STRANGEST Airplanes and Ships In The World

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from experimental design aircraft to unique and weird both these are the 15 strangest airplanes and ships in the world number 15 the white night to Scaled Composites the white night - is the cargo aircraft - this design to carry the spaceship to spacecraft in essence the wk2 is a mothership let's back up a little so we can understand what's going on here so the Virgin Galactic company owns the athlete called spaceship company which is in the business of space tourism the wk2 will carry the spacecraft to a fedora release altitude and all the people on board the spacecraft will get to enjoy the final frontier well the suborbital final frontier anyway as of right now they are still in the testing phase of this massive project I know it sounds crazy but we're living in the future folks get with the times and before we move on I would like to introduce you to the white knights competition Chad the straddle launch carrier they get all the praise number 14 RP Slick Gunderson brothers engineering in the 60s some guys from the Navy were like hey we want to research the fine-scale phase in amplitude fluctuations in undersea sound waves caused by thermal gradients and sloping oceans what I I guess I had something to do with hunting enemy submarines and by hunting I mean hitting them with a five kiloton nuclear warhead called the UM 44 sub rock 4 submarine rocket at first they use submarines for the research but they weren't steady or crazy-looking enough so the RP slip was developed I think the R P stands for a research platform and flip stands for a floating instrument platform it's pretty much a massive buoy and for those not familiar with it it just looks like a capsized ship ready to sink into the deep dark ocean below also this boat can't really go anywhere by itself so it has to get dragged around like a little kid 4:13 airlander 10 hybrid air vehicles this is definitely the thickest plane on our list but is it the largest the builders state that the airlander 10 is the largest aircraft that is gracing our beautiful skies let's see if it holds up and it's not just some classification trickery it looks like it is 26 feet longer than the intone of an-225 so my guess would be yeah it's definitely the largest plane on earth and by the way do you know how damn big the Hindenburg airship was just for comparison steak look at this chart damn so what organization decided they needed this giant aircraft would you believe it it was the US Army looks like the unit cost around 25 million British pounds the US Army canceled the project after they saw the first test flight I guess the generals couldn't handle the curves I'm a little confused here the army requested this airship for the purpose of long endurance multi intelligence gathering what kind of intelligence are you going to gather when you're the biggest thing in the sky well here's some of the reasoning behind it quite the sales pitch if you ask me number 12 the Novgorod Imperial Russian Navy widely regarded is one of the worst warships ever built the Novgorod has at least one thing going for it its uniqueness considering it actually saw some action in the russo-turkish war I wouldn't call it a complete failure apparently the Novgorod was a mess to steer even in perfect conditions and if the ship was caught in a current it was just start spinning around aimlessly that doesn't sound like fun at all after serving a stint as a Coast offender the Novgorod nicknamed the Popova was scrapped in 1911 all we have left is miniature models and some really grainy photos number 11 the Vaught g1 73 but I wasn't even planning this segue but here we are from round ships to round planes V 173 nicknamed the flying pancake was one of the first strange all wing airplane design and as bizarre as it looked it did provide high maneuverability unfortunately it was just one more of those weird designs that people learn valuable information from but was never used in any official capacity at least the model is still up on display number 10 the Hughes Glomar Explorer Sun shipbuilding and drydock company welcome to the cold war where innovation and espionage were divided by a very little blurred line the hughes glower explorer was built under the orders of the CIA as a deep-sea drill for their operation codenamed Azorean when the russians lost their k-129 submarine in the middle of the pacific ocean US intelligence really wanted to get their hands on the remains one point seven billion dollars later and we have the GSF Explorer the Glomar successfully grabbed onto the submarine but a catastrophic failure in the grapple mechanisms caused the submarine to split in two with most valuable information falling back to the seafloor for more information on this case check out my craziest Declassified military projects video there will be a link to it at the end of this one number 9 NASA ad1 Ames industrial company the ad1 is another experimental aircraft from the Cold War era this time NASA was interested in seeing how far aircraft wings could be pivoted as it turns out this plane could pivot its wings up to 60 degrees and still be able to fly the plane was built and tested between 1979 and 1982 but the first designs for such aircraft came from Germany in 1944 the test was a success the so-called oblique wing aircraft flew never crashed and the NASA scientists got some valuable information you can still see the plane on display at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos California number 8 the floating prison Avondale Industries the Vernon C Bain Correctional Center is unique in many aspects one being that it's a frickin barge most barges are not self-propelled and this one is no different prison ships are nothing new but you would assume that they were all used by now right wrong nicknamed the boat this ship can hold up to 800 inmates for the low price of 161 million dollars it is designed for medium to maximum security prisoners but it also has a bunch of juveniles in the late 90s so do you think it would be easier or harder