Simon, I've stood next to that drone at the US Air Force Museum. If you are ever in the greater Dayton Ohio area, they have an awesome museum!

@tncorgi92

3 жыл бұрын

Was there last winter, it is indeed impressive.

@jamesburleson1916

3 жыл бұрын

I must agree, they have a D-21, but also an A-12, an SR-71, and the only surviving XB-70 Valkyrie, not to mention all the other stuff from early Wright built planes to an F-22 and YF-23.

@WKRP187

3 жыл бұрын

Some advice though: Leave the wife and kids at home because they won't be nearly as fascinated as you are and want to read every single placard about the history etc. of every plane there. I'd probably still be there if they hadn't drug me out and it was 2 years ago when we went 😁

@sk1ppman

3 жыл бұрын

Same. That XB-70 they parked it UNDER is MASSIVE.

@charlesdorval394

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesburleson1916 Holy hell, that one crazy collection of birds! Well, I guess it's their stuff and their museum so I get it makes sense...

"Due to a damaged nut" Always check your nuts, gentlemen.

@Fish_nipples1998

3 жыл бұрын

When he said that, in my head I told myself "I'm a damaged nut."

Simon: "I have a new KZread channel..." Me (checks watch): "Is it Thursday already...?"

@kiranm25x

3 жыл бұрын

Simon: "I have a new KZread channel..." Me (checks channel): "It already has 100K+ subs...?"

@finscreenname

3 жыл бұрын

I wish he would start my channel

@theamishsoylentretailersof1952

3 жыл бұрын

Simon needs a day drinking show . I personally would watch that .

@bubbystein2169

3 жыл бұрын

Public drinking while going through a Wikipedia chain of links, maybe he eventually get to Kevin Bacon

@TiaraSinica

3 жыл бұрын

Mate it's Tuesday

I've seen both in person at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton OH. Pretty incredible. Stored in the same hanger as the XB-70 Valkyrie which is just INSANELY massive.

Do a mega projects on Simon's house! 😎

@Kuromario

3 жыл бұрын

I second this.

@rakaadizaputra9650

3 жыл бұрын

No, better do Megaprojects : Simon channels

@dino4812

3 жыл бұрын

@@rakaadizaputra9650 even better!

@Nathan-ng1jt

3 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there...

@ezraprice6709

3 жыл бұрын

@@rakaadizaputra9650 to do this he'd need to make a new channel called Gigaprojects

The museum of flight in Seattle has the only m21, with a d21 on top of it. In the Chinese Aviation Museum, they have the wreckage of the D21 which crashed in China. I might have a picture of myself standing next to it. I recommend both museums. The China Aviation Museum has lots of things you won’t see elsewhere. It’s in a retired Cold War Chinese Air Force base, so lots of the exhibits are in the tunnel under the hill. Just be prepared for Korean War MIGs with rows of stars representing combat kills.

@johnpaulbacon8320

11 ай бұрын

Hello. I live in Washington state. The city I live in is - Federal Way ; which is a little south of Seattle. I have had the great fortune to have had a membership to the Boeing Museum Of Flight for several years. Seeing that M-21 / D-21 is always inspiring. I always consider myself lucky to be able to go to the Boeing MoF when I can get the time for it :).

Simon's channels can be a megaproject.

@alexander1485

3 жыл бұрын

Naw, he has help with them so its a micro project

Turns out that making a drone with 60s computer tech is hard.

@musewolfman

3 жыл бұрын

Makes you wonder how it would perform on modern tech, and how much smaller they could make it. Probably could run the same computations on an Arduino, and faster, too.

@graham1034

3 жыл бұрын

@@musewolfman i guess there isn't much of a use case now when we have high resolution satellite imaging. Though virtually the same tech must be developed for the guidance on ICBMs

@ViceCoin

3 жыл бұрын

Same computers that got us to the moon....

@koborkutya7338

2 жыл бұрын

@@graham1034 I guess today similar ones are prepared to deliver an actual strike at hypersonic speeds, with up-to-date electronics and a big ass warhead.

@theorangeoof926

Жыл бұрын

@@graham1034Well the SR-72 and hypersonic jet aircraft are becoming a closer possibility everyday simply because satellite paths are well know and already can be taken down with interception programs even if they increase space junk. Returning back to the modus operandi of the SR-71 and other spy planes, fast, unpredictable and hard to detect is likely to be the future.

Simon with his 1 million sideprojects.

