Hitler’s Seven Jet Aircraft

[@bkjeong4302]

For all its flaws, the Me-262 was at least a decent interceptor with a reasonable combat record; it was never going to win the war for Germany, but by the time it entered service NOTHING was going to win the war for Germany. The Komet though…..a perfect example of how not to build an interceptor.

[@johncox2865]

I think you’re wrong about the ME 262. If it had been prioritized earlier, before material shortages became so bad, it might have changed history. Also, Hitler wasted far too much time, money, material, etc on the V weapons, which were never useful for anything but terror. If all all that had been put into real weapons of war…?

[@Politefox17]

​@@johncox2865 or maybe hitler just shouldn't of invaded the U.S.S.R or declared war on the U.S.A

[@felixgaede6754]

@@Politefox17 War with the Soviet Union was inevitable as the two were just in each others way. The USSR also already had invasion plans and everything, it was just a question of who would strike first. And the US by that time, just like during WW1, was also already completely pissed by the submarine warfare and the blockade around Britain. Plus with Japan having attacked pearl harbour and Germany being its ally, it was again just a question of time and who would declare war first.

[@Politefox17]

@@felixgaede6754 ok fair enough and I didn't know that, thanks for telling me

[@felixgaede6754]

@@Politefox17 Oh wow, i didn‘t expect that. Most times, and i am of course not completely innocent of that either, people will primarily get mad when corrected. But that was a pretty mature way of dealing with it. I will see to be more like that too. You are getting a thumbs up mate

[@E.hexzor]

Small correction @ ~ 8:57 Mk108 isn't mark 108 rather it stands for maschinenkanonen the German word for autocannon Correction: as highlighted by @CommunistPartyOfArstotzka the correct syntax is 'Maschinenkanone' not 'maschinenkanonen' as I initially wrote

[@RedWrenchFilms]

My British upbringing getting the best of me! Thanks.

[@VitaeLibra]

@@RedWrenchFilms If you haven't pinned anything else you might as well pin this

[@gardener68]

I made the same mistake for years.

[@ominösersüddeutscher]

It stands for "Maschinenkanone"! "maschinenkanonen" is plural and also wrong (first letter should be capital)

[@E.hexzor]

@@ominösersüddeutscher ah, oops I haven't learned/spoken german for a while, so had forgoten the syntax, thanks for the correction

[@Nursilmaz]

Would you consider making something about first helicopters? I have seen that they first started making them towards the end of II WW but I know nothing about their usage and the reason behind their production.

[@robertharper3754]

The Germans were the first for having an operational helicopter, the Dragon, and it was really sweet. Though, we kept bombing the snot out of the factories making them so there were only a small handful of them, they were impressive, sadly none survive to this day. 😢 The US also used helicopters in WW2, I know they were used for rescue in Burma of downed fighter pilots, and seeing the little beatbox of a thing it took giant balls to do so! So yeah, here's a second vote for WW2 helicopters!!!

[@forestgaming3993]

3rd vote from me. I haven't seen any channels covering helicopters sadly. Would love to learn more about them and their development.

[@iatsd]

Add gyrocopters to the mix for the win

[@imdeadinside792]

Yes!

[@KamikazeBoskiWiatr]

hello K brother

[@michaelbatson1879]

Another problem with the ME 262 is the original prototypes were tail draggers. The pilots had problems taking off because they couldn't get the tail to raise. A stopgap solution was on take off the pilots would tap bakes, and the nose would lunge forward enough to have air to be able to lift the tail. Redesigning a nose wheel landing gear to solve this problem was also another reason why production was delayed.

[@V100-e5q]

Rumor has it that the Me262 was designed with a trycycle landing gear in the first place (for good reason: technical). But then came ideology in and demanded to abandon the "American gear" for the conventional tail dragger design. When ignorants have a say ...

[@TheTravelingTank]

Wow, that footage of seeing some of the earliest jets in existence being shot down by propellor aircraft is just so crazy to me. What an awesome overlap between past and future.

[@chaosXP3RT]

Turns out "Superior German technology" wasn't all that superior...

