F4F-3S WildcatFish and her Sister Float Fighters of WW2

  Рет қаралды 62,336

World of Warbirds

World of Warbirds

5 ай бұрын

Several nations flirted with Float Fighters during the Second World War. Let's look at some examples from Italy, Japan, Britain and the USA! Were any of them successful? Let's find out! / worldofwarbirds
amzn.to/3VTR3vf

Пікірлер: 126
@MonostripeZebra
@MonostripeZebra 5 ай бұрын
I just love the oddity of floatplane fighters.. from WW1 to the Saunders Roe SR.A/1
@Cuccos19
@Cuccos19 5 ай бұрын
The last remaining one you can see at Solent Sky museum, in Southampton. I was there, not a big yet a very lovely place with many very interesting aircrafts and artifacts. Including this SR.A/1
@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665
@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 25 күн бұрын
The SARO is actually a Flyingboat ....😉 The hull is integral to the fuselage .. floatplanes are just added on struts .. The French used a unifying covering term Hydroavions, literally water planes. You've missed out several significant German American and Japanese floatplanes. There's a particularly elegant US one that was used in the extreme North. There was also a couple of moves to even up the floatplanes speed drag and combat performance.... by using a retracting center line belly float ... a design idea also developed on the Blackburn B20 patrol bomber. No exposed struts or bracings once airborne but no need for the deep hull and high wind of the true Flyingboat to keep props and engines clear of the water and spray from take off and landing. 🧙🏻‍♂️🇬🇧
@scottwhitmire6577
@scottwhitmire6577 5 ай бұрын
PHOTOS I've never SEEN ! Wow. Just Wow.
@paulsteaven
@paulsteaven 5 ай бұрын
A6M2-N Rufe: "Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!"
@JTA1961
@JTA1961 5 ай бұрын
Fairly competent & enjoyable... gonna have to watch more before jumping on board
@paulkelk5142
@paulkelk5142 5 ай бұрын
Im surprised that the Seiran wasn't mentioned unless it wasn't mentioned with it being a Submarine based float plane , love the vids keep up the goodwork 🙂
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
That one is getting an episode all to itself!
@paulkelk5142
@paulkelk5142 5 ай бұрын
@@worldofwarbirds thankyou for the prompt response and thankyou for the news about the Seiran getting it's own video many thanks
@jfu5222
@jfu5222 5 ай бұрын
6:26 Cool logo, I'd wear an EDO t-shirt.
@PhantomP63
@PhantomP63 5 ай бұрын
Lots of new info for me in this video, and always appreciate the humor. For what it’s worth, the float fuel tank in the Rufe factors into an episode of the “Final Countdown”-esque anime series Zipang.
@edl617
@edl617 5 ай бұрын
There were CAM ships were World War II-era British merchant ships used in convoys as an emergency stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers became available. CAM ship is an acronym for catapult aircraft merchant ship.[1] They were equipped with a rocket-propelled catapult launching a single Hawker Hurricane, dubbed a "Hurricat" or "Catafighter" to destroy or drive away an attacking bomber. Normally the Hurricane fighter would be lost when the pilot then bailed out or ditched in the ocean near the convoy. CAM ships continued to carry their normal cargoes after conversion.
@jacobmccandles1767
@jacobmccandles1767 5 ай бұрын
Seems like a Hurrifloat or Spitfloater could have saved lives and raised moral...but I don't know if they could fly or climb fast enough to catch the marauding Condors.
@Slaktrax
@Slaktrax 5 ай бұрын
@@jacobmccandles1767 You've heard of radar, to give advanced warning surely? 🙂
@jacobmccandles1767
@jacobmccandles1767 5 ай бұрын
@@Slaktrax of course I have. You've heard of Parasitic Drag, which happens when you have to drag a pontoon all over the sky, surely? I'll tell you what, I'll go look up the Condor's speed and then we can decide.
