings?

[@johnslugger]

*I built ring wing paper airplanes as a kid. They seemed to fly forever and were not bothered by windy days!*

[@loendsti]

well, how did you make them / fold them? why don't you make a video or two making those paper planes and post them on youtube?

[@johnslugger]

@@loendsti *Actually from 1977 to 1983 MacDonalds offered a ring-wing plane for the "BOYS-TOY" in their happy meals. They gave away millions and was a favorite toy for collectors. The cheap stamped foam did not last long, sadly. The real trick was to put a bigger ring inside the main wing. This gave it 80% more structural strength and 68% more lift. Think of it as a Bi-Plane wing. When we did this mod those toys lasted a real LONG time.*

[@loendsti]

@@johnslugger oh, well, that's one way to get ppl into science. clever move.

[@johnslugger]

@@loendsti *Heck with that, I'm going for the Nobel Prize!*

[@loendsti]

@@johnslugger good luck

[@marjoseph2311]

I did not know these sycophantic plane makers exist

[@toruscharge984]

U mean psychopathic?

[@marjoseph2311]

@@toruscharge984 blame autocorrect

[@blaster915]

Have you ever heard of the X-plane program? 😂

[@alphadawg81]

​​​@mar joseph 23 If you know what happened, why don't you edit it? But besides the typo, do you actually know what "psychopathic" means? Because, I can't see how it would apply here.

[@alphadawg81]

​@@toruscharge984 ...and it still wouldn't make sense. What's "psychopathic" about designs as such?

[@gaius_enceladus]

I *love* making ring-wing paper planes! They're *super-stable* and you get really good flying distances from them!

[@calebwilliams7659]

When I was a kid I used to make "paper airplanes" that used this concept using only two strips of a paper and a straw. If you cut two strips of paper, both an inch wide but one 4" long while the other is 6" long, then you tape both strips into a circle and attached them to the ends of the straw such that the attachment point of both strips is on the same side of the straw, then throw the "strawplane" with the smaller loop in front, it actually will fly pretty far.

[@NLynchOEcake]

I can easily see this design being potentially useful for like, low powered simplistic drones of some kind, not the loud whiny buzzy quadcopters but more like a serene, graceful device. Especially combined with a bladeless fan design this could be quite the smooth and safe rider. Much of our aircraft design comes from military roots, I always wonder what the state of technology would be like if WWI was averted and we kept that hopelessly optimistic, dieselpunk outlook on the future that people had in the early naughts

[@track1219]

I made one too; using only a sheet of paper , it flew quite well

[@dylancrosby2451]

I'm pretty sure the world record paper plane, is incredibly basic and only has a couple folds. It looks cool, but it doesn't mean it's the best design.

[@Huffordability]

I did, too! Way back in elementary school. Ours only needed a single sheet of paper.

[@cadosian078]

@@NLynchOEcakeat that point why not make the ring wing an engine in itself? Doesn’t have to be complicated. It could work like one of those bladeless fans that are more expensive and act as “humidifiers.”

[@MrRandomcommentguy]

I love this design more than words can describe. But you can't just build a different plane for the sake of being different - there has to be a massive advantage to an innovative design to make the risks of trying to market such a thing worth the reward.

[@JohnSmith-ROBLOX]

Lockheed Martin more like Lockheed Martian

[@hmbauto]

Comment of the year right here ^^^

[@NIGUAVIUS950]

Hahaha

[@finjay21fj]

Heehee yX-D! 🏆🥇😉

[@ralucaspataru7618]

😏

[@VipershakilYT]

🤣🤣

[@BierBart12]

I always love old concept vehicles that look like something you'd think was from science fiction. That part about unexplainable real UFOs being an ad for a facial wellness tool caught me really off-guard lol

[@autarchprinceps]

What seems strange to me, is how high it is made in a true circle. The other examples of both ring and box wing are way more elliptical. You'd think the vertical parts of the ring wing are useless for lift. Given that the aircraft body takes part of the actual lifting flat section, it seems to me like there is more wing not useful for lift than useful, and it increases the tail stabilisers size if attached like this as well.

[@derekmitchell209]

I agree. I don’t think a circle is the best shape to use. It has too much vertical wing area that, as far as I can tell, does nothing but add to the parasitic drag.

