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  • čas přidán 18. 12. 2020
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    Converting a military bomber aircraft to a passenger jet plane was not a new idea, and it was the start of what would become the Baade 152. Its design could seat up to 57 passengers, or 72 in a high configuration and It would be used throughout the soviet union, and even be marketed to the west using American-made avionics! If it went ahead, it would have been a political triumph of the USSR, and cement the east german aviation industry for decades to come.
    But it never happened. And to understand, we need to go back to the beginning.
    The 1950s was a very different place in Europe. Germany was occupied by the two sides of the cold war, with the west controlling the west side of the country and east Germany under the USSR's controlling influence.
    As part of its 'stewardship' of the country, the USSR had eliminated the homegrown aviation industry after the war and deported all the aerospace engineers to work on military projects in Moscow. The country was left without any involvement in aviation and lacked a competitive edge of the world stage.
    But these engineers had not been idle. While working in the USSR, they noticed that the soviet bomber project, OKB-1 150 could very well be used for a commercial passenger aircraft. By the early 50s, East Germany had been officially founded, and the German aerospace scientists were allowed to return home - many of which couldn't shake the idea of the jet bomber turned civil aircraft.
    At the same time, the new state declared that it needed a new aerospace company called the VEB Flugzeugwerke based in the city of Dresden. It was initially set to build military aircraft, but thanks for a popular uprising in the USSR the next year, the powers deemed that it would be a civil production facility.
    To jump-start product development, the firm hired newly returned engineers like Brunolf Baade, among others. As the whole team had worked on the Soviet bomber, and still very well had the idea to turn it into a civil jet plane, the firm decided to commit to the idea - dubbing it the Baade 152 after the lead engineer.
    But what was the Baade 152 actually like?
    The Baade 152 was configured with 57 seats in a one cabin configuration, of around 34 inches of leg room, although during to proposal stage several other alternative seating arrangements were created, such as a 72-passenger configuration or a more spacious 42-seater for leasuire routes. Likely the firm also considered a VIP transport option for around 10 passengers.
    As the plane was based on the previous bomber, it would share many of the same aerodynamics, including a range of 2,000-2,500 km (1,200-1,600 mi, 1,100-1,300 nmi) (depending on configuration). Arguable this range is very low, and would have led to poor market reach years later, but for the market, it was designed for, it fit the bill.
    The plane would have up six crew members to fly it, including three cabin crew and three on the cockpit.
    In terms of routes, the design team was promised that it would fly throughout the soviet union as a small shuttle aircraft to link nearby cities.
    Local airline Lufthanasa jumped at the chance to buy the home state aircraft with an order for 20 planes.
    By 1958, the first prototype rolled out of the workshop, on a very unique looking tandem landing gear and glazed nose for the navigator to look out - common among soviet era strategic bombers but not seen before on a passenger hjet aircraft. The maiden flight was a success and it looked as if the east german state had freed itself from the shackles of being behind the west.
    Unfortunately, only a few months later that dream would end forever.
    On the 4th of March 1959, the prototype crashed during its 2nd test flight and killed all onboard. Being a political embarrassment, the crash was never fully investigated and hidden until well after the change in government in 1990. It has since been believed that the aircraft had a fatal flaw with the design. When in a steep descent such as coming in to land on a short runway, the fuel tanks got cut off and the engines stalled - leading to a crash.
    After three flight test the entire program was grounded. But this wasn't the reported reason for the cancelation of the program - rather - it was political.
    The soviet union in Moscow, who had initally promised that the Baade would fly throughout the USSR, actually stepped in and commanded the east german state to dissolve the entire aerospace industry - shut down all production and scrap the design - including the two prototypes. This was because the USSR was working on its own airframe to compete in the same market, the Tupolev Tu-124.
    And with a plane that couldn't fly, a production that had no orders or funding, and a market that was quickly evolving with the arrival of the Boeing 707 - it looks like the iron curtain would close on the Baade 152 for the final time.

Komentáře • 533

  • @riot2136
    @riot2136 Před 3 lety +362

    Your modeling is getting really good, Mustards gotta watch out lol

    • @Thecrazzedgamer
      @Thecrazzedgamer Před 3 lety +49

      Maybe they should collab

    • @riot2136
      @riot2136 Před 3 lety +25

      @@Thecrazzedgamer yeah that could be cool

    • @drxppsyy3214
      @drxppsyy3214 Před 3 lety +19

      He is getting really good but imo mustard is way ahead but hey he’ll definitely get to that point in the future

    • @riot2136
      @riot2136 Před 3 lety +7

      @@drxppsyy3214 yeah I mean I was joking to an extent

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  Před 3 lety +107

      Personally I can't hold a candle to channels like Wendover, Mustard, Sidenote and more, but I hope to one day make a video as good as theirs :)

  • @relgeiz2
    @relgeiz2 Před 3 lety +40

    Two short remarks: First, the Baade 152 should be equipped with "Pirna 014" engines, a modernized version of world's first mass-produced turbojet "Jumo 004" which was called after the Dresden suburb "Pirna" where ist was produced. The aircraft engine manufacturerer from Berlin was Bramo.
    The first two 152-flights were undertaken with russain engines due to delayed availability of the Pirna engine.
    Second, the manufacturer of the Baade 152 of course still exists (current Name: Elbe Flugzeugwerke) now being part of Airbus and manufacturing all cargo Airbuses.

