The Kamikaze Nazi Rocket Plane - Lippisch P13

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[RexsHangar]

This thing was a flying Dorito of death, a totally bonkers design that would look vaguely adorable if it wasn't for its dark history.

[captain_commenter]

Imagine your B-17 was shot down and you have to report to base that you were destroyed by a flying Dorito

[InvestmentJoy]

Oddly enough gm had an engine in the 70s that was a coal powered And it worked

[patricklemire]

What they really needed was a printer that made trained pilots, infantry and tankers. By the end, they were giving sailors, pilots, and even coal miners rifles to fill out understrength infantry. No wonder weapon or an ocean of petrol was going to save them. They were out of warfighters.

[williamzk]

Anyone who has ever seen the flamethrower blow torch effect of pulverized coal blown into a boiler in a power station or locomotive (like the Henschel Locomotives of the 1950s) will know that a coal powered ram jet would work. It's completely plausible and doable. A small rocket in the middle of the ramjet would induce an airflow for starting the ramjet at zero speed and could then be switched of.

[ritterkreutztrager]

It's true that the Lorin coal fired ramjet was not flight tested, but it was successfully wind tunnel tested in Austria in 1945. This is where is was discovered the the coal needed to be sized into uniform smaller pellets. The pellets were placed in a rotating gridded round cage of sorts and ignited by a chemical fuel jet.

[EB]

Respect to him for continuing his design so his students and engineers didn’t have to die fighting a losing war

[djcjrx]

Most Lippisch designs were nuts you could make a whole channel on them.

[michaelerickson]

So I work in Aerospace, and a few years back, I had a long conversation with an old engineer (now retired) about building a ram jet that operated on coal dust. This guy had done some research on it, and in his explanation to me, commented that there is such a device used to both pull grain dust out of silo's and consume it, considering grain dust is also extremely explosive - requiring grain elevators to have all manner of dust suppression systems to prevent disaster.

Also note that one of my coworkers lost her brother in a grain elevator explosion... giving weight to the notion that if coal dust were fed into a ram style combustion tube, you could likely get reasonable thrust.

In a ram jet configuration, the dust delivery would likely need some sort of augur system to move the dust from the fuel bins (a bit like the olde steam trains had for delivering coal) and there would need to be considerable spark suppression to keep the fire where it ought to be and not working its way backward into the storage system... but it does seem that since coal dust is a good bit more volatile than coal chunks, a working flying thing could be built...

After our conversation, I started imagining some sort of steam-punk coal powered bi-plane design, and I have a few pages of rough sketches working out some of the requirements. No we didn't consider that it could be fast... or be a war machine, but now seeing this video, I'll have to rethink it. Might be fun.

[NotnSaturn]

Dude, your animation is getting more and more slicker by the minute! I love your videos, keep it up!!!

[mattmilsop]

I would love to see something on the F-106 Delta Dart. Maybe throw in some what-if scenarios, so we can see that plane in action?

[Akiyama.ミズキ]

YOU MISSED THE CHANCE TO NAME IT “KAMINAZI”

[rosenbaek]

The combat animations are once again amazing! Great work!

[aireirelmplays]

These animations are so good like I dont even get how you make these, also great video keep it up

[aviationgaming]

I saw one of those at the Military Aviation museum in Virginia Beach. The photo at the end is actually of the one at the Military Aviation Museum.

[malcolmcarter]

Lippisch was an amazing designer. Who also came up with the annular wing amomgst other things.
By the way, the Me 163 B Komet had two MK 141 cannons, and they were of 30mm calibre. And though they.were found to be a 'a bit much' on the racketen floh, they were nevertheless used on the tiny fighters.

[davidstone]

The Luftwaffe (or at least Lippisch) conception of ramming was to disable an enemy aircraft, with the ramming aircraft surviving an attack. This is not really anything like a Kamikaze attack, which sacrifices the life of pilot and loss of aircraft.

[stefaneer]

The P13a did remember me at the "Tridroid Starfighter", from Star Wars 3 and Star Wars the Clone Wars.

[mrcuivre]

I’ve been following you for a few months, I just wanted to say that your videos are amazing! continue like this!

[ThraceVega]

9:07 Being that the F-106 is my favorite aircraft of all time, I would definitely like to see more videos down this line, yes. Amazing work, as always!