Why the "Sound Barrier" Had to be Broken
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When the US rocket program hit a wall in the 1940s, one particular program came to the rescue. Not only it took the flight technology behind that wall, it took us to much farther destinations imaginable. The X-planes are #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT
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Chuck once said the propeller on a plane was there to keep the pilots cool, he said they would break out in a sweat when the prop quit turning
Ok that is funny. Dark as hell but funny.
@V i o n a💝 wtf?
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All the shorts you put out are great but I really appreciate these deep dives as well. Love all the humor you sprinkle in too. The X programs has enough material for a dozen videos.
Glad to hear you enjoy our work. You are absolutely right about the dozen videos!
You might wanna delete this reply. The one above me
@@QurikyBark32919 just ignore them! These bots are not worth your time!
@@SmileyXY ThErE aRe ChIlDrEn HeRe. I’m saying it so the Karen’s don’t have to
@@NotWhatYouThink Russia and China be like, we won the Hypersonic race! X-15 meanwhile: hold my peroxide 😂
Charles Yeager, more known as Chuck Yeager, a legendary pilot.
Attack on Titan reference... EREN YEAGER AND ZEKE YEAGER
@@vinyphoenix443 aot is more like a reference to yeager
And a complete arsehole who never recognised that Bell X-1 designs were stolen from the British.
Only his mom calls him charles
Brave. So many test pilots died.
The military and aviation have so much content to cover. And looks like you guys have taken the industry😁
It's already discovered bro This guy only repeat these things
@@1moreredcoder Nah dude it takes a lot of work on doing these kind of stuff you'll know the hardships of A youtuber only when u are one I know it jst appreciate the Work he does. For it
@@1moreredcoder Typical unappreciative fatherless user
@@bestinblaise2369 Thank you. It's like anything else. Once you have some familiarity with any type of work, you develop and appreciation for the efforts that go into it, and the more you know, you appreciate it more. Otherwise we are just "repeating work", and the baseball/basketball player making millions of dollars a year is just "throwing a ball" 😉
@@1moreredcoder I guess you are from a nation that only have cheap Internet data and no appreciation for knowledge. Why did you even watched it? Just click on the video, leave a dislike and go away.
13:38 The translation into 'modern' english ... priceless
One of the most surprising facts about the X program as a whole is just how few accidents there were. The whole idea behind the X planes was to push different boundaries of flight. That every other flight didn't end in a crash is a testament to just how good those engineers were.
To the moon question. The sonic speed is dependent on the material in which the sound wave is traveling. And because in vacuum sound cant travel the sonic speed is zero at the moon (assuming the plane is not supossed to travel trough the moon). Therefore a still standing plane on the moon would count as moving at the speed of sound. Just one more thing. To get the plane to the moon it had to move at some point at that was most certainly faster than the speed of sound.
So the P-38 cannot fly on the moon, but moves at supersonic speeds at the same time 🤔
Is the speed of sound on the Moon zero or NULL though?
Makes sense
@@panda4247 NULL if it was 0 it would imply the possibility of sound or a number other then 0. The main reason being that there is no medium for the pressure/waves of sound to travel through.
@@outdated6129 exactly, that was my point :) that the speed of sound on the moon is not 0, because there is no sound in the first place
imagine being the first man to EVER pilot a super sonic plane, he must have been a god damn Rockstar in the science and aviation community at the time.
For those who actually knew what happened absolutely, but apart from the personnel at Edwards and higher ups, most found out later because of the Cold War
And Chuck Yeager was never that guy.
That's crazy to think about the sound barrier in this abstract manner of pilots hitting a invisible wall that shook the planes so violent and sucked into the death dive due to aerodynamics... And air resistance. Wow
I saw this plane at the Dayton National Air Force Museum and it was Gorgeous.
Bro this bot is everywhere
@@notsoblackandwhite9064 ik, and it’s annoying as heckin
Your videos and sense of humor, as I've commented before, are of the highest caliber quality. Thank you for doing what you do!
"Not that supremecy" made me laugh harder than it should've
7:20 for those not sure where to find it
Amazing videos as always
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Exactly Insane as I was literally just researching the air speed record planes including the x15 and NASA 73a like 5 mins ago on KZhead lmao World is a small placr
Or we are watching you ... 😆
I like the style of these videos, simple explanations mixed with a bit of humor.
you "x-plane" stuff so well i cant stop watching! thanks! also! i'll let myself out...sorry...
