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@tonys1636

Жыл бұрын

You mentioned that the Hurricane was named after a storm we seldom get also another plane named after one we also seldom get but more often very localised and short lived. A Tornado. Designers seem to like weather related names such as those and the Lightning.

@britbazza3568

Жыл бұрын

SoGal you mentioned about the Aircraft carriers and the USA being leaders in Carriers. You might have the sheer weight of numbers of carriers now but the UK has the most advanced aircraft Carriers in the world now with the Elizabeth class carriers to which the UK now has 3 I believe

@britbazza3568

Жыл бұрын

Both griffon and merlin Engines are made by Rolls Royce

@lawrenceglaister4364

Жыл бұрын

You smiled when the RAF lady sat on the tail of the spitfire but was taken up in the air and telling you about it and being under stated and she truly was , but that's not unusual . If I'm correct you've done a reaction to cricket and know a bit of it's terminology , but during the Korean war an American officer had British army soldiers on a section in which he was responsible for , the area was being attacked by Chinese troops so the officer thought he'd give the British a ring to find out how they were doing , he got the commanding officer on the phone and asked how things were the British officer said that they were having a " sticky wicket at the moment " ( what a stupid old fashioned reply that was to a non British officer that was ) the American officer said ok and put the phone down , after a few minutes the American officer thought it may be one of those British understatements he had heard of so sent troop reinforcements as well as tanks, lucky enough they got there in time to prevent the section getting over ran by thousands and thousands of Chinese troops !!!!!!!

@m341ehw

Жыл бұрын

@@tonys1636 don't forget the typhoon (euro fighter) and proposed Tempest.

Sarah, you must remember that we are British. We do not make a fuss about such minor inconveniences!🤣🤣

As far as Bader is concerned, don't sweat it Sarah - you weren't to know about him and his 'little accident' as his wife used to refer to it. Up close, the sound of a Merlin engine roaring into life is something else - it's almost like the roar of a great beast that's just became angry at the pilot seated in the cockpit - it's an awesome noise to hear. In so far as this video is concerned, again, thank you Sarah for sharing with us - your humble followers!

@clivenewman4810

Жыл бұрын

From Mitchell first putting pen to paper to prototype to maiden flight,cost £16,000.british genius

@johnbarron8882

11 ай бұрын

When you hear a Lancaster bomber passing overhead at low altitude. Four Merlin engines at full pelt, but accompanied by an honour guard of Spitfires an Hurricanes, the drone as they get close is incredible. My wife used to ask me: How did the Germans not hear it coming?

Raymond Baxter, the presenter, served in the RAF during WW2 and was a spitfire pilot. He then had a successful television career. He died in 2006 aged 84. A full life.

@sicknote1558

Жыл бұрын

Don't think I've heard of Baxter before mabe well before my time obviously

@ianprince1698

Жыл бұрын

he was the presenter for many years of tomorrow's world explaining each scientific development

@brucebartup6161

Жыл бұрын

Apr 18, 2017 75 Years of the RAF - Raymond Baxter (1993) (age 71) Four years younger than the RAF its0elf He was born into a world where the SE5 biplane was the state of the art. When he died the Harrier A-V8 B wa regarded by some. as a low performer. Except of cours0e it could take off and land vertically, go backwards or hover like humming bird. 662mph, ra 350nm, thrust 105kN (SE5 138mph, ra 300mi 150 hp ) the scale pf changes, stsggering class equality progress - somewhat less impressive

@davidmarsden9800

Жыл бұрын

Raymond Baxter flew the Spitfire, but before the Normandy landings his squadron was re-equipped with Typhoons and had a ground attack role. He later flew the Mustang and Dakota.

@TheEulerID

Жыл бұрын

I met Raymond Baxter many years ago when he was a guest of honour at a formal meal at the university I was studying at. He also had his rather attractive daughter with him who became and still is, as far as I can tell, an international fencing coach. The university I attended is well known for its engineering and science, so I suspect that he was there through contacts, very possibly from his time as a Tomorrow's World presenter (and, before that, Eye on Research).

Angled flight decks were British too, and the first proper carrier really, pretty much all of the carrier innovations originated with Britain

@peterjackson4763

Жыл бұрын

And a very large proportion of them were tested by Eric Brown.

