Gravity Plane

[TRPLD]

I think they just created the first perpetuum mobile.... xD

[unihara]

Using compressed air to power air compressors? It's the law of energy conservation violated?

[Ratboy8888]

i really like this!

[MrLeadfootLeader]

What do you call two fork lifts ........infinite flight

[buzzBurridge]

What is your target market? people who want to get to there destination 100% slower?

[codymortensen]

yea and by 2030 we might not have any helium left.

[rickrollification]

cough, conservation of energy, ehem, sorry i really need to get that sorted...

[ianyoung10]

this will never happen and we all know it :L

[Nicogts]

weed smoker plane!!!!

[GamedFreak]

This can be used by the USA president during a crisis because it can stay in air as long as desired.

[mogeroithe]

Sounds like BS to me.

[arsenalmendes13]

but.... does it blend? 

[techtonikrandom21]

guys this is a real design nasa just built one well let me same it has to bodies if you dont believe me go on dicovery channel

[hedrick12000]

is that how ufos work :DD

[sakykBzz]

or you could use magnets..

[xrx1113]

i'm thinking this wont work in reality its like a perpetual motion machine it's a cool idea but ....... no

[berserker355]

Why is Tom Servo narrating this?

[IMS181]

what happens when it goes *POP!* ya then you are screwed completely

[thenakedangler]

a tom cruise invention,for scientologist types.

[pashaahsj]

it even LOOKS like "LOL"

LOL

[pburto]

I believe it can work, but as a hybrid. It can NOT work with zero energy input.  Either fuel or electricity must be supplied. Solar panels may help. And this will never be a fast overseas flight.

[NLQuintNL]

Pfffff..... Screw gravity

[TheUmmm126]

hey guys stop hatin it might be real...IN WEED LAND

[cf104b]

All I can say is CRACK!!

[654321825]

this isn't gonna come to life!!

[cfito1]

We should drive car with compressed air, than we fly. Drive first!

[StageRightPodcast]

lmfao these are the same nuts who make those preputial motion machines.

[CaveJohnsonAperture]

This reminds me of my car, its an anvil with wheels with a stick and a magnet

[Anvilshock]

Ultimate trollplane

[41special]

@Anvilshock Is that what Charlie Sheen would call it? Lol!

[mrthebillman]

I think the people who want to build this are the guys who Make Air Compressors!

[joyfighter]

well... instead of 5 minutes of technical talk... can't u just make one and show us?

[dennizenx]

a giraffes asshole in your living room smoking weed : P

[Jjames763]

This is redundant at best and impossible due to thermodynamics. It's redundant because airships can already fly indefinitely above the clouds using solar panels and batteries. Why bother giving people the worst roller coaster ride of their lives when you can just stick some solar panels on an ordinary Zeppelin and call it good?

[ThePeljo]

I agree with what people are saying about energy loss from turbines to compressors, but my comment is that these things will not be used for commercial flying because of their speed. The author said he wanted to implement these things as commercial travel craft, but the max speed of these things cannot compete with what we have today, and this will annoy the public. It it a great idea, but not very practical.

[iRevized]

i like popcorn

[deville9549]

wow. this is bullshit

[ligitcounterfit]

the amount of energy required for compressing the air will be greater than that received from the wind turbines or what ever the fuck you get your free energy from.

[dvdmoe]

What's needed here is called a "Ballonet" to shift and equalize the two gases, but they never brought that up...so I viewed this whole thing as a comedy. Did anyone else see the "ACME" logo on the side that thing?

[ksilvereagle]

Replace powerplant with electrical compressors not pressurized air powered air compressors lol... Also a BIG problem: Gliders and glide efficient aircraft need a high aspect ratio wing... This means in simplest terms the wing should be as long and thin as possible to give the aircraft the longest glide performance possible. Why the hell would they fold the wings back on a glider! that violates the entire aerodynamic principle of glider performance!

[pleschinski]

@TheoBreakspear you could get extra energy from natural thermals, just like normal gliders do

[jm431]

seems like itl be as slow as a blimp

[MrKEGreene]

Sounds great to me!!! I'd fly in one.

