ahh yes, the vertibird the greatest explosive known to man

As a Fallout Nerd *and* Aviation Nerd I am the happiest person in the world right now...

At Anchorage, there was no sweeter sound to my unit than the sound of the Stingray whenever we got one for CAS. I can still hear that sound to this day.

Trying out a slightly different type of video on the channel! Thought I would go over the different aircraft in fallout. let me know your thoughts

Couple of corrections: 4:54 - that Vertibird is not an official design. It's a cargo Vertibird drawn by a Gray-Skull. 7:40 - Just because those Stingrays are next to the Sea of Tranquility section doesn't mean they actually belong to that section. Elsewhere in the same mural we have biplanes next to the four-turreted USS Missouri and a Minuteman in front of the WW1 era tank.

Man if you want a series that focuses on kooky planes based off of real designs you should look up stuff for Crimson Skies and Skycrawlers. Crimson Skies is a dieselpunk world set in the 1930s after America got balkanized and is almost entirely focused on being air pirates with zeppelins. Meanwhile the Skycrawlers is a novel/anime series where conventional war has ended and been replaced with PMCs getting hired to settle disputes with aerial dogfights. Crimson Skies is more American designs while Sky Crawlers is there for the Japanese side of things.

The idea of those passenger planes being able to fly for ages makes for a funny idea, a flight of people who managed to survive the bombing, rarely if ever landing and those who stayed aboard turning them into self sufficient environments. Would make for a super cool set piece in a fallout game set within the first 100 years after the war.

YES DUDE, bring one the fictional stuff! And as an Ace Combat fan, I am putting my vote up for the world of Strangereal! You could have an episode dedicated to Gründer Industries alone!

i like how he handwaves northrop flying wings after mentioning the america bomber, that wasnt a flying wing, and the ho 229. you can almost sense the approval and disdain in his voice. "as well as northrops attempts......" like seriously dude

FYI, the Fallout Vertibirds are tilt wing craft, meaning their engines and wings tilt up. While the US currently uses tilt engine/rotator designs in the Osprey and soon to be deployed Valor. Meaning only the engines/rotators tilt up and down the wings stay fixed.

The US Navy did fly a variant of the Lockheed P-80 from its decks: the T2V SeaStar trainer, later redesignated "T-1A." No folding wings, though.

Im so happy you show the different Virtibirds as some people think the ones in 4 are the ones from 3. but they are different models

Nah the commercial airlines is 🔥🔥🔥

0:10 Fusion!

Micro fission, proceedes to show the cold fussion

I've been a huge fan of exploring Fallout's prewar stuff in-game. And as an aviation enthusiast, I remember spending hours just examining the P80-like jet at the carrier in F3, and looking at the Vertibird's propeller in F4. I always loved this about Fallout, that the imagination from the game is clearly inspired on crazy, cold war designs, particularly from the soviets. Fallout planes make me think if the Ekranoplan and all those retro futuristic ideas.

Well, this is the first that he put a video on a fictional aircraft.

“Iiiiii don’t want to set the woooorrrrllldddd ooooonn fireeeeeee”

Helicopters exist in the Fallout Universe, you can fly one in Fallout Tactics.

the P-80 was considered for the navy and had some special versions made to test but when they were tested they already had a jet, also the bomber was a B-29

Grumman made the F9F Panther, which was basically a P-80 with just a couple changes to the shape of the airframe and folding wings. I know they were not made by the same manufacturer, but they were very, very similar.

The vertibird is formidable, true. Except in Fallout 4 wher the Brotherhood will use a vertibird to attack someone and in a minute or less it is shot out of the sky. They hardly ever survive. Also, they always go towards the player while crashing. The cargo plane does not have a high wing. The wing root is at the bottom of the fuselage, which makes it a low wing, but it does appear to have some dihedral which would give it stability. A high wing would be rooted at the top of the fuselage.

The TV2 SeaStar was a shipborne variant of the T-33, a two place variant of the F-80 Shooting Star. It did not have folding wings.

Gives me Hope for an Ace Combat video ❤😎

Most of the real life designs for these vehicles were abandoned for a reason and a few were just impractical. All fallout vehicles would be fusion and not fission due to the enormous weight of shielding required for fission. See project Pluto for details. The brotherhoods air ship lacks sufficient hydrogen bags to lift it, even if its "armor" is merely Kevlar and carbon fiber. The Vertibirds and the large passenger plane are the most realistic given a fusion bottle instead of Aviation gas for fuel.

