I've often thought a very cheap modern biplane built in the tens of thousands would be extremely useful. We could consider them like ultralights and let enlisted fly them. Make them just big enough to carry one machine gun and one bomb. We could also design in the capability to be readily converted to a pilotless drone. Then any time we planned an attack on a near peer enemy we'd have tens of thousands of the dirt cheap things. All made cheaply enough that whatever they shoot one down with is more valuable than the drone we lost. We could completely over saturate enemy air defenses with thousands of the things. All programmed to bomb a useful target. While their enemy air defenses are all distracted with the cheap biplane drones our more valuable traditional aircraft could bomb the shit out of anything necessary. When not doing that type of thing the dirt cheap biplanes could be piloted by enlisted. Flying close air support for ground troops. We'd have so many they could cover an entire battlefield. Flying the things in close air support would be no more dangerous than trying to survive on the ground in a modern near peer war. With real pilots they couldn't be jammed or anything like that. And at the worst most dangerous times they could be switched to drone operation.
According to a quick google search, a single F-22 costs about 350 million. Assuming the base cost for this thing is about $800, you could make (whips out calculator) 437,500 of these for the cost of one F-22. Our ultralights will blot out the sun.
have you seen the price of lumber? please that alone is 80 dollars no no you need to go to a second hand shop and find a wetsuit or some really baggy clothes to make into a drag chute
Cessnas? Lmao that’s nothing. The US Air Froce has a CAS plane that is literally a weaponized cropduster. And the scariest thing…its actually scarily effective.
Your design and flying is so very worthy of Crimson Skies I await the day you’re able to drop an entire Air Force of these ultralights from your airborne aircraft carrier
Yeah, but im talking in a more on the move mod, like taking a red bull zivko thing and strapping some cannons n' bombs to it, all with 1990+ tech on it (Sorry for the Broken english)
The jet just goes supersonic, and the ultralight gets shredded, or at least the pilot is in for an unpleasant experience. A F-15 makes one hell of a shockwave
For additional realism purposes: the air filter hose should link up to the intake part of the turbine, not directly the engine like a NA setup. Still, it's absolutely brilliant, I need to put my hands on this programme lol The psychological factor of this plane is so great, it would feel so ominous to enter enemy territory with a swarm of a hundred heavily weaponised glorified ultralights
we kinda already have, just get a trike ultralight and slap some aim-9's or whatever weapon you choose, do a little bit of engineering and boom you got the plane in the video
The Vespa of Mike Sparks nightmares. Carrying supplies through the Ho Chi Minh trail, Carrying Troops to the front lines of battle, anti tank support (yes, someone made a military applicable anti tank Vespa), and now Air support!? Truly is the most vehicular piece of kit of all time!
To be fair, it could probably fool a heat seeking missile considering that its going to be much cooler than a jet and also much smaller, those flares would work wonders. I just have my doubts about avoiding radar guided weapons because stealth is expensive and this thing literally has the front half of a scooter on it...
build the most advance bi-plane fighter. it would be cool if you engined it with a hyper piston engine, and polymorphic wings like the Nikitin-Shevchenko IS-2
@sn4ketooth220 Why not both, and create something more earpicing than the thunderscreech, hehehehahahah, give a bit of love tap to messairs ears : ) 2nd, i just want to see him build a monstrous piston engine, like the gud old days when people want to go fast and they still have to somewhat figure out how to put it into a small airframe body, like some mad man scientist.
@@that_guy8400the problem is you have a shitty airframe design (biplanes) it produce drag and make supersonic speed impossible (unless you bs your way out using magic but this is prop punk not magic punk) while also being as fast as a train so using jet on a BIPLANE is not really that efficient monoplane design solve this problem and dramatically reduce drag
Po-2s were used even as late as the Vietnam war. It’s the only biplane with a confirmed jet kill. It flew too low and too slow for jets to properly engage it in a dogfight, leading many jet pilots to slow below their stall speed in order to get a clear shot on it
Now you have to recreate an F-22 for it to shoot down. I'd actually love to see a pvp match with a team of like 100 of these vs and F-22 to compare the cost-effectiveness.