No no, come back please, i open the door for you, you are invited to the sleepover
your longer videos give me life
You might ask, why the X1 resembles the Messerschmitt Me 163 so much. Looking like the unholy union of a space craft and a bullet with 4 rocket engines at the tail. Maybe because the first unofficial first super sonic flights have been achieved by a Me 163 pilot during test flights in 1941, which is also why the american developers made sure to get their hands on said aircraft's construction plans and the crew reports about strains on the body. But since this was a secret developement, there couldn't be official documents left. Especially since America had to be first, other "first flights" could never be official documents. None the less the X-Series deserves it's praise as the first aircrafts successfully built with breaking the sound barrier in mind (and not by accident during limit testing).
While the wing of the F-86 was eventually copied from the Me-262, the Bell XS-1 was designed as a scaled up .50 cal bullet, not after anything the Germans had.
I can only imagine how deadly an X-15 kamikaze would be.
That would be a very expensive kamikaze attack.
Probably not very. Kamikaze had a very low success rate without bringing experimental planes going at hard to control speeds.
Long form NWYT on a Friday? I gotta say it was a good day.
This is the best channel on KZhead that nobody has ever heard of. No joke this channel is amazing
Us Brits were working on the Miles M.52 after Miles were given the contract by our government in 1943. Strangely, just months before the first flight, the project was stopped and all data, including the successful transonic & supersonic (to Mach 1.38) 30% scale rocket powered aircraft dropped from a Mosquito, was passed to Bell aircraft in America. Bell then subsequently went on to fly the Bell x-1. This from the Wikipedia entry on the Miles M.52... "According to senior figures at Miles, the design and the research gained from the M.52 was shared with the American company Bell Aircraft "
And Americans didn't share any data back. One way friendship. It was the same with nuclear research. Unidirectional transfer of knowhow.
@@DominikPinkas Yup, that happened a lot! Still, we surprised them with the Lightning intercepting their a-12 oxcart 😆 It's a shame we didn't push ahead with Megaroc and beat everyone into space. That was another British project stopped just as it looked viable. We're just a static US aircraft carrier with the tories in power and part of the European project with Labour in Power. I know which one i prefer for my kids future! 🇪🇺💶
@@Aengus42 I find it funny how a colony the British spawned in the end turned out to surpass them in many ways and kinda put themselves partly in charge in some way (limited obviously, but still). I admit not knowing shit about these unidirectional transfers of knowledge and research, but it sounds as if the US just says give us what we want or else :/
@@Dominik-ui1zn We, unfortunately, took the USA at their word about reciprocal technology sharing. We did better with the Romans even in this regard. Every couple of thousand years you find young, boisterous countries that don't realise that the best results come from teamwork, not skulduggery. You'll grow up... That is, if you survive a millennia or two.
Hmm, sounds like a habit given huawei, alstom, zte, and that brazillian oil company. There are no allies, just compliant and non compliant vassals
Great vid like usual. Never stop doing these mate
Technically - any object can fly supersonic. On Moon much easier, sound speed lower due to minimal atmosphere.
Nothing can fly super sonic on the moon because there is no sound barrier
The moon has no atmosphere though
12:00 Elsewhere on KZhead you can see Scott cross field talk about the x2 and how it was never designed to go over Mach 3. It was considered a fair crack of the odds to try for a record and prestige. Lastly the x1 is a clone of the British miles m52. They had no idea before about the fully Moving tail.
Wow, that is wrong in so many ways it probably set a record. First off the X1 is hardly a "clone" of the Miles M52, I mean that thought right there goes to show that opposed to doing the research and learning from credible sources you learn from KZhead comments and then just repeat them. First off the X1 was not a clone of anything except the nose proportions being a clone of the .50 caliber bullet, that's even mentioned in this video. And despite the false narrative that the British invented the flying tail which comes from the cry babying rantings of an English test pilot who spent the rest of his life finger pointing simply because he was mad that it wasn't him who got to break the sound barrier the fact is the French invented the flying tail back in the 1920's, it was already old news in the aircraft industry well before the X1 or the Miles M52 was even a blank sheet of paper. And if you look into the history of research into breaking the sound barrier you'll find out that research had started in the US long before WW2 started, several universities working with NACA had already been working on it for some time when it was suspended due to the war, it was information from that research that was given to Bell Aviation as a starting point to design the X1. Furthermore the X1 was built from day one with provisions to be easily converted to a flying tail should their testing and research deem it necessary, they started out with a conventional tail because in the world of aircraft development you start with what you know and go from there, one step at a time. Because the structure inside the tail of the X1 was built with the provisions to convert it to a flying tail such as having a place to mount the pneumatic jackshaft that raises and lowers the tail already inside the structure it was easily converted to one without a major redesign of the structure and framework inside the tail, if not for the fact that it was designed to convert the tail to the flying type the X1 never would have broken the sound barrier until 1948, having to do that much redesigning would have pushed it into 1948.
Look up the definition of clone. It most certainly wasn’t a clone.
