I love watching old X-plane videos. They're even more interesting in a language I can understand. Sorry I'm American. I only speak 1 language. American ;)
Although i wish i had learned Spanish and German at an early age.
@theofficialstig The pilot controlled it with vectored engine thrust and small jets at the wingtips. This was one of several experimental aircraft in the 50's that should investigate the possibility to design a fighter that could take off and land vertically, without the need of airfields or big aircraft cruisers. None resulted in a "tailsitting" production aircraft.
@theofficialstig It's okay. Yes, it is interesting. Already the Germans in WW2 had some plans to build vertical starting/landing fighters. Check "Focke Wulf Triebflugel". A quite weird contraption, that never flew...
Consider that your laptop has more computing power than the contemporaneous B-36 and that the pilot had to fly the transitions and the hookup/landing. All of this would be automated nowadays. Theoretically this was a better, simpler and faster jet concept than the Harrier ever was. But there was nowhere to take development in 1958.
I wanted one of those when I was a kid, every year at Christmas time , I would sneak downstairs to look for one under the tree or outside in the yard.....NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DANG MY CHILDHOOD= SCREWED
I think there was a similar aircraft (Goblin?) that was tiny like the X13, and it was built to be dropped from the belly of a B-29 and then pull back under the belly to re-hook itself in. That plane failed too because there was too much air turbulence under the bomber and it could not re-hook itself. I loved the good old days of experimental aircraft. There were dozens of experimental aircraft, the result of which were a small number of aircraft that actually worked.
@danf321 yes, the goblin did exists, built as a "parasite" fighter that could be dropped from a bomber for close defense. Created for the B-36, it was WAY to unstable and generally tiny to anything useful.
But to be fair, it was the Russians that really started that whole "parasite fighter" craze, way back before the Second World War.
My dad worked for Ryan Aero in the late 50ies/early 60ies and their plane the SeaDart is featured in this video. It exploded in San Diego harbor and killed the test pilot. Soon thereafter, the whole program was scrapped.
I think a lot of the younger people here, don't realize that before computer simulation, you actually had to build a prototype, to test a new concept.
The biggest problem with the VTOL aircraft of the 50-60's, was transitioning from horizontal flight, to vertical, for landing. (W/O computer assisted flight management, no less!) It was a brave man, that took up one of those birds.
@dpaton8546 Either your dad's very confused, or you are. This isn't the US Navy's Convair (i.e. not Ryan) XF2Y SeaDart, one of which exploded in San Diego harbour - it's the US Air Force's Ryan X-13 Vertijet. Which didn't.
Hi, great engineering good aircraft but poor weapons platforms. Weight sensitive thus fuel limited and payload limited. A VTOL must improve these limitations before a service states could be considered for military use. A slow and low aircraft is no place to be when in combat. 007 Wing Man "Good Hunting".
@kirktalon the basic design of the vectored thrust engine used in the Harrier was the Idea of a frenchman, he proposed it to an U.S. air force idea competition in the 1950's. the concept was distributed amonst the Nato Nations aeronautical community & Rolls-Royce decided to try & develope it. it eventually matured into the Pagasus engine used in the AV-8A & AV-8B Harrier.
@kdraper2007 Rolls Royce didn't develop the Pegasus engine. It was developed by Bristol Siddeley in 1957. Rolls Royce didn't acquire Bristol Siddeley until 1966. Bristol Siddeley also produced the Olympus engine for the Concorde and not RR.
@mivhoa we gave you such ideas to make you busy ;-)
I think it was more the control system what was of interest instead of the payload to this x13. having a mobile interceptor anywhere would be the goal at that time. god thanks we were not that successful.
@kirktalon ... With gyros, accelerometers and magnometers and a 8 bit microcontroller you could control this thing flawlessly... It was an X-plane so don't compare it to the harrier.
The vectored thrust design is of Eastern European engineer (forgot his name) that was found by the Brits in a forgotten 20 yr old files in the patten office, They then "improved" upon the design & declare it it is "they're" design..Don't believe me? google it.
TogieTung: The design of the Pegasus engine was originally the idea of Frenchman, Michel Wibault - not an "Eastern European." Wibault filed the patent for a jet engine whose exhaust was directed through two jet pipes which could be swivelled horizontally or vertically. As the French government was not interested, Wibault sold the idea to the British company Bristol, who bought the license for it. They modified Wibault's engine and produced the Pegasus turbojet which used four swivelling jets.
