The fact that it's not a Blohm & Voss design is surprising.

Having the rotor blades so close to the ground like that must have been real popular with the ground crew.

"Hopefully I pronounced that right" - I'm a native German speaker and even I am not 100% sure, how you'd pronounce that thing. You're good lol

Post-WWII VTOL aircraft were a response to the fact that American forces relied HEAVILY on air power. Soviet forces were primarily ground, but they did have bombers and surface to surface missiles that could destroy runways/air fields. Germany had long stretches of the Autobahn that were designed to act as runways during wartime, but even these could be compromised and couldn't handle the heaviest transports and bombers. Thus, aircraft like the British Harrier were developed "Just in case". Nazi VTOL aircraft were intended to be point defence weapons; They would be staged at major industrial locations in order to fly up immediately and engage Allied bombers. The V-22 was a political victory for a Texas manufacturer. It is designed to transport 32 soldiers or 20,000 pounds of gear at 250 knots, about the same as a DeHavilland Canada Dash-8-100, while being able to land like a helicopter. It has turned out to be a frightfully complex nightmare that has killed 62 people in accidents since it was introduced, many because of pilot error, but a significant amount due to technical problems.

I understood the CLAMP reference

Dad was intercepted by Ryan in San Diego when Lockheed transferred him from Marietta back to Burbank. Worked primarily on VTOL (X-13 Vertijet) plus the Firebee II and some Rogallo Wing designs. San Diego was a great place to grow up in the late 50's early 60's. The prototype X-13 was unfortunately burned up in the San Diego Aerospace Museum fire.

thumbs up for the CLAMP reference

Flettner also invented the Flettner Double Rotor, which consists of two synchonised intersecting rotors. As seen on the K-Max helicopter.

By far, my favorite military aviation channel on KZfaq. Keep up the excellent work, man. I love it! 👍👍

Are we sure the Germans were not trying to design a lawn mower for airfields ,and not an actual Aircraft. I would have loved to be in the design office when they revealed the design. Imagine the question being asked on what idiot came up with this mad idea.

To everyone saying that the V22Osprey is a death trap etc, I'd like to give you this: In the 34 years that the V22 Osprey has existed, it has killed 62 people in accidents, so roughly 1.8 people per year. By comparison, the UH-60 Blackhawk has killed roughly 197 people in 45 years of service. That's roughly 4.4 people per year. Also worth bearing in mind that the Osprey carries far more people (max 38 vs the Blackhawk's max of 15), yet has never had a crash that killed everybody, showing how much safer it is, even when it does crash. Do you understand now? The V22 has a fatality rate that is roughly 2.5 times lower than the Blackhawk. So explain to me why the V22 is considered dangerous?

Thrust vectoring was a brilliant idea and came out of France. The French dismissed the idea, and so the British developed it.

You deserve more subs, absolutely outstanding channel and every video is a banger

I think it could be both of the explanations simultaneously, the Kriegsmarine loved helicopter projects and jumped at anything they could possibly slap on a ship. The Kriegsmarine pilots, although they had to attend Luftwaffe schools, were the only non-Luftwaffe German pilots allowed, as Göring actually understood that it might not make much sense for him to be in charge of planes that are deployed by ships at the other end of the world.

They look about as easy to land as a Space X reusable rocket!

I do not think it was ridiculous and instead think it was an idea before it's time. Look how long of design and development and how much money the Osprey required. And that is with modern electronics and vastly more resources than a desperate Germany had.

Love the early VTOL designs, specially the tilt-wing ones. Edit 4:05 PLEASE MAKE AN VIDEO ON THESE AUTOGYROS

German engineering in WW2 never stops to amaze. Having the rotors placed that way below the center of gravity would have made this thing very unstable when hovering. Like balancing a stick on your finger.

Do you have any plans to cover more Wunderwaffe aircraft in the future? If so, how about the swept wing, ramjet powered interceptor, the Focke-Wulf Ta 283 "Strahlrohrjäger" next?

I always learn something new from this channel. How many batshit crazy designs did the Germans have? 😂

Great analysis and, yes, as an anime/manga fan going back to the early 1980s, I got the Clamp reference.

The DO-29 type aircraft might be more interesting with turboshaft engines instead of piston engines.

Just think what a world we would live in if all of that initiative, all the resources of funds, skill, and determination were directed at reducing poverty and levelling the economic playing field.

The Weserflug P.1003 was another VTOL project.

