This video is impressive. As a USAF trained helicopter pilot, everything that was mentioned talking about our current understanding of helicopter dynamics was completely correct as far as I can see and the sci-fi elements were delivered in such a fluid way as to be indistinguishable in their accuracy. Very well done.

@hoojiwana

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou! A lot of the information available is very detailed, I'm glad I managed to get it across accurately! - hoojiwana from Spacedock

@effervescence5664

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree but 7.3m diameter rotors seem rather large considering what is shown on screen feels more like 3.7m possibly a typo?

@hoojiwana

2 жыл бұрын

@@effervescence5664 That's what Pandorapedia says, 7.32m diameter. - hoojiwana from Spacedock

@CantankerousDave

2 жыл бұрын

@@effervescence5664 Yeah, that has to be a typo. Those rotors are absolutely not 24 feet across. 3.7m (12 feet) fits what we’re seeing much better.

@steemlenn8797

2 жыл бұрын

Asking a pilot: Wouldn't it be much more effective, if you want to bring that thing down, to shoot the arrow at the rotors instead of a dive-only needs to hit pilot from close attack? Or for that matter, drop a big stone into the rotors. Wouldn't the blades explode in those cases?

One of my favorite aircraft designs. Looks completely believable to see operate here right now.

@charlesmaddison212

2 жыл бұрын

It's v. Cool looking to boot

@hoojiwana

2 жыл бұрын

I do love this about the Samson, helps to ground the film amongst its more fantastical elements. - hoojiwana from Spacedock

@jtjames79

2 жыл бұрын

I liked it in the movie, but this video just elevated it to favorite. Or at least among my favorites.

@michaelmitchell6476

2 жыл бұрын

It’s basically the Avatar version of a black hawk

@Hyperious_in_the_air

2 жыл бұрын

I fully expect ducted rotor Helios to be a thing within the next 30 years, especially since you can much more easy shield the rotor system for radar stealth since the spinning rotors would no longer be visible in the frontal profile. This design is almost perfect for it.

Avatar is a weird movie. Because it's story is pretty basic and just generally low tier, the world building, CGI, and general modelling and designing is incredible. Never noticed the blades on the rotors before now, which is brilliant attention to detail..

@USSAnimeNCC-

2 жыл бұрын

Even the creature are well design it like they evolve there in a more natural way I like they have 6 limbs and breath through 4 hole in they're neck much like on earth when most creature that aren't bug or in the ocean have 4 limbs and hole canter of a face and because every creature on land is an evolve version of a fish body plan that started going bon land and become to almost every creature on land except the human alien the nave who seem to have 4 limbs which is odd but it because they wanted a more human like being

@Santisima_Trinidad

2 жыл бұрын

@@USSAnimeNCC- very true. Then again, it did seem like at least some of the flying creatures had 4 limbs, the arms of the wings and the legs. Much as how on our world not everything has the same number of limbs, like crabs and octopi having 8, many insects and starfish haveing 6, and some dozens, or molluscs often having none, so its could be that the navie are like the starfish to the rest of the worlds octopi. And other starfish. But yeah, the creature design does seem incredibly natural. Could even try to make sense of the connections possible through the hair and the trees, although thats a bit wishy washy by saying that the magnetic flux is intense enough to make them to all operate on the same frequency, so different devices can communicate by sending messages over the same frequency, rather than then them.all being on different frequencys, so they can't send send messages.

@Qardo

2 жыл бұрын

I never liked Avatar. Sure the world building, CGI, and general models Re wonderful. It is that story that I hate. It is so low tier and no effort. Still, personal opinion and I know having an opinion these days is taboo and not allowed.

@Santisima_Trinidad

2 жыл бұрын

@@Qardo i agree with you on not really likeing avatar. Like i said, story is basic and just generally low tier. Here I'm just pointing out how avatar has such incredible worldbuilding and modelling. Bit like in a comment from a couple of day ago, where i complimented raid for paying out so much money per sponsorship that it funds more of an economy than old school runescape, even if it is a shitty game that many people hate.

