Arado Ar 234 Blitz - The First Jet Bomber

[@jamesmaletsky2980]

Not mentioned in this video of the Blitz bomber is it's advanced features. Pressurized cockpit, ejection seat,and computer. Learned this by reading a book on German aircraft during WW2.

[@scootergeorge7089]

Early models lacked landing gear and relied on a dolly for takeoff and a skid for landing. Taxi after landing was therefore impossible. Rear visibility was so poor, a tank periscope was fitted. Most had to rely on rocker assist engines for takeoff RATO.

[@troysutton9713]

Thanks for the extra info bro. Good ish

[@solarfinder]

James, do you recall the name of the book?

[@mikemooney3500]

Bollocks

[@scootergeorge7089]

@@mikemooney3500 - That comment must hare required a great deal of thought, Mister Mooney!

[@SunriseLAW]

As of this writing on 1.21.21, my father is currently the youngest still surviving American POW of ww-2 after captured as part of "Task Force Baum"... the failed mission to liberate the POW camp at Hammelberg, where Pattons son in law happened to be. Dad got credit for 32 days, 30 was required for POW status. He told of how morale in his POW camp was badly affected when they saw the first German jets fly fast above them. He explained how incredibly fast and other-worldly they were compared to all the prop planes, which reinforced the pervasive rumors of secret German weapons that would turn the war around.

[@vigilantobserver8389]

That is a fascinating first-person account of this amazing jet. God Bless your father and I thank him for serving!

[@CH-pv2rz]

The German jet was well knows before that time. It had entered combat while the Allies were still hung up in Normandy.

[@262marcus]

One flew a photo reconnaissance mission over the Normandy beaches shortly after the invasion. They also flew over the UK. I read one fascinating account by an Arado 234 pilot telling how, whilst flying over the channel towards England, he encountered a British reconnaissance mosquito flying the other way, the pilots just looked at each other and flew on! They were both unarmed in any event.

[@edwardbruce2318]

Theu almost did... Few realize how close Washington and few other cities within the USA along with England Cities were to total annihilation from nuclear weapons..... You should thank the badass ski teams and elite special forced who stopped them in the process of manipulating water whihc is last key in making weapon

[@abaddonanon7573]

All things different: it reminds me of how some in Roswell in 1947 saw a composite of plastics and aluminum. And reacted like everyone in 1947 would do. With astonishment! Then the oral tradition kept on and it became because of ayys.

[@MaxCruise73]

I have seen this aircraft at the Udvar-Hazy Museum located on one end of Dulles Airport. Beautiful aircraft.

[@rivotrich7]

Me too. I’ve always been very interested in any jets that entered operations or first flew during WWII.

[@paoloviti6156]

I never saw it but I understood that it was beautifully restored...

[@IGNACY-fp8zo]

I saw it, but unfortunately when they started making renovations

[@paoloviti6156]

@@IGNACY-fp8zo already doing renovation on an airplane that was restored something like 10 years ago? Have they ruined it🥺?

[@IGNACY-fp8zo]

@@paoloviti6156 No, the building was under renovation and they covered it up with plastic wrap You could see it, but it wasn’t that nice I think they are restoring “Flak Bait” though, unless that’s also been going on for a decade

[@glennkrieger]

What a span of 5 (or 6) years of aeronautical history WWII was. The changes, upgrades, breakthroughs, and designs in aircraft that came and went will likely never be repeated. To do so now would bankrupt almost any country.

[@theblackhand6485]

@Glenn Krieger: or you just sell your F35 year and years later for a price beyond imagination and state that it is state of the art technology.

[@danielescobar7618]

Kicking Nazi ass was worth more than any money.

[@rolandfischer931]

There also just isn't as many leaps forward to take anymore

[@midnightteapot5633]

One of the test pilots for this aircraft was a young Junkers 88 pilot named Gunther Eheim . He went on to develop a multi- million dollar company developing and selling innovative and ultra high quality Aquarium filtration equipment under the EHIEM brand name.

[@markjones7185]

Incredible, historic footage. Always thank the people who filmed, processed, and restored this history. And after all these years I'm seeing footage of the Arado for the first time. What a machine.

[@channelsixtysix066]

The short comings weren't due to the airframe, but the engines. That is understandable, since they were at the cutting edge of development.

[@at6686]

They were also made out of whatever materials that were available. Jet engines need special alloys to with stand the tremendous temperatures and stresses of jet power. Germany didn’t have access to them.

[@weirdshibainu]

True. We take it for granted now, but the evolution from prop engines to jet engines is a quantum leap in technology. The Germans were hampered by the lack of exotic materials necessary to manage the high temperatures jet engine produce. Still, it's amazing they got as far as they did with what they had to work with.

