Another tribute to the designers, builders, and intrepid pilots of the most amazing aircraft ever to burn up the skies.
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@finntastique38912 жыл бұрын
When Jimmy Doolittle says it's dangerous, you better believe it!
@ZeteticPlato2 жыл бұрын
You got that right
@bruceday84642 жыл бұрын
I've always loved the "bumblebee" Gee Bee racers. I remember seeing an interview with Jimmy Doolittle toward the end of his life when a reporter asked him how he flew the Gee Bee racer and he said, "VERY carefully!"
@MrSuzuki11872 жыл бұрын
The Bee Gee was an engine nacelle with wings.
@gunshipgray42952 жыл бұрын
I knew Jimmy Doolittle….he was memorable…and a real hero…a true American 🇺🇸.
@rogerb56152 жыл бұрын
There were two pre-WW2 Russian single seaters called the "Rata" and the "Super Rata" which appear to be copies of the GeeBees, but with machine guns mounted. The full name of the Rata is the Polikarpov I-16.
@patrickstewart34462 жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t say they were copies as much as they had the same design philosophy: the most powerful engine in the smallest possible airframe. Ironically, the I-16 was probably much safer to fly. 😁
@vincentlefebvre92552 жыл бұрын
@@patrickstewart3446 One is flying in New Zealand.
@joseantoniomarinjimenez-ri49272 жыл бұрын
Polikarpov I.16 "Rata" flew in the Spanish Civil War under communist flag. Only skilled hands flying the aged material of the nationalist army could stay in front of the "Ratas".
@patrickshaw85953 ай бұрын
@@joseantoniomarinjimenez-ri4927 Enter Der Luftwaffe !
@Simonize416 жыл бұрын
I love the use of the music from ‘The Rocketeer’ in this video, which as you’ll all know the GB Racer was featured in that movie. One of my all time favorites.
@guitarcleveland5 жыл бұрын
That background music from 'The Rocketeer' is one of the greatest movie scores of all time.
@VictoryAviation2 жыл бұрын
Definitely my favorite movie of all time, and James Horner did a bang up job!
@guitarcleveland2 жыл бұрын
@@VictoryAviation Absolutely
@VictoryAviation2 жыл бұрын
@Ivana Notyers We have… that’s why we made the comments about it 🤷🏼♂️
@guitarcleveland2 жыл бұрын
@Ivana Notyers Mind your own business, loser
@calsurflance55982 жыл бұрын
Gen. Jimmy Doolittle’s son , Col. John Doolittle was a personal friend, and attended my retirement ceremony from the US Air Force. He told me when his Dad set the speed record in the Gee Bee, how many cameras were turned toward he, his brother and Mother. When it was asked why the cameras focused on them and not the plane, the response was “We wanted to capture your expression when your father crashes.” John was 10 or 11 at that time. Jimmy retired from racing after and because of this event. John told me “That is the day I lost my respect for the media”. I believe this account is mentioned in Doolittle’s autobiography, however John told me this while looking over his Dad’s memorabilia in there home in Carmel. Sadly John, a retired B-52 pilot is now gone as well.
@flagman5153 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your post. I saw Delmar Benjamin fly his at an airshow in Winston-Salem, NC in the '90's. What an impressive aircraft! Four point rolls and inverted flight demonstration will give you chills!!
@cw6795 Жыл бұрын
Proof that with enough power, anything will fly.
@wolfshanze59802 жыл бұрын
2:00 as a major WWII historian... I just have to interject here... while they were short on fuel due to an early takeoff, you stated "they were never going to make it back to the carrier"... well, they were NEVER INTENDED TO MAKE IT BACK TO THE CARRIER... you can't land a B-25 on a carrier... the original plan was to take off from the carrier, bomb Tokyo, and fly on and land at friendly Chinese fields away from Japanese lines in China... due to the early takeoff, they knew they probably wouldn't even make those friendly Chinese fields... so ya, your overall point is correct, it was basically a suicide mission, but I just had to interject, they were never intended to make it back to the carriers, full fuel or not.
@elroyfudbucker68062 жыл бұрын
it occurred after the bombing of Pearl Harbour & the mission was to show the Japanese that they could be bombed, even if it was a largely ineffectual raid, not causing a lot of damage.
@muir80092 жыл бұрын
what was suicidal about it? there was perfect validity in landing in China as the stray B29's demonstrated. high risk yes, but suicidal?
@wolfshanze59802 жыл бұрын
@@muir8009 B-29s? I think you're VERY confused... the B-29 didn't exist when Doolittle did his raid.