@alexnusbaum4670

3 жыл бұрын

and side channels

@europademon

3 жыл бұрын

It's all about the side hustle. 🤑

@Travoid

3 жыл бұрын

He needs a channel about his channels.

Simon, Babbish, and Sean Evans gettin me through the pandemic. Thank you, gentlemen.

@megaprojects9649

3 жыл бұрын

:) yw

I remember when the D-21 was brought into the public knowledge. The government didn’t release the photos,they were taken by an IPMS member (International Plastic Modelers Society)who was taking a tour of the Boneyard at Davis Monthan AFB when he saw a strange aircraft whose tarpolin cover had come loose and blown off. He shared the pictures with his fellow IPMS members and with a modeling magazine. The cat was out of the bag at that point. The rest is history.

@jimcappa6815

3 жыл бұрын

That's probably how I ended up with a model of this back in the day. It was part of an SR-71 kit.

@HunterX78

3 жыл бұрын

Wow great history!! I also bought that revell model , D-21 was so cool

@fw1421

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimcappa6815 if my memory serves me wright that was an Italeri kit from the 90’s. The SR-71 and A-12 were both released back in those days.

@AtheistOrphan

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know that! Thanks for that little nugget of history.

@Habu12

3 жыл бұрын

I'm an IPMS member, and have heard that story, but I do believe it's legend. At least the part about the pics first being released in the IPMS journal before anywhere else. I do believe the photographer just happened to be an IPMS member.

here in the UK we use a mash of absolutely all kinds of measurements from imperial and metric, we use pounds and kilos, cm and inches and so on but speed, distances and altitude are ALWAYS miles and feet and temperature is always Celsius

@eoinkenny3188

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget stones. How many pounds are in stone again?

@europademon

3 жыл бұрын

Oof ouch.

@stevefox3763

3 жыл бұрын

@@eoinkenny3188 lol yeah, we weigh ourselves in stones don't we, there's 14lbs BTW :)

@neilturner6749

2 жыл бұрын

Steve we don’t use Celsius, it’s usually called Centigrade in the UK. Besides that’s a fairly recent change in itself and most people over 55 still use Fahrenheit. Go watch a TV weather forecast from the 1980s...

@stevefox3763

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilturner6749 we do use Celsius, we also use the name centigrade like you suggested, they are the same thing and centigrade is just the old name for Celsius. Your right about a large number of older people using Fahrenheit. My 70 year dad does but my mum who's in her 60's works in Celsius / centigrade .

Everytime Simon promotes "Sideprojects" I genuinly think first he started yet another one

@nitsu2947

3 жыл бұрын

its insane to me how he managed a few channels at once, yet he still uploads everyday here

@Cps1402

3 жыл бұрын

@@nitsu2947 Simon basically reads the script, nothing more. That's how it works.

@marinhaalternativa3829

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cps1402 Someone have to write it.

@davidklein1245

3 жыл бұрын

He did; XPLRD. I actually thought that was the one he was going to mention.

How about a megaprojects about the German baureihe 52, the kriegslok or War locomotive

Remember when they stashed Naked Snake into one of these in Metal Gear Solid 3? Good times.

They sent a Destroyer to recover a fragile film cannister and were surprised when the cannister was destroyed. Well, what did they expect would happen? It's right in the name, destroyer. It's obviously going to destroy anything around it. Destroy destroy destroy. You ever hear a word so many times that it stops making sense all together? Yeah, me neither. I wonder if you can restroy something or unstroy? What the hell is this jibberish! My mind is broken now, Tom!

@xxxxxx5868

3 жыл бұрын

...you mean "restore" ?

@typie34

3 жыл бұрын

yeah but this time of history always amazes me. how the americans came up with ways to spy on the soviets, first with ultra light high flying planes, then with ultra fast planes. sending sattelites into the orbit, and recovering their data through dropping it out of space and catching it in the air with planes. souds so awesome

When the Soviet’s find a crashed D-21 with photos of china’s nuclear test site “It’s free reconnaissance”

The Boii with the Blaze was strong in this one. Almost sounded like you started to say Perchthemech

That one went on top of my G.I. JOE SR-71! A classic!

Do a Megaprojects video on the massive amount of effort that goes into the work and life of Simon Whistler.

@r.milton7920

3 жыл бұрын

Unfathomable

@Dvergenlied

3 жыл бұрын

New channel: MegaBiographic Projects - larger than life stories about real people doing ludicrously impossible things

@alexander1485

3 жыл бұрын

Probably a 5 story mansion in prague

@micahphilson

3 жыл бұрын

He did vlogs on his own channel every day for a year several years ago, but he seems to have deleted them all. Yeah... he's a super workaholic.