@andrewwaller5913

Жыл бұрын

Steam catapult too

@guypenrose5477

Жыл бұрын

Mirror landing sight.

@shadybacon3451

Жыл бұрын

It's a damn shame that the UK is lazy now. The government doesn't want to fund the armed forces, buying instead of designing and building innovative ideas like we used to.

@vaudevillian7

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewwaller5913 SoGal mentioned the steam catapult

They used synchronised firing mechanisms during WW1 after they found the guns would shoot the propeller off. The hard part was getting the timing right.

There’s a synchronisation gear that doesn’t allow a round to be fired when the prop blade is in the way - it was invented during WW1. There will be some videos out there if you want to look into it, will try and find a good one

@rschroev

Жыл бұрын

I might be mistaken, but I think the system in use during WW II was designed so that the gun was actually triggered by a cam or something on the engine shaft, ensuring synchronization between the engine (and therefore the propeller) and the gun. The pilot's control in that case wasn't the real trigger, it just enabled the engine engaging the actual trigger. Again, I could be wrong.

@iriscollins7583

Жыл бұрын

@@rschroev ls that what was designed by 13 year old a school girl, because she was very good at mathematics.?

@Equiluxe1

Жыл бұрын

In WW1 the germans had the interrupter gear first while the British put steel shoes on the wooden props where bullets would hit.

@sicknote1558

Жыл бұрын

What a an absolutely fascinating invention bullets being able to be fired through a propeller moving at an incredible speed in those days WOW

@philhallbrook7008

Жыл бұрын

The early French planes in WW1 tried putting metal deflector plates on the wooden propellor blades, & shoot through & hope!

That was brilliant. The elderly lady telling her Spitfire story 😱 wonderful! Douglas Bader talking tactics. So nostalgic.

I worked at the Castle Bromwich plant for 12 years from the year 2000. There was still camouflage on the walls and roof, roundels on the guttering down pipes, some which were used as planters. We took the heritage of the site very seriously and there is still a list of all the squadrons that operated the spitfire in the reception. Lancasters were also assembled there. The spitfire sculpture that sits on the roundabout by gate one, called sentinel, is one of the best pieces of public art in the UK IMO. You need to go to an airshow, listen to the sound of the Merlin engine (not the griffon version if you can help it) and understand why this aircraft is still one of the most popular aircraft at displays. ❤

Really enjoyed this and enjoyed your comments, particularly reference the lady who took a ride on a Spitfire via the tail. As you say definitely "understated"! But that is our way (or used to be) both my mother and father were involved in WWII. My mother was born in 1924 and during the war was in charge of of 700 machines manufacturing parts for bombs and torpedo's. she never spoke about it as serious endeavor, but always with a sense of hummer, such as, she was called to inspect an accident (her presence wasn't necessary, but the male workers wanted to test the young lady's "metal" ) She saw the severed finger on the machine, filed the report, had the mess cleaned up, sent the worker off to hospital and got the workers back to work with the comment "You know there's a war on", She then went back to her office and vomited, but I was the only one she ever told about the later part.

First twin engine landing on a carrier and the first jet landing on a carrier were both performed by RN test pilot Captain Eric "winkle" brown. A hugely interesting character who is stilll revered amongst the tests pilot community. Loads of documentaries about himbon YT, and well worth doing a series on.

The De Havilland Mosquito (or "Wooden Wonder") is an interesting aircraft too...

That "new" plane they were talking about at the end was the Panavia Tornado. It was a joint aircraft project built by the UK, West Germany and Italy. It was a multi-role aircraft that could be a fighter and a ground or sea attack aircraft. It was in RAF service from 1979 to 2019.

@stevesoutar3405

Жыл бұрын

Designed & built by Italy, West Germany & Britain

I heard that story that every German shot down in the war was shot down by a Spitfire. Douglas Barder was a hero of mine. The sound of the Merlin has a special place in the hearts of the British, the plane they were talking about was the Tornado. As for the lady hanging on to the tail of the Spitfire, and talking about it so casually, that generation were a special breed.

@MrChristbait

Жыл бұрын

You are grossly underestimating what the Hurricane shot down, at least half I think.

@hughfranklin4002

Жыл бұрын

@@MrChristbait I said i heard the story not that i believed it. Why is there always some key board warrior that wants to try and belittle commentators?

