The Most Unusual VTOL Vehicles of the Last 100 Years

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[seandawson]

5:30 I am dying that Simon said a plane was "dummy Thiccc". My first great laugh of the year!

[GraemeLeRoux]

Ahhh the 1950s. The golden age of bonkers military design and a gold mine for YouTubers. Thanks Simon for another excellent video.

[ignitionfrn]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Lockheed XFV convair XFY
4:00 - Chapter 2 - Snecma coleoptere
7:15 - Chapter 3 - VJ 101
11:00 - Chapter 4 - The flying jeep
14:20 - Chapter 5 - Avrocar
17:50 - Chapter 6 - The skies as they are

[Fortunes.Fool.]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the testicular fortitude of the men who actually strapped into things like the Pogo to fly it? I wouldn't get within a ZIP code of that thing.

[michaelpipkin]

Can you do the history of The Thunderbirds?

It's a tragic, wonderful story of military grade aircraft that wondered millions.

[liamwinter]

I remember seeing the airjeep on extreme machines back when TLC stood for "The Learning Channel".

[brett]

Lol, "The insurance rates rise to literal DEATH if you mess up." Good one!

[johnfisher]

“A vicious cycle of wobbles.” Perhaps the most terrifying sentence an engineer can hear.

[gabbyn]

fyi: the MAN acronym means Maschinenfabrik (machine factory in) Augsburg-Nürnberg (Nuremberg), and their usual staple was the construction of trucks and buses

[wormyboot]

That last shot of the flying Jeep is my favorite. I love how they've got a .50 cal up there. It's not, like, manned or anything. It's just up there, on a tripod, like an afterthought.

[jacoboconnell]

Hearing Simon say the words "dummy thicc" made me literally spit my drink out. starting off the new year right!

[SimonTekConley]

Hot air balloons have nailed the vertical take off part.

[shadowstar]

Those flying jeep concepts remind me of the modern flying car /rideable drones of today's designs. The more things change the more they remain the same.

[rooseveltbrentwood]

1:09 The first time i’ve seen Simon sit (at least with his legs in frame).

[chesspiece]

Simon never reads comments but I've been watching since the pre beard days and have enjoyed the content. Happy new year

[iTeerRex]

Who knew, the quadcopter was invented in ‘58. Happy new year Simon, everybody.

[MacktasticSlick_]

My grandpa had a cool color picture of the Convair XFV always on the wall when I was a kid I never knew much about it but I always loved looking at it, what an unlocked memory that was. I forgot about that since the 90s holy shit. I wonder where all that stuff went when he died, that would have been cool to keep.

[ljphoenix]

5:31 I never thought I'd hear those words be spoken by Simon, in that order. To the writer of this video, THANKYOU.

[dreamCatV]

Simon with the BF2042 references....lmao. My year is off to a good start

[oo]

5:30 never thought I’d hear Simon say that