Had this bomber gone through to actual flight testing, Sanger would have realized that the boundary between upper atmosphere and space does not present the firm boundary that he was counting on for the bomber to ride upon
Lots of far sighted thinking but, it was old-fashioned mass production of the U.S. that won the war. The Italians had a better, albeit lower tech, answer to the turbojet. The motor jet. THAT would have given Hitler a reliable mass produced jet engine to regain air superiority
There's poor quality photographic evidence that a mock up was built of Silverbird. Sanger began to realise that he had grossly underestimated the degree of aerodynamic heating the craft would be subjected to. Increased insulation leads to increased weight and the sums don't add up. The design becomes so heavy as to become impractical. Materials available at the time were not able to resist the heat either. An interesting design that would have burnt up in the atmosphere on re-entry.
I saw documentation that said it was the most labor active program at the time for the Japanese and that one of these rail tracks was constructed on an Island and for payment they were giving Jet technology and a Jet. There was a photo of a white GO229 with the Nippon sign on the side. Sounds far out but also was the Giant Japanese I-400 sub bigger than anything until are Nuke subs came out in the 1960"s . they were the hail mary of Bio War devices carrying the worst disease know to man.
I dont think this would have effected the outcome of the war though, the launch runway would have been attacked and destroyed with conventional bombers after D-day..and it still would not have been completed by then..Germany did the right thing to cancel the program..the money would have all been lost on D-day...the launch runway was found half built in France by Gen George S. Patton..he wrote about it in his book "War as I knew it"..he died before ever finding out about the bomber though.
Its scary... when we had enough money we propably would have buildt it... then the first human in space would have been german... but for wich price...
this concept would've died the moment the slide rulers came out and would never have made it past the viewgraph stage. its wrong on so many levels. great video though.
i seen this i think the way the plane was built was to skip off the surface like a stone on water but they never tested it yet nasa is tring to see if this well work for future space craft
they come from the idea of a reusable vehicle, but the Sanger is more like a very high altitude glider than a true spacecraft. Plus, the sanger is a single stage to orbit so it has to carry all its own fuel and engines. The shuttle can drop its fuel tanks and its engines when it doesn't need then anymore to get rid off useless weight
@emeraldhunter1 The Silverbird inspired the X-20 DinoSoar which in turn developed into the Shuttle so there is some corilation but the V2 was at least as important if not more so. Interestingly almost all modern rocket engines use the design Sanger invented for the Silverbird! 70 years later its still the most effective chemically fueled rocket design.
Not really, the V2 when up and came down, more like a shell. Once it took off that was it. Shuttle was a space plane and glider, of course it glided like a brick with wings,, but it does glide and land like an aircraft. The only similiar is that they begin with a rocket engine.
@machizm The bumping is pretty much the same as what happens when you throw small flat rocks over the water, making them hop. Depending on the angle you hit air-layers you either dive through them or you compress them and bump. Of course you lose kinetic energy during the process, which would have caused the Sanger to land somewhere in Asia.
The idea to built a rocket propelled plane, which essentially is what the space shuttle is, is much older than even the Sänger itself.
Had this bomber gone through to actual flight testing, Sanger would have realized that the boundary between upper atmosphere and space does not present the firm boundary that he was counting on for the bomber to ride upon
Lots of far sighted thinking but, it was old-fashioned mass production of the U.S. that won the war. The Italians had a better, albeit lower tech, answer to the turbojet. The motor jet. THAT would have given Hitler a reliable mass produced jet engine to regain air superiority
InfiniteMushroom 1 month ago
There's poor quality photographic evidence that a mock up was built of Silverbird. Sanger began to realise that he had grossly underestimated the degree of aerodynamic heating the craft would be subjected to. Increased insulation leads to increased weight and the sums don't add up. The design becomes so heavy as to become impractical. Materials available at the time were not able to resist the heat either. An interesting design that would have burnt up in the atmosphere on re-entry.
Alembic25 7 months ago
I saw documentation that said it was the most labor active program at the time for the Japanese and that one of these rail tracks was constructed on an Island and for payment they were giving Jet technology and a Jet. There was a photo of a white GO229 with the Nippon sign on the side. Sounds far out but also was the Giant Japanese I-400 sub bigger than anything until are Nuke subs came out in the 1960"s . they were the hail mary of Bio War devices carrying the worst disease know to man.
nipponhouseplayer 8 months ago in playlist Die Glocke
i like the moh music ;D
vidmizz 8 months ago 2
The Sanger really was a monster. If the Germans had deployed against the Yankees, then the war would have ended quickly.