[leonzav]

so its a blimp..

[ap0lmc]

Your ears will be popping all the time!!!!

[Sarrgas]

He said "compressed air" (or similar) 23 times.....

I'm bored.....

[MrCrowley97]

"and that makes it less likely to encounter terrorist activites because it is not a flying bomb." LOLZ

[vondeliusc]

The designer is higher than the aircraft..

[MegaHigster]

It's not ever gonna happen... An eight foot diameter weather balloon will lift 14 pounds.. so how much helium will you need to lift all compressors tanks wings turbines avionics not to mention that lighter than air ships totally suck if there is any wind!

[tuzzothebest]

If it's an airship, why does it need those huge wings? (the helium baloons are way too small)

I won't say a thing about propulsion, i might result offensive -_-#

[RobloxTitanicMovie]

W..T..F.......So Much Pressure crap lighter air hevier air ahhhhg

[TheRandification]

Psh who needs this I'm goin with solar power XD

[Shrapnel540]

Yo dawg, I heard you like compressed air.

[Szgerle]

Hi there, its me, the second law of thermodynammics.

Why dont you call me? Have you forgotten me?

[Zakdayak]

Pilots making love to attendants is achieved with compressed air...

[kareszt]

Another perpetual motion machine...for all the effort of doing this vid you would think the designer wouldn't 'hype it up' so much... it's like one of those crackpots that go on about the car that has generators on the wheels so once it's going the generators charge the batterries and it runs without needing petrol. uh - knowledgeale people say - cute... but yourr going to have to take science 101 1st.

[coldfarted]

Hmmm.. i'm not sure if you would have enough volume of compressed air to power the compressed air lifting turbines very long at the rpms required to provide enough lift to help the helium lift that amount of compressed air

[1971SuperLead]

The helium tanks need to be about 10 times larger.

[kellanplanes]

I think that this just might work. It looks to be aerodynamically correct enough to do the task of which they speak. No one can know for sure so don't down the idea before it has been tested.

[danmackellar]

@kellanplanes Sadly the 2nd law of thermodynamics doesn't really make exceptions for cool designs

[MEGA93M]

never

[lenn888]

I really like the thoughts you have given to the concept, but it won't work. There is no such thing as a perpetuum mobile, this plane would clearly be one....

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Fractally wrong !

[AntiPirateSquad]

it wouldn't work

[ak907jk]

why cant we invent something cool

[logicalluke]

Wow I thought i had heard all kinds of scientific bullshit, but this takes the cake!

[28jul1821]

they make it sound like it cant crash. if the air compressors fail YOU CRASH

[eggbertsmith]

"The Gravity Plane begins to accelerate, due to gravity acceleration caused by the gravitational pull of the Earth." Huh? Did a frakking 12 year old write this???

[evnouski]

yeah... they must not realize just how much compressed air they would need to carry. lets just say its way more than hydrogen could carry

[antdogy]

Soooo pretty much this thing fills with helium floats up then lets it out to come down? wtf this is the most confusing narration I have ever heard I quit trying to understand after hearing compressed air for the 100 time.

[Joemactheman]

lets get on it folks soon!!!!!!

[bessarabia7]

what if its windy...? 

[upajos]

Power from "compressed air storage tanks"?? How much would these tanks weigh in order to store compressed air at useful pressures?  The creator of this concept is deficient in knowledge of basic physics and engineering. It'll never happen.

[Lvieru96]

Bahahah! This is pathetic.If this was really possible wont this technology be used worldwide to "save the environment" bahaha

[ThatMiserableCat]

I personally guarantee and will CERTIFY a prize of US $1,000,000.00 (one million dollars) to anyone who builds a 1/24 scale model proof-of-concept. Heck, make it 1/8 scale or 1/48 scale. Any scale. We'll make trillions > ($1,000,000,000,000.00).

It's a snap.

[DetexD]

I think its a good aircraft for perfect world...:||||

[tsbrownie]

This is an implimentation of HG Wells flying machine from his story "Tono-Bungay"

[FloridaIsWhereItsAt]

All of a sudden, POP! Nerowwwwwwawaawawawawaw .. AHHHH!@! splat --_--

[EvolutionAutocrosser]

If this works, it is brilliant. It's a fuel-free aircraft.