    • @scavarli6068
      @scavarli6068 Před 3 lety +1

      A modernized Jumo 004 was completely obsolete by the late fifties. May a license built Klimov VK-1 ( Rolls Royce Nene) would have been a good start,

    • @donaldstanfield8862
      @donaldstanfield8862 Před 3 lety +1

      Amazing the facility is useful now! 🎯

    • @SiqueScarface
      @SiqueScarface Před 3 lety

      I wouldn't call Pirna a suburb, because a suburb is something very else. Pirna is a rather small town not far away from Dresden. (A suburb is mainly defined as some kind of incomplete appendix to a larger city, which lacks part of the infrastructure a town needs, but uses the infrastructure of the larger city nearby.)

    • @walterkersting9922
      @walterkersting9922 Před rokem

      Looks ugly and the specs sound dumb.

  • @Schlipperschlopper
    @Schlipperschlopper Před 3 lety +14

    This was the last Junkers jet, just called Baade because the Engineer Mr Baade (Former an engineer of Junkers Dessau) was father of the project ;-) The Prina Turbojets were Junkers Jumo 012 further developments

  • @moenchii
    @moenchii Před 3 lety +83

    Ah yes, the "VEB Fluwsuwwerwe"

    • @juckyvortex
      @juckyvortex Před 3 lety +16

      Nah, It's clearly the "VEB Wutzewörge"

    • @yakacm
      @yakacm Před 3 lety

      @@Gerhard57NL Yeah or you could do 10 seconds research and find this video czcams.com/video/gnguNuryjIM/video.html lol

    • @lutzfiebig9896
      @lutzfiebig9896 Před 3 lety +1

      It means Volkseigene Flugzeugweft Dresden!!!

    • @uh7385
      @uh7385 Před 3 lety +2

      It's "VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden" 😉

    • @moenchii
      @moenchii Před 3 lety

      @@uh7385 I know

  • @dilbert0815
    @dilbert0815 Před 3 lety +49

    It's so hilarious how you pronounced VEB Flugzeugwerke :D
    By the way:VEB is an acronym for 'people owned plant' which was the common legal entity for state owned buisnesses in east germany.

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  Před 3 lety +8

      In fact the plane was officially called the Dresden 152, but the bade nickname stuck

    • @SiqueScarface
      @SiqueScarface Před 3 lety +4

      @@FoundAndExplained In the Verkehrsmuseum Dresden (Dresden Traffic Museum), it's called the "Typ 152" or even just the number 152. Its engines were actually called Pirna 014, after the nearby small town of Pirna. I've never seen the plane called other than 152 or Typ 152 locally around Dresden. All the names like Baade 152 or Dresden 152 I've only encountered since the 2000s.
      But I've seen a Pirna 014 mounted on the back of a firetruck used as a blower to extinguish high pressure gas pipeline fires.
      PS: One product coming out of VEB Flugzeugwerke were the bobsleds used successfully in Olympic Bobsled competitions and World championships since 1976 by former East Germany.

    • @Phonobrain
      @Phonobrain Před 3 lety +1

      @@SiqueScarface VEB Strömungsmaschinen Pirna Sonnenstein ;)

    • @SiqueScarface
      @SiqueScarface Před 3 lety +1

      @@Phonobrain I know. A relative of mine was an engineer at the Department of Fluid mechanics at the Technical University of Dresden.

    • @Phonobrain
      @Phonobrain Před 3 lety +1

      @@SiqueScarface Cool! I studied there as well ( humanities tho). I've been born in Pirna - now living in Dresden. Tell your relative I said "Hi" :-)

  • @s.kirtivasen5752
    @s.kirtivasen5752 Před 3 lety +57

    Failure is the stepping stone to success. It leads to progress, and progress leads to excellence. Superb content my mate. Keep going good. All the best.

    • @van0tot100
      @van0tot100 Před 3 lety +2

      But this thing didn't lead to anything

  • @dschoene57
    @dschoene57 Před 3 lety +23

    The 1953 popular uprising didn't happen in the USSR, it happend in East Germany. The involvement of the soviets was 'limited' to killing a lot of people and ultimately quashing the protests.

    • @Leonid_Brezhnev1
      @Leonid_Brezhnev1 Před rokem +2

      westerb coup attempt

    • @BrapBrapDorito
      @BrapBrapDorito Před rokem +2

      @@Leonid_Brezhnev1found the vatnik

    • @Leonid_Brezhnev1
      @Leonid_Brezhnev1 Před rokem

      @@BrapBrapDorito kho**la zabyt sprosili

    • @Cooe.
      @Cooe. Před rokem

      @@Leonid_Brezhnev1 Lol go back to pointlessly dying in the fields of Ukraine with your fellow fascists thanks to broken equipment from endemic corruption. Kthxbai.

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci

      Dresden was a KGB (USSR Secret service) base that once employed an officer by the name of Vladimir Putin. When the Wall came down and East Germans were celebrating on the streets in their cities, this guy stepped outside his office, shot into the air with his service pistol and told those assembled to their surprise in harsh German words to go home and stop this nonsense.
      Say no more ...

  • @majorchungus
    @majorchungus Před 3 lety +129

    Whoever animated the jet left the engine covers on.

    • @Hazwaste63
      @Hazwaste63 Před 3 lety +23

      Ha, was just about to write the same thing. Just think how fast it would be without those.

    • @dmrr7739
      @dmrr7739 Před 3 lety +16

      Those are revolutionary ultra-low bypass engines.

    • @justforever96
      @justforever96 Před 3 lety +3

      @@dmrr7739 You couldnt even run a turbojet on a mass air flow that small. At least not any turbojet of a sufficient size to power that plane. And a turbojet is a zero bypass engine. Cant get any smaller than that.