Cool

Excellent report. The Bell XV-3 truly was the progenitor of the V-22. Perhaps an airplane worthy of it's own episode... hint... hint. Yes, I know it has been done on other channels, however, a deep dive into the difficulty developing the _control algorithms_ required to succesfullly transition from vertical to horizontal flight might be worth your study. (Liked, subscribed, thumbs UP.)

5:45 gets straight to the design considered for experts

no more ridiculous than the Bell XV3, very similar concept, but Focke Achgelis was more than 10 years ahead of Bell.

I've seen a drawing of a pre-WW' British tilt rotor idea. It looked like a Bristol Blenheim with a tilt wing. If I remember correctly it mentioned the lack of a rotor material strong enough to do the job and a powerful piston engines being to heavy. I've never seen another mention of this idea.

Great video, never heard of this one nether. df

I understood that reference. 😁

Hey, that one crew doing your landing gear was talking shit Pilot: *activate VTOL mode* 3:28

yey new vid

Weser Flugzeugbau also tried to make the P.1003 with a different tilt rotor system, and it was explored in Britain with the Baynes Heliplane

They literally made airplanes that use the magnus effect. Instead of wings they had giant spinning rotors like you see on those ships using the flettner rotor. I think that is just beyond cool.

Ah - I learnt more than Sweet F.A.

I'd have though one engine would have been somewhat under powered for anything other than a tech demonstrator. Flight controls also tricky with stability with the point of thrust being below the CG rather than above.

It's interesting, why they chose push configuration with rotors swinging down (resulting in high landing wheels) instead of pull configuration with rotors swinging up...

To my knowledge, Flettener is also the inventor of trim tabs on airplanes.

Sounds like somebody just convinced a burocrat of his amazing idea in order to not get sent to the front hahahaha

+0:05 Thanks for the reminder +IHYLS I forgot I had that Banana I was going to eat.

I hope the v2 or v2.8 of some current aircraft designs comes out some time in the future, even as a piece of history, for the public to consider.

Does this technically make it the first short takeoff and landing STOL? Proper helicopter rotor blades with controls are much more complicated but if you can just get something to fly slow enough with just regular propellers or jet exhaust you could start landing almost anywhere. Would have been interesting to see this scaled all the way up.

They finally get to it at 5:57.

Not just a CLAMP but an xxxHOLIC reference? Be still my beating heart.

1967 Dornier Do 31 VTOL jet also come to mind ( at the Deutches Museum )

I ❤ weird planes! Said it in this channel’s videos many times. If it’s weird, I automatically like it! … But even I can see the problems (plural) with this design. 😅

With all respect (and I truly mean that), how is the Heinie design any more ridiculous than our ungainly Osprey-a vehicle so unstable that it is regularly grounded for safety issues?

I can see the ground crew loving this plane.

The Kriegsmarine certainly had an interest in on board aircraft (ergo VTOL) while the Luftwaffe might have considered the idea as "defeatist" in 41.

I think the design look could be a more clear line in what year is correct. Knowing the technology gained over the war by germany can make the look of all designs become different as each year passes. I sadly haven't really looked at german designwork in ww2 so i can't say for sure, but you can see that in action looking at the examples you've shown of the harrier with the classic three window front window to the single roundes window.

The Do29 was interesting! Didn’t know it existed....FWIW Funny in a video about “ rubbish vtol” you showed a photo of the Bell x-22a, still think that was a genuine missed opportunity with potential. Ducted fans Just seem to make sense, so Influential it still shows up in sci-fi such as in the “ Chinese cartoons”😅

I could never understand how engineers could not see how the more complex you make an aircraft in wartime, the more likely one bullet will bring it down.

Pronounciation is quite good for a non native. On the upper side compared to other yter. In yt tongue: no cringe moment. 4:41 I met Richard Perlia at the age of 89 iirc, who was test pilot of several vertical lift projects. Maybe an interesting person to read about. He published a book about his adventurous life, which name i doesn't have at hand at the moment.

Don't forget the French ornithopter,the Riout 102T Alérion

If I had to give the German VTOL a nickname, knee capper comes to mind, steel-toed boots be damned they ain't going to help you here.

The jet tip Fairey Rotodyne was not a helicopter but a development of the pre-war autogiro. It could have been developed further but for the dead hand of government.