[@SoHBetaSword]

The People that claim that this would be more energy-efficient, those People clearly have NO knowledge about how aviation works. Beside from CGI, this will never wortk, unless you have a different Plan to counter the Gravitational Effect on the "Plane". The Box-Wings and the Ellyptical Wings got more horizontal wingspan than Vertical and the Box-Version got that connection, to improve stability.

[@ferociousfeind8538]

​@SoHBetaSword I mean, if you had the hand of god to throw it hard enough so the minimal lifting surfaces acted in overdrive... Though I don't know how feasible "god throws the plane" is as a business model

[@jerseymetalmike5111]

I thought it would be obvious to most people that the lack of horizontal wing surface would'nt get this thing off the ground.

[@ferociousfeind8538]

@@jerseymetalmike5111 it offends my intuition to how planes work, which is "redirecting air particles downwards to cause an upwards force to act on the plane" which only works with horizontal surfaces, of which this plane lacks

[@wb3904]

From an engineering perspective it looks challenging. Engine maintenance adds risk, replacing an engine requires special cranes. A circular wing can also flex causing instability. Production or transportation of a ringwing is hard (mildly spoken). No elevator or canard means it’s harder to pitch. Plus it’s going to be a sailboat on crosswind landings. If the ring wing doubles as a fuel tank it’s going to roll over having a CoM that high. My 2cts based on 2min of thinking about it… does look cool though 😊

[@saalkz.a.9715]

Holly Sheep Shyte! The Vulcans are here... And they're designing planes. 😱

[@rgerber]

what? The Box-Wing design looks like the Romulan Warbird

[@saalkz.a.9715]

@@rgerber Well then Jolan Tru to You too... I guess.

[@coin777]

Video starts at 7:17

[@smelkus]

I remember when I was about 10 I had a book called aircraft 2000 for Christmas and it was full of planes like this when the year 2000 came around I was disappointed that there were no planes like the planes in the book

[@goldlamp574]

I was gifted a book around the same age called "Mars 2020". They probably could have added another decade or two to the title

[@PRH123]

And we never did all start wearing silver jumpsuits after the year 2000 either, or drive flying cars :) Looking at predictions of the future in the past is quite interesting, and it is often quite surprising how accurate they were.

[@themindset3329]

My question is: other than using the rudder, how do you turn? How do you counter a windshear? How do you lift or dive the nose, and how do you guarantee that it doesn't roll? How do you manage windshear?

[@dbfzato-1327]

That's what I was thinking, well just the turning part aha

[@lightspeedvictory]

Requesting videos on the following: -switchblade aircraft designs such as the FA-37 Talon from the ‘05 movie “Stealth” or the X-02 Wyvern from the Ace Combat franchise (the concept, not the actual fighters I mentioned) -Super Tomcat-21 and ASF-14 -the NATF program as a whole -early ATF proposals -Sea Apache -F-20 Tigershark -Bae SABA -Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Bomber proposal -Northrop’s proposal for what would become the F-117 Nighthawk -Interstate TDR -JSF proposals OTHER THAN the X-32 and X-35

[@NIGUAVIUS950]

Cool

[@duartevilelas9688]

This is where the fun begins 👌

[@dusanradin5868]

'Oćeš i muzičku želju?

[@wanderinghistorian]

This is SO interesting! When I was a kid in the early 1990s an aerospace engineer visited our school to talk about his job. At one point he asked if we believed he could make a paper airplane with "no wings." He proceeded to make a ring-wing paper airplane and throw it across the gymnasium. It went further than any paper airplane I ever saw. He claimed at the time it would likely be the "future of aviation." Fascinating to me that he would say that given that according to this video the idea was mostly abandoned by that time. I learned how to make the ring-wing paper airplane and used it as a parlor trick to amuse people for years.

[@tenlittleindians]

A guy built a ring wing ultralight and displayed it at the Oshkosh air show in the ultralight section many years ago. I always wonder if he continued developing it?

[@davidrobertson5700]

Have you seen any around in the shops, they are so popular he sold out because there are more than guns in the USA , the answer to your wonder is I dont think he developed it as the alternate reality aforementioned would exist instead of the one we are in.

[@fennectempest1590]

​@@davidrobertson5700 I just had a stroke reading that

[@anthonylombardi4168]

​@@davidrobertson5700 wat.....