[iambehindthemirror]

Is this a joke?

[Alandix]

Is this craft piloted? Where do people dwell inside it? Is there an onboard bathroom? I don't see portholes. ahem

[alfaridzy]

very lot of blind spot at ur navigate

[abradras]

ok ,, fine. just build it , sit in the plane and we all take a look how it goes :)

[Jpwnage216]

He says compressed like at least 50 times

[FreeEnergyRule]

Nice concept.

Now go real and I'll believe it.

[johnnoi1]

Acepilot101,

If helium is so expensive and rare how come they use so much of it a county fairs and birthday parties blowing up kids balloons with it?

[olio16]

@johnnoi1 Helium is very expensive. I have seen million dollar experimental instruments where the largest limiting factor in the budget was the price of helium.

[johnnoi1]

@olio16 A Goodyear blimp uses about 10000 cubic feet of helium a month so it can't be that expensive.

It cost about 3.50 a cubic foot at Walmart.

[westexpipeliner]

Similar in reality to Obamacare.

[stevenr4]

2 things

1 - Law of physics: Energy cannot be CREATED or destroyed. You are using energy to power this craft, wich is impossible to go up and down infinite times. The amount of energy you generate will always be less than what you spent to reach that potential energy.

2 - You claim it is safe and because there is no fuel, it wont explode. Helium explodes, and it is FILLED with it!

[nordicberserk]

@stevenr4 You are thinking of HYDROGEN, not helium. Hydrogen is what made hindenburg go boom, helium is what gives you hte funny voice when you inhale it from childrens balloons.

[leapoffaith20]

@stevenr4 No, Helium is non-flammable. HYDROGEN is the one that goes boom. 

[flysully]

hmmmmmmmm........anyone have a thumtack?

[AcePilot101]

Helium is a rare, expensive gas.

Will never happen.

[leapoffaith20]

@AcePilot101 Why not? we have helium passenger balloons.

[HarryHuang1996]

over inflate the helium bags and BOOM :)

[HarryHuang1996]

this will defiantly end up on Air crash investagations

[AntiMusick]

a zeppelin built as a glider.

up to 52,800 feet.

[Floatograph]

FAIL

[0000infinity0000]

right around 4:20 he starts to sound even more full of bullshit than the rest of the video.

[kook2222]

I want to RAPE A Woman inside that plane, my Penis Grew so Large watching this.

[solidedger]

I actually burst out laughing when I heard, "Compressed air will drive compressors to compress even more air..."

[0000infinity0000]

@solidedger

I was too confused to laugh.

It's a cool design, and an O.K. concept, but these guys need to get their heads out of their asses.

[EricColvin]

After four hundred years of stylish failure, these guys have finally developed perpetual motion.

[cameronbowen03]

@solidedger i know right

[wkeil1981]

how many times are the words air compressor said.

[Fussinated]

- How was your trip?

- Oh! it was a rollercoster ride.

[tjenk71]

The weight of compressed air to do all that work would only be about 100 tons...A compressor capable fo compressing to "high pressure" only wieghts about 1/2 ton...oh...your full of shit...get a job

[TheVirginiaGuy]

@tjenk71

I haven't run out the numbers on this vehicle, however, several aquatic versions of this idea are being operated by a number of oceanographic institutions to research water column temperatures and salinity. Not perpetual motion, as another poster suggested. The oceanographic version is battery powered. Everything comes down to the actual numbers and methods of transferring/storing energy.

[ThePickleBranston]

wow they have made a perpetual motion machine!

[ironclownfish]

Pilot: We've reached pressure height. Activate compressed air.

Copil: Why?

P: It compresses the buoyancy chambers and sinks us.

Cp: Why isn't it making us sink now?

P: It's in a different..er..it pumps in more air from outside.

C: You're using X pounds of stored air pressure to create MORE than X pounds of air pressure in the buoyancy chambers?

