Rutan Boomerang: Unconventional Genius!

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Welcome to our deep dive into one of the most unique and innovative aircraft ever created: The Rutan Boomerang. Designed by the legendary aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan, the Boomerang is a twin-engine aircraft that breaks all norms with its asymmetrical design and superior efficiency.
In this video, we explore the birth of this extraordinary aircraft, starting with Burt Rutan's background. A graduate of California Polytechnic State University with a Bachelor's in Aeronautical Engineering, Rutan is known for his boundary-pushing designs in homebuilt aircraft, including the record-breaking Voyager.
Discover how Rutan's professional journey and his establishment of Scaled Composites laid the groundwork for the creation of the Boomerang. We delve into the challenges of traditional twin-engine designs and how Rutan's vision was to combine efficiency and safety in an unconventional layout.
Learn about the Boomerang's design process, where Rutan reimagined the placement of engines and utilized advanced materials like carbon fiber to create a lightweight yet strong structure. We examine the aircraft's unique features, such as its forward-swept wings, pressurized cabin, and innovative control systems, which contribute to its remarkable performance and safety.
We also highlight the practical aspects of the Boomerang, including its comfortable interior, ample baggage space, and efficient propulsion system. Despite its groundbreaking design, the Boomerang's development was a grassroots effort, showcasing Rutan's dedication and resourcefulness.
Join us as we explore the Boomerang's flight characteristics, its resistance to asymmetrical thrust, and how it stands as a testament to the ingenuity of experimental aviation. We reveal how this aircraft, developed without wind tunnels or advanced computer-aided design, represents Rutan's crowning achievement in general aviation.
If you're fascinated by aviation history, innovative design, and the stories of pioneering engineers like Burt Rutan, this video is for you. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with our latest content. Your support is greatly appreciated!
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@aerocrafted 5 месяцев назад

We're currently operating the Boomerang out of the San Luis Obispo airport (KSBP). Our founder was an engineer at Scaled Composites and was given the opportunity to keep Burt's one-of-a-kind aircraft flying. For such a unique configuration, the Boomerang's flight characteristics are truly phenomenal!

@PainflyErect 5 месяцев назад

Aren't all Ratan planes one offs?

@FarmerDrew 5 месяцев назад

How does it feel keeping it straight on the runway? Looks like running a tightrope

@aerocrafted 5 месяцев назад

Burt Rutan did design and build many one-off airplanes, but he also sold kits for quite a few designs. Most notably, the Long-EZ was a very popular and unique 2 seat experimental canard design, of which there are still many flying.@@PainflyErect

@markodeen4105 5 месяцев назад

Boomerang was on my must see list a few years ago at Oshkosh. It was amazing to see!

@muhammadsteinberg 5 месяцев назад

@PainflyErect I wouldn't call the EZ series of planes one-offs. They've been highly successful for decades. I might add that in my 40yrs of flying and being an airport junkie, an EZ in the 80's was the only plane I actually witnessed crashing and killing the pilot. He cut me off with an unannounced emergency and crashed at end of runway.

@tlangdon12 6 месяцев назад

While being a very good explanation of the reasons for the Boomerang's odd appearance, the video didn't really answer the question expressed in the title. I still don't know what happened to the Boomerang.

@ThePoochala 6 месяцев назад

I watched the whole video because of the title “What happened to…”. The question was never answered.

@cherokeeflyer9669 6 месяцев назад

It’s in the hangar across from mine at the San Luis Obispo airport. One of Rutan’s former employees is taking care of it.

@DWBurns 6 месяцев назад

I last flew on 08NOV2023 on a local flight KSBP-KSBP

@bradcrosier1332 6 месяцев назад

So…nothing. Thank you for saving me fourteen minutes.

@nobodysbusiness4130 6 месяцев назад

I was walking to another hangar at SBP and I saw it a few years ago. Talked to the guys inside for a couple minutes but never realized the significance of what I was seeing.

@user-ny2bx8ez1c 6 месяцев назад

The Boomerang is alive & well in a hanger at the San Luis Obispo airport. At least it was a couple of years ago. I talked to the person in charge of maintenance and we talked about why it was there & not out in Mojave. I actually touched it. It's a one of a kind plane.

@adambaum5824 5 месяцев назад

See the Blohm und Voss BV-141.

