One British aviation magazine called WW1 pilots "The Few, The Brave and The Lucky" and this was spot on. Mechanical malfunctions, lack of training, lack of safety equipment and utterly primitive aircraft made the life of a WW1 aviator glorious and short. Even in 1918, few new British pilots survived longer than three weeks. But military aviation had arrived and aviation would change the world.

Tri-Planes are just so iconic of that time. I can't get over them, my favs.

I knew there was no way in hell he would get that thing up without crashing

@iced_water6956

2 жыл бұрын

green screen

@ryanolsen294

2 жыл бұрын

@@iced_water6956 😂

Aerial weapons today: Guided missiles, massive bombs, guns that can shoot forever Aerial weapons in WW1: *s p e i k*

@nerfshooter4216

3 жыл бұрын

guns that can what? like inf ammo or not overheat?

Those flimsy control cables are on my 1971 Piper Cherokee 140.

Very good video! I love watching these older aircraft. Really nice!

Is no one gonna mention the fact that mr blue sky is playing.

@nikhilchavan1051

3 жыл бұрын

1 world war more aircraft crash due to gyroscope effect it's true

It's amazing what aircraft the Shuttleworth Collection has - and they are kept in airworthy condition!! May it remain so for a long time to come!!

Just curious, can anyone make a 3-winged plane like that without factory help? For personal only use of course. Thank you.

@email4664

4 жыл бұрын

Yes There are many sets of plans for homebuilt WW1 replicas available. Try RON SANDS drawings

@navyblu79

4 жыл бұрын

@@email4664 Appreciate it. Thank you for the info.

Thank you Dan Snow and BBC team Keep up the good work.

This guy looks like a combo of Henry Cavill and Tom Cruise

hey look, a post war gladiator...

My school teacher has given us assignment of listening and writing what you heard in the vid Love from India , West Bengal , Kolkata....

@4:36 When Your TOO Ashamed To Face The Camera After Such A Shitty / Hard Landing ... 🤣

Somethings wrong with the explanation about the gun interruptor mechanism. He said the firing mechanism was connected to the crankshaft? Surely the rotary engine crankshaft is fixed, the cylinders revolve around it, don't they? I've always wanted to see a clear explanation of that mechanism and how it works with rotary, in line and radial engines.

still blows my mind they had machine guns shooting between propellers

@beats5038

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@Mobilzer

5 жыл бұрын

(stutter) MY POINT EXACTLY BRO!!

@crobiggy

5 жыл бұрын

The had ⛓ on it

@cf6282

4 жыл бұрын

Lucian Buchholz You got the sound of the name about right. Anthony Fokker invented the interrupter gear.

@brandonseto4524

4 жыл бұрын

It used a synchronized crankshaft gear that allowed the gun to fire a round in between the propellers when it wasn’t in front of Machine Gun

OMG dan snow has the time stone, he can slow time

Thankyou! This helped me write my AP document based essay!

Mr. Blue Sky.

@Sirkingd

3 жыл бұрын

O l d s o n g l o l

I love the music choices. Great video!

@kgilliagorilla2761

Жыл бұрын

Love ELO

Mr loo while they are shooting with pistols! well done BBC!

My teacher played this video in class, so I thought I was crazy when I heard Air Balloon by Lily Allen in the background.

bf1's design plane is awsome

@rpg2428

3 жыл бұрын

They are based on real planes, Which one do you like best?

Actually the Brits did also work on a syncronised MG at the same time. Unfortunately the guns they used (Vickers .303 and the Lewis Gun) were both open-bold action and therefore their rate of fire was a bit more random. This still caused a likelyhood of about 5% of hitting your own propeller when syncronised. The Germans instead used the MG 0815 which had closed-bold action making its shots more predictable.

@Wingzofelzorro

11 ай бұрын

Woah didnt knw abt this.Thanks for sharing😊🙏

Yep

I got here thanks to my school, they put a QR code under this plane model. I scanned it and it brought me here.