With the atomic bomb came the desire to have air forces that were not reliant on runways, because it was assumed that would be the first strike zone of any attack.
None of the VTOL designs of the 40's and 50's were very successful, and another couple decades passed before much energy was spent on that design.
Yeah, they used have balls that clanged together when they walked. The Apollo program was pretty wild and crazy, looking back on it, it was amazing more didn't get killed. Be hard to pull of in today's safety-conscious society.
This is my favorite jet why the fuck they ceased this project, imagine a nuclear bomber months in the air, big enough to carry 10/12 improved versions of this baby.
But what brings my piss to a boil is a responce from a fighter pilot from USA when I mentioned Pete Girard and Eric Winkle Brown he said 'USA goverment doesn't tell us shit', that's not just unfair but ridiculous, if it wasn't for fearless crazy wackos like them there would be no fighter pilots today.
AMAZING THOUGH, nikola tesla made the first VTOL aircraft in human history, everyone look it up, he has a patent on the craft! leads to this aircraft, ufo technology, secret aircraft! poor tesla!
Who on earth thought that was a good idea. seriously with the amount that was probably spent on this piece of junk a harrier beater could of bean built. Or even a nuclear bomber, which i think would still be usefull. Atleast a Nuke spyplane would be useful.
LOL. This peice of junk was FLYING in the mid-50's. The Harrier was barely a sketch in Hawker Aircraft notebooks at that time (~1957). If you want to know what the progress on VTOL in England was when the X13 was being flown, try googling the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig. Every good idea (like the vectored thrust nozzles on an F-22 Raptor) comes from somewhere, and it's rarely as glorious as the finished product.
But there were better German designs working at the time if i remember correctly. Obviously I understand why no body could accept their designs but still, VTOL like this was just ridiculous. Didnt anybody think that it may, just may be a little difficult to land! The advantage to this would be that you could store many of them on a carries, but landing isnt gonna happen. I always though a magnet could grab the thing on landing to make it easier than a hook.
The aircraft wasn't useless; its purpose was to research VTOL possibilities; it was the first pure jet VTOL aircraft in the world. It was developed by Ryan Aeronautical in San Diego.
you build a prototype so you can observe it, learn from the mistakes you made making it and then make a better one. i would say it was useful. Besides, what "real" use could that plane have? Its too small to be a war plane and have some good weaponery enganged to its wings...
No doubt the Germans had some smart engineers. So did the Americans, but we had a war to win so our focus was on production techniques and new designs of known, producable (sp?) technology. Winning the war was more important than wasting effort on designs that wasted resources and couldn't be maintained in the field. I'd say it worked.
And you bet the Germans came to work for us. The only other option was the Russians and they HATED Germans !
Its true german/nazi engineers contributed to American aerospace but not because we "stole" them. That's just laughable. 1. Allies won the war. 2. Germany wasn't even allowed to do anything after Geneva. Did we steal Einstein too? hahaha.
Operation Paperclip comes to mind where Nazi scientists were given priority to come to the U.S. after the war. The German rocket scientists cut a deal with the U.S. because they didn't want to get captured by the Russians. Many rocket parts were captured/stolen(?) along with much technical information..that's history and fact.
It's true, and the only natural response to the collapse of the Third Reich. Operation Paperclip was a brilliant idea. I just wish they'd made more research into some of the more trippy ideas the scientists of das Vaterland, like say, the Silbervogel Amerikabomber - a plane that is designed to go above the stratosphere and then glide half way around the globe, "bouncing" on the upper layers of the atmosphere - brilliantly sci-fi-esque !
France "borrowed" German engineers as well, who reluctantly helped to develop the Mirage III's engine (SNECMA Atar 9). But they didn't invent delta wings.
@truthspeaker969 Oh gee, that makes me feel bad. Germany killed 6 million innocent people, then lost the war they started.........but we took some ideas and built upon them! oh no! The humanity! Fucking please.
@unclesara I dont mind your mindset , but really, if I would need to starve away without food left, I might join some funny bearded guy as well. you know, empty stomaches dont make people act very rational haha. just look at military today..
The use was so that aircraft would not need runways. The end of ww2 Germany was being bombed around the clock, including their airfields and a fighter plane that would not need a runway and be able to get airborne quickly was high on the list to put into production. Today it is no diferent, the ability to land in areas under fire without the expence of long strips that would be a target for terriorist etc.
