Average Life Span 11 Days - The Most Insane Time Period To Be In The Air | Dogfights Of WWI | IL-2

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

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[@Joseph-havingfun]

2 p51 mustangs vs 1 f22

[@flightking1694]

Yf-23 vs 6th gen NGAD

[@Morningsky8000]

Aermacchi Mb-339 vs the Su-25.

[@PavelStambolski]

will we see some panavia tornado action in the future?

[@Subhumanoid_]

The weird bug looking pusher aircraft was phenomenal. The pilot didn't have to aim the plane PRECISELY at the enemy since the gunner was doing all the fine adjustment (auto-gunner?) and the engine in the back was protecting both of them from bullets. If the engine caught on fire, the fire was blowing backward NOT cooking the pilot alive. 10/10 design

[@russellwaterson3304]

Royal Aircraft Factory FE2

[@ph2738]

But in that configuration, the gunner and pilot are first to the scene of a crash. Then the engine squashes the crew between ground and block.

[@timonsolus]

@@ph2738 : Exactly.

[@Subhumanoid_]

@@ph2738 Did you not watch the video? There is no "surviving the crash" in WW1.

[@AARONANKRUM]

Although not shown, the strange aircraft that took out GS was a red dog house with a beagle on top. Our intelligence arm is investigating.

[@oborozukiyo73]

Camels were indeed in that last furball 🤭

[@RayC234]

Gotta keep them eyes peeled for the legend aka Joe Cool.

[@rmg03c]

LOL The Red Baron!

[@ryanvincent9566]

Absolutely love the WW1 stuff man! Would love to see some stuff like “The Fokker Scrouge” or some sort of F2b “Ground Attack” mission or something! Again, loving this content as always, keep up the great work, happy new year!

[@ryanvincent9566]

Also good spotting for plane colours, Belgian coloured plane was a Hanriot, that plane you killed before him was a Sopwith Snipe

[@gh8447]

I think you mean The Fokker _Scourge._ 😄

[@hunter35474]

After you do the Fokker Scrouge (whatever that is), I'd love to see the Fokker Scourge.

[@ryanvincent9566]

@@gh8447 ah feck 😅

[@ryanvincent9566]

@@hunter35474 gahdammit lol i wont make that mistake again

[@archimedesnation]

"....an aircraft made of fabric and toothpicks"

[@magnanimus9692]

Kinda makes me want to build one in my backyard.

[@MiG-31893]

and popsicles

[@magnanimus9692]

If you do bad things in this life, you are reincarnated as an NPC in a GS video in the next.

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

Lold

[@mkaz3997]

😱😱😱!!!

[@cosmic668]

The wierd looking pusher aircraft was an FE2. Thought it was an Airco DH2 but then saw the gunner standing up front.

[@truthseeker9454]

Yeah, can you imagine _standing up_ in that thing, facing backward?!

[@gogofuntime_yt]

Dude it's so rad

[@davidhobson7652]

Be glad your not a rear gunner on a Italian caproni Ca3 bomber you literally standing on top of it pusher style 3rd engine

[@TR4Ajim]

It’s sort of amazing that these fighters didn’t fit mirrors. Yeah it’s easy to look back, but it means taking your eyes off what’s in front of you. What’s really amazing is they went from these kites to the SR-71 in less than 50 years!

[@MichaelCorryFilms]

I wonder if maybe they fogged up at altitude in an open cockpit because your suggestion seems too simple to not have SOME reason for not doing that.

[@AlanpittsS2a]

Yeah I know in my airplane I am constantly looking all over the place in just normal flight and without people actively shooting at you lol. The mirrors became necessary after larger planes made it impossible to see behind yourself but even with a mirror I’m sure guys still were turning around as much as possible

[@jadedengineer]

Too much vibration for mirrors to be useful

[@stinkyfungus]

​@jadedengineer This. Ever try to use the mirrors on an old Enduro bike that is missing on one cylinder? Every time you rap the gas, the mirror becomes a blur. Can't see shit.

