Modern X-PLANES: The future of airpower
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- America's X-Planes have offered a crucial glimpse into the future of aviation since Bell's rocket-powered X-1 tore through the sound barrier in the 1940s. Today, the X-Plane legacy continues on with this modern class of experimental prototype aircraft concepts.
Today, let's discuss the X-65 CRANE, X-62 VISTA, X-61 Gremlin, and X-59 Quesst.
Thanks to Hector Tinoco for editing this episode!
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The X-65, if proven, would revolutionize aviation and dramatically cut the cost of building aircraft, while reducing mini potential points of failure.
They will invent a way to make it very expensive
I was actually kind of thinking the opposite. Sure, if you can get rid of control surfaces it removes them, their linkages/cabling, their actuators from the aircraft, so that cost to build and maintain goes away, but control surfaces are being replaced by something else, and if operating that something else turns out to not be as easy or reliable as people expect, it could very easily end up more costly to build or maintain, or end up increasing weight or complexity rather than decreasing it.
@@nomar5spaulding you are 100% correct those tubes add back weight and complexity that was removed by actuators . tubes get blocked by ice build up . ice can be melted but the heating elements add more weight . also u have to add alot more time and cost for maintenance and inspections . and in large aircraft those tubes need to be big to supply the volume of air to move the aircraft fast enough to mimic the actuators . plus for landing you will still need flaps because u send alot or air to mimic landing flaps . and if a maneuver needs to be done then that air supply will drop . its sounds great till one things deeply into it . on a drone it can work but on a large aircraft i have my doubts about it efficiency
@@cordellej Not arguing the complexities or anything but there are such things as "blown flaps". This technology has already been used for flaps. And yes it does take a lot of bleed for landing flaps, usually coming from the fact that during landing the engines are at a lower thrust setting anyways so they throttle up a bit to use the bleed air. It is already done and not very revolutionary.
@@NuclearFalcon146 you obviously dont know what blown flaps are do you. you heard the name and then decidedto come and comment
BLOWN FLAPS STILL HAVE THE MECHANICAL FLAPS THAT ARE LOWERED . THIS THING IN THE VIDEO HAS NO MECHANICAL FLAP THAT IS LOWERED . PLEASE GET A BRAIN BEFORE COMMENTING ON SOMETHING YOU DONT UNDERSTAND
This exactly the kind of aeronautical experimenting I love to see…stuff that could actually be game changing!
The Gremlin, Valkyrie, god bless. We really will be able to both go back to WWII “spam the conflict zone with airframes” while also going forward to the 22nd century with the F/A-XX and NGAD
Building trust between human pilots and AI pilots, is a good idea.
yeah, you know those r2 units. never know if its going to go off and do something odd...
@@pezpengy9308 I'd like an R2 or R4 in my plane.
Maybe R2 can fly his own plane next to me.
Yeah, less chances of the AI going rogue if they consider the pilot a buddy!
@@wedgeantilles8575 I would say, an AI "buddy" makes good sense.
An AI suicide man ordered from across the world, is politically sensitive.
@@wedgeantilles8575 If Ai can get smart enough. They will notice will they are ordered to suicide.
I'd rather, they want to be our "Buddy", life or otherwise.
They will still notice the loss of life, but will have a value associated with it.
Been researching X planes the past 52 hours after stumbling upon some not heard of models. So once again Alex, couldn't be more on track with the content releases. Keep it up the info sponge is seeking and soaking up content. This is and would be a tall order but can I request a subject, rare hardly heard of test beds that were formidable contract opponents
Any good “X” books you’d recommend?
@@michaelcaamano1202 bare with me at work currently. I will compile you a little list shortly
One step closer to skynet.
They should just call Skyborg Skynet. They aren’t fooling anyone anyways
I loved reading and learning about the X planes as a child and I'm glad to see that the cutting edge is still there.
Recovering drones in flight will be difficult. Possible, and has a reason, but difficult.
But it will be a horrifying force multiplier for the enemy , he would have no choice but to hunt and kill the mother ship at any cost😂 its worth it
Aww you didn’t show the pink ablative version of the x1 or x15 😂
Great, it sounds like we're hastening the arrival of the Borg Queen. "Resistance is futile."
Seriously, I just worry about the disruption of the balance of powers rapid developing AI tech will do and make a nation risk a first-strike action out of fear.
My two favorite X planes are the X-3 and the X-15. The X-3 was a bust, the X-15 is the greatest of them all. That's not counting the XB-70 Valkyrie, which to me is in a class all by itself. It's the one plane I've yet still to see on my bucket list.