[@channelsixtysix066]

@@at6686 Yes, and it's likely the metallurgy wasn't completely understood anyway. You could only find out these problems by doing it. First principles can only take you so far.

[@channelsixtysix066]

@@weirdshibainu It is quite extraordinary what the Germans achieved. Let's not forget Whittle's development, hampered by British indifference during WW2, finally giving up and moving to the US. Notice one huge problem ..... durability. By just 10 hours, the engines need rebuilding, by 25 hours, they were scrap metal. The other problem was fuel consumption. There was the operational characteristic too, of the engine taking time to wind up to full power. It was one of the reasons why the Ju-287 bomber had forward-swept wings, to give more lift.

[@weirdshibainu]

@@channelsixtysix066 All true. While a technological marvel, it's high fuel consumption was a particular disadvantage given Germany's chronic and punitive oil shortage. Paradoxically, even if this had been introduced earlier in the war, if built in large numbers, it would have cannibalized fuel at an even higher rate with little change in outcome of the war.

[@ravenmcclaw1725]

It is truly amazing how fast the technology was advancing during this 2 world wars. I mean the first airplane was flying 1903, then in WW1 heavy bombers and first Arial combats, in WW2 we had already jet powered engines, it's 40 years between the first airplane and a jet powered airplane.

[@keirfarnum6811]

That is remarkable when one thinks about it.

[@OuterHeaven210]

And in 25 years from the end of world war two we will be on the moon

[@Getpojke]

WOW! Many decades spent on history with WWII being a fave and I didn't know this. Well done.

[@Lasstpak]

How

[@jjojo2004]

If one knew about the ME-262, one would’ve known about the other jets the Luftwaffe had, right? 🤔🤔🤔

[@Lasstpak]

@@jjojo2004 Or just knew anything about Luftwaffe during ww2. This like saying. Omg I am so into Napoleonic wars but I never heard about Wellington in Spain. Lelele

[@snicketysnickerdoodle8484]

When you think you've seen all the German WW2 wonder weapons, something you haven't seen before always comes up.

[@stacystables117]

Which one was the most impressive for you?

[@snicketysnickerdoodle8484]

@@stacystables117 Ho 229. You?

[@stacystables117]

@@snicketysnickerdoodle8484 Hard to say. I am fascinated by the developments of surface-to-air missiles such as Rheintochter, Feuerlilie, Taifun, Wasserfall or HS117 Schmetterling. Had any of these weapons been suitable and massively used, our major cities might look a little nicer today.... But also "joystick"-guided glide bombs like Fritz X or the HS 293 (with video transmission) have their fascination for me.

[@tB3o3tR9o9]

Don't you know the Haunebu and Vril Flying Saucers?

[@goldfing5898]

@@stacystables117 Or the Ruhrstahl X-4 guided air-to-air-missile.

[@Antonluisre]

This aircraft was such an awesome sight when I visited the air and space museum as a kid. What a magnificent piece of engineering.

[@edwardhotchkiss9085]

The aircraft inoressed me also in a visit to silver hill restoration facility A&S

[@paoloviti6156]

Maybe a small correction: the Arado Ar 234 Blitz was the world's first operational jet-powered bomber and secondly a reconnaissance as this was preceeded by the Me 262A in this role. Produced in limited numbers it was used almost entirely in the reconnaissance role. In its few uses as a bomber it proved to be nearly impossible to intercept. It was the last Luftwaffe aircraft to fly over the UK during the war, in April 1945

[@christophermancini7380]

The narrator neglected to mention the latter four engined variant, although it's shown several times in the video.

[@fordgalaxiefanclub7733]

very true

[@tylerdurden4006]

That's bcoz they don't do research or fact-check or even care about what they are saying as long it gets views...

[@CH-pv2rz]

@@tylerdurden4006 Yes indeed, the boneheads at this channel are nitwits!

[@chuichinagumo7145]

He did mention the 4 engine variant, at 6:48. You either don’t know the name or didn’t hear him mention it. The 4 engine production variant is the C series, ranging from C-1 to C-4. By the end of the war barely over a dozen airframes were complete and many lacked engines. Their impact on engineering and the war as a whole is so minuscule that I assume that the author of the script neglected to mention them for that reason. Regardless they’re certainly visually distinct and there are a lot of pictures and footage of the few complete models, which I assume is why people think their use throughout the war is more prolific than in actuality.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@chuichinagumo7145 Allied jet aircraft had even less impact on the course of the war...

