The fighter jet that was 'too fast' - The French Leduc 022 

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Pilot: “Where do I sit?” Engineer: “You’re the inlet cone.” Pilot: “but what about ejecti-“ Engineer: “Get in.”

That must’ve been absolutely terrifying to fly

Crazy to think ramjets were proposed in 1913, so early in aviation history!

I’m astounded to see that these craft weren’t merely figments of a fevered computer artist’s imagination! They were real! By all means…do a report of the Griffon next, please!

Excavators may be more humble than interceptors, but they literally build the world we live in.

Something missing in your video. Not a word on the only pilot who flyed this dangerous plane, dangerous for the pilot. By luck, my Father best friend, the pilot Jean Sarailh, was some times home. He was a fascinating guy. A very tough man, hard rugby player before WW2 who joined the French Résistance. Prisoner in Germany, he escaped to get back to the fight. Every flight on the different types of Leduc was a trip to hell. Many accidents staked out the Leduc adventure.

Not only you should a video on the Griffin, but also on all the weird aircrafts that were built by the US, UK, USSR, during the fifties and early sixties.

Leduc was very bitter that his program was cancelled in february 1958 and used to say : "You see technical life is like human life. In the end the germs always win."

Hi there. It's great to see this film. One of the engineers of this plane is André Gallopin and the partner of my father his sister (my aunt). He is 96 years old now and lives in Six Four les plages near Toulon (South of France). I'm really overwelded to see this nice documentary! Well done! 😊 (I just forwarded it to him. I wonder what his reaction will be... Best regards, Frank

Rene was well respected outside of his home country as well. They actually named a city after him in Alberta, Canada. :)

You, Real engineering and Mustard have to be one of the best youtube channels out there, you should do a Collab! (If you haven't already)

4:46 as a Frenchman, hearing this famous quote that I used to hear all the time in history class as a child brought a nostalgic tear to my eye... Cheers !

It’s hard to look at the later theorized model of this plane with the dual engines and tail fins without immediately seeing its similarities to the back end of an SR-71 Blackbird. Simplistic yet somehow futuristic looking design, bet that thing struggled mightily to turn at any speed, though! Great video, as always! Love your content!

The "grognard " is a notable piece of interest I think. It was perhaps one step closer to production. Same for the "taon". Many thanks from the French community for covering a very rich era of our aviation.

One of my grandpa’s best friends was the (or one of the?) test pilots of the Leduc, and he once got severly injured ejecting from it. Our families still are neighbours.

Very good video, French plane programs are very interesting and I would recommend you cover the Griffon (Ramjet fighter that was a competitor to the mirage III) but also the various Mirage Mach 3 programs, including the Mirage MZI-46Q (Mach IV capable interceptor with a ramjet).

This plane was so genius and ahead of its time .... I never knew such a plane actually existed and flew that early 😮 Luckily for me...Paris is a few kilometers away.... I got to see that wonder 😁 Thank you !

Awesome looking plane. I think the guy who designed Blake 7's Liberator must have seen the 21/22 as the main body of the Liberator bears a striking resemblance to the cockpit of the plane.

I didn't realise the idea of the ramjet dated all the way back to the 30s. Amazing!

Requesting videos on the following: -switchblade aircraft designs such as the FA-37 Talon from the ‘05 movie “Stealth” or the X-02 Wyvern from the Ace Combat franchise (the concept, not the actual fighters I mentioned) -Super Tomcat-21 and ASF-14 -the NATF program as a whole -early ATF proposals -Sea Apache -F-20 Tigershark -Bae SABA -Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Bomber proposal -Northrop’s proposal for what would become the F-117 Nighthawk -Interstate TDR -JSF proposals OTHER THAN the X-32 and X-35 -XFV-12 -Gloster Meteor -the proposals that didn’t win the F-X program that spawned the F-15 Eagle

This looks like something I would make as a child 10/9 would fly

Man this is awesome!! I've read about this french machine and was hopping to watch some content about it. Glad it was you! EXCELLENT WORK Thank you so much!

This guy was incredible! I like the design, but with some modifications could be used today…. 😮

In the same style we have the S0 9000 "TRIDENT" , a really particular plane too, with a really cool design ^^ ! I'm french and Thank for you for your videos in this concept !

