Failed Zerstörer | Arado Ar 240

[@fighterace316]

I remember the boxart of the Ar 240 in 1/72 by Revell and it was drawn as a night fighter. It looked badass

[@BV-fr8bf]

So the equivalent of the Me210 twin engine aircraft, without the large production orders & the fix, the replacement plane is a '4' series aircraft (Me410 and Ar440.)

[@micodyerski1621]

Thanks for that. I never of this one before.

[@mickmuzzmkmz1628]

Interesting video, but an explanation for the unusual "hollow" spinners, shown on the DB603 powered examples, would have been nice.

[@gort8203]

It was the intake for the engine coolant radiator.

[@robbudden]

Yes, pressurised annular radiators. The spinnersbhad internal fans

[@jlvfr]

Is there _any_ plane of that era that Eric Brown didn't fly?!

[@IntrospectorGeneral]

I don't think that he ever flew the Short Sunderland, Consolidated Coronado, or Martin Mariner flying boats which were all in service with the UK during WW2. He flew the big Blohm & Voss flying boats so it obviously was due to lack of confidence. There are a number of Japanese fighter types missing from his list and, for the truly pedantic, he didn't fly the CAC Boomerang.

[@jlvfr]

@@IntrospectorGeneral so he only flew 95% :)

[@IntrospectorGeneral]

@@jlvfr I check the list every few years for additions. A man who flew that many aircraft is bound to forget a few. The Bell P-63 doesn't appear on the 'official' Guinness Records list but is recorded as flown on a day when he flew eight different aircraft types (of the 30 types he flew that month). The list is about 100 longer than when I first read about Eric Brown circa 1970.

[@robbudden]

Basically, yes

[@derekowens1817]

Only one Aichi type, no Avia, Fokker, IAR, Kawanishi or Tachikawa models and, presumably many other aircraft not flown by him. D

[@edxcal84]

Had they gone with a more conventional flap/aileron set up, this might have helped with stability.

[@MachDoch74]

Greetings from the site of the ex AGO Flugzeugwerke Oschersleben

[@MrDino1953]

So they tried many versions and they all had “problems”, but we have no idea what they were.

[@PeteSampson-qu7qb]

Um. I'm unaware of a source claiming the 240 was fitted with DB 603's; which just barely entered production in mid 1942.

[@krugmeister7301]

A.sad end to that project Aircraft.. But I feel that HEINKEL had it better with the TWIN ENGINE OWL..

[@The_armed_Whale]

Why the Minecraft music at the start 😭

[@MrNaKillshots]

Took long enough, to get it up and running

[@AlistairGale]

Was that a rubber powered model near the end?

[@AlistairGale]

The outsized propellers, the way it seemed to wallow when freewheeling. Not to mention the earlier plainly obvious RC model landing in tall grass.

[@ElsinoreRacer]

"Operational prototype." Is that even a thing? Maybe functional prototype.

[@jussi8111]

that cockpit reminds me of the Yak-2/4

[@kaletovhangar]

Also that two wheel landing gear, just like YAK-2/4.

[@Jdub6580]

How cool would that be if some Frenchman found it in a barn and restored it to flying condition?

[@TroysMilitaryHistory]

Bf 110

[@ralphe5842]

Tragedy? Really