Battlefield 1 hell yea

@doritodogemlgdoge2684

7 жыл бұрын

Gggtvgbggbgbgbgbgbggbgb

@minjunkim9847

6 жыл бұрын

Bf1 Ftw

@hampter1279

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

Bend it like my golf car III

Germans are very innovative

💖

Isn’t there a Bleriot 11 hanging from the ceiling in Chambery airport

I guess the castle could yelloa a nail

all I have to say is "Balls of Steel" how they fit their balls into that seat i will never know.

I SERVE THE SQUIDOINEN EMPIRE

@brandonseto4524

4 жыл бұрын

So do I man

Wow! He’s actually flying!…….

@russthebiker

5 ай бұрын

No he isnt

Yep

The gloster gladiator is from WW2...

what song?

30% talking about the video. 70% talking about the music in the video

Just curious how old must you be to be able to fly a bi-plane?

@burritoboy1012

3 жыл бұрын

I assume it’s just like all other single engine planes, I’m not sure what the age for a pilot’s license is in the USA but in Australia I think it’s 15, so I assume it’s somewhere around that

BATTLEFIELD 1 FTW

my son Logan semi-owns a Sopwith pup

Might have been an interesting video but I stopped halfway through when the completely out of place background music took over. Why would you blare this over the sound of an early aircraft engine that many people may not have heard before?

I came here for BF1..

@nuggetaquino2529

7 жыл бұрын

What is Life? productions me too

@matthewpho9436

7 жыл бұрын

What is Life? productions dude this was made 2 years ago

@ellomateimjake5202

7 жыл бұрын

Czara Corsame me too

Dearest Dan, I understand your show is called "Dan Show." Now, if I may ask, because this fascinates me, is this the best you can do? I mean, I suppose it's clever in an ironic way, "oh it's a show with a man called Dan, get it?" But it doesn't show a flair of creativity. How we will know what your show is about besides the fact that there could potentially be a man called Dan? Think of all the other great shows of the past. Now, I don't watch TV, I'm severely addicted to my mobile phone and the internet has reduced my attention span to dust. But think of it like this, if I want to watch a show with planes, guns, bombs, etc - you should call it "Planes, Guns, Bombs, etc" -- that would be a hit! Peace and love Elliott Sargent.

@ElliottSargent

Ай бұрын

Dearest Dan, I'd like to apologise for my remarks. I'm also a severe alcoholic and the liquor makes me say hurtful things. Peace and love Elliott Sargent.

1:39 1:53

3:11 song pls

What's The Song In Minute 3:11 Please Help

@Ahmed-xl9gx

6 жыл бұрын

lol

@ScienceFan1859

4 жыл бұрын

No song at 3:11....?

@wellbeatemagain1904

4 жыл бұрын

@ScienceFan1859, R/wooosh

@jerrytheracecardriver1100

3 жыл бұрын

darude sandstorm

A few oversights in this but otherwise a great overview. Aerial combat was kicked off by the Italians in an earlier conflict, the Italo-Turkish war. But WW1 saw combat as we now know it. The interruptor gear was a French innovation but an example quickly fell into German hands. Fokker copied and quickly refined the system. The brits used deflector plates and, most worryingly, a form of tape to hold the prop together just long enough to pop the aircraft back down.

Why is it called Dixie

Filmed at Shuttleworth? Wish they'd had the Pup out--more of an advancement from previous machines than the Tripe.

@idleonlooker1078

5 жыл бұрын

Should've had BOTH out on display. As they're BOTH utterly superb aircraft. 👍

British Anzani engine ?

@russthebiker

5 ай бұрын

Italian motorcycle engine

What’s with the music?

You shave wood with a 'plane' son. We call them aircraft or aeroplanes in this country.