@jacobmccandles1767
@jacobmccandles1767 5 ай бұрын
@@Slaktrax okay, turns out the Condor has a top speed of 240 mph. A Spitfire or Hurricane with floats might have been quite capable of running them down...and much safer for the pilot.
@patm8622
@patm8622 4 ай бұрын
The Hurricats were a useful, though limited tool against the Luftwaffe. As far as I recall they shot down 8 enemy aircraft with the sad loss of one pilot. Interestingly the concept was first tested by the RN using Sea Hurricanes and Fulmars on a few support ships.
@OwenPhillipsMBA
@OwenPhillipsMBA 4 ай бұрын
Many thanks for your feedback - on my comment. Love the channel!
@gyrene_asea4133
@gyrene_asea4133 5 ай бұрын
That was pretty well done. Thanks for the upload.
@richardlincoln8438
@richardlincoln8438 5 ай бұрын
Waterbirds... Excellent ! Thanks again for Your time and efforts Brian ( sp?). Best Wishes to You and Your Family.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!
@marvwatkins7029
@marvwatkins7029 4 ай бұрын
I like this guy's frank, funny, honest style.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! I appreciate it!
@patm8622
@patm8622 4 ай бұрын
A well made and interesting presentation, well researched and presented.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the positive feedback!
@christerry3069
@christerry3069 5 ай бұрын
You should cover more float planes
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
I've got a few in my existing library: Sunderland, Kingfisher, He115...but for sure I'll do more!
@geegaw14
@geegaw14 5 ай бұрын
“Maybe they should get them some of that”. Love it
@angelmarcano6747
@angelmarcano6747 5 ай бұрын
Convair had a working jet seaplane in the early to mid 50s this video of it, I think they were testing it down in San Diego it was a delta wing configuration and it has retracting skis.
@johnearle1
@johnearle1 5 ай бұрын
The Sea Dart is the craziest idea of a seaplane.
@laudennis8633
@laudennis8633 5 ай бұрын
10:30 when the "shi"-den becomes the "shite"-den
@fazole
@fazole 5 ай бұрын
Amazingly, the USSR kept making jet powered float planes into the 60s. They had Ekranoplanes operating into the 70s or 80s.
@jonathanludgater5621
@jonathanludgater5621 5 ай бұрын
I have video taken with a gun camera cine machine salvaged from a crashed aircraft of the float Spits on the great bitter lake in Egypt, taken by a very good friend who was a spitfire pilot there, Ian Shand, do not have the ability to digitise it sadly it is surprisingly good quality, no sound of course.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
Wow. That is facinating! There's got to be somewhere that would digitize that. Thanks for sharing!
@scotfield3950
@scotfield3950 5 ай бұрын
Great job thank you!
@Quasarnova1
@Quasarnova1 5 ай бұрын
4:06 Correction: The N1K Kyoufuu was powered by the 14-cylinder Mitsubishi Kasei, the Nakajima Homare was only installed in the N1K-J Shidens (pronounced more like she-den).
@coltonbell1513
@coltonbell1513 5 ай бұрын
Hey Bryan, I have been listening to you on the main via Spotify for a few years now, when did you start posting pateron exclusives on the KZbin? Anyways take care and keep up the great work ❤❤❤ also love your work on Italian aircraft
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
Hi - it's been about 5 months now on Patreon. Any requests for a particular Italian aircraft?
@coltonbell1513
@coltonbell1513 4 ай бұрын
⁠@@worldofwarbirdsI would love to see you cover Fiat’s G.55 Centauro. Take care 👋 (sorry for the late response it’s hard to keep up with KZbin notifications)
@ecarots9469
@ecarots9469 5 ай бұрын
There was a proposal to put floats under a B25, to allow it to fly directly to forward bases than pull ashore, remove the floats so it could operate as a land fighter, they also considered converting a P38 to floats.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
I’ve seen the plans!