I'd like to see your take on an airplane designed solely to fight wildfires. Personally, I imagine a large, high-power four-engine turboprop with thick, high-lift wings for an incredibly low stall speed, both for better aiming accuracy and for a short takeoff/landing length so it can land in small lakes for refilling with water.
It actually would have been pretty useful as a cannon-fodder aircraft Like have two air force branches, one with normal, fairly expensive planes, piloted by professionals, and another that consists of those ultralight mass-spammed planes, piloted by some conscripted farmer boys and girls who have minimal training and are extremely expendable Also, this design has same vibes as "Lightning" Interceptor-Corvette from Highfleet - cheep, fast, maneuverable, most of pilots assigned to it either die in service or return shellshocked into oblivion, smallest maneuver makes you almost pass out, can be equipped with missiles, and if in good hands - it can do wonders!
Man, that thing looks so much like the one-man fighter thing from Tron Legacy, but if it were designed in the 50's, and with the pilot sitting rather than lying on their stomach. I wonder if later in Flyout's development, there'll be posable pilots
when you have a badass budget, you get the A-10 when you have less of a badass budget, you get the SU-25 when you have enough to buy a BMW (ordenance excluded), you get ONE Sky Warden when you have enough to buy a BMW but you need to equip a whole squadron and need to include ordenance, you get this we can call this....the "Sky Warden at home", or the "Sky MallCop"
you should make a variant with the wings able to fold ( the bottom smaller wing slightly reduced in size so it can fold straight up and the bigger top wing having 2 hinges where half the wing folds up and the other hinge located on the fuselage folding down and its all secured with locks) and claim it as the "naval" version or even better yet its now a literal tryke/scooter, a battle scooter u can drive into battle or take to the air and dog fight with.
Use stingers instead of sidewinders and that would be a scary proposition. Setup in rocket pods you could mount 32 for the same weight penalty as the 4 Sidewinders. And spam 4 for the same cost. (Wikipedia numbers). You’d lose some range (8km ground launched so call it 12km vs 35km) but since cheap but effective is the brief. 🤷♂️ How to kill a Raptor. Setup flight of 4 forming a 12km per side box. Considering the aircraft you could probably start them on the ground in camouflaged dirt runways. Take off as Raptor is entering the ambush and while he is trying to workout WTF 4 ultralights are doing charging the most alpha of jets, go full Robetech on his arse and launch eight stingers each. Go hide now. Raptors only choice is pull vertical and hope he can decoy/out climb 32 missiles. But more likely he will try to go cold a turn into 1 of the barrages fired from behind him.
Slap a Garmin car GPS on this, a walky-talky from RadioShack, and paint a big red target circle on the center of the glass and you got yourself a nice multirole aircraft for generations to come.
If the TIE fighter, in the original Star Wars trilogy, was a stand-in for the A6M Zero, this is what the TIE fighter in the Star Wars Expanded Universe is standing in for.
I believe this to be the standard aircraft of postwar Elbonia! I also think they are in need of other roles, perhaps a cheapskate long(ish) range bomber?
I appreciate that the turbocharger just isn't connected to the intake system. Also, I think the people that sold you that "5 litre engine" scammed you, it looks smaller than even 2 litre inline-4s I've seen in cars.
You know.....China recently added some Gyrocopters with a few guided missiles on it. So the market for this thing is very much real with modern militaries.
Sadly, guns on attacking aircraft paired to its radar solve this issue. That is, _if_ this kind of aircraft is required to be shot down by fighter. One can shoot down 50-100 of those easily and up to 300 with good trigger discipline.
12:39 That pilot is getting grilled by his CO for wasting those unfired rockets when he returns to base, do you have any idea how expensive this gear is, son?
For those wondering what game this is, it is called “Flyout” but it is not available yet to the general public. It will be available on Steam give or take a year or 2.
Definitely not an ultralight in real life, but i could totally see this being an incredibly popular bush and ranch craft. Imagine adding flaps and herding cattle at low speed.
