I love how the entire time dan was trying to make the plane he thought it was front heavy... when he needed the elevators (the wings on the back of the plane)
The horizontal stabilizer are the control surfaces on an airplane that make the aircraft pitch nose UP or DOWN and causes the airplane to rise or descend also used to roll the aircraft left and right. The horizontal stabilizer are usually on the tail of the aircraft and are mounted on the horizontal tail surfaces. However, some aircraft have this control forward of the main wings.
@@parker02311 two years late but. Yer both technically wrong. The horizontal stabilizers stabilize and the elevators attach onto said stabilizers to pull the plane up or down
As an aerospace engineer, I can confirm that everything in this video is completely correct. And that Dan doesn't know how to build planes. The helicopters are good though.
The horizontal stabilizer are the control surfaces on an airplane that make the aircraft pitch nose UP or DOWN and causes the airplane to rise or descend also used to roll the aircraft left and right. The horizontal stabilizer are usually on the tail of the aircraft and are mounted on the horizontal tail surfaces. However, some aircraft have this control forward of the main wings.
Today on Top Gear...Dan makes a helicopter, a Reliant Robin with wings, a rocket, and he drives round the test track in a dune buggy. Starring Daniel Hardcastle.
These are the best videos of Dan. The ones where he can build anything and builds something that obviously wont work and he spends half the video wonder why. Or when something shouldn't work some how works and he spends the video wondering why. True Gold
It's gotten to the stage where I immediately add recommended games to my wishlist, then I un-pause the video and watch it. Dan's recommendations have never let me down!
*Flies back heavy plane* Dan: "It's very front-heavy" Me: "OH GOD NO DAN! PLEASE DON'T DO WHAT I THINK YOU'RE ABOUT TO DO!!" Dan: "more, more, more" *proceeds to add a lot more weight on the back* Me: "DAN, NOOOO!!! PLEASE STOP!!"
That's what I thought constantly while watching the stream. But at least he got the Kerbal principle of aerodynamics right: Strap more jet engines to everything. Given enough thrust, you can make a bathtub fly.
I’m pretty sure if he had just put a horizontal stabilizer on his plane it would have worked. It pitches up so much because there is no tail down force, which an upside down wing at the back would’ve provided.
Pretty sure if it's pitching up you don't want to add *more* torque in the same direction. An upside-down wing would indeed provide a force pushing the tail down, helping to pitch the plane further up. He needed a right-side-up wing in the back as the elevators in order to provide some *lift* to the tail, not the opposite.
I'm about to be fresh out of college but I've worked with the airforce for a while and I love it. It's just too interesting. Don't let the math get you down. Go for it. If it's not right for you, you'll figure it out real fast.
In this episode of "Dan, while being a longtime lover of aircraft, has never heard of 'verticle stabilizers'", Mr. Hardcastle continues his inexplicable ttempt to build aircraft without verticle stabilizers. It was pointed out to him during the livestream, but he responded, "Shut up, you tart!" While hilarious, it would have been kinda nice if he had learned the lesson. If one didn't know better, one might get the idea that maybe the game's physics engine is a little janky or perhaps the devs didn't do a good job of implementing aerodynamics. But, lol, no. That's just Dan. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I thought Dan watched Scott Manley. You want your centre of lift to be equal to your centre of mass, so the wings should be in the middle, or if you want them at the front, you'll want some more at the back.
'plane's rear hits the floor'
Hm must be front heavy
nasmith1996 he does this ever time he makes a plane... He's not great at it, lol
In Dan's mind those little tail wings on real planes are just cute decorations. Completely unnecessary.
If anyone boards a plane and hears Dan's voice over the intercom, *blow it up before it has a chance to take off. There will be less casualties.*
XD
Both my parents are aeronautical engineers.
This was fun to watch with them.
EmmytheEwok did they hurt on the inside as much as I did?
jeff schlueter I think so, my dad just bought the game so he can "do it bloody properly" 😂
it hurt me to
jeff schlueter
_plane's nose pointing almost straight up_
"We need to add weight in back, it's a little front-heavy."
Wundabar
Subarashii.
Wonderful.
The average brit has no idea how to make a plane.
cause when your back end is pointing toward the ground, you're obviously front heavy.
Yeah exactly, its totally not that the center of mass is totally fucked and you need to move the wings back
-makes hugely back heavy plane
"I FEEL LIKE IT NEEDS MORE WEIGHT AT THE BACK"
That really made me question how Dan is able to function as a human.