@unvaxxeddoomerlife6788
@unvaxxeddoomerlife6788 5 ай бұрын
Good content. Subbed.
@OwenPhillipsMBA
@OwenPhillipsMBA 5 ай бұрын
Great video. More on the SARO Please!
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
Uh oh, it’s a little out of my era! Maybe!
@raymondyee2008
@raymondyee2008 5 ай бұрын
Mad capped ideas that *might* have worked in the island hopping campaigns of the Pacific War.
@kennethwers
@kennethwers 5 ай бұрын
One would have thought the sea spit would have made a good antisub spotting plane. The float half full of fuel would have given it long legs.
@ukulelemikeleii
@ukulelemikeleii 4 ай бұрын
It's interesting that the allied nickname for the zero floatplane fighter was "Rufe" as I have never heard that name used before -- or since. Oscar, George, Judy. Kate, Frank, Tony, Mavis -- all of those are fairly common. But Rufe???
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
Supposedly it was short for Rufus
@JohnnySmithWhite-wd4ey
@JohnnySmithWhite-wd4ey 4 ай бұрын
The A6M Zero was not a land plane. It was a carrier based fighter.
@keithskelhorne3993
@keithskelhorne3993 5 ай бұрын
love these evolutionary dead ends , keep up the good work
@patr6838
@patr6838 5 ай бұрын
Kinda funny considering the spit started as a floatplane racer.
@fredhercmaricaubang1883
@fredhercmaricaubang1883 5 ай бұрын
Dude, you're forgetting the Royal Naval Air Service's Gloster Sea Gladiator Interim. Also, post-war there was the Convair F2Y Sea Dart which was a supersonic skid seaplane fighter. Just saying.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
Hi thanks. Did the Sea Gladiator have a float version? Also, I stopped with the end of WW2 as that is my era. The Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 reference was a bit of a tease...
@greggwilliamson
@greggwilliamson 5 ай бұрын
SR.A/1 was a BIG aircraft. I wish the "Sea Dart"s ski would've worked. It was a much sexier seaplane fighter.
@paulwoodman5131
@paulwoodman5131 5 ай бұрын
Also fond of it's nuclear bomber brother, SeaMaster. P6M.
@greggwilliamson
@greggwilliamson 5 ай бұрын
@@paulwoodman5131 Absolutely!! Bastards cancelled it and now Japan, Russia, and Canada have beautiful large Seaplanes that are being sold as water bombers. How much better water bomber than a darn real bomber can you get? "Winkle" said the SR flew like a dream. He was unused to flying a fighter the size of a medium bomber but he said it handled at least as well as the Northrop P-61.
@paulwoodman5131
@paulwoodman5131 5 ай бұрын
Japan's US-2.... 🥰
@andrewgraham7659
@andrewgraham7659 5 ай бұрын
It's a Dave, it's Rex, it's a...... George, Paul, John and Ringo......
@facubeitches1144
@facubeitches1144 5 ай бұрын
It's probably a good thing that the float Spitfire didn't really catch on. Anything sure to get nicknamed the Spitwater just sounds a bit less than intimidating.
@lawsonsmith
@lawsonsmith 5 ай бұрын
The Spittoon might be a winner though!
@mochabear88
@mochabear88 5 ай бұрын
ty
@tedhammond3631
@tedhammond3631 4 ай бұрын
Two items meant as constructive criticism: The EDO company is pronounced - EE' DOE Folland is pronounced - FOE' LEND
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
I’ll take it! Thanks!
@steffen19k
@steffen19k 4 ай бұрын
What?! No SeaDart?!! Heinous sacrilege
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
Not a Warbird and not my era!
@jamesmurray8558
@jamesmurray8558 5 ай бұрын
On Lake Chelan in Washington state was Ernie Gibson. He charged you 25.00$ one way. It was a Beaver, I have the photo of it.