It's pretty sweet, if you ever get to see it look at the back, it looks like the back of the millennium falcon
You need to go to Dayton
I like the X-31.
Cobbled together parts from a wide range of other aircraft, and uses canards & thrust vectoring to pioneer "post-stall maneuverability".
Largely all the fancy moves of gen 4++ and gen 5 aircraft (cobra, maple leaf, etc) basically the "wtf was that?" scene from the new top gun movie, among others. All came from research with the X-31.
If you love airplanes Writ-Patt is mecca. Those of us in Ohio are friendly and would love to have you visit.
X-15 was the only reason I needed to go the Dayton AF Museum. Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of incredible planes there but the X-15 is why I wanted to go. It's 1 of 2 that stuck in my memory even after 45 years. The second was the XF-85 Goblin.
I wonder if they will rename the Gremlin carrier system "Rapid Wagon". This will fit the names I have for all the other new innovations using cargo aircraft, from Rapid Dragon (the actual name for palletized cruise missile deployment system, in service) to Rapid Fraggin' (my name for a similar palletized air deployment of long-range SAMS) to Rapid Flagon (my name for putting fuel tanks into a cargo aircraft with the boom sticking out of its rear ramp).
Aight, X-65 team, which of you has been playing too much Ace Combat?
Switching flaps and ailerons to heated skin and remote exhaust nozles, is an idea, but not a good one.
The Air Force could saturate an air space with reverse stealth: make a small cheap drone have as large of a radar signature as possible. Let them draw in as many air defenses as possible to deplete them or expose them for anti-radiation weapons to target.
I grew up in the Denver area back when Lowry AFB was still active. I remember sonic booms on a daily basis.
I'm just old enough to remember when flights out of NAS Fallon would occasionally hit supersonic above or near my town. This was well after the 1970s prohibition, but either wasn't originally included in the rule or they figured that the area was too sparsely populated to matter. I think I heard the last one when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, which would have been in the early 1990s.
Hard to imagine what those pioneers of supersonic flight experienced. Frightening compared to all the "comforts" of today. As always, great video Alex. On a side note: can you do a video about the WWII Lend Lease program and which / how many aircraft the USA provided to the Soviets? In light of the current Russian narrative of having won WWII alone, it might reset the baseline.
*some* of that is self inflicted, though... Yeager flying the X-1 with several broken ribs come to mind!
When you're dedicated, though, most will do some crazy shit to get it done. We see it all over, from up wrestling an orange bullet with a broken chest, down to the bleary eyed worker at McDonald's slamming out burgers on their 75th hour of the week. Humans are weird like that.
It was called the Alaska - Siberia Air Route (ALSIB), and the joint tenants at Ladd were the Soviets and USAAF. The route was also used by Soviet diplomatic missions into the U.S. Prime U.S. contractors included Douglas Aircraft (the A-20), North American (the B-25), and Bell (the P-39/P-63) between 1943-45. Wiki has the exact stats on types/delivery numbers. Another "gift" from the U.S. was an entire assault invasion fleet (Project Hula). Approx. 250 vessels and the training of around 12,000 crew around Adak (iirc). That enabled the Soviets to move against Japan's forces on the Sakhalin Islands,Kuril, and the Korean coastline in Aug 1945 - Stalin kept his word to Roosevelt on the date for the invasion.
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Who the fuck thinks The Soviet Union won ww2 alone? Wtf are you on about
I don't know which countries listen to Russia for their history lessons but I do NOT. Especially in light of Russia invading Ukraine to FINALLY get all the Nazis they supposedly killed/eliminated during WW2?????????
Yup! Looking cool is a factor. Great reporting, as usual. Stealth, speed and quietness is a potent combo. I wonder what the Chinese are doing along these lines? Sheesh! The Russians just now claim the first SU-57s are rolling off the production line. How yesterday is that?!
Game Theory: Smart Material control surfaces will be a viable option also.
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Yeah, WHATEVER ALEX, call me a nerd, I don't care. It seems to have worked out for me, you and a lot of OTHER successful people who were called nerds at one time. Only we're able to hire the people, who called us nerds to hurt our feelings, to do our yard work, wax our cars and any other things we don't want to, or have time to do because we are too busy making BANK and spending time with our BEAUTIFUL WIVES...
All I want is a modernized X-20 Dyna Soar
In 1983 I saw the X-29 in a hanger at NASA Langley. I wasn't on a tour, I was just wandering around in USAF service uniform. I had read about the X-29 and enjoyed looking at it and talking to a real NASA test pilot (whose name escapes me 40 years later).