I absolutely love this channel. I've been studying and researching military aircraft since I was a kid in the late '80s - early 90's where I discovered that my hometown of Stratford CT was ground zero for the development and production of the F4U Corsair.

Amazing vision. Happy LeDuc was able to build his creation. Truly a gifted engineer!

I swear to god the french make insane planes.

The turbojet-ramjet hybrid concept would live on in some other aircraft, most notably the A-12/SR-71, which used it to go mach 3. From what I've heard the engines could have pushed it faster, the limiting factor was heating of the airframe from high-mock air compression against it. In that design the turbojets were running the entire flight, but at high speed most of the air was bypassing them and going straight to the afterburner, hence functioning mostly as a ramjet. It can be noted that the SR-71's engine nacelles looked pretty similar to the fuselage of this aircraft, with a central spike and annular inlet, but the SR-71 had the pilot in a central fuselage rather than the engine nosecone.

You could have mentioned that the Ram jet is still beeing used nowadays for missiles. Because that was the core of the idea. If you are interested in the Griffon, maybe then the Trident will be interesting. One thing i thought was cool: On your video at Musée de l'air et de l'espace, we can see a Payne Katty behind, another pretty cool machine, and another crazy inventor... Nice video, keep it up, and thanks!

Also that tandem one is terrifying; one engine packing it in would result in one hell of an imbalance.

I'm using that phrase whenever it fits from now on. "That didn't stop Leduc!"

Thank you for such a informative video, he was way ahead of his time.

Hats off to the boys in purple-Don’t forget the ASLA2- B fighter pod built by the French & the Alecranians just north of the Hilltop mountains in Zabomby. They also designed a macro wave powered can opener which saved the troops in Malayans, Ireland.

Leduc the supersonic ballpoint pen.

can't wait to watch another facinating video!

Amazing! Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

I just saw and heard the best add in my life. man that was hillarious!

Gotta wonder if Gerry Anderson maybe got his inspiration for Thunderbird 1 from the Leduc.

This plane and other Leduc’s prototypes can be seen at the "Musée de l’air et de l’espace" (Air and Space Museum) at Le Bourget airport, near Paris.

Have you ever hears of the comic book "Blake and Mortimer" ? In the first books they use a plane called the Espadon which is very similar to this Leduc 22 (vingt deux if you want tonbe french enough)

I feel like this might have been at least partly the inspiration for Thunderbird 1.

Very interesting video. Thanks!

Man I love learning about weird airplanes and jets. Your videos grab my attention every single time I see one. Great job buddy ❤ Cheers from St. Louis, Missouri USA (former home of McDonell-Douglass)

Good video, amazing aircraft.

Please do the Nord 1500 Griffon! Also, what about the closed wing idea?

Keep the videos coming!!

I remember people saying your channel was a Mustard rip off but you are doing your own thing and it's different and it's awesome

The front section is made of glass, it looks scary no matter how it looks 😱😱

Bonjour de France. Marvelous job you did. Humoristic, realistic, with very cool animations...Félicitation. (P.S: one little thing, in French 99 times out of 100 you never prononce the last letter. ;) )

4:45 I love that they started to crack themselves up reading the sponsorship

Wow! amazing video!

One of the most unusual cockpits in an aircraft ever….

One of the most beautiful and innovative design ever. The cocpit and it's unique surrounding glass was in itself a jewelery masterpiece !

I can't believe ive never heard of this plane before, incredible.

You gotta love that early 20th century creativity.

That must've sucked being the engineers at that company going from an experimental jet to hydraulic equipment

SR-71 engineers looking at the leduc 030: What do you mean the front fell off?

I've always been interested in early jet "experimental aircraft." There is lots of info available on American designs like the x-planes or the many German designs for jet fighters and bombers at the wnd of WWII, but this is the first time I ever heard of this interesting French design. Thanks for the fascinating video!

The way this guy links the sponsors using the theme of the video is great and hilarious. For sure Leduc would have use Private Internet Access🤣

I saw it in real life at the museum of air and space at le Bourget airport a few years ago. Very impressive plane. Could you talk about the Dassault Mirage III V-01 or the S.N.C.A.S.O. SO 9000 Trident I ? They are in the same hall of the museum.

A video about the Nord 1500 Griffon would be quite interesting.

I've wanted to learn more about this craft for some time.

