Yes, a scramjet video would be great. This video was a lot of fun to watch. Thank you.

"Silbervogel" doesn't translate as silver fish but as silver bird.

@CakePrincessCelestia

2 жыл бұрын

True, and that very idea dates back to the 40s BTW...

@donaldwohlberg6043

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I came here to see if anyone else noticed the mistake.

@JoeOvercoat

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Silverfish made zero sense.

@JoeOvercoat

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Silverfish made zero sense.

@ericvantassell6809

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeOvercoat the silverfish project was a norwegian black program that proposed a spaced based system to disperse sardines over the territories of norway's enemies. The theory was the enemies would flee the smell and the norwegians could just walk in and occupy the place. It all fell apart in the test phase when the norwegian soldiers started fighting among themselves over who got to eat the rotten sardines. The other nail in the silverfish program was the swedish threat to retaliate with surmstroeming.

Yeah, a scramjet episode would be awesome!

@Laotzu.Goldbug

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

I came for Hypersonic, and got beautiful footage of the Valkyrie! With all the recent hype around Chinese Hypersonics, I was that old dude that was grumbling about "Hey, we were doing this in the late 60's/70's and early 2000's . . . what the heck happened!!" Great background on the DynaSoar, and of course Neil is part of the story also. You hit a lot of ground on this, all the way up to the X-15 and X-24. Thank you for tying all this history together into one coherent story. Heck yeah on Scramjet video!

Rocket powered dinosaurs? Needs to be in next iteration of Jurassic Park.

Would you ever do a video on field propulsion, like gravity propulsion? There was a lot of work done in the 1950's on this.

@ravener96

2 жыл бұрын

What are you even talking about

@dankuchar6821

2 жыл бұрын

Can't, because it's not real.

@TheSpectralFX

2 жыл бұрын

@@dankuchar6821 well the efforts made to achieve those sought after capabilities were... Albeit living in their future... we know it was meant to be unsuccessful.

Silbervogel is Silver Bird, not silver fish

10:00 “...Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will leverage to send a 6-person capsule into orbit.” I think you’re conflating “space” with “orbit”. Space is about altitude (above the atmosphere). Orbit is about velocity - achieving a high enough horizontal velocity that you end up circling the earth and never hitting ground. New Shepard is a suborbital rocket that goes straight up to 100km altitude and comes straight back down in 10 minutes from liftoff to landing. Its max speed is something like Mach 3 or 4. Reaching orbit requires something like Mach 25.

@dallynsr

2 жыл бұрын

Roughly 5 miles per second

The X-15 topped out at 4520 mph.

@johnmknox

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to put the 600,000 hp from the X-15 into a Fiat 500.

The US is the only country to have ever flown manned hypersonic aircraft.

Thanks Alex

The US had lots of ground breaking research back in the '50s and '60s including aerial nuclear propulsion...

Great video dude. You tie it all together perfectly, and make it so easy to understand while also making it intriguing and very entertaining. You got a listener for for life my friend.

Good 👍 stuff man, VERY underrated channel!!!

The MiG-25's engines are toast after it does those high-speed dashes.

I would love to see a video on the history of v/stol, but specifically the evolution of tilt rotar's. From WW2 German FA-269, Bell XV-3, Candair CL-84, Bell/Boeing V-22 to the newest Bell V-280 Valor. There are alot of aircraft to cover but it would interesting to see the different attempts, the lineage of each pathway whether it be rotating the wing, nacelles or just the rotors and how we got to the current contender the V-280. I think they are fascinating and marvels of technology and there were so many problems to overcome it took 60 or so years to get enough data to not only understand what the problems were but finally have technology emerging in systems like fly by wire, computers and algorithms all coming together. The amount of money from across all the programs has to be absolutely eye watering but it was one of the times "to big to fsil" actually worked out because not only the military but the IMO the civilian use will be a game changer.

Yes need a Scramjet video. But I have seen a lot of the vids out there. So let's see how good you can put your touch on the video to make it interesting. Thanks for all the Great content Sandbox

Great video, Alex. Yes, please, make the scramjet video.

That was an interesting video. Yeah, a vid on the scram jet would be good.

Don’t tease me just give me a scramjet episode

I remember the Dyna-Soar from a news piece by Walter Conkite. I appreciate your crisp and precise narration.

@MatthewHolevinski

2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of the proposed Black Horse project.

I know. We had one of those x37 b type, beyond hypersonic, by 1988. I can't give details, but lasers beat hypersonic missiles all day long, and we have plenty. It was a baby recon & direct action strike craft that looks just like the space shuttle, just smaller, now we're in space, way beyond scam jet tech, although it was a stepping stone to current.

@RallyRacingVideo

Жыл бұрын

Was it flying out of Groom Lake?

Super sonic missile look impressive. We have UFO's

Excellent stuff bro

new favourite youtube channel

I liked this video! :) Do one on SCRAM jets!!! :)

Yes! Bring a video on scramjets!