[@davidrobertson5700]

@@anthonylombardi4168 no

[@davidrobertson5700]

@@fennectempest1590 ok

[@yadavrishabh1]

There is more ads by you in this video then youtube itself

[@Phrancis5]

When I was a kid I built several toy foam gliders with a trapezoidal connected "box wing" connecting to the top of the vertical tail similar to this ring wing. That sucker flew really well too.

[@Daehawk]

In elementary school in the 70s I used to make ring shaped paper planes. They flew better and further than any normal paper airplane the others made.

[@davidlobaugh4490]

That flatbed plane looks super aero, like a great drag coefficient ya know.😂

[@drakeredwingofficial]

Absolutely would love to see a video on the boxwing jets, as well as the Boeing Spanloader--a flying wing cargo plane!

[@mgntstr]

4:40 to get to the part where he might start talking about the plane on the thumbnail. 👏

[@weldonwin]

"The Nazis didn't invent this one" Me: oh thank god... "It was the French" Me: *(HISSING IN BRITISH)*

[@czlowiek_zagadka]

Both wrong. Humans don't invent planes, birds did.

[@snow0708]

@@czlowiek_zagadka?¿?

[@GadreelAdvocat]

Might be an idea to make a dual ring wing. The forward ring placement and degree of it might compliment the ring wing behind.

[@Si-Fi.51]

This is so cool! Definitely want to see a video on the box wing design!!

[@hitmusicworldwide]

Maintenance on those engines is a no go. The industry turned away from above the cabin body engines long ago because it makes maintenance, repair and inspection problematic.

[@barryon8706]

It's a nice idea in a couple ways, the ring shape having a lot of structural strength and it gets rid of the wingtip vortices. It's all those little gotchas that change it from a nice idea in principle to a poor idea in practice.

[@HotelPapa100]

"it gets rid of the wingtip vortices." That's a fallacy. Wing tips are not the only place where induced drag is generated. Plus, a ring wing is basically a double decker. There's a reason we have stopped making these. the high pressure zone of the top wing connects directly to the low pressure zone of the lower one. This alone should make it clear that ring wings are not better regarding induced drag.

[@NguyenTran-mf9gj]

This is a dumb idea. How the hell can you see the view when the ring block the windows?

[@thatguyalex2835]

Yeah, this plane is cool, and the ring wing is unique. But the lift couldn't occur on the vertical part of the wings. Also, what speed would this plane fly at? Probably only 350 mph (550 km/h), as one could only imagine the structural strain of flying faster with sonic compression at higher Mach numbers. There is a reason why airplanes use a swept back wing design when going 500 mph (800 km/h). Hopefully my explanation is good. :)

[@emperorscotty]

Video actually starts at 7:10 the begginng of the video is just some dude who likes to hear himself talk too much.

[@erasmus_locke]

It's easy to make your ring-wing out of paper they fly pretty good compared to other paper airplanes

[@gaius_enceladus]

@Wright Marshall - They do! I've made many of those - they're great!

[@l0l0l0l65]

Aah yes the flying Oculus meta controller

[@bigmacmach1185]

Some of the most fascinating videos of any KZbin channel. I love big engines, but I am not a huge air travel person, but some of the almost and what ifs are fantastic. Keep up the great work!!

[@GlamorousTitanic21]

I’ve seen these things a lot in many sci fi universes, mainly because they are using the Alcubierre type warp drive design.

[@MrDogeDoogie]

This is the most normal 787 i’ve ever seen!

[@raymondjack]

Yes, I would like to hear you talk about the box wing plane. Or anything thing really, you just have a smooth calming voice, you can talk about anything and I wouldn’t mind listening to it.

[@Bernandez4139]

"Ain't no way in hell you're getting me on that freaky plane!" "It's not a Boeing." "Hmm."

[@olenilsen4660]

I never knew about this plane, thanks for making this! Even though it may have proved impractical in the end, I think it´s a really beautiful design. I think you misspoke a bit at 4:48 though - watching the specs you show a little bit later, it´s not the wing circumference that is 7.4m - that´s the diameter of the fuselage. The diameter of the wing is 20.11m.

[@pro6622]

I have never seen a more crazy idea with wings! 😂

[@vincenthalfhyde4963]

Reckon I’ll stick with the Ryobi orbital sander for my facial skin care needs. A bit of 40 grit paper does wonders for small blemishes.

