Thunderbirds (what would really happen) TB2.

[1glwt]

What the h...? thunderbird 2 develops enough speed before launch! Science man! Science!!

[pyr0b1rd]

Apparently you have missed the concept of a lift body. A basic rundown is that the whole body of the aircraft provides lift, not just the wings

On the other hand, I find this amusing

[palexandersquires]

The Hercules is very heavy yet it gets of the ground . So does thunderbird 2

what`s the matter? don`t you like Brains (MR. Hackenbacker)? I think that he is a genius and a great inventor think about the Skythrust and the ejectable fuel tank. the hackinbacker device) 5,000 gallons of aviation fuel safetly ejected and the plane did not explode thanks to brains.

[palexandersquires]

Thunderbird 2 would fly, Think about the Hercules aircraft. Thunderbird 2 is a

cross between a Harrier jump jet and the Hercules that airccraft gets off the ground and it carries everything even army tanks and jeeps and the regiment anyway Brains would of thought about that when he diesigned her!

[intermender]

yeah, so, and then that mole thing comes out and makes a hole for it to go through :D

[HordrissTheConfuser]

I used to have that toy! It came with TB4 inside, and I would play with it in the bath!

[sbcruiser2]

Blasphemy!!

[JFlash88]

You prat!

[zilverenmist]

I also had a plastic thunderbird, good to see that it had the same stats all over the globe.

[monkeyhanger83]

It's JUST a kids TV show from the 60's! Fiction/FANTASY.

Just enjoy it for what it is

[amosnews]

I watched this twice and laughed both times. I am sick.

[2degucitas]

@amosnews me too!!!!!!

[wargammer2006]

well....

ever hear of Thrust to Weight ratios??

the F16 can go straight up without wigs.

so can the F18 and F15, F22, and several others

and as TB is set in the future, anti-gravity anyone....

[98xana]

@wargammer2006 your right...but i wouldent sugest anti gravity.

maybe helium tanks

thunder birds 1 can reach over 1000mph with out much effort

[darksteelfuzzy]

I don't get it. I really don't get it. physically? sure! but why would you WANT to make a video about this...

[sleat]

No! You're forgetting, it has thrusters on the BOTTOM! And it's NUCLEAR POWERED! And it's not made out of styrene!

[dantoyota1]

Gerry Anderson is not amused.

[thegoonden]

Deary me, vertical jets my friend ;)

[TheBarty92]

crap

[1234dalton1]

FAB

[justazsaz]

what the....get a life!

[joemon2007]

love it

[breadbaker226]

Now you have ruined it for me.....

[dataflowc]

@breadbaker226 Sorry I know how you feel, I was devastated the day that I found out that the angels in Captain Scarlet don't have any legs.

[markst95]

@dataflowc I like the Diving Weight. Nice touch!

[dataflowc]

@markst95 almost as hi-tec as the lemon squeezer used in the TB1 launch.

[dataflowc]

@markst95 perhaps Gorden got grammes and kilogrammes confused when he ordered his weights of the internet

[noob1138]

@dataflowc

Hows that?

[breadbaker226]

@dataflowc how do they have sex, then...

[dataflowc]

@breadbaker226 swallow for sure

[CurlieCornflake]

@dataflowc

What!?

[indulis1]

@dataflowc The inspiration for "Crash" by JG Ballard?

[3mpt7]

HAHAHAHAHA! Okay, I get the fact that Thunderbird 2 has a very small wingspan, but seriously, when launching off the ramp, TB2 is a rocket, not an aircraft. As long as it generates enough thrust it should fly...

[RenegadeMaster07]

i have this model sitting on my desk... and it is offended sir!! lol

[dataflowc]

@RenegadeMaster07 If I had a model sitting on my desk, I certainly wouldn't go offending her you cad.

[RenegadeMaster07]

@dataflowc lol :P

[s9523pink]

Very funny!!! I liked it and I am an avid Thunderbird fan!!

[reddracken]

OMG THIS IS HILARIOUS! love it dude!

[ginge1987]

obviously u dont know much about aerodynamics get the right thrust to weight ratio and you can get anything to fly how do you think they get the eurofighter to fly with its short wingspan

[foodrocks999]

btw it would pick up more speed than that before it takes off!

