It's a nice thing to not worry about stalling.

All this in the days before computers and fly-by-wire. Wowser!

XFV-1 is an airplane that I wanted to see in my magazine when I was a child, the one I wanted to maneuver. When landing, control will be difficult because the ground can not be seen. This pilot has a great technique. I bet he also had eyes behind his head.

@mathewritchie

4 жыл бұрын

A helo pilot on the radio.

The Lockheed plane never got the engine it was designed for. The variant of the T40 engine wasn't powerful enough for vertical takeoff, thus the improvised conventional landing gear. The Convair plane weighed one ton less, so it was able to do the full VTOL song and dance.

Even knowing they both land safely, I always stop breathing as they near touch-down.

Talk about pilots with balls of aluminum.

@arodrigues2843

6 жыл бұрын

Jay Trock And bottoms of steel !!!

@reginaldmcnab3265

5 жыл бұрын

Jay Trock talk about German WW2 technology!

@raiderfandew

5 жыл бұрын

More like balls of Titanium!

This is clean

"So there I was, hangin' by my prop...no REALLY"

Can you imagine how loud those contra-rotating props had to be?

Отличное видео, было интересно.

@airailimages

6 жыл бұрын

спасибо

Inspiration for the Star Wars' X Wing Fighter?

Tail could have rotated in an X - layout and you would have had four wings but I understand that's not necessarily true in the case of biplanes. Plus additional complexities, weight, potential failures...

@JacobDavidCCunningham

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah they did make it an x-shape

What is up with this music. I can't believe they didn't design the cockpit to be like a ball turret so that in vertical flight, the aircraft would be operated like a helicopter where the pilot could see the ground in the perspective of a helicopter or horizontal flying aircraft.

@saw2much68

8 жыл бұрын

+Jacob David C. Cunningham the complexities in the old Relay contact world would not been safe or practical speaking from a budget platform i'm a thinken.

@edwardhart7252

8 жыл бұрын

+Jacob David C. Cunningham The cockpit seat actually rotates about 60 degrees during the transition.

@JacobDavidCCunningham

8 жыл бұрын

That's cool

@trevormckibben8818

6 жыл бұрын

If it had a ball turret, imagine how hard it would be to pilot and shoot at the same time. Also, it's a VTOL aircraft, not a helicopter.

@fredtedstedman

2 жыл бұрын

rotating cockpit sounds excellent , today with fly-by-wire no problem , but then , only a highly skilled pilot will make it happen . They you add in , coming back from a mission , tired possibly wounded , find the carrier at sea , land , rough sea maybe ..........................................nothing to it .

Крутая идея.

Can someone tell me the name of this music?

B2 spirit sucessor do xb? Kk. Primeiro tá explicado o porquê dos ovnis kkk. E o segundo parece que é para não ter tanto atrito com o vento

First music name, please.

@airailimages

5 жыл бұрын

It's the first piece listed at the end of the video.

그리고 난 여기있다.

Music?

@airailimages

4 жыл бұрын

Read the end credits.

930 mph how?

@fredtedstedman

2 жыл бұрын

not with those props .......

goofiest looking plane but kinda like it

@airailimages

8 ай бұрын

Yes, and yes!

Heinkel Lerche

Can you believe those " engineers", designing an aircraft to land IN REVERSE ??????? Yeah, I know... the same kind of "genius", that invented the DOWNWARD ejection seats !!! ( The rescue teams have special crow bars, to pry out from the ground the pilots that ejected at low altitude!!!) - How is this possible ??? - Hope they installed A LOT of REAR-WIEW mirrors !!!! Nice looking a/c, but what a silly concept !!! And to land in smaller warships, in swelling seas??? Pure genius!!! And about those who approved the ( our) money for that ??? "Not responsibles" - as usual.!!! You see... "Peoples money is cheap", right?? BTW: Cut that, not needed, music and give us these technical videos with a/c sound, OR technical useful comments... PLEASE ??? A. Rodrigues..

Freak show