What's the LARGEST Plane We Can Build?

Hey guys! I've decided to one up my last giant aircraft project. I hope you enjoy!
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[@messier82ac]

If anyone saw this thing lagging a bit during the cinematic, it was so big my game literally couldn't handle it. Thanks for watching!

[@EurofighterNo1]

M82 bos industries number 1

[@rarejavelin6547]

KSP vibes

[@lucius6667]

Just a heads up you discussed nuclear powered drones and crazy enough the Americans designed one that could stay airborne for weeks irradiating the Russian country side and urban centers have to find the link for you

[@lucius6667]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

[@Leonard-nb7jk]

@messier82ac I recommend watermarking your vids, especially the end montage or someone’s likely gonna steal your content

[@SomeOrdinaryJanitor]

"Although that would be a really funny weapon. get a drone, and put the crappiest, leaky nuclear reactor and fly it over another country..." Messier's intrusive thoughts slowly winning.

[@XxMrsalsatenangoxX]

litel plein gous BOOOOOOOOOOM

[@NoxCatalyst]

Man just reinvented Project Pluto😂

[@Fanboy_of_everything]

You could HEAR him smiling through that line. He’s perfect for the CIA

[@mr_meatloaf]

most humain Canadian military plan

[@notonlyhuman6073]

No matter the circumstance, Messier WILL find a way to add a twin boom

[@LastGoatKnight]

Next up: twin mustang

[@AnthonytheAmerican]

The 2 in Messier82 stands for all the twin booms he builds

[@banananoodles]

I LOVE TWIN BOOM 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️💯🔥🔥🔥

[@adastra7939]

Stealth twin boom?

[@sppplycakes527]

@@LastGoatKnight🎉🎉🎉

[@juan_h_fernandez82]

Now the Federation would absolutely like something like this on their airship fleet

[@marrqi7wini54]

Definitely. Especially if it can be made without too much cost and not much, if any need for cordium. As we know, the Cascadian/Federation War started due to Cascadian disagreement over the Federation using its cordium to fuel their war aims. Now without being too reliant on cordium that would greatly help with its supply goals and not have to tax periphery states for their cordium reserves.

[@megumin4047]

Monarch breathing heavily at the opportunity to kill the Federations high command and destroy another airship while causing even further environmental destruction through radiation.

[@Monarch_GNSG]

@@megumin4047 Did someone call me?

[@captainstroon1555]

It's only a matter of time until M82 designs a whole flying city-state

[@nsr-ints]

Flying City? Isn't that just a ✨Federation Starfleet Galaxy class starship✨?

[@randomcamera746]

@@nsr-ints nah, bespin cloud city from star wars

[@changeling5984]

4:06 That was exactly what the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (SLAM) designed for. The SLAM was a ram jet cruise missile powered by an unshielded nuclear reactor and armed with a payload delivery system of sixteen hydrogen bombs and a singular thermonuclear warhead, and since the missile would fly at an altitude of 250 metres the supersonic shock wave would simply kill you were it to fly over you. Oh, and it had enough fuel to circumvent the globe 4.5 times and was able to fly along a predefined course with predesignated targets.

[@carsonyoder7320]

I've heard of that, it was really interesting

[@kingsnakke6888]

In other words, a legitimate flying doomsday weapon.

[@nolol9907]

However iirc, the radiation from missile was determined to be ineffective as a weapon, it's payload was far more effective

[@words5numbers908]

@@kingsnakke6888for some reason I agree that 16 hydrogen bombs are a pretty effective weapon, strange…

[@tomcatgirl]

Was gonna say this!

[@theDinosorcerer]

That nuclear crop duster thing you mentioned was actually almost built with Project Pluto, which utilized a nuclear ramjet that worked by placing the fuel rods- a series of many pencil sized fuel assemblies- in the combustion chamber exposed directly to air. They tested the engine and found that it was great at producing thrust, but the fuel assemblies would degrade and leak out through the exhaust as it ran, irradiating whatever it was flying over. Considering it was intended to also be delivering several thermonuclear bombs, that may seem like a comparatively minor concern, but it, along with the automated nature of the device where partially responsible for its cancelation.