[@randlerobbertson8792]

This, the heinkel 219, me163 and the me 262 are all my favourite aeroplanes . I distictly remember being given a hippo aircraft book in the 1960s, there was a darkened black and white photo of the Ar 234B in it and it stuck in my mind being modern looking . futuristic and menacing

[@MrEvanfriend]

Oh cool, I've seen one of these at the Udvar-Hazy museum in Virginia. Didn't know it was the only one left.

[@theblackhand6485]

It was stolen!

[@troygroomes104]

What about the British museum AR234 , or is that a replica

[@billkea7224]

@@theblackhand6485 It was reparations.

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@troygroomes104 - There isn’t one in the British Museum (or anywhere else for that matter). Also, there are no aircraft whatsoever in the British Museum, it’s an archeological museum.

[@tompiper9276]

@@AtheistOrphan got some amazing Mesopotanian pottery though. Cutting edge kit from 6500 years ago.

[@Capt.Turner]

Good one ! One minor mistake on the Ludendorf bridge. Actually the rigged explosives went off for the bigger part but they only had industrial grade explosives at their disposal which weakened the explosion considerably. The bridge lifted up and fell back on its pillars, damaged but not destroyed.

[@TheAneewAony]

Fun fact: The Arado 234 is the only combat jet to operate over England during WWII. No British jets were ever in combat due to their slow speed

[@262marcus]

British Jet aircraft were used in combat over the UK, but only against incoming V1 flying bombs.

[@TheAneewAony]

@@262marcus As Eric Brown stated. That's not combat. Eric Brown also stated that the British jets just weren't up to German performance levels

[@262marcus]

@@TheAneewAony well it was dangerous but it’s true that, in this instance, the enemy aircraft wasn’t attempting to shot our aircraft down. Eric Brown did rate the German jets and, in particular, the ME262.

[@1badhaircut]

“Not living-up to expectations” is true but by that time German planes were FAR out-numbered and the jets weren’t perfected- pilots inexperienced. Under end-of-the-war and beginning-of-jet-technology it was impressive.

[@schizo1382]

american pilots were inexperienced tho...and not far outnumbered,only at the end of the war

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

In terms of jet bombers the Germans were certainly not outnumbered... the Allies did not have any jet bombers during WW2.

[@semihegeakdogan4964]

The allied intersted in this tech so they make operation paperclip

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

Vulnerability of the German jet aircraft is during landing and take off their engines didn't spool up real fast. You couldn't just jam the throttles forward. American fighters with the lawyer around known German air bases with jet fighters and bombers and they would pick them off when they would come into land. This forced the Germans to fly a combat Air patrol over their bases whenever they were operating the Jets. The Air patrol was either BF 109s or FW 190s. The biggest weakness of the ar-234 as a design was the complete lack of rearward visibility. If you could get behind them low and slow they wouldn't even know you were there. Ultimately the fix was to put a tank Periscope onto the AR 234 with an aerodynamic fairing to look backwards.

[@tompiper9276]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 Didn't need them. The Nazis were being pummelled day and night by Liberators, B17s Lacasters etc...

[@Mrgunsngear]

thanks

[@malcolmjcullen]

Always thought this was a really attractive plane. So elegant and simple in its form.

[@emaheiwa8174]

I love this plane to death 😍 by far one of the best looking planes ever. Sleek AF

[@ericbrammer2245]

If you ever play 'Jane's WW-2 Fighters', it'll outrun your P-38, easily!

[@hertzair1186]

Wonder if a swept wing variant was ever in the thoughts of those brilliant German Engineers

[@cqpp]

@@hertzair1186 Me262 HG II? Several were built and a wooden mock up of the Me262 HG III. You also had the P.1101 which would have been the first supersonic jet, though it was 85% completed before the war came to an end.

[@grochomarx2002]

A beautiful aircraft

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@hertzair1186 Yes, there was... it became the Boeing B-47

[@cahg3871]

My late foster father who at one time worked on the Avro Arrow,(he was a machinist and sweet metal technician)believed that if Germany had managed to get the flying wing to work and into mass production,it may have turned the tide in Germany’s war effort.He had great respect for German aeronautics and for Warner Von Braun in particular. Nicholas Seidl,1929-2020.

[@mariannepompa4152]

chris goodayle: The HORTEN 229 would have turned the tide in Germany’s war effor

[@alfredfabulous3640]

Bullcrap.....nothing - with exception perhaps of a few dozen nuclear devices (luckily something the _Third Reich_ could not manage to produce due to lacking industrial resources) - could have but saved the day for Nazi-Germay!

[@AndyinMokum]

The De Havilland Mosquito was nicknamed the "wooden wonder", not the "wooden bomber".