  • @janurbahn279
    @janurbahn279 Před 3 lety +133

    It would be pronounced "Baaa-de"

    • @stever4899
      @stever4899 Před 3 lety +13

      Baa-duh

    • @6B8RX
      @6B8RX Před 3 lety +9

      Yes! And while we're at it, that movie about the German submarine in WWII is pronounced 'Das Boht', NOT 'Das Boot'!

    • @FlyxPat
      @FlyxPat Před 3 lety +2

      ‘Barda’ with an Australian accent (non-rhotarised)

    • @mikaelbiilmann6826
      @mikaelbiilmann6826 Před 3 lety +7

      @@6B8RX As well as PorschE, not Porsh. 😁

    • @mikaelbiilmann6826
      @mikaelbiilmann6826 Před 3 lety +1

      No Airbus back then. Boeing, Douglas, Convair,

  • @6B8RX
    @6B8RX Před 3 lety +10

    A competitor to Boeing and Airbus? That's ridiculous. If having a protected domestic market were an advantage, then Ilyushin, Tupolev, Yakolev, and others would now dominate the world. They don't. Protected markets do not produce competitive products.
    Also, the terms "Eastern Bloc" and "Soviet Union" can't be used interchangeably. While East Germany was indeed a Soviet client state and the Soviets wielded a great deal of control there, it was never actually part of the Soviet Union itself.

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  Před 3 lety

      True!

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci

      Research a bit further, please. Until Gorbachev did come unto the scene, any Eastern Government was nothing more than an administrative arm of the USSR.

  • @danieljames7516
    @danieljames7516 Před 3 lety +70

    This channel is fantastic. One of the easiest subs I’ve had

  • @informationcollectionpost3257

    The USSR was always afraid of free market competition and the 152 was competition. Perhaps the USSR should have left it alone as the firm's emphasis was mostly on civil aviation with western technology that could of assisted them with aircraft development. ( both military & civilian) It would have allowed the USSR to focus on military aircraft development too.

  • @erdbeerschosch2839
    @erdbeerschosch2839 Před 3 lety +23

    2:57 No front but i never heard someone pronouncing a German word that bad XD

    • @jonannesfleischer9994
      @jonannesfleischer9994 Před 3 lety

      But it is a difficult word I guess

    • @dh510
      @dh510 Před 3 lety

      Wutznwerge 😄

    • @juliusfucik4011
      @juliusfucik4011 Před 3 lety +4

      Flook - tsoik - wer (e like e in net) - kuh
      It is not hard. Even Google translate does a good job

    • @taketimeout2share
      @taketimeout2share Před 3 lety

      @@jonannesfleischer9994 Hey, you just find out how it IS said. It's easy. Its called the Internet. This guy's a Shwanz. Im English and I can spell and say it properly in both languages.

  • @joel_ph
    @joel_ph Před 3 lety +16

    This is Aussie version of mustard 😂

  • @Sacto1654
    @Sacto1654 Před 3 lety +5

    In the end, the plane's technology was already obsolete. The development of the Tupolev Tu-134 by the middle 1960's made the Baade 152 unnecessary.

  • @mickffm
    @mickffm Před 3 lety +15

    Great video again, thanks a lot. I love the way you said Flugzeugwerke :-) Greetings from Cologne

    • @robertclegg2609
      @robertclegg2609 Před 3 lety +1

      V.E.B. Foutsuh-vurgah! (I came looking for this comment. FLOOG-tsoyg-Vur-kuh, FYI, non-German-speakers. Yay, one year of High School German!)

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  Před 3 lety +4

      I even checked with the company itself to make sure but I see my english comes through badly :)

  • @wolfgangloll2747
    @wolfgangloll2747 Před 3 lety +19

    When I look at the other GDR products, I assume that they would have perfected the thing and been ahead of the competition for a decade. After that, they would have continued development but would never upedate the production, so the thing would still have been flying in 1989 as a hugely outdated machine.

  • @SiqueScarface
    @SiqueScarface Před 3 lety +1

    The name of the plane is actually only 152, without the Baade. Brunolf Baade was the head of construction, but his name was not included. And it's only in recent years that the "Baade-152" pops up here and there, probably to be more in line with naming conventions that include either the company name or the name of the chief engineer.

  • @DavidMacchiaW
    @DavidMacchiaW Před 3 lety +2

    The Baade 152 overhead wing configuration makes this aircraft most interesting as future design points in this direction for long heavy haulers. Likely the concept of dynamic fuel flow was not fully understood causing the fuel starvation issue. Likely if it entered the market with the critical issue solved it would not of served long but the next development would have been a market changer.

  • @WesterdamCS
    @WesterdamCS Před 3 lety +1

    The East German state airline was actually called "Deutsche Lufthansa" while the west German was/is "Lufthansa", before the East German was replaced by Interflug.

  • @RickySTT
    @RickySTT Před 3 lety +3

    4:41 The Mercator projection has its uses, but range maps of this type are not one of them.

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Correct. It would look more pear shaped: Elongated at the top, compressed at the bottom and standard to the sides.

  • @gooner72
    @gooner72 Před 3 lety +3

    It's quite common for the Soviet Union to convert military aircraft into a passenger version, these projects have obviously had varied levels of success....

  • @EclipsaMyrtenaster
    @EclipsaMyrtenaster Před 3 lety +3

    I feel like those jet engines can sharpen my pencil by the looks of it

    • @SarionKerman
      @SarionKerman Před 3 lety +1

      It has two pig-nose engine nacelles on each wing :v

    • @onewhosaysgoose4831
      @onewhosaysgoose4831 Před 3 lety +2

      The modeler just left the engine covers in. Most pictures of the plane on the ground show it with those engine covers.

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci

      Brilliant idea. Let's produce heaps of these models with pencil sharpening jets as desk gimmicks.