@muir80092 жыл бұрын
@@wolfshanze5980 yeah of course. It was more to demonstrate the principle of concept. Exactly like Doolittles raid, no damage but the principle is valid, same as landing in China or wherever :)
@wolfshanze59802 жыл бұрын
@@muir8009 he stated "suicidal" about the Doolittle raid, because when they launched it was suicidal. The PLAN was to take off from the Hornet, bomb Tokyo, and yes, land at friendly Chinese fields... that was the plan. The plan got ruined when the fleet got spotted by a Japanese fishing boat long before the scheduled take off time. Fearing the fleet was compromised, they launched far from Japan. Doolittle's B-25s now did not have enough fuel to make any of the planned airfields in China, so they would have to bail out over enemy territory which is what happened. So, YES it was basically a suicidal (or at the very least, highly dangerous) mission, because the plan got ruined before they started. I only mentioned the video was a tad off talking about returning to the carrier, because that was never the plan.
@Kevin_7472 жыл бұрын
Nice video. I love all the race planes from that era. Mr. Mulligan will forever be my personal favorite. I spent a lot of time with Harold Neumann as we shared a hangar together. He loved to talk about air racing.
@daniellavoie53572 жыл бұрын
Who is Harold Neumann? Where hangard
@Kevin_7472 жыл бұрын
@@daniellavoie5357 Are you a follower of 1930's era air racing? Google Mr.Mulligan or Benny Howard's Ike & Mike.
@javis99502 жыл бұрын
Wow… best documentary I’ve watched in forever.. well said
@RichardGee92 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU
@rcair1233 жыл бұрын
I have a few RC versions of these that I fly, they are a handful but they are just wonderful.
@moss84482 жыл бұрын
1st model plane I ever built was a GeeBee have loved planes ever since an we're talking late `50's then it was crystal radio's then girls and I'm old.
@georgealexander86613 жыл бұрын
Met one of the Granville brothers at Old Rhinebeck and he was a GRAND gentleman!!
@SSmith-fm9kg3 жыл бұрын
James Horner's "Rocketeer" music, love it. The original design of the R-1 had a rudder just as tall as the cockpit canopy. Awesome design, but terribly unstable.
@onetoughcreampuff5 жыл бұрын
Every year, I hang two Gee Bee R2 ornaments on the Christmas tree, and every year around this time I go looking for Gee Bee footage. Great video!
@RichardGee95 жыл бұрын
THANKS!
@elroyfudbucker68062 жыл бұрын
Whilst listening to the Bee Gees maybe?
@jerrytee26885 жыл бұрын
Everyone's a historian nowadays, no mention of the fact that he also pioneered instrument flying. Took off, flew and landed blind to the outside world using only instruments.
@kesslermontijo63043 жыл бұрын
My grandfather John G. Montijo ("Google") who taught Amelia Earhart to fly (she traded flight time for baby sitting my father and his brother) also taught Doolittle advanced lessons, aerobatics and instruments. Historians should check out Long Beach Airport (Kinner Field, So. Calif.) in 1920's. One of the first airports to recognize the growing importance of Aviation.
@lightespeed4 жыл бұрын
Love the cheeky design of what is really a flying engine, with the pilot virtually straddling the engine, who needs the usual empty box between the engine & the rear control surfaces?!
@marstondavis Жыл бұрын
I saw Delmar Benjamin fly his replica GB at the Hayward Executive Airport in Hayward Ca. back in the late '90's. The roar of that Wasp engine is something you'll never forget. I have a photo of that GB as my screen saver, and I look at it every day. There are a couple of pilots that have P-51 Mustangs hangered there. About three times a year they'll take off and climb to altitude and the sound of those Merlin's is as sweet as it can be. It reaches into your soul.
@pgocon2 жыл бұрын
The R2 was flown by Lee Gehlbach, Army Aviator, Test Pilot. He flew with Jimmy Doolittle, and several other well known pilots. Lee even escorted Charles Lindbergh at one point. He was my wifes great uncle. We have a lot of memorabilia of / from him and his time racing. Very Interesting.
@vincentlefebvre92552 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Doolittle ? Greatest U.S. aviator in history !
@calsurflance55982 жыл бұрын
His son Col. John Doolittle was a personal friend. He and his wife came to my retirement ceremony when I retired from the US Air Force. You should have seen my Commander’s eyes when I introduced them!
@wayneandrus3072 жыл бұрын
I love the GBa and think that they are an art deco piece from the 1930s.
