One of the main management issues that separated the British from the Germans was that the British tended to make incremental improvements over existing equipment and designs.

Wikipedia says 1,528 were built .

Could the "anonymous man" Wennstrom met in Switzerland by any chance be Messeschmidt engineer Woldemar Voight, who later designed Vought's death trap, F7U Cutlass

Amazing! Just a note, hellenic airforce continued the war in exile, so it wasn't exactly the last fight. I want to ask about the German casualties. Were indeed 4 planes?

I wonder if had the Engines been given properly larger nacelles and invested in a better combined cooling set up, Letting majority of the engine cool through the Annular Radiators as well as a separate evaporative cooling system combined would have maybe done the trick. Also it might sound like a horrendous idea, But because Evaporative cooling systems are already very fragile and susceptible to fire, Why not attempt to cool them by passing a pipe or two.. directly through the fuel..(which might be cold enough to y’know to cool the coolant?) at altitude it might help since the whole wing is kind of *cold.* idk my stupid ideas and what ifs for an aircraft 80 years ago.

Most test flights for the first few are always gear down!!! It isn't until later flights they do start retracting and extending the land gear!

Merde!

The Seafire proved itself when it wiped out Goering 's entire invsdion fleet during the Nazi air asssult on Malta.

Are you trolling with these pronunciations?

Um "cruzamento" do FW-190 em Aço e Compensado, com o Trem de Pouso do ME-109.

Superb in flight clips!😀

Considering how much money was spent on the B-29 program (one billion dollars), the cost of the British Corsairs was trivial. America should have just given the planes to Britain along with a few million dollars worth of other planes like the PBY, tanks, guns and ships. Britain did pay off it's war debt but it meant continued rationing of food and fuel, something America didn't have to do.

Wow! Something from Blohm & Voss that doesn't look crazy or like the designer didn't overuse the drugs. Really unconventional design compared to others from B&V.

I knew a lovely old gent that flew these in the Fleet Air Arm. He’s long gone now but I remember him with a glass of red as good company. He flew Seafires in the Mediterranean, then the Corsair. I remember him talking about the torque of the engine being severe before take offs. He didn’t talk too much about the war, but he mentioned losing friends in the Mediterranean whilst strafing. He had a DFC or DSC too, can’t remember which.

Pushing those beautiful planes and all the other equipment that went overboard at the end of the war should be designated as a war crime, and those responsible should’ve been prosecuted.

wtf is an 'onsign'?

Can you make a video about the Saab 18?

Fantastic stuff 🎬🇫🇮

Good document. Important war historian 🎬🇫🇮

Yeah Idrogigante is a fitting name for this behemoth

Good video. However, correction F16 Uppsala not F19.

Excellent video and story! One very minor thing to point out: in the beginning of the video, you say that the United States was pushing East against Japan, but in actuality they were pushing North, Northwest...

Catapult launched observer planes of world war II on both sides also sunk submarines and small ships and ground targets. They don't get the credit they deserve. The damage caused by their observations are more valuable than a single fighter aircraft.

Looks like a fun device on the lefthand page at 12:39

Enjoyed the story. Well narrated too 👍

Belo avião!🌟

Very interesting and informative video. Thanks for sharing your experiences with the subject concept. 🙈🙉🙊 😎 🇺🇸

To this day I wonder why the Typhoon did not get much past some design studies and tests using barely navalized (ex: adding arrester hook) but otherwise stock aircraft that went poorly. It seems it should have only needed a little reinforcement and relatively simple high lift devices to make it suitable for carrier ops but I guess the demand for land fighters probably made it cheaper to just procure a different type from the US for carrier use. I also find it sad that the US just said to dump all those aircraft rather than tell them to sell them to whoever will buy them and give us half the money you collected to settle the lease. It was the only WWII piston aircraft that was still in active service with the US well into the Korean War. Being a very high performance fighter I am sure some countries or returning vets would have snatched them up and if not scrappers certainly would have.

Approximately 10 engines were ever built and they were never reliable.

I would think the even larger Martin Mars would better be described as the forgotten American giant. The true giant of the Martin lineup the Mars dwarfed the Mariner and only six examples of the Mars were ever built.

By this time, the Germans already possesed the Me 262. To able to down the B-29 easily, it required rockets or 30mm cannon.

Honestly, the P-39 had the most beautiful lines of any fighter from any country. The decision to delete the supercharger was a galactically stupid one. With it, it was a force to be reckoned with at high altitude.

Ängelholm mentioned!!!! Fun fact there is a J22 at the airmuseum in Ängleholm that is being restored!

Great research, good video. I learned something today . Through your video, we aviation enthusiasts get to know an otherwise forgotten fighter. 😊

Thank you for always publishing these entertaining videos. The mug shot used in the video is Lieutenant Nobuo Fujita, a seaplane pilot in the Navy. In case you were wondering, he was the hero who piloted the submarine-borne seaplane that successfully bombed the west coast of the USA.

Many seaplanes and flying boats have been developed and produced in the island nation of Japan. That is why we Japanese have a special romantic interest in Italian and German flying boats. I am grateful to you for digging up this little history of flying boats in a corner of Europe and introducing it to me.

Finns are so very sensible and resourceful, so are Swedes, but Finns really inspire me. 😂

Was this to be a wood burning aircraft?

Where'd you get the audio for the pilot dialogue? The pronounciation is on point, so I'd be tempted to say you got a native speaker to do the voice acting, if it weren't for the delivery, which, while professional, includes some word choices that seem really odd with the perfectly calm and professional delivery.

Very reminiscent of the Dewoitine D-520.

Sarvanto's plane was armed with four 7.7 mm MGs only.

Great topic! I've always liked the lines of this cool little Yugoslavian fighter. Reminds me of a cross between like a Hurricane and a Yak-1. Cool aircraft too bad they didn't have a lot more of them on hand when the Germans invaded. Time to build my Azur kit! 😊

Im pretty sure the firepower is why it did so well in Soviet service , like they had better fighters in every catergory except firepower

Like it did ok in Pacific US/Aus/NZ service despite the reputation

The flying marvel that never met its enemy... Specially with jackass Goering as supreme commander of the Luftwaffe!!

Back stabbers!!!

A first time viewer here, and this is a damn fine video. In 1981 I was flying out of Fort Nelson, BC, in support of resource extraction. One of my duties was to fly a Cessna-185 on floats hauling people and supplies in and out of remote sites along the Liard and MacKenzie Rivers, and remote exploration camps further north. Fort Nelson is Mile 300 on the Alaska Hwy and was a refueling point for aircraft enroute the Soviet Union from CONUS. Northeast of Ft Nelson was a camp on July Lake, near the BC/AL/NWT borders. I flew in there on floats and found a P-39 that had obviously bellied into the tundra-like ground. Judging by the nature of the damage to the prop, I don't think that the engine was running when it touched down. The gear was still retracted. You can just imagine a young ferry pilot, probably American, lost in the weather over Northern BC, finally running out of fuel. A few months later I heard that the oil workers had bulldozed the P-39 into scrap making a cutline. Having actually seen it made all that history real to me.

Excellent.

720 perfectly good Corsairs DUMPED into the sea- for absolutely idiotic reasons, who was dumber? The Americans or the British?? Moot point I know, it just goes to show you that there really isn't much thinking OR common sense in governments. Talk about some really dumb b*stards....... WOW!

Your "Fiat G.50" at 11:16 is a Gloster Gladiator.