I'm glad that the Roc is finding a use, and has not been relegated to a boneyard or scrapping. It seems like it's a lot more plane than is necessary for carrying the TA-1. I'm hopeful that larger payloads are in its future so that its capabilities can be fully utilized.
@@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.
Beautiful reaction by the pilots dropping an unmanned drone, imagine what the emotions were for the pilots on a b52 dropping a hypersonic manned rocket plane in the 60s and see it rise to space when space was still uncharted territory
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.
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.
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.
The X-15 was the first manned aircraft to reach hypersonic speed in 1959, It's amazing how much technology has changed, back then (1959-the 60s), they were concerned with the X-15 melting it was going so fast.
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.
Amazing!!! Why did the video not explained a little bit more what happened to the launhed aircraft, did it land or what happened and how was the flight?
Ah.......like.......what happened to the rocket glider after engine shut down? Did it do a Space-X (blow up)? Did it glide back to the runway? Or did it just disappear into the sunset? Inquiring minds want to know!
Oh damn! I know where they are. My family had a recycling plant there in the 80s. Dad met Burt Rattan and John DeLorean, and let me go flying with Burt. I did not know they were still doing experimental aircraft out there. Very cool.
And the launch vehicle disintegrated and did not make it through hypersonic speeds? Or why not mention what happened in the video? Storyline is an art.
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.
Ok hear me out, that beast looks like a great movie set, in-flight. You got 2 large body areas and some kind of made-up cable tunnel where the hero could cross, then end up in the vehicle to go into space. Stratolaunch carrier needs to be immortalized in popular media, just beautiful
Super cool, I always felt it was a shame years ago when the US/AUS stopped there hyper-sonic tests in the outback due to a few failures (progression isn't made without things breaking) Thanks Stratolaunch for continuing to strive into an area like many others that is a decade or more behind were we should be.
Great success for Joe Laurienti and all the awesome people at Ursa Major Technologies for their first flight test of the Hadley rocket engine! I'm proud to have interned with such a great team!
Y'all impressive. The smoke trail made it look like either it was hella windy, or your rocket plane had a squirrelly flight. Whichever... congratulations. That giant hanger, giant launch plane, and the little space shuttle looking thing... wow. No verbs needed!
I think we saw this in the early 60’s. Big plane (B36) drops rocket powered plane (X-15) world goes crazy. Now we want to do it like it’s something new? How about we build a colony on the Moon or land humans on Mars? Next… Spain discovers Miami Beach?
Beautiful 🤩 Congrats!! Would love to see/learn more about the smaller vehicle - how did testing go, did it land, what did the crew experience, pilot feedback interviews, etc…
This was a super odd video. Is it advertising the launch plane, the gliding rocket or both? The launch plane seemed to be more of the focus. Are they one company developing both vehicles?
@@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)
That is an interesting video. I am glad we have a company in the country engaged in hypersonic flight tests. The flight's duration surprised me though, it was only a few seconds.
@@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.
Every time I see the Roc launch vehicle I think "How can that thing even fly?" It look so fragile. The stress on the connecting wing segment must be insane. They must needs be very careful about what kind of weather they fly in.
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.
@@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.
Awesome job. I like that they cleared the super-experimental for the "option" when they got back to Mojave. Something I expect in G.A. but not with that :)
What human race really needs is supersonic peace, right now. Fuck hypersonic speed, I don't want to die hungry and gaping for air in an omnipresent wasteland. Priorities are so relative.
I’m convinced the billionaires only made ROC-1 so big so they can flip off Howard Hughes because that foam glider DIDNT need to be strapped to such a large aircraft 😅
@@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.
Man sees huge plane with 6 engines, man sees rocket powered plane, man is happy.
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. 😄
Even a coyote helped out with a last minute FOD walkdown.
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
That launch plane is absolutely massive.
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.
that dual hull jet is right out of the imagination of Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds, Internanional Rescue
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
The Captain's (left seater) call sign is "Hooter". That's a legendary pilot.
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.
Whoever decided to put synthwave over this, you a goat.
Likely a man. Goats have hooves, and hooves cannot manipulate a keyboard in that way.
@@mikebergman1817 And Females haven't got the aptitude ?
I'm glad that the Roc is finding a use, and has not been relegated to a boneyard or scrapping. It seems like it's a lot more plane than is necessary for carrying the TA-1. I'm hopeful that larger payloads are in its future so that its capabilities can be fully utilized.
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?
FAB, used to see planes like this in Thunderbirds. You have made a 62 year old very happy.😊
So, so true. So many Thunderbirds type thing happening today. Spacex landings, these things, so much. WE may see people on Mars, oh my god.