[@Ob1sdarkside]

Thank you.

[@AndyinMokum]

@@Ob1sdarkside 😃!

[@Iahusha777Iahuah]

This channel always has mistakes and never seems to get better. Must a be a few kids doing this

[@snoopstp4189]

A book I read on the Mosquito said their nic was "the mossie".

[@daszieher]

@@snoopstp4189 planes often had several nicknames. Wooden Wonder and Mossie are both correct.

[@AtheistOrphan]

One of my all-time favourite aeroplanes. Read Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown’s account of flying them. Fascinating!

[@creepingjesus5106]

One guy who could justifiably claim to have flown 'everything'!

[@alfredfabulous3640]

Right....like Richard Perlier on the german side.

[@martentrudeau6948]

Wow, what a plane for the 1940s. It was the future!

[@CH-pv2rz]

Ya think?

[@johancronisk3405]

Dark skies and dark files are so well made. Always impressive.

[@lanesplitter8723]

Hmmm, yes and no. The information is frequently dicey. It's ok for casual viewing, but I wouldn't go taking what they say as gospel. For example, within one minute of this video the narrator misquoted the mosquito's nickname. Others have pointed out the stranr omission of not mentioning the four engines variant of this aircraft. Small mistakes, but they add up.

[@10fantic]

All these uploads are making me get way too excited, good job 👏

[@jenniferbonneville4106]

I agree

[@georgemcmillan9172]

These videos prompted me to begin building WWll fighter planes again!

[@CatMan-FPLS-4]

Lieutenant Daniel Reid 41st squadron raf (Australia). My great uncle. Was the first to shoot down the AR234. Over Holland in march 1945!!! Why does this go unnoticed!? Spitfire!!!!

[@fritzlehner9060]

Because it is not essential !

[@CatMan-FPLS-4]

Troll!

[@admiralradish]

My favorite WW2 Aircraft. Next to the FW190

[@Bye-kd8xo]

Fw190 is a sexy beast

[@cdilandro67]

@@Bye-kd8xo If you love the FW190, then you will worship the Ta 152 H then.

[@audimanuk]

Nothing came close to the amount of ordnance and punishment the ‘ Butcher Bird’ could take, awsum plane, later variants had liquid cooled engines and 20 mm cannon, when the rear gunner on the B17’s saw one bearing down he’d cross himself say two hail Mary’s and rub the rabbits foot in his pocket !

[@sillyone52062]

I stood within inches of that lone remaining Arado jet while it was at the Garber facility. We were sternly warned not to touch any aircraft (due to the effects of skin oil), but the temptation was great.

[@weirdshibainu]

It's technology like this that justified "Operation Paperclip"

[@IvorMektin1701]

Yep, it wasn't just rockets.

[@PureAmericanPatriot]

It's too bad they had to go be a bunch of Nazis on the rest of the world. However, much in the way slavery delayed the adoption of steam and gas powered mechanical agricultural technology in the U.S., I sometimes wonder if the Nazis relied too much on slave labor and didn't take advantage of the incredible minds that they ended up killing off. How many of these revolutionary technologies were delayed, ever so little, by not taking advantage of the engineers they had wasting away on menial labor.

[@IvorMektin1701]

@@PureAmericanPatriot Excellent point! When I was little, there was an ancient man in my neighborhood named Dr. Eckstein. Decorated Imperial German artillery officer and mathematics professor. He fled Germany in 1935 and became an American artillery instructor at Ft. Sill. Those maniacs drove out perfectly good talent.

[@andrewlanford2378]

My cousin- Josef Spinnler- was one of the many rocket scientists smuggled into the country to work for the U.S. government...

[@abrunosON]

@@andrewlanford2378 Not many people go around telling that a relative was in paperclip to work for the U.S.

[@juststeve5542]

1:50 Nicknamed the "wooden bomber" NO! It's was/is nicknamed the Wooden Wonder! Honestly, get some fact checkers in! It's in the first paragraph of the wiki entry! I really enjoy your videos (when the audio mix doesn't completely obscure your voice), but I continually spot errors which makes me doubt the rest of the "facts".

[@g2macs]

Damn! That's not fair, I wanted to tell him off.

[@ianmansfield68]

That was the Mosquito (first paragraph here): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito Whilst I generally agree about their sketchy fact checking, I couldn't find a reference to either nickname in the Arado 234 wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_Ar_234

[@Schlipperschlopper]

This lookes modern even by 1950s standards!

[@Cpt_Birch]

As a Norwegian. Your pronounciation of Stavanger was really good. Great video

[@kimchipig]

The Mosquito was known as, "the wooden wonder," not the wooden bomber.