[@gigantorex]

Epic. Please don't stop making gargantuan aircraft, I love it. Perhaps, it would be able to land on water? Even though it weighs over 30,000 tons, a fuselage of that size would have more than enough buoyancy. The defence systems on the bottom of the aircraft could retract inside for landing.

[@OldTownCrab]

Only way it would be feasible, any mass relay system would be the first target of any nuclear strike, the ability to either hit and kill a nations leadership or at least trap them on the nuclear hellscape of the surface is to tempting an strategic target to ignore

[@San-possibly]

Messier 82 is just Gründer Industries from Ace Combat with extra steps.

[@ravenmaniac8857]

the design reminds me of a Littoria class airship from Project Wingman, so I absolutely love it. great job like usual!

[@Thisfeaturesucks-]

Dont give him ideas about those amazing airships!, His pc will blow up

[@ItsACamellia]

Not only is this your most impressive build yet, but those shots of the VLS launches and Countermeasure deployments were incredible, just a *really* good cinematic all round. Incredibly jealous of your build skills in Flyout

[@Amelia-mq6hm]

Waaaa I can't wait for flyout to come out I wanna do this stiff too!

[@staticboss4029]

You will never be a real woman.

[@RexsHangar]

I CANNOT wait for this thing to be available to play 🤩

[@alondjeckto]

Structural engineers would cry seeing this

[@patroller1592]

At this rate we are slowly but surely transitioning into the Strangereal Universe.

[@cheeseninja1115]

I feel like you underestimate how many people would be on this flying behemoth. A super carrier holds upwards of 5,000 personal. This ship would be able to comfortably house that many and then some.

[@elongated_musket6353]

So basically the Cradles/Arks of Humanity from Armored Core? Except it holds a thousand people instead 8.16 million.

[@messier82ac]

Yeah, basically

[@Tclans]

What would also fit within this concept are the huge transport wings from Homeworld Deserts of Kharak. It’s a beautiful design if you ask me. But it will probably fly god awefull. Haha

[@samirdevechi8589]

Oh boi that cinemtatic at the end was glorious. Especially the lights turning on in sync with the music!

[@nicoderfeuerloscher1684]

This thing wont be able to land anywhere without a dedicated landing strip. You should make something like this but as a flying boat. Theres more than enough space on the sea for something like this.

[@_AceInTheHole_]

Very nice box-wing design!

[@ThePepsiCrusader]

I have a suggestion,you could do a series where you recreate absurd aircraft like the Antanov A-40. Could be fun.

[@layjeekhengsvps7220]

just need force fields and some really "nerfed" drones

[@Artem4egg_]

Nah, railguns and SAMs

[@John-qv5ux]

​@@Artem4egg_Why not all of the above? Picture it, Command Duty Officer?

[@Artem4egg_]

@@John-qv5ux i approve. Godspeed, Pilot.

[@John-qv5ux]

@@Artem4egg_ I'm going to take this airship to the enemy capital to deliver salvation to them!

[@Artem4egg_]

@@John-qv5ux all of the Bri'ish nuclear arsenal is at your disposal

[@FinePrintKR]

With the sheer size of this thing, you could probably have a full on hydroponics farm inside to feed the people.

[@m4k3r67]

Looks like an airship straight from Project Wingman.

[@Artem4egg_]

Yep lmao

[@Attaxalotl]

Dude built the final boss of Ace Combat 8 Absolute legend

[@XxMrsalsatenangoxX]

imagine gight with them with an spitfire

[@SomeOrdinaryJanitor]

"Now you get to see me shamelessly steal items from Hotdogs cockpits" Mimicry is the highest form of flattery, y'know.