If an American military contractor like Lockheed Martin or Northrup built it, you would have to multiply the cost by at least 5-20x and multiply the time it takes to complete the project by about 1.75-3 times.
i get this a joke but using Lockheed as the example is probably not a good idea when they are in-fact the only company thats given money back to the government at the end of a project because they completed it on time and under budget. (that was the U2 spy plane) like yes most american aircraft companies dont have a great track record but lockheed actually have the best reputation for delivering on time.
@@_cyantist I couldn't think of any other fitting companies at the moment. Surprised to learn that there has been even a single government project that didn't go over budget or take too long. I'm looking at you, SLS. Boeing's starliner is a mess as well.
would be funny if in the lore of this thing, it was commissioned by the government from like a vespa company because that was the only manufacturer capable of making vehicles in its country, resulting in half the parts just being repurposed from vespas
Ok, hear me out, if you go into battle against a f22 with ten of those little things, the f22 will not be capable of taking on all of the aircrafts at once, and, as the cheap airplane is capable of turning like a fucking mosquito, that means that if you have a group of around 10 cheap ariplanes per f22, there is a very good chance of you wining, and because the airplane is cheaper than a lada, you can make unbelievable amounts of it. The only thing you would have to consider is being shot from BVR, but you can counter this issue by taking off just at the right time, as this airplane is very light and capable of taking off in pretty much any highway or even plane terrain.
The absolute undisputed KING of 1 circles, even in a HOBS fox 2 fight with its low IR signature. All you need are some flares for if they somehow manage a lock
Imagine an aircraft equipped with a Mk.19 grenade launcher made for 2-10 kilometers altitude, and to take out pickup convoys it would especially excel in an anti-technical role, since most pickup-mounted weaponry can't hit an ultralight at 15,000 feet
The fact that you even included flares 😆 As if a missile wold even be able to lock that ultralight! Just wrap the engine in some aluminum foil, no thermal signature!
Make thousands of these, make them remote controlled as a modernization effort, network them so you can fly entire formations of them with a single pilot, give them 2 anti-air missiles each, and have them link with ground-based radar systems for locking on. Suddenly you have a surprisingly strong defensive air force. Wouldn't do much attacking, but if you can send up 50 or so at once in response to airspace incursion from someone fielding 4th gen or 4.5 gen aircraft, you'd be able to do pretty well. Alternatively, kit them out for close air support with a rocket pod and you'd have a nice little swarm of tank destroyers. The main problem would be loiter time and lack of space for their own radar systems or more armaments.
The main issue I see with this is getting the proper air to fuel ratio, as you get higher air gets thinner, so this thing would get much slower as you got higher Edit: just noticed the turbocharger, you’re all good
technically the heat signature of that aircraft is so low it be a even match for the f22 because the f22 cant lock onto it due to its heat signature being low
This plane looks like something Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys could have built out of shopping cart parts, I love it and want to see whole squadrons of them dogfighting like the old WWI biplanes! I can't wait until I can put Flyout on my Steam wishlist.
"the warranty of this aircraft is void as soon as it is exposed to air"
truly one of the warranties of all time.
im glad someome else also caught that
KSP vibes
*Uses it as a submarine
*Mad Max vibes.
The FAA would have a field day with this. 😂
Going 360 mph in an ultralight sounds horrifying.
I think the 13+G sustained turns would be a bigger issue
That is until you play 'Freebird'.
@@Mrshotshellwhat about the dual 15 mm’s firing a few fret from your face
@@freedomfighter2054yeah there isnt any hearing protection built for that lol
@@freedomfighter2054 Just make sure you have earplugs in
Imagine flying into enemy territory expecting to get into a dogfight with just a regular plane. And instead you’re met with a horde of these things.
not the fastest planes but theyr manouverable as shit and theres a swarm of them. yea winning chances are low 😆
PO-2 is the only biplane with a confirmed f4 phantom kill
Cannon fodder at best.
@@Keyboard_Thoughtsso?