~ plane acually vertical ~
"Needs more weight in the back"
After playing kerbal and tons of other aero-buildy games he still doesnt get the idea of center of mass and lift.
It's even more amazing given just how much he seems to enjoy building planes and the like in games.
Well , he enjoys building bad planes then.
it's hard to wach him build planes
It's hard to watch him build.
I love how the entire time dan was trying to make the plane he thought it was front heavy... when he needed the elevators (the wings on the back of the plane)
There called horizontal stabilizers
The horizontal stabilizer are the control surfaces on an airplane that make the aircraft pitch nose UP or DOWN and causes the airplane to rise or descend also used to roll the aircraft left and right. The horizontal stabilizer are usually on the tail of the aircraft and are mounted on the horizontal tail surfaces. However, some aircraft have this control forward of the main wings.
@@parker02311 two years late but. Yer both technically wrong. The horizontal stabilizers stabilize and the elevators attach onto said stabilizers to pull the plane up or down
Every time dan makes a plane....
"what's a horizontal stabilizer?"
I don't think Dan has ever seen a plane in his life
y'know, he wanted to be a pilot for the longest time.
we got lucky he didn't pursue that
After 4 years of watching you play video games, Dan, if there's one thing I've learned, it's that YOU REALLY NEED A BASIC COURSE IN AERODYNAMICS.
Kellan Bradshaw I agree. Nerd3 Learns... Basic Aerodynamics
He should do a collaboration with Scott Manley in which they go over the basic fundamentals of aerodynamic principles.
RedRocky54 Yes, that would be awesome. I expect Dan to get an F.
Somewhere, Scott Manley is crying
Craig Kingdon lol
*back of plane swings around like a heavy nutsack*
"I think we need more weight in the back"
Rupert484 almost drove me crazy
Dan's incompetecnce of basic plane construction is actually funny to watch
TheBritishUnknown where the hell is the tail section?!
It hurt me
no its not
its funny and panfull
As an aerospace engineer, I can confirm that everything in this video is completely correct.
And that Dan doesn't know how to build planes.
The helicopters are good though.
Jacob Henn just everything in general?
Aerospace engineers are most wise. We know all.
There will never be a single vehicle building game where dan will remember to put horizontal stabilizers on a plane. Ever.
Exactly what I thought
Remember propeller pants from Simple Planes? That’s the closest he’ll ever get.
The plane wasnt nose heavy, it was TAIL heavy, thats why the tail was hanging down like wrecking ball. As well as no elevator... everyone forgets that
The horizontal stabilizer are the control surfaces on an airplane that make the aircraft pitch nose UP or DOWN and causes the airplane to rise or descend also used to roll the aircraft left and right. The horizontal stabilizer are usually on the tail of the aircraft and are mounted on the horizontal tail surfaces. However, some aircraft have this control forward of the main wings.
notice the horizontal stacilizer
Today on Top Gear...Dan makes a helicopter, a Reliant Robin with wings, a rocket, and he drives round the test track in a dune buggy. Starring Daniel Hardcastle.
I'm convinced dan has never seen a plane before
Dan is the only person to look at a clearly back heavy plane and say “little front heavy”
Daniel Hardcastle, once again demonstrating the fact that he has absolutely no clue how planes actually work.
or any vehicle.
Tach Or seesaws.
*Back of plane is dangling down like a dead weight as it sticks straight up* Maybe more weight at the back, because its very nose heavy.... WHAT!?
AzimuthGames bruh it triggers me so bad how stupid can you beeee
Tailplane, Dan. Tailplane.
Dan: I'm gonna build a plane
Me: Are you going to remember the pitch this time?
Dan: ... It needs more power
Has Dan ever looked at the back of an airplane?
I think not...
Plane is very obviously back-heavy. "Maybe some more weight at the back cause it's very front-heavy."
NO DAN NO, that is very much NOT it :p.
Let's just add all of the lift to the front and all of the weight to the back, that's probably how planes work, right?
It is in Dan's mind :p
*Back of the plane tilts down uncontrollably*
"Its too front heavy"
me on the phone: Yeah hi, museum of aviation? You wont fuckin believe what I just saw.
Dan "What do you mean planes don't have all their power on their nose" Hardcastle
These are the best videos of Dan. The ones where he can build anything and builds something that obviously wont work and he spends half the video wonder why. Or when something shouldn't work some how works and he spends the video wondering why. True Gold
Rasmustheforest you say it like that's a bad thing
as an aerospace engineer, this made me cry.
