Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Found And Explained" channel.

  1. corvair really seemed to think nothing was impossible if you threw enough money and engineers at the problem
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  2. "it would need composite ceramics and metals. Much like they used on the space shuttle" B-roll of a spacecraft made partly of epoxy and asbestos
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  3. "Demetri go tension the center tracks!" "But how!?"
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  4. we had these things called satellites but anti satellite missiles and better tracking have only just started making them non-viable for reconnaissance
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  5. "Sir we have anti-gravity!" "wunderful! put a flak 88 on it." "But it....ugh right away sir."
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  6. there's a reason why though, most of these don't really confer any advantage. their jet powered wing bombers would have been dangerously unstable, these forward swept wings would be very difficult to make
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  7. I like how one of its problems was it'd be carrying around 1/4th of the Airforce's deployable nuclear arsenal at any given time, in a single, crashable, plane. One time where too much capacity hurt the thing
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  8. there was a story once that alleged the Airforce sent like 5 b-2 bombers over some sky watcher guy's house just to mess with him
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  9. "The shuttle's engines wouldn't have engaged until after it seperated from the booster" so basically magic since the main engines of the shuttle absolutely needed the tank, because it had no internal fuel tanks
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  10. half the problem with the osprey was that they couldn't build a gearbox capable of handling the tilting rotors, the other half of the problem with the osprey was tilting and rotating both of the engines because they couldn't build a gearbox capable of handling the tilting rotors. Now that we've been able to build such a gearbox, Bell built a completely new tilt rotor plane/craft in less than 5 years
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  11. 6 wasp major engines, so given their track record, 3.5 engines on average
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  12. using a spy plane as a bomber has a singular big issue, your enemies might just push the big red button thinking a deep strike is coming instead of just a bunch of pictures
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  13. I'm not sure tight maneuvering is really going to be viable with this plane, the sr71 didn't have that much of an issue blacking out pilots because turning too hard too fast and it'd disintegrate
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  14. not sure why karmov would put turbofans and turboprops on the same airframe.
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  15. german thinking 1) invent something that breaks physics 2) stick a flak 88 on it
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  16.  @DonVigaDeFierro  well thats the thing, it was suspended only a few years before ICs and microchips could have fixed the problem
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  17. I wonder how much James Bond affected this thing
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  18. concept B would have just killed the pilot with the concussive force from the supersonic propellers spinning right behind him
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  19. 13:39 lol door gunner on an osprey-like thats some scary stuff with that blade whipping by right there
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  20. pretty sure the tech of the time would have meant the wings would have snapped at high loads
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  21. so you've launched 86 passengers, but you still have the 1 toilet in front of the life support oxygen vent
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  22. its crazy this actually existed and wasnt just a paper project
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  23. the b-58 had a few flaws but I think the most obvious was it had to drop its long range fuel tank to drop its nuke
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  24. imagine a world where kelly johnson didn't work at lockheed and instead Convair got all the sweet jet age super science contracts instead
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  25. the question is, how much cocaine were these engineers on and how much could one of these transport from say, southern mexico?
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  26. always forget how late the B-58 came in the lineup of bombers
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  27. called it
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  28. you forgot the central problem to such vehicles, once they leave the envelope of ground-effect they immediately loose lift
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  29. its like boeing saw the fireballs from a kc130 then decided to one up it
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  30. had a bit of a problem with stabilization, fly by wire might have been invented by the late 60s to counter that but they canned the project anyways
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  31. ah yes, the b-36, a safer plane which uh... had a reputation for...what was it.... 2 turning, 4 burning?
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  32. I'm sure the test pilots would have loved concept B, what with the immediate death that would happen if you had to eject for any reason
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  33. Convair: Please give us more cash than lockheed, we're at least 2x more insane than them
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  34. love how they didn't need a syncronizer since they had that itty bitty gap to fire machineguns through
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  35. seems like large aircraft of this size are inevitably just too big, airlines don't like the 747 or a380 because they still couldn't fill them. they like having scarcity because they can absolutely fill all seats and jack up prices
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  36. this would have been an embarrassing failure in vietnam
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  37. they thought terror bombing would force the US to capitulate, but by 1944 with that not working on the brits, there's no way a few bombs in new york would have done anything but harden our resolve
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  38. Its a bit of a morbid joke but the more people you cram into a plane, the more people you kill with every crash. Kind of like how nobody thought about what would happen if 2 boeing 747s crashed into each other until it happened and they suddenly had 400 people dead in 1 crash
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