Gloster Meteor - The First Jet That Chased And Downed A Nazi V-1 Flying Bomb [WWII DOCUMENTARY]

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@jamesgraham6122 4 ай бұрын

Amazingly, on being relocated to Afghanistan in early 2006 while operating on a UN contract, I was taxiing out at Kabul and found myself following a Gloucester Meteor ! Still operational and I believe being utilised as an ISR platform. I'm not sure when it was finally retired but I think it was only a year or so later. It had the revised tail configuration developed from the earlier E 1/44 design. Very rare. Exactly what year this particular aircraft came on line I don't know but to be taxiing out behind a 60 year old, still operational jet from the 1940s in 2006 was something for the grandchildren :>)

@pippin1ful 3 ай бұрын

Meteor Mk8 or with 2seats: Mk11 or 14?

@aldenconsolver3428 3 ай бұрын

for sure, I suspect about half those engines were spare parts manufactured by hand.

@jamesgraham6122 3 ай бұрын

@@aldenconsolver3428 Thank you for that :>)

@ripoffrecords 4 ай бұрын

My uncle Geoff Collins flew a Gloster Meteor in Korea for the RAAF 77 Squad. He was the captain of Melbourne Football Club prior to his service so they painted an evil looking Demon with a pitchfork both sides of his jet behind his cannons. He always spoke highly of the Gloster as being very reliable, getting him back to base safely even after being shot up several times & once without a canopy.

@TheAneewAony 4 ай бұрын

Eric Brown. The most remarkable pilot in history. No caveats

@nickthompson3493 3 ай бұрын

I'll drink to that!

@leoa4c Ай бұрын

Hearing Frank Whittle himself explain the effects of different blade designs and the respective flow structures created by them is mega interesting! Thank you very much for this upload.

@Dronescapes Ай бұрын

I think we now feature the most extensive interview with Frank Whittle, and you might want to watch/listen to it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYStlayLfNF4bdk A while ago, thanks to the people that support the channel, we contributed to digitize the only copy of the original 16mm films, which we now also acquired for posterity. they were digitized at the legendary Pinewood Studios in Britain a year ago. There is a lot of interesting things to learn that veer from the scarse information and the ubiquitous semi tragic Wikipedia. What I also find very interesting is the Von Ohain interviews (by the same filmmaker), also acquired by the channel. These are perhaps even more rare to come by. I think that anyone can notice the stark difference between him and Whittle (in favor of Whittle). There are also interesting admissions that Von Ohain makes, and in my opinion they "calibrate" the commonly known knowledge (again, lots of Wikipedia.) He also candidly admits that Whittle was way ahead of him. A rare admission for future historians! Here is the Von Ohain's interviews: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIXOkGt9eNyosM0 I hope you can enjoy these interviews as much as we did.

@countrichardvoncoudenhovek8855 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful stuff.....especially the early Farnborough colour jet footage,

@Dragonblaster1 4 ай бұрын

The Meteor was not Britain's first jet aircraft: that was the Gloster-Whittle E28/39. The Meteor was Britain's first jet fighter.

@Dronescapes 4 ай бұрын

You are absolutely right, although the Gloster-Whittle was really a prototype/test-bed. By the way, did you watch out Whittle’s interviews on the channel? If you are passionate about his work and life, you cannot miss them

@stefanschutz5166 2 ай бұрын

It was shown repeatedly in the video without the name of the type even being mentioned.

@pippin1ful 3 ай бұрын

My paternal grandfather married Sir Stafford Cripps' housekeeper, much to Dad's disgust. Nan had died. Granddad was mates with Clem Attlee and his gang. They gave the Yanks and Reds our aeronautical secrets.

@stephenhigginson5061 4 ай бұрын

Outstanding, exciting doco !

@leoa4c Ай бұрын

I think that Frank Whittle's first design, the motorjet, could find some use in experimental sport's planes today. A light piston engine used to rotate two centrifugal superchargers (the 1st and the 2nd stage) along with a relatively small turbo-supercharger doing the 3rd stage of compression could achieve enough pressure and mass flow to produce a relatively powerful jet. Definitely enough to justify its own weight, and to significantly increase the speed of propeller aircraft in level flight. It would not be the most efficient way of achieving extra thrust, but it would definitely be a lot cheaper than the small turbojets on the market, as it could use straight off-the-shelf superchargers and turbochargers from the automotive world. Such design crosses my mind from time to time whenever insomnia kicks in. Such package would have a small frontal area (around the same frontal area of the complete piston engine itself). The piston engine turns both superchargers via a single shaft with different gears for each supercharger. The compressor section of the turbocharger at the end, further raises the pressure. The flow is then routed to 6 cylindrical combustion chambers, with the ability of reheat (afterburn) by bleeding air from the compressor stages. It serves no practical purpose, whatsoever, other than to "boost" the speed of recreational/sport propeller-driven aircraft.

@BenAhmed67 3 ай бұрын

Brown and Whittle...just wow!

@VulcanDriver1 4 ай бұрын

It scored the first jet air to air kill.

@biernut8723 3 ай бұрын

Not really a kill though.

@GlenDoer-gq1rs 4 ай бұрын

Worked on these in the RAAF 1969 did not realise how old they were..nicked named the meat box.

