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This is actually kinda funny to me, since I’ve literally stolen the explosion FX from the vertibird and repurposed it for use my mods for other explosives.
At Anchorage, there was no sweeter sound to my unit than the sound of the Stingray whenever we got one for CAS. I can still hear that sound to this day.
Man if you want a series that focuses on kooky planes based off of real designs you should look up stuff for Crimson Skies and Skycrawlers. Crimson Skies is a dieselpunk world set in the 1930s after America got balkanized and is almost entirely focused on being air pirates with zeppelins. Meanwhile the Skycrawlers is a novel/anime series where conventional war has ended and been replaced with PMCs getting hired to settle disputes with aerial dogfights. Crimson Skies is more American designs while Sky Crawlers is there for the Japanese side of things.
Crimson Skies is a wonderful game, my now thirtysomething sons had endless fun playing it in the old days. Beautiful airships bristling with machinegun positions and being attacked by fighters.
Skycrawlers lives in my head rent-free. My dad got it from Redbox when my brother and I were prolly waaaay too young to watch it, but to this day I remember loving that movie!
The MC’s Plane in Crimson Skies was such a great design. All the elements of a biplane rearranged like an X-wing, with the vertical stabilizers doubling as fixed rear landing gear. Truly a great plane.
Couple of corrections: 4:54 - that Vertibird is not an official design. It's a cargo Vertibird drawn by a Gray-Skull. 7:40 - Just because those Stingrays are next to the Sea of Tranquility section doesn't mean they actually belong to that section. Elsewhere in the same mural we have biplanes next to the four-turreted USS Missouri and a Minuteman in front of the WW1 era tank.
So, they got the hull number wrong, but it should be USS Montana, which would have been BB-67 if the class wasn't canceled. Or it could have been her sister ship, USS Ohio BB-68.
YES DUDE, bring one the fictional stuff! And as an Ace Combat fan, I am putting my vote up for the world of Strangereal! You could have an episode dedicated to Gründer Industries alone!
Not sure if Ace Combat would be as popular, especially at the moment, but AC8 is due...eventually, so whenever that is, a video on the series surely has to be worth doing! AC is worth a few videos too, since you've got the prototypes and variants of real planes (some of which have been on the channel of course), the weapons for regular planes (like the lasers), the fictional prototype planes (X-02, CFA-44, ADF-01, etc) and of course the big beasts like the Arkbird, Arsenal Bird, P-1112, and more. Plus drones of course. Loads of interesting stuff in there!
@@ApothecaryTerry I respectfully disagree. People perk up and pay attention in these niche spaces when ace combat is brought up. If this were a more generic channel with a bunch of normies, I'd agree with you. But with the audience that F&I had cultivated, I think the video should do well regardless of ac8 being out or not. Plus, that's gonna be a while. We don't even have an announcement trailer or anything, just a green light and knowledge it is in production.
The idea of those passenger planes being able to fly for ages makes for a funny idea, a flight of people who managed to survive the bombing, rarely if ever landing and those who stayed aboard turning them into self sufficient environments. Would make for a super cool set piece in a fallout game set within the first 100 years after the war.
They have nets hanging from the landing gear to catch and eat radioactive birds, and get their water through recycled urine, radioactive cloud water, and blood. They eat people who put the plane at an imbalance aka undesirables, the elderly, the disabled, and those that were unfortunate enough to be born during an excess of people. Snow-piercer 2.0.
Like the snowpiercer but as a plane. (The snow piercer is a fictional train which travels around the world after climate manipulation failed and turned the earth into a ice desert. The train has micro biomes, a fish tank, a cow farm and farms, basically a city in a gigantic train)
i like how he handwaves northrop flying wings after mentioning the america bomber, that wasnt a flying wing, and the ho 229. you can almost sense the approval and disdain in his voice. "as well as northrops attempts......" like seriously dude
The Horten brothers did have designs on the drawing board for extremely large flying wing bombers that woukd have (allegedly) had the range to make it to America. It wasn't just Messerachmitt, Focke-Wulf, and B&V that had a hat in that ring.
Yeah, and with absolutely no mention of the F117, B2 or B21 projects, which are, or were, operational. He completely removes Jack Northrop's entire additions to aerospace. Sure, flying wings weren't his idea, but nor were they first thought of by the Nazis. It would have been much better if he just stated flying wing, or actually operational projects.
FYI, the Fallout Vertibirds are tilt wing craft, meaning their engines and wings tilt up. While the US currently uses tilt engine/rotator designs in the Osprey and soon to be deployed Valor. Meaning only the engines/rotators tilt up and down the wings stay fixed.