@easchicora 5 месяцев назад

It's still there as of this year. Saw it and talked about it with someone involved with its restoration. Such a wonderful plane.

@Clayne151 5 месяцев назад

If it's so good, why haven't more of it been made? My guess: too expensive to make due to the manual carbon fibre construction.

@alexturnbackthearmy1907 5 месяцев назад

@@Clayne151 Same reason why newer aircrafts dont sell as good as older ones: They are just MUCH more expensive, with little to no extra gain. It might even be much cheaper to order a brad new aircraft of older model instead of even looking at newer ones.

@davecrupel2817 5 месяцев назад

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907a damn shame. Those old birds have such inefficient airframes. Modern airframes are so much sleeker, have so much less parasitic drag. The fuel consumption is drastically better.

@radonradon5478 6 месяцев назад

The Boomerang is still operated on the Central Coast of California by the San Luis Obispo based Aerocrafted team.

@moiscohen6309 6 месяцев назад

Hasn’t flown in years but my friends get to taxi it!

@dp5475 5 месяцев назад

So was it an economic reason he didn't produce them? Performance? Other projects?

@user-yy1rs3df3q 5 месяцев назад

@@dp5475 This was more of a personal side project for Rutan to prove his concept. Plus putting an aircraft of this size and complexity into production would require a huge investment.

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

Google "Aerocrafted Boomerang" and you will see a great article on this airplane. This text from that article has been stolen 99% word for word and recited in this video by this content thief who makes a habit of doing this. I wrote him an email a few months back calling him out on a different video where he did the exact same thing. He confessed and vowed to do better. I encourage all to unsubscribe. I'm contacting youtube to have him demonetized.

@aerocrafted 5 месяцев назад

We should be flying it later this week!

@tahlulabang 5 месяцев назад

I got to see the Voyager in real life when I was little, and I've always been interested anything Bert Rutan does, the guy's definitely in aeronautical genius

@jackoneil3933 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for producing this excellent re-cap of the Boomerang. I got to go for a flight in the prototype aircraft featured here, and chat with Burt a lot about it, and both Burt and his boomerang design were remarkable and lovable. A little told account about Burt and the Boomerang was that Burt did not have an Instrument rating, and inadvertently flew into IMC conditions and encountered a thunderstorm in the Boomerang, lost control and managed a recovery that from the description I doubt any similar light aircraft would have survived, but Burt and the Boomerang survived perfectly intact. There was a follow-on story involving Burt and the Boomerang I was involved with in the late 90's that led to my meeting Burt and the flight in the Boomerang: After Ray Morrow the founder of II Morrow, the company that developed the first commercial Loran and GPS navigation avionics for general aviation, sold that company to Garmin he contracted Burt Rutan to develop an air taxi version of the Boomerang. The cabin was a bit larger than a Cessna 414, and to be powered by Continental TISO-550s, and expected to transport 8-9 passengers at about 300mph. Burt constructed a mock-up and we spent a couple of years with Burt developing the design and working on FAA certification. The Boomerang design turned out to be an excellent air-taxi platform as nearly the entire fuselage could be utilized and even toilet and washroom accommodated. Baggage and cargo could be stored in the left boom, and due to the large-span horizontal stabilizer it had an unusually broad loading envelope as well as payload and range. Sadly, the FAA misled (lied to?) Ray as to certification requirements. Original estimates for the FAA paper work was about $8 to $12 million. But once we committed to the program the FAA said it could cost up to 10X more. Basically it appeared they they wanted to tap what they saw as deep-pockets to fund a new FAA General Aviation certification department. A regrettable loss to aviation, as today I believe it would eclipse today's state of the art turbine aircraft.

@roryregina 5 месяцев назад

I got to meet and talk to Mr. Rutan many years ago at a SolidWorks convention held at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort. He was working with Virgin Galactic at the time. The man was fascinating to listen to and seemed like a genuinely nice guy. Orange county choppers was paid to be at the same convention... they were just there to deliver the bike SolidWorks corporate had bought, collect their check, and leave. Burt stuck around spending time looking at displays on the show floor, and talking to people. He even stuck around for the dinner we had inside of Hollywood Studios after close. He was looking at the bike the Orange County guys had built and a friend of mine that worked for SolidWorks let him thru the ropes blocking it off, started the thing up in the middle of the show floor in the Coronado Springs convention center and then turned it over to Burt. :) It was awesome, I still have pictures. I found Burt to be very knowledgeable and super friendly. Very down to earth and interested to what others knew and what they were using SolidWorks to design.