😊😊😊😊
Not sure many people know about Thunderbirds, Brains.
What a massive waste of our money. Bunch of assholes blowing billions for fucking nothing.
@@jackdeniston6150 you mean ZERO X ? 🤓
Beautiful reaction by the pilots dropping an unmanned drone, imagine what the emotions were for the pilots on a b52 dropping a hypersonic manned rocket plane in the 60s and see it rise to space when space was still uncharted territory
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
Congratulations guys, first flight is arguably one of the biggest milestones you could ever cross
I guess they abandoned their dangerous killer design they had before.
That landing was buttery smooth.
Butterin the bread right there
That explains why i saw the stratolaunch on flight radar earlier
Real
Glad to see Microsoft's #2's money did not go to waste.
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
Paul would have been extremely proud of your team. Congratulations.
That plane just gave birth midair... what a beautiful thing to witness.
Didn't even slow down
Wow, goosebumps! This is such an amazing aircraft, hope they have many many more of those wonderful successful flights!
so what happened to the TA1... did it just soar in to the sunset? did it land or splashed in the ocean?
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.
The engineers who stiffened this jet to be able to be stable, I am quite amazed.
A great technology.
I'm so glad this was pushed my way. Happy to learn and watch about it. Good job, good flight. Would love to see a part two on Talon-A's journey.
The X-15 was the first manned aircraft to reach hypersonic speed in 1959, It's amazing how much technology has changed, back then (1959-the 60s), they were concerned with the X-15 melting it was going so fast.
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.
@@Matt03981 "Even in today's world i highly doubt we could ever build it." Then you are dumb.
What happened to "TA-1" ? Disintegration ? Crashed ? Abducted by aliens ?
Indeed, maybe it fell over?
Amazing!!! Why did the video not explained a little bit more what happened to the launhed aircraft, did it land or what happened and how was the flight?
strange indeed
Simply amazing, the Roc never ceases to amaze me
Man Congratulations to the Stratolaunch Team! That was beautiful.
To boldly go where so many have gone before.
Yeah this was done in the 60s so much progress over the last 60years is incredible. 😂
Ah.......like.......what happened to the rocket glider after engine shut down? Did it do a Space-X (blow up)? Did it glide back to the runway? Or did it just disappear into the sunset? Inquiring minds want to know!
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”
Congratulations on a successful flight. Keep up the great work. Best wishes for continued progress.
Oh damn! I know where they are. My family had a recycling plant there in the 80s. Dad met Burt Rattan and John DeLorean, and let me go flying with Burt. I did not know they were still doing experimental aircraft out there. Very cool.
Glad to see the Hula Girl over the instruments!
Oh, they do cut that shot so we had to look twice. Thanks for the second viewing
And the launch vehicle disintegrated and did not make it through hypersonic speeds? Or why not mention what happened in the video? Storyline is an art.
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.
0:45. Punching through the Trans regime, I’m all on board! Punch away! Honestly, I wish you guys success!
Ok hear me out, that beast looks like a great movie set, in-flight. You got 2 large body areas and some kind of made-up cable tunnel where the hero could cross, then end up in the vehicle to go into space. Stratolaunch carrier needs to be immortalized in popular media, just beautiful
congrats! keep going!
You had me at "super experimental"
Super cool, I always felt it was a shame years ago when the US/AUS stopped there hyper-sonic tests in the outback due to a few failures (progression isn't made without things breaking)
Thanks Stratolaunch for continuing to strive into an area like many others that is a decade or more behind were we should be.
Great success for Joe Laurienti and all the awesome people at Ursa Major Technologies for their first flight test of the Hadley rocket engine! I'm proud to have interned with such a great team!
The Roc is such a beautiful plane.
Reminds me of watching the live launch of the X-15 while living in Palmdale in the early 1960’s.
Awesome.
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.
Congrats Hooter! 🎉
Such a beautiful aircraft! Happy to see another milestone in aviation!
I wanted see more on the released aircraft and it's landing or lack of.
Y'all impressive. The smoke trail made it look like either it was hella windy, or your rocket plane had a squirrelly flight. Whichever... congratulations. That giant hanger, giant launch plane, and the little space shuttle looking thing... wow. No verbs needed!
Lol. 3:30 The cargo pilots walkin' down the ramp giving high-fives like they were the ones in the rocket.
the launch plane itself is impressive
Congrats
I’ve been at Mojave when you did a test flight. Very impressive project!
Wow what the heck is that……an amazing piece of machinery. This takes flying ‘Twins’. to a whole different level.
2 legends in the same week
BOOM and Stratolaunch
this world is turning in the correct way.
