TA-1 First Flight 

Wile E. is hoping to finally catch Roadrunner with this new Acme kit.

@@henkvandenbergh1301 beep beep 🚀

coyote kinda is the FOD ha but yeah I like to think he helped

Coyote bomb

Coyote is trying to clear the area

Wow... that was really dumb

Being men is so simple and easy.

Tim Taylor vibes 😂😂

@@slowery43it was also really true

This is all there is to say about the stone age part of it. 😄

I think a little to over the top!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

​@@SEPK09 It could be so the platform can be used for larger pay loads

It was originally designed to launch a 500,000 lb rocket, but those plans fell through.

Imagine seeing like 500 of them flying over dropping bombs during war time, that would be f*ckin terrifying😂💯

@@Litfilmzmassive payload capacity but also a massive vulnerable target with no defenses.

thats what i was thinking LOL "thunderbirds are a GO!"

Yeah. How come I've never seen that before? I can't believe a vehicle as cool as that isn't more well known.@@RMSadventures-ie4fr

Captain Scarlett "SIG"

If it was painted green I'd call it the Thunderbird 2

thought the same lol

There are up to and including a freaking spaceplane I think larger than the Dream Chaser, looks like the X-34

It is kind of like having the Incredible Hulk carry your groceries in, but still cool. Why the pressure suits in the cockpit?

It's too cool of a plane to not be used.

@@tbrosz the aircraft is considered an Experimental. My guess for the pressure suits is a safety precaution more than anything. The Roc is essentially 2 747's in one. The entire plane is the harvesting of those 2 jumbo jets. When it was built, the cockpits, center body, and other elements were all modified. I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually add ejection seats.

yea sick plane. How big is the TA-1 vs a Space-X falcon 9?

Does he have any famous escapades or are you just referring to the cool name?

@@oshaghenesy he started a restaurant chain.

What a hoot.

@@oshaghenesyThe only Hooter I know is the character in the short film Captain EO.

Likely a man. Goats have hooves, and hooves cannot manipulate a keyboard in that way.

@@mikebergman1817 And Females haven't got the aptitude ?

They’re just extremely happy it didn’t porpoise up and break their plane in two! Ryan Aeronautical had drones drop and then immediately nosed up and took out engines of the mother craft.

@ezsnacklest EXACTLY

Butterin the bread right there

I guess they abandoned their dangerous killer design they had before.

Didn't even slow down

Real

wym

This was started by Paul Allen. Microsoft co founder.@@KuostA

Oh, sure, one flight, all profitable now! /s

This aircraft could be very profitable once it gets to scale. Much lower cost of launching payloads into near-space or into space, will drive its adoption.

Paul Allen would be happy his money is making a difference now

Yea thats what I wanna know

It hit my mom :/

huge fail thinking you're funny @@langfingerli

Primary objectives for the flight test included accomplishing safe air-launch release of the TA-1 vehicle, engine ignition, acceleration, sustained climb in altitude, and a controlled water landing.

@@lockwoodpeckinpaugh9252 no I got all of that, but what happened to the vehicle? Did it land in water or splashed down or crashed or what? is it reusable? is it classified? then just say that in the video.

Yes and the x-15 is and will always remain the fastest maned aircraft to ever fly, it flew at well over 4000 mph. In October of 1967 William J. Knight flew the x-15 to a top speed of mach 6.70, nearly 7 times the speed of sound or 4,520 mph at 102,100 feet, a little over 19 miles above the ground though it could fly as high as 354,000 feet, 67 miles above the ground. The x-15 is a marvelous aircraft and is also an insane feat of engineering. Even in today's world i highly doubt we could ever build it.

@@M_03256 "Even in today's world i highly doubt we could ever build it." Then you are dumb.

Indeed, maybe it fell over?

They said “into the sun” so I guess…

It landed in so.eones Backyard, he's on the news talking about UFOs😂

They mentioned “bringing it down in the water”

Or worse, it never came back 😂

For this particular test, I believe it was intended to discard the vehicle after the mission. There will be a recoverable version soon.

I agree. A dull presentation with no figures at all. Not impressed. If it didn't achieve hypersonic speeds then bad timing for this video. Give us the wheat, not the chaff.

It achieved supersonic speeds. Came just short of hypersonic, though@@amcds2867

A lot of missing information here. Not impressed.

We heard it here folks! Let’s stop making new cars and instead start making nuclear reactors!

womp womp

The wings are mostly for flying at the edge of space to get the payload as heigh as possible

@@GamingTrivia1113 no they're not - they're to enable this monster to carry a miniaturized Falcon 9 and drop it to airlaunch it. That plan was abandoned in the early 2010s when SpaceX dropped out of the partnership, but the plane got built anyway.