Your videos are awesome man I've been watching for a while and I just can't get enough. I get why you do the shorts but I could listen to you talk about this for hours on end. I love your humour and your voice is so nice to listen to. Someone stop me before I start sounding too creepy
Hehe no need to stop! 😉 Thanks for the kind words. We also enjoy making these videos.
Wait, not what you think is a team of people?
"No airplane can take off on the moon." Moments after talking about rocket powered airplanes. In theory the X-1 could take off on the moon, it would just have zero control since while it did not need air to provide thrust, it did need atmosphere for its control surfaces to function. Also to say the X-1's engine could not be throttled is half of the truth. It could turn each chamber on and off independently. So there is no smooth spectrum of throttling, but there are ways of achieving 25% 50% 75% and 100% of the total thrust.
Doesn't matter if an airplane can or cannot take off on the moon, there is no atmosphere which would making breaking the sound barrier impossible. Also, the X-1 itself was incapable of taking off and was dropped from the B-52 after reaching operating altitude.
@@daexion Sorry but you are missing the forest for the trees here. The video had just talked about engines *that do not need atmospheric oxygen* and then goes on to talk about how the lack of an atmosphere (yes yes trace gasses) means you cannot take off. That is ALL I was talking about in my first paragraph. Note that I did not say a thing about velocity here. Also in response to what you said about the air launch. What does this have to do with anything I said? Besides that, do you have math to back up what you are implying here? That being, on the moon you would also need to air launch an X-1. Again not that this has anything at all to do with the point I was making, but it is an interesting question given the differences between Earth and Luna.
The XS-1 wasn’t capable of taking off at all. It was dropped from a B-29!mother ship and had enough fuel for only one burn.
@@Frankie5Angels150 Please reread what I said. You obviously misunderstood what I said as well as missed the point. (not to mention that the X-1 is being used as an example as much as it is being used in and of itself)
My uncle worked on the X-51 waverider with Boeing. The X-51 was unmanned and hypersonic (5 times or greater the speed of sound or mach 5). It was cool to learn about the origins of the X program! I would be interested in learning about some of the hypersonic developments in more recent years. Here’s a video about the X-51: kzhead.info/sun/ea2bh5xlhqlrY4E/bejne.html
from my knowledge it is Lazer guided supersonic missle and it is called wave rider because it stay near the ocean to cause sea skim to avoid aa
Yet another fantastic video...Informative enough to trigger my inner aviation geek, but not too much to overload my feeble mind tempered by being most entertaining and at times downright funny with the narrators somewhat dry sense of humor...Overall I've truly enjoyed this and all your videos...thank you for doing what you do.
That sponsor transition was so smooth, i loved how you actually used brilliant to explain something relevant to the video
Those non-emperial explanations are what make your videos so fun :D
Glad you like them!
NWYT is next level with the humour they sneak in. well done guys!!
Thanks for this article!
You really know your stuff, keep it up! Love your channel. While I like your shorts, lets have more of these longer ones.
I glad you didn’t get canceled for this video, keep up the amazing work! Love the channel lol
Great video! Thanks NWYT
You deserve all these subscribers.
8:11 Screw that. With enough thrust, even a brick can fly. Don't we all know that already? 15:26 Cpt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell entered the chat. (And anyone who did that in MSFS, which is a shockingly great experience BTW especially in VR) :D 18:13 Nice BTW :)
Awesome video 👌.please upload more videos about other X planes 🙏
Yes!!! I am completely on board with the N.W.Y.T. system of measurements.
I love this channel your shots are great
great episode, love your videos
in the first clip I love how the wings just kept going lol
13:33 this is what makes the video interesting as well, slight humour
Best "so everyone will understand" analogies ever.
A very useful video, you help me lerned alot of things
love this channel
At first i was really annoyed that you kept popping up on my recommended but know i mainly watch you when i have nothing to do
This video was so good!
2:23 That diagram is wrong. The supersonic flow starts further back, and that is what immobilizes the control surfaces.
The v2 German rocket broke the sound barrier and then some before the x planes did it. In fact the X1 was designed like a bullet because bullets broke the sound barrier all the time. The v2 also looked like a bullet.
Cannon balls broke the sound barrier hundreds of years before that. What’s your point. We’re talking controlled level flight. Not a ballistic platform
This video is gold, being both hilarious and informational.
Love these vids
Watch in every content you do👌love her from Phillipines 🇵🇭
Thanks for x Planeing
Definitely need more x plane videos. There is some crazy history there.
Shocked no one is saying the moon landing was fake… great vid keep going.
I knew you were a snarkass, Not What You Think, but you really outdid yourself on this one. And frankly, though interesting, the X-plane story really needed it.
Idk if you wrote that brilliant ad or if it was a script but the delivery was great. Only ad thats made me consider buying brilliant. Great job!