[@blaster915]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@BubbafromSapperton]

No kidding I use a palm sander on my feet, only way to go! 🤗

[@FlywithMagnar]

At 7:35, you say that the wing tip vortexes create downwash. It is the other way around. The downwash is lift, and the wing tip vortexes are a result of that.

[@hollismccray3297]

I can imagine that a ring wing aircraft like this would be very vulnerable to crosswinds as well. We certainly seem to be going through another period of innovation in aircraft design. Have you done a video on Blended Wing Body aircraft yet?

[@albdamned577]

It’s such a cool design, it’s like the logical conclusion to the biplane

[@miromiko5857]

Can you make a video about the Avro Vulcan? Please i wanna learn more about it

[@arthurfrost9004]

Plane wings in general serve as fuel tanks, linear wings are ideal since the fuel can travel easily because of pressure pumps. If the wing's donut shaped then the plane would need to find some other place to store it's fuel and since this model can't generate enough lift making the body even heavier would make no sense. It's nice to look at though :0

[@dancam2271]

This looks more like a light speed aircraft then a plane

[@ijmad]

London to Sydney in 60 milliseconds, I'm down!

[@Patrickoliveirajf]

You can skip to 7:00

[@OohzyJohnDow]

Maestro, over 4 minutes in and WAY TOO LITTLE info about the airplane itself. I am watching for the details, not all the other stuff. First at 1:00 an intro, then at 3 minutes again lasting for 1,5 minutes. Its too much.

[@robcandy9273]

I hate these kind of videos. You get curious click on it and find so much filler, tangents and waffle

[@mianatwood]

I can already tell the lift vector will be pointed in all different directions so I guess it wouldn’t work as we would want vertical / horizontal lift most at specific phases of flight, instead of the lift being in all directions?

[@iycephoenixx4249]

I'm gonna say off the bat that stability is probably a problem, especially when an engine goes down

[@TheBestNameEverMade]

This would be what a Dyson aircraft would look like.

[@hawkbirdtree3660]

Airplane: What makes you so special? Ring Wing: I'm just built different, brah.

[@enginepy]

I have been into aviation since the early 80’s, especially reading a lot about concept aircraft. I have never heard of this at all

[@91rus]

Because that looks like a space jet

[@mattm7220]

F&E: "The aircraft you see on screen is different in one very big way" Me: "Its jets are on top of the fusila-" F&E: "The wings... Are round." Me: "Or that... That too"

[@averagecommenter4623]

My thoughts in the first 10 seconds of the video: "Is that computer generated?" -> "If that's real how the hell is a drone keeping up with that?" -> "Who the hell builds drones that fly that fast?" -> "It has to be an animation."

[@hugh_jasso]

I used to make a ring wing paper airplane that flew better than your standard paper airplane so always wondered why nobody has made a real world attempt at it.

[@Shipwright1918]

Wonder if this concept was the origin of Vulcan starship designs in Start Trek? For those not in the know, Vulcan starships' warp engine nacelles are ring-shaped and the ship's hulls tend to be long and needle shaped.

[@Shim_Shack_Studio]

Looking at that design.... First time ever saying this, " I'm not gonna request a window seat." Lol.

[@dahjo13]

It’s cool seeing a digital representation of what a real life version of the paper airplanes I used to make as a kid 30 years ago.😮

[@WilliamBurdine]

WOW Jump to 7:16 to actually GET to the purpose of the story.

[@zstrike28]

The circumference cannot possibly be only 7 meters if the ring wing is approximately 20 meters high as depicted. The diameter of a circle is always going to be smaller than the circumference. The diameter of the fuselage appears to be close to 7 meters, but that’s just sloppy. It’s an entertaining video, but it doesn’t seem to be well researched.

[@qazserNOS]

That's a really cool design, thanks for bringing it to our attention! I'm disappointed how little information the video has in relation to it's length, though.

[@caesar_cider2777]

me: "who would ever design something like this?" me, after seeing "Lockheed" on the fuselage: "ah, that makes sense."