Builds plane that is clearly back heavy with no lift whatsoever. “This is clearly front heavy we need more weight at the back.” Dan plz
i've never shouted "move the bloody wings back" more at a screen
keep it up dan :)
wow I found a william
*gasp* and i found a mathew
I think we need Scott Manley to teach him Center of Gravity and Lift.
It's gotten to the stage where I immediately add recommended games to my wishlist, then I un-pause the video and watch it. Dan's recommendations have never let me down!
*plane is literally a helicopter* dan: still front heavy.
Years and years of playing Kerbal Space Program... and Dan still doesn't understand planes
Center of mass is always in front of the center of lift. If you want it to not crash of course. Also, planes have tailplanes for good reason.
Can't create something that fly's in 2 and a half HOUR's in besiege, takes him 10 and a half MINUETS in this game
There's a theme in every game where Dan tries to build a plane and it's that he will never understand vertical stability
Why i never watch dan build planes: he always forgets the elevators. I dont think dan has ever seen a plane!
it's called a horizontal stabilizer
the elevator is on the back of the horizontal stabilizer
Dan. Key terms for you.
Center of mass.
Center of lift.
I love how he builds a plane but fails to realize it needs tail wings...
*Flies back heavy plane*
Dan: "It's very front-heavy"
Me: "OH GOD NO DAN! PLEASE DON'T DO WHAT I THINK YOU'RE ABOUT TO DO!!"
Dan: "more, more, more"
*proceeds to add a lot more weight on the back*
Me: "DAN, NOOOO!!! PLEASE STOP!!"
A nose heavy plane flies poorly. A tail heavy plane flies once.
Anyone screaming CENTER OF GRAVITY!!!!!!? MOOOOOVE YOUR WING BACK!!!!!!!!?
X-Plane Aviation yes me
X-Plane Aviation EXACTLY
For fucks sake I wish Dan would go watch some flitetest videos, or maybe even build a RC plane or two. This is painful to watch.
I'm having terrible flash backs to Kerbal Space Program. If they don't have a center of mass button...they need one.
The entire time he was building the plane I was like “ YOU NEED A VERTICAL STABILZER AND ELEVATORS!!!! 🤦♂️”
He never makes those :/
it's called a horizontal stabilizer
Who else remembers when classic nerdcubed played crashtastic and realized the similarities to this
If the Wright Brothers had access to CAD...
I see all his time spent in KSP has not helped NerdCubed understand how planes work...
I do believe you needed some wings on the arse end of that plane.
Too nose heavy he says as his tail hangs under his
propellors like a helicopter
"How the fuck is this thing still flying?" - Thats not flying, Dan.
Dan not realizing his center of lift is to fckn forward is the most entertaining thing I’ve ever watched
It made me cry
I clicked ahead in the video and saw him upside down in some water saying "well that didn't quite work"
Okay but the vertical all-terrain climber is bloody impressive
In true Nerd3 fashion, he forgot his elevator. Brilliant 😂
37 minutes of me yelling at Dan to add an elevator.
it's called a horizontal stabilizer
Moooove your wings baaaaack
he has played Kerbal space program enough, he should know by now!
Give it some damn elevators, at least!
He needs to put 2 sets of wings, front and back.
Bavarain Banshee there called horizontal stabilizers
This video has taken years off my life. YOU HAVE THE BACK OF THE PLANE TOO HEAVY!!!
Every single time I saw him doing a thing, I was like, oh so you're deleting that, good idea- "Lets put a rocket here!"
“Very front heavy”
litteraly does a backflip right off the bat
Dan your plane was tail heavy, not nose heavy
Dan is currently experiencing a "Jon moment" we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
it's killing me... just move the damned wings back
He broke the sound barrier with his rocket, mach 1 is ~760 mph
Nerdcubed challenge, make a vehicle that can go on land, sea and fly and get all of the rings of fire. It has to be a car, boat and helicopter/ plane
virtually everything he did to improve his plane is the exact opposite of what he was supposed to do. the one good thing was moving the wings back
it pains me when ever he trys to make a plane as it make me wonder if he as even seen one
That's what I thought constantly while watching the stream. But at least he got the Kerbal principle of aerodynamics right: Strap more jet engines to everything. Given enough thrust, you can make a bathtub fly.
true
NaHCO3 applies well to gmod
PUT THE WINGS FURTHER BACK. I scream, yet he does not hear
antonioair1000 or add shorter wings in the back to keep the rear steady
Alex So right! I'm an engineer so this hurts a bit
"It seems a little... front heavy." THERE'S NOTHING ON THE FRONT IT'S THE BACK
Puts a ton of thought and effort into building a plane, struggles mightily.... F's around, accidently builds a fully functional helicopter. WTF?!