@tonyperez4791
@tonyperez4791 5 ай бұрын
Didn't the Germans join the bandwagon with their BF-109 W? Great video, Thank You for sharing. 👍👍
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
Did they actually build it? I’m not sure.🤔
@fakshen1973
@fakshen1973 5 ай бұрын
They would have made excellent light bombers, especially if they could be used for light torpedo runs against transports and supply ships, anti-submarine warfare.
@queencinn4964
@queencinn4964 5 ай бұрын
Bryan’s such a great man thank you for the videos Too vahallah!
@cavecookie1
@cavecookie1 4 ай бұрын
I would call that Spitfire a "Spitwater"!
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
😂
@phil8165
@phil8165 5 ай бұрын
What about the Vought King Fisher ?
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
Hi, it's not a fighter, so it didn't make the cut here. But I have video and audio podcast episodes exclusively on the Kingfisher!
@matttrafton2725
@matttrafton2725 5 ай бұрын
The German Bv138 is still.my favorite armed float plane.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
It's on my "to-do" list!
@MrDino1953
@MrDino1953 5 ай бұрын
How was the Spitfire with a 1700 hp engine and 2 draggy floats faster than the Japanese Rex with a 2000 hp engine and only 1 float?
@blockheadgreen_
@blockheadgreen_ 5 ай бұрын
A significantly lower drag airframe in essentially every other regard, especially the wing.
@andrewallen9993
@andrewallen9993 5 ай бұрын
The Spitfire was an enhanced model of a racing floatplane :)
@user-jt2eu1cc6p
@user-jt2eu1cc6p 2 ай бұрын
You didn't mention the Me109W, the twin float German fighter. And the Gotham 243 flying boat. Now in 2023/24 they plan to put a C-130 on floats
@mikearmstrong8483
@mikearmstrong8483 5 ай бұрын
Everybody else: "Let's take a high performance fighter and give it floats, it loses performance but it can go on water." Kawanishi: "Let's design a floatplane first and then take the float off and make it a really high performance fighter." "What? What?!"
@rogerkay8603
@rogerkay8603 5 ай бұрын
Wildcat....fish, wild.....catfish.......nope
@ConradAinger
@ConradAinger 4 ай бұрын
One good floatplane has been overlooked, the Arado 196. (German)
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
I didn’t include it because it’s not a pure fighter. I left out all the patrol or reconnaissance floats.
@ConradAinger
@ConradAinger 4 ай бұрын
@worldofwarbirds Fair enough. Though the best patrol could probably, and perhaps sometimes did outfight the fighters
@DaveSCameron
@DaveSCameron 5 ай бұрын
👍#OurHistory ☘️
@patrickwentz8413
@patrickwentz8413 5 ай бұрын
So Britain had an abusive relationship with float fighters???
@tankertom3243
@tankertom3243 4 ай бұрын
You missed the P-38 float plane.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
I don’t think they actually built it…
@tankertom3243
@tankertom3243 4 ай бұрын
I said that because they did., go do some reserch.@@worldofwarbirds
@keithskelhorne3993
@keithskelhorne3993 5 ай бұрын
I see your SRA1,,,, and I raise you the Convair F2Y Sea Dart ,,,, lol
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
I wondered if someone would bring that one up....it didn't take long! Thanks for watching.
@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus
@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus 5 ай бұрын
@@worldofwarbirds I was waiting on the F2Y as well, a supersonic (barely) float fighter.
@paulking7019
@paulking7019 5 ай бұрын
Could the Sea Dart, and the Saunders Roe actually be the only "flying boat" fighters since they used their fuselage for flotation rather than pontoons?. The Sea Dart didn't even have wing tip floats, it used its fuselage, or" hull" along with its wings to actually keep it from sinking. The retractable skis were for takeoff and landing and provided no flotation. I don't believe any of these aircraft were amphibians in the sense that they had landing gear that allowed a takeoff on water followed by a runway landing and vice versa in the same flight. Many float planes have retractable landing gear in each float for land operations.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
The jets are out of my era...My content is already a little all over the place with bombers, fighters, etc...being realeased willy-nilly so at least I try to keep it to aircraft designed or built during the WW2ish timeframe. When I run out of those, I'll move on!