@andnowtheweather2948

2 жыл бұрын

@@Qardo "I know having an opinion these days is taboo and not allowed" - What is this whiny nonsense? Avatar having a lame, derivative story is not even controversial... It's gorgeous, but shallow

I always loved the design of this Helicopter, so believable and yet so futuristic, it would neither stand out in a military in 5 years, nor it did in the movie

@zarifamsyar6274

2 жыл бұрын

the closet we can get today is the V 22 Ospray but it still has problems and not as reliable compared to BlackHawks

@ancaplanaoriginal5303

2 жыл бұрын

@@zarifamsyar6274 the V-22 and the UH-60 are two different platforms intended for different purposes. The V-22 replaced the aging CH-46, the UH-60 replaced the UH-1 on army service.

@deepspacecow2644

Жыл бұрын

@@zarifamsyar6274 the v280 which is replacing the blackhawk would be closer

Avatar is strange in that it failed to engage me as much with the Navi and their cause as it did with the villains of the film. I was way more interested in the AMPs, Dragon, and other tech the mercenaries used than anything the Navi had at their disposal. Very much defeats the point of the film, but I'm glad they clearly put the work in on designing the hardware humanity used.

@TheSpearkan

2 жыл бұрын

Avatar: technology bad Also Avatar: Here's a 5-page document on how the Valkyrie shuttle works

@nunyabizniss7643

2 жыл бұрын

They wanted to pull the whole “dances with wolves” in space thing but then decided to have it so billions of people would die if the RDA didn’t get the resources. It’s very hard to root for characters who are willing to let billions die to save a few trees

@theoffensivelemon2515

2 жыл бұрын

Gloria homini!

@dzidkapl

2 жыл бұрын

​@@nunyabizniss7643 You're right! Ever since I've known _Avatar,_ even as a few-year old child, I've always rooted for the humans to win. And it's generally SO weird. If cameron wanted to make the humans evil, he didn't need to create a tragic Earth's backstory and explain ALL the human motives, but he did! Why? The thing is that, at least from everything I have ever seen, the RDA *are* the good guys. Sure, they destroy some big trees and make some magic monkeys angry, but they are just a corporation. They do what every rational human does. They do their *job.* They aren't evil at all. They don't kill everyone instantly, even though they definitely could. It's quite the opposite, they try to negotiate with the indigenous. And as you said, the "good guys" consciously try to kill their own fucking race in order to make a random tribal civilisation victorious for no apparent reason...? Oh, wait, Jake wanted to get to assault a monkey girl's ass. Fair enough ;)

@ceddricc5909

2 жыл бұрын

@@dzidkapl jake: Im abandoning my fellow human kind Cuz imma clap some blue alien cheeks!

I always saw it as a hyperadvanced light VTOL (and frequently confused it with the Scorpion), but taking a closer look at it I can see how very rugged and simple it is. It's almost basically a Huey with futuristic modifications and fills the exact same role.

@maxthibodeau3627

2 жыл бұрын

*Fortunate Son intensifies*

@WalrusWinking

2 жыл бұрын

Nah it mostly resembles a US blackhawk than a huey.

@maxthibodeau3627

2 жыл бұрын

@@WalrusWinking its like a Huey and a Blackhawk mixed together.

@samanli-tw3id

2 жыл бұрын

@@WalrusWinking actually, it looks more like Westland Lynx.

@WalrusWinking

2 жыл бұрын

@@samanli-tw3id I literally doesn't.

I had never noticed the vine cutters on the front. now I'm not going to be able to ignore how they're always there.

@Daginni1

2 жыл бұрын

I imagine after getting a few caught in tarzan vines, they decided to adapt the vehicle.

@altasilvapuer

2 жыл бұрын

Forget not having noticed the vine cutters - this video was honestly the first time I realized they had TWO small rotor-powered craft on Pandora. My eyes had always blurred the Samson & Scorpion together; guess I wasn't paying close enough attention to them! Now that I've noticed it, I really love the design on the Scorpion and would love to learn more about it.