@Davey-Boyd

Жыл бұрын

@@hughfranklin4002 To be fair Hugh your comment reads like you believe it. It doesn't say you don't believe it. And the reply you received was belittling you at all. Just pointing out your comment was wrong without being nasty.

@EricIrl

Жыл бұрын

Bader

@EricIrl

Жыл бұрын

@@MrChristbait During the Battle of Britain, Hurricanes shot down more German aircraft than all other British defences combined. However, the Hurricane was already beginning to become obsolete so RAF fighter squadrons in Europe had largely re-equipped with later Marks of Spitfires by 1942.

@ 16.08 Jeff quill (ex Spifire Chief test pilot after Mutt Summers) was talking about the Panavia Tornado, the multi role swing wing supersonic strike fighter he had on the desk in front of him, Panavia was a tri Country joint building project/collaboration between ourselves, the Germans, and the Italians from the mid sixties onwards which first flew in 1974, and was later used to such devastating effect in the first gulf war in the early 90's delivering some of the first generation laser guided smart bombs with pin point accuracy. What he was describing was how absurd it would have seemed to the people of the 1940's to have all in the same room working hand in hand, Joe Smith who was responsible as Chief designer for every different mark of Spitfire after Mitchells death (20 of them in all), and Herr Kurt Tank who was Focke Wulfs chief designer and who actually designed all the 190 variants plus Herr Willie Messerschmit owner of the company bearing his name and designer of the 109 110 etc, Jeff Quill was one of the principle directors of the Panavia project. can you imagine the reaction you would have got if you had said any of that in 1940.........they would have locked you up in a nice padded cell.

The Spit had remarkable development through the war There were 26 main models and the engines ranged from the 1000 hp Merlin at the start to the 2000+ horsepower Gryphon by the wars end. There was a naval variant called the Seafire. Over 20,000 were built The reason there was so many variants was because there was a constant need to upgrade performance to match similar upgrades being done by the other side

@EricIrl

Жыл бұрын

Griffon.

The plane was allegedly going to be called the Supermarine Shrew, but when it was renamed the Spitfire, Mitchell supposedly said "that's just the sort of damn silly name they would call it". Agreed, we don't have hurricanes in the UK, we also don't have typhoons, tempests and whirlwinds, but that didn't stop us using those names! Btw, the plane you were asking about is the Panavia Tornado, a joint venture between Italy, Germany and the UK. just been retired from RAF service a couple of years ago.

@diogenesegarden5152

Жыл бұрын

I think the names like ‘Hurricane’ and ‘Typhoon’ etc. have a bit more style than say ‘Moderately Inclement Weather’😂

On the Spitfire you had about 10 or 12 seconds of ammo in the guns, it went through ammo that quick. So you had to use 2 second bursts otherwise you would go through your bullets in one go.

The man with Douglas Badger is the fighter ace Robert Stanford Tuck who fought through the Battle of Britain in a Hurricane. I was given his autobiography as a child in the mid 1960's and still have it today. It covers his personal life experience during that time and the operational sorties he flew for hours on end many times and for day after day, often without hitting or seeing a German aircraft even though he was posted into the thick of the fighting. His description of shooting at aircraft shows how bloody hard it was to actually hit something and you only had about 4 x 5 second bursts of ammunition before you ran out and became Messerschmitt folder. He was the advisor for the 1968 film "The Battle of Britain".

As other people are saying - you weren't to know about Douglas Bader having lost his legs. He had a biography written about him entitled 'Reach for the Sky', which was later used as the basis of a film with the same name, starring Kenneth More in the lead role. Incidentally, Bader's name is pronounced as if it rhymes with 'harder'.

I was leaving the farm near Borrowash Derby when I went to open the gate to the A52 and heard a Spitfire. For the next 30 minutes I watched it do a full display with every manoeuvre you could imagine, against a beautiful red evening sky. This was the Rolls Royce Spitfire, I've no idea if he was practicing his routine or just enjoying himself, But I do know it was spectacular and something I will never forget.