@scootergeorge70892 жыл бұрын
Thing about Jimmy Doolittle and his raid on Japan, he was flying a twin engine, medium bomber, never meant to operate from an aircraft carrier. He was also the lead aircraft. Spotted ahead of the remaining 15 and hence had the shortest takeoff run. And no catapult assist. As far as a suicide mission, had the promised homing beacons been installed and operational along with better weather over China, at least some of the B-25's would have made it. Lost over China, most either ditched, or the crews bailed out. One landed in Vladivostok where the Soviets interned the aircraft and crew.
@barrygrant29072 жыл бұрын
A couple of notes about the Doolittle Raid: It was never planned for the bombers to return to the carriers as they could not land on it. The plan was to land at bases in China after bombing Japan, but because the raiders had to take off early, they did not have enough fuel to make it to the Chinese bases. So the mission was a one-way mission all along, but never a suicide mission, the Plan B being to fly as far as possible and then bail out and hope for the best--being found by friendlies.
@None-zc5vg2 жыл бұрын
If JATO bottles had been available back then, maybe the B-25s could have used their thrust to carry them off the 'Hornet' with extra fuel on board (perhaps in auxiliary fuselage tanks, had someone 'thought ahead' and prearranged some kind of quick fix to accommodate an early launch) but maybe the planes were too heavy in any case.
@MrKornhole3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the pictures and stories. I have always loved this aircraft and have seen one of them at Oshkosh Air Museum many times.
@RichardGee93 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@MrRoyobentoni3 жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation. It look hard to handle.
@iplaymytele3 жыл бұрын
I remember in the movie the Rocketeer Howard Hughes gave the Rocketeer a new Gee Bee , at the end of the movie…! it sounds like the same music from the Rocketeer…..!
@joekurtz83033 жыл бұрын
Unique airframe,seen pictures & newsreels of this as a child. Just seen a child's scale toy pedal car just like this on TV available to purchase
@jerrywestaway93162 жыл бұрын
These Planes Make Me Feel Like I Have The Hee Bee Gee Bees :-)
@kkteutsch64166 жыл бұрын
Geebees started a generation where the directions was to construct a plane around the most power engine available, that continued 'till the WWII ended, like F4F, F6F, even Corsair, Thunderbolt and Skyraider was made this way...
@jaredpyle34253 жыл бұрын
A-10 warthog is built around its gun lol
@callumfreebairn80822 жыл бұрын
gives me chills too to hear it
@lawrencemarocco81972 жыл бұрын
Find the most powerful engine there is, then put just enough airplane around it to get it off the ground. What a scary proposition.
@stanleydomalewski8497 Жыл бұрын
Gee Bee R1,R2 and "Z" , Vicious little Brutes, that Only the Best COULD Fly !
@robertmarx19542 жыл бұрын
I always thought of the Gee Bee racers as engines with wings on them.
@HarborLockRoad2 жыл бұрын
I had to laugh my butt off when the " history channel" referred to, " the Grenville brothers of Springfield, Ohio." Of course, we in Massachusetts know they were in Springfield Massachusetts, and the fields they flew from today are built over, but, many of us older folks can still show you where they were located back then. Springfield Ohio, my sweet ass! Lol
@chuck62891 Жыл бұрын
They came from my hometown of Springfield, MA.
@msvvero2 жыл бұрын
Great presentation
@RichardGee92 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU
@cramersclassics2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Would be even better with the background music lower while you're talking.
@ricklewis58043 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@RichardGee92 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU
@jasoncook6177 Жыл бұрын
What a gorgeous and dangerous plant , awesome 👌
@jameshoopes64672 жыл бұрын
The epitome of form following function.
@gglen21412 жыл бұрын
I'll bet an engine cowling mounted camera would make taxiing that thing a lot easier.
@Anne6621 Жыл бұрын
you can take the most powerful and fastest jet planes but imo they don't hold a candle to piston engine , just think of those lucky people who got to build the most amazing airplane ever built , The H4 Hercules and the Bee Gees just drives me crazy , i don't think people really grasp the amazing exciting first 50 years of flight , my god talk about an exciting time
@rothbj12 ай бұрын
Other pilots report the lower powered R2 (#7) was a nice handling plane.
@simongee89282 жыл бұрын
An engine, a seat, two wings and away you go - !
@alfredogontijo80442 жыл бұрын
Nunca voei mais tenho um amor especial por este avião é um amor quê não sei de onde veio ,desde de criancinha como me emocionaria ter o prazer de encontrar esse avião de perto e meu sonho amo gee bee !