@@Keyboard_Thoughtsi think you mistook the f4 for the f86
Taking notes, might have to build one to fight against the mosquito Air Force
Load it with potato cannons firing bug spray cans
might have to invest for seeing this irl
@@osc21039 How about BUGSPRAY ROCKETS?
What is the game?
As far as I know the model with mosquito nets installed costs $100 more.
Can't believe you literally made a plane with the specs of a Turbo powered Honda Civic.
What gen though?
@@dragonherald Hmm, I think any generation from Gen 1 to Gen 8 to be honest with a little bit of tinkering in the engine.
But does it have VTEC?
@@epikmanthe3rd Good question
Some people build planes powered by a VW Bug engine chopped in half, just two cylinders. It's awesome.
The fact this 'multirole strike ultralight' actually works is ridiculous. I love it.
I've often thought a very cheap modern biplane built in the tens of thousands would be extremely useful.
We could consider them like ultralights and let enlisted fly them.
Make them just big enough to carry one machine gun and one bomb.
We could also design in the capability to be readily converted to a pilotless drone.
Then any time we planned an attack on a near peer enemy we'd have tens of thousands of the dirt cheap things. All made cheaply enough that whatever they shoot one down with is more valuable than the drone we lost.
We could completely over saturate enemy air defenses with thousands of the things. All programmed to bomb a useful target.
While their enemy air defenses are all distracted with the cheap biplane drones our more valuable traditional aircraft could bomb the shit out of anything necessary.
When not doing that type of thing the dirt cheap biplanes could be piloted by enlisted. Flying close air support for ground troops. We'd have so many they could cover an entire battlefield.
Flying the things in close air support would be no more dangerous than trying to survive on the ground in a modern near peer war. With real pilots they couldn't be jammed or anything like that. And at the worst most dangerous times they could be switched to drone operation.
@@edwardscott3262the ultralights would just get shot down with cannon AA
@Maritimesgestein then they run out of ammo plus the utra light would be stupid durable
Just use drones lol
I want one.
It can also be used in the ground attack role by having the pilot chuck out handgrenades from the side while doing passes.
Ah yes, the good ol WW1 pilot tactic
Could actually be feasible for a conventional military if it can be packed into the back of a Jeep for a quick scout aircraft.
drones be like "am i a joke to you?"
@@Kiwoeoe i mean it's 1947
@@mikailvito7200 OH YEAH you are totally right, forgot about the time period haha xd
You might be looking for: gyrocopter
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what's funny is that since it moves faster than 100 mph it's actually moved out of the ultralight class.
According to a quick google search, a single F-22 costs about 350 million. Assuming the base cost for this thing is about $800, you could make (whips out calculator) 437,500 of these for the cost of one F-22. Our ultralights will blot out the sun.
437500 conscripts needed
Don’t forget to factor ammunition and fuel costs
Where are you going to get enough pilots from
@@memyself229just force them. what can they do, say no?
Or use ai
@@the40scall90just use the plane as the weapon
Build the cheapest heavy bomber
make it out of wood, tape and a bit of metal
How about a strategic one at that.
Just build a MXY-7 Ohka. Has the same role and super-cheap!
@@ThatCyberpunkGuy yaaaay
@@ThatCyberpunkGuyto make it even cheaper replace the metal with plastic painted with fake chrome so it seems like metal
Definitely needs the $20 "2 big flat wooden planks and some duct tape from Home depot" airbrake upgrade package
Maybe if they wanna be fancy they can order some drag chutes from the J.C. Whitney catalog. 😂
have you seen the price of lumber? please that alone is 80 dollars no no you need to go to a second hand shop and find a wetsuit or some really baggy clothes to make into a drag chute
Ah yes, the frontline fighter of the Elbonian Air Force
I was just about to say that this would be perfect for Elbonia
VOTE THE PIG FOR ELBONIA FOR ULTRA-GAY ULTRA-LIGHT AND ULTRA-MANEUVERABLE SUPER-FIGHTER FLR ONLY 2 POUNDS!
Well, if Cessna's being used in Air Force, then... why not go even cheaper?