Hello SoGal and Roger. I have enjoyed these three videos. Just the word "Spitfire" is iconic, as was said. You must have heard "Keep calm and carry on" that typifies that WW2 generation in UK. I remember the contrast often quoted here was with US reaction to the Orson Wells radio broadcast "War of the Worlds". Many middle aged people then had joined up in WW1 or been involved in war work in that war, when similar efforts were introduced in industrial production. There were air raids in London in that war too and Scarborough was bombarded from the sea, so they had an idea what to expect. The British generally seemed to feel WW2 just had to be fought and won as per your viewing of "Dad's Army". I have commented before that a film from WW2 I recommend, to get an appreciation of the mood, is "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". Note that I am one of those subscribers who enjoyed "comment time" at the start to remind and further inform me. P.S. When I flew from Heathrow to US, the IRA were mortar bombing it. I had a window seat over the wing and said to my friend that I would have a good view if they took the wing off. I always assumed the chap in the aisle seat who turned grey, got up and never came back was not British.

Here's a funny thing. When Bader was shot down and in a Gerry POW camp the RAF dropped him a replacement leg for the one he left in the Spitfire when he bailed out

@andrewclayton4181

Жыл бұрын

He got sent to Colditz, the bad boys camp for persistent escape attempts. When he was escorted outside for exercise, doctors visits, or any other reason, he'd smuggle stuff he scrounged back into the castle in his artificial leg.

Hi Sarah! On a similar note to the woman riding on the spitfire tail, you might want to check out 'Taffy' Holden an RAF engineer who whilst examining a lightning jet accidently took off!! The Lightning was Britain's first supersonic jet fighter (in level flight) and was nicknamed The Frightning by the RAF

@wbertie2604

Жыл бұрын

My uncle, who was a medic, once inadvertently started a Vulcan.

I am not going to go into the Q&A as others have or will beat me to it... however that unknown plane that was designed by Spitfire, Fokker-Wulf and BF-109 pilots is called the Panavia Tornado... A aircraft over 50 years old used by UK, Italy and Germany (Germany still use them today)... if you ask any American pilot they will say it was a horrible plane (Because lots of things were not automated and it was not purely designed for dogfights)... you ask a British, Italian or German pilot... they will tell you it's an amazing plane. Side note... I am really loving your background set :)

Check out the ATA in WW2 Air Transport auxiliary. There was one woman that flew over 100 different types of aircraft to various bases across the UK

The syncronisation gear used the fire the guns through the propeller blades was actually developed during WW1. It was indeed a mechanical device. BTW my father was a spitfire pilot during the conflict. He was one of the pilots who flew from the US Wasp to Malta. AS an aside he was shot down twice. Once during the invasion of Sicily by the Royal Navy while in a dogfight with Fokker Wulf 190s. The second time he was shot down was during the first invasion of Italy when he was the first to land on a captured German airfield by the US Army.

When I attended primary school in the late 1960's, one of the required reading books was Douglas Bader's biography, Reach for the Sky. Once we had completed it, Douglas Bader caused a bit of a stir when came to visit the school. I can vividly remember sitting next to him on a bench during lunch break and he allowed me to knock on his wooden legs to see if they were real!!

The means of firing through the propellers goes back to WWI in point of fact: interrupter gears were used to synchronise the firing of the guns with the turning of the propellers to ensure the blades weren't hit. The Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero also used nose mounted machine guns in the engine cowling. It was not an uncommon method of mounting machine guns on fighters. Am proud to say that I attended the same High School here in NZ as Sir Keith Park, commander 11 Group during the Battle of Britain. The P51 Mustang is indeed the most iconic of the US fighters during WWII, but funnily enough, was initially designed and developed by North American in response to an RAF request for a brand new fighter as UK aircraft production was already overwhelmed with demand for existing types. I love the Spitfire dearly, but the P51-D Mustang... there's just something about it. Mind you, they're both powered by the Merlin, so... they sound equally sweet to my ears.

"Weather features" form a family of plane names that include the Hurricane, the Tempest, Typhoon, and not to mention the Tornado, which was the aircraft model that you were asking about.

Raymond Baxter, the commentator in this video, was as Stehen parker has said, a Spitfire pilot. He also swept an American Army Officer off her feet during the war, being a Spitfire pilot had its advantages! They had two children. She died in 1996. he died in 2006 aged 84.

Other British fighter names related to weather are Typhoon, Tempest, Lightening, Tornado. WWII heavy bombers tended to be named after towns, Stirling, Halifax, Lancaster.