  • @miksal26
    @miksal26 Před 3 lety +12

    It must have had “ Nose Gunner class”. No wonder it failed.

    • @wanderschlosser1857
      @wanderschlosser1857 Před 3 lety +1

      Only the 1st prototype did have a glassed nose.

    • @monnezzapromizoulin5169
      @monnezzapromizoulin5169 Před 3 lety +1

      I believe I read that this “ Nose Gunner class” configuration was requested to facilitate ground manoeuvres.

  • @RANDOMNATION907
    @RANDOMNATION907 Před 3 lety +1

    Would love to see a video on the Vickers VC-10 and Ilyushin Il-62. Controversy of espionage , safety records , etc.
    Love the content of your videos. Thank you for all the work put into them .

  • @dacarvoid45
    @dacarvoid45 Před 3 lety +3

    There are 2 engines per casing. Making a total of 4 engines. This is less fuel efficient than having only 2 slightly bigger more powerful engines. Because more engines = higher fuel consumption (obviously). But also more frequent maintenance. And higher overall maintenance costs. Just to name a few things.
    There is a plethora of other disadvantages as well.

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci

      Come again, please, when you understand the planned economy of East Germany. On delivery the aircraft would have been handed over with 2 working engines and 2 rotating fans in the other sections of the pods. In that scheme it would have been reported that the number of aircraft even overfulfilled the plan. Nothing would have been mentioned about every second aircraft quietly being shunted into a hangar "for training purposes". There the working engines would have been transferred to the "other every second aircraft" for getting them operational. Suddenly one would have noticed that the engine company overfulfilled their production plan just to supply the missing engines. And maybe find enough material for some spare engines. By the time the plans for the production of the 152 were fulfilled, the aircraft would have reached its working life span.

  • @Niko02b
    @Niko02b Před 3 lety +1

    You are making real progress! Hope in the future you’ll reach more people with this good content

  • @61Ldf
    @61Ldf Před 3 lety +6

    What a misleading headline. The 152 made its first flight nine years earlier than Boeing’s 737.

    • @mjouwbuis
      @mjouwbuis Před 3 lety

      It would have been competing with the 707, not the 737.

    • @CaptHollister
      @CaptHollister Před 3 lety

      It's real intended competitor was the French Sud Aviation Caravelle, but if he had put that in the headline most people would have gone ????? and not clicked.

    • @61Ldf
      @61Ldf Před 3 lety

      @@CaptHollister The 152 was not aimed to compete with Western aircrafts. It was rather targeted to compete with Tupolev TU-124 and Ilyushin IL-18. (A headline that leads the clicks to zero.)

  • @andrewpettola6097
    @andrewpettola6097 Před 3 lety +2

    Fascinating. I never knew this aircraft existed. I'm sure with a little engineering this could have been a revolutionary short-haul jet.

  • @KingDarius08
    @KingDarius08 Před 3 lety +2

    1:43 Galway is not Ireland's Capital Dublin is
    Galway is on the west coast, cork on the south, Belfast in the north and DUBLIN in the east. Ps I am Irish btw

  • @volodymyrdrobot9454
    @volodymyrdrobot9454 Před 3 lety +35

    The same thing Russia did to Ukrainian An-148 program. Just ditched previously signed agreements and refused to build the aircraft in favor of Superjet.

    • @Admin-gm3lc
      @Admin-gm3lc Před 3 lety

      Many countries lobby their own manufacturers, that is protectionism

    • @volodymyrdrobot9454
      @volodymyrdrobot9454 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Admin-gm3lc that is Russian understanding of protectionism - very near-sighted. An-148 might have been a better choice for Russian airlines, especially the ones operating in northern regions. However, Russia decided to favor Superjet, force it on domestic airlines and now - voila - only 2 are built in 2021. And I don't think any are sold. And airlines do not know what to do with ones they have because they are breaking way too often.

    • @vladimirnikolskiy
      @vladimirnikolskiy Před 3 lety

      @@volodymyrdrobot9454 You collected only three AN-148s for yourself. Russia assembled and delivered 41 aircraft in Voronezh. At the moment, 27 units remain in operation in Russia.

    • @volodymyrdrobot9454
      @volodymyrdrobot9454 Před 3 lety

      @@vladimirnikolskiy and what? How does that contradict to what I wrote above?

    • @vladimirnikolskiy
      @vladimirnikolskiy Před 3 lety +1

      @@volodymyrdrobot9454 The last AN-148 was released in Orel, in 2017, or in 2018, I don’t remember. Earlier, Ukraine announced an embargo on the sale of engines and technologies to the Russian Federation.
      Do you seriously think that Russia did not predict the situation in Ukraine and did not draw adequate conclusions?
      Your conclusion about the fact that in the Russian Federation they have relied on the SSJ100 is generally ridiculous, these are aircraft for different purposes.

  • @Happymali10
    @Happymali10 Před 3 lety +2

    Some consider the fuel tank reasoning to be an excuse, since there had been other incidents and accidents where test-pilots tried to impress their bosses on the ground by flying dangerously.

  • @merylcruz3820
    @merylcruz3820 Před 3 lety +4

    I think passenger seating in the nose could catch on, maybe have a firsts class lounge kind of atmosphere in there.

    • @FiveTwoSevenTHR
      @FiveTwoSevenTHR Před 3 lety +1

      That's where the onboard radar sits in modern Aircraft.

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci

      It will be very popular by social video suppliers filming their live reports when the aircraft is "backing full on into a mountain" ...