For the most part, all sponsors give you a bunch of bullet points and some directions on what not to say. For example they say “Include a specific example from one of the courses” or “do not use profanity”. Then the creators would write a script based on those talking points and guidelines and try to integrate it into the main script of the video.
2 badass people Chuck Yaeger and Erin Yaeger
"Wow wow, not that Supremacy"💀💀💀 I like you guy's sense of humour
isn’t it kinda crazy how humans made objects faster than sound
Not What You Think and The Infographics show teach me the most about history and technology etc.
Damn this man knows how to keep your attention, these jokes are amazingly well put
7:52 HOLY MOLY LOOK AT THE SNOOT ON THAT THING!
Great video 👏🏻👏🏻
I like how this video explains Xplanes.
I gotta be honest, the Slavic accent makes me nervous (😉), but these videos are top notch! Please keep up the good work!
Just want to tell yoy that i like your longer videos
meanwhile in 2099 "why the light barrier had to be broken"
Nothing can fly supersonic on the moon, because there's no atmosphere, and thus there is no speed of sound.
That hydrogen peroxide pitch and yaw control in low gravity was a really cool idea.
You guys thinking of making a podcast related to NWYT? I would love to hear more on these topics, stuff that didn't make it in the video, and more on this topic.
Since the V2 rockets were supersonic and did not disintegrate when accelerating beyond mach 1,it was pretty obvious there was no actual “barrier”
It is stuff like this that shows why a spaceprogram is so important
i like that measurement system^^
The ironic joke about imperial measurement system is damn good )
I LOVE the way you took that ad and made it a necessary part of the video. That's one of the most intelligent advertising ideas I've ever seen! I did however know that no aircraft can fly on the moon because of the super thin atmosphere.
This is a cool video inspired me a lot , am also developing a autopilot flight system for my rc plane
Lol @ underhand jab to US Navy. This channel is one of the best on YT.
13:34 thanks for clarifying
My two cents on the Moon question before I get to the end of the video. I do not think it could achieve super Sonic speeds on the moon. Not really sure why he mentioned gravity but I do not think gravity is as relevant. The moon has lower air density yes. But based on my understanding, going super Sonic is breaking the sound barrier as in breaking through the walls of compressed air that builds up around the aircraft. Now, perhaps it could go faster compared to earth and by earth speed standards "go super Sonic". But that's even if there's enough air to provide stable flight.
16:45 What? Michael J. Adams was killed when his X-15 disintegrated mid-flight. How could you miss this and say, none of the accidents were fatal?
I would also like to say that the lack of air would make it quite hard to keep the combustion engine working in space
About the. Ejection. Capsule on the X-2 (XS-2), it was known, due to rocket sled tests (which often had the USAF doctor who was examining the volunteers who rode the sled, often going at the higher speed runs himself since he didn't feel that it was right to have someone take risks that he himself didn't!) they realized a man would get injured, perhaps critically at Supersonic Speeds and that he (back then all test pilots in the US were men) would need a lot of O2 to survive for the amount of time it would take for him to get down to around 14,000 feet (~4,267m) were he could start breathing and they actually preferred 10,000 feet (~3,048m) before they wanted him to start breathing the surrounding air..... The Capsule ejection .vs. seat ejection solved both problems!
High as snoop dog!! That's too high for anybody but him! Lmao
even if we lifted the P-38, it is impossible for any object to fly with the speed of sound with no atmosphere, since sound is particles moving at a certain speed wich can change with conditions such as density or what is the atmosphere made out of, with no particles there is no sound and therefore no speed of sound
Dude lamen terms at the 14 minute mark had me cracking up
POG, new vid, yay!
9:29 Love this channel's sense of humour XD
in the words of Jeremy Clarkson: “Speeeed and Powerrr”
Love this mans humor😂😂🔥
13:32 ohh ok i understand now you had me confused at first.
The X series is where Virgin Galactic got its concept from. Dropping a mach 2 aircraft from over 45K' . Still works like a charm. - NOM
I feel like when the sound barrier was broken, the earth got devirginized.
Nice video’s it maybe a good idea to make ur video’s also in podcast format😊
sound barrier:i was broken yet youre happy.
3:56 You explain the Xs-Plane lol
13:42 best way to explain something
NACA, the predecessor to NASA... amazing
On 15NOV67 an X-15 flown by Michael Adams went out of control. Adams was not able to regain control, and the plane broke up in flight. Adams was killed. X-15 pilot Joe Engle went to NASA and flew the Space Shuttle.
Not quite true, he did regain control after a bit but ended up upside down at supersonic, and his dampers locked; refusing to let him pull out of the dive so the plane began oscillating (which was far beyond the limits and the plane broke up) incredible that he pulled out of a Mach 5 spin tho
I stand corrected, your Majesty