The Tula flying boat in GTAV has tilt wing, a rather silly looking aircraft with four enormous engines (it would look better with two like a Catalina). The Osprey clone the Avenger is tilt engine.
Grumman made the F9F Panther, which was basically a P-80 with just a couple changes to the shape of the airframe and folding wings. I know they were not made by the same manufacturer, but they were very, very similar.
Most of the real life designs for these vehicles were abandoned for a reason and a few were just impractical. All fallout vehicles would be fusion and not fission due to the enormous weight of shielding required for fission. See project Pluto for details. The brotherhoods air ship lacks sufficient hydrogen bags to lift it, even if its "armor" is merely Kevlar and carbon fiber. The Vertibirds and the large passenger plane are the most realistic given a fusion bottle instead of Aviation gas for fuel.
They’re likely fission because fusion and by proxy cold fusion was only really unlocked right before the war, including power armor as well. Instead, i reckon they found a solution around the shielding problem because they had such reactors in cars, if they had them in airliners as well, they likely found some way around it, fallout radiation does work differently from real lifes anyways
Fusion has the same radiation concerns as fission, lol, even worse in most instances because it's neutron radiation, which is notoriously difficult to shield against.
@@Yomotomen The problem with that is the Power armor was in use for a long enough time to go through several different models all powered by a fusion core. And you really really need to read about project Pluto, which was a real life project to design a nuclear powered aircraft.
@@Allegheny500 yes because while fusion cores found quick military implementation, the time for civilian implementation was delayed and too late, dude, it’s a game, you’re looking too far into it
The vertibird is formidable, true. Except in Fallout 4 wher the Brotherhood will use a vertibird to attack someone and in a minute or less it is shot out of the sky. They hardly ever survive. Also, they always go towards the player while crashing. The cargo plane does not have a high wing. The wing root is at the bottom of the fuselage, which makes it a low wing, but it does appear to have some dihedral which would give it stability. A high wing would be rooted at the top of the fuselage.
I've been a huge fan of exploring Fallout's prewar stuff in-game. And as an aviation enthusiast, I remember spending hours just examining the P80-like jet at the carrier in F3, and looking at the Vertibird's propeller in F4. I always loved this about Fallout, that the imagination from the game is clearly inspired on crazy, cold war designs, particularly from the soviets. Fallout planes make me think if the Ekranoplan and all those retro futuristic ideas.
I really enjoy videos like this as I always liking to know what kind of things they have in video game, movies, shows, and etc. For how the world they bring for people to enjoy that they also happened to create types of things to either drive or see in the fictional worlds, specially it always have me wonder what else is there because we see little of them.
Loved coming across the Horizon airliners in the Commonwealth. They also remind me a bit of the Junkers G.38 because of the passenger lounges in the wings.
Love your channel and your topics. Could you possibly talk about the aircraft from either the Halo or Gears of War universes? Love to see what you come up with.😊
always fun in Fo4 to turn the boston airport into a minutman / brotherhood of steel military air base with damaged aircraft made to look like they are being repaired / salvaged plus 2 intact stingrays on the runway ready to go. also works great with vertibird mods and the stingray air strike mod.
This was an great video! I think the transport aircraft mentioned at the Las Vegas Airport might be dual purpose, it has too many windows to be a pure cargo aircraft.
I love this!! More fictional aircraft pondering please!!! I'm inspired to build the arcjet in Juno new origins thanks to you it might actually look awesome and function properly. Please, more..more!..
This was a really great video, very well done. Got a like and subscribe from me! Would’ve been cool to also see the USS Constitution discussed, and speaking of which, if you do more videos like this, Treasure Planet could be a fun dive!
I never understood how many of there tech can be so small or compacted, like the robots or the pit boy when there using vacuum tubes instead of microprocessors
Okay, about the Vertibird and helicopters, we know helicopters exist in the Fallout universe. Because they existed during WWII. The Sikorsky R-4 was preforming rescue and transport operations during WWII. It was just limited. And we know that it's post-WWII (commonly thought to be 1947 when the transistor was invented in our universe, and wasn't invented until much later in the Fallout universe). It's just that this is what the military was using and trying to develop. Which fits, because even the DoD today is trying to push through tilt-rotor aircraft as well.