@11:57.....i also like the way you say it with a deep voice "LEDUC"......😅😅😅😅

I want to go back in time and show Top Gun: Maverick to Leduc. Imagine his reaction when he sees the Dark Star

I am very happy to see the a person who speak about french aircraft because i'm french and the french youtuber speak only about american aircraft (this is cool but i want to learn more about our air history ) thanks ❤❤

All that power was required to lift the pilots hefty ball bag. I've got chills just looking at it.

X Wing vibes 😎👌

Has French, i'm verry proud to see this plane here, thanks :)

that thing looks like it has a turning radius of a boat

Never subscribed, yet ...and now as you've intertwined sponsor product into the subject content, well.. you guys just knocked off a potential subscriber.

Well, learnt something today! Pretty smart to manage to combine the turbine jet with the ram jet - and by a Frenchman! Thanks for the video. 😎🇦🇺

I love the idea of "pffff silly pilots with your normal jet engines." *in a French accent

I would very much like to see a video on the Nord Griffon and it's potential prototypes

Fabulous video. Plz do one on the Griffon and the Fairey Delta 2

Fun fact : The nord AA-20 air-to-air missile was radar guided. 1st tested in 1948 using a JU-88 as the firing aircraft 😁! It was an evolution of the AA-10 which was nothing more than a former german wire guided air to air missile. The AA-20 was never put into service, being replaced by the R-530. It evolved into the AS-30 (radar) and then the AS-30L air to ground laser guided missile which was used to great effect during the 1st gulf war! If both programs (Leduc 022 and AA-20) had been completed, there would have been an interceptor with the same specs as the F-104 by the early 50s!

The design is similar to the Thunderbird 1, I wonder if Mr Anderson took some inspiration from it

F-104: "They call me Lawndart." LEDUC: "Hold my absinthe."

I wonder if this plane was secretly the inspiration for Thunderbird 1. 😉

Screw the infirmation, all these wonderful animations and drawings, I want to see Leducs reaction to that commercial NOW 😂😂😂

Great video, I would love to see one on the Nord Griffon 1500 and one on the French SNCASO SO.9000 Trident ram jet aircraft

I know it is true, but watching the pictures it still seems an alternate history tale.

A amazing Aircraft,Strange to see and maybe fly but good idea behind it.

The Griffon looks very cool. I'd love a video on it.

2:04 The Breguet 763 looks cool af, you should do a video about it

me with a time machine in 1930: «René, il faut qu'on cause. So if I were you I'd design it a bit differently, with a cockpit on the top with pyrotechnics to eject the seat, an automatic gun, and missiles that hangs to their target automatically based on heat... I'd call it Rafale, if we can have a couple of dozens ready by 1938 that would be nice. I sketched some things, with electronics that don't rely on tubes but silicium devices called transistors. Also that last diagram is a new type of bomb, it's got enriched uranium, plutonium and a core of tritium, if anything goes wrong it could wipe Berlin or Moscow.»

The Flying Blowtorch!😂😂

🇫🇷 merci !! Superbe video sur l'extrordinaire Leduc, avec votre accent c'est super !! . Comme les francais sont presque aussi dingues que les britanniques 😅 on inventes toujours des "trucs" en 1954 on ne dit pas Viêtnam... mais "indochina" ..😢

please make a video of the mirage F1, a true engineering beauty (i'm french. also i think breguet is pronounced "bre-gay" cuz there's a U after the G. that's only what i think.)

Can definitely see the lineage towards the A12/SR71 with the twin engine version in particular. Sharing the same ramjet/turbojet hybrid concept too.

Nice vid

Interesting aircraft! Its layout (bar the engine) is very reminiscent of the Miles M.52.

perfect addition to the Fallout universe

The picture appearing repeatedly in this video supposed to be the man who designed these aircrafts is the picture of an homonym, a french politician, René Alexandre Leduc, born in 1901. The aircrft designer was René Henri Leduc, born in 1898.

This plane is utterly insane!!

Yes for the Griffin video!!

Saw this thing in the musee l'air et spaace in Paris, i did not even know what the heck was haha

I had the honour of seeing the LeDuc 022 and its cousins at the Paris Museum of the Air at Le Bourget. You guys have to go! It's so cute!

Now I want to name my future kid Leduc. I love that name.

Frances Le Bourget National Air & Space Museum is a must! Everything from testosterone and adrenaline death machines like the Leduc 022, too the diminutive Night Witches exhibit.