@Tavnott 6 месяцев назад

Would be cool to see an RC version.

@skenzyme81 6 месяцев назад

Excellent overview of an underappreciated aircraft. Love it!

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

Content stolen from others. Google aerocrafted boomerang.

@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm 5 месяцев назад

It is easy to be underappreciated when few know it exists. Thanks for telling the Masses about this aircraft. It does have its issues.

@Vladdy89 5 месяцев назад

@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm This aircraft is appreciated as it should be.

@user-wn2pc8jl3p 5 месяцев назад

@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pmfff😂😂

@freedomforever6718 6 месяцев назад

I think the Boomerang is a fantastic design idea! And having the separate fuselage for luggage and freight is a great bonus.

@ryshellso526 5 месяцев назад

Watcha smuggling buddy?

@freedomforever6718 5 месяцев назад

@@ryshellso526 Watcha smoking buddy?

@jonathanr5238 5 месяцев назад

Watcha got?😂

@ryshellso526 5 месяцев назад

@freedomforever6718 currently skittles Mintz, and a touch of hash.

@freedomforever6718 5 месяцев назад

@@ryshellso526 That explains everything.

@sheanathan3566 5 месяцев назад

Rutan claimed that the secret to the success of the Boomerang wa the use of servos that would automatically adjust and compensate the control surfaces. I was hoping to learn more about it in this video but it was not mentioned at all. None the less, thank you for the deep dive. I learned quite a bit

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

@alexturnbackthearmy1907 5 месяцев назад

So...literally a FBW?

@Devo491 3 месяца назад

His aircraft are, without exception, absolutely gorgeous. As in yachts, beautiful aircraft move well. The man is a genius!

@paulmcneil5529 Месяц назад

One of the best designed airplanes i've ever seen.

@malcontender6319 6 месяцев назад

This video has earned you a subscription.

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

This "creator" knows very little about airplanes and steals all his content. Google "Aerocrafted Boomerang" and you will see a great article on this airplane. The text from that article has been stolen 99% word for word and recited in this video by this content thief who makes a habit of doing this. I wrote him an email a few months back calling him out on a different video where he did the exact same thing. He confessed and vowed to do better. I encourage all to unsubscribe. I'm contacting youtube to have him demonetized.

@truedepthaquaponics7118 5 месяцев назад

Wow. Rutan, a true expert and craftsman.

@ilaril 5 месяцев назад

I love the Burt Rutan's airplane designs. They are all different, but you clearly see who the designer is.

@herzogsbuick 5 месяцев назад

I've known about the Boomerang forever, but this was the best write-up/podcast/video whatever I've come across. Thank you!

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

Google "Aerocrafted Boomerang" and you will see a great article on this airplane. The text from that article has been stolen 99% word for word and recited in this video by this content thief who makes a habit of doing this. I wrote him an email a few months back calling him out on a different video where he did the exact same thing. He confessed and vowed to do better. I encourage all to unsubscribe. I'm contacting youtube to have him demonetized.

@Iceflkn 5 месяцев назад

"Limiting P factor issues" thanks for speaking so clearly.

@williamogilvie6909 6 месяцев назад

I saw the boomerang at Mojave airport in Sept., 1996. Scaled composites was managing the flight operations of a UAV, under a NASA contract. I looked inside the cockpit and saw no instruments, just a laptop. Inside the main building used by Scaled Composites was the Voyager aircraft, hoisted up to the ceiling. I also saw a prototype airliner they were working on. A larger area of the building was walled off. We were told that area was restricted. A coworker was declared persona non grata after going in there during a previous visit. I met both Rutan brothers. While the UAV was flying a rather large jetliner arrived and stopped next to Scaled Composites's buildings. Several business-suited people came down the ramp and went inside. I later learned that Paul Allen was among the visitors and the jetliner was his private plane.

@earlwebster5351 6 месяцев назад

I thought I read that he used Mac laptops as instruments...