The Messerschmitt Bf109 guns firing through the propeller arc were controlled by a mechanical interrupter gear synchronised to stop the guns firing when there was a propeller blade in the line of fire. When this failed the guns could continue firing into the blades. My Aunt worked at the Castle Bromwich plant building Spitfires during the war

There is a mechanism which geared the output of the propeller to the gun, which was synced to stop the gun firing when the blades were in the way, called an interupter gear. Being mechanical, they are not perfect, but the nicks out of the blade will be all in the same place because the fault in the syncing will always be in the same place, so while the blade would be nicked, it wouldn't be smashed off

Steam Catapult /Angled Flight Deck/ Mirrored Landing System are all Royal Navy inventions. We can share the arrestor wires idea though, as we first had them strung fore and aft and fitted them with little hooks, whilst the USN changed it to the more common across the deck port to starboard with a larger hook attached to the aircraft.

@andrewclayton4181

Жыл бұрын

Originally they had catch nets strung right across the deck, a bit like tennis nets. It's when they introduced jets, and the pilots no longer had 6ft of engine to protect them from the impact that they came up with the hook system

@eyesofisabelofficial

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewclayton4181 Those catch nets are called "The Barrier" or "Barricade" and they complement the arrestor cables in an emergency. You can see in early carrier deck landings crew would race after the plane and grab leather straps on the wing trailing edge, it lead to the loss of several pioneering naval aviators.

The requisitioning of buildings came about because our production facilities were inadequate for producing the number of aircraft needed so they took over any suitable building suitable to be turned into a factory.

The two chaps talking about dog fighting and using the models to explain it are Bob Tuck and Douglas Bader. Both British aces and Bader is standing with a strange leaning forward stance as both his legs are made of tin.

The Spitfire was a bit of an odd one out, we had Hurricane, Tempest, Typhoon, Whirlwind and a Tornado I believe.

@waynec3563

Жыл бұрын

Hurricane, Tempest, Typhoon and Tornado were all Hawker aircraft. They had a run on using storm names. The Whirlwind was by Westland.

@tonym480

Жыл бұрын

And let us not forget the Bristol Beaufighter, perhaps the most underrated British aeroplane of World War 2, it may not have had the glamour of the Spitfire or Mosquito, but like the Hawker Hurricane it was there when it was most needed and was a rough tough warrior much loved by those who flew it.

@nickdsnik1675

Жыл бұрын

@@tonym480 Not a name based on a wind though.

@wbertie2604

Жыл бұрын

The Tornado was only a prototype as it used the Vulture engine.

@wbertie2604

Жыл бұрын

​@@waynec3563 before that it was deer, the Audax and one called Hector. And Hendon.

Hi, Sarah, very interesting. I've checked and the original programme was made in 1976, 47 years ago and still good.

Mechanical synchronisation is probably (in some ways) easier to do than computer control today - a linkage from the prop shaft connected to a mechanism that stops the machine guns. Just make sure the prop always goes on at the same angle! Using a computer adds flexibility, but adds complexity and (when used in control systems like that) latency… In World War I, the first aeroplanes that fired machine guns through the propellor actually just had metal wedges attached to the prop blades that deflected the bullets away from the propellor - no interruption to the machine gun fire at all… ‘That plane’ that Jeffrey Quill was talking about was the Panavia Tornado, a collaboration between the UK, Germany and Italy from the 1970s onwards (my father worked on the engines for the Tornado). No connection between the two, I think Quill was just suggesting RJ Mitchell would have been interested in the design.

Made me smile seeing Bader (on the right) talking to Robert (Bob) Stanford-Tuck about the Spitfires armament... after the Battle of Britain they were both brought to the Air Ministry (this is recalled in Bob's autobiography) with "Sailor" Milan I believe, to talk about putting cannons on the "Spit". Bader jumped straight in and said something like "keep the 303, it did us well in the Battle of Britain, no need to change it!" thinking that was it and only his opinion counted. Bob said that it needed the heavier cannons because it took too long to to shoot down German aircraft with machine guns and they could do more damage with cannons. Bader very arrogantly and angrily disagreed... to say there was a furious argument between the two is an understatement!!! If you notice the way Bob sometimes looks at Bader you can see there's no love lost between them!!! Bader sometimes scoring points! There's no way I'd denigrate Bader's courage, but honestly, I could never stand the man...! "Tucky" is my hero!!!