[attractgoodness]

Some stuff is sacred. Making fun of the Thunderbirds taking off? I'm not sure people should go there...

[dataflowc]

@attractgoodness Could have been worse, like a movie that puts Lady Penelope in a Ford for instance. btw there can only ever be one Ed Straker.

[attractgoodness]

@dataflowc You're right on both counts! :) Ofcourse, there will be another Ed Straker! :

[Fizzypop1211]

well at least we now know the truth of which tracey ate all the pies.

(you fat b*st*rd, you fat b*st*rd)

[ryhorn100]

Now I see why Jeff said he had a feeling about the assignment, LOL!

[InfraredVisor]

Not funny... Don't fuck with that

[Firemarioflower]

thats was stupid and waste of my time

[yassy588]

hahaha^^　コラッツ　誰だ！。。　子供のころ、同じことした。映像になってるから驚いた。

やっぱ、格納庫がぼろっつって　落ちやすいんだよ＾＾

[mayangod1isback]

I dislike this video. You can not steal peoples good moments when thunderbird #2 was taking off, We knew it was just some crazy effects that made it took off. So therefore I rated your video Zero. I don't usually do this but this time you drove me to the wall. I apologize for this comment but it comes from my heart.

[dataflowc]

@mayangod1isback Yes, I feel the same about the absolutely dire way that they have remade the 1960's series of The Prisoner.

[AarClay]

kneus...

[Splitskirts]

Obviously someone forgot to use the locking pin for the pod ( in T2 ) ! Regards.

[skeilak]

Wow! Stunning special effects! Spielberg, eat your heart out!

[dataflowc]

he would do more than that if he watched our E.T video.

[WolfmanNougat]

Should've gotten a longer ramp.

[dataflowc]

or a great big powerful catapult

[WolfmanNougat]

Or that, yeah.

Perhaps a giant Crossbow?

[cprich22]

a cannon would do

[mrbeanchannel]

rofl

[dmd5201]

Ha!! LMAO!!  Love the Thunderbirds!

[antoniusvisser]

Nou, dat vind ik toch wel erg flauw hoor! En nep ook nog eens :P

[ryhorn100]

Well, someone didn't put enough fuel in Thunderbird 2! LOL!

[prausch65]

hahaha

[paulandjonothan]

damn! scott, get me $20. we need another thunderbird 2!

[dataflowc]

Here have $25 and make sure they put the bloody wings on the right way round this time.

[paulandjonothan]

and by him a new grandma while your at it...she scares the crap outta me

[bigglesfire89]

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

You basterd how could you lol

[Slagdar]

XDDDDD

[MystiffDawn]

Nice one, LOL !

[MrOllyK]

I was born in 1968. As a child I loved Thunderbirds. I knew back then that some of the physics required to keep these aircraft airborne (let alone launch) was pretty specious, but I never let that get in the way of entertainment.

[dataflowc]

Yes I agree to that, Thunderbirds was kitsch and cool at the same time, as were most of the Anderson productions from the 60's.

[MrOllyK]

The next Anderson installment was "Space 1999", but I never got to see much of that. It was less interesting for me at that age. I think I just preferred the puppets.. :)

[dataflowc]

I didn't like space 1999 either (or Joe90), but ufo wasn't too bad if you could believe that aliens would be so stupid as to travel for billions of miles across space then always approach Earth by flying past the moon and getting shot by the interceptors.

[MrOllyK]

Haha.. If aliens could travel light years to our planet why would they be interested in our fledgling populous.. They have larger fish to fry.. :)

I don't remember much of Joe 90.. I'll have to look at that..

[lincsposter]

I thought Captain Scarlet came next?

[MrOllyK]

You may be right. I'n not old enough to have seen many of those older black and whites. I'll see what I can dig up [rummage].. From what I can figure out on fanderson[dot]org[dot]uk: Thunderbirds series 1 Thunderbirds are go Thunderbirds series 2 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Thunderbird 6 (feature film) Joe 90 Doppelganger In Australia we never got Joe 90 or Captain Scarlet - or many in between until Space1999. Thanks for the heads up lincs.. :)

[dataflowc]

wot no Stingray?