These are some awesome looking aircraft

Awesome! I never thought YOU would be the one to cover all these aircraft, they're so wacky and I love them for it.

Further to the passenger jet designs: the Fireflash airline from Thunderbirds also featured seating in the wings with big windows, and a nuclear reactor. They even mention in one episode that they can loiter in the air practically forever, but that the reactor shielding needs to be maintained every few hours or else the occupants are exposed to lethal radiation levels

I think the museum mural is a compilation of events, not suggesting T-51 and the full stack Saturn were on the moon.

This video was so good now I want you to make more fallout stuff just because of how amazing it was

The fact airliners have Wing seating is bananas to me. I love the concept I geek out when I see it

Loved coming across the Horizon airliners in the Commonwealth. They also remind me a bit of the Junkers G.38 because of the passenger lounges in the wings.

You forgot the Nutsack Supreme Bloasto, Mach 7+, 573 passengers, barrel rolls all day everyday

*Love how me and buddies are just replaying the fallouts series and you make this!*

The first plane was definitely inspired by the Junkers G38, a 1920s almost-flying wing aircraft that had passengers sitting inside the wing aswell

With Fusion Cores being a thing, I think it is safe to assume that they mastered Nuclear Fusion in the Fallout Universe. They also built their cars to be powered by nuclear engines and I remember, I think, that in Fallout 4, when you just get to the very first gas... or well coolant station, you can read the diary of the last days before the bombs dropped, where the owner describes how he acquired a gas-run motorcycle and describes it as some heavily outdated and thus exotic design, really hard to get spare parts for it. And seeing that many cars in the game somewhat survived the nuclear blasts and lasted like 200 years... before a player comes and blows them up with a mini-nuclear explosion in Fallout 4 (dunno how realistic that is) and computer terminals being working after 200 years, I think their fusion technology is pretty stable, unless left unattended for 200 years, lacking maintenance and/or suffering catastrophical failure. Thus said, that fusion powered mega passenger airliner seems pretty secure and they probably weren't irradiated after a trip ;) PS: Regarding the airship, it is in the show not mentioned, if it is the Prydwen or another one. In universe the Brotherhood has some experience building and operating several of them at the same time, they just lost multiple ones decades earlier. Imho it should be treated as a light weight carrier, since most residents in the wasteland probably don't have weapons to strike at it.

As someone who loves crazy inventions and how things might work, definitely. YES! Expand your channel with the imaginary universe. This unlocks so much potential from a lot of catchy franchises....*cough* Star Wars... Have a special edition. Release it once a month or twice. I guarantee they will catch a larger audience.

I've always loved the look of the P-80 as well, here's little insight into why the P-80 wasnt considered for carrier use for a few reasons: 1: the airframe and landing gear couldn't take the beating of carrier operations. 2: they were far too underpowered for carrier takeoffs (early jet tech was pretty underpowered as a whole) 3: the Navy didnt really want to jump to a jet project that was designed for USAF use. Navy and Air Force aircraft generally have very different roles, capabilities, and parameters of acceptable performance. The Navy was fairly happy with theor F-8Fs and Skyraiders at the time.

A perfect mix fan, Fallout fan and aviation fan, nothing gets better.

This was an great video! I think the transport aircraft mentioned at the Las Vegas Airport might be dual purpose, it has too many windows to be a pure cargo aircraft.

I ran the numbers on that Brotherhood of Steel airship. In order to lift a 40,000 ton airship, each gasbag would have to have a radius of 120 meters (meaning it's 240 meters across).

always fun in Fo4 to turn the boston airport into a minutman / brotherhood of steel military air base with damaged aircraft made to look like they are being repaired / salvaged plus 2 intact stingrays on the runway ready to go. also works great with vertibird mods and the stingray air strike mod.

