duPont Aerospace DP-1C first hover - run 2

[KyriacosK]

The Yakovlev Yak-36 (NATO reporting name: Freehand) was a Soviet technology demonstrator for a VTOL multi-role combat aircraft (youtube dot com + be/h1H4PUo3iQw)

[gabcibertech]

Lol ! Its like to have a big nose in front of the airplane ;)

[alvaradokids]

already been done by the russians its called a yak-36 been put into service and retired 30 yrs ago........

[elliments]

@alvaradokids the wonders of "modern" technology great isnt it. how fcking far behind we are

[cobrachoppergirl]

This is sweet, considering I fly the gunships in BF2142. Too bad we don't yet have an engine design that can develop instant hella accellerating/decelerating variable thrust (as opposed to stable thrust in this video), if we did, we could make awesome hovercrafts happen.

[jwboll]

autonomous (no pilot)

paint it black, stick some kickass guns on it, and put it in a terminator movie!

[SingularlyDatarific]

Despite it being the UGLIEST thing i've ever seen leave the ground, kudos to the technical achievement! I am extremely jealous of you smart people who also have money.

[deestilo]

@SingularlyDatarific

hey it's a flying pig........... oh well warthog is taken.

[CampDavidification]

i want one LOL

[MrPtitzz]

looks slow. and has a butt on its face.

[cutiemamitha5556]

pretty cool. it is unmanned by the way. and the landinggear is fine.

[iammjoelner]

By the way, I'm not defending the money spent on this thing but the government has only spent around $13billion on the project that this plane was competing against. Check out the V22 crashes on youtube if you want to see a true waste of money.

[iammjoelner]

For the people talking about the pilot. There was no pilot in the plane nor was there a 'dummy pilot'. The pilot seat was empty during the hover. The test pilot got into the plane, powered up the vehicle, started the engines then exited the plane. The engines were brought up to power via remote control then the autopilot took over and controled the hover. As someone else said, this was a test mule.

[RDELAPLAZA]

the pilot is scared shitless, for what he is doing trying to fly that thing, and waiting for the engineers errors to show up or for the thing to explode, when he signed in for the job he thought that that thing will never fly ! ! !

[emerychandler]

yea deff. not a fake its also an easy build now thanks to the harrier and f-35 gen.

[luketorpedo]

@emerychandler

Looking at it I think there was technoligy demonstrator like this long before those even. cant remember the details of the plane, but looks pretty much like a modern copy of it.

[aymric]

@luketorpedo You're thinking of the Bell X-14. It first flew in 1957.

[halnwheels]

It's hard to believe the video isn't real, I agree. But why does the pilot's head NEVER move? Not even during the bounce. He never seems to checks the gauges.

[supressorgrid]

@halnwheels It is ground controlled, dummy pilot is for weight.

[aymric]

@halnwheels I really hope that you're being facetious... There is no pilot. This is an unmanned test mule.

[halnwheels]

@aymric The discussion at the point in time was whether it was man or unmanned. I was just saying that there was no movement in the cockpit that would indicate it was manned. The quality of the video (reflections and lighting) made it difficult to see what was in the cockpit.

[seafood10]

What a waste of taxpayer money! Just start Google'ing around and you will see. As a long time taxpayer I am outraged at this waste of my hard earned money, I have been injured on the job a few times just trying to support my family and people with their stupid fantasies take my money which I have bled for and waste it on unrealistic projects such as this.

How can you sleep at night thinking of how much you robbed the taxpayers for......

[ghune]

40cm. Its best performance...

Haha...

[pyromaniactard3]

@seafood10 its not robbing if it can help advance tech to help

[pyromaniactard3]

@seafood10 nvm bout the last comment

[ghune]

36 years of studies and almost 100 millions dollars for that... and it doesn't fly !

If I were American, I'd be pissed of !

[player1diao]

lool looks like MiG-9 )

[r3vk3nny]

AWESOME.. I did see the other comments about the front gear and yes it looked like it bend a bit, but way cool! This could be a precursor to private hover planes. Nice!

[Gitimal]

LOL! Did he break the front landing gear? Well, some part of the steering anyway?

[kebruya]

i just can't understand how he did that, i didn't see different staff from regular planes

[Nicoman008]

Uhm....it looks a bit like a pig nose...

[usmcDavis12321]

bull shit its fake! if its hovering where is the debris from its thrust or why isnt the bushes moving

[QQQQWWWWWEEEEE]

dude this isnt fake, look at all the detail in it...its the real deal(bushes are moving)

[Dudeman9339]

oh yeah... thats TOTALLY FAKE!... its like a damn balloon or sometin.. man dat so kul.. dis wud b fun!

your an idiot

[TheA320Expert]

you are an idiot usmc a pure fucking idiot

[ElectricBagpipe]

debris should never be a byproduct along with the exhaust (thrust is a force smart one), and you shouldn't comment on topics of which you are ignorant of.

[yak55x]

If I had a friend that could get me tax payers money to build airplanes they would actually FLY!. Nobody wants this thing - Why would they?

[bigrobnz]

By the time they get it flying there"ll be no oil to fill it"s tanks!

[Melpheos1er]

100 million $ of tax payer money for this ?

[BlacktailFA]

Only $64 Million so far, but to date it has STILL never flown without tethers --- that's after TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of development!

The DP-2 program also began in the same year the Bell X-14 program ended (which itself lasted almost 25 years with no useful results), and it's only too obvious by their appearances that the DP-2 is just a warmed-over X-14.

[QQQQWWWWWEEEEE]

this isnt tax money, it personelly funded by DuPont

[Melpheos1er]

ho, my bad then...

Thanks for pointing my mistake ;) I just wonder now why i was thinking it was paid by the army ?

[bkw8000]

this is taxpayers money, look into it. Duncan Hunter was the one who was funding this without anybody knowing. As soon as it made a news appearance, and people found out how many millions he gave to them, the project all of a sudden stopped. It now sits in the hangar right next to my work, collecting dust.

[suharinos]

It looks masculine !!! P~O~W~E~R~~~~

[doorgone]

Bad pilot. Inherent characteristic is left wing low. Fix it. Nice aircraft.

[powersurge91]

there is no such thing as an ugly Aircraft, I quite like it's shape actualy. once it goes on sale there will be alot of modders waiting to make it more quiet and efficient.

[sum1uallno]

No fuel required! Mini nuclear reactor electric turbines. Creates its own water as well as oxygen. So it is as efficent as we can get. This is a little unstable but seems to do the job.

Oh yah i was just pulling your legs.

[marakopi2]

crash landed even in this ridiculously controlled environment.

[KOboy67]

Looks almost exactly like Bell X-14. 1960's concept - and yeah, damn ugly & massively inefficient! Noisy too, I reckon, as those don't look like High-bypass turbofans...Not gonna sell a lot of those, I'd guess, even if they do get it past the regulators!

[DJ0JJ]

dosent look efficent, damm is ugly.

[planedude91]

damn stable