[@HesH_WT]

yep it was not a bomber far from it

[@raypurchase801]

@@HesH_WT It was wooden. Some marks were bombers and could carry the same load a the B17.

[@raypurchase801]

@@HesH_WT Respect to your family, sir. My family made Rotol airscrews.

[@raypurchase801]

@@HesH_WT Thankyou for your correction, Hesh.

[@FunnyPrankLaughs]

And the engines on the arado were not the Jumo 004, when production began, they moved to the BMW 003 jet.

[@neilwilson5785]

The Mosquito was referred to as the Wooden Wonder, or Mossie, not Wooden Bomber. Great video though.

[@roshambo5895]

I used to fly one of these back in the day. We all called it the wooden bomber.

[@saxyboi533]

@@roshambo5895 OMG and how did it feel?

[@FairlyOldGit]

@@roshambo5895 I suspect you weren't even a twinkle in your fathers eye when the Mosquito was being flown - If I'm wrong do tell us more about your flying experience.

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@roshambo5895 - I highly doubt you did, and this is the first time in over 40 years as an aviation enthusiast I’ve ever heard it referred to as such. Always been ‘The Wooden Wonder’.

[@x67th]

@@roshambo5895 No you didn't.

[@thomasburke7995]

For future reference.. when narrating and referencing the air and space section of the Smithsonian.. please refer to the udvar-hazy building located in Dulles Virginia adjacent to Dulles airport . Thier are two air and space museums and they are 40 miles apart.

[@markmuldoon805]

One of the best you have done. At least the vision matched (as well as you have managed) what you are saying.

[@TopSecretVid]

still a badass plane even today.

[@beefgoat80]

I often fall asleep to videos like this. Don't get me wrong, I'm not impugning your work. I can't fall asleep to annoying videos.

[@brokenursa9986]

I've seen that last remaining Ar 234 in person. It's a much smaller plane than it looks like in photos and video. Once you see it up close, you realize that it's only about the size of a pickup truck, like a Chevy Silverado.

[@andreshkt]

Ryan Cauffman But. bites hard.

[@allanblack8990]

Years ago, I saw it being restored on a visit to Silver Springs Maryland

[@rbilleaud]

I saw this thing up close at the Smithsonian exhibit in Virginia. I was surprised by the size. You think of bombers as these big planes, but this one was relatively small and the cockpit looked tiny as compared to like a B-17. The pilot's seat was like a fighter, very cramped and confined.

[@Prophet_waffle]

I’ve seen this and it looked so strange given I knew it was from ww2. I hadn’t heard of it before seeing it and I’m glad that I now know it’s complete history.

[@rustyheckler8766]

Dark skies, we read wikis so you don't have too.

[@Ob1sdarkside]

😂😂

[@samuelparker9882]

I've always admired the lines of this aircraft and airframe. In all of its variants. Even more than the Me-262. It was fast. However, it couldn't have done hardly anything or much damage as a bomber. It was simply too small and couldn't hold more than 2 to 4 500 pound bombs, IF that many at all.

[@bg147]

It carried a couple of 1100 pounders or a 2200 pounder. It was the first jet bomber.

[@stephenbritton9297]

Both the Air and Space Annex at Dulles and the USAF museum at Wright-Pat are AMAZING!!! I liked the Annex over the regular Air and Space Museum...

[@kethanyelundur3485]

I saw this amazing aircraft at the Smithsonian Air and Space its so perfect

[@Yauu2]

Nice! Great video, great plane. Now for the machine standing next to the Ar-234 in the museum, the Do-335.

[@gort8203]

Maximum speed of 480 mph at 6000 miles! Good trick with a range of only 1240 miles. Who writes this stuff...

[@gort8203]

@@mikusoxlongius Yeah, I bet it was supposed to be 6000 meters, a more sensible altitude for a jet's top speed.

[@Iahusha777Iahuah]

Haha ya they suck at making videos. They are only good with this cool mood and music thats it. Mistakes everywhere never getting better

[@jackd1582]

@@mikusoxlongius metres Bud

[@baselhammond3317]

Looks very elegant in that first shot

[@thomasbernecky2078]

I got to sit in the cockpit the of one restored for the Smithsonian when it was completed but not shipped to Dulles.

[@barrycarlisle4511]

Didn't the pilot fly it laying down?

[@americanpatriot2422]

Outstanding video and presentation.

[@flufanga]

Always bear in mind when viewing videos like this: they worked tens of thousands to death in their armament factories.