  • @hansb.8
    @hansb.8 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks for this video. I'm German but I never knew anything about it. Find this very interesting!.👍 Greetings from 🇫🇯

    • @donaldstanfield8862
      @donaldstanfield8862 Před 3 lety

      😲

    • @hansb.8
      @hansb.8 Před 3 lety

      @@donaldstanfield8862 hi, in words please! Unfortunately I don't know what that funny face means. Thanks.

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci

      All good. It just shows your age. Any baby boomer in West Germany growing up with an interest in aviation was raving on about "that pile of DDR junk" (Haufen DDR Schrott). As nothing remarkable did come after it, it was clear that any aviation progress would not develop from there despite having snatched a lot of remarkable engineers from pre-war Germany.
      It was a problem of the planned economy. Instead of constantly pushing forward, supplies often dictated the pace. When the Wall came down the question was solved how East Germany was "World Production Leader of Industrial Robots". Their serial numbers rapidly went into the 10000 range. Once built and released to manufacturing companies on average they lasted about 2 months. After a complete overhaul, they were fitted with a new serial number and returned as a "NEW" item ...
      In 1981 one of our professors in Industrial Design speculated, that Germany reunited could have the potential of a computer super-power. The East Germans had plenty of dreams and time to ponder over software problems, while the West German companies had the know-how of reliable mass production of any hardware. Somehow, since 1990 something has not matched ...

  • @YouTubeIsCriminal
    @YouTubeIsCriminal Před 3 lety

    My dad is 84 year old former Army/commercial pilot(fixed & Rotary) and loves your videos. Just lettin ya know. 👍

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  Před 3 lety

      That is awesome! I love the old captains of the sky :) Let me know what he wants to see next and i'll see if I can fit it in :)

  • @grahamwickens8802
    @grahamwickens8802 Před 5 měsíci

    had a look around the Baade 152 fuselage that was in use as a classroom on Rothenberg AIr field back in 1991. Beleive it is being restored in Dresden.

  • @janurbahn279
    @janurbahn279 Před 3 lety +2

    Some ideas for future episodes: The West-Germans also designed two unusual jets, the VFW-Fokker 614 with engines above the wings, and the HFB 320 Hansa Jet with forward swept wings, both not commercially successful.

    • @donaldstanfield8862
      @donaldstanfield8862 Před 3 lety

      Yes, that one looked really odd, and all the passengers could see was the engines above the wings

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci

      @@donaldstanfield8862 It was meant to be the illusive replacement of the DC-3 bringing the jet age to the bush environment, being able to operate from gravel runways without ingesting any risky material into the engines. Unfortunately, lack of government support had VFW (Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke) being sold off to Fokker, which gave their F28 (later F70 and F100) the priority of their attention. Had Airbus had more strength in those days (they were just running in at that time with their A300s and A310s), the 614 could have been a more successful product in the recently launched A200 range.

  • @allstarpilot7478
    @allstarpilot7478 Před 3 lety +9

    Hi from Germany 2:39pm cool to see german planes here

  • @flamingmohmohawesome4953
    @flamingmohmohawesome4953 Před 3 lety +12

    So I noticed you dont have fighter jets but im still gonna mention it.
    The Convair Model 200: a US navy jump jet from the 60's. It was a concept but never built.

    • @scotthaskin1509
      @scotthaskin1509 Před 3 lety +3

      Actually it was developed in the early 70's. However Convair after loosing it's butt on the 880/990 program moved to being a sub contractor for airline parts. After the mid 60's it didn't produce anymore planes. Interestingly Convair built the center section fuselage for the MD-11 until MD was bought by Boeing.

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  Před 3 lety +2

      My next big neverbuilt project is a military one :) time to branch out from just commercial planes :)

  • @maxsmodels
    @maxsmodels Před 3 lety +23

    It never had a chance. It was inferior to and came out after the French Caravelle, American Boeing 707-120 (not to mention the trouble plagued de Havilland Comet) and about the same time as the far more capable B-720. It may have had some success in the east if the Russians had not killed it but it is doubtful it would have seen much success in the west. Maybe with some other regions such as Africa or South America but the French, British and Americans had far superior products to offer plus better worldwide logistical networks and support systems.

    • @marcus2410
      @marcus2410 Před 3 lety

      Salut le patriote français ,😁 pas la peine de faire bonne image pour t'a France ici avec un commentaire anglais !

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci

      Don't focus too much on the release year of 1958. The development phase did cover a lot of years well before that date and even had German engineering ideas from before 1945.

  • @gooner72
    @gooner72 Před 3 lety

    Another very interesting video mate, thank you for posting.

  • @theherobrainlama1641
    @theherobrainlama1641 Před 3 lety +11

    2:55 😂😂 You pronounce "Flugzeugwerke" like Vugze Verger. I'm from Germany and I can tell you, our pronunciation and yours doesn't sound just a bit similar. But German is a very hard language for most not German speaking people to pronounce right I guess. But it's still very funny for me.

  • @thijsvanderlinden2209
    @thijsvanderlinden2209 Před 3 lety

    This is a superb video, as informative as mustard and wendover productions, you have earned a subscriber my dude

  • @jimcurt99
    @jimcurt99 Před 3 lety +25

    Excellent video as always. My only other comment is "damn that thing is ugly" May or may not be a good design- I'm not an engineer so I don't know

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  Před 3 lety +10

      Well the design crashed, so its hard to say if it was good. And it was based on a military bomber, so you might notice that the engines are not powerful enough (hence four, not two), and that the center of gravity is too high. I love the bubble cockpit though!

    • @wanderschlosser1857
      @wanderschlosser1857 Před 3 lety +3

      @@FoundAndExplained Only the 1st prototype had a glass nose cockpit, tandem main gear and also older Soviet engines. That all changed from the 2nd prototype onwards. However after just a few flights of the later prototype the program was cancelled for several reasons. I think you missed to mention that in your video.