And you always can shoot your trusty AK-47 out of this plane, AC-130 style
Ac 130 style😂
AC130 loadout- M79, Frag-12 shotgun, and an AK47.
Cessnas? Lmao that’s nothing.
The US Air Froce has a CAS plane that is literally a weaponized cropduster. And the scariest thing…its actually scarily effective.
@@Lazarusgaweseb2438 look, it can turn on a dime, quite literally. Now go rain hell on some tribe you are fighting against
@@blademaster2390 Whats it called?
I love how it looks like a glider or a ww1 aircraft
Reject Raptor. Return to Camel.
It looks like a ultralight.
"Warranties are void if aircraft is exposed to air." Truly sums up this plane perfectly.
Your design and flying is so very worthy of Crimson Skies
I await the day you’re able to drop an entire Air Force of these ultralights from your airborne aircraft carrier
I have this idea, how about a Racing prop plane, that has been adapted to be a modern multirole plane in a civil war , maybe?
A ground attacker would make more sense. Cool idea!
That's nearly what the Spitfire is.
@@enderjed2523 yeah but focusing in a todays concept of war and technology
1930s say hello... BF109, spitfire, p40 all were racing planes before being adopted as miilitary aircraft
Yeah, but im talking in a more on the move mod, like taking a red bull zivko thing and strapping some cannons n' bombs to it, all with 1990+ tech on it
(Sorry for the Broken english)
‘Warranty void if aircraft is exposed to air’ 💀
Peak KSP level warranty void reason
@@uberschnilthegreat22 in KSP it’s not just air, it’s anything the craft is made out of as well.
@@uberschnilthegreat22 I think that line comes from the barometer's part description
I would watch this thing dogfight a modern fighter jet and see what happens.
The jet would just aim 9 it, if it can't lock on then it will just fire a burst and fly out of engagement range
@@cideltacommand7169i was going to answer this op question but you seems to answer it way before me
The jet just goes supersonic, and the ultralight gets shredded, or at least the pilot is in for an unpleasant experience. A F-15 makes one hell of a shockwave
It starts doing donuts and makes the radar missle spin out
Oh please a fighter jet wouldn’t even stand a chance against this engineering marvel
For additional realism purposes: the air filter hose should link up to the intake part of the turbine, not directly the engine like a NA setup.
Still, it's absolutely brilliant, I need to put my hands on this programme lol
The psychological factor of this plane is so great, it would feel so ominous to enter enemy territory with a swarm of a hundred heavily weaponised glorified ultralights
This is a certified Air Tractor Sky Warden moment
i lost it when he added the "modernization pack", tho it still looks somewhat good
each missile is worth more than the plane
This one is hilarously fun to watch, I just love how it cranked that 180 turn like it was nothing
Wow someone needs to build this irl
we kinda already have, just get a trike ultralight and slap some aim-9's or whatever weapon you choose, do a little bit of engineering and boom you got the plane in the video
just make longer range weapons, the ultralight will never reach it@altf5326
The Vespa of Mike Sparks nightmares. Carrying supplies through the Ho Chi Minh trail, Carrying Troops to the front lines of battle, anti tank support (yes, someone made a military applicable anti tank Vespa), and now Air support!? Truly is the most vehicular piece of kit of all time!
AeroGavin vs AeroVespa: who will win?
@@John-qv5ux Gavin can’t get airborne, gets bombed by the AeroVespa and dies
Not giving them a parachute will result in them fighting harder
To be fair, it could probably fool a heat seeking missile considering that its going to be much cooler than a jet and also much smaller, those flares would work wonders. I just have my doubts about avoiding radar guided weapons because stealth is expensive and this thing literally has the front half of a scooter on it...
build the most advance bi-plane fighter. it would be cool if you engined it with a hyper piston engine, and polymorphic wings like the Nikitin-Shevchenko IS-2
I mean there’s nothing saying that you can’t use a jet engine
then it can't go supersonic or hell even near the edge of subsonic speed most fast prop planes can go to example: p51 mustang and other late ww2 stuff
@sn4ketooth220 Why not both, and create something more earpicing than the thunderscreech, hehehehahahah, give a bit of love tap to messairs ears : )
2nd, i just want to see him build a monstrous piston engine, like the gud old days when people want to go fast and they still have to somewhat figure out how to put it into a small airframe body, like some mad man scientist.