Regarding hypersonic missiles, it seems to me that an object traveling so fast would be its own worst enemy. The first X-15 traveling at hypersonic speeds in the atmosphere nearly burned up due to atmospheric friction. The space shuttle, due to its extreme speed, used to fly backwards in orbit due to the windshield on one of the earlier missions haveing 2 of its 3 layers penetrated by a paint chip from some long ago Saturn 5. It would seem that rain, hail, or lingering debris from a missile that exploded minutes earlier could take out a hypersoni missle due to its own kinetic energy. I can imagine exploding a quartz warhead in the path of a hypersonic and having debris completely shred the missile. With most missiles, you need to intercept them at both the right location and time, as a hypersonic carries its own destructive kinetic energy, to stop one, if you know its path, being a few seconds to a few minutes ahead would be fine.

My grandfather worked for McDonald Douglass in the early 90's. I was 6 or 7 when I remember visiting him and he had the little model he brought home that looked like all of our modern day hypersonic renderings (long wedge shape, scram jet underside and to the rear). I remember him telling me that this was going to be the fastest plane in the world. Unfortunately he passed away shortly after. Apparently he was part of a group really pushing for hypersonic research in the late 80's / early 90's. Ahead of their time.

@theduplicator3270

2 жыл бұрын

Yikes. They take NDAs seriously.

Good overview a video on Scram Jet technology would be interesting.

We did have hypersonic air craft in service for decades, it's called the space shuttle.

The sr71 is one of those neat instances of an aircraft getting more fuel efficient the faster it goes

Yep, I'd love to see a video about scramjets!!

I rember some of those tests. Wow we let a lead go on hypersonics. I wonder though, if a plane/missile goes that fast it creates a plasma cloud around it how do they target anything? The radar inside the plane/missile would reflect back or if it blasts through the reflected signal wouldn't be able to get back to the plane.

Looks like the plane the six million dollar man flew!

5:21 Eugen Sänger entered the chat. 6:11 That's the name of Sänger's "Antipodal Bomber", which was a concept from WWII emerging the desperate strife to somehow be able to hit the US "at home" that never got real though. You should make an episode on that one, it's pretty interesting. It basically was pretty much similar to the later X-20 in theory. 11:18 Would be great 13:10 "And if that day comes, we may learn that platforms like the Dynasoar aren't as extinct as we might have thought." - Love that pun.

Thanks...l just Sub'ed to your channel...!

Nice video with a great amount of info that most people in our country and I'm sure alot of other countries didnt kno this was actually taking place...hopefully we still have very intelligent engineers working hard to get America and of course our allies who need us to make these very critical achievements possible...thanks..well done

Silbervogel means "silver bird" - not "silver fish". 6:09

Should do one specifically on the proposals which came out of Convair (if you can actually find enough information on them). Convair had some truly staggeringly ambitious ideas back in the day.

US has tic-tac's!!!

well done!!

I would very much like to see a scramjet video, maybe with a comparison with the SABRE engine. Great channel by the way, from a new subscriber...

scram jet video please!

I remember, in the early 2000's, there was a Discovery Channel series called "Future Weapons with Mac", who was a US Special Forces operator I think, and they had American hypersonic weapons development on it back then so why the US has struggled with it since truly baffles me.

@BigDaddy-yp4mi

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think we struggle as much as is lead on. You don't hear anybody being replaced, reprimanded, study panels, congressional inquiries, nothing, absolutely NOTHING that would indicate people were unhappy with a program. It's like Zuma satellite and a couple others in the past thought to have stealth characteristics...they were 'lost' a launch but really NOTHING came of it, even though it was really classified stuff. If you delve into that sort of stuff, you already know what I'm talking about. Subterfuge and riling of public opinion is necessary to keep an edge, especially when we have so many utterly STUPID people in out country.

Yes, scramjets would make a great video topic.

Please make a scramjet engine video. I have an idea how they work but would love to see your video!

I'd like to see a video about ramjets, scramjets, pulse detonation and oblique wave dedonation engines.

I can only IMAGINE what Lockheed is working on now....and the SR-71 almost 60 years old.

If you could make a vehicle that could dig underground horizontally at around 50 miles an hour it would be more invincible than stealth and hyper sonic put together

@JimCOsd55

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose if you had a vehicle that could withstand pressure of more than 800,000 pounds per square inch and temperatures of 2,200º F, that would be feasible. But I think it would be just as invulnerable to just about anything on the surface too???

The Aurora was created years ago and reached speeds up to Mach 6. It's just still classified even though it's been caught in photos multiple times, and there's mountains of evidence to show that it really exist

By dusting off 1960's research we are ahead of that game !!!

LAX had a big neon sign off of Aviation Blvd that read Home of the X15. Our mach 7 piloted test platform that actually flew out of Edwards.

I would say that today we are most worried about the hypersonic glider.

Scramjet please.... And best comment yet "even bigger needs."

A scramjet video gets a big two thumbs up from me

This reminds me of when the Soviets put men into space, and our rockets were blowing up on the pad.

New shepherd isn’t going into orbit, it’s completely sub orbital, new Glenn will be orbital

What a teaser video of hypersonic technology. It was like a professional dancer/escort getting you all worked up and then just leaving you in a heightened state. We know there are hypersonic planes and drones and possibly the anti-matter TR3-B and "tic-tacs". But those are all labeled "Above Top Secret".