@williamogilvie6909 6 месяцев назад

@@earlwebster5351 I think I said laptop. I didn't get a good look at it. Their UAV control van was very cool. It had a big bubble on top of the front where the UAV pilot's sat, which afforded them a 360° view of the sky above. They had 2 laptops with large screens for piloting the UAVs. Edit: The computers might have been desktop units. I think the monitors were shielded from the bright sunlight. Mounted on the back of the van was a genset and A.C. unit. The A.C. pumped cool air through a large diameter flexible tube up to the bubble. It was very hot outside. All the people at Scaled Composites we interacted with were very helpful and knew their stuff. They loaned me their Bird wattmeter when I was trying to find out why the TDRSS satellite uplink was not working.

@burntsider8457 6 месяцев назад

Well done documentary. Explanations are clear and there's no silliness like on so many other docs these days.

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

@FutureSystem738 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this - I’ve always admired Burt’s unconventional thinking and incredible achievements. I don’t think he was as appreciated as he should have been- a brilliant man. (I have flown the Long EZE myself, and have a model of the Boomerang.)

@michaelgautreaux3168 5 месяцев назад

Have been a fan of Burt's "Birds" for a long time. They said he was crazy, he proved they didn't belong in the conversion 😉

@RobertLBarnard 5 месяцев назад

I remember watching Bert fly the Boomerang to Oshkosh twice. Remarkable aircraft! He gave several talks about it.

@richardjensen2769 6 месяцев назад

Jim Bede's BD-5 - Lovely to look upon; but does not work all that well. Burt Rutan's Boomerang - a Shape that only (properly) appreciated by the "Wine Snobs" of aerodynamic efficiency. (I knew it was good, but my appreciation went up a few Notches, while watching your Vid. As my parents used to say, "Tuksamika.")

@jj4791 5 месяцев назад

This video was very well researched. Those details are spread out over 20 years of articles, presentations, and Q&As.

@solarfinder 5 месяцев назад

I'm a new subscriber and your content is just fantastic. It definitely doesn't go unnoticed as the subject matter can be quite difficult to come by. Keep up the great work!

@moepow8160 6 месяцев назад

He is intuitive when it comes to building that's why no wind tunnel or CAD is needed for his designs. It's a gift. I had a friend who could not do any RD without this when having fun with our High Power Model Rocket Club. My designs would always out perform his. This would frustrate him so much he asked me one time " How is it you can design a rocket, 12 to 20 feet long, without any mathematical workup and my rocket are so inferior to yours " I replied back, how is it you can design your rockets with all the mathematical formulas ? We both just laughed. I just build the rocket ! Of course I test it and take measurements after it's build, but it just comes to me. My first launch with my first HP rocket I designed back in 1991 put my rocket to just over 10 thousand feet. It landed less then a football field away. All systems worked fine and the recovery system ejected at apogee, I packed it up and lunched again the same day. Today my club, Tripoli High Powered Rocket Club hold a club altitude record of 50K, not bad for a club. I love building things and aircraft are my focus. I often find my self building all kinds of different configuration, of course it's only RC models, but the similarities are the same except for size. With today technology it might surprise you how far model anything has reached levels never possible just a few years ago. I have a RC buggy I built that does 72 miles an hour I couldn't do that without the technology of today. All you need is effort. I feel as if I missed my calling. I have a aeronautical degree, but it's only a two years of schooling. However, I've worked on aircraft for 20 years, during my military service. When I left I started college to become an engineer, but life sometimes takes you down different paths so Remote Controlled models will have to do. Burt is an incredible designer maybe some day we can gain permission to build a RC model of his Boomerang plane.

@ItsDaJax 5 месяцев назад

Decades ago, for the longest, people were building airplanes and racecars without the help of windtunnels and computers. Just good ol hunches and guestimation. Today they'll tell you it's impossible without such things, like they'll tell you that you can't just build something without years and thousands of dollars of schooling. At this point, so much research, innovation and tech has been done, so many things have failed, all this man[and the rest of us] needed was some imagination and common sense. That plan looks crazy until you realize common sense dictates the plane has the properties it has, so it works.

@xostler 5 месяцев назад

⁠@@ItsDaJaxwould it be correct to say modern tools are more for efficiency instead of viability though?

@ItsDaJax 5 месяцев назад

@@xostler Yeah, I'd agree with that.

@DIBgmail 5 месяцев назад

@@ItsDaJax Planes do not fly based on common sense.

@KuschallRacing 6 месяцев назад

he is a GENIUS..i wish he would continue in this modern time the ultimative flying product !