I like how they just "hang the airplane on a hook" at the end, like it was a garden tool in the shed or the garage. Honestly, though, that looks REALLY dangerous. If the engine loses power, or if the airplane loses balance during the hovering mode, the pilot would likely die. And ejection would be straight out sideways, at an altitude of about 50ft.
in what way??they didnt invent the turbo jet engine,and newton was english and bernoulii was well bernoulli lol,there are many rumours about nazi technology like the ufo which in theory is one big gyroscope rotating and using its own weight rotation as propulsion but other than tht i beg to differ and very few of these ideas ever came off the drawing board.
Nazis were investigating about a plane that could take off and land vertical. Only Nazi's prototypes were found by americans and later, americans developped and improved that type of plane.
Read Wikipedia and you'll also be able to see pictures of US ships with Nazi planes, and other.
Wow. They should nickname that thing the Bee, or the Wasp. It's so dinky, look how small it is; still very powerful to be able to hover vertically. Pretty cool.
Actually, the only German aspect of the X-13 is the delta wing, thanks to Dr. Lippisch. This concept has more roots in Britain than Germany, with the RR TMR and Fairey Delta 1.
reminded me of that turboprop one called the 'flying pogo' looked like something off those crazy 60's science fiction films. i wonder what those guys would have made of the JSF now lol
bla bla la bla RYAN bla bla bla bla (0:09) - (0:13)
Astronautical123 4 weeks ago
sitting duck
gingernutbumchin 2 months ago
How I envy the Jobs these pilots had!!!
Thanks for the video.
BARNSTORMERSRULE 6 months ago
imagine how fast that will roll
NXTneocube 6 months ago
bla bla bla ROLLS ROYCE bla bla bla (0:35-0:38)
tklein930 7 months ago 5
0:30 Its Christmas for the Techs!! :P
clkbateman 7 months ago 15
SEEMS LIKE THIS PLANE WOULD BURN UP MOST OF ITS GAS JUST TAKING OFF AND HAVE VERY LITTLE LEFT TO FIGHT WITH.
1IIIIIIIIII1 8 months ago
yup with enuff horsepower a rock will fly ...
surfinjohnnyq 9 months ago 2
This is what you build before SAM's
jrkepler 10 months ago
flugin over sarginfluk
madmitch2u1 11 months ago
USAF Brat here...Dad was maintenance Line chief...saw EVERYTHING the USAF flew in 50s and 60s.
Greenhornet270 11 months ago
so cool, just hide in the clouds.
Jazzybreaks 1 year ago
I love watching old X-plane videos. They're even more interesting in a language I can understand. Sorry I'm American. I only speak 1 language. American ;)
Although i wish i had learned Spanish and German at an early age.
hallis1 1 year ago
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@hallis1 WE americans speak ENGLISH....
mikespec90 1 year ago
how can he control that and what is that actually useful for and how can he land that
theofficialstig 1 year ago
@theofficialstig The pilot controlled it with vectored engine thrust and small jets at the wingtips. This was one of several experimental aircraft in the 50's that should investigate the possibility to design a fighter that could take off and land vertically, without the need of airfields or big aircraft cruisers. None resulted in a "tailsitting" production aircraft.
Check X-13, XFV-1 and XFY-1 on wikipedia.
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES thanks man thats really interesting and im not being sarcastic
theofficialstig 1 year ago
@theofficialstig It's okay. Yes, it is interesting. Already the Germans in WW2 had some plans to build vertical starting/landing fighters. Check "Focke Wulf Triebflugel". A quite weird contraption, that never flew...
YDDES 1 year ago
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theofficialstig 1 year ago
that pilot either has a deathwish, or has bolls of polished steel
mbukukanyau 1 year ago
wow für heutige vehältnisse war das ja vedammt günstig...
senkrechtstarter entwickeld für nur 9.4 mio $.
MyMMC 1 year ago
Das pilote mit grosse ballen is all i could understand XD
softilol 1 year ago
and you guys are wondering what strange "UFOS" are flying around? lol . I'd say that it's logical... after 60 years more development.