@@that_guy8400the problem is you have a shitty airframe design (biplanes) it produce drag and make supersonic speed impossible (unless you bs your way out using magic but this is prop punk not magic punk) while also being as fast as a train so using jet on a BIPLANE is not really that efficient monoplane design solve this problem and dramatically reduce drag
@@unknowngod8221it’d have great acceleration though. It’d be able to recover speed from turns almost instantly
Given how Po-2s were dogfighting real fast Bf109s during WWII, this wouldn’t be too far-fetched
Po-2s were used even as late as the Vietnam war. It’s the only biplane with a confirmed jet kill. It flew too low and too slow for jets to properly engage it in a dogfight, leading many jet pilots to slow below their stall speed in order to get a clear shot on it
Now you have to recreate an F-22 for it to shoot down.
I'd actually love to see a pvp match with a team of like 100 of these vs and F-22 to compare the cost-effectiveness.
"you can't beat all of us! you don't have enough bullet!"
“YOU FOOL, We block the sun with the amount of planes❗️”
This looks like one of those things you'd make in bad piggies, and i love it
It's actually pretty neat it reminds me of that one pilot in ww2 who strapped bazookas to his grasshopper to hunt tanks.
I'd like to see your take on an airplane designed solely to fight wildfires. Personally, I imagine a large, high-power four-engine turboprop with thick, high-lift wings for an incredibly low stall speed, both for better aiming accuracy and for a short takeoff/landing length so it can land in small lakes for refilling with water.
NEW SERIES: cheap version of planes
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It actually would have been pretty useful as a cannon-fodder aircraft
Like have two air force branches, one with normal, fairly expensive planes, piloted by professionals, and another that consists of those ultralight mass-spammed planes, piloted by some conscripted farmer boys and girls who have minimal training and are extremely expendable
Also, this design has same vibes as "Lightning" Interceptor-Corvette from Highfleet - cheep, fast, maneuverable, most of pilots assigned to it either die in service or return shellshocked into oblivion, smallest maneuver makes you almost pass out, can be equipped with missiles, and if in good hands - it can do wonders!
Man, that thing looks so much like the one-man fighter thing from Tron Legacy, but if it were designed in the 50's, and with the pilot sitting rather than lying on their stomach. I wonder if later in Flyout's development, there'll be posable pilots
Thats like the performance of a CR32 Falco, an italian biplane fighter from the mid 30s. Crazy how far technology evolved in 15 years.
The CR32 was also considered the best biplane fighter of WWII, actually its own against Hurricanes regularly. Rather impressive stuff.
Id love to see a supersonic flying boat. That's my plan when the game comes out at any rate.
Dont know about in the game, but the Seadart looked pretty similar to an ordinary fighter of its time. No skis allowed?
when you have a badass budget, you get the A-10
when you have less of a badass budget, you get the SU-25
when you have enough to buy a BMW (ordenance excluded), you get ONE Sky Warden
when you have enough to buy a BMW but you need to equip a whole squadron and need to include ordenance, you get this
we can call this....the "Sky Warden at home", or the "Sky MallCop"
Since the rudders are in the airflow behind the prop it technically has thrust vectoring in the yaw axis. Pitch is as a stall/spin recovery system.
you should make a variant with the wings able to fold ( the bottom smaller wing slightly reduced in size so it can fold straight up and the bigger top wing having 2 hinges where half the wing folds up and the other hinge located on the fuselage folding down and its all secured with locks) and claim it as the "naval" version or even better yet its now a literal tryke/scooter, a battle scooter u can drive into battle or take to the air and dog fight with.
Use stingers instead of sidewinders and that would be a scary proposition. Setup in rocket pods you could mount 32 for the same weight penalty as the 4 Sidewinders. And spam 4 for the same cost. (Wikipedia numbers).