@tlangdon12 6 месяцев назад

His genius was to not only design a very efficient and safe aircraft using his very detailed understanding of advanced aeronautical concepts, but also to be able to build a prototype aircraft with very limited resources. Burt is right up there with Kelly Johnson.

@KuschallRacing 6 месяцев назад

indeet, good woerds, still, we need another BR...tecnology offets good engines and material...a low stall and still 220 knts is missing...i will check kelly johnson, never stept over his name.

@williamstel9330 4 месяца назад

A brilliant piece of engineering.

@HobbyView 5 месяцев назад

Had a chance to see (and touch) this aircraft some years ago at the Scaled Composite factory. I seem to recall that the difference in engine power was a deliberate part of the design (I think the left engine was lower). Your pictures show a more finished interior than when I saw it.

@raylopez99 5 месяцев назад

Rutan is a genius and it's a sign of how unfair the innovation industry is (patents mainly) that he's not a billionaire. Fact. I worked in the invention industry and know what I speak of. Another inventor who got shafted, mainly by his own government, is the UK inventor of the hovercraft. Meanwhile Disney gets billions from their trademarks...as do others like middlemen (buy low, sell high) who add little value compared to pioneer inventors and engineers.

@tulsatrash 5 месяцев назад

I am greatly enjoying this now and I am learning a lot.

@trytolookbusy 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for the video. I have always wanted to hear more about that aircraft. Wish I could have one of those. Too bad only one of them was built. I guess I’ll keep playing my turbo 337.

@RAVEN_SPRING_ 5 месяцев назад

Loved the explanation and animations very satisfying and informative. I’m a visual learner so this was enjoyable as hell. New subscriber

@erichschaefer6571 3 месяца назад

Great video. One correction would be that the twin engine plane referred to as a baron at 7:39 is actually a Beechcraft Duke.

@avva4090 5 месяцев назад

Looks like something Blohm and Voss would have eventually come up with if WWII had gone on for another 10 years lol Very cool plane!

@dhyde9207 6 месяцев назад

And in the interest of accuracy, at 7:17 you're showing not a pressurized Beechcraft Baron, but a Beechcraft Duke.

@flyerbob124 6 месяцев назад

That’s what I thought too. Looked like a Duke to me.

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

It's because he knows very little about airplanes and steals all his content. Google "Aerocrafted Boomerang" and you will see a great article on this airplane. The text from that article has been stolen 99% word for word and recited in this video by this content thief who makes a habit of doing this. I wrote him an email a few months back calling him out on a different video where he did the exact same thing. He confessed and vowed to do better. I encourage all to unsubscribe. I'm contacting youtube to have him demonetized.

@krakerstaker 5 месяцев назад

How about showing a picture of a continental 6cyl engine when the boomerang is powered by Lycoming 4cyl 7:54. At least they both have 360cuin displacement 😂

@ShaunHensley 6 месяцев назад

Gorgeous design

@kmg501 6 месяцев назад

Great example of thinking outside of the box.

@tomellis4750 5 месяцев назад

Thinking outside the box at its finest.

@jacksonmulville2200 6 месяцев назад

This is a fantastic video! Keep it up

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

He steals all his content. Google "Aerocrafted Boomerang" and you will see a great article on this airplane. The text from that article has been stolen 99% word for word and recited in this video by this content thief who makes a habit of doing this. I wrote him an email a few months back calling him out on a different video where he did the exact same thing. He confessed and vowed to do better. I encourage all to unsubscribe. I'm contacting youtube to have him demonetized.

@georgegilbert7347 6 месяцев назад

Very good description of an interesting aircraft. But the article does not answer the question posed by the title. What did happen to the aircraft. Where is it now. Is it still being flown? If you are going to pose a question in a title at least answer the question.

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

He didn't answer the question because he didn't write the content. He steals all his content. Google "Aerocrafted Boomerang" and you will see a great article on this airplane. The text from that article has been stolen 99% word for word and recited in this video by this content thief who makes a habit of doing this. I wrote him an email a few months back calling him out on a different video where he did the exact same thing. He confessed and vowed to do better. I encourage all to unsubscribe. I'm contacting youtube to have him demonetized.

@roberttauzer7042 5 месяцев назад

Why this design wasn't more popularized? Clearly, it has advantages.

