Why Do Backwards Wings Exist?

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4:17 ... Saints?

The real story is an aerospace engineer brought home a model of a new aircraft in his briefcase and his son found it and broke off the wings playing with it and snapped them back on backwards and put it back and the next day the engineer went to give his presentation and was horrified but the wind tunnel supervisor was intrigued and gave it a try..

I'm only shocked and curious on how the Nazi are intellectual while being a bigot.

7:20 nice flying cog

To look cool.

It has backwings so it can fly backwards.

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wow! amazing!

I find backwards wings's aircraft and fighters kinda...........sexy

Because the whole world is running backwards

This video presupposes a fair amount of aerodynamic knowledge in the viewer.His description of the different characteristics of straight/swept wings comes across as meaningless jargon if one does not posess this knowledge..I would appreciate a more intuitive exposition of the physics involved.

Fair play. If you have to get into aeroelasticity then you know it's going to be difficult to explain.

7:35 What the fudge???

I like the idea of the merger of FSW with Blended wing designs - seen in the Sci-fi Movie stealth.

Could you not just put the ailerons closer to the wing root, rather than sweeping the wings forwards?

And people say war represents the greatest failure of man...

fluids mechanics, applied aerodynamics

Yeah the SU47 Berkut is so much cooler, like any ACE player knows.

This is super interesting. Thank you

Why does the spanwise flow occur?

My favorite plane in Jane's fighters anthology was the x-29

Incredible direct firehose explanation, well done- but that squeaky hinge sound is PURE EAR RAPE. Do engineers not have ears?

Came here to learn about backwards wings. Instead learned how to make better forwards wings on KSP.

Sure it wasn't all those antennas on the nose causing instability? 12:12

Shame these inventions are only used for war.

Got lost somewhere in the video.
Not knowing is a knowledge.

Your video needs some oil, my ears are bleeding. Great video otherwise.

The amount of effort in this video, goodness gracious... well done, Real Engineering, well done.

Why the nails on chalkboard man!

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Can't stop watching these videos, so informative and well edited. Great content mate, keep it up!

OK befor I even watch this they are not backwards wings as they are positioned forwards (-_-)

Awesome video! I have piece of information Id like to add about the P-38. The hydraulics on the P-38 had enough advantage to be able to overcome any aerodynamic stiffening, so that was not the issue. The airflow separation that came from main wing by exceeding the max mach number caused the tails control surface to be caught in a "vacuum". With the hydraulic boosted controls the pilot would have been capable of full elevator deflection, but he lack of air flow over the control surface would make it too ineffective to change the pitch of the aircraft. The only time the P-38 could reach these speeds was when it entered a dive, so if this mach number was reached in the dive to cause the shock wave to form, then there would be almost nothing the pilot could do to regain control as he would be stuck in the dive, unable to pull up with the now useless elevator. From colder (higher) dives the speed of sound is slower, so most of the time get out of the high altitude dive would be that the higher temperatures at lower altitudes would raise the mach number enough to get them out of trans-sonic speeds and regain elevator authority. You can actually find experimental P-38 with an up curved tail boom to try and keep the elevator clear of the "vacuum area", but it proved to be too weak of a structure. The Germans, with there hydraulically advanced aircraft, would eventually figure this out and used this knowledge to be able to escape by diving, knowing the P-38 would not be able to follow them in the dive. Where as the Japanese Zeros did not have hydraulic assistance, so they too were unable to enter a high speed dive, but for the reason of aerodynamic stiffening, so the P-38 dominated the sky where the enemy fighters had no way out.

Can-ards not ka-nards

I would like to see an analysis of the ADF-01 Falken's airframe design, and whether it would be the amazing machine that it's shown to be. Gigantic 3D thrust vectoring engines, a vertical airfoil that extends out when landing gear is up, and a glassless cockpit with a long, sharp nose to divert oncoming radar.

Not once did u mention su 47

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WHY DID YOU CALL THEM BACKWARDS WINGS?!?!?!

Because they look awesome that's why.

May be we see this kind of design again in the future, for example on hypersonic planes and ultra high altitude planes. The computer stabilising is much less of a problem today as it was in the 80s and 90s. The computers back then just weren't fast enough to handle it properly. The early all-wing planes struggled with that as well, since they were also very unstable when flown manually. Similar the first Apache helicopters.
But today any good cell phone has more umphf than the high end computers in the 80s, so its much less of an issue to design a electronic stabiliser system.

They make anime planes backwards wing a real thing? 🤔

Because it looks cool.

The fact that if usa and Russia didn't defeat the nazi's non of their plaens would exist now

Sorry but i am unable to understand this nerdy bullshit.

What a beautiful plane that X-29 is. Great video.

Air burst jets to interrupt the air burst build up by using a small extremely high micro reverse air pressure set around the wings and points to see if you could cancel the sonic boom affect at the point off the bang???and you could add a parachute for RC craft??????

shouldn't the title be: Why Do Forwards Wings Exist?
I guess it's backwards from the norm but they point forwards
in the video itself you also call them forward swept wings

Skip to 8:45.

Is there any military technology that wasn't invented by the Germans?

That awkward moment when the narrator says "BUT".

absolute great programing thank you , you just got a new subscriber

8:40
Me : *WAIT , DID U JUST SAY INFORMATION OF AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY IS EASILY AVAILABLE?*

Can someone explain how modern jets like the f22 deal with supersonic air problems?

The chordwise/spanwise flow theory is total bollocks! It's a simple explanation that doesn't explain how the normal shock wave is diminished using sweep. It can be easily disproved.

Looks like the "Mockingbird" from Robotech.

reverse engineering..hahaha

There is a ton of interlacing in the video.

What about delta wings?

Look up Hansa Jet HFB320. My former boss imported 3 from Germany and flew Air Cargo in them for many years. More volume then a Lear jet, UPS and FedEx used to stuff em full during the busy season.

FSW not 'backwards' dumb sounding title for an engineering channel

I'll stick with my KitFox, thanks.

4:57 meh brin hrts

Ask superman how he fly

Anyone who reads would know why forward swept wing is bad for stealth. The F-22 uses platform alignment as one of its stealth characteristics. Next to impossible to do that with a forward sweep because of the opposing angle of the wing relative to other structures on the aircraft.

Static Stability of an aircraft is determined by the relation of the aerodynamic center (AC) to the center of gravity (CG). Not the relation of the horizontal stabilizer to the CG. The issue with canards is during stall or near stall conditions pitch control can be reduced or lost.

now watching just started, im sure its the shape that gives lift not so much the direction of the wings pointed towards lol

Clear explanations supported by top-knotch graphics and serious amounts of research.Spot on.Thanks dude!.

G.I. JOE used the Conquest X-30. Seems funny when you know in reality the design was a fail.

Don't you think that they actually looke like FORWARDS wings...?

The P38 lightning was developed before the war.

Because someone got drunk ?

It's so that you don't know if the plane is coming or going

How are you so smart