Metactyl 1 year ago
ufo tech
mercanaries3 1 year ago
Anybody notice that at 3:22 they used the radio chatter in aircraft from Battlefield: Vietnam?
aidler2 1 year ago
Looks like a little anoying bug
xPendek 1 year ago
Das ist ein deutsche test flugzeug
brot5 1 year ago
Consider that your laptop has more computing power than the contemporaneous B-36 and that the pilot had to fly the transitions and the hookup/landing. All of this would be automated nowadays. Theoretically this was a better, simpler and faster jet concept than the Harrier ever was. But there was nowhere to take development in 1958.
whizbang47 1 year ago
.....then the Brittish made a Harrier and made the yanks look like idiots! ok a Frenchman designed the Harrier apparently
cjellwood 1 year ago
I wanted one of those when I was a kid, every year at Christmas time , I would sneak downstairs to look for one under the tree or outside in the yard.....NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DANG MY CHILDHOOD= SCREWED
ushouldntjudgeme 1 year ago
They can do this, but not make a hover car.
agentfazexx 1 year ago
THat pretty cool getting something like up high while verticle 1:48
noob2top3210 1 year ago
how many flukes were there?
joebayron 1 year ago
Фигня полная! Просто игрушка за бешеные деньги! Малейший ветер - хрен он так повесит этот пепелац на верёвочку!
Alistratov1971 1 year ago
N24 is one of my favorite german tv channels ^^
Latvietis96 1 year ago
I think there was a similar aircraft (Goblin?) that was tiny like the X13, and it was built to be dropped from the belly of a B-29 and then pull back under the belly to re-hook itself in. That plane failed too because there was too much air turbulence under the bomber and it could not re-hook itself. I loved the good old days of experimental aircraft. There were dozens of experimental aircraft, the result of which were a small number of aircraft that actually worked.
danf321 1 year ago
@danf321 yes, the goblin did exists, built as a "parasite" fighter that could be dropped from a bomber for close defense. Created for the B-36, it was WAY to unstable and generally tiny to anything useful.
But to be fair, it was the Russians that really started that whole "parasite fighter" craze, way back before the Second World War.
TheLeucadian 1 year ago
The Project costs 9,4Mio US $ ???? It`s realy cheap!
DiggaBua 1 year ago
@DiggaBua Not in those days. 10 mill is like 1 billion today.
LOLDISNEYLAND 1 year ago
Sometimes dumb ideas actually make it to production.
monkeyman1140 1 year ago
it's a flying dart!!!
vitorfray 1 year ago
The dudes on the crane at 2:30 were pretty ballsy to be near that thing...
pfiberoptik 1 year ago
My dad worked for Ryan Aero in the late 50ies/early 60ies and their plane the SeaDart is featured in this video. It exploded in San Diego harbor and killed the test pilot. Soon thereafter, the whole program was scrapped.
dpaton8546 2 years ago
@dpaton8546 : Your dad had a pretty cool job!
I think a lot of the younger people here, don't realize that before computer simulation, you actually had to build a prototype, to test a new concept.
The biggest problem with the VTOL aircraft of the 50-60's, was transitioning from horizontal flight, to vertical, for landing. (W/O computer assisted flight management, no less!) It was a brave man, that took up one of those birds.
skeilak 1 year ago
@dpaton8546 Either your dad's very confused, or you are. This isn't the US Navy's Convair (i.e. not Ryan) XF2Y SeaDart, one of which exploded in San Diego harbour - it's the US Air Force's Ryan X-13 Vertijet. Which didn't.
thisisnev 1 year ago
i cant see shit... only up
kinmanyuen 2 years ago 2
mira la estrella puñetas
kioma6775 2 years ago
American aircraft/ German report?
ushouldntjudgeme 2 years ago 2
lool :D
nsawilla 2 years ago
WOW! Gimee one, That is flying by the seat of you'r pants ,test pilots in thoughs days realy had some guts.
1007bernie 2 years ago
It must be during the same period than the Apollo 10 project.
esurfer26 2 years ago
I thought the same ;)
FruityLoopsas 2 years ago
that is fucking awesome
xcon99 2 years ago
lol i want one on the side of my house XD
LilStip 2 years ago 2
Hi, great engineering good aircraft but poor weapons platforms. Weight sensitive thus fuel limited and payload limited. A VTOL must improve these limitations before a service states could be considered for military use. A slow and low aircraft is no place to be when in combat. 007 Wing Man "Good Hunting".
007wingman 2 years ago
this pilot is not good - it is God!
motoTOM10 2 years ago
None of this is 'cheap'. Research gathered from this improves the next aircraft endeavor.