You’d lose some range (8km ground launched so call it 12km vs 35km) but since cheap but effective is the brief. 🤷♂️
How to kill a Raptor.
Setup flight of 4 forming a 12km per side box. Considering the aircraft you could probably start them on the ground in camouflaged dirt runways.
Take off as Raptor is entering the ambush and while he is trying to workout WTF 4 ultralights are doing charging the most alpha of jets, go full Robetech on his arse and launch eight stingers each. Go hide now.
Raptors only choice is pull vertical and hope he can decoy/out climb 32 missiles. But more likely he will try to go cold a turn into 1 of the barrages fired from behind him.
Obviously there needs to be an improved ground-attack version with a titanium bathtub and 30mm. Pierre Sprey would rise from the grave.
Jimmy Can Buy His Own Parachute.
"warenty void if exposed to air" what in the Kerbal Space Program
You win the internet today. That is…utterly golden.
I accidentally exposed my aircraft to air and now my warranty is void
Slap a Garmin car GPS on this, a walky-talky from RadioShack, and paint a big red target circle on the center of the glass and you got yourself a nice multirole aircraft for generations to come.
"warranty void if aircraft exposed to air"
Who would have thought that the most cost effective way to make a fighter would be to put wings on a tuk tuk?
To reduce cost even more, instead of using elevators and rudders, use a V type tail perhaps angled down directly behind the prop for best performance.
If the TIE fighter, in the original Star Wars trilogy, was a stand-in for the A6M Zero, this is what the TIE fighter in the Star Wars Expanded Universe is standing in for.
You've heard of the Eurofighter, now meet the Balkanfighter
the luftwaffe had a similar idea in 1945 after most of its pilots where killed, He-162 Volksjäger "People's Fighter"
The country that would use these would probably force the pilots to buy the plane themselves
I believe this to be the standard aircraft of postwar Elbonia!
I also think they are in need of other roles, perhaps a cheapskate long(ish) range bomber?
I appreciate that the turbocharger just isn't connected to the intake system. Also, I think the people that sold you that "5 litre engine" scammed you, it looks smaller than even 2 litre inline-4s I've seen in cars.
The little headlamp was what really sold it as a scooter-fighter
The fucking 16G turn 💀
That's not a "fighter", that's a glorious weaponised ultralight trike x3
The first version plane definitely looks like something out of Fallout other a post apocalyptic era...and I'm all for it
"The year is 1940, and the neighbors think they can kick your ass! here's a how-to on how to get them to go cry to their big brother!"
You know.....China recently added some Gyrocopters with a few guided missiles on it. So the market for this thing is very much real with modern militaries.
I would like to buy a demilitarised version if I had an ultra light permit
For attack options, simply strap an S-8KO pod to the thing like a proper african warlord
The best missile defense is to make your plane cheaper than the missile, making it uneconomical to shoot down.
Sadly, guns on attacking aircraft paired to its radar solve this issue. That is, _if_ this kind of aircraft is required to be shot down by fighter. One can shoot down 50-100 of those easily and up to 300 with good trigger discipline.
12:39 That pilot is getting grilled by his CO for wasting those unfired rockets when he returns to base, do you have any idea how expensive this gear is, son?
For those wondering what game this is, it is called “Flyout” but it is not available yet to the general public. It will be available on Steam give or take a year or 2.
as a kerbal space program enjoyer, i can confirm that this game is kerbal space program
This makes me want to see the most high tech fighter bi-plane possible.
thank you for being kid friendly dude I watch all the time
Definitely not an ultralight in real life, but i could totally see this being an incredibly popular bush and ranch craft.
Imagine adding flaps and herding cattle at low speed.
It’s not entirely similar but the Chinese airforce does use unarmored gyrocopters armed with anti tank missiles
"Warranty Void if exposed to air"
the light on the front was just the cherry on the top really made it look like a flying tuk tuk
If an American military contractor like Lockheed Martin or Northrup built it, you would have to multiply the cost by at least 5-20x and multiply the time it takes to complete the project by about 1.75-3 times.
i get this a joke but using Lockheed as the example is probably not a good idea when they are in-fact the only company thats given money back to the government at the end of a project because they completed it on time and under budget. (that was the U2 spy plane)
like yes most american aircraft companies dont have a great track record but lockheed actually have the best reputation for delivering on time.