KZread: "How many channels do you have?" Simon: "Yes"

@DavidCoxUK

3 жыл бұрын

Simon: All of them

I remember the GI Joe toy it was a Cobra plane called the Night Raven and it basically was a SR-71 that had a drone piggyback.

Now this is a megaproject.

Simon: ...disappeared just as quickly as it appeared... Me: it broke a Blackbird

@musewolfman

3 жыл бұрын

Technically an Archangel, but... yeah.

Love the subject diversity and quality of your channels, Simon. Thanks to you and your team for great viewing information and pleasure. Happy New Year!

Thanks for another great project, Simon!

You should do a video on SLAM aka "the flying crowbar" the most terrifying weapon, thankfully, never built

@rickc2102

3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, that thing's intimidating! Thanks for mentioning it.

@TimTheInspector

3 жыл бұрын

For what was probably the most horrible weapon ever conceived, the SLAM development program actually laid the ground work for MRI medical imaging.

@shaunoleary9774

3 жыл бұрын

@@rickc2102 an out of control/accidentally launched one could be a terrifying basis for a movie, or a really entertaining popcorn movie

@texasbeast239

2 жыл бұрын

Project Pluto. God of the Underworld dropping Hell bombs, spewing a Hell exhaust plume, and blasting a hypersonic shockwave Hell at treetop level.

@shaunoleary9774

2 жыл бұрын

@@texasbeast239 I think it's the ultimate weapon of mutually assured destruction; so terrifying it was never built.

The PIMA AIR & SPACE MUSEUM has a LOCKHEED D-21B along with their LOCKHEED SR-71A BLACKBIRD. I was a member there when I lived in Arizona. Remarkable museum. Literally across the street from Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Az (also the location of "The Bone Yard"). The Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley Arizona, about a half hour drive south of Tucson is also a very worthwhile museum to visit. There were many Titan Silos there once. This is the only one that still exists, as a museum. The missile that is in the silo came from Sheppard AFB as a training missile. I was stationed at Sheppard in 1972. It has been used in several movies and has a large square cut-out of the warhead so that the "Soviets" could see it in the silo from space to verify U.S. compliance with a treaty. There's nothing else like it. Thanks for posting this excellent and educational video.

Derpface D-21 is something I didn't know I needed

I once spoke with an older man, who worked on this drone. It was in the Tucson Pima Air & Space Museum Really amazing!

Once again thank you for your mega projects channel, and thank you for doing such a good job with it, not many channels impress me at all !!!

Thank you for this D-21 Drone Video!

Imagine living in the Soviet Union or China and having one of those crash in your backyard. I’d prolly think it was a UFO at first

@antiussentiment

3 жыл бұрын

Or that the expected US attack had finally arrived. ~ laughs ~

We all know Simon almost said "Purch the merch" at 0:31. Don't worry, Simon, we are all Business Blaze fans.

@megaprojects9649

3 жыл бұрын

Legends

@uzaiyaro

3 жыл бұрын

@@megaprojects9649 allegendly

Nice. I've wondered about this as the static display SR-71 at March AFB's museum which I visited about 5 years ago, had one of these exhibited with it without much to say about it.

The one pictured at 6:42 is at the Boeing Air and Space Museum in Seattle. They also have an SR-71 cockpit section that you can sit in and a start cart (2 Buick Wildcat V8 engines) used to start the engines.

Cool saw one at Blackbird park out by the Skunkworks few years back

Great as usual. Thanks

13:30 omfg i just cant.

The Museum of Flight in Seattle has one, mated with a M-21 "mother ship". I was fortunate to be able to see this last March.

@THEFINALHAZARD

3 жыл бұрын

I saw that last month!! Was amazing to see

The Black Bird had many versions, including a prototype super high altitude bomber capable of carrying even the largest nuclear weapons.

There is one at the BlackBird Park out at the Palmdale CA site near the SkunkWorks...

I've been waiting for this one!! But also, you should do the Seawolf submarine class. Lots and lots of interesting unclassified history!

Wonderful video. The Surviving M-21 / D-21 set is on display at the Boeing Museum Of Flight right out side of Downtown Seattle. The original Boeing headquarters is also a part of the MoF - the Red Barn. I have been to the Boeing MoF more times then I can remember ; seeing the M-21 / D-21 pair is always awe inspiring. Also there is a recovered cockpit from a SR-71 that crashed - you can sit in that cockpit.

