Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor gunners engage a British aircraft over the English Channel in 1941

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[@northernskys]

One of the nicest looking aircraft. Pity she ended up as a military aircraft, instead of a civilian airliner. We might still have some around today, like the Ju 52's still flying. Love the footage though. Nice shots of the undercarriage retracting, and the interror. I wonder if that wasn't a RAF Coastal Command aircraft? Possibly (from the blurry outline) a Bristol Beaufort?

[@madhukarjonathanminj2772]

i thought it looked like a Hampden

[@johngriffiths118]

My guess was a Blenheim , maybe

[@emil-1609]

We finally have a Fw 200 around again! One was salvaged from Norway in the early 2000s and restored in northern Germany into a 'civilian' version. Most parts had to be reproduced because the original disintegrated during salvage while metres of the ground, wings broke off, the fuselage apart, initially it was doubted if a restoration was still possible at all, but they made it in the end, she still has a few original parts (which still have remaining camouflage and Balkenkreuze) while the rest is blank aluminium. She will not fly, but due to the very complete restauration she is in an excellent state, I believe she is now placed at the old Tempelhof airport in Berlin, there are many vids on KZbin of her.

[@DannyBoy777777]

​@johngriffiths118 Yes. That makes sense. Engaging from the side with her turret.

[@hanspeterx]

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[@RDEnduro]

Seeing then fly over the sailboat reminded me of that scene in the movie Dunkirk

[@jaym8027]

The Condor was a great looking airplane. What a contrast between the latest technology and the brig(?)

[@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885]

And it was the first airliner crossing the atlantic as a land-airplane to Floyd-Benette airfield.

[@tsmgguy]

Far more likely to have been the Bay of Biscay than the English Channel, especially given the Fw-200's vulnerability to fighters and the operating area of Kg-40 after June 1940. The sailing vessel seen was probably a Spanish or Portuguese neutral.

[@Sokol10]

1:05 - Be the silhouette looks a Handley Page Hampden.

[@johnfranborra]

Lovely airframe; fitting name.

[@Flippernuts-hi1bp]

The Condor did not make a great transition from a civilian design to military use like the He 111. It became overloaded to the point where fuselages were buckling

[@bensmith7536]

Eric Browns first kill in a Martlet. IIRC from his book I have around here somewhere, they nearly got him as well.

[@Oligodendrocyte139]

It will be in the library called Somewhere Safe 😊

[@madhukarjonathanminj2772]

i think his second, that is his last before becoming a test pilot was a Condor as well, if im not wrong, he did head on attacks against them

[@drott150]

Brown lied about flying the Me163 under power. Since he did that, his other claims must be held in suspicion unless independently verified.

[@user-fe5bs1up4y]

"Кондор" - опасный самолёт. Опасный, прежде всего, для собственных экипажей. Если самолёт получал повреждения, то шансы на выживание у экипажа были маленькие. Очень много FW-200, из за огня противника, или просто разваливались в воздухе, или разбивались вдребезги при вынужденной посадке, хороня под обломками экипаж.

[@Keckegenkai]

the plane was never intended to be used int the military. All the ad hoc military addons strained the fuselage

[@drott150]

pea·shoot·er [ˈpēˌSHo͞odər] noun: A toy weapon consisting of a small tube that is blown through in order to shoot out dried peas.

[@carlnapp4412]

0:34 Ob das Bohnenkaffee war?

[@johnfranborra]

Those poor kids armed with peashooters; what was the Luftwaffe thinking? Our guys had fifties, often twin fifties.

[@bradmanharris7350]

They still had 3 or 4 MG131 onboard? Fraction bigger than the .50.

[@mikearmstrong8483]

Seems like they were shooting from far too great a range, especially given the caliber of their guns.

[@ihorkorotchenko9732]

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[@alexandertach8076]

Термос классный.

[@chriswerkes8313]

Judging by the number of Thermos containers on board they were planning a long range patrol.

[@gordonhall9871]

true..... some had hot sausage - others soups and coffee

[@emil-1609]

They sometimes flew for more than ten hours over the Atlantic

[@drott150]

...and had an equal supply of pee bottles.

[@antonrudenham3259]

Any German aircraft flying alone over the English Channel in 1941 was going to have a very short and bad day, especially such a vulnerable aircraft as the FW200, this is far more likely to be over the W Approaches given that an allied convoy is filmed. I speculate that this is a montage of clips taken from a KG40 patrol during which they spotted a neutral sailing vessel over the Biscay and further out a convoy in the W Approaches and an aircraft of RAF Coastal Command, possibly a HP Hampden.

[@drott150]

They were rarely deployed over the channel. They mostly flew far out over the Atlantic where fighters couldn't reach them. Unless they had the misfortune to encounter a fighter like a Martlet or Seafire either from a carrier or as a rocket launched one-off fighter from an escort ship.