@ericbouchard75472 жыл бұрын
Great video and tribute to the Gee Bees, Richard. What do you know about the Gee Bee Z and Bob Hall's involvement with the project? I've taken an interest in Hall, from his work with the Granville Brothers all the way to his test flying for Grumman starting in 1936. Most of the information I've learned about his pre-Grumman career comes from either wikipedia or the odd website chronicling 1930s air racing; none of it goes into particular detail. Did Hall really design the Z in five weeks' time? Was he the sole designer? What about the model Y?
@RichardGee92 жыл бұрын
Eric, I know very little about Bob Hall or the Gee Bee Z. My focus was on the R1/R2, although I have always liked the Model Z. Sounds like Hall was a prolific designer and test pilot, or I doubt Grumman would have put so much faith in him?
@Farmer-bh3cg3 жыл бұрын
I understood that Jimmy Doolittle, after the race, said "I'll never fly it again."
@calsurflance55982 жыл бұрын
He retired from racing after this , because the press was focused on trying to capture the family’s reaction if and when he crashed. His son, John, told me this himself .
@Farmer-bh3cg2 жыл бұрын
@@calsurflance5598 Thank you for the update. Reporters were ghouls then and are propaganda shilling ghouls now. Back then, they were honest about it. Today they lie about Everything.
@alfredogontijo80446 жыл бұрын
Eu sou um apaixonado, por esse avião ,meu sonho e ver ele de perto ,ou pelo menos ter uma réplica dele eu não sei oque é talvez coisa de outra vida.
@huwzebediahthomas91932 жыл бұрын
Crazy bird.
@babyboomer9560 Жыл бұрын
On one of his interviews I believe he said the next guy to fly it after him crashed and died.
@thewatcher52712 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Jimmy Doolittle The Only Man Who Won The Schneider, Bendix & Thompson Trophies? He Was The First To Land On Instruments Flying Blind & Helped To Pioneer The Higher Octane Rating In Avgas. Don Lopez, A Great Aviator In His Own Right, Said Of Doolittle, "Never Was A Person More Inappropriately Named."
@robertlafnear48654 жыл бұрын
I love those words" UNSTABLE " and "DANGEROUS "................. WOW............ This might be for me... I know I LOVE the plane.
@Colin_Holloway2 жыл бұрын
Kermit Weeks now has both Delmar's Gee Bee R2 and a replica Gee Bee Z. He has some great videos taking about flutter issues which he believes is the reason for the crash of the original Gee Bee Z kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqfWp5SdZ5ZoesU
@TDCflyer4 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why people still state that plane was "unstable" and "dangerous". Yes, Doolittle used to brag about being able to fly this "most unstable, dangerous" plane, but back in the days when he actually flew it he stated it was a pleasure to fly. Also, Delmar Benjamin proved the plane was stable and very capable with his exact replica. The one thing that separates this plane from modern layouts is the lack of proper flaps to slow it down for landing, which means the pilot has to handle very high speeds and has to react very fast on take-off and landing.
@RichardGee94 жыл бұрын
The Gee Bee Super Sportsters ARE unstable in pitch and yaw. Delmar Benjamin has said the aircraft has what is known as "divergent stability" (a.k.a. directional divergence). He has also stated that "the airplane's reputation is well-deserved." The designer of the aircraft, Howell Miller, said of the prototype: Stability will be marginal, but safe. Publicly, Doolittle said it was a 'sweet flying airplane.' Privately he said it "was the most dangerous airplane he ever flew." You can believe what you want; I believe the men who designed and flew the airplane. I also have 60 Gee Bee (scale RC) flights under my belt and agree with those who actually flew the airplane.
@edgein32992 жыл бұрын
you would have to be crazy to fly this.
@donaldparlettjr32953 жыл бұрын
I remember Delmar Benjamin said that he could knife edge the Gee Bee all day long because he had so much side area than wing.
@juleswins35 жыл бұрын
What I know about planes and aviation I could write in the palm of my hand but ungainly? I dunno, Richard. I think it’s the slickest, coolest, sexiest plane ever built!
@RichardGee95 жыл бұрын
Considering most folks consider the Gee Bee Super Sportsters "cartoonish," you can draw your own conclusions. I would concur it is the COOLEST airplane ever built, but "slick and sexy?" Well, I guess it's like a woman... we all have our own personal preferences.
@juleswins35 жыл бұрын
@@RichardGee9 Exactly!
@HavardStreAndresen5 жыл бұрын
Lovely video, but it is strange not to mention the fatal accidents in these aircrafts.