the jet looks like a combination of a Glostor Metor and a Gotha 229 V3, also the P80 is a radar guided rocket interceptor, its front falls off to reveal about 60 guided rockets behind the front canopy that falls off when you press the button, it has no machine guns as those would take up the place for the rockets, and the wings are gas tanks, hence why they never folded them with reserve tanks at either end and the F86 replaced them given it went back to machine guns in the front, and the ability to fire the rockets from the sides and the dome on the front of the P80 sometimes did have a radar in the nose on the latter versions with the rockets replacing the tanks on the end with a radar man behind the pilot the overall idea of the p80 being that it would fly up behind something like the Russian Bear, lock on with the radar and just have at it, and you'd have to go back and refill and also keep in mind that in this era the era of the p80, jet aircraft only lasted about 50 hours before the jets needed an overhaul, the technology was that poor
Idea: A very rich individual who for whatever reason didnt trust bunkers. They instead loaded a Jetliner (radiation shielding on the engines of course) with around 150 people as well as the equipment necessary to detect nukes as well as survive for many generations. They would simply fly to parts of the world that wernt actively being nuked and managed to keep going until X time. Then disaster strikes! They get shot down and there are only a few survivors! The most important survivor being the co-pilot(possibly next in line to be "leader"), who is the player and now they must survive on land. Their main options being: Take over a vault, Live on the surface, Find fix and outfit a new Jetliner (or smaller plane) to survive on.
If we’re considering fictional airframes, May I suggest; Anime "Yukikaze" Anime "Sky Crawlers" Movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" Movie “Stealth" to name a few.
As someone who would get really excited and spent a LOT of time exploring every inch of a discovered aircraft wreckage this video is greatly appreciated.
1:58 I bet everyone's heard this little tidbit before but (at least according to US regulations) you get more of a dose of radiation from in a few hours of flight at cruising altitude than you ever would in a year of working at a nuclear power plant. And while fission isn't exactly popular in the Fallout universe (by the 23rd of October 2077), the beryllium agitator room can kill within a few seconds, and yet without it Boston still has power. This probably means within the fallout universe, scientists have made fission reactors so much more efficient that somehow they let off so little radiation that it is only detectable in city powering reactors. This probably means that the civilian liner maybe only double that dose you'd get from cruising altitude. That's if the reactors are able to give off even that much radiation (and aren't shielded in any way).
Fallout's carrier based Lockheed P-80 isnt too much of a stretch. The Navy did consider the P-80 and Lockheed developed the carrier capable TV-2 & T2V-1 trainer versions of the P-80, which were used by the Navy for a short time. In an _alternate_ _universe_ setting, its not hard to imagine Lockheed winning a major Navy contract and the P-80 being the primary carrier fighter.
For the F-80 not being used as a carrier aircraft: the Navy did conider using them and actually tested them on USS Roosevelt (they were refitted with a tailhook and stronger landing gear). They also equiped 2 squadrones with them: VF-52 and VFM-311. For the Navy not aquireing them: it's pretty easy. Lockheed back then just wasn't a major fighter-supplier for the Navy. Branches were pretty segregated in terms of companies they bought from. The Navy often ordered from Vought, McDonell or Grumman. Another fact is that the F-80 wasn't a purpose-built carrier-plane, since Lockheed ath this point in time had absolutely 0 experience building navy-planes. Since the P-59 the Navy had their own fighterjets in development and once the F-80 arrived they already had more suitable aircraft ready, namely the McDonell FH-1 Phantom (no, not the F-4, but a predessesorand her namesake). The Phantom and refitted F-80s were close in performance BUT the Phantom had 2 engines, better slow-speed handeling and a superior landing-gear from the get-go, since she was always meant to be a carrier-fighter
This video is amazing. It’s similar to that of another channel called Skydingo, and his Fallout Vehicles series, but more professionally explained Fallout 4’s Ship Ideas (Page 279, The Art Of Fallout 4) are Another vehicle I’d personally suggest if this series is continued. I’d personally like to hear your take on both the Battleship&Cruise Ship
the P-80 was considered for the navy and had some special versions made to test but when they were tested they already had a jet, also the bomber was a B-29
Stratolaunch and White Knight Two are also one-off prototypes. Based purely on aesthetics, the Chinese bomber looks more like a Savoia-Marchetti S.55 than anything else I can think of.
Dude this freaking rules! Make a series about games or even just fictional stuff. Ace combat would be a great one, hell maybe even Star Wars if u wanted. I watch all your stuff. Do more of this and I’ll be watching even more 😂❤
I'm pretty sure pre-war engineers in fallout figured out light weight radiation shielding seeing that they have fusion powered cars and fusion reators small enough to be held in ones hand in the form of fusion core😊
i made the stingray deluxe in the game flyout. I cant be entirely sure ofcourse but the model functions incredibly well in that game. Taking off in less then two hundred meters
Infact, not even as close to a "healthy" green glow you'd get if it were fission-reactors. Since Fusin creates way less radiation since most of the energy is needed for the fusion of 2 atoms/isotopes.