@matthewcaughey8898

2 жыл бұрын

I used to work around medical choppers. The wire cutters are very noticeable, the idea is that no matter how the craft hits the wire or vine it will be at an angle where the wire or vine will get forced into one of the guides and cut. The USAF started using them in Vietnam on jolly green rescue choppers after several were damaged by vegetation trying to rescue downed pilots

@altasilvapuer

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewcaughey8898 This is fascinating. It's the sort of thing that is blazingly obvious once pointed out, but I never would've thought of the need prior.

@dzidkapl

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I noticed it some time ago and honestly I got a bit mad because I thought that they are just a random design choice and I couldn't unsee it. At least I know what they are for now. It definitely lowers my anger XD

Avatar is a great example of why you don’t necessarily need an amazing story if you place great respect on the art of world building

@KingreX32

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed a thousand percent

@VolcanoQueen

2 жыл бұрын

I think the story was pretty good, it's basically a version of America's story except the tribal people won the war, just gives a new light to what the colonies did when they landed in America

@KMCA779

2 жыл бұрын

I often joke that worldbuilding is my fetish. I'll put up with otherwise terrible books and movies if the world building is good enough.

@KenS1267

2 жыл бұрын

@@KMCA779 And Avatar is a terrible story. And TBH the world building isn't all that special except there is a lot of it done by some serious experts.

@UGNAvalon

2 жыл бұрын

@The Foxhole It’s basically “Dances With Wolves” in space.

I can’t believe I never noticed the vine strikers on the rotors, that’s so cool! The vehicle design in this movie is really one of the things that made it awesome. I can see these vehicles not only existing in real life, but being very popular for a very long time

@General_Eisenhower1945

2 жыл бұрын

Like the UH-1 was and still is

@lillyanneserrelio2187

2 жыл бұрын

1:54 has a good angled view of the vine cutters kit on the front of each duct frame

Hey, the Space Blackhawk! I love this thing, have ever since I saw this movie. Hell, I love the Scorpion gunships too, Space Apaches. It's a shame they cut out that great scene where they're painting theirs to stand out from the enemy birds, and Trudy is showing the Na'vi how to destroy them in detail, and then Sully basically just translates it to, "hit the rotor." Also shows them rigging the guns to fire forward without gunners.

@AviationJeremy

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe in a future cut

@GandalfReagge

2 жыл бұрын

I never even knew this scene existed

@ODST_Parker

2 жыл бұрын

@@GandalfReagge Oh yeah, there's a bunch of good deleted scenes. It's honestly a real shame, I'd love to see the full cut of that movie.

@alexsandrsenaviev4529

2 жыл бұрын

Seems like the Scorpion gunships look a bit like the Cobra Gunship than the Apache

@ODST_Parker

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexsandrsenaviev4529 Yeah, I guess I should say Huey and Cobra, not Blackhawk and Apache. These guys definitely got that gruff and tough Vietnam War kind of vibe to them, so that'd make more sense.

"Windows are Impervious to arrows unless fired from the back of a banshee" classic loophole 😂

@Utubesuperstar

2 жыл бұрын

Inertia helped

@MonkeyJedi99

2 жыл бұрын

@@Utubesuperstar More so, the arrow striking from an angle without deflection.

@lonewonderer7657

2 жыл бұрын

Just how he said it made it seem like he was skeptical about it, but differently a good explanation but I'm not sure if I totally agree

@bevanfindlay

2 жыл бұрын

The key detail here wasn't "from the back of a banshee" but "in an attack dive". The sentence did sound a little silly until he finished it, but the concept of additional velocity from being in a fast dive actually makes quite a lot of sense.

@lonewonderer7657

2 жыл бұрын

@@bevanfindlay yes the science is all there and it definitely makes sense after watching this video, I just feel like without further explanation like this video most people wouldn't get it... I guess my overall point is that they tend to bend reality for such movies so they can achieve their goal

Avatar has the best scifi helicopters, really odd to think about

@h1tsc4n40

2 жыл бұрын

It's scifi Huey. Nothing more.