I still think it's incredible to watch this phenomenon.
bluemensch 2 years ago 2
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kirktalon 2 years ago 13
@kirktalon the basic design of the vectored thrust engine used in the Harrier was the Idea of a frenchman, he proposed it to an U.S. air force idea competition in the 1950's. the concept was distributed amonst the Nato Nations aeronautical community & Rolls-Royce decided to try & develope it. it eventually matured into the Pagasus engine used in the AV-8A & AV-8B Harrier.
kdraper2007 11 months ago
@kdraper2007 Ah, that is a nice tidbit of information I will have to remember. This is much appreciated.
kirktalon 11 months ago
@kdraper2007 Rolls Royce didn't develop the Pegasus engine. It was developed by Bristol Siddeley in 1957. Rolls Royce didn't acquire Bristol Siddeley until 1966. Bristol Siddeley also produced the Olympus engine for the Concorde and not RR.
binaway 3 months ago
guess what x 13 is based on a ww2 german design ....worth check it...
mivhoa 9 months ago
@mivhoa we gave you such ideas to make you busy ;-)
I think it was more the control system what was of interest instead of the payload to this x13. having a mobile interceptor anywhere would be the goal at that time. god thanks we were not that successful.
@jannej312 thanks for the upload!
tiredlight 6 months ago
@kirktalon The 'better idea' came 20 years later.
ahz123 4 months ago
@kirktalon Yeah, but this was in 1955...
felixu95 3 months ago in playlist x-planes
@kirktalon ... With gyros, accelerometers and magnometers and a 8 bit microcontroller you could control this thing flawlessly... It was an X-plane so don't compare it to the harrier.
hovercycle 2 months ago
This is un-real! Such vision.
Whatever happened to such forward thinking engineers? I have no idea what we are doing today except flying obsolete space shuttles.
bluemensch 2 years ago
VTOL has severe flaws.
This is not groundbreaking, it's cheap and sucky, that's why we dont use it.
razorflown2 2 years ago
Yeah... we do... the v-22 ospray works now.. the f-35 marine version has an extra fan to provide stability...
FerrilEwok 2 years ago
budget cuts in military aircraft development... sucks but some people want to keep their salary the same or rising...
FerrilEwok 2 years ago
Great aircraft propulsion technology
falconmiragee 2 years ago
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ENGLISH nothing!!! not everyone lives in america, ! there are 135 languages more! show some respect! that's why everybody hates u, dumbass fucks!
keminsky 2 years ago
Actually the very few that hate us do so because they can't have what we have. I could give two shits about anyone hating the US.
Parubhi 2 years ago
ja. das ist sehr prima.
memmm2 2 years ago
ENGLISH
XBlackXLabelX 2 years ago
dafa ungloden
cikcoop 2 years ago
Nope, GERMAN.
FireballFlame 2 years ago
all i understood of that is "rolls royce avon". Help, anyone?
krazyfrenchpilot 2 years ago
Thanks for the info...Pardon moir
TogieTung 2 years ago
The vectored thrust design is of Eastern European engineer (forgot his name) that was found by the Brits in a forgotten 20 yr old files in the patten office, They then "improved" upon the design & declare it it is "they're" design..Don't believe me? google it.
TogieTung 2 years ago
TogieTung: The design of the Pegasus engine was originally the idea of Frenchman, Michel Wibault - not an "Eastern European." Wibault filed the patent for a jet engine whose exhaust was directed through two jet pipes which could be swivelled horizontally or vertically. As the French government was not interested, Wibault sold the idea to the British company Bristol, who bought the license for it. They modified Wibault's engine and produced the Pegasus turbojet which used four swivelling jets.
Gruntol5 2 years ago
With the atomic bomb came the desire to have air forces that were not reliant on runways, because it was assumed that would be the first strike zone of any attack.
None of the VTOL designs of the 40's and 50's were very successful, and another couple decades passed before much energy was spent on that design.
Dajida 2 years ago
This aircraft beat the British to thrust vectoring.
ohainoob 2 years ago
Um... I7m pretty sure this thing doesn't have thrust vectoring.
Kytescall 2 years ago
It uses 3D thrust vectoring for control.
ohainoob 2 years ago
ohainoob: This aircraft does not have thrust vectoring. It's a "tail-sitter." Get the facts before making your comments.