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

yes, no "lost cause" sympathy for the nazis

[@Birb_of_Judge]

God, the 234 is such a beautiful plane

[@George_M_]

Having seen it in person, it's *tiny*!

[@Schlipperschlopper]

tiny is good!

[@SCP-POOL]

Another home run video as usual!

[@dominicrichardson5546]

Wow, imagine going from being a flying ace of the cloth planes of ww1 to designing a cutting edge jet powered bomber in ww2! What amazing advancements warfare brings us

[@alfredfabulous3640]

Okay....so the next war shall bring us phaser weapons and warp devices - you think?

[@dominicrichardson5546]

@@alfredfabulous3640 I'd be more interested in transport advancements. Like cleaner, more powerful jet engines. Stuff that would benefit the consumer market once the war was over.

[@alfredfabulous3640]

@@dominicrichardson5546 trust me....the next big war shall be the last one of humanity. No human afterwards then....

[@anthonykeel1058]

Thank you for another awesome video! Have still yet to see the only example and can’t wait to see that and the DO 335 next to it.

[@silvanski]

The skid was replaced with a retractable three-wheel landing gear

[@flippinnickelproductions298]

They never check facts

[@anonymous-n3z]

Interesting to know.

[@michaelshortland8863]

A Very Beautiful Aircraft.

[@margussaar9897]

Make a video on dornier do 335 the "arrow"

[@threadworm437]

@Daniel Large yeah the maneuverability wasn't very good but the acceleration, top speed,and high altitude performance was insane.

[@zillsburyy1]

mark felton has a video on that

[@Iahusha777Iahuah]

Why so I can see more narrations information mistakes

[@KyleCowden]

I had one in my FS 2004 install. I have no idea how realistic it was but it was very fun to fly.

[@alanhaynes418]

One of the Luftwaffe's last sorties over the UK during the last couple of days of WW2 was a reconnaissance by an Ar 234 over East Anglia - completely unchallenged, nothing could catch it. Such was the inertia of the German war machine, that they were still doing recon over the UK when Germany lay in ruins!

[@kyleboatright7403]

Should have done more recon leading up to June 6, 1944. Glad they didn't.

[@e.d.4824]

Great video, thanks and congratulations !

[@sir3612]

I love your content it’s really informative and interesting. Could you maybe do some more post WWII aircraft?

[@deanjones4928]

A few things that were left out on this. C models had a pressurized cabin and some of the Arados were equipped with Patin PDS autopilots that would automatically adjust the aircraft heading to overfly a target that was observed in the Lofte 7K bombsight. The system could then drop the weaponry at the right moment. Aircraft produced after late 1944 were even more advanced, with a complex electrical system, onboard fire extinguishing systems, enhanced radio navigation, radar and improved communication equipment. Probably the most striking innovation incorporated in the Ar-234 fleet was the concept of laminar flow wings and wing sweep.

[@shawns0762]

The second gen 234's would have been seriously great with Heinkel Hes 011 engines with about 50% more thrust.

[@jimgaul67]

German technology was several years ahead of the Allies. One or two more years would have given them the advantage. The jets, V2 and other technologies were just too late and the Allied bombing campaign limited Germanys production capacity.

[@sandordula5207]

- Hi. Since I am truly enjoy your work, I have to ask you - please take seriously that very few warning comments about the accuracy with some rather small details. You are already very good in this stuff really, so... - make it even better! 👌 Sincerely, a subscriber. Thank you.

[@gourishankar52]

The DH Mosquito was affectionatley called the 'Wooden wonder' by the allies because its skin was made from a sandwich of plywood and balsa woods. It did not have a wooden frame but the monocoque fuselage was formed over solid forners in two halves, the internals were then added and the two sections glued together with an early type of epoxy resin glue (which went on to become Araldite). The prototype was 25 miles an hour faster than the Spitfire V, the top RAF fighter of the day. Originally envisaged as a fast reconaisance aircraft and light bomber it went on to serve in a variety of roles from heavy fighter to pathfinder to intruder to anti-shipping strike aircraft. It remained in RAF use well into the 1950s. The Germans admired it and tried to build a similar aircraft, but couldn't get the glue right. Luftwaffe pilots lucky enough to shoot one down were awarded two kills. Nightfighter Mosquitos were sent over with the RAF heavy bombers, tasked with shooting down German nightfighters. This led to the German nigtfighter crews suffering from 'Mosquito-schrek' - fear of the Mosquito. BTW Mark Felton does this kind of thing so much better.

[@x67th]

Last sentence is debatable. The guy cant even work out how to mix audio correctly. And has to remind himself what he looks like every video. But good one.