@johncmousley

2 жыл бұрын

@@h1tsc4n40 the best one

@h1tsc4n40

2 жыл бұрын

@@johncmousley meh. Its clearly designed to be shot down.

@MSaleh-vy8rr

2 жыл бұрын

Halo Reach: UH-144 Falcon Call Of Duty Advance Warfare: XH9 WarBird

@johncmousley

2 жыл бұрын

@@MSaleh-vy8rr XH9 maybe, but not the Falcon

7:41 I love how she is confident enough to go toe to toe with the biggest and most heavily armed gunship in the fight. Although I think she could have brought down the shuttle first but still a great scene from an amazing movie.

@samanli-tw3id

Жыл бұрын

She sacrificed herself to save Jake

@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer

Жыл бұрын

it was great because she died. like every traitor deserves

@mcsirswagger

10 ай бұрын

Top marks for Trudy seizing the initiative and surprising the gunship by attacking from its blindspot, but what I can't understand is why not strafe it with rockets, targeting its rotors as opposed to just strafing it ineffectively with the Samson's mounted MGs and then getting herself shot down trying to fight face to face with an aircraft that is clearly more heavily armed.

@phantom117b4

4 ай бұрын

My guess: The IFF lockout system was preventing her from using the missles and they didn't have the tools to disable it

Avatar: exist Everyone: ... [5 years later] Everyone: ... [10 years later] Everyone: ... [12 years later] Spacedock: so yeah, the Samson-

@jack1701e

2 жыл бұрын

God was this movie that long ago?! Doesn't feel like it's been 12 years!

@AtrociousAK47

2 жыл бұрын

and to think we were supposed to have 2 sequels already, with parts 2 and 3 releasing within a year of eachother

The design of the Sampson reminds me of some of the concepts for the US Army’s FVL program which is a project to replace the UH-60 Blackhawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters.

@builder396

2 жыл бұрын

Do they want to replace both with the same design or just two designs based on that principle?

@Ushio01

2 жыл бұрын

@@builder396 two designs based on the same power plant and rotar system. Like how the uh-1 huey and ah-1 cobra were for the marines.

Avatar is a lesson to a lot of moviemakers and authors in general, detailed world building are essential for a work of fiction, even if the story rarely or didn't touch any of the detailed world building pieces, readers or moviegoers won't notice it directly, but subconciously they know what they're watching is believable, thus the immersion is there

I’d love a breakdown (or even just a speculative video) of that giant mothership/plane thing

@zinogrevz7389

2 жыл бұрын

u mean the v-shuttle?

@chuckbuck5002

2 жыл бұрын

G E T S O M E

The RDA and their equipment were the best part of the movie. In the wise words of Generation Tech: Humanity First!

@mikethedinoman8970

2 жыл бұрын

Creatures were cooler tbh

@tlshortyshorty5810

2 жыл бұрын

Humanity might come first, but Gründer Industries leads the pack. (lol) Tbh, the near-future aesthetic of all the RDA stuff is a hell of a lot more attractive to me than the Na'avi or the Pandoran fauna, although its flora and geography are certainly interesting.

@nunyabizniss7643

2 жыл бұрын

The RDA were 100% undeniably the good guys in the movie

@h1tsc4n40

2 жыл бұрын

Eh, their equipment was very ineffective and outdated. They would've done a better job had they brought old surplus BMP-2s instead of those terrible, terrible mechsuits. At least the BMPs wouldve had some staying power.

@solowingborders3239

2 жыл бұрын

@@h1tsc4n40 Fairo, bring a few tanks or IFVs watch the carnage.

Ah the good ol’ space Huey. I love this thing.

Can you do the Dragon gunship and the Valkyrie Shuttle as well?