Gruntol5 2 years ago
wikipedia. org/wiki/Thrust_vectoring
wikipedia. org/wiki/X-13_Vertijet
From the second link: "Pitch and yaw control in hover were provided by vectored engine thrust."
ohainoob 2 years ago
Yeah, they used have balls that clanged together when they walked. The Apollo program was pretty wild and crazy, looking back on it, it was amazing more didn't get killed. Be hard to pull of in today's safety-conscious society.
lapisdust 2 years ago
This is my favorite jet why the fuck they ceased this project, imagine a nuclear bomber months in the air, big enough to carry 10/12 improved versions of this baby.
But what brings my piss to a boil is a responce from a fighter pilot from USA when I mentioned Pete Girard and Eric Winkle Brown he said 'USA goverment doesn't tell us shit', that's not just unfair but ridiculous, if it wasn't for fearless crazy wackos like them there would be no fighter pilots today.
BurnRoddy 2 years ago
How do they find such highly skilled pilots with so little fear?
sixmagpies 2 years ago
Texas.
tuggerpuppy1 2 years ago
Ah......of course.
sixmagpies 2 years ago
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JazzBassBloke 2 years ago
didn't he break the speed of sound in the bell x1 and used to be a mustang pilot?
samworskett 2 years ago
Absolutely fantastic pilot skills!!!!!!!
metambien 2 years ago
those fun 60`s i like that
cybercow222 2 years ago
ye most of the today technologies came from that time period. damn fuck today's conservative science.
ActiveStorage 2 years ago
And you are telling me there is no UFO crafts in Area 51? lol Government has technology that one didn't even dream about.
StandYourGrounds 2 years ago 3
i dont really think theres any solid evidence of that
Kentos123 2 years ago
@StandYourGrounds its experimental flying wings that are in service today =S (idiot)
cssisdabest 1 year ago
@cssisdabest ok, and your point is? I know that. I am just saying that government has an amazing technology.
UlciaaM 1 year ago
th first of its kind, bet you couldnt do any better working from scratch
smokechoob 2 years ago
AMAZING THOUGH, nikola tesla made the first VTOL aircraft in human history, everyone look it up, he has a patent on the craft! leads to this aircraft, ufo technology, secret aircraft! poor tesla!
boxa888 2 years ago
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AntiKoloEmo 3 years ago
Who on earth thought that was a good idea. seriously with the amount that was probably spent on this piece of junk a harrier beater could of bean built. Or even a nuclear bomber, which i think would still be usefull. Atleast a Nuke spyplane would be useful.
gagecube 3 years ago
LOL. This peice of junk was FLYING in the mid-50's. The Harrier was barely a sketch in Hawker Aircraft notebooks at that time (~1957). If you want to know what the progress on VTOL in England was when the X13 was being flown, try googling the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig. Every good idea (like the vectored thrust nozzles on an F-22 Raptor) comes from somewhere, and it's rarely as glorious as the finished product.
fastindy 3 years ago
But there were better German designs working at the time if i remember correctly. Obviously I understand why no body could accept their designs but still, VTOL like this was just ridiculous. Didnt anybody think that it may, just may be a little difficult to land! The advantage to this would be that you could store many of them on a carries, but landing isnt gonna happen. I always though a magnet could grab the thing on landing to make it easier than a hook.
gagecube 3 years ago
Good transition from vertical to horizontal flight. Bloody good pilots too. Thanks for posting mate.
bluedog1976 3 years ago 2
in ehat way does it beat the harrier?
xxkil 3 years ago
pilot with big balls
3dd4dd 3 years ago 28
@3dd4dd big crazy balls
boogie504 1 year ago
it looks like fat pig
MD19861986 3 years ago
lol
Johnzx2 3 years ago
This is UFO technologi
lorunan 3 years ago
dude you're so dumb
UFO means unidentified flying objekt
(don't know it for sure in english)
fuck you're so dumb. if you see something fly and you don't know what's it it's a UFO
that's all
stupid bitch
SuicideFixated 3 years ago
This is the future of multi-story car parking.
eddiesteele 3 years ago
The future is UAVs.
jarriano 3 years ago
UAVs?..Wow!! are you one of those people who blinds with science?
eddiesteele 3 years ago
amazing pilot skills for the 50's... no flight computers etc... just raw "seat of the pants" skills!
macanix 3 years ago 3
i think this technology with ufo have some relation
vietnamdude 3 years ago
the eur4opeans call this a experimental plane..
in usa it was a ovni... lolllllll
hellduke 3 years ago
I heard that this aircraft was the most useless plane in the air force ( also saw it in a book named " worst airplanes of all time".
it does have no purpose
airlinerdude12 3 years ago
The aircraft wasn't useless; its purpose was to research VTOL possibilities; it was the first pure jet VTOL aircraft in the world. It was developed by Ryan Aeronautical in San Diego.