    • @daos3300
      @daos3300 Před 3 lety +2

      @@FoundAndExplained twin engines on passenger jets are a much (decades) later development, once reliability could be guaranteed

    • @anthonykaiser974
      @anthonykaiser974 Před 3 lety

      Well, it looks like someone took a carving knife to a B-52, aka BUFF.

    • @abuBrachiosaurus
      @abuBrachiosaurus Před 3 lety

      @@anthonykaiser974 BUFF is a very specific B52, the oldest B52 in service is nicknamed BUFF.

  • @daos3300
    @daos3300 Před 3 lety +2

    mangled pronunciations and bizarre engines in the model aside, this was pretty interesting.

    • @jebise1126
      @jebise1126 Před 3 lety

      well... lots of space to install bigger modern engines here...

  • @andrewlawrence2272
    @andrewlawrence2272 Před 3 lety

    So glad I've found this what if channel.

  • @jasperchu2165
    @jasperchu2165 Před 2 lety

    Honestly, this would have become one of the most dominant regional airlines if the project had continued, rivalling only Fokker

  • @thegreathadoken6808
    @thegreathadoken6808 Před 2 lety +1

    Baade by name, baade by nature...

  • @joaofelipemachadofonseca3486

    Very nice! Hello from randwick the spot

  • @rubentorres5377
    @rubentorres5377 Před rokem

    looks like an outstanding plane

  • @hd45783
    @hd45783 Před 3 lety

    Thx great Video! You did better than most others that made a video about the Baade 152 - and you named different reasons to why it whouldn't succeed . 10:00 Also one could add, that the only Hull left of the baade 152 is on display at the dresden Airport Museeum next to the Company :D Also to the crash of the Prototype - as far as I know, investigators didn't believed that the engines stalled, but, that the testpilot went to low at a low power setting , and then engines took to long to spool up after he noticed his mistake but anyway we will never know ^^

  • @MHG1023
    @MHG1023 Před 3 lety

    The Baade 152 was never a Soviet aircraft although the largest market was seen in the USSR.
    It was wholly developed and made in the GDR despite taking some concept ideas from a Soviet bomber.
    ... and the Pirna 014 engine has no relation to Berlin.
    It was developed in the city of Pirna (just south of Dresden) as a direct successor of the Junkers Jumo 012 turbojet by former Junkers engineers.

  • @dougsundseth6904
    @dougsundseth6904 Před 3 lety +4

    When you set the engines far below the center of mass, as here, you get a significant upward pitching moment when you power up. That's a terrible "feature" if you need to increase airspeed to avoid a stall, since pitching the nose up will increase angle of attack and tend to accelerate the stall. This can be mitigated, of course, by using the elevator to pitch down as you add power, but it can still be a serious problem, not least because at certain angles of attack, you can lose control authority on the elevator. (The elevator can enter the turbulent air coming off the wings, which reduces the effect of control surface movements.
    You really want to keep your thrust vector as near the CoM as possible.

    • @jebise1126
      @jebise1126 Před 3 lety

      wait... most of the modern passenger aircraft have engines far below center of mass. engine is the lowest part of aircraft in most cases if it doesnt have rear mounted engine.

  • @28ebdh3udnav
    @28ebdh3udnav Před 3 lety +1

    You my friend have earned a subscriber

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  Před 3 lety

      Thank you sir! I appreciate the support and say welcome! I hope you like the other videos and if you have any ideas, do let me know!

  • @Troy_Tempest
    @Troy_Tempest Před 3 lety

    Another pipedream from the workers paradise - Hail Nick!

  • @topexbell
    @topexbell Před 3 lety +1

    Great Channel!!! Do you draw the aircraft yourself? What software do you use for the simulated flight?

  • @dafiltafish
    @dafiltafish Před 3 lety +2

    It's a shame these planes never lived up to their potential.

    • @IonorRea
      @IonorRea Před rokem

      They did live to their potential, and that's why these jet projects failed, Soviets were lagging behind in aerospace and because relationships greatly worsen when the Soviets dare to defend America's backyard (Cuba) from becoming a puppet state while already took part in the Korean conflict, East Germany would be likely unable to buy necessary tech from the West to keep up with competition outside Soviet Union where demand for jet travel was limited due to poor economy model, so no, definitely not a threat to Boeing or companies that become Airbus...
      Soviets would likely kill by the political pressure any too successful aerospace project made by their satellites that would make Russians look too incompetent anyway especially if it could threaten the production of Russian-made alternatives they would like to force on states under their rule. Hell, Russians sabotaging gas exploration projects of nations around them up to the present day, including the attempt of Ukraine to collaborate with Westen companies on exploiting their gas reserves a few years ago...

  • @ehsan83
    @ehsan83 Před 3 lety +1

    excellent video and kudos to those engineers who decided to come with that innovative idea and do something instead of losing hope doing nothing.
    Could you make a video of the 747SP ?

    • @datathunderstorm
      @datathunderstorm Před 3 lety

      The Boeing 747SP is my favourite jumbo jet. My ultimate fantasy would be to buy a scrapped one, set it on a nice piece of land surrounded by trees, and turn it into a completely luxurious living apartment on the inside - with a rear ramp for a drive in garage for at least 2 cars! 😀

    • @ehsan83
      @ehsan83 Před 3 lety

      @@datathunderstorm rear ramp? I saw one on 727 but not 747 !