It looks pretty believable. As a helicopter pilot, the rotors look a little small, at least with today's materials. I mean take a look at an Osprey. I know it also mentions the space age material, but those are some cute little rotors compared to what would probably be required if somebody wanted to make it work today. The attention to detail with analog backups is a detail. Supposing all the space magic allows their propulsion system to work, I'm sure the AFCS system for the Samson would be truly impressive and a huge bitch to learn about, and probably a terrible system for anything to go wrong on. I don't think the Samson has very good autorotation capability.

@robos3809

2 жыл бұрын

Well technically the moon is gonna be lower gravity and it also states that the atmosphere is thicker allowing for more lift with less prop

@TheMrPeteChannel

3 ай бұрын

Yeah. Maybe the Samsons on earth have bigger rotors.

I always love designs that put tandem side mounted engine systems on relatively small aircraft like these. The only gripe I have with this design is that it eliminates a traditional helicopter’s survival feature of auto-rotate.

@SamnissArandeen

2 жыл бұрын

Mitigated by being a twin engine design with each engine running through a one way clutch, so if one engine quits the other can run up to emergency power and buy the crew time to land.

I never realized the helicopters from "Dances with Wolves in space" were so well designed

@nunyabizniss7643

2 жыл бұрын

The whole film is like that tbh. Awesome worldbuilding and art design let down by godawful writing and trash characters

@imadrifter

2 жыл бұрын

It really is that, isn't it? Jake Sully is Tatanka

@harbour2118

Жыл бұрын

Also it seems to demonize humans a bit too much, portraying humanity as a whole as this greedy and immoral entity. The movie I saw was mostly about anti-corporatism and a lesson about colonialism, they could’ve just left it as the RDA and even some corrupt government rather than humanity as a whole

@randomly_random_0

Жыл бұрын

because people are stupid. they jump to hate bandwagon. the whole criticism that Avatar gets are just so dumb.

You should make a video of the C-21 dragon assault ship !

@eyo8766

2 жыл бұрын

*Papa Dragon Intensifies*

As an aircraft engineer I've noticed small details such as acoustic surfaces etc and I'm like woah

I've been looking forward for something from Avatar for a while, thank you, can you do the mother ship from Avatar?

@petrpodskalsky1785

2 жыл бұрын

It's literally the most beautiful, realistic, well constructed thing in the film. With a few changes it could be built irl in a century or two. No handwaving. It's a shame the rest of the film isn't like that. The biggest crime is that it's in the movie for like 3 minutes.

@battleoid2411

2 жыл бұрын

@@petrpodskalsky1785 that's how I feel about most of the vehicles in avatar. The shuttles are fairly well designed, and while huge, not a major issue if you can launch a massive ship across the stars. The AMP suits are just utility mechs, basically the powerloader from aliens but configured for hostile environments with a autocannon welded to them, the only really jarring one is the dragon fly with how big and ungainly it is

@michaelgreenwood3413

2 жыл бұрын

@@battleoid2411 Yes, but the Dragon was also built as an Armed Transport for AMP Suits. so the size kinda makes sense. That, and the UN told RDA they weren't allowed to use WMDs or they'd lose their monopoly on Extraterrestrial products (Pandora isn't their only project), so the Dragon's the closest thing they could use.

@mariasirona1622

2 жыл бұрын

Her name is Venture Star

@JohnSmith-fm1bl

2 жыл бұрын

Im hoping for papa dragon first

Aside from the mispronunciation of "Chacón" this was a pretty darn good video. The attention to tech detail and attempts to make everything as realistic as possible played a major role in my enjoying the movie when it first came out and in periodic re-watching on DVD. The Samson and Scorpion designs, along with the Shuttle, have always struck me as capable of flying out of the screen and into real life if we just had slightly better tech available.

This thing has the coolest silhouette, and I've always loved the shape of the cockpit windows. I want someone to build one of these in real life.

@Wolf-zk8ey

Жыл бұрын

I want to see it too but that would cost someone a lot of money. 😅

This music from Battlezone II really fits the Pandora setting, I love it! Also, one really has to admire the attention to detail of both the creators when designing the aircraft and of you guys when analyzing it. Well done!