[@retmarut4499]

I guess too little benefit. If you consider how little of your back you’ll be seeing with a mirror, I’d be turning my head anyways. So why bother?

[@BouillaBased]

The mouth on that gunner! Guess he thought that if throwing lead wasn't going to work, throwing harsh language would!

[@AlanpittsS2a]

I am a private pilot. I fly a Pitts biplane but am building a sopwith camel replica from the airdrome company which creates the kits. I am using radial instead of a rotary but these old planes are amazing

[@gogofuntime_yt]

Thats awesome! I loved the look of those kits and theyre suprisingly affordable.

[@madhukarjonathanminj2772]

So cool!

[@slartybarfastb3648]

I wondered if there would have been a period in time when the Pitts would have been the baddest fighter in the sky? Certainly WW1, I'd assume, but maybe even the early years of WW2?

[@420BulletSponge]

The first "flight sim" I bought and played was Flying Corps Gold around 1991 or so. WW1 dogfighting will always be my first love in sims.

[@richarddyson4380]

I believe it’s an Airco DH 1 or DH 2…. Both designed by Geoffrey De Havilland for the Airco company. The ‘Fokker scourge’, created by the use of a synchronised machine gun that fired through the propellor caught the Entente nations out. Their solution, was to put the engine behind the pilot and/or gunner so that the problem was eliminated. From my reading, they were acutely aware of the deficiencies of the design in terms of manoeuvrability and speed, but had no other solution available until they worked out the interrupter gearing. That may have been salvaged from a crashed Fokker eindekker. I’m really loving how you are mixing up the eras and giving us more than modern jets.

[@ToddDunning]

Close Richard, FE2 two seater....

[@richarddyson4380]

@ Thanks Todd. I wasn’t sure as there were a couple of designs out there. The two seat arrangement made me think it was a DH1, but you are spot on.

[@nymalous3428]

Apparently, good old Geoff was related to Olivia De Havilland, the famous actress (she was 104 when she died a few years ago). Also, he did design work on the Mosquito in 1938.

[@tonyennis1787]

6:30 The Bug is a DH.2. It is a pusher-prop design, and a 2-seater, with a pilot in the back and a gunner in the front. You can see the gunner _standing up_ to shoot the gun.

[@oborozukiyo73]

If it's a two-seater it's either an FE.2 or one of the Airco gunbuses. The DH.2 was a singe-seater & the last of the combat pushers...

[@madhukarjonathanminj2772]

It's a RAF Fe2, the Airco was a single seater

[@tonyennis1787]

So there ya have it. Looks like an FE.2

[@draigaur9543]

my first ww1 sim was knights of the sky from microprose on my amiga 500, flying with a mouse and keys. nice vid

[@Azframer]

I think that gunner called someone a dickhead...

[@danielorr6768]

@9:25 LOL! 🤣

[@Iwagamaru]

Lol😂

[@davecolwell725]

Is that the other player or just a random addition by GS?

[@Zuiderzee-Lives]

IL-2 really does a good job showing how much drag those biplanes really have. Like even in a completely vertical, full power dive straight into the ground they look like a snippet of lace in a light breeze.

[@rowbags3017]

Excellent! Just what I was hoping for! 😎

[@mare1222]

Choose your planes by the era, there is no sense to fight fokker eindecker with a sopwith camel. The planes evolved really rapidly.

[@REM1956]

Love the WWI and WWII content. Thanks for doing it.

[@Loliiten]

Keep the WW1/WW2 stuff coming! :) So much more interesting to watch than missiles.

[@stealthfinger]

They called them kites for a reason.

[@MiG-31893]

11:41 looks like an FE.2b which is ironically the plane that wounded the Red Barron. It's a light bomber and has a pilot and a gunner. Strange design though

[@drmoss_ca]

Correct. And the Belgian planes are Hanriot HD1.