BlindHector 3 years ago
well if it didnt go into action, and or anything!, it was a useless plane after research testing
airlinerdude12 3 years ago
you build a prototype so you can observe it, learn from the mistakes you made making it and then make a better one. i would say it was useful. Besides, what "real" use could that plane have? Its too small to be a war plane and have some good weaponery enganged to its wings...
TakerSP 3 years ago
it was a waste of materials.
this plane was categorized as one of the worst airplanes of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
IM RIGHT, YOUR WRONG!!
airlinerdude12 3 years ago
this plane had a PURPOSE
this plane was used 2 research VTOL characteristics. If it was useless then they wouldnt build it.
this wasnt even in the airforce but only for experimental purposes only
jancam555 3 years ago
they did
truthspeaker969 3 years ago
No doubt the Germans had some smart engineers. So did the Americans, but we had a war to win so our focus was on production techniques and new designs of known, producable (sp?) technology. Winning the war was more important than wasting effort on designs that wasted resources and couldn't be maintained in the field. I'd say it worked.
And you bet the Germans came to work for us. The only other option was the Russians and they HATED Germans !
BTW Von Braun was a genius !
flyboy3633 3 years ago
True 2805alexander. The amaricans have stolen many inventions from the germans after WW2 ended as they ave take many of the Inventors too.
Mariussixtysix 3 years ago
don't know why people gave this a thumbs down, he's absolutely right.
ShadyMrPockets 3 years ago
americans dont wanna hear that,thats why;D
zamka21 3 years ago
Its true german/nazi engineers contributed to American aerospace but not because we "stole" them. That's just laughable. 1. Allies won the war. 2. Germany wasn't even allowed to do anything after Geneva. Did we steal Einstein too? hahaha.
QuinS33 3 years ago 2
werner von braun ring a bell anyone?
khanman125 3 years ago
Operation Paperclip comes to mind where Nazi scientists were given priority to come to the U.S. after the war. The German rocket scientists cut a deal with the U.S. because they didn't want to get captured by the Russians. Many rocket parts were captured/stolen(?) along with much technical information..that's history and fact.
fernfeyes 3 years ago
here the 'ovnis'. ; )
Nipkow 3 years ago
Old USA...Germany experimented and fly 1943-45 with first Vertical Take-Off.
America 1950´s...all copys and steal plans of germany.
2805alexander 3 years ago
Oh, calm down. History wouldn't matter if we didn't build off of the work of others. Each person would have to reinvent the wheel for him/herself.
Germany experimented with it, and the U.S. double-checked to see if Germany had missed any potential. In the end, both projects failed anyway.
madlutist 3 years ago 13
It's true, and the only natural response to the collapse of the Third Reich. Operation Paperclip was a brilliant idea. I just wish they'd made more research into some of the more trippy ideas the scientists of das Vaterland, like say, the Silbervogel Amerikabomber - a plane that is designed to go above the stratosphere and then glide half way around the globe, "bouncing" on the upper layers of the atmosphere - brilliantly sci-fi-esque !
BSODslayer 3 years ago 3
"America 1950´s...all copys and steal plans of germany."
not only the plans, the chief engineers were
often taken away from germany as well...
truthspeaker969 3 years ago 8
France "borrowed" German engineers as well, who reluctantly helped to develop the Mirage III's engine (SNECMA Atar 9). But they didn't invent delta wings.
julosx 3 years ago 2
@truthspeaker969 puh leeze.. they all WANTED to come here.