Good aircraft, essentially a sci-fi version of the UH-1 Huey. I did like Avatar. Though it's basically a futuristic version of the movie Dances with Wolves. Even sharing an actor that was in both. The Navi language does sound very much like Lakota spoken language.

@TheLAGopher

2 жыл бұрын

I would say that Avatar also borrows from The Last Samurai. If Avatar made the Navi the Lakota. Jake Sully's actions of leading the Navi into an epic battle against his former comrades and commanding officer to save their way of life is closer to the actions of Tom Cruise's character in Last Samurai. While the Lakota saved John Dunbar by attacking the US soldiers who had captured him, he didn't lead the attack and he only killed one soldier more out of revenge than as an act of combat. Tom Cruise's character, Captain Algren, leads his adopted Samurai clan into battle with Japanese government troops and their American advisors Algren was once one of. Algren like Sully comes into direct conflict with his former commanding officer. He has to use guile and his deep knowledge of his former comrades' tactics, to compensate for their advantages in weaponry and military discipline. Like Sully did with the Navi, Algren uses deception and knowledge of the local terrain to give his side a tactical advantage.

One small detail that I enjoyed seeing was the foot pedals being used as they are in current craft

It looks like a combination of a Blackhawk, Huey, and drone helicopters.

By design, where I believe there must be some commonality of parts, I imagine the relationship between the Samson and the Sorpion to be like the UH-1 Huey and the AH-1 Cobra. The Samson's door machine gun design is also based on the M60 machine gun.

40 seconds in and there's already so much detail

I love your videos. Please make one about Solar One, the interstellar spaceship proposed by The Exoplanets Channel.

Lovely episode as always! I'd love to see you guys cover the SJCC-14 Sakala Carrier from Homeworld. You know, the big-ass sand crawler, longer than the USS Nimitz.

Solid video I always loved what looks to be someone’s evolution of the UH-1 and AH-1 respectively

@homijbhabha8860

2 жыл бұрын

chech out India's Rudra helicopter, it looks similar to that from the front.

I love the Samson, but let's be honest, the Scorpion is the true predator in the skies of Pandora.

@druunderwood5602

2 жыл бұрын

Predators On Pandora? Funny you say that.

I know I'm not the only one who was rooting for the humans during this movie.

@tlshortyshorty5810

2 жыл бұрын

Absolute travesty, Sully literally betrayed humanity's survival just so he can get the girl.

@phoenix0166

Жыл бұрын

@@tlshortyshorty5810 bro was that lonely 💀

This probably has to be the best Spacedock video I've seen so far. Well done guys.

Such a good design. I'd love to see fan-made mods of this beauty for DCS World, Flight Simulator 2020, etc. Would also love to see similar breakdowns for the Scorpion and Dragon gunships, as well as the Valkyrie shuttles.

I loved the Samson and the Scorpion. Very iconic to me.

I'd love to hear from an aeronautic engineer on the viability of that airframe design. Like if it's a design that could work if we had better materials to make it out of.

@mitri5389

2 жыл бұрын

its not a safe design compared to traditionally helicopters, rotors have little disk area even with the double counter rotating blades and the diameter are tiny so there is not as much effective lift from the lower disk loading requiring higher rpm, and due to that small dimeter and high rpm requirements they have less available moment of inertia. its a inefficient design because it tries to be a vtol aircraft but it is stuck in a hovering configuration with no wings not taking advantage of moving the rotors for forward flight where the wings can effective maintain lift and the rotors focus on propulsion such as in the typical configuration for such a aircraft. the only advantage for this design has is that it can direct its rotors for changing directions quicker, such as slowing down faster in a rapid drive or flare.

Awesome. I asked for a video on this craft a while back. As usual, Spacedock did a fantastic job.

I'm hoping to see an Advari ship soon.

@airplanemaster1

2 жыл бұрын

Careful, that's still a spoiler for people who haven't listened yet

Very impressive breakdown! Just kept the information rolling out

Absolutely superb video on this aircraft. Well done!