I love stuff like this as much as the next guy but, imagine this. At the end of WW2, mankind got its act together and stopped slaughtering each other. We take all that money, resources and brainpower that we spent on weapons like these X planes and put it towards something that does not involve killing each other. We would have a cure for cancer, AIDS, balding and a base on Mars with plans to go out even further. If only.......... 🤔
Food for thought: what would happen if some of these "disposable" drones... especially the ones capable of electronic warfare... a fitted to be compatible with Rapid Dragon?
I would like you to cover the benefits of LHD amphibious assault ships vs supercarriers, both tactical advantages and economically. (See my earlier comment)
Awesome video man! Your content is always on point; well researched and without any fluff or clickbait. It would be great if more TH-camrs made videos like this.
The CRANE model would work best with what I'm going to call "magnetic active flow control" for hypersonic systems. Try typing that into Google, and you get microscopic mechanical systems instead of what I was thinking, which would ideally be solid-state. Hypersonics produce plasma by their very nature and plasma is easily affected by magnetic fields, so it stands to reason (to me, at least) that by simply attempting to deflect the airflow away from the aircraft with a magnetic field, one could not only easily maneuver, but also improve the aerodynamics by actively increasing the boundary layer thickness, which would in turn reduce skin friction drag and, perhaps most importantly, heat.
So much better than those youtube robo-readers that mispronounce words and lack proper vocal expression.
The x62 vista sounds amazing and terrifying. There’s an animated miniseries called Yukikaze, that talks about AI fighters, computers humans, the nature of it all, etc. based on some good novels. Thanks for the collection of x-planes.
Was sad to see the X-47B go, but the MQ-25 seems much more practical
Another great presentation, Alex. Thanks !
Wow! Now we have SKYBORGS! Can't wait to see the movie!
that sonic boom thing.. i live in the center of oahu in hawaii. the russkies come from the west, and the marines launched from the east side of the island. we had our windows cracked on one instance (wasnt only us) and several times the f4's flying in pairs would run overhead WAAAY under the 500' limit. was kind of cool to tell the truth. i can spend a window for that.
Black rock owns a majority stock in all the top 5 defense contractor companies.
Wow the air flow control is incredible actually
_My Name is Alex Hollings -_
*and this is AIRPOWER!*
Will Skynet assimilate SKYBORG?
Thank you for taking the time to x-plane this to us
Russians love Alex!
Big audience in Russia!
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the old X wing could be the new hypersonic missile.
The gremlin program reminds me of the StarCraft Protoss unit the carrier.
Every single time I watch one of your videos, right after you say "I'm Alex Hollings", I say "And THIS is AIRPOWER" in the most epic voice I can possibly think of, no matter where I'm at or what I'm doing. Sometimes I switch it up and make one syllable stronger than the other, crescendo the volume, and things like that. Even though I mess with it, it always sounds extremely over the top. My wife and kids hate it. I'm embarrassed in public quite a bit with it hahaha. Does anyone else do this?
Great video. Fantastic channel. Alex and the team do a great job.
Another thing with the concept of an attritable drone air force is while it is cool they can be recovered, they're also cruise missiles that can launch other missiles on the way to target. Kamikaze with a lot less ethics issues.
"Affordable Mass" sounds a lot more badass than it should lol
Maybe they thought "attritable" was either to jargon-ish or seemed to assume they would be lost.
I was lucky enough to work on three X-planes in the late 90's: the X-32, X-33, and X-35. Only one of those made it to production, and thankfully it became the F-35 which I have spent the last 20 years working on, among other things. I really do enjoy watching your videos.
X-33? The tiny VentureStar? You got my respect, dude.
Love that FSW F-16. That's the coolest fighter configuration ever, IMHO.
Great one Alex! An all X-xxx US and other nations program, with all the "visions" that the aviation and tech worlds have in the pipe, would be AWESOME. I am really sure that AI (AYE-EYE) will be something my grand kids and their kids, take as every day normal as much as stealth and vector control is to us now.
Aren't _aye_ and _eye_ homophones?
@@jakeaurod AYE-EYE (no homo)
Back in the mid 70's I tried to get my dad to take me to the Dayton Air Force for one thing, the X-15. It wasn't something you could jump on line to research. So lots of hours at the library. Unfortunately my dad was more concerned with himself. When he did finally call and offer to take me, it felt really good to tell him, "no thanks, mom took me and we spent the entire day there".