[@davidhobson7652]

The resulting migraines and attitude change from that head injury caused by the Fe2 gunner was the lead up to Manfred Von Richtofen ignoring his own rules of engagement never to follow a opponent down to low level that sadly resulted in his death

[@AH-64E_apache]

WW1 content would be awesome to see more of, but i really want to see anything from the pacific

[@cameronalexander359]

11-day life expectancy? They told me it was called the "11-day club" because that's the number of days per month I'd be flying! 😮😢

[@AcButeo]

It IS the number of days you'll be flying.......

[@gh8447]

True, but they didn't tell you it'd only be one month...

[@Riccardo_Silva]

That dragonfly is an FE 2, and the Belgian one is a Hanriot HD 1....a lot of them produced and employed by Italian Air Force of the period.

[@jeffsherk7056]

The airplane you shot down that looked like a bug has a rear-mounted engine, which allows the pilot to fire a machine gun forward without having to worry about shooting off the propeller. I just saw some WW1 footage shot by an American officer in 1916, and a French air field was loaded with airplanes of this type. When I was a kid, I had books that identified all those WW1 fighters, but that information is not in my head any longer.

[@anjetanjet]

noone woried about shooting the propeler, it was synced with the machineguns

[@SimonBauer7]

yes, this was after the germans came up with that mechanism. beforehand this was a real problem​@@anjetanjet

[@baraka629]

​@@SimonBauer7the French came up with that first, the Germans captured a shot down synchro gear and perfected the mechanism.

[@madhukarjonathanminj2772]

It's either an Airco DH1 or RAF Fe2,looks more like the Fe2

[@KenVic02]

The first pilot shot down at 1:00 was definitely doing his best Sam Kinison impression.

[@PeterLindstrom-x4w]

To see one of these old wood fighters in a museum is amazing. The intricate wood and wire work is just phenomenal. Very intricate. So many hours had to be spent on each one of these things to make them both strong and light. They definitely weren't jerry-rigged in someone's basement.

[@mrwealthyhobo]

The Il2 destruction and physics is why we come here. Love your vids GS and I just bought a raptor sweatshirt

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

appreciate you, thank you for supporting the channel.

[@christhenademan13]

I was about to clean my cats litterbox. Well gotta watch GS first. Sorry, Garfield😂

[@charlesbrecknell4656]

The pusher aircraft is an FE-2b, my great uncle flew one in WW1 (but not in combat). The petrol tank is on the upper wing, on the underside in this animation, sometimes on the top, for gravity feeding into the engine. The front gunner could on some types fire backwards over the upper wing using an attached Lewis gun, by standing on the cockpit edge. The pusher design had its problems- if you let go of the Lewis gun magazine when reloading it could end up in the pilot's face, engine or worse- the propeller. Briefly superior to German types in 1916, it was still being flown in 1918 on bombing missions & as home defence night fighters.

[@SVSky]

Went out like Werner Voss, good fight.

[@vroommoorv1540]

Gotta say, I'm loving the WW2 and WW1 videos. I can't get enough of it.

[@benjidowning2609]

MORE WW1 CONTENT YESSSSSS

[@config2543]

14:25 RIP GS. You fought well.

[@Relic67]

You went out like Tony Soprano Great video

[@andersjjensen]

When I said you were the bane of all crew chiefs.... this is not the solution I had in mind :P

[@BriansRCStuff]

Enjoyed the hell out of this one! Great video!

[@jfiery]

Thanks for all the holiday content GS! Hope you and yours have been having a great holiday season.

[@coastiebrian2024]

Engines in the back were called "Pusher" type, where in the front they were called "Tractor." Most common pusher was the DH-2, and F.E.-2.

[@strike5029]

Thanks again GS for flying WW1 with tounge in cheek humor.