😆 🤣 😂 😹
Awesome, Kudos!
that launch plane is incredible by itself
Great job guys when is the big one flying again?
Where did the launched vehicle end up?
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...
It would have been nice to get the flight duration and top speed. Otherwise beautiful video!
And landing.
Agreed we saw virtually nothing and got no speed/altitude data
Wirklich genial dieses Fluggerät. Ich bin wirklich gespannt auf den ersten Flug ins All
This is very cool. I hope to see one of these one day
Ik im dumb, but where did it go and how did it land?
I think we saw this in the early 60’s. Big plane (B36) drops rocket powered plane (X-15) world goes crazy. Now we want to do it like it’s something new? How about we build a colony on the Moon or land humans on Mars? Next… Spain discovers Miami Beach?
We heard it here folks! Let’s stop making new cars and instead start making nuclear reactors!
That is amazing thank you for the video and that plane is one big mother.
That is some excellent rendering there: good job!
the carrying aircraft is just super impressive, safe landings.
??? wheres the talon a flight and landing
Beautiful 🤩
Congrats!! Would love to see/learn more about the smaller vehicle - how did testing go, did it land, what did the crew experience, pilot feedback interviews, etc…
So what happened to it? Just dumped into the ocean?
This was a super odd video. Is it advertising the launch plane, the gliding rocket or both? The launch plane seemed to be more of the focus. Are they one company developing both vehicles?
Yes
That is a wild launch vehicle .
Good work Hooter!
Is it wrong I'm more curious about the mother ship than the actual space craft?
Great job recreating what was done 60 years ago
and slower XD
Remarkable accomplishment! I wonder the largest payload spacecraft that can be carried and launched for such a massive mothership wingspan???
Super cool! I'm not going to say the Roc is a crazy looking airplane, but I am going to think it rather loudly.
Congratulations! Does the TA-1 have any type of landing system to return to base so it can be used again?
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.
Bravo Zulu!
Congratulations
Don't know what's more impressive... the Big Plane ore the Rocket 😂❤
The stratolaunch, A simple, yet complicated aircraft, worth of carrying Cruise missiles! So happy to see this video
Uh, why do they need to use that Huge plane to launch a Missile that small?
..they don’t NEED to use, it, but as I’ve noted before, ROC-1 has the needed stuff, ready to go.
It’s not like air-launch aircraft are a dime-a-dozen.
Probably because SAC did not want to lend out one of their B52 s to private company ! 🤣🤣
I imagine the aircraft is fine for any size payload.
Just WOW!!!!!!!❤
So cool! Congratulations…
this is amazing truly holy shit. what a large vehicle first time im seeing something like this
where the little plane go ?
Yeah, where did it go?
Sounds like it touched down in the Pacific Ocean.
Crashed in the Pacific?@@lukasclark884
Oh my God. That is absolutely gorgeous.
Damn,...that was sick!!!
And I love the name Talon.
They need to name a hypersonic missile the FANG! 😮
Captain Pete Mitchell just got jealous. Great job all!
Glad to be part of Aviation History!
Why though
Why didn't they just buy an old B 52. ? That's what their GRANDFATHERS used.
Good luck from Ireland lads ☘☘👍👍☘☘
That is an interesting video. I am glad we have a company in the country engaged in hypersonic flight tests. The flight's duration surprised me though, it was only a few seconds.
can i just say... the payload is way to small for that aircraft..
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.
Every time I see the Roc launch vehicle I think "How can that thing even fly?" It look so fragile. The stress on the connecting wing segment must be insane. They must needs be very careful about what kind of weather they fly in.
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.
The size of the mothership is overskill for that little spacecraft
Awesome job. I like that they cleared the super-experimental for the "option" when they got back to Mojave. Something I expect in G.A. but not with that :)
Why would you blur the avionics?? Why are there only 5 seconds of video of TA-1 actually flying in a 4 minute video about it??
Am I the only one more impressed with the huge ass plane than the fast rocket ?
Awesome engineering! How long did the hyper flight last and what speed was reached. Thank you!
That is amazing. But what is more amazing is the launch vehicle. I need to find out more about it.
2:45 🤜🏼✋🏼 lol
🖊️
🤣
What human race really needs is supersonic peace, right now. Fuck hypersonic speed, I don't want to die hungry and gaping for air in an omnipresent wasteland. Priorities are so relative.
Thank you. Most helpful. 😊
Simply incredible time in space exploration. I wish humanity could do more of this than the daily evil we are exposed to. How far we could go.
I’m convinced the billionaires only made ROC-1 so big so they can flip off Howard Hughes because that foam glider DIDNT need to be strapped to such a large aircraft 😅
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.