[@ussindianapolis487]

the truth is that a lot of allied prop aircraft were capable of easily destroying german jets. for example P-47M at high altitudes was able to achieve around 800 kph in a straight line and over 1000 kph in a dive. spitfires with griffin engine were also very fast at high altitudes, the same goes for late P-51s. at low alt tempest was faster than any prop plane at the time and slightly slower than 262. all of those props were also more agile than schwalbe and had more effective weaponry since mk108s had terrible muzzle velocity.

[@lincolntravelconcierge4846]

The Me262s were particularly vulnerable during take-off and landing.

[@thethirdman225]

@@ussindianapolis487 The P-47M wasn’t used in the European war. The MK 108 was very effective against bombers. Look for a channel called _’WWII US Bombers’._ There is an episode specifically on the MK 108.

[@ussindianapolis487]

@@thethirdman225 mk108 was effective against bombers but useless against fighter aircraft

[@PitFriend1]

An odd design feature of the Junkers 004 engine was how it started. They had a built in 10 horsepower two stroke gasoline engine to start the jets. The little holes in the nosecones of the engines had a pull ring for the ground crews to pull start the things just like a lawn mower.

[@c0ldyloxproductions324]

Similar to some modern jets with a gas motor to start the jets

[@SomeOrdinaryJanitor]

That’s actually really neat. Didn’t know that

[@emilyhimmelreich5544]

Dieser Motor war ein 2 Zylinder 2-Takt Boxer Motor der von der Firma Riedel geliefert wurde.

[@PiggyBankBurglar]

Aircraft yes! Great video - Can i request a video on the Bell UH-1 Huey? I love that lil guy.

[@roye2479]

Nice vid! My instructor in AME school @ YVR was a youth pilot for Heinkel in 1945, his war stories were amazing

[@louisavondart9178]

Great video. Thank you SOOOOO much for not describing the Horten as a Stealth Bomber. Big thumbs up !

[@Demonslayer20111]

Wasn't designed as such, but was later proven by the air force to be rather hard to see with radar, but that was for the same reason that the de Havilland mosquito was. Wood construction.

[@MrChainsawAardvark]

When a blacksmith is working blade steel - a coal forge is around 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, the material being worked about 800 degrees, and at that point the metal has the constancy of stiff clay. A jet engine runs around 3,000 degrees, and the force of spinning at hundreds of RPM in hurricane force winds than a smith's strikes. You need some special materials. Modern alloys like Inconel (developed in the 60s) or titanium based blades (1970s tech) were not available, and Germanys supply of vanadium and molybdenum were quite limited - leading to inferior materials being used resulting in a very short working life. It takes twenty to forty hours to type certify a pilot, and if engines only last ten hours each - you are burning out expensive components very quickly. On a related note - there was also a lack of Tungsten in central Europe at the time. Its main uses was either armor piecing shells, or for industrial cutting tools needed for producing armor. So the Germans had to choose between making more tanks or making shells for them. Part of why depleted uranium in used in modern APFDS munitions is because that saves the Tungsten for industrial processes (DU is too brittle for cutting tools)

[@michaelpielorz9283]

No, you need a interior cooling because no alloy would stand those temperatures for hours. German sheet metal axial turbine blades could do it and ALL axial Turbines were using that very system until today!!

[@MrChainsawAardvark]

@@michaelpielorz9283 Cooling systems help and are certainly used in jets early and modern. These are a big part of why the parts did not melt instantly. However for long term usage the mechanical creep involved with lesser materials is still a factor. Modern engine cores can run hundreds or even thousands of hours between replacement.

[@robertkalinic335]

Idk if it was mentioned in the video cause i am in the middle of it but the one thing that always gets missed in discussion about 262 is that the jet engines with all their flaws still needed way less manhours and less qualified labor than pistons.

[@MrChainsawAardvark]

@@robertkalinic335 That is the first time I've heard that claim. I know the airframe of the 262 was well suited for simple production. The Luftwaffe had all sorts of field and factory kits for their craft (so you could have a FW-190A8/U5/R2 for example) so adding bombing equipment wouldn't be a big deal like often claimed. Where did this information about engine production come from?