[MrOllyK]

Stingray was the one before Thunderbirds season 1. I've never seen that either.. ;)

[wmdbassplayer]

I loved Cpt. Scarlet, Supercar, Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5 and Stringray. Never heard of Joe 90. Was that ever shown in the States? NYC, in particular? Thought his mix of models and live action with Space Precinct was pretty cool, too. Also, didn't know Space 1999 was by Gerry Anderson but I guess I should have recognized the modeling style. For me, Captain Scarlet was the tops, with Fireball XL5 and Thunderbirds runing neck and neck second.

[dataflowc]

As I remember Joe90 came after Captain Scarlet, It was about a 9 year old boy who was given the brain power of specific adults by a supercomputer called "the big rat", he had to wear special glasses that held the brain waves, else he became a normal boy again. All the kids at our school with specs stopped being called Brains and got renamed joe90 because of this.

[bmorsette]

Don't forget UFO. I loved the women with the purple wigs. ;)

[dataflowc]

Yes Gabrielle Drake and Ayshea Brough, strange thing on ufo was when they were in their space suits on the moon they bounced around in the low gravity but as soon as the entered moonbase the gravity became earthlike.

[bmorsette]

Arthur C Clarke complained about the same thing with "2001". Shows like Star Trek try to explain it away with some "gravitic" field or some such; that works inside the ship, but when you go out...

Either way, doesn't bother me.

What Anderson productions laced in realism, they made up for in their old-fashioned, high-spiritied, Heinleinesque "get things done" vision of the future. Which is so lacking these days...

[dataflowc]

I agree, in 1970 we had landed on the moon, had supersonic passenger jets, clean hospitals, antibiotics that worked, and county councils capable of sorting out simple things like a kids school bus pass.

[GeneticsFTW]

@dataflowc

antibiotics are no different today than they were 40 years ago in 1970, except that we have new ones. The reason older antibiotics no longer work is that we killed all of the susceptible bacteria until all that was left were the bacteria with resistance. Antibiotics are in fact a natural byproduct of bacteria, they act as messengers and they kill niche competitors. However, a bacteria species typically has a heritable resistance to its own antibiotics.

[dataflowc]

Mutations in bacterial dna cause antibiotic resistance, the human race is basically sqandering antibiotics by over using them.

[wmdbassplayer]

UFO goes way back, too. That's one of those shows that I don't remember much about except that I liked it.

[smartcooky99]

Err.... ever noticed that TB2 is a VTOL aircraft, so wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that they use their landing thrusters for support during take-off from the ramp. This is a technique VSTOL aircraft like teh Harrier use when taking off from an Invincible Class carrier;

youtubecom/watch?v=qW0k9HsvKaM

[ignoblius]

Thunderbird 2 has its own length (76m) to travel before it is no longer supported by the ramp. By that time it must be moving fast enough to remain airborne by its own lift.

If this speed is the same as the takeoff speed for a Boeing 747 (180 mph=80.6 m/s) then the takeoff acceleration must be about 4.3 G. This could be a problem since none of the equipment in the cargo pod ever seems to be tied down very securely.

[steeltownbrown52]

LOL!

[clunny77]

Ha! I loled :D

[DesignerMouse]

Poor guy.

[bluehachiroku]

made me laugh..

[jackmanslightpepper]

Ouch!!! Well, if it's all a matter of physics I can't argue with you!

[marceloribeirobarros]

BEST STUPID IDIOT ON YOUTUBE !

[SLRShuie]

the rockets, and in tb1 the water what are you thinking they are I/R they can do anything! i bet ur one of the sad people who hated it

[dataflowc]

love thunderbirds, hate joe90

[davidnightingale]

An outrageous conspriacy theory put about by those seeking to undermine International Rescues creditbilty. Who do you work for, the UN?