[@ianholmquist8492]

@@x67th at least Mark Felton gets his facts right. There are usually at least a handful of poorly researched or just plain wrong details in each of the videos from this channel.

[@x67th]

@@ianholmquist8492 Not 100% of the time he doesn't. Just like every other channel. And this channel doesn't claim to be 100% pin point accurate either. But they do a good job at getting a majority of it correct.

[@Lukeee91]

"BTW Mark Felton does this kind of thing so much better." Both Mark Felton and this channel only recite Wikipedia articles on whatever topic matter they are discussing in the videos. Without referencing the sources.

[@gourishankar52]

@@Lukeee91 You have a point. References are important. I just found it irritating that this channel claimed that the Arado 234 was built in response to the DH Mosquito. Actually Focke-Wulf built a prototype wooden heavy fighter (Ta 154) that they called the Moskito but it was not a success because they didn't have the right glue to get the plywood laminations to stay together.

[@kRuss-sc4ed]

Great vid

[@cyclingnerddelux698]

Ernst Udet didn't pass away. He shot himself.

[@828enigma6]

Was it suicide or a murder by a competing manufacturer?

[@jonmcgee6987]

@@828enigma6 Suicide. The position he held had him stressed out really bad. He blamed it on Goering and said as much in a note he left.

[@SolarWebsite]

I'm quite sure that the passing away happened shortly after the shooting part....

[@supdude5194]

Who knows, maybe the guy who replaced him set him up and made it look like a suicide to usurp his position. It could have been that someone in the German army wanted his own agent or whatever to hold that position and killed the guy to imbed his soldier. I'm not saying it was an enemy of Hitler but someone could have wanted to stand in his favor.

[@leroyjenkins4811]

Maybe the narrator was trying not to be so graphic. Children watch these videos sometimes. Saying someone “passed away” versus saying “the man was under a tremendous amount of stress, was extremely unhappy with his job, and killed himself” doesn’t sound very nice. It raises a lot of questions. Questions a parent might find difficult to answer. We all know the man killed himself. Explaining that to kids might not be a good time for anybody. The content is supposed to be appropriate for all ages.

[@GunRescue]

Love the videos!!! Thanks

[@no-legjohnny3691]

Yet for some reason, even though it proved to be faster than any other aircraft that the allies used, it's outran by a La-5 in WT...

[@itsyeboicraig3207]

You gotta love gaijin for it

[@JohnJohansen2]

Yet another great video. Thanks a lot.

[@RodanES]

He should do a video on the puma armored cars used in ww2 like the sdkfz 234/2

[@edsonjosecorrea4481]

Os homens das antigas eram muito inteligente . Tudo que existe hoje eles já tinha feito a tempos atrás. Meus parabéns pro você que postou.

[@antoniomanuelrodrigues-sz7lb]

Porra, Edson, você nem português correcto sabe escrever.!! E, se calhar, nem falar.!!! O que você escreveu, quase que nem dá para entender.!!! E, o seu comentário, (se eu bem entendi), é um completo disparate.!!!

[@jimmihenry]

13:50 "... never lived up to it's expectations" But it did, it could out speed every plane. Even a fast and nimble fighter!

[@nathanblades3395]

And then you have to rebuild the engines

[@jimmihenry]

@@nathanblades3395 And this is the same today! Only the intervals got longer due advanced alloys.

[@nathanblades3395]

@@jimmihenry ya but you dont have to rebuild the engine every time you fly in a modren jet so its more cost effective the Germans were short on materials and gas also so thats why it was a no go

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@nathanblades3395 All high performance engines used in combat during WW2 had extremely short TBOs by today's standards this was also true in the Korean War.. F-86 Sabre engines could require an overhaul in as little as 12 hours of flight time.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@nathanblades3395 The Jumo 004b engines exceeded the RLMs 100 hours PFTR reliability test, this is the exact same 100 hours required by the RAF and USAAF during WW2. Tests conducted by Operation Lusty found TBOs compareable to Allied piston engines.

[@onemantwohands5224]

What an awesome front end !! Great doco!

[@davidgifford8112]

Knowing you were flying the best fighter and diving in your P51s onto a flight of Arado Bliz bombers, only to see them accurate out of harms way must have been like watching the future.

[@keirfarnum6811]

“...’accurate’ out of harm’s way?” Do you mean “accelerate?”

[@charlesachurch7265]

Great presentation thanks xxx

[@wassermauserichlucio9682]

Imagine in one of these at BR 7.3 being chased by some swedish BR 8.3 missle. Yes that's me.

[@dd-gl2qf]

Germany suffers.

[@theeasternspy266]

@@dd-gl2qf yeah, much suffer

[@scotttill3847]

Attack the D point, brother!