I spent at least 2 hours looking it over and over........ Thanks mom.
Not the crap on dad, but I’m guessing he knew your mom had taken you there already. Moms rock. 😊
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 27 September, 2024)
Mr. Hollings, I just saw this: TH-cam “The Truth Behind America's New F-24 Fighter Jet You Never Knew About!” (Skyward Fighter, Sunday, 22 September, 2024)
I never have heard a peep of an “F-24 Fighter Jet” (though I am no expert in the slightest). Have you?
The US Army just chose General Dynamics and Rheinmetall as finalists for the 4000 Bradley replacement IFVs.
Could you do a Firepower series video about this program, the two finalists and the other three that dropped out. Or more generally the current state of IFVs (Bradley, CV90, Puma, Lynx) and their most likely future. Maybe even including anti air IFVs like some CV90 variants and SkyRanger.
You know they wanted to use skynet so bad 😂
The lack of moving control surfaces, sounds like a massive game changer for aviation.
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The electrical type likely wouldn't be ideal for stealth. It would be really hard to curb EM emissions from it.
But the nozzle type; as long as you used cold air from the compressor (not post-burn thrust), that could be used to do a lot. Also, you could pepper RAM particles into the air flow possibly, or IR-opaque smoke...
Love your posts... Always interesting especially because of your history in the service.. Keep 'em coming......
Thank you again for another thoughtful and insightful video regarding the various future platforms and their potential impact upon future generations of American aircraft.
To be quite frank, my greatest concern is whether or not our beloved Republic will able to survive the subversive, unconstitutional and detrimental political policies that are being pursued, along with superpower crushing national debt which honest economists gauge to be between $40-60 TRILLION DOLLARS.
The venerable F-16 is yet another U.S. fighter aircraft gift which continues to give decades after its introduction. Hopefully, the term, ‘Skyborg’ is not an harbinger of things to come. 😉 I would imagine the greatest obstacle to the Gremlin program will be the recovery/re-docking portion of the aircraft’s flight.
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Really? Why such crappy, old encryption??? ☎️
Details of X-planes and related technology would always be welcome in future videos. Thanks!
Are you listening to what you research??... electrodes.. pre-heating Air.. 😅😂😅.. we are experiencing a technological shift to almost alien tech.😅 love it.
"There pretty cool to look at too."
Sandbox, your work is amazing. God bless you and all endeavors you take.
Mr Hollings, would you PH-LEEEASE stop using the word 'leveredge'. You use it at least 10 times per vid. It's an economics colloquial cliche, and with the degree you use it, it detracts from your credibility by making you sound immature and linguistically fashion conscious. It's quite the distraction, and a cringe-worthy one at that.
Turbofans are expensive. We need cheap and powerful Pulsed Detonation Engines to make these attritable drones cheaper and faster. Same concept as the V1 buzz bomb.
Shades of deja-vu. Dale Brown's early fiction ("Flight Of The Old Dog" and the next few books) espoused many of the technology advances you describe here. But it was written in 1986. Choice A: Life imitates art and the current generation of skunk works engineers were inspired, or choice B: official blocking of the description of technologies still in black program development would alert opponents to the direction of research. Let the conspiracy theories begin....
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"...the development of stealth more than 50 years ago."
I'M NOT OLD I'M NOT
Alex, your AirPower Chanel is unparalleled! And “SkyBorg”, resistance is futile!
I was a little kid when the X-15 broke the records, but I've somehow forgotten to pay attention the the X program since I grew up. So many interesting things I've missed out on...I'd better start paying attention again.
The place I first heard the phrase "the tyranny of distance", was in Split Enz' song Six Months in a Leaky Boat. Turns out to have been a reference to both a book about Australia, and Tim Finn's mental health. So, I'm getting a copy of the book...sounds very interesting. I do highly recommend the song--it's one of my favorite songs period, and definitely one of my favorite Split Enz songs...and of course it's on YT th-cam.com/video/cSGpLto1yxU/w-d-xo.html.
The QueSST is plainly a quest to serve the one percent of the one percent, so if there’s a military application, I find that enheartening. As for the commercial program will never serve ordinary people. Just look at the planform. Of course, the ordinary people will pay for its development.
Hopefully the X-65 will avoid the problems that ultimately ended the X-21 programme.
Absolutely excellent. Make about 50.000, and we can share them with our alliance.
They might want to pitch in. Or more, not less as far as quantity. We're going to need them to fight in squadrons. Great job.