@ianbeedles1329 4 ай бұрын

It never ceases to amaze me how shortsighted, and how often, the British establishment managed to destroy early jet development. The interviews with Messer's Whittle and Brown clearly shows how the government of the time allowed itself to be bullied so it could gain a few bars of gold.😢

@danielsotelo3942 24 күн бұрын

I'm 68 and had no idea the British were so advanced in jet aviation until I saw this video. Talking about the US school system feeding us George Washington chopping down a cherry tree Bull Sh!t story... Wow by seeing this video they were far more advanced than the Boeing 707. How unfortunate they shot their foot with the Comet.

@ArthurWright-uv4ww 4 ай бұрын

How it was back in the day. We had a squadron of Meteors. The German jet was good but how many flew on a daily basis?

@christopherhogg8364 Ай бұрын

They both had different advantages over each other. The meteor possessed more of those advantages and with further development gradually picked up the me262s advantages. By the end of the war the meteors then entering service were better in every single respect, but the 262s aerodynamics were the way forward

@OntheAVIA 28 күн бұрын

Numbers vary between 13-20

@samuelelsby1800 3 ай бұрын

What on earth is that opening faux footage of a V1 being launched from an aircraft?

@MrKlipstar 4 ай бұрын

" To defeat the 3rd Reich, was necessary the Soviet sacrifice,the American support and above all the British Inteligence.* Unknow 🤔 A Great spirit, Mr Brown.,a brave Man !

@georgekforrpv6857 4 ай бұрын

The sound of the v1 in opening video all wrong! It was a pulse jet not a turbine! Had a deep throaty buzz!

@pippin1ful 3 ай бұрын

Tell me about it! They used to fly over our house and I used to listen out for them after the air-raid warning siren. When I heard the incoming growl I would warn Mother, and with my brother we would rush to our shelter down the garden. We lived in "Doodlebug Alley," under the flightpath to London.

@minipup1 4 ай бұрын

Proved to be very little use against the V1, far too slow to accelerate. Numbers vary between 13-20. That job was left to the Tempest V.

@barrierodliffe4155 29 күн бұрын

Used successfuly against the V 1's, the Metoer I was only made in small numbers and came late to the V 1 party, the Tempest, Mosquito and Spitfire were shooting them down from the start. The Meteor had good acceleration and speed, in fact when tested against a Tempest the Meteor was found to be better.

@dimsum435 2 ай бұрын

I was astonished to learn that 450, yes four hundred and fifty, RAF pilots died while flying the Meteor. In a plane that never really went to war. (Chased V1s).

@christopherhogg8364 Ай бұрын

It did go to war many times AFTER the war and those pilots mostly died in training accidents regarding single engined handling. The meteor was horrendous for asymetric power

@dimsum435 Ай бұрын

@@christopherhogg8364 Still, 450, it's a lot of dead young men. Though I believe what drove the RAF to cut out single engine approach training was the loss of so many instructors. No wonder it was called, (aliterally, not affectionately ), 'the meat-box'.

@christopherhogg8364 Ай бұрын

@dimsum435 yes but we are talking about poor training methods rather than a deficiency in the aircraft itself though. It was largely conservative in its execution, but it was a good aircraft in the end.

@noonedude101 4 ай бұрын

Not even 10 seconds into the video... "On June 12th, 1945, a new weapon..." A month after the war ended in Europe?

@barrierodliffe4155 29 күн бұрын

A typo, obviously, June the 12th 1944

@ianmcsherry5254 4 ай бұрын

Right, two things jarring right from the start, V-1 dropped from a Heinkel? They were launched off rails in occupied Europe, hence why the threat diminished both from allied bombing of the launch sites, and the advance of troops into those areas after D-Day. Secondly, "Winkle discovers the Meteor"? No it wasn't, that was it's single engined predecessor that he stumbled across at Cranwell, as per the archive footage.

@richardvernon317 4 ай бұрын

Germans did launch V-1's from He-111's based in Holland after the launch sites in France were overrun.

@georgekforrpv6857 4 ай бұрын

Jet aircraft seen was gloster e.28 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_E.28/39

@RichardMcLaren 4 ай бұрын

Do you know what else is 'jarring'? When people say 'hence why'......It's just 'hence'

@DavidMc73 2 ай бұрын

@@RichardMcLarenhence why is more than jarring, it’s bloody annoying

@veritasvincit2745 28 күн бұрын

A chap I used to work with lived in Manchester as a child and said he definitely saw a V-1. I thought he'd made a mistake because Manchester wasn't within range of the launch sites. Did a bit of digging and discovered that some V-1s were air launched in order to hit the northern British cities.

@mikedearing6352 4 ай бұрын

I'm surprised an unmanned drone destroyed by a manned aircraft is enough to credit the first jet vs jet aerial kill, I'd think you'd need two piloted jet aircraft for such a claim, very lame crediting the Gloster Meteor as first jet to jet victory, more accurately the first jet to intercept a missile

@biernut8723 3 ай бұрын

It's called grasping at straws. They have to include that when there's nothing else.

@barrierodliffe4155 29 күн бұрын

I wonder what the first jet to het victory would be, the Me 262 had enough trouble with piston engine fighters, it failed to shoot down a single Tempest or Spitfire, the Meteor accounted for Vampires when flown by Israel and Mig 15's when flown by the Australian air force

@barrierodliffe4155 29 күн бұрын

@@biernut8723 The straws being a number of Luftwaffe aircraft when the Meteor was flying over German territory.

@biernut8723 29 күн бұрын

@@barrierodliffe4155 That number being zero. Also, the Me 262 had no trouble accounting for p-51s which it was far more likely to encounter in its role as an interceptor over Germany than Spitfires, which were outclassed by P-51s at higher altitudes.