Heyy, something im actually well informed about! I even went so far as to recreate it as close as i could in Flyout.. Could it take off in VTOL? Yes, absolutely. And while being fairly easy to take off , the landing in general would be a nightmare. In the 40s, with the required control setup (with the all of the static control being completely reliant on the tilt rotor) it would be very extremely complicated and questionably reliable. Does it work? .. sure Is it a good design? Lmao.. no.

An expensive Hay Mower lol

Good grief! The voice of a teacher from pre-primary school.

5:00 ...and the Flettner flap.

Those Fleitner rotors are just... There's a definition that magic is effect without discernible cause. So yeah, magic. I *think* how they work is their rotation sets up an air vortex around them, and as the wind hits that vortex, it bounces off at roughly right angles at a higher speed. Equal and opposite reaction means it generates thrust in the opposite direction. Or so the court wizard tells me.

Focke is like Porche, Porsha,so Foka,Achgelis I have no idea. As a kid,up the street there was a Czech family we called Wheelbarrow because it was as near phoneticly we got [ no disrespect intended ] Mr Wheelbarrow probably felt the same about some of us.

The Good old Germans invented the Helicopter and had them operational in WW2. They also had VTOL aircraft before the Harrier, it was a Dornier and flew in the early 70’s.

Think the downward swinging rotors were necessitated by the pusher props? Or were they pushers so the props could swing down? If they swung up they could have used a more conventional configuration.

People have GOT to be making these german wonder weapons up now these are just too fucking rediculous to be real Edit: watched the video and oh my fucking goodness WHY IS IT REAL

I'd fly it. It's very cute.

Не знал, что турбопарус и вертолет синхроптер делал один и тот же изобретатель Антон Флеттнер

Oh a spanish Harrier! :D

I know this is a stupid question, but... Why is there not a jet osprey?

I JUST THOUGHT OF WATCHING YOU the hell… telekinesis

I doubt that the cannon could have been in the wing root. They would interfere with the drive system.

Only Germany could develop the worlds largest weedeater.

The way he say fockewulf makes me laugh ( it s beacause it s sound a lot like F word, for some reasones for me 😅) And also great video, keep going.

Why that contraption looks like flying street sweeper.

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the ospray is such a bad airfact it created a massive spike in US casualities due to all the crashing

This inverted pendulum definitely would not be capable of hovering. This layout could only do so with digital fly-by-wire. Controlling pitch would have been impossible at low speed. (See - Flying Wing) Hinging a propeller shaft in such a way that it doesn't result in destructive parasitic oscillation would have resulted in a very heavy tilt mechanisms. It probably would have been better to fix the engine to the wing and change the angle of attack. This would have made articulated propeller shafts unnecessary.

I would have gone with Leiji Matsumoto rather than CLAMP.

How did they got that job ?

That Osprey looks moronic

@cessna , now hear me out, Flying Lawnmowers!! Million dollar idea!! Call IHYLS for specs.

You are Drachinifel for aircraft

No human being has ever spoken like that. I can't stand it. 👎🏻

Germans had the knack for totally impractical designs.

Die Deutschen schon wieder ✌️

"the concept really took off" very droll

"It's ridiculous! - Allies "Let's copy it anyway, hire the Hun engineers that made the ridiculous thing, and sweep the whole 'but they're unrepentant nazis' thing under the rug." - Also Allies

The V-22 is an insult to the actual osprey.

Germans made it and fly it when allies had nothing to show or fly !

I get why they lost the war. Yeesh.

i would take away the word " ridiculous" from the title. Its a lack of respect for a very clever idea. Put clever instead of ridiculous

This was NEVER going to work....

Why fustrated

Not ridiculous at all!! But rather brilliantly innovative,so typical of the Europeans in general and the Germans in particular!

I don't want to be near that when it takes off. It cuts you in half or worse, cuts fine lines in your abdomen, making you bleed black

First as usual

What is ridiculous? USA is even more "ridiculous" they copied this system during the 1980s and tell they were the inventors. There was another german VTOL aircraft called the Weserflug P1003.

Voice ,,,,,,,, yuk!

The Osprey is a piece of garbage! We're better off with helicopters. We've lost too many good servicemen to that hunk of crap. It's like the f-104 Starfighter, I don't care how many of them you sold, you lost almost 1,300 pilots with that trash due to the idiotic stubby wings. And how many enemy aircraft did you shoot down? I can imagine it wasnt even close to the number of pilots you idiots lost in accidents due to it's stupid design. Oh, and before you start getting upset on the keyboard in response F-104 fanboys, riddle me this: Why don't we make aircraft like it anymore?