@skenzyme81 6 месяцев назад

A great example of AeroPunk. Asymmetry always guarantees AeroPunk status. Blohm & Voss baby! Combined with forward swept wings, the Boomerang is about as AeroPunk as you can get. To beat this you would need to switch from tractor props to pushers. If it had mid-mounted circumferential ducted fans like the FanJet 600, it would be the most AeroPunk aircraft of all time. 😅

@heinrichzerbe 6 месяцев назад

I came to the comment section to see if somebody mentioned Blohm & Voss. This plane immediately reminded immediately of their creations.

@792slayer 5 месяцев назад

@@heinrichzerbesame.

@pauloalvesdesouza7911 5 месяцев назад

@@heinrichzerbe+ 1.

@SkyhawkSteve 6 месяцев назад

A very clever and interesting design. Is there any info on why Burt built it? Was it just a fun project or was there some hope of making money with it?

@larrysouthern5098 6 месяцев назад

A true American hero....Thank you Mr Rutan...

@pascalchauvet4230 6 месяцев назад

I saw one take off at yeovilton somewhere around 1983, but I have no idea if that one is still flyable today

@jimarcher5255 6 месяцев назад

And the question is: What happenened to the Rutan Boomerang?

@jj4791 6 месяцев назад

And who killed the electric car?

@nopenheimer 6 месяцев назад

Does the staggered main gear cause any stability issues when touching down? My naive non pilot intuition tells me would cause problematic torque in both pitch and roll, and perhaps yaw to a lesser degree. But... would it be notably different than when a similar sized plane has one wheel hit first? So maybe it's in a normal landing that this comes into any play at all... wouldn't there be a slight bank towards the boom side on touchdown? Don't get me wrong... I'm not questioning whether he made any mistakes, I'm just curious whether this had a meaningful impact at all. All designs are full of compromises, and as this was an idea testbed design the choice of exactly where some compromises landed would probably be different than in a production aircraft.

@ItsDaJax 5 месяцев назад

Yeah it probably lands flat. If you think about it, the landing config makes perfect sense. It's probably more stable than a motorcycle with a sidecar.

@jfbaquero 6 месяцев назад

Excellent video. Do you happen to know how many were made?

@cherokeeflyer9669 6 месяцев назад

Just the one.

@BoomVang 6 месяцев назад

Should have compared it to the German bomber with one engine on one side. Propeller torque has a bias to one side so an extra engine is suitable on one side but not the other. BTW rear engines are hard to keep cool.

@craigd1275 5 месяцев назад

Blohm and Voss BV 141 was a reconnaissance plane, not a bomber. .

@sillysad3198 5 месяцев назад

i noticed the continuous wing from the first image in the beginning :)

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 6 месяцев назад

Great video...👍

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

Except the entire thing is plagiarized. Google "Aerocrafted Boomerang" and you will see a great article on this airplane. The text from that article has been stolen 99% word for word and recited in this video by this content thief who makes a habit of doing this. I wrote him an email a few months back calling him out on a different video where he did the exact same thing. He confessed and vowed to do better, but has obviously continued to steal the work of others and attempt to profit off it. I encourage all to unsubscribe. I'm contacting youtube to have him demonetized.

@yellow1612 5 месяцев назад

Nice vid

@MavHunter20XX 5 месяцев назад

Burt Rutan: Someone is always holding my beer.

@jaymethodus3421 4 месяца назад

I’m in love with this design lol it’s like the motorcycle sidecar of the sky… can I modify the boom to put a tail gunner in ? Askin for an enemy

@DrzewieckiDesign 5 месяцев назад

And now we've got Mike. ☺️

@narimantasglinskis7562 5 месяцев назад

why is this design not more popular??? this aircraft would be perfect for northern regions

@darthmelbius 6 месяцев назад

7:14 btw that's a Beachcraft Duke schematic not a Baron.

@pablojose4890 5 месяцев назад

Reminds me of the German WWII aircraft, the Blohm & Voss BV 141 Sidecar

@deansiracusa3966 6 месяцев назад

Great video! However the comparison is not a Beech Baron, but the bigger and faster Beech Duke model 60.

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

@thatawkardfeeling9076 5 месяцев назад

Omg I live in San Luis Obispo too! And I also want to make unique aircraft!

@draconian6692 5 месяцев назад

Ah yess modern blohm and voss❤

@BraydonBlanchette 5 месяцев назад

I wanna fly and buy one!