@MrSuzuki11872 жыл бұрын
The Gee Bee was an engine nacelle with wings.
@avnrulz2 жыл бұрын
I have a model of this on my desk at work.
@freddyrosenberg92882 жыл бұрын
I don't understand the huge engine and the tiny prop. What's the point?
@manuelvillamil9809 Жыл бұрын
“Watch this PB!!…”
@davidwoodward70202 жыл бұрын
interesting,but no mention of how fast or what was the record?
@larchman43272 жыл бұрын
I wonder if they could have designed it so the cylinders stick out of the side to make it aerodynamic at least.
@scootergeorge70892 жыл бұрын
As a kid, I built a scale model of the Gee Bee racer. I thought it was cool. My mother said it looked "stupid."
@vincentlefebvre92552 жыл бұрын
In what scale ?
@scootergeorge70892 жыл бұрын
@@vincentlefebvre9255 - This would have been way back in or around 1963 but I'm guessing 1/48 scale. Maybe 3 or 4 inch wing span.
@vincentlefebvre92552 жыл бұрын
@@scootergeorge7089 I started building a prehistorical Gee Bee in 1/48. I did not finish it yet. I believe it is a former Hawk kit. It's boxed by Testor. Most probably what you built. I was born in 1966 !
@scootergeorge70892 жыл бұрын
@@vincentlefebvre9255 - Yes, it must have ben the Hawk kit.
@BobSmith-dk8nw2 жыл бұрын
OK ... I'm watching this and I'm going ... "Why? Do you WANT to die?" The only more serious reaction I've ever had was a video on someone who was flying an Me-163 ... My first reaction was "Are you insane?" Then I saw them hook it up to the tow plane and pull it aloft and I'm like .... "Oh ... they're just gliding it ... OK." Can these people flying Gee Bee's - even get insurance? .
@blxtothis2 жыл бұрын
No video of the thing flying then?
@thermalascension3 жыл бұрын
I'd like to fly a firecracker. It was a fine little airplane ,.
@robertbennett8484 жыл бұрын
It seems to me , if they put another foot or two on the horizontal stabilizer and elevator, the plane would have been more stable. Just saying. I have only been flying for a little over a year. RC flying by the way.
@jarmstrong28432 жыл бұрын
A very fast death trap.
@bsdude0102 жыл бұрын
Watch this Peevee!!!
@bigsparky88885 жыл бұрын
These GB's H AZ ve bugged me since I was a little boy in the early 50's...as s toddler I would point and say..."awpane"...hek...I remember blimps at Long Beach...squiggly lines before a STOP sign on the roads close to the beach...wow...(ha...they teased me and told me it was to catch drunk drivers)
@markr8312 жыл бұрын
Well Shoot I wouldn't be flying the dang thing then! ....... family friendly put
@jameskirk5782 жыл бұрын
Beautiful aeroplane. Elevators and rudder far too small and would never operate outside the turbulent prop wash. Would that be why it was hard to fly one wonders.
@g6rcteam817 жыл бұрын
Not unstable at all ! Delmar proved that over and over Dolittle was hanger selling books
@RichardGee97 жыл бұрын
There are two types of Gee Bee enthusiasts: Those who have actually built and flown scale R models, and those that like to talk about them as though they have a clue...
@g6rcteam817 жыл бұрын
My grandfather worked for the Granvilles and I fly several 1\4 scale model z and 2 r\2S Also check my channel before you make A statement like that!
@RichardGee97 жыл бұрын
Oh, pardon me. So because your grandfather worked for the Granvilles (in what capacity?) and because you may have flown some RC models (fidelity to scale unknown) we should discount everything "Granny," Doolittle, Bales, Boardman, Haffke, Mendenhall, and Benjamin said and wrote about the Gee Bee racers? Benjamin, in particular, accumulated 1,500 hours in the R2. By any account, he is THE authority on this aircraft and he has said, "The Gee Bee is unstable in pitch and in yaw - it exhibits divergent stability." Doolittle also said as much. Delmar also said, "The Gee Bee's reputation is well-deserved." The only thing Delmar proved was that a truly exceptional pilot can fly the R2. Not sure what you were trying to say about Doolittle w/your butchered grammar, but it sounds like you were impugning an American hero whose shoes you aren't worthy of shining...
@RichardGee97 жыл бұрын
How about posting a video of your 36% Gee Bee in flight?
@tripacer82595 жыл бұрын
@@RichardGee9 You can't fight stupid......... Don't waste your time.