One of ma favourite drones 👍🏽

Thank you

Simon thanks for another super video bud.

I believe there is one at the Air Park in Palmdale CA (on Ave. P). There is also an SR 71 along many other aircraft.

Never knew about this drone and looking forward to the skunk works!

Love the content of these videos.

Brilliant as ever Simon, thank you. A video on the US Air Force 'Quail' decoy drone might be interesting for either of your 'project' channels.

Best presentation of 2021 ... yet! ;-)

Knowledge before work, well played.

Please do one on the Newport News ship building

@ElPirato

3 жыл бұрын

OH MAN that would be nice. I got one better. the Virginia colony

@shinano3010

3 жыл бұрын

That’s would be really cool too

Recently saw one of these at the Castle Air Museum. It was at the restoration hanger where they're restoring an F-117. I kinda knew it was a drone of some sort when I first saw it since it had the same shapes and color as the blackbird (they have one btw). Never knew they existed till that day.

some craft i dint had any knowleage about, thats good, i dont need to know more , thank you.

Can you please update you playlist with all your videos. I love to put it on and listen to it through out the day.

Fun fact, there is one housed in the Mcminville Aircraft Museum... when it was open in Oregon. The thing is HUGE.

Love that design. Will live on in the SR-72.

Your channels totally seem like mass produced WatchMojo clickbaity stuff, but you really know your stuff. These videos are incredibly entertaining and the facts are almost always spot on. Definitely getting some merch to support your endeavors.

How about a video on the Douglas DC-3? The plane helped win a war, kickstarted an entire industry, is one of the most beautiful ever designed and is the only aircraft ever to have no expiration date.

Random factinos: The Soviet reverse-engineered version was the Tupolev Voron (ворон, Russian for 'Raven'). It never got beyond the prototyping stage, the Soviets deciding to concentrate on satellite recon instead. The wreckage of the D-21 recovered by China is on display at the Chinese Aviation Museum in Beijing. There's an M-21/D-21 pair on display at the Seattle Museum of Aviation.

My dad was a Skunk Works employee 1964 - 1980. I know he was on the A-12 / SR-71 contract, and a couple of follow - on / support deals afterwards. Wonder if he did any of the machine or fab work on the D-21.

Always a good video.

Keep 'em comin' 🤜🤛

Simon: skunks works. I haven’t read it but it’s coming up. Super cool 😂😂😂

As always great job and looking forward to SkunkWorks video!

Another excellent video, thanks Simon. If you're keen to do another video on an amazing aircraft, have a look at the Miles M.52. If you haven't heard about it, it was a late WW2 British secret project to build the first supersonic manned aircraft. It differed from the Bell X-1 in that it was powered by a Whittle jet engine with a huge afterburner system that was the precursor to the SR-71's bypass afterburner system, and it would have taken-off from the ground under its own power as well. Eric Brown was earmarked to fly it as he was a short chap and could fit into the small cockpit. In 1946 with the change of government, the project was cancelled with no official reason given.

When you mentioned picking up the D-21 mid-air with a C-130, it brought back to mind a similar mission of the C-130 you might want to do. They had a mission to pluck people from off the ground while flying. It involved a small balloon released by the person on the ground waiting to be picked up. The balloon carried a wire attached to a harness on the person. A hook would snag the person and pull them off the ground and they would then crank the cable in and retrieve the person. I believe it was for CIA and other similar people like Special Forces that needed extraction from hostile territory.

@enloeeagle7258

Жыл бұрын

That sounds a lot like batman

@hifinsword

Жыл бұрын

@@enloeeagle7258 It was used to extract special forces inside Vietnam. I never got yanked out but I've seen movies of it during testing. It looks like a pretty wild ride.

D-21. Coolest looking thing EVER!

If you ever played Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater you've recognize this. It's how Naked Snake infiltrated Russia. PS: it's also the inspiration for a GI JOE Cobra vehicle called the Night Raven.👍😉

@MrJinglejanglejingle

3 жыл бұрын

When I saw it, I knew I recognized it from somewhere...

@MrJinglejanglejingle

3 жыл бұрын

@Old school Pete ...Running back and forth...? Which "others" are you talking about here? The only one that has 'running back and forth' is MGS2, unless you count MGS5...

Didn't even know this variant existed, cool!

We have one here on display at the Boeing Museum of Flight here in Seattle if anybody cares to see one in person. They even have it perched on top of an A12

I want to see Simon's mansion he paid for with all these KZread videos

@tncorgi92

3 жыл бұрын

On his private island, with parking for his yacht and helicopter.