CreazioniPinnacolo 1 year ago
@truthspeaker969 Oh gee, that makes me feel bad. Germany killed 6 million innocent people, then lost the war they started.........but we took some ideas and built upon them! oh no! The humanity! Fucking please.
unclesara 1 year ago
@unclesara I dont mind your mindset , but really, if I would need to starve away without food left, I might join some funny bearded guy as well. you know, empty stomaches dont make people act very rational haha. just look at military today..
lezvarthok 1 year ago
@truthspeaker969 lol we could have been the worlds most advanced country with germany and destroyed the USSR in 2 years
usafisasome 1 year ago 2
i dont quite understand the use of such an aircraft
Archidian815 3 years ago
The use was so that aircraft would not need runways. The end of ww2 Germany was being bombed around the clock, including their airfields and a fighter plane that would not need a runway and be able to get airborne quickly was high on the list to put into production. Today it is no diferent, the ability to land in areas under fire without the expence of long strips that would be a target for terriorist etc.
candr 3 years ago 10
You couldn't pay me enough to fly that thing. What a death trap.
ReluctantSpider 3 years ago
Oh where's you sense of adventure!
bandagefreak 3 years ago 10
I agree with You.
Andybucker 3 years ago
I would fly in in my first heartbeat after familiarization. And qualification check off.
Don't be a puss. Life is no fun if your not on the edge. Das Ist Wunderbar....
DobermansRock 3 years ago 5
the harriers water doesn't cool the engine, it increases the airs density, which increases thrust, handy when your fully loaded.
besides, the harrier can land anywhere, not just on special towers
cornishcactus 3 years ago
just beautiful!
TheOldSpaniard 3 years ago
x 13 the starting of the harrier jet
jsugars 3 years ago
Harrier needs water which was limited to cool the vertical flight engine down. the X13 didnt.
Incuby 3 years ago
Remember the plastic model kit "Air Farce" - was a take off of this airframe.
RetiredAFGuy 3 years ago
I like how they just "hang the airplane on a hook" at the end, like it was a garden tool in the shed or the garage. Honestly, though, that looks REALLY dangerous. If the engine loses power, or if the airplane loses balance during the hovering mode, the pilot would likely die. And ejection would be straight out sideways, at an altitude of about 50ft.
Tubes12AX7k 3 years ago
Congratulations for the pilot. That landing was almost impossible.
jabuci 3 years ago 2
Its Nazi technology.
mauriciodsrberlin 3 years ago
in what way??they didnt invent the turbo jet engine,and newton was english and bernoulii was well bernoulli lol,there are many rumours about nazi technology like the ufo which in theory is one big gyroscope rotating and using its own weight rotation as propulsion but other than tht i beg to differ and very few of these ideas ever came off the drawing board.
winstonblack99 3 years ago
Nazis were investigating about a plane that could take off and land vertical. Only Nazi's prototypes were found by americans and later, americans developped and improved that type of plane.
Read Wikipedia and you'll also be able to see pictures of US ships with Nazi planes, and other.
iPacor 3 years ago
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iPacor 3 years ago
Was geschah jemals mit diesem Flugzeug?
edStueart 3 years ago
Wow. They should nickname that thing the Bee, or the Wasp. It's so dinky, look how small it is; still very powerful to be able to hover vertically. Pretty cool.
countumga 3 years ago
Roswell, 1947.
4darin5 3 years ago
xoxo
Adolfsson4 3 years ago
That pilots balls makes a bowling ball look like a (insert small ball reference here)
allanxxx99 3 years ago
electrons
sh8oony 3 years ago
lol. Nice one!
allanxxx99 3 years ago
microcasmic particles LOL wow im overtired sorry.
PhoenixDown11 3 years ago
X-13 vertijet
megabigjetfreak 3 years ago
Some of em remended me of Heinkel Lerhe.
Anyway here is where german tech came after ww2.
Impulse116 3 years ago 2
Actually, the only German aspect of the X-13 is the delta wing, thanks to Dr. Lippisch. This concept has more roots in Britain than Germany, with the RR TMR and Fairey Delta 1.
evilintel 3 years ago
giev back german technology! :(
Almatea 3 years ago
reminded me of that turboprop one called the 'flying pogo' looked like something off those crazy 60's science fiction films. i wonder what those guys would have made of the JSF now lol
papa12213 4 years ago
I'm amazed how stable it is; it's looks like it flies quite well (Ryan editing may have helped). I was half expecting it to tip and blow up!
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faireyswordfishmk1 4 years ago
Thats amazing! Didnt know a turbine can do this! Does it have vectoring thrust in all direction?
miniheli 4 years ago
no, I think it is using small jets in the wing tips or similar..
jannej312 4 years ago
whats she saying!!!
whats she saying! ! !
cookiemonster0626 4 years ago