Damn, I had no idea there was even this much info on it. Kudos to the designers. Great vid.

Considering that the SA-2 would be considered old and reliable, but not intended for military use, I'd be cool to get a look at the newer craft used by the military in the same role. For the sake of the film, it would be interesting if the reason drone aircraft had such limited use was the magnetic interference affecting the instruments required for drone piloted aircraft. Perhaps the successor craft to the SA-2 relies more on automated flight that wouldn't be supported on Pandora?

How about Clone Force 99’s ship? The Havoc Marauder?

Great to see machines from Avatar here at last.

Just watched this movie two days ago, love this overview and in depth look at this craft

Awesome video!!! I look forward to more of these types of videos based on Avatar type ships!

This has got to be one of my fav videos on KZread to be honest. I love this helicopter

Avatar 2 is the movie I’m most excited for in 2022, I just hope it doesn’t get delayed again.

@Colin_

Жыл бұрын

Have you managed to watch A2 yet?

Love the newer intro, and this was a great breakdown of a great aircraft. Love this so much. *chef's kiss*

Excellent breakdown, thanks for sharing it with us.

all the disadvantages of a tiltrotor with none of the advantages of a traditional single rotor, then again it looks cool as fuck

I didn’t realise that the blade pitch was controlled by servos on the blade tips. (Maybe I misunderstood that part.) In any case, they are called Flettner tabs (after their inventor), and currently used on the Kaman K-MAX air crane helicopter. It does make the design much simpler since you don’t need a complicated external swash plate and pitch links. On the K-MAX, there is also no hydraulics system since the necessary control forces are relatively small.

What I love about this fictional vehicle is that it can be easily replicated on earth. In fact, there are many RC/model versions of this fictional aircraft that actually fly meaning that it is more than possible to build a life-size pilot able version

Great stuff, love it! Vid on the RDA’s mech suits?

Weird! Today at work I was thinking about this movie and made a mental note to see if Spacedock had made a video about these choppers. I wasn't a fan of the movie so no idea why I was thinking about it. Great timing guys :)

Dragon ship next?

I have watched Avatar multiple times and is among my personal top 10 Sci-fi movies. Yet I never noticed Trudy's call sign's.

Always loved the design and flight behavior of these. Well.. Most of the Avatar craft really, but especially this one.

@h1tsc4n40

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah their ability to fail to outmaneuver anything and provide slow moving, vulnerable targets is commendable.

Wow, this is maybe the most in depth sci-fi engineering I’ve ever seen, it sounds like they actually could have built this if they wanted to.

This helicopter I think was the reason I loved this show I was a teenager and was prepping to go into the marine Corp

Fantastically well done

That was truly an Epic telling of the Sampson... thank you one and all...

Or the Scorpion Gunship?

I had no idea they had so much lore for Space Pocahontas movie, very impressive + a great video

@KMCA779

2 жыл бұрын

You kidding? They went all out on worldbuilding, lore and technicalities. They practically shoved it down our throats when they were ramping up the hype for it. I'll be honest, I always wanted a prequel featuring the Colonel. Just seeing what made him into him. Of all the staff I think he would be the most interesting... plus an interesting counterpoint to the first movie.

@miqvPL

2 жыл бұрын

@@KMCA779 it seems I barely remember the movie then. It's been a few years. Jesus, it's been 12 years, what the fuck. I was 18yo, I don't remember if I was interested that much in technicalities in science fiction/space fantasy stuff back then, I might've been stuck replaying freespace and battlezone back then

Basically a futurised Huey XD

@samanli-tw3id

2 жыл бұрын

More like a futurised Black Hawk

@kelvin8369

2 жыл бұрын

@@samanli-tw3id nah I think the proportion is more like huey

@samanli-tw3id

2 жыл бұрын

@@kelvin8369 the size and shape of the helicopter reminds me the Blackhawk although Samson has some features similar to Huey, such as skids (Blackhawk has wheels), and door guns (Blackhawk has dedicated windows to mount guns).