[@tdm3bros]

400 bucks for a skin care device is WILD 🔥🔥

[@edd868]

I remember making a ring "football" airplane. It was more weighted on one side of the circumference which made it fly pretty far

[@scottmonfort]

So what is not talked about here is how the wing or airfoil cross section would have to be a different Camber every foot in the "hoop" or round part. Like a regular wing, the bottom of the hoop where it connects to the fuselage would would be curved on the inside of the loop, but relatively flat on the outside of the loop ... but sides of the hoop would have to end up being equal or neutral as not to pull in, nor push out essentially being just a support structure ... so slightly curved on about the same on the outside and inside ... and then at the top of the loop, the outside of the loop would be gradually curved in order to provide lift. Also in the rendering, it should be explained that the top of the 'tail" would produce "roll" and the bottom of the tail would produce "yaw".

[@fridayafternoons1]

i like how this video had 8 intros including one for the ad

[@wompstopm123]

building a big ring out of aluminum is a thousand times harder than building a long swept wing, storing a plane with a gigantic ring wing would take a much larger hangar with a much more expensive door.

[@llamasama4458]

Ring wing, hello? ... Ill see myself out.

[@jackalopewright5343]

Lockheed was famous for releasing outlandish impractical concepts to temporarily boost its stock prices.

[@TheTrueGlaukos]

the problem with a lot of the fancy and admittedly cool wing designs, is that they are almost all designed to increase the lift factor of traditional wings, which just isn't necessary, especially considering the downsides and extra complex engineering that comes along with things like the Ring Wing. in order to avoid complications, these wings would actually force planes to go slower to avoid going out of their preferred travel height. when you have jet engines, wings just don't need to provide as much lift as these designs are intended to give

[@ianbelletti6241]

One downside is missed. Engine placement is forced to be much closer to the cabin making the cabin noisier.

[@buddabudda]

-"The aircraft you see on screen is different in one, very big way." "Wait, it is??? Tell me how!"

[@FoundAndExplained]

You really think I wouldn’t have to but then if your average intelligence that means 50% of people are dumber than you 😂

[@thesunnynationg]

the hangars should not be a problem. build them higher then wide. "normal" hangars also aren't very efficient in space usage.

[@dathyr1]

Wow!!!! How does that thing even get lift and fly. To me, it would be scary just to look at that plane and then to get on one as a passenger. Thanks for the video, take care.

[@Freshboyarly]

The plane looks like a gymnast stretching it's wing and tail for some serious exercise.

[@ВикторПилот-и4е]

В России проект кольцеплана давно известен и не на компьютерных картинках. Его прообраз с круглым крылом был выполнен из спортивного самолёта Як-50. Работы велись на одной из площадок Белоруссии. Ряд журналов 2009-2011 года делали об этом публикации. Рад, что вам тоже понравилась такая инновация, осталось увидеть ваш вариант в деле! С наилучшими пожеланиями увлеченным небом людям!

[@dmitriigrabluk5345]

Только один вопрос . На куя это надо?

[@ВальдемарБлагов]

​@@dmitriigrabluk5345 Вопрос конкретный! Когда полетит Пизанская башня? Она наклонилась и ждёт старта!

[@gestaposantaclaus]

Can you imagine how loud it would have been for passengers near the engines? This thing looks like a nightmare to maintain as well.

[@mrozboss]

My father taught me to make paper planes like this in the 70s he was a pilot he always called them the paper boomerang

[@lanzji1345]

The amount of blathering in this video is truly astounding. Come to point, man!

[@johniejoyce8876]

I could see that thing starting to spin like a giant flying drill bit!

[@BrownDaddy007]

My thought too.

[@logicalfundy]

One thing that comes to mind is just how much vertical surface there is in the wing - on both sides of the circle and on that central support structure. A good portion of that is simply not contributing much lift.

[@mrjdgibbs]

I think much of the lift probably comes from accelerating the air through the "tunnel" and sucking the plane upwards.

[@jasonhare8540]

Arthur Harris would be proud .... That is one big wing 🤣

[@axelprino]

These are the kind of visually striking designs I wish to see more in sci fi

[@joshjoshy9891]

Lmao imagine ur seated right next to the wing bye bye scenery 😂

[@general5104]

I couldn't help visualizing NCC 1701-H on the side of that round wing!

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

When the wings opened the airplane curved left to cover the seagull

[@mrjaylesmeister]

Ring wing paper airplanes were the only ones that reliably flee from the upper decks of the stadium to the playing field. Yes. I'm that guy. 🤣🤣🤣

[@pontuswendt2486]

6:50 yes wanna see that!!! AMAZING video as usual!!!!