[Evsta101]

LOL

Fail...:P

[aliwallis1967]

RANDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DomRusky]

:L lmao

ahh the tracey island set - my folks went round about 20 stores at christmas lookin' for it =P

[Rickjongeneel]

Flauw :P

[vaartbericht]

great fun

[philiprussell1987]

Surprising how much time people have on their hands

[thailandajarn]

Ah ah Ner No, he is ker kercompletly ser serious Mer Mister Tracy! I went to sker sker sker (oh fuck it) university with him. Everyone in computer club thought he was a real specky boffin 8-)

[stone412]

You're killing me!!  Stop! LOL

[abacab987]

So Cool honestly, the ending sequence from the movie: "when worlds collide" is just a tad more realistic because the rocket goes down a giant ski-jump on wheels. The original TB2 I had always imagined was powered by turbojets which were linked by drive turbine to electric generators which powered gravity engines. The ancillary fins were merely there for stabilization. Please look up u-tube "alien scientist"- "Anti Gravity Physics Explained". I had run tests on such a device in the early 1970's.

[dataflowc]

Similar to how Fireball XL5 is launched.

[TheRebel2007]

LOL!

[paulanfieldukox]

Always thought the same!!! And whats with the slowest opening doors in the world.Come on hurry up people are dying who fitted those doors F*** the dramatic theme tune get to that rescue AAARRRRRRGH!!!!

[Stephen050]

lol thts funny

[antiquercus]

It looks so cool, but it can't possibly fly. The hydraulic legs are embedded in the tubes from the air intakes to the rockets. A can of soup has more lift than those wings.

[2206411411]

It looks close enough to the design of one of the waverider airfoils. (There are basically four designs - a wedge shape used by the stealth bomber, a rather rounded shape that is supposed to work well at Mach 6 and looks like TB2, a flat design NASA likes a lot and uses on all their photos, and a star design nobody uses for anything.) I very much doubt TB2 was based on hypersonic waveriders, but there's nothing to stop you reimagining it using such designs and keeping close to the original.

[amon999km]

TB2 can fly by 4 transparent strings from sky. Didn't you know?

[2206411411]

Those aren't strings. They're noodly appendages of the Spaghetti Monster.

[DomRusky]

it is :L

[InfiniteMushroom]

TB2 could hover so, I never really understood why it needed a takeoff ramp. TB2 probably had lots of CO2 fire extinguishers pointed down to help it hover in place.

[bighondo77]

I needed a takeoff ramp because it's cool.  Hello?

[Warriorking1963]

This is TOTALLY wrong!!!  TB2 really would fly, I mean Brains himself designed the thing! :-)

[AarClay]

tijd teveel gozert :')

[longhairedlayabout]

Remember according to all laws of flight, a bee can't fly!!! I've seen heaps of them!!!

[VGRetro]

You got me laughing there! I mean, it is true; Thunderbird 2 is huge, and it has tiny wings POINTING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!

[draken19]

Hmm, I believe that your interpretation of a wing is incorrect. You see its not to do with which way the wing is swept (in this case forwards) but to do with chord thickness ratios from the front to the back. The Russians have a plane with a similar wing shape and it provides amazing performance and handling, they just need to be incredibly strong! Also if you consider the size of the rocket motors to push the craft then they would possibly provide enough thrust to get it moving fast enough.

[VGRetro]

Oh, well I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

[lordlozz1]

it would need blasts going towards the ground a bit like a an raf jumpjet

[ignoblius]

Forward-swept wings have been used on a number of aircraft, most notably the NASA X-29 and Sukhoi S-37.

[tabbythenut]

I LOL'D

[tokman20]

This is funny! But if you look carefully at every launch (they use the same footage) you can see the rear fall a little bit straight after it takes off.

[Eowenna88]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[BlizzardTH]

Was that the engine sound of Fireball XL5?

[dataflowc]

well spotted

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

Ha ha fantastic - never expected that ending LOL

[Watcher3223]

What's funny about this is that, apparently, in regards to outtakes for the miniature shots, you're not too far off!

[samborghini]

well in theory it depends how much thrust is pushed out of the 2 engines of Thunderbird 2

[Steam1989]

I always thought Thunderbird 2 was a bit fat for the air! lol.

[crispycritterz]

Push harder, Virgil

[Eowenna88]

sooo wrong in so many ways haha. good one!

[xzaz2]

lol

[jsl151850b]

Great minds think alike.

Checkout "Thunberdirds" (spelled that way.)

[crispycritterz]

Oh Snap!

[jeffbob4343]

Nice effects. I laughed.

[NomadGSA]

Just needed a little more boost I think...