The problem of synchronizing guns with propellers was solved in WWI. A cog in the trigger system interrupted the guns when the prop was in the way.

The mirror landing sight. Our Fleet Air Arm was also where the US navy found out how to safely land the F4 Corsair on carriers.

The Messerschmitt gun layout was used by many other countries and manufacturers up to the advent of jets. The American Bell P-39 Airacobra used the same cannon & machine gun layout in the nose firing through the hub and propeller as did many Russian and European fighter designs. Most fighter planes in the biplane era had fuselage mounted guns firing through the propeller as the wings were too thin and flimsy to fit guns in the wing.

The Merlin engine was fitted to the American P51. It turned a rather average fighter into probably the best fighter used by the allies.

Basically when they pulled the trigger on planes that fired through the propeller there was a mechanism that ‘timed’ firing so it would go between the propeller blades

Synchronising machine guns with propellers was something that was pioneered in WW I, and it was all done mechanically at first, although hydraulic and, later, electrical not electronic) systems were used. By then, it was well developed, although I think it did limit fire rate. The bf-109 had a centre mounted cannon because the V12 engine was inverted, it could fire through the "V". The propeller centre isn't in-line with the crankshaft, but was off-set with a reduction gearbox. In comparison, the Merlin V-12 was more conventional with the cylinder heads at the top.

You can tell everyone around the world love spitfires including US pilots who flew spitfires serving in eagle squadron and spitfires fly with USAAF in Tunisia Italy and England. You should react to air warriors hawker hurricane.

We had a hurricane in 1987 where 7000.000 trees in southern England were destroyed with devastation in the south of England in general. The BBC weather forecaster, Michael Fish said that he had received an inquiry about possible strong winds and said there was nothing to worry about. He never did live that down. Trees were down everywhere with buildings badly damaged.

Apparently she considered it a great adventure. A different caliber of person in those days. R J Mitchell did pretty well for a railway locomotive engineer. They type was constantly improved throughout the war while the Hurricane was at the limits of its development when it entered service.

Don't feel bad about laughing and not knowing about Douglas Bader had lost both legs, you weren't to know. It is a bit amusing how he got in if you don't know the backstory.

I think it was a Finish inventor that designed a way of shooting through the propellors without completely destroying them. That was during WW1.

Interesting fact : The first air battle in Britain happened over Scotland. The RAF shot down a German bomber and planes. The pilots who were killed were given a military burial and their coffin was sent back to Germany.

The British flegmatic approach to keep it calm even when situation is desperate will always amaze other people...

Did you know about the ATA? Air Transport Auxiliary. Women Pilots who flew the planes including the Spitfires from factories and between Air bases during the war. I don't believe they ever took part in combat and the planes were not armed, but they had a massively important role in moving the planes around the UK

Shooting between the propeller blades was a WW1 invention.

There are wonderful photographs of Bob Stanford Tuck sitting in the cockpit of his Hurricane. He honestly looks like he could be one of the three musketeers. He's the one with Bader at about 5 minutes in.

The angled deck on a carrier for landing was a British idea too.

In terms of weather we don't get 'full-on' Hurricanes but we get the most annual tornadoes per land area per year, 0.14 per 1000 km2 (although these tornadoes are generally weak)

We do get hurricane weather sometimes. The last one I remember was the Great Storm of 1987.

The sound from the spitfire engine makes my hairs stand on end.

The concept of the Air Craft carrier was HMS Argus in 1918

The British carriers had steel decks during WW2 whereas the American and Japanese decks were wooden. An American liaison officer based on a Royal navy carrier in the Pacific was amazed at how after a Kamikaze attack they could sweep the wreckage off the side, patch the dent with concrete, and be operational within hours. He knew an American carrier would be out of action for months

Re Douglas Bader. there is a old film about him called "Reach for the sky" The guns firing through the propeller was achieve by a mechanism call the interrupter gear which goes back to WW1.

The plane you saw on Quill's desk was the Tornado, which you reacted to a few months back.

British firsts in Naval Aviation: 1. First take off and then landing on a ship. 2. First custom built aircraft carrier. 3. Steam catapults. 4. Landing arrestors. 5. Angled flight decks. 6. First landing and take off on a carrier of a jet aircraft. 7. Landing lights approach system. 8. "Ski jump" deck take off system. 9. First take off and landing of a VSTOL jet aircraft on a carrier. Impressive huh? 😉👍😃

The Vickers Supermarine Spitfire was produced across 24 marks, with total production thought to be between 20,300 and 20,400 aircraft.