[@williamzk9083]

The material used in the Me 262 was called tinidur it was about 30% nickel, 18% chromium and 6% titanium balance iron. The German Metallurgists knew that more Nickel could increase creep resistance but but a aversion of Tinidur with 60% Nickel was not preceded with. due to perceived shortages of Nickel. The Tinidur was only used for the turbine blades and the turbine inlet guide vanes. It was proably a mistake not to make a 60% tinidur. A lot of trouble came from the combustion chamber and the exhaust nozzle spike which were plain steel. The combustion chamber would burn out especially dyeing throttle movement. The exhaust spike would expand under heat, dislodge and block the engine. -The German turbines were cheap to make and punched out over 10 stamping cold draw operations. -The British allow was nimonic 80 which was 80% nickel, 19.8% chromium and 0.2% zirconium. It was extremely good. The British cast their blades and then machined in fir tree roots. The Germans had a primitive eyelet type attachment. Nimonic 80 came out of nimonic 75 which was used in piston engine exhaust seats and valve guides and valves. -The British engines had lots of problems as well and much of the reliability was achieved by restricting the thrust of the early derwents and wellands though they became deresistricted quickly in early 1945.

[@kcnmsepognln]

Fascinating! I had no idea their development program had begun so early, or was so diverse.

[@todd3285]

My dad was a Bombardier/ Navigator with the 9th Air Force 391st Bombardment Group flying out of Matching Green England in 1944 . He sat in the plexiglass nose of a B-26 with one 50cal . When they encountered the Me 262 he said they would go by so quickly you never had a chance to sight on them . He said that if you had any chance to shoot he'd just pull the trigger hoping the jet would fly thru the bullet stream.

[@Flt.Hawkeye]

I never had anything to do with war. Not military service Not any other thing. But when you look at the AA Fire of the big Warships in the Pacific Theater, it always looks like the guncrews simply shoot into the direction of the Airplanes and hoping them to fly through the bulletstream.

[@Skorpyy406]

Awesome Video as always, also great idea to talk about aircraft aswell. Love it!

[@gandsproductions5105]

At the start of the war, nations like the ussr were still using biplanes, but by the end, planes like the bell x-1 and me p.1101 were starting to come about. Crazy stuff Edit: I am very well aware that the ussr wasn't the only one using biplanes, and I am also aware that biplanes were used throughout the war by basically every player in it.

[@ThePussukka]

Why are you specifically calling our the USSR? Their main fighter going into the war was the monoplane I-16. Why not say nations like the UK were still using biplanes for example?

[@gandsproductions5105]

@Puse just an example, sir. There where many that used byplanes. Even Germany had a couple at the start

[@ThePussukka]

@@gandsproductions5105 Exactly, most countries, the US is probably the one country that didn't use biplanes anymore. Your original statement should've probably said that Germany used biplanes at the start, but by the end they were mass producing things like the Me 262.

[@gandsproductions5105]

@@ThePussukka ok, so why complain about me picking out one example?

[@zXPeterz14]

@@ThePussukka i16 was exactly much more advanced than a biplane anyway so the comparison still works

[@Kevin_Kennelly]

There is an Arado Ar234 on display at the Smithsonian Air & Space Annex. ANNEX is at Dulles Airport. It looks like it just rolled off the assembly line.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The NASM are slow, thorough and admirably able people, and I look forward to the day they work on a plane I'd love to see complete; the Ki-115 suicide plane. They have one in storage, but it's very low priority today.

[@piggyharris7988]

There is also one at the Udvar Hazy center in DC if I’m remembering correctly

[@Kevin_Kennelly]

@@piggyharris7988 That is the place I am talking about. The Smithsonian.

[@loremipsum7873]

It was surprising to me how small it was in comparison to the Do 335.

[@gregorydahl]

They named a plane " museum " after dulles ?

[@robertfitzpatrick4208]

Fascinating. I knew so little of this. As a boy who lived through the war we had very limited knowledge of the aircraft involved.

[@stevedittrich4411]

One of the most amazing design changes to me was the conversion of the early Me262 V3 with a tailwheel, into an aircraft with a nosewheel, without needing to redesign the entire aircraft. The engines on the earliest aircraft angled downward, and they burned up the surface of the runways with their exhaust. Pilots learned to kick the brakes to bring down the nose on the take-off run and once the aircraft was horizontal, it took off easily. But like so many "wonder weapons", they all came too late to change the course of the war, thanks to Hitler.