[@trainanimator8150]

you know its a good day when messier uploads

[@Youravaragejoe_Englisch]

I think this is one of the few aircraft that would actually benefit from having a twin boom, because having only one vertical stabilizer would not give it enough maneuverability to effectively use YAW

[@TEKI07]

Imagine if an artist painted an entire cross section/xray blueprint thingy to show all the internals

[@nniicckk1223]

Your nuclear drone was a real concept. The US had ideas for a Nuclear powered nuclear missile that could stay in the air for weeks during times of tension. Since it was unmanned and would be flying low over enemy territory they didn't plan to have shielding

[@alexwong1249]

Fit this with the Aegis Radar system together with the complement of CIWIS and VLS systems, it'll be a flying Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer. If the Arsenal Bird is an airborne CVN This will be the airborne DDG

[@rtyyyyb]

i thought this thing was the size of his other aircraft carrier. then i say the missile pods and went "oh its a bit bigger". then he said it had a wing span of over a kilometer. then i was like "OK WTF"

[@DefinitelyEllie]

"Strider 1, this is AWACS 'Sky Keeper', Command needs you to escort the Sky Ark safely to the neutral space above Yuktobania. Expect to be intercepted by Drones, and keep an eye out for Sol Squadron. Unfortunately we need the rest of your squadron for mission elsewhere, so its just going to be you and Count. The Sky Ark has an array of weapon systems, but it won't be able to fend of a full wave of drones, or aces like Sol Squadron, so make sure you stay close. Good luck."

[@laffers3147]

the nuclear crop duster was actually planed in project pluto but was cancelled because the us was afraid the ussr might also make one

[@Falloutguy-si8qi]

I absolutely love the amount of detail that goes into these builds. I always excited to hear your reasoning for the design.

[@megumin4047]

The end design is heavily reminiscent of the cruisers from Project Wingman and I love it. It's really nice to see not only a beautifully designed war crime bunker plane but also be vindicated that one my favourite plane games' designs are semi realistic. Great video as always, I love hearing the thought process during the design.

[@oneshotReker]

I swear, this man talks about his prop punk idea like it's Raid Shadow Legends, and I low-key love it, plus it's interesting anyway, so yeah lol

[@mashuno3203]

This looks like something straight out of gundam and i absolutely LOVE it! The defence turrets look absolutely awsome

[@cameron5802]

Only thing I wish I saw more was the internals being built similar to how you see large airships with a wall behind the pilots of just an array assigned to each radar and like seats for 10 radar ops to monitor them LOL

[@Banjogiga]

Just letting you know there’s a plane called the NB-36H that could carry the XF-35 goblin a parasite fighter and was fitted with lead walls to stop radiation form entering the cockpit for as it held a nuclear reactor on board however it was quickly abandoned due to the fact that the crew didn’t really like being confined in to a small led box of which if it were to crash they wouldn’t have any chance of survival

[@theak1910]

About your Leaky reactor drone weapon, look up Project Pluto and SLAM. It's pretty much exactly what you describe, plus the addition of 16 10mt nuclear bombs.

[@framk]

at first i really thought "there's no way those missiles and guns work" and then the montage happened, god that was so cool

[@CWEditOfficial]

I'm yet to play this game, but this is the headcanon I just imagined for the reasons to build such a massive nuclear aircraft: The year is 2134, and humanity has built its first space elevator. The elevator was built in the capital of Schneyzov (one of the hundreds of countries that Russia dissolved into after its horrendous failures in war over the past 50 years in my headcanon). The elevator is big enough to carry entire space stations up into LEO. However, currently, to transport the massive pieces of the space stations going up the elevator, several separate aircraft have to travel in a convoy from whichever country is building the space station to the elevator. This is inefficient, costly, and it's hardly a show of how great a country's aircraft designs are. Thus, countries began to construct aircraft the size of skyscrapers, to transport entire stations to and from the brand new elevator. Since in my new universe, nuclear power is as easy to come by as an AA battery nowadays, these aircraft are built with large reactors and have incredibly long ranges. The elevator idea solves issues other commenters are talking about with "landing strips would have to be specially built" because it's a damn space elevator, why not slap a huge runway next to it big enough for these behemoths? Just my idea. Half of this doesn't make sense. But I think it's cool :D

[@Jam0nToast009]

Notice how he was originally going for a regular tail, then changed his mind to a twin boom? Classic Messier

[@redactedredacted4080]

Honestly, this thing could also be a very good airborne ICBM silo. Or lunch for cruise missiles. Or an airborne aegis like system. Something that while you’re not going to have a lot of them will be very useful where you do have them. Regarding taking off and landing, you could make it a seaplane.