@vladsnape6408

3 жыл бұрын

@@tncorgi92 And inside an extinct volcano.

@bohicajohnson7203

3 жыл бұрын

There's a reason he lives in Eastern Europe.

@greaseman01

3 жыл бұрын

Its a singlewide trailer out in the middle of bumfuck, so the screams of Danny and the others can seldom be heard.

@casfacto

3 жыл бұрын

He lives in London right? Maybe he's got two rooms instead of the normal one.

well done

My grandfather worked in the Skunk works program for quite sometime in a joint project with Pratt & Whitney & others. Only thing he ever talked about was his involvement with the F-14 Afterburner project to launch from carriers. He was involved in much more from what my dad has said and hope that one day he will tell me.

@AtheistOrphan

3 жыл бұрын

F-14, one of my favourite aircraft and pride of the Iranian Air Force.🇮🇷

Never heard of this one. It's crazy to think that they attempted such a high speed drone so many decades ago.

It didn’t slam into him Simon,it exploded close to his plane!cmon Simon jeez 😂

There's a Bomarc missile site in Bangor Maine right near where I live. Old silos down in the ground. Cool bit of history

I love the dichotomy between No Fudging Around Simon on Megaprojects and WTFBBQ Simon on Business Blaze

Awesome machine👍

Almost plugged the Business Blaze merch store at the beginning there. I like it.

I haven’t seen it yet if it’s been done, but I’d love to see a video on the A-10 Thunderbolt. My favorite plane ever.

Growing up in the 80s its interesting how many SR-71 toys had this drone affixed to them. Matter of fact, im not sure i ever saw a die cast toy or model of the Blackbird that DIDN'T have the drone attached back then

Luv u Simon

This isa megaproject. Excellent

megaproject for spacex's starship, a truly incredible feat of engineering

My dad would tell me about the blackbird and this drone and how cool it was when I was a kid. I figured it was just more cool aviation stuff he knew since he was in the Air Force during Vietnam and worked at McDonnell Douglas for years. Then about 5 years ago he tells me that he worked on this crazy plane. Well it all made sense then as most of what he knew wasn’t stuff from a book at that time and he had the forward silhouette of an sr-71 painted on his crate from when he was in the service when no one knew it even existed. The reason he told me about this was because he was excited that he had run into a guy he worked with on the plane at the grocery store wearing a bomber jacket with the haku patch from his unit. My dad was already pretty cool before he told me. Now his coolness cruises around 80,000 ft at Mach 3.

Exceptional! 👍😀👍

You should do a mega project on the Raurimu spiral part of the north island main truck railway in New Zealand

Not that you'd need any help researching, but the book Skunk Works by Ben Rich (former director of said organisation) is a really good read and incredibly interesting if you haven't already read it. And thanks for another great video!

They have one of these on top of a blackbird in the boeing museum of flight, its cool to see in person

@ericstromberg9608

3 жыл бұрын

IIRC, it's the only remaining A-12 airframe that's modified to carry the drone.

The D-21 has a menacing look that wouldn't be out of place in a sci-fi film.

As a kid I’d obsess over this Revell model SR-71, and on the box cover picture it showed a small, cockpitless miniature version next to the Black Bird, and I never knew what the hell it was. External weapon? Scaled down test version? With no internet back then, it just bothered me the whole time. 20 years later, I find out it’s this! Thanks, internet.

The craziest jet they made at skunkworks is the SR-71 because it's late 50s tech. 50s tech 🤯

I'd like an in-depth video of the inspiration for R2-D2! The astro-computer which kind of worked as an auto pilot for the SR-71!

We have a D-21 Drone at the "Southern Museum of Flight" in Birmingham, Alabama....along with an A-12 Blackbird (Oxcart), the Faster, Yes FASTER, single seat model !

My local air museum (March airfield museum) has one on display.

Soviets had couple of similar devices. Some were photographing England on regular basis. Tu-123 Jastreb for example. And of course the well known Tu-143 Reys with shorter range.

@neilturner6749

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think there’s any evidence that they ever flew operationally and the statement that they photographed England regularly is just laughable!

You can find what appears like a couple of these drones on satellite pictures (Google Earth) of Edwards Airforce Base between 2002 and 2006, seemingly "lying around" near the MDD (Spaceshuttle loading/mating rig (now demolished)) in the most northern area of the main base, if you're interested...