[@SiPakRubah]

If the government and himself accept every type of way to modernize their armies early in war, or even before the war, or not prosecuted any scientists or treating them badly that forcing them to help their enemies, things could change Not sure if it's a lot or not, but change will still come

[@LoveBbyJay]

Great video! I'll be keeping an eye out for what's to come!

[@levischittlord6558]

Wait, so swept wings for better performance was found out by accident because they just wanted to shift the CG of the airframe with the engines weight?

[@iatsd]

A small side note on the Me262 being produced & used by a couple of countries post-war would not have gone astray. Could have even gone over some of the post-war non-shooting encounters/dogfights between the Czech 262's and RAF Meteors and Vampires.

[@maxo.9928]

Another fantastic video! Loving your work my dood!

[@dougreid2351]

Facinating coverage of obscure designs. Really well researched & polished delivery. Subscribed today. DOUG out

[@George_M_]

Poor Heinkel, it doesnt pay to be the first adopter.

[@stevetheduck1425]

If they got paid for the results of their research, it might well do. But Nazis, despite being corporacrats, tended to simply take the data, the way Junkers' company was taken from him, and how the Arado company became an organ of the state, with no head.

[@williamzk9083]

Interestingly Heinkels engines were centrifugal compressors and even radial inflow turbines. They evolved into hybrid systems with mixed axial and centrifugal compressors. The designer of the Jumo 002 came to Heinkel and produced the HeS 008 which had the highest thrust to weight ratio and lowest frontal area of any jet engine in the world until 1948.

[@Cole-qx1pe]

The two people that actually invented the jet engines (one British, the other German) were barely compensated for there inventions. There governments took there patents and gave it to other companies to do research on. Which is understandle during world War but it's too bad some hijacking your life's work and something that advanced aviation so much and having very little recognition for it.

[@lightbox617]

This is the first time I have seen an Arado with a person in the picture to give it scale. I am startled by how small it was. The Horton design was absolutely prescient

[@thethirdman225]

If you want to get an indication of the scale of the final prototype, remember that the nose wheel is a tail wheel from a Ju-88.

[@AtheistOrphan]

That’s Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown on top of the cockpit.

[@cookiqman]

now, the He 162 might not be the most functional jet in history, but goddamn is it one of the most beautiful.

[@fritzlehner9060]

Sadly Messeschmit and Heinkel were competitors. Aerodynamic achievments by Messerschmit were not transfered to Heinkel. At high speed the He162 was certainly dangerous !

[@jabonorte]

Good summary! The Luft '46 groups have lots of fascinating designs to debate, but the fact that there are do many of them highlights one of the issues with the Naxi system - poor control of effort, at a time when resources were shrinking rapidly.

[@williamzk9083]

At the time German aviation had discovered new technologies these being 1 Swept wings, 2 An early form of the Area rule and 3 jet engines. They naturally were trying to come up with ways of using and configuring the technology. They face problems of the poor thrust of the early engines and the need to keep intake and exhaust ducts short and this often produced fling wings or podded engines. It wasn't really 'poor control of effort' the research had to be done. Some of the Luft46 designs were pure drawings (not napkin designs, they've been through a drawing office and engineering analysis) but many got to the point of wind tunnel models or even wooden mock-ups. -In order to get rid of nose intakes a way of getting rid of turbulent boundary layer was needed. Rather than a boundary layer splitter Messerschmitt came up with a compressor drive boundary layer system on P.1112 drive by an auxiliary of the main jet engine. It worked very well as was proven by a 50% scale wind tunnel mock up. -Swept wings suffer from something called span wise flow and sabre dance. The Germans came up with new types of slat, leading edge flap, geometric wing twist and forward sweep to handle this. This was the knowledge passed on to the USA after the war, about 2 years worth or research.

[@gregorydahl]

Nazi needs 90% to finance the10% attacking the 90% and blaming others to extort . There is never 100 % support of cheaters.

[@caribman10]

Yeah, one of the problems with Luft '46 in general is that they ignore the way German war materiel manufacturers lived. They make it seem like all were hard-working, loyal Nazis. Instead, they had mansions, estates, vacation homes, limousines, sports cars, custom jewelry, you name it. Also, they stole: the Horten brothers admitted that they diverted war project money into building sport gliders. Look it up.

