What Happened To Ring Wing Planes?

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[fixedG]

As difficult as powered heavier-than-air flight was to first achieve in human history, it sure seems like there are a ridiculously wide array of designs that can work.

[jaredkennedy]

Can you imagine an alternate timeline where this is how planes developed? It'd be wild

[BlunderMunchkin]

Found and Explained, if by "Explained" you mean "Almost no information at all, stretched out to fill ten minutes."

[anthonyjensen]

My engineering teacher in highschool had us all make paper airplanes to see which ones would glide the furthest. Nobody really made anything too out of the ordinary, but the teacher made a ring wing plane from a straw, a piece of paper, and tape. It flew further than any other design and it blew my teenage mind.

[uingaeoc]

Bleriot = Blair-eeo. Voison = Vwow-sson. Bleriot was one of the greatest aviation pioneers, he made the first Cross English Channel flight in 1909.

[matsv]

A yes.. the worst of both worlds.

Both the downside of having a very long wing, combined with the downside of having two wings on top of each other.

On top of that, the high pressure area on one part is the low pressure on the other part. So its almost like having a anti winglet, that guides air from the high pressure to the low pressure side.

Will it fly, absolutely. But it will suck down fuel as if there is no tomorrow.

[buildintotrains]

Whoever makes the models you use in your videos needs to upload them to MSFS 2020...the texture and detail is so insane

[johnslugger]

*I built ring wing paper airplanes as a kid. They seemed to fly forever and were not bothered by windy days!*

[Propidium-Iodide]

* the maintenance team needs to have an Ironman suit to get to the engine
* it is impossible to have fuel tanks in the wings
* flaps - a nightmare for an engineer
* ice, snow, or water on the wings will lift the center of mass

this list can go on forever

[calebwilliams]

When I was a kid I used to make "paper airplanes" that used this concept using only two strips of a paper and a straw. If you cut two strips of paper, both an inch wide but one 4" long while the other is 6" long, then you tape both strips into a circle and attached them to the ends of the straw such that the attachment point of both strips is on the same side of the straw, then throw the "strawplane" with the smaller loop in front, it actually will fly pretty far.

[gaius_enceladus]

I *love* making ring-wing paper planes!
They're *super-stable* and you get really good flying distances from them!

[MrRandomcommentguy]

I love this design more than words can describe. But you can't just build a different plane for the sake of being different - there has to be a massive advantage to an innovative design to make the risks of trying to market such a thing worth the reward.

[marjoseph]

I did not know these sycophantic plane makers exist

[JohnSmith-ROBLOX]

Lockheed Martin more like Lockheed Martian

[BierBart]

I always love old concept vehicles that look like something you'd think was from science fiction.

That part about unexplainable real UFOs being an ad for a facial wellness tool caught me really off-guard lol

[drakeredwingofficial]

Absolutely would love to see a video on the boxwing jets, as well as the Boeing Spanloader--a flying wing cargo plane!

[autarchprinceps]

What seems strange to me, is how high it is made in a true circle. The other examples of both ring and box wing are way more elliptical. You'd think the vertical parts of the ring wing are useless for lift. Given that the aircraft body takes part of the actual lifting flat section, it seems to me like there is more wing not useful for lift than useful, and it increases the tail stabilisers size if attached like this as well.

[saalkz.a.]

Holly Sheep Shyte! The Vulcans are here... And they're designing planes. 😱

[Theiliteritesbian]

Man there is 3 min of content in this 10 min video