For the F-80 not being used as a carrier aircraft: the Navy did conider using them and actually tested them on USS Roosevelt (they were refitted with a tailhook and stronger landing gear). They also equiped 2 squadrones with them: VF-52 and VFM-311. For the Navy not aquireing them: it's pretty easy. Lockheed back then just wasn't a major fighter-supplier for the Navy. Branches were pretty segregated in terms of companies they bought from. The Navy often ordered from Vought, McDonell or Grumman. Another fact is that the F-80 wasn't a purpose-built carrier-plane, since Lockheed ath this point in time had absolutely 0 experience building navy-planes. Since the P-59 the Navy had their own fighterjets in development and once the F-80 arrived they already had more suitable aircraft ready, namely the McDonell FH-1 Phantom (no, not the F-4, but a predessesorand her namesake). The Phantom and refitted F-80s were close in performance BUT the Phantom had 2 engines, better slow-speed handeling and a superior landing-gear from the get-go, since she was always meant to be a carrier-fighter

Discovering your channel with this video, as a Fallout fan, really love it ! You've got a new follower

As someone who would get really excited and spent a LOT of time exploring every inch of a discovered aircraft wreckage this video is greatly appreciated.

I really enjoy videos like this as I always liking to know what kind of things they have in video game, movies, shows, and etc. For how the world they bring for people to enjoy that they also happened to create types of things to either drive or see in the fictional worlds, specially it always have me wonder what else is there because we see little of them.

I absolutely LOVE the pre-war fallout vibe retrofuturism is fucking cool

I actually got really excited when I first found that massive airliner in FO4, as I am also an Ekranoplan geek and was hoping it was some kind of odd Wing-In-Ground vehicle.

The Shape of the airship reminds me of the Zepplin Dropship and Flying Fortress in Iron Order 1919

Please make more videos on fictional vehicles! this was a great watch

I love this video! Maybe you could do more video game series about aircraft and vehicles?

3:11 The Vertibird is actually a tiltwing aircraft. The wings tilt with the rotors.

9:35 that gun pod looks...... interesting

Found and Explained never changes.

Would love to see more of this, maybe covering other games or even shows and movies.

Love this content, as a fan of Fallout (and of your coverage of experimental, ‘what if’ and UFO designs) ❤

That was super cool! Thanks! Hope you do more videos like this one.

Made one about Soviet N1 Rocket

Ive seen plenty of coverage of fallout aircraft, this was the best, you expertisé and knowledge of history brings a lot to this discussion

Plane…plane never changes

Love your channel and your topics. Could you possibly talk about the aircraft from either the Halo or Gears of War universes? Love to see what you come up with.😊

You called the B-29 a B-52, very different aircraft. Also, the P-80 was only under that designation for about 5 minutes, the vast majority of it's service life was as the F-80.

This video is amazing. It’s similar to that of another channel called Skydingo, and his Fallout Vehicles series, but more professionally explained Fallout 4’s Ship Ideas (Page 279, The Art Of Fallout 4) are Another vehicle I’d personally suggest if this series is continued. I’d personally like to hear your take on both the Battleship&Cruise Ship

Appreciate this one, and am obligated to ask for a video about the civilian/military ground vehicles, they truly have some dope designs

I was hoping you make this video

Fuck yeah brother, I love Fallout!!!

such an awesome video! Very fun and creative designs, and I love that parts of them were based on real world designs:D

Yes, I think you should about more video game aircraft and vehicles! This was really cool!

Welcome to the fallout universe wonder.

Plz more types of videos like this

@9:30 - My that Mustang is hung like a horse! 🐴

Idea: A very rich individual who for whatever reason didnt trust bunkers. They instead loaded a Jetliner (radiation shielding on the engines of course) with around 150 people as well as the equipment necessary to detect nukes as well as survive for many generations. They would simply fly to parts of the world that wernt actively being nuked and managed to keep going until X time. Then disaster strikes! They get shot down and there are only a few survivors! The most important survivor being the co-pilot(possibly next in line to be "leader"), who is the player and now they must survive on land. Their main options being: Take over a vault, Live on the surface, Find fix and outfit a new Jetliner (or smaller plane) to survive on.

9:40 You mentioned the rare two prototype fuselage aircraft, but not the common ones that are in use. P38, Stratolaunch, and White Knigt Two

I just love the designs not only the aircraft but all sorts of machines in Fallout series, and that some of the everyday stuff is nuclear powered like it is the normal thing to do in this series.

If we’re considering fictional airframes, May I suggest; Anime "Yukikaze" Anime "Sky Crawlers" Movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" Movie “Stealth" to name a few.

That modestly-sized fighter looks more like an enormous transport.