[@johnsonwu3001]

@@williamzk9083 I am pretty sure all the German experiments later heavily influenced jet designs everywhere else

[@Skip.8221]

Could you make a video on the design history of the Centurion tanks? Also it’s neat to see an aviation video

[@ps1_hagrid_gaming517]

I was looking for a video like this, thanks❤️

[@robinsonsstudios]

Good video! You did miss 3 however that should be noteworthy: The HS132 dive bomber which was nearing flight testing The Ju 287 which did fly And the messerschmitt p1101 which was also nearly complete Also the MK in MK108 means maschinenkanone not mark

[@RedWrenchFilms]

Like I mention at the end there were many designs that I unfortunately didn’t have time to get into - there’s even an image of the P.1101 at 17:50.

[@patrickgriffitt6551]

Compare p1101 to Bell X-5.

[@amanhasnoname3462]

@@patrickgriffitt6551 Like comparing mother and daughter. The Bell design was ”inspired” by the p1101. Bell altered the wing sweep design to give the plane the ability to change the wing sweep during flight.

[@paulforder591]

A first class mini-documentary. Thanks for sharing your research on WW2 German jets.

[@raz562]

The Messerschmitt knew months in advance that the 262 had to be able to carry bombs. Also it doesn’t make sense why they wouldn’t be able to design hard points and pylons for bombs for the 262 airframe, it’s not like it’s hard to do or something that Messerschmitt hasn’t done before..

[@raz562]

Iirc the reason for the Arado 234 was originally designed without landing gear was do to higher fuel capacity, as it was the kriegsmarine that requested a long range, long endurance land based reconnaissance aircraft. I’ve also heard that the slave labors pissed in the glue that was used to make the He 162, but I’m not sure how true that statement is

[@chriskortan1530]

Its not that it couldn't be done, but it's counter to the intended concept of the aircraft. It was supposed to be a high speed interceptor. Putting external bombs that add tremendous drag is self defeating. Additionally adding hard points for that purpose again adds drag and requires reinforcement that was not originally there. That means weight, again diminishing performance. While it didn't kill the airplane, it was yet one more thing slowing the development.

[@flyzart8148]

@@chriskortan1530 The hard points can simply be removed and added back on with a couple bolts being removed or placed, I don't see what your point is.

[@chriskortan1530]

@@flyzart8148 then you don't understand aircraft construction. You also entirely missed the point of the aircraft and technology of the day.

[@flyzart8148]

@@chriskortan1530 the hard point of the me-262 were on the belly. In other words, all that needed to be done is making the hard points themselves. If it was on the wings then it might have been more problematic, but this wasn't the case. The 262 main body was capable to fit the new hard points with little adjustments to the design.

[@MichaelMcKinnon-jf1yy]

The Messerschmitt Me 262's first flight was actually with a propeller. The Go 229 was referred to as the Go 229 because although the aircraft was based on the Horten Ho IX glider from the 1930s, Walter and Reimar Horten were not involved in developing the Ho IX glider into a powered aircraft (that was the engineers at Gothaer Wagenfabrik

[@Loneman_OG]

What was it they used to say about the Doodle-bug? Something like: "as long as you can hear it then there is no need to worry; as soon as you _stop_ hearing it, panic!" 😬

[@folgore1]

Excellent historical vid! I appreciate the emphasis on just how impractical the jet engines the Germans had available were. Fortunately for the world, they lacked the natural resources necessary to build reliable, heavy duty engines.

[@Flt.Hawkeye]

In the time These Planes hit the Theaters nothing would win the war for Germany. Not a heavy duty engine not a super crazy Wonderweapon.

[@sottourr]

Red wrench plane video ?! Now thats something i didnt know i needed!

[@redsnowleopard]

My favorite (in development) one was the P.1101 Production being Me-262 and Arado 234 But my favorite “paper” design has definitely got to be the Arado Project II

[@AtheistOrphan]

Titbit: It was an AR-234 (recon version) that conducted the last Luftwaffe mission over the U.K.