No such thing as “payload way to [sic] small”. The plane will fly with ZERO payload. 😎

It was either that or filling paper bags at Wallmart.

strange indeed

and slower XD

Asking the right question. Who wrote the storyline of this video and thought it would be a good idea to leave that part out?

I suspect it is still going... probably passing the Moon by now 😂

They say at 0:48 « bringing down into the water »

@flsp81 there's a lot of that about lol. Probably the Pacific given take off from Mojave base. Thinking more about distance traveled, recovery.

Homing in on you now...

And landing.

Agreed we saw virtually nothing and got no speed/altitude data

Yeah this was done in the 60s so much progress over the last 60years is incredible. 😂

We should be progressed a lot further than just duplicating that by now. :-(

@@patrickrampy6885 It shows that American engineering in the sixties, with little in the way of computer assistance was amazing.

Yes

Why though

I believe the main focus for the company is to provide an affordable means for repeated hypersonic testing, not building a hypersonic plane.

You do realize it’s all about the airborne launch platform?

they say what the goal is at 0:54

Go build something of your own and then come back.

The rocket powered glide vehicle look like a glide missile or drone for the military like the Chinese WZ-8. I guess that is why little is said about it. But I do agree it is a waste of money to use a stratolauncher to hoist the vehicle to its launch point, an old 737 or B52 would have done just fine. The Chinese launch the WZ-8 from old soviet era bombers.

Wouldn't you like to know, lol. I'm sure whatever this thing's actual mission is will be top secret for decades.

the next version will be capable of returning and landing on a runway. it should fly later this year.

So this one simply went out to sea and crash landed?

@@kneewall49 pretty much. it was just supposed to test the engine and glide control. after engine shutdown, it just glided in a controlled manner until falling back into the ocean (no recovery as far as im aware)

How did pilots end up coming down out of a plane? Lots of detail missing here.

@@freds4703 the pilots piloted the mothership, not the rocket-plane (TA-1). the TA-1 was autonomous.

It was originally designed for launching space vehicles. This is light duty for it.

@@danboy3399..ROC-1 has the necessary hardware/software/crew for this type of launch, ready to rock and roll. And they’ve done it before. Experience counts. Or they could have spent far more time, energy and money getting another aircraft ready modified, rated and ready.

They literally define their goal, repeatedly.

Yeah, where did it go?

Sounds like it touched down in the Pacific Ocean.

​Crashed in the Pacific?​@@lukasclark884

Oops, you accidentally posted a comment to the wrong video.

There isn't much stress on the center section. the two halves of the wing mostly balance each other out. Like two aircraft flying in close formation. (Very close formation actually). Many years ago I made a similar radio controlled model (smaller, only 4 meters of span), which was so fragile it needed two people to lift it, but it flew fine. If I had attempted to lift it under the center, the wing would have broken, but there was absolutely no problems when flying.

It's a ScaledComposites / Rutan design Most of them look that way This thing can lift 250 ton, that's 2 C-5 loads !

@@sablatnic8030 I agree that in laminar flow conditions that this correct, but I was thinking of turbulent conditions. Consider specifically if you have different airflow across the two horizontal stabilizers. This will create torque across the center wing section. That's a really long lever arm, so there will be a lot of torque.

@@thekinginyellow1744 There are no problems, not in turbulens either, in bad turbulence you can see, on my model, several degrees difference in the incidence of the two fuselages, but the two stabilizers work as damping surfaces, that keep the whole thing under control. On one flight I controlled the elevators via a mixer, so I could use the elevators as servo rudders for a sort of wing twist, and on that flight I saw about ten degrees of difference between the fuselages, the wings just twisting, but still no problem, apart from a large adverse yaw - more in fact than the small rudders could hold. Still no problem, just use less aileron and/or enlarge the fins and rudders.

Good grief, It was a test.

@@danboy3399…yeah, people such as @NvTwist expect a baby to dance a Tango, run a marathon, cure cancer, end hunger. and achieve World Peace , about two seconds after birth…. Kinda like full-grown Gods being born out of Zeus’s forehead…..

Some of this flight might or later could be classified......

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Why?

@@steveh1792 the launch vessel is unnecessarily large for one. The thing is the size of one of the largest jet liners to launch something the size of a small aircraft. For comparison look at Richard Branson's starship. And for the amount of money it just seems like little progress. I don't know. I'm just an observer. But it just feels bloated.

I was screaming that in my head I'm glad the first comment sees it to lol

@@Keys879VG needs a new carrier with no plans to build one. Maybe they can rent this one and launch 2 spaceships!