I would like to learn more about the X-35 A & B unmanned space plane.

Actually the fastest bomber was the US XB-70 Valkyrie...

I think the US abandoned this program for an even bigger more secretive advanced program that we still are not aware of today.

@fuzfire

2 жыл бұрын

I really hope so cause it looks like we Americans can't make a tricycle peoperly.

@jeffrymilton1093

2 жыл бұрын

NASA just announced they are on the doorstep of making a functional test engine which may perform near the speed of light in space only. According to the equations the ship would have to be about 650 feet long (whether that means launched from earth, constructed in space or on the moon). It could mathmatically reach Mars in 13 seconds or the moon in 1 second. Personally, it is my opinion they have finally reversed engineered an alien spacecraft propulsion system.

@JoeOvercoat

2 жыл бұрын

I think the US is simply resting on its laurels, and we’re a lazy and fat people because everything comes easy to us now that we are rich. I hope you are right, but I doubt it.

@jeffrymilton1093

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoeOvercoat Technology wise with most military equipment the US historically led the way for decades.

@Dwg256

2 жыл бұрын

58865

I just love the word scramjet

They probably have exotic alien engines. Who needs hypersonic when you control gravity?!

Silbervogel translates as: silver bird. Bitta schon.

Yes,scramjet

The Problem these Military contractors are ripping Americans off with junk they build

Yea Turbo-sramjet awesome

Scram jet video YES!

I wish I could fly one through the Grand Canyon at high speed and low altitude. To those who are interested in such things, my 3 favorite aviation/science fiction art books are: - Icon by Frank Frazetta - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson - Beyond the Horizon by John Harris

SpaceX has yet to prove durable, maintenance free TPS (Thermal Protection System). TPS is a huge challenge for reusable hypersonic

What good is speed if you can’t control it and you have to be so high in space where you can be tracked?

"Sub-orbital" does not mean "Lower than LEO". It means what it is - Not an orbital trajectory. Sub-orbital can be any trajectory (Reaching any apogee) that does not end in an orbit. Thank-you.

I imagine there's some current top secret, advanced programs already fielded that utilize the knowledge that was gleaned from these early programs. If the US had working hypersonic vehicles, especially boost-glide, with the technology back then, then today's technology would make them much more feasible now. It might be in the US's interest to make it seem like we're lagging behind, when in reality we have systems already deployed.

Project Silver Bird, "vogel" in English is BIRD not fish. Thanks for the informative video, I saw the X-20 Dyna-Soar mock-up at the NASA pavilion in Seattle 1962.

Not bad. BUT. 80% of the cost of an air superiority combat aircraft is in pilot life support. The Hypersonic Weapons do not require an in vehicle human.

Vogel translates to bird.

So...what’s the difference in working mechanisms between scramjet and ramjet?

Do you know much about the supposed US Black Project "Aurora" mate?? If you do, a video on that would be really interesting.

Is there any manufacturer chasing the space-plane concept around these days?

Yes on scram jets. Also, 2nd request, please do a video on the TR3-B. A trusted former defense department friend has told me that yes, they do exist. But that is all they would say.

Has anybody else notice this is Richard Branson"s space plane? The only difference is it's launched by another plane. Maybe Richard got a hold of the patents?

It was used in the 1969 movie 'Marooned; as a rescue vehicle.

If you’re watching this video and you don’t know what scramjet is you might not need to know

1956. Brass bell? Sounds just a bit like the 'saucer' project. 'Silverfish'- wince; try 'silverbird'.

SCREAMJEEET

At 6:16 the translation from Silbervogel would be Silver Bird as Vogel is the German word for bird, not fish.

why is there pressure AFTER reaching those faster speeds? When I accelerate my car, the pressure stops after reaching the speed

There was a hypersonic recon plane developed in the 90's, it is now retired and being replaced with the SR-72??

@somehecucunt3194

2 жыл бұрын

If you are talking about the SR-71, it wasn't hypersonic. The SR-72 is supposed to be hypersonic

Yeah explain scramjet for us please

You really need to look over the father of hyprosonics, Doctor Eugene Sanger,1928 to really reference Hyprosonics laws due to Termodynamics requirements to be totally objective!!

Tacet rainbow!! Yeah!!!

#[MyWhatIfTakeAway] : Application to Liquid-Air- Interface crafts as we have with those Air-NearSpace crafts &, if not same, but having comparable order of magnitude speeds should not be hard to achieve. These imagined class of "SupersonicHoovers" would be equally awesome.

In the TV series "The 6 million Dollar Man" one of these experimental lifting bodies is the craft that crashes and skids down the runway apparently causing the injuries that the $6 million man needed to be repaired.

Well ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Aurora at 12:09. SCRAM engine and triangular shape.

Nothing developed is lost. It all serves as research for future developments.

We can build hypersonic planes but not hypersonic missles. Go figure.

Scram jet, scram jet, scram jet!!!

Yes, scramjet is not above our heads nor beyond our speed lust. Do the video !! The adult full tech version!!!

Operate in space