[@TonyTheKiwi62]

The designation "Ace" was awarded posthumously

[@flippyjunior1267]

I do believe that sims come pretty close to real life, so watching your gameplay makes you get a feeling on what it must've been like

[@danielbaechtel2870]

First time I’ve been free right when a video drops in a long time! GS, man I love your videos and the effort you put into the content, the explanations, just everything!! Video idea: some kind of combined arms (Apache, A-10, f-16/15 ) attack or defense in china. Kinda simulating what a potential conflict might look like.

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

Appreciate it, always nice when people notice the effort.

[@ph2738]

It’s amazing that these aircraft were developed just 10-15 years after the Wright Flier. That’s like IT rate of development and obsolescence.

[@Will-yz7oi]

I think they recruited pilots in those days from cavalry units; the idea was that if you could ride a horse, then you could handle an airplane. Of course, this idea was based on the concept that if you were in the cavalry, you were 'dashing & fearless', and would learn how to fly and fight sooner rather than later. There was very little 'flight training', but that didn't matter that much because there was not enough fuel available to fly a lot of training hops even if they knew how to train pilots. If you somehow survived 'training', then you graduated to 'combat', where you got killed pretty quickly. In order to entice cavalry soldiers to become 'pilots', they offered to make them officers - with an impressive pay increase, status, and prestige of course! But high command knew that very few pilots survived very long, and so they'd only have to shell out that officer's pay for a week or two - unless that pilot was lucky, good, or both. ;)

[@murph3194]

Very fun. Loved the outro trumpets. Well done sir.

[@איילדניש]

When sabaton "the red barron" kicks in

[@antonioiozzi9171]

The siemens fighter is from aprile 1918 onward and suffered from serious engine problems, the Sopwith triplane is from 1917 and retired in fall 1917. Such a fight is impossibile.

[@jimlthor]

I thought Flying Circus and WWI dogfighting would be boring.. Turns out that its the best VR experieince Ive had. Crazy stuff.

[@Not_Enufftime]

The WW1 stuff is so personal, I love it. Have you ever seen "The Great Waldo Pepper"?

[@solarflare623]

Weird thing about the Siemens Schuckert D4 (other than that it was built by Siemens which is something you never see in aviation ever) it’s got a super weird rotary engine that has the propeller and cylinders spinning in the opposite direction of the engine block. This was supposed to help with the gyroscopic effects rotaries are infamous for.

[@PsychoEagle1101]

RIP Sidewinder. He died as he lived. IN A BLAZE OF GLORY!

[@Ex1vety]

4:53 yo just me or y’all hear ”blyaaat” when they collide 😭

[@rampantcoyote3136]

Your end title says Flying Circus Volume 1, but I saw aircraft from 3 or 4 in there... But I love the WWI content! Flying Circus + VR = awesome fun.

[@fazole]

From reading about this era, the Germans early on pioneered a technique of flying a near parallel course to an enemy and using rudder to yaw the nose in order to rake an opponent with machinegun fire. I have never seen this shown in any movie.

[@captainicelander3898]

Whats up buddy? Long time brother.... Love them ol'lewis's and brownings kick sum ass! Keep rock n roll bud! Happy hollies

[@Trig0r]

Hahah what was the audio clip when you shot that twin engine thing @10 minutes in....

[@Dino-cj1ko]

Good meaty content dude. Thank you. Milwaukee

[@jg3000]

You should do a tour of cat planes. F4F Wildcat. F6F Hellcat. F7F Tigercat. F8F Bearcat. F9 Cougar. F9F Panther. F11F Tiger. F-14 Tomcat.

[@Rose_Butterfly98]

Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2b Engine at the back was like armor for the crew, plus fire would be blown back and not forward. Had a gun facing back on top and 1 or 2 forward aimed by a gunner. Or observer whatever you wanna call them.

[@markr.1984]

Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2 is the name of that aircraft. Looks like a flying bathtub. Similar to an Airco DH.2 but had a gunner in front of the pilot. Was not a pure fighter since it had a gunner.

[@barbarossa1234]

This is my favorite era of aerial combat.