[@tristenbondurant9635]

What a great video and amazing attention to detail 👍👍

[@binlorry8870]

I love your vids man

[@thethirdman225]

5:11 that’s a pretty rough landing. Throttle response on that thing must have been terrible.

[@texasfathead]

In 1945 some of the me-262 pilots said they went super Sonic in a dive with the 262 but at the time there was no way to prove that the 262 had the flying tail so it really could go super Sonic it took the Americans five years to figure that out they did it on the X1 and it went super Sonic but 1944 the 262 set a absolute speed record of 606 mph😮😮

[@janvanhaaster2093]

The Me 163 already had flown faster by that time: 624 mph (and 3 years earlier: 2.10.41)

[@texasfathead]

@@janvanhaaster2093 thank you I knew that I read that somewhere some years back

[@texasfathead]

@@janvanhaaster2093 In 1944 the 163 set an absolute air speed record of 707 miles an hour most pilots said it would go much faster

[@tempestfury8324]

Well there's a HUGE difference between a plane in a dive compared to level flight. You can't measure "top speed" by a plane in a dive. There are several examples of Spitfires, Thunderbolts, and Corsairs approaching and exceeding 600 mph. That's still over 100 mph less than the speed of sound. So the fact that the X-1 broke the sound barrier is comparing apples to oranges with WWII aircraft.

[@randomexcessmemories4452]

Excellent video! One _tiny_ thing is all. MK, in the names of guns like the MK 101, 103, and 108, stands for Maschinenkanone (machine cannon), not Mark. Other than that the video was fantastic!

[@kleedhamhobby]

I notice that although a couple of the clips included show detachable rocket boosters in use to aid the Arado at take-off (11:32, 11:52), you don't actually mention this usage at all.

[@a_catfish5180]

2:12 it’s giving the vibe of those “Cessna but stealth/jet” memes you’ll see every now and then

[@zXPeterz14]

Even assuming the pilot bailed out if the f103 at the last minute i cant imagine him lasting long when the people who survived his bomb find him 😅

[@keithomelvena2354]

Some great unique footage there. Really interesting. Thank you.

[@BrianWMay]

Your speed of narration was/is excellent. Thank you.

[@RedWrenchFilms]

Ah thank you Brian! As someone from N.Ireland I have to work very hard on slowing my narration down haha

[@BrianWMay]

@@RedWrenchFilms I used to lecture in certain aviation subjects for various outfits and I KNOW what sounds good and you do. There is an American guy with the handle 'Dark Skies' (IIRC) that speaks at least twice too fast. So loads of good information is wasted because he gabbles. You don't and it's a delight to 'sit up and pay attention'. Keep it up.

[@RedWrenchFilms]

@@BrianWMay You’re too kind! What kind of subjects did you lecture on if you don’t mind me asking?

[@dudleysmith5111]

The prototype Horton IX had 4 flights before having an engine out crash landing. Check William Green’s book on aircraft of the Luftwaffe

[@gregorydahl]

At 4:29 the animation shows rod valves that operate off of a camshaft and pushrods hooked to a crankshaft , but the argus pulsejet really used reed valves of thin blue spring steel .

[@MrToryhere]

The Gloster Meteor was the first operational jet fighter and made the first kill by a jet plane. It was also a far better plane than the ME 262.

[@RedWrenchFilms]

Depends what you define as “Operational”. The 262 was flying missions before the Meteor, but as part of a test unit. Kills were made by the 262 before Meteor entered service. And the 262 was probably the better aircraft, when it was flying at least. Significantly faster and a far better interceptor, albeit a worse dogfighter and horrible to maintain.

[@jean-mariejm7404]

Excellent footage. One typo at 3:10 "double vertical stabilisers "

[@spyczech]

I know its not what you meant, but by saying the allies DIDNT need slave wonder weapons to win the war, you are kind of implying germany DID need it, or that for them the slave labour was justified by circumstance or even that it helped them achieve war aims 18:40 the slave economy was bad even for germany the real question is if they had not dedicated resources to the slave economy and the haulocast, that is actually more significant improvement of their war odds than any number of jets

[@NithinJune]

yea it seems like a very unintentional implication

[@AdmiralJT]

The last people I'd want building top level wonder weapons needed in a desperate war are the people who would benefit most from those weapons failing...