Okay, about the Vertibird and helicopters, we know helicopters exist in the Fallout universe. Because they existed during WWII. The Sikorsky R-4 was preforming rescue and transport operations during WWII. It was just limited. And we know that it's post-WWII (commonly thought to be 1947 when the transistor was invented in our universe, and wasn't invented until much later in the Fallout universe). It's just that this is what the military was using and trying to develop. Which fits, because even the DoD today is trying to push through tilt-rotor aircraft as well.

I never understood how many of there tech can be so small or compacted, like the robots or the pit boy when there using vacuum tubes instead of microprocessors

I really liked this videos, you should do more fictional aviation videos

1:58 I bet everyone's heard this little tidbit before but (at least according to US regulations) you get more of a dose of radiation from in a few hours of flight at cruising altitude than you ever would in a year of working at a nuclear power plant. And while fission isn't exactly popular in the Fallout universe (by the 23rd of October 2077), the beryllium agitator room can kill within a few seconds, and yet without it Boston still has power. This probably means within the fallout universe, scientists have made fission reactors so much more efficient that somehow they let off so little radiation that it is only detectable in city powering reactors. This probably means that the civilian liner maybe only double that dose you'd get from cruising altitude. That's if the reactors are able to give off even that much radiation (and aren't shielded in any way).

The vehicles are powered by fusion engines. So yes, the airplane is fusion. I also imagined that the fusion reactor/reactors would be in the center section, and the heat from the fusion reaction would be cycled through a heat exchanger air to provide the energy to rotate the compressor and turbines and create thrust.

I'm pretty sure pre-war engineers in fallout figured out light weight radiation shielding seeing that they have fusion powered cars and fusion reators small enough to be held in ones hand in the form of fusion core😊

pleas do one for halo

Dude this freaking rules! Make a series about games or even just fictional stuff. Ace combat would be a great one, hell maybe even Star Wars if u wanted. I watch all your stuff. Do more of this and I’ll be watching even more 😂❤

Fun fact, the P-80 was in fact considered for carrier use, but was deemed impractical as jet technology was not yet viable for carrier use.

2:41 "Northrop's attempts?" My guy, none of those example planes ever flew, except for the Northrop design, and it went on to directly inspire the design of the B2 Spirit.

When it showed the twin mustang: "its just a fuel pod, its just a fuel"😬

Fallout + Aviation = Happyness

I love this!! More fictional aircraft pondering please!!! I'm inspired to build the arcjet in Juno new origins thanks to you it might actually look awesome and function properly. Please, more..more!..

They should have a future plot line where one of those jet liners had crashed on an island when the war happened, maybe shot down over the ocean, not so much knocked out by EMP or whatever. 1,000 people give or take on an untouched, untargeted island could have a lot of potential for story. Either at the time, or later, in the usual games' present. I've often thought there should be an oceanic Fallout, possibly in Hawaii, but it would be cool to expirement in such a game with vehicles and much wider world exploration options, so really they could build on that and move into areas we've all been curious about like other countries. The Water World side of Fallout XD NGL writing this down is making me realize how stifled I feel by this franchise sometimes.

Loved this , an would love to see a in-depth video on any of them (your choice of course) .

This was awesome! Always enjoy your videos but fallout is one of my favorite video game series, thanks for this! 🔥

Hi @FoundAndExplained the Vertibird was inspired by the Canadair CL-84 rather than the Osprey. It was a great aircraft that was way before its time, tragically it somehow lost out to other military budget priorities. The CL-84 does deserve an honourable mention though w.r.t. the Vertibird though. The P-80 was adapted to a navy trainer known as the T2V Seastar, although it didn't have folding wings.

Just missed the PT-00D biplane from fallout 76, witch is visually similar to the Boeing Stearman Model 75. It can be found sporting various color schemes in multiple locations across Appalachia.

Note: the main inspiration for the airliner actually appears to be 1920s era blended wing passenger aircraft

Watching this gave the idea of a Battlefield style Fallout game. Like there could be prewar maps with the US and China and then some wasteland maps with some other factions. That would be so sick

Yes, more fictional aircraft please. If I can suggest one Battletech universe aircraft are weird and fun

If you're gonna do fictional aircraft, Ace Combat would be really fun to see, too? Also, Project Wingman.

You should do a Muv-Luv Alternative video. Basically in this anime, all the jets are mechs used to fight a alien race called the BETA. Almost all the mechs which are called TSFs are based off of real military jets/fighters and have details catering to the real designs of an aircraft.

have u ever looked into what the Ace Combat games cook up?