Nice Green screen

Zee synchronizer mechanism by Anthony Fokker.

bf1 yaaa

@xxxaussiecnt747

7 жыл бұрын

Battlefield 1 - NEWS cod is better

@josanvoon7236

7 жыл бұрын

Xxx Aussiecnt You Derp BF 1 is The BEST!!!!!!!!

Bf1 belike😂

Why not really flew with it?

@lag00n54

8 жыл бұрын

Did you heard him? It does not fly very well as in it keeps shaking and you can't land If you try it will crash

@alwinpriven2400

7 жыл бұрын

And both of you don't know basic grammar.

@-Kozloff

6 жыл бұрын

"Why not really *flew* with it?" "Did you *heard* him?" Nice "grammar" you've got there.

@TheTheotherfoot

5 жыл бұрын

@@-Kozloff Sorry, teacher.

@-Kozloff

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheTheotherfoot "no problem m8"

Those who had control of the skies. Most often controlled the ground. But not always.

SONG AT 3:11?????

@hoosierhell7456

8 жыл бұрын

A terrible song

Just imagine a plane flying and then crashing immediately by the Red Baron, that must be horrifying to see family die but again when people had guns on there planes (and yes they didn’t have guns in there plane on the first try) but when they did they actually had shot there propellers so they had tried steel but it didn’t work so somebody being a smart man made a machine that would disable when the propeller was in front of the gun and actually got a kill, so that could of killed many people like the Red Baron and all his victories because it would be more easier when shooting. I just explained planes to you

1:55 dont that background look fake? or is it just me

1.10 minute. What he said? (something) this one still flies. What was this "something"? "If wormacibly", "Imwormacibly"? There isn't that word in dictionaries...

@generakuj9443

8 жыл бұрын

Wilf Temple I can't hear that at all... But ok, thanks.

@generakuj9443

8 жыл бұрын

Wilf Temple Yeah, now it sounds naturally, because I couldn't hear " amazigly" anywhere.

@JSMEsq

5 жыл бұрын

Generał Kuj even more remarkably this one still flys

Man he didn't even fly that thing

@Otokichi786

5 жыл бұрын

He didn't have a death wish with bits of aircraft and engine distributed through his body.;)

@ceebee2

8 күн бұрын

No, because you need a license to fly in general and then several more licenses to fly a priceless historical artifact.

Do people have a life all they talk about is BF1 as if they just came here to see what a video game would look like in reality!😛

@thomserenity5765

2 жыл бұрын

I really did. I have been flying a WW1 plane in VR with my Oculus Quest 2 and wanted to see them in real life again.

I hate my teachers forcing me to watch shits I don't wanna know

@vgrepairs

3 жыл бұрын

You sound like a dumb kid

@konkeshtgaming7293

3 жыл бұрын

@@vgrepairs maybe 👍

are they gonna forget about the wright brothers cos theyre british and think they did everything?

I don't believe canvas was used to cover plane framework. I think it was linen.

@EpicZombiez2314

7 жыл бұрын

Linen is cloth woven from flax. Canvas is cloth made from hemp, flax, cotton, etc... Pretty much the same thing.

@DavidSmith-xs3or

7 жыл бұрын

AlCapone Canvas tends to be heavier. Even in the early days of aviation, it was all about cutting down on weight.

Really poor choice of background music. Almost ruined the presentation.

BBC vs TAE

Poop

Bohot tatti video .

Green screen and wub wub music? Makes me want to puke. Want a REAL doco on the rise of combat aircraft in WW1? Look up Reaching For the Skies: The Aeroplane goes to War. Now THAT'S how you do a documentary, mate...

@largesoda6524

7 жыл бұрын

brok2 this isn't a documentary though, it's an eductional video about aircraft, meant to be short

@leifvejby8023

6 жыл бұрын

brok2 believe it is intended for kids.

@johnward89

3 жыл бұрын

Don't you know, everything has to make us feel like we're in the club gettin CRUNK!

The horrible music totally ruins this

BBC vs TAE