P: Like when I use dead batteries to recharge each other.

C: This is impossible! Where are we really?

P: We are in your living room smoking weed.

[pleschinski]

@ironclownfish The compressors can use the bernoulli effect to drag in extra air from the atmosphere. As fast moving air is blown into the rigid body, the low pressure it produces sucks air in from outside. this is how the airbus A380 emergency slide works. the air they pump into the slide only constitutes a small percentage of that which ends up in the slide, because most of it is actually sucked in from the outside, by this low pressure

[luckylongarm1]

@ironclownfish i actually felt higher than a giraffe's asshole watching this

[iindium49]

you could never collect enough to run all those air systems mentioned . adding a solar skin might help.. But _HEY GUYS this is earth and we have high winds at altitude ! sure it might fly but where you land could be an issue in high winds .

[HigherWaysWoman]

so has any of thez planes actually ben made? nice video thanks for sharing! :-)

[campolicejeff]

it would break apart in rough weather.

[reebokj18]

lol, this is almost like a bad joke... but it seems like a good idea.

[m1leswilliams]

There is about 100 things wrong with this. They use compressed air to run a compressor that compresses air, entrophy anyone ?

[jr8ic]

@m1leswilliams I agree!

[Seyeklopz]

@m1leswilliams

Please learn some physics. All of this makes perfect sense. Similar technology is already in use on autonomous ocean probes which travel thousands of miles using ballast to 'glide' up and down.

[mytubechannell]

@m1leswilliams This a phase change hybrid airship design, powered by the thermal energy in the air. The energy to power gliding flight is obtained from the atmosphere itself. An efficient power cycle is created using the natural temperature difference from a low altitude to a higher altitude. Heat energy is taken from ambient temperature air during aero-static lift via the high torque wind turbines at a lower altitude compressing air into insulated carbon fiber tanks.

[mytubechannell]

@m1leswilliams This air, which is heated due to compression is injected into colder air within the hull of the plane to cause expansion via warming of the lift gas at high altitude. This extends the period of time before the lift gas changes back to liquid in a temperature induced phase change caused by cooling from high altitude conditions. By warming the lift gas, the amount of work that can be done is increased.

[mytubechannell]

@m1leswilliams When this stored heat is exhausted, it marks the glide portion of the cycle, where the high torque turbine via compressors store energy as heat and compressed air. The fall through a 60:1 glide ratio is where distance is covered and energy is stored. This Atmospheric power cycle can be repeated indefinitely. A low-boiling-point-liquid is vaporized into a low density lighter-than-air lifting gas using the heat in the compressed air from near the surface.

[mytubechannell]

This creates buoyancy that allows the buoyant aerostat to upward glide. The air becomes cold when high altitude is reached and the lifting gas is cooled and changes phase to high density liquid that is heavier-than-air. Lift is lost and the aircraft glides back down toward the surface where the Atmospheric Power Cycle is repeated as the low altitude warmer air vaporizes the liquid back into a lifting gas to create lift again.

Energy must be added to start the cycle but not continue it.

[KingKrabb999]

@m1leswilliams it sounds more redundant to me… but hey, you might be right too.

[kwanyinx]

@m1leswilliams Don't forget the hull of the aircraft must be strong enough to hold the normal air under pressure in order to squeeze the helium bladders...entrophy, definitely.

[hagenar]

@m1leswilliams For having 2 things wrong with your comment, I award you the En Trophy.

[nazaxprime]

@m1leswilliams Meh, They would be better served using the hot air in your head.

[FantasticBob7000]

Compressors powered by compressed air??? WTF!

This is stoopid.

[ElQuesoGuapo]

Let me summarize this video for you all.

We have invented perpetual motion, even though that is impossible. Send us money now.

[pngaw000]

i agree with karigianis, this thing is scientifically impossible. oh and even if those helium vessels could offset the weight of the plane (which they wouldn't), how do you refill their tanks??

[firestone334]

this could be good but youve got to ask the question dose it even work in thoery

[lattikabi]

its possible!! 