  • @Etherus69
    @Etherus69 Před 3 lety +2

    I watch your channel when Mustard doesn't upload

  • @davidgreer8385
    @davidgreer8385 Před 3 lety

    This clip lacks some points. Besides constructing the Baade 152, VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden built some 80 Iljushin IL-14 under licence, the OKB150 Bomber was based on the blue prints of an original WWII german disign for a bomber by Heinkel which never made it into production. The Baade which crashed was supposed to do a fly past at the Leipziger industrial fair. One of the attendees was Khruschev. After the Baade project was cancelled, VEB continued the overhaul of airplanes (mostly Mig´s) right to the end of the DDR. After the reunification the west german aerospace company DASA got hold of it and produced parts for the Fokker F100 until the demise of Fokker in 1996.

  • @farhanyazidraditya7665
    @farhanyazidraditya7665 Před 3 lety +1

    Mustard like video.. nice one!

  • @calvingreene90
    @calvingreene90 Před 3 lety +1

    I think that the fuel management problem would not be that hard to fix. Russia did not want its colonies to compete in the aviation market is the sole reason for the plane's demise.

  • @andrew_koala2974
    @andrew_koala2974 Před 3 lety +1

    The Map that is being used to depict Europe in the 1950's is incorrect and does
    not correctly depict the borders during that era.

  • @ethantime9423
    @ethantime9423 Před 3 lety +9

    Hello from Indonesia, currently 8:13 pm
    Following the guy who is from Sydney.

  • @Lizardmium
    @Lizardmium Před 3 lety

    another quality content like from mustard. nice vid m8

    • @FoundAndExplained
      @FoundAndExplained  Před 3 lety

      Glad you enjoyed. I'm Mustards poor Australian cousin !

    • @Lizardmium
      @Lizardmium Před 3 lety

      @@FoundAndExplained you are on the right path. I look forward to see more content from you :)

  • @Lastindependentthinker

    I like that flat B52 takeoff profile. Would have been nice for passenger comfort without the steep climb.

  • @nickk3476
    @nickk3476 Před 3 lety +1

    you could do a video in the Fairchild-Dornier do 728

  • @supratikroy6369
    @supratikroy6369 Před 3 lety

    Baade 152. Finally someone made a video about her. Thanks mate.
    P.S- Your modeling is really good. You and Mustard should collab someday :)

  • @thomasnorb4077
    @thomasnorb4077 Před 3 lety +1

    Brought it "to the Soviet Union"? That sounds a bit strange. Germany (DDR) was not part of the Soviet Union. It was allied with the USSR, of course, part of the Warsaw pact, etc. That's quite different from being an actual part of the USSR on the same level as Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, and other former Soviet states.

    • @mortified776
      @mortified776 Před 3 lety

      I came looking for this comment. There was a bit of conflation. Not deliberate of course (Unless a ruse to drum up interaction! 😀)

  • @Legomaster-jv8ll
    @Legomaster-jv8ll Před 3 lety

    Why do you only have 27k subscribers?! This is so good!

  • @TheIFerreiraoliveira
    @TheIFerreiraoliveira Před 3 lety

    It looks like if the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress hat a little child lmao

  • @viptal6313
    @viptal6313 Před 3 lety +1

    USSR had many of its designers and engineers in the field of aviation. USSR had its own design schools. No German engineers did work at Soviet factories. They all fled to the West. It was the West who has always exploited other people's human resources and not the USSR

    • @joshuastory7365
      @joshuastory7365 Před 3 lety

      Sounds to me like it was the USSR exploiting it’s populace that led them to flee to the free west in the first place... that’s not exploitation, it’s salvation from exploitation.

    • @viptal6313
      @viptal6313 Před 3 lety

      @@joshuastory7365 West is not free its rich West is rich because it exploits "other people's human resources" There is no connection between escape of a part of the German population and the economy of the USSR This is the result of the crimes of Western politicians especially of american esteblishment who brought Hitler to power Who gave him money

    • @joshuastory7365
      @joshuastory7365 Před 3 lety +1

      @@viptal6313 I didn't say there was a connection between the economy of the USSR and the desperation of most of it's citizenry to escape it. The reason so many people wanted to flee the USSR was it's totalitarian regime which limited basic freedoms and ruled by fear- one side effect of this did happen to be poor economic conditions. You seem to be more concerned with ranting about the perceived evils of the west than with an evaluation of the motives of German captives. While it is true that for a large chunk of history starting in the early renaissance Western nations rose to the top of exploitative nations, that's not exactly what was at play in this particular scenario. The west's free-thinking philosophies, one of the few developments actually brought about by native westerners and not stolen from others, created the environment for success and wealth of the degree we see in western nations today. That freedom creates the opportunity for success and wealth which improves the quality of life of people able to grasp it. While there could be a legitimate debate about the accessibility of that opportunity for different people groups due to discrimination, intelligent german engineers certainly would have certainly fallen into that category at that time. There is in fact a quite large connection between western freedom and the desire to leave the USSR.
      That hitler thing came out of nowhere and I'm not sure how it ties into this. If you're referring to the attempts to try and foster peace between the Nazis and the world prior to the first world war, those are pretty generally regarded as diplomatic disasters and terrible decisions, but I fail to see the connection here.

  • @bigpantsbobnuggets5051

    Nice Video

  • @Gate0r
    @Gate0r Před 3 lety

    Cool looking plane

  • @numeristatech
    @numeristatech Před 3 lety

    I can see a lot of B52 in this. Outrigger landing gear, high wing, tail, twin pod engines of course… did some “technology exchange research” take place one way or the other ?

  • @timbeck5112
    @timbeck5112 Před 3 lety

    Very nice video :)

  • @chomihai
    @chomihai Před 3 lety

    great channel, i love it !