MegaPanzerTiger 11 months ago
What's the sountrack of this video?
kwijibo33 1 year ago 2
I dont think this would have effected the outcome of the war though, the launch runway would have been attacked and destroyed with conventional bombers after D-day..and it still would not have been completed by then..Germany did the right thing to cancel the program..the money would have all been lost on D-day...the launch runway was found half built in France by Gen George S. Patton..he wrote about it in his book "War as I knew it"..he died before ever finding out about the bomber though.
Gloomshadow1 1 year ago
1:06 the control surfaces look way too small for something so fast.
hmmwvj 1 year ago
Its scary... when we had enough money we propably would have buildt it... then the first human in space would have been german... but for wich price...
LordKatzeify 1 year ago
this was one desighn plan germany had in WW2 for hitlers Amerika Bomer thank GOD it did not become a reality.
WarTubeChannel 1 year ago
If only it became reality. the best never built
solarnight25 1 year ago
The Sanger antipodal bomber was designed to skip along the top of the atmosphere the way a flat rock can be skipped across the surface of a pond.
This concept was to be used by the X-20 DynaSoar aerospacecraft that was cancelled in 1963.
baraxor 1 year ago
this concept would've died the moment the slide rulers came out and would never have made it past the viewgraph stage. its wrong on so many levels. great video though.
Datamanc3r 1 year ago
@Datamanc3r
Sure it's easy to point out flaws in the design when you have working space planes to compare to it.
At the time no one knew enough about hypersonic airflow back then to know exactly what was wrong with the design.
The concept of using a blunted shapes for example was not arrived at until the 1950s after much testing.
If they did go through with it they likely would have discovered many of the issues at the scale model phase.
Remember these guys ended up working for NASA.
Membrane556 1 year ago
i seen this i think the way the plane was built was to skip off the surface like a stone on water but they never tested it yet nasa is tring to see if this well work for future space craft
12samiam 2 years ago
This video is good.
I felt two things at the same time,a fear of the war madness and a possibility of technology.
How do this bomber hop on the Earth's atmosphere?
Dose the Space Shuttle idea come from Sanger's bomber?
machizm 2 years ago 4
@machizm
they come from the idea of a reusable vehicle, but the Sanger is more like a very high altitude glider than a true spacecraft. Plus, the sanger is a single stage to orbit so it has to carry all its own fuel and engines. The shuttle can drop its fuel tanks and its engines when it doesn't need then anymore to get rid off useless weight
EduEnYT 2 years ago
No, the Space Shuttle come frome the V2 german rocket... I think
emeraldhunter1 1 year ago
@emeraldhunter1 The Silverbird inspired the X-20 DinoSoar which in turn developed into the Shuttle so there is some corilation but the V2 was at least as important if not more so. Interestingly almost all modern rocket engines use the design Sanger invented for the Silverbird! 70 years later its still the most effective chemically fueled rocket design.
asunarocks69 1 year ago
@emeraldhunter1
Not really, the V2 when up and came down, more like a shell. Once it took off that was it. Shuttle was a space plane and glider, of course it glided like a brick with wings,, but it does glide and land like an aircraft. The only similiar is that they begin with a rocket engine.
candr 1 year ago
@machizm The bumping is pretty much the same as what happens when you throw small flat rocks over the water, making them hop. Depending on the angle you hit air-layers you either dive through them or you compress them and bump. Of course you lose kinetic energy during the process, which would have caused the Sanger to land somewhere in Asia.
The idea to built a rocket propelled plane, which essentially is what the space shuttle is, is much older than even the Sänger itself.
GendPzTrSchmidt 1 year ago
Yeah great video. The song is in the MoH:AA too.
Moskitoable 2 years ago
interesting
dontcommentme 2 years ago 12
i remeber this song. it was is medal of honor underground and medal of honor airborne in the 2nd mission
Hitsulikeapunch 2 years ago
bardzo ciekawy pomysł ale niemożliwy do zrealizowania w tamtych czasach.
TornadoLightming84 2 years ago