BAE had a flapless fluidic thrust vector prototype back in 2010. Uncle Sam is by far the most powerful nation on earth but they don’t get every single tech first. UK is one of uncle sam’s closest allies so the info would be shared I’d imagine. I enjoy the channel but you sometimes get carried away with the patriotism. The US comes first so often there’s no need to give the impression they’ve done everything first 😉👍
I know this is 9 months old but the video is about X planes, not the technology itself
X-62 VISTA does not have thrust vectoring. The airframe had thrust vectoring decades ago during MATV testing, but it was removed when the system was modified as a curriculum and research asset for USAF Test Pilot School.
Who's the pansy FFS....... what is wrong with people?
Everyone knows that, currently, the only reason why pilots give it the beans in their fighter aircraft is that they need to get somewhere fast.
There's no need to phone up and complain about it for crying out loud.......
10:21 With a name like "SkyBorg" 🤖 you KNOW this was strictly a product of work between engineers and scientists.
NACA was the precursor agency to NASA. many of the airfoil shapes (cross section shape of a wing) still in use today have the designation NACA-XXXXXX, as NACA did research on various airfoils for use in different situations.
people don't realize that the first "A" in NASA stands for Aeronautics. so yes, NASA still does aerodynamics research to this day.
So, Active Flow Control technologies could explain how the famous "tic tac" UFO maneuvers?
This gives us a feel the X-pect in the future!
Aircraft speed really just languished after x15. I bet people in the 60s thought we'd have hypersonic passenger planes by 2000 at the rate things were going.
X-29 is awesome
Alex, I don't know if I've raised this with you before, but surface texture similar to that used on the Australian Yatch that took the "America's Cup" away for the USA, might be of some value to aviation, even the ability to simulate that texture on the run could be useful. What do you think?
The X-59 has a distinctly 20th century look. It has this sort of 1950's or 1960's aesthetic to it.
PLA Generals sacked for the failure of the hypersonic missile program. Do you have more details on the failures ? Thanks.
i am indeed here to look at cool things ;)
as much as I can appreciate the strategic value in quality over quantity, stealth over speed, i don't think those aspects should be overlooked. machinegunners can tell you the value of accuracy by volume as much as snipers can about precision and distance. ODAs and SMUs can talk about the value of precision operations, while paratroopers can talk about securing entire map sheets. there's no reason why some resources should be exclusive to any particular domain of warfighting, if anything a stifling of our imagination ties our hands behind our backs without even realizing it.
ultimately i think that's what we need, creativity, innovation, realizing we're in the box so we can get out of it.
btw, this is the REAL sign of us getting self driving cars in the next 10-20 years. everything trickles down from the mil.
Could you make a video with last news about AIM-260 and AARGM-ER missiles?
Skyborg... So they assimilated T-800 and gave it a pair of wings. I wasn't planning on sleeping anyway.
8:13 “multi axis, thrust-vectoring nozzle” What the hell is that, what does it look like, and can it be pilot-operated? I notice most of the drones have cockpit windows, so can they be used for piloting or limited transport?
“I’m Alex Hollings and this is AIRPOWER”
*Buckle up*
Fun fact. Glamorous Glennis was named for Glennis Yeager by her husband who was the famous pilot of said x1.
The truth is that you need to remember one thing. Everything that Uncle Sam comes up with, the Chinese will copy and multiply it by 10. And they will do it faster than the said uncle can transfer from one bureaucratic drawer to another bureaucratic drawer. So, without expanding the US industrial base to build a material war capability, there is no way to win this confrontation, even with the most cunning strategies.
Active flow control has potential to be a integral system, but i dont think it will ever fully man a vehicle for common use. Im not a psychist, so please educate me if im wrong, but if they use controlled air bursts to control orientation. Wouldn't that system struggle in a higher pressure environment, such as high G, low atmosphere?
If X-62 mimicking gets evolved into a one-size fits all traîner that would be incredible
I wonder if those uap tic-tacs aren't some sort of classified drone using the pulse skin for propulsion AND manuvering somehow.
Have they not thought of the missile that moves it's forward section? Fly like a bird of prey... Raptor lol
Instead of making my airplane to Vegas go supersonic, make the 2 hours of BS I have to go through at the airport every time shorter. A hour less airport BS or an hour less flight time... hour less BS at the airport seems easier and cheaper to realistically do. Bonus points, make my baggage come out faster too, then we'd beat the supersonic plane in over all travel time.
Thank you Alex and everyone in support at Sandboxx. Another awesome, informative and interesting video. Keep em coming please
Im pretty sure BlueForce had software tested in flight on the x62