[@terrancopeland6978]

Project Pluto. A hypersonic nuclear cruise missile/bomber thing powered by an open cycle nuclear ram jet. It would fly around deploying nukes, then when it ran out it would use its own warhead to blow more stuff up.

[@terrancopeland6978]

Correction: it was only Mach 3

[@coolname94]

hey messier thanks for not cussing and being kid friendly i hope you stay like this please do it makes it more enjoyable

[@starbomber]

4:06 What is crazy is this bit is describing an actual concept. A nuclear powered cruise missile drone called project SLAM or "Supersonic Low Altitude Missile", it was going to use a nuclear ramjet, but basically scientists working on it thought it would be fairly impractical for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which being with only a few modifications to the engine you could turn the entire drone into a terrifying dirty bomb that could fly around for months and essentially spray entire regions with radioactive fission by-products. Also it was meant to fly at Mach 3 100 ft off the ground, the shockwaves alone would do terrible damage to buildings and homes over any territory it overflew. BUT, this is how we got terrain following radar, as it was designed *for* this project initially.

[@Fennec1370]

“Radiation crop duster” that one actually made me laugh also one far fetched idea would for a mega planes existence could be like a luxury cruise ship but in the sky

[@bobman36]

Aerial restocking would be crazy, also if that is a radar in the nose that itself could probably start a nuclear war

[@smoothbrain3114]

"Sir, it's here! What do we do?" "Pray."

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

how much ammo would you have to load to be able to defend against missiles for a few years?

[@messier82ac]

IDK, but it could make a really cool mini-series, about the ship post war

[@prato_]

U could make a Re-supply system, like that Cl-1201 thing with the 707s

[@joaosturza]

You can synthesize chemical fuels out of the air using a nuclear reactor, which means you would have this to be a flying refinery with an infinite supply of fuel (ammonia from the air) add a Fulton surface-to-air recovery system and wings that people can go in through and a design that allows engine repairs in flight, and you have a plane that can not only exist indefinitely in the air it can sustain an entire fleet of aircraft, in a post-apocalyptic scenario, this thing can be the base of a group of sky raiders with infinite range that no country can defeat as all they need to do is occasionally send down smaller crafts down to set up supply drops and then bail for years from the region they plane could last years

[@joaosturza]

Not only that you could also cultivate algae using fiber optics mounted on the outside and perform electrolysis with the electricity, meaning you could grow your own food and fuel for simple rockets, that you could also grow using some sort of simple cultivated bio-plastic from said algae

[@PatchBits]

This is a touch on the mental side. Holy cow!

[@JrgPt96]

I guess an alternative to a giant catapult launcher for this plane would be to build it as a flying boat. Launching it from the water would allow you to distribute the weight, wouldn't require you to build a giant runway or catapult structure, it would be safe from being destroyed by said nuclear war, and after the war, the world's oceans would give you plenty of un-bombed places to land. Not to mention, if you're ever going to have a meltdown, the sea is one of the best places you can be, with limitless coolant all around you, that functions as great radiation shielding if the reactor melts through the floor and sinks!

[@Prootgen]

TWIN BOOM FOREVER This is savior-1 we have achieved cruise altitude, take-off is a success. Reactor readings nominal, proceeding to circle for supply and rearmament over.

[@jwcp180]

now I want to see this be a movie. A post apocalyptic world where the only people left alive are in these gargantuan aircraft armed to the teeth. I can already see the climax where two or more of these things go at it in the middle of a massive dogfight.

[@k-boi-501]

it wouldnt be a dogfight as it would a fight between 2 battleships of ww2... with as massive as these behemoths would be, they wouldnt have the maneuverability to "dogfight"

[@r.connor9280]

I like it, call it Between Air and Water. since this particular Flying City mostly cycles over the oceans and rarely sees land to avoid automated defenses or malicious natives

[@jwcp180]

@@k-boi-501 Yah. I was more thinking it would second as a carrier dropping out dozens of fighters. with smoke trails and jets flying everywhere and these things being at the center of it all. which is why I called it a dog fight, I should have been more specific as no one can read my mind.