@kelvin8369

2 жыл бұрын

@@samanli-tw3id The Samson fills the real-world military role of a medium, multi-role utility helicopter such as the UH-1 "Huey" and Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk, or a heavily-armed transport-gunship hybrid like the Mil Mi-24 "Hind". There are several parallels to UH-1 "Huey", the most famous Vietnam-era helicopter, in the SA-2 Samson. Notably, there are skids rather than wheels of the UH-60, M60 machine guns guns are mounted in the doors rather than a dedicated window, reminiscent of those carried as door guns on those helicopters, and the silhouettes with the folded bipod at the muzzle of the gun are similar. Another visual cue is the ability to mount two MBS-9M Hydras in a fixed, forward-firing position on stub arms near the cargo doors to act as a gunship, something the UH-1 could do as well. The rotor sounds are similar to a four-bladed helicopter like the Blackhawk, as opposed to the distinctive sound of a two-bladed helicopter like the UH-1.

@kelvin8369

2 жыл бұрын

@@samanli-tw3id from fandom, I guess we can agree to disagree then

Excellent video as always! Any chance we can get a video on the Orville in the near future?

Great video!

Love the new intro by the way :)

Wooow, that new HUD effect is looking mighty fine!

The Samson is a beauty and from what I have heard from former helicopter pilots(both military and civilian) they praise this design and James Cameron for actually using real life heli dynamics in a sci-fi setting.

Very nice and interesting video thx

This was fantastic guys. Please do the AMP suit next

Thank you

Your best breakdown to date, IMHO, and that's saying a lot. The geek in me thanks you.

I love this new look for ya videos.

crazy how the marines just introduced a new helicopter that looks pretty much like this

We need to be making these we have the technology.

Very good analysis! How much of this is your own speculation vs. official lore?

The narration is great, it sounds like an A.I. voice generator.

Nice review, can you also do a review of the Night Raven (G.i joe), H8 Global Defender jet (independence day 2), the v22 osprey like aircraft from marvels Black widow, the Hunter Killer (HK) Ariel form terminator salvation and the C21 dragon gunship from Avatar

Please do this for the scorpion as well

Would love to see a spacedock ep of the swat kats jet. Got me and probably very many into aerospace as children

8:04 "it's rugged simplicity" I wouldn't call 2 blades spinning really close together in one rottor engine rugged or simple

@germansnowman

2 жыл бұрын

It’s certainly simpler than adding a tail rotor.

@ineednochannelyoutube5384

2 жыл бұрын

Kamovs have been getting away with it for decades. Coax rotors are generally safer than tailrotors.

@germansnowman

2 жыл бұрын

@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 Safer yes, but mechanically more complex.

I didn't know this existed yet I kept thinking about an aircraft just like this and how it would operate.

Honestly fun movie with lots of sci-fi ideas and the VTOL was one of my favorite peaces of tech.

Its one of these crafts that i would love to pilot in videogame like battlefield

It would be nice if there were a 1/35th scale model of this bird to go with the likes of the Tamiya Military Miniatures figure lines. I was so psyched to learn that some of the model companies were coming out with 1/35th scale aircraft models decade or so ago.

I love the ducted rotor design, I think it should be used in the v-22 osprey

@Urdadisdrunk

2 жыл бұрын

Osprey's rotors are much bigger, and due to using them Just like plane rotors it would be completely nonsense

I love the Samson. It's so reminiscent of the Sikorsky multi functionality while leaning into an obviously Nam-inspired HUEY. The Scorpian is just a gun platform like the Apache and I think that's why I prefer the Sampson, I can imagine it in air-sea rescue/police/diplomatic liveries.

@samanli-tw3id

Жыл бұрын

The Samson would make a great rescue chopper

He's back!

Would love to see a return to Spacedock Planetside. A good start? The Chimera APC of the Imperium of Man, and its variants.

Oooo! Do the venture star!

This is the thing about James Cameron, he never does anything by halves. The attention to detail he puts into his work is on another level (and sadly why Avatar 2 has taken so long).