[MrMysters]

aufs Papier zu bringen ist leicht. Das kann jeder. Aber es auch zu realisierten. Das ist eine andere Sache

[0neofthem]

looks like bullshit

[Karagianis]

This is a perfect example of "Bad science" It breaks the laws of Thermodynamics. It's not even theoretically possible, there has to be an energy input for any machine to function within this universe. This machine, if it worked, would be a perpetual motion engine, and these fundamentally cannot work as real mechanisms cannot be 100% efficient. It also completely ignores the effect of air resistance.

[PawnMau]

@Karagianis

Not so simple!

Remember that 30 years ago the cars used triple time gasoline than now, thi could work (very big volume of course! ) But it has a energy cost, to move up and down (someone has to compress the air and it is job!) , to move to the target and so on, maybe the energy efficiency is better than the actual airplane, maybe not but it should be well studied!

[toontownish]

@PawnMau actually in 1907 the Ford Model -t got 20 mpg compared to 36 mpg ...............is NOT Triple

[zach70xo]

I see a ticking time bomb.. thats all

[jaffamaster]

Denied.

[toadmaster4]

LOL -- Nize Mazeut

[astramax1]

never work bad plans good consept though

[Drokua89]

i want one

[KC2CQD]

Okay...

Unless you're reintroducing Helium there's no way to be lighter than air again.

Compressing air with compressed air powered motors??

Wind turbines? Sounds like a fabricated term.

Blimps at 60,000 feet???

Info-mercial man's voice to pitch your B.S. Over Unity Machine?

Really?

[mobilechief]

The military version uses compressed farts

[smartin823]

0:50 why does africa have a river through it?

[Georgesav2000]

@smartin823 its all fake

[smartin823]

@Georgesav2000 i know. but damn. like if the physics is wrong at least get the landscape right.

[professordavos]

@smartin823 it is right, that's Egypt, and the river is the nile. The blimp/plane monster is not right though.

[smartin823]

@professordavos the nile is vertical. its also 50 miles across.

[qwertasd7]

sorry you cannot get free energy

it might be efficient dough, did the people test it in real (small scale)?

[KC2CQD]

@qwertasd7

The person who can actually make Over-Unity work will NEVER worry about money again, LOL.

[Ulai777]

The Gravity plane is Eco Friendly, Al Gore has one on order. David Suzuki is also very excited about this aircraft. A load of crap

[mazeut]

Compressed air, gas bags...the first politician powered aircraft?

[HigherWaysWoman]

@mazeut LMAO!! Good 1! *snickers* hehe!

[seau2007]

cvrap

[TheDearguy1]

its can go in space duh

[majorSH0CK]

things in the water are hard to vertically lift off.

[baileythedudeman57]

could work if they can get our tax money

[piketyl000]

you couldn't pay me a million dollars to get in that thing.

[bahamas1992]

@piketyl000 thats what they said about the boeings and the airbuses when they came out :P

[burg1968]

science and lsd dont mix

[Ulai777]

@burg1968 hahaha, good one!

[lespaulplayer09]

they built this 100 years ago

[Aetrion]

It uses compressed air to compress air... this is bullcrap

[raywagman]

That's 5 min. I'll never get back

[jackpot883]

"theres no fuel to make it a bomb" does that really matter if you could just ram it into something or maybe oh idk bring your own bomb on there

[Hashishin13]

@jackpot883 Its a slight benefit haha.

[Heathh49008]

Wow... we have a perpetual motion machine... Who is dumb enough to buy this?

[NITRATE911]

Yeah this will work....... if they can store that much compressed air! They would need solid O2 and solid He

[Youscale]

How the hell should compressed air compress air?

[cmpilot]

But wait, there's more! If you order now you also get two free Slap Chops, a Sham Wow, and our Perpetual Motion Machine!

[ElijahJohnSanders]

That, is beautiful, amazing.

[noonedude101]

Sounds like it'd save a lot on fuel... Wow... How steep is the decent angle?

[watcher1727]

Nice concept. Scientists have done a good job. It's now up to the engineers and technicians to make this happen and be feasible. Also, up to marketing people to convince our government to "spend" our tax money for this.