[@wassermauserichlucio9682]

@@scotttill3847 I agree!

[@desertdesmond6736]

What about the SK60's AGM chasing you? That thing is only 7.3..

[@nickespina1975]

Beautiful bird!

[@levd4685]

This guy speaks faster than the plane he is talking about flies...

[@mecx90]

I was thinking the same LOL

[@revert6417]

Maybe you listen slow? I'm on 1.25x and attempting 1.5x this weekend.

[@CptPandy-tj9ty]

Seen this in person in DC and man these planes are way smaller than you think they would be

[@Iahusha777Iahuah]

Ya this plane looks bigger than it is.

[@whirledpeas3477]

Love the info, but could you please narrate faster ✈

[@tonytiger2914]

Better than expected.

[@hipcat13]

1:50 It's the WOODEN WONDER. Crack open a book sometime!

[@572Btriode]

Yep, certainly is.

[@Wideoval73]

Excellent review. Keep up the good work.

[@LaserBly]

Live 5 minutes away from the airfield they surrendered

[@vigilantobserver8389]

Great video, thank you! I always enjoy your videos, but you added too many ads in this video.

[@kineticenergy2tadventures763]

Imagine if this plane was develope earlier in the first year of the war

[@tomsmith5947]

Imagine if Hitler would have started this, the 262, V1 and V2 years earlier, would have been a lot different war. He should have listened to his commanders

[@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373]

@@tomsmith5947 imagine the moon is made of cheese

[@michaeltelson9798]

One of the reasons that it was hard for the Germans to blow up the Ludendorff Bridge is something that happened after WWI. After the Armistice, US troops were first to control the bridge, then the French took control. French engineers examined the bridge and found the voids that were meant to be explosive chambers. They filled them with concrete, add to that the bridge defenders were issued industrial grade explosives to destroy the bridge which weren’t powerful enough.

[@XolarPoweredHistory21]

Yay! I love the wonder weapons! Not all wonder weapons were German, how about the Kikka or the Ki-200 shushi?

[@goblinking9824]

The Kikka was a Japanese copy of the Me262 after they saw it in action in Germany, they made it to be a fast attack bomber. But essentially it's just a copy

[@mh-ki2dv]

@@goblinking9824 The only thing that was really copied was the general idea and the engines. IIRC the engines were reverse engineered from a few blueprints. It was however a smaller aircraft than the 262 and required RATO in order to fly. If anything the Kikka was inspired by rather than outright copied.

[@XolarPoweredHistory21]

@@goblinking9824 from my studies, the designs were made separately and once the Japanese found out about the 262, they augmented the design to meet the norm of jet design due to tested ideas and lack of material. This is just what I know, but that’s why I’m asking dark skies

[@Kaiser_Franz]

@@mh-ki2dv yes, the Kikka was only inspired by the Me 262, however there was also the Ki-201 which was a much closer to the Me 262.

[@mh-ki2dv]

@@Kaiser_Franz Again, the similarities were only really in the general configuration of it. It’s worth noting that this is not the only case of a Axis aircraft being “copied”. The Ki-61 for example was produced with a license built DB601. This aircraft has an extremely strong resemblance to Italian fighters of the same time frame so much so that allied pilots assumed that they were indeed Italian or Bf-109F’s (Hence the ARN “Tony”). The resemblance however is only limited to overall configuration as the Ki-61 was indeed an indigenous design.

[@charlesmanning5819]

That’s one awesome looking aircraft 🤩

[@Zoydian]

The Allies won the war, but the Germans won the concours d'elegance.

[@dougwalker4944]

commented before love the narration

[@IvorMektin1701]

Goering surrendering his Smith and Wesson 😃

[@angusmatheson8906]

Lol. I love seeing fascists with fear in their eyes.

[@richardkirka5977]

Too bad the American who took it didn't know how to handle one safely. That sets a bad example for the enlisted men.

[@IvorMektin1701]

@@richardkirka5977 I've seen that gun and his baton in the West Point museum.

[@zillsburyy1]

@@angusmatheson8906 looks like biden

[@letoubib21]

@@frankatchison2519 And Göring loved morphine. Patton, too?

[@jamesricker3997]

There is an AR 234 at the Smithsonian National Aerospace Museum. Doing restoration a worker was almost injured by a large Rock falling out of the compartment used to hold the drag parachute. The Rock was put there by a slave laborer in an attempt to sabotage the aircraft Thay rock is on display next to the AR 234

[@6old_YT]

C'mon do a video on the Me-163

[@beastlymace2214]

man i love the prototype luftwaffe