In ever "plane" Dan makes he forgets elevators
The phrase “accidental helicopter” should never be said yet in any video that has Dan making vehicles it always comes up
So the sandbox mode is a desert. Somebody on the development team must be really proud for having come up with that...
The entire game is in a desert isnt it
Oh never mind. It's all in the desert...
has dan ever seen a plane?
I’m pretty sure if he had just put a horizontal stabilizer on his plane it would have worked. It pitches up so much because there is no tail down force, which an upside down wing at the back would’ve provided.
Pretty sure if it's pitching up you don't want to add *more* torque in the same direction. An upside-down wing would indeed provide a force pushing the tail down, helping to pitch the plane further up. He needed a right-side-up wing in the back as the elevators in order to provide some *lift* to the tail, not the opposite.
It was rear-heavy, hence it basically hanging in the air with the front as a hinge point.
RIP Dan
last words
"WE NEED MORE SPEED!"
YOU NEED AN ELEVATOR AND CG NEEDS TO BE AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE WING. God, that was painful
it's called a horizontal stabilizer
This is solid old fashioned nerdcubed content, the sort of video I used to laugh so had at I couldn't breath.
20 minutes in and i am yelling to the screen, telling him to put the wings further back😂 let's see if he finds out himself
Or leave them forward, but put smaller control tail wings...
I’ve played too much ksp to watch dan build a plane
ELEVATORS
His center of lift is way too far forward 😂
Exactly. Though I made it 21 minutes in before the yelling started.
This is like watching someone design a 2 legged dog.
Add a damn elevator to your plane! Also, ailerons might help with turning. Control surfaces are magical
David Coakley YES
The biggest problem was the center of lift being in the complete wrong place so none of those would of saved the plane
Horizontal stabilisers would also have helped
Goddamn the wings should be at the center of mass
Exactly lol scrolled down just to see this
mate it ain't the wings he has to much weight at the back
it also might be the fact that he doesn't care
harley davis ...you need to bring the wings toward the center of mass. you typically don’t design a craft based on the initial wing position
but wouldn't him cutting down on the weight at the back also help i mean he tried to move the wings and while it did help it didn't completely fix it
Watching Dan's videos as an aerospace engineer hurts me inside.
silentwalrus60 heh.
silentwalrus60 are you aeronautical? Im planning on astronautics. How do you like working?
Watching Dan's videos on anything physics based hurts anyone inside
I'm about to be fresh out of college but I've worked with the airforce for a while and I love it. It's just too interesting. Don't let the math get you down. Go for it. If it's not right for you, you'll figure it out real fast.
Your plane is so back heavy
"So that didn't quite work. So we'll scrap that and we'll try for something a bit better, a bit more desert-ie" A bus? Would a bus work?
In this episode of "Dan, while being a longtime lover of aircraft, has never heard of 'verticle stabilizers'", Mr. Hardcastle continues his inexplicable ttempt to build aircraft without verticle stabilizers. It was pointed out to him during the livestream, but he responded, "Shut up, you tart!" While hilarious, it would have been kinda nice if he had learned the lesson.
If one didn't know better, one might get the idea that maybe the game's physics engine is a little janky or perhaps the devs didn't do a good job of implementing aerodynamics. But, lol, no. That's just Dan. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
JazzMac36251 well he might didn't for comedic affect i don't think he is an asshat but just stupid like all of us
has he ever seen a plane??
has Dan ever seen a real plane?
Has Dan never seen a plane in real life?
I love how with the plane he repeatedly misdiagnoses it being backheavy as it being either too frontheavy or the engines are too powerful XD
Yeah, I wonder why that massive block of metal in the back, without any wings to support that weight, pulled the back down...^^
This is like Crashtastic, but not abandoned!
was thinking the exact same thing!
I thought Dan watched Scott Manley. You want your centre of lift to be equal to your centre of mass, so the wings should be in the middle, or if you want them at the front, you'll want some more at the back.
You’re a smart sandwich.. must be whole wheat
Did he just call a back-heavy plane front-heavy? omg
yes yes he did.... this is why he makes Scott Manley cry.
Man fucking rings of fires, there bloody everywhere in Australia
Sounds painful. I wouldn't fuck a ring of fire.
Dan never builds planes long enough
Put your wings on the back dammit