[@that_guy8400]

Beautiful.... It's just simply beautiful

[@kennyxkazuki713]

3:55 this is actually a thing. Project pluto with the SLAM missile, tested in 1954. An absolute unit of a missile that uses an UNSHIELDED NUCLEAR REACTOR for thrust, basically using the nuclear energy to heat up the air for propulsion. It would fly 500 feet off the ground at mach 3, instantly killing nearby victims with the shockwave alone. It would also irradiate anything it flew over and had a range of 113,000 miles (no there isint an extra zero) and fly for months straight. if that wasn't enough, it could carry 16, 10 megaton nuclear warheads. (The largest nuke America has tested being 15 megatons, and this thing could carry over 10 times the amount of megatons) It was cancelled for being too destructive

[@Pouzdraken]

Swing the sizes of standard missiles compared to this behemoth, I get the feeling you’re gonna need at least a barrage of cruise missiles to take this thing out of the sky

[@boazirconus]

Easily some of the most entertaining content I've seen on this platform. Better version of Kerbal Space Program + easier to make gigantic creations = best game ever. Can't wait for it to come out.

[@Ghent_Halcyon]

This is absolutely massive! Perhaps you could do one of these but with more of a military focus.

[@colewilder6196]

Its so awesome!

[@Qued_]

Very nice!

[@_Fox-bg3lb]

This is just massive

[@itsmerker]

Hah, that's great! I think realistically, the best use for a very large aircraft would be in place of container ships, for the specific purpose of carrying food products that are perishable and are worth the additional cost for time-savings

[@jocax188723]

I see we have reached the 'CL-1201' stage of affairs. LOL

[@warning6465]

This is amazing but I do have a couple of recommendations. Yes, it is a combat warship, but I would recommend having windows around the ship seeing as it is planned to house people. I would also recommend having a mini-cockpit at the bottom of the front to help with landing and takeoff.

[@ethanspaziani1070]

I highly suggest you watch yukikaze it's a anime a very very very good one and it has amazing designs that have influenced Ace combat ! You should also look at sky crawlers it is an animated movie where propeller planes are still prevalent into the Cold war era! I think you should seriously check out these it will give you some design ideas and I think that you will enjoy them! I also think that you should try playing armored core for answer and armored core 5 it would give you some design cues as very similar large battleship like aircraft /survival aircraft exist in those games!! Very similar to this !

[@Cythil]

That there were actual projects to make open cycle, unshielded, nuclear-powered cruise missiles, is a very scary prospect. Darn... during the height of the atomic age, there were no limits.

[@gaviantxc8213]

It's called slam. And they even made the engines

[@Cythil]

@@gaviantxc8213 Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (SLAM) was one of them. The concept has actually been revived in Russia with 9M730 Burevestnik. They also have nuclear-powered torpedoes in development. The scary thing about that is of course that is relatively new projects. I think there have been a few more concepts like that in the past. But I can not remember the name of them. But I have a vague recollection that USSR did study the problem. However, I might be mixing it up with the modern Burevestnik.

[@apextheprotogen2077]

Dude you are an engineer, you know that? Show your ideas to the world!!!

[@sibzpremiumnutt5490]

Hey Messier, I love your videos bro. Can you please build an osprey type aircraft but with the avatar type rotating props🙏🏾

[@DylanDoel]

Love this channel!

[@das81]

Holly Molly! It would be a living hell fighting this as a Boss in an Ace Combat game... 😬 Damn, this even excedes the LC1002(sic) wing span. 😮

[@timobensch3904]

"[...] the Geneva convention exists and that is very very messed up" yeah I think it's ridiculous too, we should just get rid of them and go wild on the battlefield

[@TheHom3er]

at 4:04, Project slam/pluto comes to mind

[@NovaAge]

Adding -missiles- flares everywhere makes this feel like something you'd see in From the Depths. Now I'm curious as to what it would look like if you built aircraft in different games.