@user-wo6zt1hf9q 6 месяцев назад

Is there a kit version, I want one.

@seanbigay1042 5 месяцев назад

Pilots say, "If it looks right, it'll fly right." There are planes that look right. There are planes that look wrong. And then there's Burt Rutan's Boomerang, which ... kinda grows on you the longer you look at it.

@hohohaha999 5 месяцев назад

What I wanna know is can you get it as a left hand drive

@kirgan1000 5 месяцев назад

Remind me about the asymmetrical German Blohm & Voss BV 141

@kevincui9466 5 месяцев назад

Why is the design not more widely manufactured if it’s so good?

@muhammadsteinberg 5 месяцев назад

Because it's not! Aside from being a novelty, there's absolutely no benefit to it! There would be lopsided birds if asymmetrical was efficient.

@joeljong931 5 месяцев назад

See @jackoneal3933 comment earlier about a larger version and FAA wanting them to pay 10X the normal price for paperwork.

@muhammadsteinberg 5 месяцев назад

@joeljong931 They should have made him jump thru hoops. Anyone who's been in aviation for a while has basic aerodynamics knowledge. His approach in building this abomination appears to be just that. His obvious problems are not wind tunnel testing. I'm just looking at it as an aviator and immediately see potential problems with the spiral slipstreams fighting each other. Also asymmetrical in aviation has never been proven to be a good idea. It's a concept idea with absolutely no value to aviation.

@Boomtendo4tw 5 месяцев назад

Reminds me of a sail ship. Could probably do a sail in the air in some way

@LittleManFlying 5 месяцев назад

The comparison to a P Barron seems apt but the image shown was of a Beech Duke... Also a reasonable comparison

@powersurge91 6 месяцев назад

The aircraft I would give anything to own...

@FutureSystem738 5 месяцев назад

You and me both!

@dougcharles5004 6 месяцев назад

Boomerang, you take off go into a flat spin and return to the runway.

@joejoemyo 5 месяцев назад

Burt Rutan: "Time to design an aircraft. But first..." **procures crack pipe**

@babyboomer9560 5 месяцев назад

I’ve always wondered if his designs were so good why don’t we have certified ones from a manufacturer cranking them out like the Cirrus or Diamond? Went to his hangar in Mojave with parts for him to inspect of my VareEze project about 1978. He had just flown his N4EZ to the Watsonville flyin. Wow ! It attracted hundreds of people. Everyone was talking about it. it was just him and a receptionist. Remember seeing an Apple II computer in his office. Knew he was cutting edge designer since that Apple was the hottest thing going. Was a pharmacist with poison control experience…didn’t like the epoxy system he used. Tough on your liver. He recommended liver tests periodically.😮

@braccoz 5 месяцев назад

The photo you present at 07:52 is not of a Lycoming, it is a Continental IO-360. This becomes more obvious as just prior you stated and listed it was a flat 4 engine, but the Continental you show is clears a 6 cylinder.😅

@Southwest_923WR 3 дня назад

Great video info about the "Boomarang" But I must say,, at mark 7:05, references tonthe Beech Baron, are ruined by the schematic at 7:08 is not a Baron. Its the Beech B60 "Duke", which is different class slightly above the Baron, which leaves me to question; Are you comparing figures against The Baron, OR The Duke? Just saying.

@londonalicante 5 месяцев назад

There was a plane with similar asymmetric configuration in WW2. BTW: the image at 7:55 shows a 6 cylinder engine, not 4. 3 sparkplugs on each side!

@ForcedEntry21 5 месяцев назад

The image used is the Continental io-360, not the Lycoming tio-360. It's probably an honest mistake, but details matter.

@FutureSystem738 5 месяцев назад

You also missed that the line drawn picture was a Beechcraft Duke, and NOT a Baron.

@Jacob-ly8vs 5 месяцев назад

I'm curious if most in the aviation community have the same glowing opinion of Rutan that you do!

@dufus7396 5 месяцев назад

I wonder if having engines closer together near or on centreline negated the need for one to be contra rotating..or was one contra

@DrewLSsix 5 месяцев назад

They both appear to be standard rotation, likely due to those being the engines he had laying around.

@jonathondennis 6 месяцев назад

Ok so what happened to the Rutan Boomerang?

@jj4791 6 месяцев назад

There is a company that owns and operates the prototype aircraft.