to escape a floating prison in 2002 an inmate escaped the prison by climbing the 30-foot rec area fence the guards on duty could not go after him since their shoes were too big so did they shoot him no did they tase him no did they throw basketballs at him in the hopes of stopping him yes he was picked up by a police boat shortly after his successful escape number 7 v-22 Osprey Boeing the v-22 Osprey might be the most expensive piece of machinery on this list it's estimated that the total research and development costs up to fifty six billion dollars with cost per unit at about 100 million but it does look pretty cool so there's that I guess the Osprey has tilting rotors that allow it to take off vertically like a helicopter then transform into a horizontal fixed-wing mode that's much faster the plane is shrouded in controversy between 1991 and 2030 fatalities were caused in four separate crashes and since 2007 there have been five more crashes and nine more fatalities it looks like the v-22 made the news again over the weekend it crashed off the coast of Queensland Australia most likely trying to land on an aircraft carrier 23 of the 26 Marines on board made it out they searched for the other three but right now it's considered a recovery mission number six the hsv-2 in cat next up we have the hsv-2 and please for the love of God don't Google that without putting ship at the end this beauty has been passed around from government to government originally built as a proof of concept by the Australian firm in cat the Swift was first used by the US Navy at first the ship was going to be a minesweeper but it was only officially used for humanitarian operations and fleet support after the US Navy stint the ship was sold to the united arab emirate national marine dredging company in 2016 the ship was seriously damaged and attacked by rebels off the coast of Yemen the rebels claimed the ship sank but the US Department of Defense said that it didn't I'm going to go with the DoD information on this one number five proteus to 8:1 Scaled Composites hey would you look at that another scale composite design on this list these guys sure know how to make weird-looking flames the 281 Proteus is the high altitude long endurance aircraft it is capable of orbiting a point 63 thousand feet in the air for 18 hours at a time the plane has been a massive success it has even been used by multiple US agencies so next time you're doing something shady in your backyard just remember the NSA could have one of these bad boys hovering miles above you number four planets solar Tierra Myung Bao well the name of this definitely gives it away but here we go the planet solar is the largest solar powered boat in the world and it's the first solar powered vehicle to circumnavigate it the top of the boat is covered in 57 square feet of solar panels rated at 93 kilowatts there's about 8 tons of lithium ion batteries inside the ship and in other words if this ship was a vape pen I'm pretty sure everyone in the world would know about it the builders believe that after testing was finished the boat would be purchased by a wealthy billionaire to be used as a luxury yacht Elon Musk ignored my email on the subject so I'm guessing it wasn't meant for him right now the planet Solar is being used as a floating Marine Church laughed by the Geneva University number 3 HL 10 Northrop so the guys over at NASA wanted to see if you can fly planes that have no wings so everyone's surprised the HL 10 did just that in this amazing picture we see the wingless aircraft and its pilot after a flight while a Boeing and b-52 B mothership flies above a spectacular sight if you ask me my understanding of this whole project goes like this the HL 10 was supposed to be a space reentry craft that could use an engine to prolong the gliding phase and then land safely at lower speeds there were 37 test flights the highest speed reach was 1,200 27 miles per hour the project was shut down before any space reentry test could be done and the HL 10 can be seen on display at Edwards Air Force Base number two johan zark johan Super's this is a full scale model of the famous biblical Noah's Ark it's over Johan for years and eight helpers to complete the seven story 450 foot long survival ship a rough estimate on the amount of trees that were cut down to make it is about 12,000 and a few years before Johan built a half-scale arc just by himself even though there's other full scale replicas of Noah's Ark this is the only one that actually floats it was open to the public in 2012 just now filled with animals yes number one the Concorde BAC and s UD aviation ever since I found out that a prototype version of the concorde was used to chase the 1973 total solar eclipse i've wanted to share that information with all of you and the upcoming total solar eclipse in the US was the perfect opportunity I believe this picture is real and not manipulated there isn't any easily researchable information on it since I believe the scientists were focused more on the total eclipse and not the plane to reaches speeds of 1,300 miles per hour are you excited about the upcoming total solar eclipse across the USA I wonder if there will be any flying viewing party it looks like there is one but sadly it's invite-only unfortunately the concorde was a failed experiment altogether the 20 aircraft built were in operation for 27 years which is a major accomplishment but on July 25th 2000 the first and only fatal Concorde accident happened 100 passengers 9 crew members and four people on the ground lost their lives needless to say this had a very negative impact on the success of the plane by 2003 all concorde flights were canceled and the planes were retired they can be found in museums all over the world so not always lost check out the featured comment below I'll see you in the next video subscribe to world on earth and don't miss my upcoming video on mysterious top secret planes like the b-2 spirit x-37b and much more

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Published: Mon Aug 07 2017

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