[@jamesp3022]

Very entertaining, great show

[@craigmurrayauthor]

the Airco FE2 was a pusher, prop in the back, pilot and gunner up front.

[@thescotsman9825]

Loved that era when there were so many manufacturers every plane seemed unique, but yeah short lifespan for most.

[@Ionee-q4f]

i can't believe they were considered viable with pilots dying every 11 days on average thats brutal

[@GrowlingSidewinder]

remember that's an average, some died far faster than 11 days...

[@GillesNoyau-p8c]

9.43 : What were you expecting ? Flowers ?

[@brittenmusic6923]

Waiting for the missile to come off the rack and the call of ‘Fox 3’ 😂

[@MrCamoguy101]

I love these WWI videos!

[@natalieauroraphoto]

I love the little sfx you add

[@user-xq4kz5zb6q]

Great video. More propeller conten please. At least until something new is released in the modern era for DCS. Maybe some F4 Corsair?

[@mkaz3997]

That aint no walk in the park! Great to see! Any SE5 stuff available or Nieuport?

[@evansargent9301]

The men who flew there glorified kites w engines and machine guns were absolutely a different breed. Just chaos in the skies.

[@mike74em]

Well, 11 days sounds better than Lord Flashheart’s 20 Minuters Squadron…

[@Redemptorchapter]

That's because the squadron commander is a pompous git.

[@pauldolby4197]

thxs for ww1 stuff growling

[@uscgkid109]

WWI dogfights are GOATED keep them up!

[@jameswilliams1085]

Great video!!!

[@henjokongo]

I know this remains an odd request, but could you do a match between a WW1 plane and maybe something like the Russian Donkey?

[@EricLarsWermerssen]

From Time Pilot to this...we've come a long way... 🤔👌

[@m.searay4629]

Neat Lozenge camouflage. Wishing you a Happy 2025!

[@brealistic3542]

7:41 That's a French Neuport. I don't know the version thou. Very maneuverable but fimsey.

[@PepperDog76]

Some of my favorites are these wood and cloth videos!

[@retluoc]

It doesn't surprise me (11 days). It had only been a decade since powered flight was developed, and already, we were strapping weapons to them. 😄 I'll have to look up how long Richtoven (Red Baron) lived after becoming a pilot. His death is still an unsolved mystery. The pilot claimed he got him, and so did ground fire. I thought, "It's easy. Just check the caliber of the bullet." They both used the same caliber. 😆

[@BullRoarer_]

“Ze great Biggles, I would rather finish you myself, in ze air! ze firing squad will not be nearly as enjoyable” Biggles sips his schnapps and smiles “but far less likely to botch the job”

[@wazza33racer]

Up,Down flying around, loop de loop and defying the ground (most of the time).

[@themigmadmarine]

Would love to see you duel another player in these, see how the skills translate against a good pilot. Also if you didn't see the Dev update today, but they will be putting in a Zeppelin finally.

[@vladlenvronsky]

It's like flying a Cessna 172 with MGs strapped in front lol

[@alfredjr2k556]

Happy New Year

[@DirkGently1972]

The 20-minuters were living up to their monica - Whoof! 😂

[@SonesBen]

"I'm in a low energy state..." And then it got even lower.

[@jamesdacy7332]

8:18 when a tree falls in the middle of a forest and the only person around to hear it is dead, does it really make a sound?

[@busterdee8228]

[drilled] in action. Taps? Nice touch.

[@Homosapien-218]

These WW1 fights are amazing 👏

[@mathieugariepy2948]

The average life expectancy for these pilots was counted in weeks. That blows my mind.

[@ozludo]

The pushers were 2 different aircraft: De Havilland DH2 and a Royal Aircraft Factory FE2b

[@UpTowneFunk]

Any chance we could get some F35 content soon?

[@old_guard2431]

Airco, I think. (Popsicle stick thing.). Pretty much like a Hurricane trying to dance with Doras and Kurfursts late in WW2.

[@JimmyJohnston-o2y]

Wicked and thank you