8:28 There were more than 20 different version of the Spitfire through the war. It was constantly being improved.

The Battle of Britain Flight still flies regularly today. It will be interesting to see if it plays a part in the King's coronation events.

There's a film set in WWI called Ships with wings about early aircraft carriers.

Synchronised firing, so that you could shoot between the props, was WW1 technology. It used gears to time the firing of the machine guns to the spin of the props..

If you want an idea of what the Battle of Britain was like I recommend watching the 1969 film 'Battle of Britain'. Unlike some war films it was made to be an accurate representation of what actually happened and according to historians does a pretty good job. It's still shown on a regular basis on British TV. Another classic film well worth watching is 'The Dam Busters' which is about Barnes Wallace's famous bouncing bomb, one of many quirky inventions Britain made during WWII.

@_starfiend

Жыл бұрын

"The thirteen hours that saved Britain" is probably a far better watch. Though it's possible she's already seen it.

@EricIrl

Жыл бұрын

Barnes Wallis.

You say we never get hurricanes we do get very strong storms once in awhile for instance the 1987 Great Storm which levelled 15 million trees and caused great structural damage across south east England

During WW2 my maternal grandfather worked at the factory that made Douglas Bader’s artificial legs, J.E. Hanger & Co. Ltd of Roehampton. During the Battle of Britain Lord Beaverbrook was Minister of Aircraft Production. There was a brief shot of a Spitfire (or was it actually a Seafire?) departing an aircraft carrier using the JATO method (jet assisted takeoff).

To answer your question, the Merlin engine is the same as the Royce Rolls engine but it was manufactured in the US under a licensing agreement. in fact the famous US P-51 fighter was a severely under-performed aircraft when it first came out using an under-powered US made Wheatley engine. The P-51 was the long range fighter that was used to escort the B17 bombers onto Germany for their bombing missions & it is also the same plane you see at the end of 'Top Gun 2' movie when Tom Cruise took Jennifer Connelly for a ride . The British replaced the original engine with the Royce Rolls engine & the P-51 became one of the best fighters in WW2. It was a similar story for the Corsair which was the one of the main carrier based fighters during the Pacific War.

@EricIrl

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The early P-51s were fitted with an Allison V12. It was actually a very good engine but its supercharger was not that great which meant power dropped off above 10,000 feet. This made it unsuitable for high level dog fighting - but it was excellent at low level. The Merlin 61 had a much better supercharger system so when it was fitted to the P-51 it made an already good aeroplane a great one.

5:26 in ww1 a guy worked out how to gear from the propellers shaft to the machine guns on the nose of the aircraft (They also used metal covering the wooden propellers with angled wedges to deflect any bullets from the rotating props, see Google for pictures ) this was high tech in WW1 and something ? was used that stopped the firing mechanism on the 109 called an interrupter mechanism but if not synchronised accurately bits gnawed off the edges of the metal propellers would occur.

I recommend you look up the story of Antony Fokker for the story of the propeller synchronizer during WW1. That invention had a major impact on the war. Also recommended are videos on the Willow Run Plant in Michigan and Boeing's Wichita Plant in Kansas for a idea of how USA approached the challenge of increasing aircraft product differently than the British. It was a war winning method.

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There were several working on it concurrently with Fokker, although he was first to get it into a plane.

5:50...Hi SoGal, interupter gear that allowed a machine-gun to fire through a moving propeller were actually invented during World War 1 circa 1915

I live just yards away from this history the original factory in hamble a sub district of Eastleigh, still to this day makes modern airplane parts. It does so to honor those man. Recently there was a program where brand new spitfire was reproduce.

Its like, 'Hey, you know there's a war on? Well, give us your factory/manor house /workforce or we're all dead. By order of the King.'

That plane you were asking about near the end (where you asked if the Spitfire was the predecessor) is the Panavia Tornado (the guy talking was saying they had ex-spitfire pilots on the Tornado development programme), which you have already done a video on - he actually had a model of the Tornado in front of him on the desk.