@robertotamesis1783
@robertotamesis1783 5 ай бұрын
The Curtis Wright Seahawk. S-2C beat them. Eventually, North America and Ryan redesign it Ryan redeveloped the turbo-prop-jet figher . While North American trie tri-wheel design led to the development of T-28.
@phlodel
@phlodel 5 ай бұрын
Not exactly a modern jet fighter and not strictly a float plane, but an interesting shot at it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_F2Y_Sea_Dart
@clickbaitcharlie2329
@clickbaitcharlie2329 4 ай бұрын
Porco Rosso...seaplane pilot, extraordinaire?..
@tuzonthume
@tuzonthume 5 ай бұрын
If the respective island nations had towed floatplane fighters behind every other ship in those vital convoys we would not be laughing about this.
@Tek-eo3li
@Tek-eo3li 5 ай бұрын
Towed? Have you ever been on the ocean? Those planes wouldn’t last 30 minutes under tow.
@paulsteaven
@paulsteaven 5 ай бұрын
Some Japanese oilers were fitted with catapults for float planes, it didn't stop the USN submarines from sinking them tho.
@williamcrane8236
@williamcrane8236 5 ай бұрын
You left off the Sea Dart?
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
Not my era!
@mikearmstrong8483
@mikearmstrong8483 5 ай бұрын
Also, not a floatplane. Technically, it was a flying boat as the fuselage was intended to sit in the water.
@victorfinberg8595
@victorfinberg8595 5 ай бұрын
it's inaccurate to say that the wildcat was outclassed by enemy fighters of the time. yes, it was inferior in some properties, but had superior abilities elsewhere. thus, by employing correct tactics for the machine, it did very well. this was even more pronounced when using multi-plane tactics. with a kill-loss ratio of almost 7-1, even suggesting that it was outclassed is suspect.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
I was going by what "Jimmy" Thach wrote, but what did he know?? 😆
@victorfinberg8595
@victorfinberg8595 4 ай бұрын
@@worldofwarbirds then you must have missed a lot of what he said. or maybe you missed the part where i said "by employing correct tactics for the machine". or the part about the huge kill-loss ratio. but what are we even doing? your presentation is overall excellent, and i found ONE thing where i said "that's inaccurate". not WRONG, just inaccurate ... and here are some details.
@paladin0654
@paladin0654 5 ай бұрын
Nakajima didn't build the "Zero", Mitsubishi was the OEM.
@paulsteaven
@paulsteaven 5 ай бұрын
Nakajima built the floatplane Zero (Rufe).
@paladin0654
@paladin0654 5 ай бұрын
@@paulsteavenThanks.
@volters9561
@volters9561 5 ай бұрын
"Hello warbirders" ? I really don't understand why you didn't use the ocassion and don't call us a "Warbiters" lol.
@dennisvandermarkt8263
@dennisvandermarkt8263 5 ай бұрын
F4f float plane, kinda sexy
@spikespa5208
@spikespa5208 5 ай бұрын
As a WWII aircraft aficionado, I'll admit my ignorance. Never even saw a photo of of the F4F-3S floatplane before. Learned something new, can go to bed now.
@earlworley-bd6zy
@earlworley-bd6zy 17 күн бұрын
Your like i-net search ask for one thing & get something else.,Wildcat float not something else.,Maybe ask what happen to it?,Grummen Co. is still in operation.
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 17 күн бұрын
Hi! Thanks for reaching out, but I'm not quite sure of what you are trying to say. If you would try again, I'll be better able to answer!
@Not_So_Weird_in_Austin
@Not_So_Weird_in_Austin 5 ай бұрын
Japan produced superior float and sea planes
@arthurclaymore4995
@arthurclaymore4995 5 ай бұрын
303 "inch" machine guns? Have you confused inches with caliber?