[@reallynot.]

I'm addicted to Messier 82, i can't stop watching.

[@titan42737]

M82 is the best person the fly out devs could have chosen to showcase their game

[@EurofighterNo1]

Thank you

[@Leonard-nb7jk]

Love these vids

[@Wisewordsbruh]

Nice plane man

[@theconfederacyofindependen7268]

The V.L.S Missile Launching System can be stupid deadly, it has less moving parts, fires more than the H.L.S, and can be more efficient, but has a long reloading period

[@landocalrissian.]

Imagine some Prop Punk recruit joining the Air Force wanting to fly experimental aircraft and then getting assigned to this thing. Blud can barely see the runway, and that thing is a mountain of steel powered by hopes and dreams.

[@chugachuga9242]

4:27 That’s what Project Pluto is for.

[@ScLeith]

When messier uploads, we bout start making some reservations for ourselves 🔥🔥

[@frankwhite2072]

Now that's cool.

[@lundjjxd6898]

Nice content keep the job up

[@SpaynjXD]

Dude this would make the greatest post apocalyptic novel

[@warrobotsfan6625]

The moment you said the weight of the eiffel tower made me think of what a wonder the typhoon class submarine is

[@canadianbaconeer3857]

This kind of aircraft would work best as a dedicated seaplane or sea-faring aircraft since crashing it on land would make it near impossible to fully repair and resupply in even the best post-nuclear scenario, and the mass relay would no doubt be nuclear priority #1 for any attacking countries. A direct or nearby strike from a nuclear-tipped cruise missile could also pose a huge threat to the aircraft unless it has sufficient EMP protection systems onboard.

[@carsonyoder7320]

So a vault from fallout but in the sky... I'll take 12

[@wasdwazd]

One of the old devs for Fallout said that the purpose of the Vault program was to test the viability of constructing a colony ship, so this is conceptually pretty close

[@egoalter1276]

For reference, 31 thousand tons is in the range of a 2nd or 3rd generation interwar seagoing battleship, or a mid to late ww2 fleet aircraft carrier.

[@ag6778]

new concept idea for the story: humongus chungus of a helicopter with 1 rotor, which was meant to stick low to the ground and destroy land targets

[@insell8]

Don't know if anyone mentioned this yet, but in the game Armored Core: For Answer, flying cities, somewhat similar to your design, exist for a similar purpose. In AC:FA (essentially), due to continuous, nuclear mecha based global warfare, earth's surface is uninhabitable, forcing half of humanity underground, and the other half onboard titanic, several kilometre wide flying colonies called "Cradles". They are more wide than long, are layered in design, operate at 7,000m of altitude, where the pollution can't reach them (*yet*), housing about 4 to 20 million people each, and fly in formations of up to 5 Cradles. And can only stay in the air because of ground installations that transmit power through microwaves up at the Cradles. A process that only generates more pollution on the surface, which climbs higher and higher into the atmosphere. (Though they also have back-up fuel cells for emergency landings.) They are more of a narrative background tool, but the primary conflict in the game does concern itself with how this status que is unsustainable. That, or you go along with "Old King" and just kill half of humanity, because it's funny, I guess. Here's a link to the fandom wiki for some pictures: armoredcore.fandom.com/wiki/Cradles Love your videos. Very fascinating. I suppose the KZbin algorithm, even in current year, manages to produce the occasional hit. Have a nice day.

[@ghrage0013]

There is something I'd love to see. Basicaly a non VTOL Harrier GR1 or a Sea Harrier but as a single engine aircraft capable of going supersonic.

[@JSDFEnthusiast]

It reminds me of the aircraft they almost put in Project Wingman, it was going to have a 10km long wingspan and be one of the final bosses of the game. It would've been really cool to see.

[@AWB2]

That’s the best part about this ship. If they shoot it down they cause a nuclear fallout to rain on themselves.

[@Jefethefish]

I like the nuclear theme you are using at the moment

[@icarusgaming6269]

I'm beginning to think the Helicarrier wasn't so bad