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Nice one Sarah,. Now you know the difference between the Spitfire and the hurricane it's time to watch Battle of Britain don't delay too long, you'll enjoy it, and it will give you a better idea of what happened in 1940

you have to realise that we finished the first world war with nearly 20000 planes, and we then kept our aircraft industry going making minimal numbers of aircraft. Hawker probably had one of the most extensive production runs with the Hart and its variants accounting for less than a thousand. Supermarine made tens of aircraft before the war, so ramping up production and dealing with German bombing was one very big headache. Since that program several firms have now started building completely new spitfire wings and fuselages. One other thing you should know is that Mitchell was responsible for the MK1 Spitfire, Jo Smith was responsible for the following 21 marks.

Like most people think the Roland Garros is a tennis tournament. Garros was part pioneer of the interrupted gear that pioneered shooting through the prop. In WW1

the interruptor gear that allowed machine guns to fire through the propellor was invented by the germans in 1915, By 1917 the britsh invented a hydraulic interruptor

The bit with the woman who took a trip hanging onto the tail, in fact all of this programme, from the pilots to the bloke working amongst the delayed action bombs, with a bin on his head... when I was a lad, these people were still with us. It was always a sobering thought, to me, to look at the old biddy in the post office, or the old bloke puffing on his pipe in the corner of the pub, and to realise that they'd seen and done things that would make our hair stand on end today.

I think u laughed genuine and clean, not at all badly. U weren't to know, and its a reaction vid. But it says a lot about you that u felt the way you did ❤️

Some of the best pilots were women who ferried the spitfires from the factories to the airfields for the squadrons.

Synchronization gear it interrupts the fire of the gun through the arc of it's propeller and was designed by the legendary Anthony Fokker in World War 1

And the ‘Memphis Belle’ wasn’t the first to do 25 missions… thanks Hollywood!

Sarah, I used to play bowls for a team which had a local legend of a player, who still played despite having his fingers burned off escaping from a burning tank in north Africa. Some of that generation did not take very well at first to the former army driver I learned the game with. He could not cope with driving down "normal" Belfast streets, to then come under fire from what looked like civilians. I was reminded of this in the last video, when they were discussing targets. In his case, as the driver, he knew he was the target, but could not fire back or even fight back as a soldier would expect to. I recently watched the film '71. You might at some point watch it on Patreon, to get an impression of that generation's military experience, but note that it does show injuries.

You can almost taste the British sense of understatement here.

Nice story about Douglas Bader, he was shot down and became a prisoner of war. His legs were damaged in the dogfight and parachute descent and the Germans allowed a British plane safe conduct to drop replacement artificial legs near the hospital where he was being treated!

Hi Sarah, To build upon Nick's comment below, the jet aircraft on the chap's desk towards the end of the video was a Panavia Tornado... which served with the RAF for quite a while. Panavia [eventually] was a joint German/UK/Italian consortium. So the Tornado was maybe more properly a named descendent of the Hurricane? Good reaction BTW.

We do get hurricanes in Britain, but we called them Tempests. Tempest isn't used much nowadays, regretably, as the hurricane is now used. Shakespeare used tempest in one of his play titles, The Tempest. Iff you cover the Battle of Britain, watch the film The Battle of Britain and the documentary The Thirteen Hours that saved Britain.

Ah, yes, Baden. He dreamed of flying, lost his legs in a crash, was released from the RAF. When war came, England was so desperate for experienced pilots that they made an exception for him. Baden had an idea that just didn’t work called ‘the Big Wing.’ He wanted to put up a huge line of fighters that would, literally, rake the sky clear of enemy planes. It might or might not have worked but because the raids over England were at the extreme range of the Luftwaffe, German planes were never over England long enough to have all the squadrons Bader’s plane called for to get airborne and get formed up.

@4:58 You might wanna lookup another video on how they engineered the central Cannon on the 109. Very good engineering ;)

Another interesting clip in the series on the Spitfire. Thanks for airing these and your insights.

Great series SoGal, thanks ☺

The factories AKA ‘Shadow Factories’ were based in Southampton. The Germans completely obliterated the city and people had to sleep on the ‘common’ (a large park for safety). The US didn’t experience the blitz and wouldn’t have experienced targeted bombing due to building war hardware.

I’m from Stoke on Trent, we have one in our local museum. I even went to Mitchell high school named after Reginald Mitchell