@franksizzllemann5628
@franksizzllemann5628 5 ай бұрын
Yes, but what is the diameter of the projectile, in inches? search string: _.303 British_ (edit: The real reason I started to reply was to say, in context of the 21st century dating term "catfish," that "Wildcatfish" was funny.) #humor
@mikepette4422
@mikepette4422 4 ай бұрын
he also said two millimeter cannons lol a wee bit small perhaps but hey yah never know they might still work :P
@marksummers463
@marksummers463 5 ай бұрын
Pls delere God awful. Slightestly blasphemous. THANKS!
@user-fv5ck7ll6b
@user-fv5ck7ll6b 5 ай бұрын
🙄🙈was the swordfish not also a biplane 😎🤔 and very adept at torpedo bombing 🤪⁉️🤣🤣
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 5 ай бұрын
The Swordfish was a biplane, but not a floatplane fighter- which was the subject of the episode.
@mikepette4422
@mikepette4422 4 ай бұрын
FIGHTERS....the video is about fighter floatplanes
@velonicatgmaildotcom
@velonicatgmaildotcom 5 ай бұрын
You didn't mention anything about catapult launched sea planes and the Japanese sea planes hidden in a submarine... and the way you say Borrow is kinda silly... C- Minus... missing even a mention of the content you grossly overlooked. Try again. ❤
@worldofwarbirds
@worldofwarbirds 4 ай бұрын
This was a very specific video on ONLY float fighters. Not sub based bombers or catapult launched machines. And how do I say “borrow” that makes it silly? 😆
B-32 Dominator - America's "other" superbomber of WW2
14:54
World of Warbirds
Рет қаралды 139 М.
America's Forgotten SMG: The Hyde/Marlin M2
14:24
Forgotten Weapons
Рет қаралды 527 М.
I Can't Believe We Did This...
00:38
Stokes Twins
Рет қаралды 120 МЛН
100❤️
00:19
MY💝No War🤝
Рет қаралды 23 МЛН
DO YOU HAVE FRIENDS LIKE THIS?
00:17
dednahype
Рет қаралды 116 МЛН
The Rarest World War Two Planes You've Never Heard Of
22:46
History Hit
Рет қаралды 908 М.
Me264 "Uberfortress"
11:13
World of Warbirds
Рет қаралды 171 М.
Evolution of the Grumman F4F Wildcat - US Variants
14:37
SVG Productions
Рет қаралды 40 М.
The WW2 Plane with the Most Bizarre Killing Technique
12:32
Dark Skies
Рет қаралды 414 М.
The (Kind of) Accidental Superplane: Kawasaki Ki-100
27:04
Ilyushin IL-2 Sturmovik as A FIGHTER!
27:22
Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles
Рет қаралды 53 М.
Why Did Britain Use American F4U Corsairs? The Full Story
18:47
Aviation Deep Dive
Рет қаралды 266 М.
F4F Wildcat / Martlet
26:01
Armoured Archivist
Рет қаралды 140 М.
Как правильно выключать звук на телефоне?
0:17
Люди.Идеи, общественная организация
Рет қаралды 1,7 МЛН
Зачем ЭТО электрику? #секрет #прибор #энерголикбез
0:56
Александр Мальков
Рет қаралды 619 М.
Choose a phone for your mom
0:20
ChooseGift
Рет қаралды 7 МЛН
⚡️Супер БЫСТРАЯ Зарядка | Проверка
1:00
PART 52 || DIY Wireless Switch forElectronic Lights - Easy Guide!
1:01
HUBAB__OFFICIAL
Рет қаралды 65 МЛН
😱Хакер взломал зашифрованный ноутбук.
0:54
Последний Оплот Безопасности
Рет қаралды 916 М.
iPhone socket cleaning #Fixit
0:30
Tamar DB (mt)
Рет қаралды 14 МЛН