@David-yy7lb4 ай бұрын
How the hell is the pilot is supposed to see the runway
@FrankSleighter-pm5vx Жыл бұрын
They don't make them like Doolittle any more.
@freezatron2 жыл бұрын
Back ground music is annoying !!! interesting history of an interesting aeroplane though :)
@Justwantahover2 жыл бұрын
The smallest wingspan plane in the world would be worse to fly and only flew twice (I think). It had a 5 ft wingspan and carried a pilot. Look it up.
@JJ-cf7nb5 жыл бұрын
The replica aircraft behind the guy has the Pratt R985 and not the more powerful R1340 he's saying it has. That makes it a copy of the slower R2 and not Doolittle's R1.
@RichardGee95 жыл бұрын
Incorrect. I finished this CARF Gee Bee as the model R1. Notice the cowl marking says WASP (and not WASP Jr.). I will admit, cowl shape is not perfectly accurate for an R1. At the end of the video I do show stills of my CARF R2. Other than cowl and rudder outline, and tailwheel placement, the two aircraft are identical externally.
@JJ-cf7nb5 жыл бұрын
OK, fair enough; I actually thought it was a full scale replica and so well done! Having flown both DHC2 Beaver's and DHC3 Otters, I'm quite familiar with both engines. That cowl behind you on your model of the R1 just didn't appear to have the volume to fit the 1340 (and has the same lines as the cowl fitted to the original R2).
@jimrich41922 жыл бұрын
Cute! but so what...if it's DANGEROUS?
@thermalascension3 жыл бұрын
But my Salto sailplane ,. Moves pretty good ,. Without a engine. 😉
@OldGeezer55 Жыл бұрын
What engine does the replica employee?
@RichardGee9 Жыл бұрын
The replica used the same engine as the original R2; P&W R985 9 cylinder radial... about 500 hp.
@OldGeezer55 Жыл бұрын
@@RichardGee9 Thanks for the reply! I'd read that it was that originall but found it hard to believe they still existed.
@pcbondart2 жыл бұрын
Gee, this airplane isn't that far from being the Russian Polikarpov fighter they entered WW2 with, and that was, I think, a reasonably flyable airplane. The Russian fighter was only 2 ft 4 inches longer, wingspan 4 ft wider, and 300 horsepower more than the GeeBee.
@johngregory48012 жыл бұрын
Basically, they were just flying engine nacelles.
@RichardGee92 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not, the Gee Bee Super Sportster was thoroughly tested in a wind tunnel and its designer deemed it "marginally stable, but safe to fly." Much though went into the design, but the over-riding goal was to create the fastest land plane in the world. Compromises had to be made to achieve that goal.
@FreeTurtleboy5 жыл бұрын
Who would have bombed japan had the gee bee killed Jimmy?
@peglegnoid61397 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Doolittle used nitrous oxide injection setting the speed record ?
@leifvejby80235 жыл бұрын
He didn't - he didn't even open the throttle fully, he wanted the regular pilot to be able to take the record back when having recovered . Doolittle was just a replacement pilot while the real pilot (Boardman?) got well after some flying incident.
@mikedunn77954 ай бұрын
Also known as the *Flying Coffin*..
@GeneralJackRipper3 жыл бұрын
Yeah. But it was FAST.
@r.g.o38792 жыл бұрын
It looks like something a cartoonist designed not something ever meant to actually fly!!
@ronshaw808 жыл бұрын
What piece of music is playing in the background?
@RichardGee98 жыл бұрын
+Ron Shaw Main Title - Takeoff - James Horner - The Rocketeer
@nickhedges51527 жыл бұрын
They really don't look safe do they?
@RichardGee96 жыл бұрын
They WEREN'T!
@damienhill63832 жыл бұрын
Lethal ..
@finncarlbomholtsrensen11882 жыл бұрын
Mostly a flying oil-drum, it seems
@matthewmoore5698 Жыл бұрын
Oh er
@davidjanuszewski50202 жыл бұрын
Ugly, but, beautiful.
@geraldscott4302 Жыл бұрын
Suicide machine.
@garthrichert52566 жыл бұрын
Not much good for anything other than propelling a fat big engine through the sky, at the risk of the pilots life.
@natalianesterova21076 жыл бұрын
Absolute rubbish. Delmar Benjamin logged 1400 hours over 10 years in an R2. They were not for Piper Cub pilots but they were flyable
@leifvejby80235 жыл бұрын
Benjamin even did some inverted formation flying the very first time he flew it!