  • @SeeLasSee
    @SeeLasSee Před 3 lety

    The great windows would have been great for kids/people visiting the cockpit.

  • @oconfidencial3417
    @oconfidencial3417 Před 3 lety +2

    I would like to see a video about Embraer. How did a 3rd world country manage to create and be successful in the extremely competitive and technological aviation market? China, India, Japan, Australia and many others, dont produce commercial planes. But Brazil does! I'd like to know how that cane to be and what are Embraer's perspectives in the future.
    Thank You for you content, good luck to your project!

  • @MeowMeow-rq1ry
    @MeowMeow-rq1ry Před 3 lety +2

    Well that design is good but I say it is BAADEE

  • @denvera1g1
    @denvera1g1 Před 3 lety

    "Full production"
    "Never built"
    "So confused"

  • @danb2234
    @danb2234 Před 3 lety

    You deserve so much more subs

  • @tjm3900
    @tjm3900 Před 3 lety

    Why the tiny engine intake in the illustration? Why hang the engine so low?

  • @davidpiech8903
    @davidpiech8903 Před 3 lety

    Good video, screw all the commercials.

  • @pixynowwithevenmorebelkanb6965

    you my sir is mustard

  • @dougsteel7414
    @dougsteel7414 Před 3 lety +4

    Crushing the German instinct for engineering really takes some effort. The USSR wasn't short of effort.

  • @pascalcoole2725
    @pascalcoole2725 Před 3 lety

    It's a shame we never found out how this aircraft would perform.
    I do however have my doubts initialy for the following reasons
    1) The landing gear under the belly configuration results in a pretty low crosswind limit.
    2) The huge engine pod mountings act as a huge rudder, nice to assist when an engine fails at low speed (TakeOff)
    But it will make the aircraft difficult to controll along the top axis (direction control)
    3) Engine configuration to expensive, and untested engines expecting to be unreliable.
    Still i think the Sovjets made a mistake by not supporting the idea, as USSR developed aircraft where not realy suitable for the western marked (while the wessies not realy could cope with Rusian airport conditions at the time)
    The Baade 152 how odd the design may be, on the long term probarly would have been interesting for some niche market.\
    .
    Talking about a niche: How about the plan once a came up at the Dutch Fokker Aircraft company to build a Fokker F27 Seaplane. Also the same company was elaborating on a 737/320 alike competitor

  • @jyotirmayamohanty5723
    @jyotirmayamohanty5723 Před 3 lety +1

    USSR always made sure the East Germans remained subservient and under their control.
    Plus the 1950s was not a good time when Soviet sultriness was high. East German could wait up till 1970s when Moscow interference would have been less.

  • @maximanuelotuffatz1341

    i really like your animations. how you do this ?

  • @justforever96
    @justforever96 Před 3 lety

    "originally licensed to build Soviet era piston planes" he says, showing video of a Soviet turboprop airliner.

  • @jelkel25
    @jelkel25 Před 3 lety +1

    On the way to the Olympics they could have had one Baade for the athletes and one Baade for the steroids, now there's a winning East German combination!

    • @gardengeek3041
      @gardengeek3041 Před 3 lety +1

      I laughed but I think most viewers are now too young to remember. Not the first country to use banned substances to boost athletic performance ..... but the first to get caught.

    • @jelkel25
      @jelkel25 Před 3 lety

      @@gardengeek3041 It's never stopped they're just better at hiding it now. I think part of why the East Germans got lumped as the steroid people was all the horror stories came out at the same time when the wall came down and they were one of the more blatant countries when the wall was up.

    • @thies7831
      @thies7831 Před 5 měsíci

      Not required. The engines were steroid producing reactors, practically providing a by-product to be collected at the destination airport.

  • @Daimo83
    @Daimo83 Před 3 lety

    Great video

  • @z_actual
    @z_actual Před 3 lety

    The maingear being the second most expensive equipment on the inventory is a persuasive reason why we do not see many high wing aircraft. Although there are aerodynamic benefits from high wing designs, which could lead to higher efficiencies and cheaper operation. These decisions led them to the bicycle maingear layout which, while uncommon on commercial aircraft is seen on military applications of the era quite a lot. I think the bicycle mains would be very durable and track straighter on icy runways.
    All that said Im a little baffled why the engine pylons bring the engines so low, and where a lot less structure here makes the aircraft seem to 'look right', would be lighter and less costly.

  • @LudusArtifex
    @LudusArtifex Před 3 lety

    as a german, who was born in the former east, i can be proud of such an idea

  • @mann2520
    @mann2520 Před 3 lety

    Yay I got 9/10 on your quiz hope I'll get 10/10 on your next quiz

  • @ankokunokayoubi
    @ankokunokayoubi Před 2 lety +1

    Well it went Baade

  • @STARDRIVE
    @STARDRIVE Před 3 lety

    Did these come with a pressurized cabin? Many bombers from that era didn´t, meaning the passengers would either need an oxygen mask, or the plane flying low to provide breathable air thus using way more fuel.
    Converting to pressurized may have been too complicated, since it involves the entire airframe. It may have contributed to its demise..

  • @benitollan
    @benitollan Před 3 lety +1

    5:20 that looks like Gran Canaria

  • @neon8875
    @neon8875 Před rokem +1

    *baad* 152
    name makes sense lol

  • @MrJm323
    @MrJm323 Před 3 lety

    02:57 "VEB Flugzeugwerke." ...I would pronounce it, "V-E-B FLOOGzoig-Vairkuh", which means, "V.E.B. Aircraft Works".
    (I'm not a fluent German speaker; I only took a couple of years of high school German.)