@@_cyantistIIRC, Northrop Grumman got the B-21 job for a similar reason.
@@SchlopFlopper pretty sure northrop got the b21 raider job as they did the b2 spirit before. (the b2 spirit which was infamously over budget btw)
@@_cyantist makes sense
@@_cyantist I couldn't think of any other fitting companies at the moment. Surprised to learn that there has been even a single government project that didn't go over budget or take too long. I'm looking at you, SLS. Boeing's starliner is a mess as well.
it dont looks like it would have a big radar mark, so it is a bit stealthy.
Rumor has it, that the US Air Force used one of those to hunt down the missing F-35.
would be funny if in the lore of this thing, it was commissioned by the government from like a vespa company because that was the only manufacturer capable of making vehicles in its country, resulting in half the parts just being repurposed from vespas
Hamas really paid attention to this video -.-
Ok, hear me out, if you go into battle against a f22 with ten of those little things, the f22 will not be capable of taking on all of the aircrafts at once, and, as the cheap airplane is capable of turning like a fucking mosquito, that means that if you have a group of around 10 cheap ariplanes per f22, there is a very good chance of you wining, and because the airplane is cheaper than a lada, you can make unbelievable amounts of it. The only thing you would have to consider is being shot from BVR, but you can counter this issue by taking off just at the right time, as this airplane is very light and capable of taking off in pretty much any highway or even plane terrain.
Congratulations. You have made the world's most deadly paper.
The absolute undisputed KING of 1 circles, even in a HOBS fox 2 fight with its low IR signature. All you need are some flares for if they somehow manage a lock
Imagine an aircraft equipped with a Mk.19 grenade launcher made for 2-10 kilometers altitude, and to take out pickup convoys
it would especially excel in an anti-technical role, since most pickup-mounted weaponry can't hit an ultralight at 15,000 feet
Especially if you could make it with a gunner or in a gimbal with a camera, I think there may be heat-seeking 40mm grenades already
The fact that you even included flares 😆
As if a missile wold even be able to lock that ultralight! Just wrap the engine in some aluminum foil, no thermal signature!
Each one of those aim 9's would literally cost 60+ times the ultralight
The ergonomic elegance of the 'just fall out' ejector seat system 😙👌
Would be awesome to see this idea but for a jet aircraft
Make thousands of these, make them remote controlled as a modernization effort, network them so you can fly entire formations of them with a single pilot, give them 2 anti-air missiles each, and have them link with ground-based radar systems for locking on. Suddenly you have a surprisingly strong defensive air force. Wouldn't do much attacking, but if you can send up 50 or so at once in response to airspace incursion from someone fielding 4th gen or 4.5 gen aircraft, you'd be able to do pretty well.
Alternatively, kit them out for close air support with a rocket pod and you'd have a nice little swarm of tank destroyers.
The main problem would be loiter time and lack of space for their own radar systems or more armaments.
The main issue I see with this is getting the proper air to fuel ratio, as you get higher air gets thinner, so this thing would get much slower as you got higher
Edit: just noticed the turbocharger, you’re all good
I’d love to see your take on a high-altitude ISR platform
I sure love some Kerbal Space Program in the morning
he done put wings on a tuk-tuk
This is the plane the Reformers envisioned instead of the F-16
Anyone notice how fast the plane took off?
They can rival vtols with space and cost!
Pierre Sprey just jizzed himself
Honestly M82 this would've been an excellent, excellent surveying plane. Props (pun-intended) to you!
“Oh look a penny” is all I could think of seeing the landing at the end😂
technically the heat signature of that aircraft is so low it be a even match for the f22 because the f22 cant lock onto it due to its heat signature being low
This plane looks like something Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys could have built out of shopping cart parts, I love it and want to see whole squadrons of them dogfighting like the old WWI biplanes! I can't wait until I can put Flyout on my Steam wishlist.