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

@@jj4791 That company is Aerocrafted and they wrote a very nice article about it. Google "Aerocrafted Boomerang" and you will see said article. The text from that article has been stolen 99% word for word and recited in this video by this content thief who makes a habit of doing this. I wrote him an email a few months back calling him out on a different video where he did the exact same thing. He confessed and vowed to do better, but has obviously continued to steal the work of others and attempt to profit off it. I encourage all to unsubscribe. I'm contacting youtube to have him demonetized.

@Iamwolf134 5 месяцев назад

Well then, the question has already answered itself; nothing happened to the Rutan Boomerang. In fact, it's actually rather well cared for by one of Rutan's former employees.

@ItsDaJax 5 месяцев назад

This man built a real life Star Wars spacecraft.

@jaccopor8585 6 месяцев назад

What dit the plane cost? How many were built? dit it came as a kit? Etc etc.. still many questions

@Baribrotzer 6 месяцев назад

From what I read at the time, Rutan's goals were: 1. To build a twin-engine aircraft with standard (clockwise) engine and propeller rotation on both engines, but make these somehow cancel and result in neutral, symmetrical handling. 2. To build a twin-engine aircraft such that if one engine failed, the plane's failure mode would not have horribly asymmetric thrust and be almost unflyable. How well did he accomplish those?

@alexturnbackthearmy1907 5 месяцев назад

Considering that it was done years before he was even born... Its called trim. And designing effort. All aircrafts fit for use had completed these criteria.

@Axel_Andersen 5 месяцев назад

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 And how does that answer the question that @Baribrotzer posed or are you here just to belittle what Rutan wanted to pursue and apparently achieved. There are many ways to skin the cat. It is not reasonable men that advance science and tech it is the unreasonable that do.

@alexturnbackthearmy1907 5 месяцев назад

@@Axel_Andersen Quite easily: These were question that never should`ve been asked outside of drawing board, much less being a "distinctive features" of an aircraft. Its like being proud of designing airplane that is capable of flight in our day.

@mistergreeen 5 месяцев назад

Was there only one ever made? Or did this have a production run

@stevenhershman2660 4 месяца назад

This Plane must have been inspired by the " Blohm and Voss BV 141" from WWII.

@texastyrannyresponseteam794 5 месяцев назад

FYI.. You kept mentioning the Baron as Pressurized.. it wasn't.. you were thinking of and even pictured the Beech Duke which was the pressurized light piston twin from Beechcraft..

@marcelor.aiello5050 4 месяца назад

Technically, you can make any asymmetrical design, but it will only fly if the forces produced are symmetrical.. If one could visualize resulting forces with vectors, symmetry is always present.

@kesfitzgerald1084 5 месяцев назад

Does it come back?

@user-mj7tm6dk9d 5 месяцев назад

The genius was the BV 141, cancelled in 1943, on which design the Boomerang appears to be based on,

@lsq7833 5 месяцев назад

This is channeling Blohm&voss levels of asymmetrical insanity

@r0cketplumber 6 месяцев назад

Hey, Dwayne, do you know the story of the back seat passenger? The green one...

@Dwaynesaviation 6 месяцев назад

Not really 😊

@r0cketplumber 6 месяцев назад

Rojanna Kreigh's husband Dan Kreigh worked at Scaled and helped build Boomerang, and Rojanna felt that it looked like such a UFO it needed an alien on board, so she made a vinyl sticker with a green alien peering out. It's the second window aft of the door on the starboard side.

@toddsmith8608 5 месяцев назад

The only thing he know is that he stole everything in this video from work done by others. Google "Aerocrafted Boomerang" and you will see a great article on this airplane. The text from that article has been stolen 99% word for word and recited in this video by this content thief who makes a habit of doing this. I wrote him an email a few months back calling him out on a different video where he did the exact same thing. He confessed and vowed to do better, but has obviously continued to steal the work of others and attempt to profit off it. I encourage all to unsubscribe. I'm contacting youtube to have him demonetized.

@GregoryAlanGaskill 6 месяцев назад

Asymetric can be done easily in the computer age, back in the day when materials were iffy at best builders had to keep everything balanced and robust, at the cost of performance....

@jj4791 6 месяцев назад

There are several asymmetric designs from ~80 years ago. Computers make it just as hard, haha.