The Fat Electrician: RAF's Legless Antihero - Sir Douglas Bader Reaction

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[@dulmater]

We've only got 3 FE videos left until we have to wait for him to release another! :(

[@vincentconnett5358]

What are the 3 that are left?

[@dulmater]

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[@jonathancathey2334]

There is a old tv show from the History Channel (when the History Channel did history) called Dogfights. This show is all about dogfights. One of the episodes is all about this man.

[@iKvetch558]

In an aircraft, there are pedals...they control the rudder, which points the nose to the left or to the right, which is part of how the plane turns....the other parts are pitch and roll which are both controlled by the stick. Then there is a throttle that is usually meant for use by the left hand in single seat planes, or planes where the crew do not sit side by side...in aircraft where the crew is seated side by side...like large bombers...the throttles are almost always located in between them.

[@morgankuikka4940]

I could have swarn rudder left and right was foot peddals before we started getting into more fly by wire aircraft

[@iKvetch558]

@@morgankuikka4940 As far as I know, pedals on aircraft have always controlled the rudder...and I do not believe that has changed with fly by wire controls. I guess I am a bit confused by your comment, unless you know of planes that do not use foot pedals for rudder control. Of course, with fly by wire, it is certainly much more possible to use other methods to control the rudder, such as twisting the stick grip left/right or using a thumb wheels or a plain old knob. But again as far as I know, pretty much all aircraft still have foot pedals. 👍

[@morgankuikka4940]

@brudnick39 it was simple lack of reading comprehension on my part, i read the opposite of what was written last night, thats my bad.

[@iKvetch558]

@@morgankuikka4940 Ah...no worries...happens to me all the time...be well.👍

[@Cody38Super]

Sorry guys, butting in late here...don't forget on the rudder pedals, forward pressure on both pedals at the same time are also your brakes to stop the aircraft...and yes, even on fly by wire. Fly by wire is exactly that, wires sending signals, operating servos, operating control surfaces instead of hydraulics or WWI tech - cable and pulleys still used on civil aircraft. "The more you know" I guess..? ......thanks. p.s. - in the original F-16, the stick on the right did not move..at all. Inputs were based on how hard you applied pressure on the stick, but also correlated with not only the amount of input, but the speed of the input as well! Pilots put an end to that quick like.

[@Kingdakota97]

Daaaaamn only 3 more til you caught up to FE content. Seems like only yesterday we were wondering what the hell a rubber duck has to do with military history 😂

[@iKvetch558]

The Germans focused on RAF airfields for a time, and that was when the RAF was at its weakest, but the German intel service...the Abwehr...was SURE that the British were down to only about 150 operational fighters to defend the British Isles...and that "fact" was loudly announced to the world by the Germans. Of course, they were very very wrong, and at that time Britain had more like 600 operational fighters for defense, with several hundred more sitting in crates waiting to be assembled to replace lost planes. To this day, there is a myth that the RAF was very close to defeat before the Germans switched to bombing cities...and a big reason for that is because Churchill decided to let the world think that Britain was much closer to losing the Battle of Britain than they were...because it made the rest of the world, especially America, more sympathetic towards the British plight of "standing alone against the Germans after France and all other Allies had been defeated." It worked amazingly well, and the support of the American people for doing more to help Britain rose sharply during the period after the Fall of France the during the Battle of Britain. The RAF was never really short on planes...it was much more about how fast they could train new pilots to either grow their fighter force or to replace pilots lost in action.👍

[@gchampi2]

Had the privilege of meeting Sir Douglas back in 1981. I was visiting the RAF Museum at Hendon, as a 7th birthday outing, and as a 7 year old, I was talking about the planes as if I knew everything about them - right up until we got to the Spitfire, wherupon this really old guy told me I didn't know what I was talking about, and proceeded to prove it by spending over an hour explaining all about the plane, its good aspects, its bad aspects, and just what it was like to both fly and fight in a Spit, all while answering my (in hindsight stupid) questions. All this time, my father (ex-fleet air arm) was silent, just listening - which was very unlike him. It was only as Sir Douglas was finishing his lecture that Dad spoke up, thanking him for his service, and for the help Sir Douglas had given a friend of my father who had lost a leg in a motorbike accident. It was only then I realized who he was. For all the stories of Sir Douglas' arrogance during the war, he was patient and kind enough to put up with a 7-year olds no doubt inane questions and chatter for over an hour, while he himself was not a well man. I'm not ashamed to say that when he passed a little over a year later, I cried. Fair skies, Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, DL, FRAeS. You were a legend in your own lifetime, helped countless amputees regain the will to live their lives, and were nice to a know-it-all kid when you didn't have to be.

[@UndeadJohnGaming]

God dang that gave me chills man

[@BigGator5]

The peddles in an airplane controls turn, while the stick controls pitch, and a throttle controls speed. That's standard, but I am sure that you can outfit different controls for people who have no legs.

[@iKvetch558]

Not to be that guy....but this is close, but not exactly correct. The pedals on a plane control the rudder, which is a part of how the plane turns....the stick controls both pitch and roll.👍

[@BigGator5]

Well, that's how a pilot explained it to me in simplified terms. I'm not opposed to being corrected, since I'm not a pilot after all. Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍

[@Wynn_Silver]

I don't understand haters. But not only am I too lazy to be successful, I'm also too lazy to hate on others who aren't too lazy.

[@whovianhistorybuff]

23:39 the shortage problem isn't a lack of planes, it was pilots, the hawker factory could turn out up to 5 aircraft a day, a pilot took a minimum of 6 months or more to be ready for combat.

[@buckeyegirl16]

Couldn't agree more with you on Mr. Beast. I can't believe the amount of hate that guy gets for being the most generous nicest guy on the planet. No one seems to understand that the money he makes from all the views on these charity videos gives him the funding to do the next project and so on.

[@maarek71]

Yes planes have pedals. They control the rudder on the tail of the plane.

[@jonathanevans3853]

You know there's actually a really good theory for having no legs at high velocities being a good thing since most of the blood travels down to the feet when you're moving so fast. So for him he probably didn't have to worry about much of the issues since he didn't have any feet for the blood to go to