[@OmnoWombo]

I wonder what it must've been like for the Allied troops who discovered these prototypes. Like, you find this weird looking machine that doesn't even have a propeller, unlike anything else that flies at the time. And the Ho 229 looks like a boomerang.

[@j0eblden342]

I love your videos! could you cover the t series of russian tanks at some point? I'd love to see you cover the evolution of the russian t series tanks.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The piloted V-1 was found at an establishment in the area of Reichenberg, Germany, and was then only an incomplete cockpit section. A number were then built from V-1 parts for display, all without warheads or indeed anything in the nose in one case, as can be seen in the vid. They are still displayed and discussed as if they were a future project, but the piloted V-1s work had been done and they had been broken up for parts, and were to be scrapped. The suicide units mentioned were part of a project to build ramming aircraft to attack bombers en masse (usually Fw-190s), which was constantly lacking in both aircraft and pilots, not to mention fuel, as the idea was anathema to many Luftwaffe officers and engineers.

[@caribman10]

I think Hanna Reitsch flew the piloted V-1 and lived to tell about it.

[@kiwitrainguy]

The pulse-jet aircraft shown at 4:20, I wonder if the two pulse jets on each side were set up to operate out of phase with each other so that it would not affect the yaw control of the aircraft?

[@danmcdonald9117]

Great video, excellent narration 👍

[@DataWaveTaGo]

Here is the impression of the He 162 flown by Captain Eric Brown from "Wings of the Luftwaffe" ...the aircraft had excellent directional snaking characteristics making it a good gun platform. From this aspect it was the best jet fighter of it's time, and I was certainly in a position to judge, having flown every jet aircraft then in existence. A check on the rate of roll at 400 mph revealed the highest that I had ever experienced outside of the realm of hydraulically-powered ailerons, and the stick force demanded to produce these exhilarating gyrations was delightfully light. Leveling off at 12,000 feet I settled down to another spell of the pleasures of the phenomenal roll rate of this delightful little aeroplane ... I had never met better flying controls ... Even if somewhat underpowered it had a good performance - it could certainly have run rings around the contemporary Meteor. I was to fly the little aeroplane quite frequently. page 138 "Wings of the Luftwaffe" Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown (C) 1977, Revised 2010, reprinted 2011, 2013 ISBN 9 781902 109952

[@thethirdman225]

Tell it like it was: the 162 was actually very tricky to fly, even though it was supposed to be flown by inexperienced pilots. Brown was very clear that it was completely unsuitable in that role. He was an exceptional and exceptionally experienced test pilot. He makes it very clear that it would only have been suitable for those with a lot of seat time.

[@DataWaveTaGo]

@@thethirdman225 For some reason I expect people to understand Eric was a very gifted pilot and it would be his talents that informed his reviews. Anyway, thank you for bringing those facts to the attention of all. BTW, Eric's comment "I was to fly the little aeroplane quite frequently." stunned even myself, knowing Eric had a vast number of aircraft to choose from!!!

[@thethirdman225]

@@DataWaveTaGo It was certainly one of the more memorable aircraft he flew. What a time and place to be a test pilot.

[@flyzart8148]

Is there anywhere where we can see the sources used?

[@paullacey2999]

Fascinating video,really done well👍

[@RedWrenchFilms]

Thanks so much Paul!

[@interpl6089]

Great Video. I have a Suggestion, Can you Cover all the Different Brittish WW2 Jet Designs? There Were Plenty of them and Also Very Interesting.

[@dylanhart4186]

That would be cool. I know the meteor was put on a few ground attack missions and played a more defensive role to stop them getting into the hands of the Germans but im too lazy to enough research to see what else they did

[@galaxy_jb1032]

Bro i love the design of the flying wing

[@ilmarilah1195]

Then you’ll love the stealth bombers

[@dudududu1926]

14:52 I can assure you dear pilots. These 4 bolts are made of pure German-ingenuity steel.

[@RedWrenchFilms]

Pilots please ignore these large drums of plywood glue, they’ve nothing to do with the aircraft you’ll be flying into combat

[@chriskortan1530]

​@@RedWrenchFilmsthe DeHavilland Mosquito disagrees 😊

[@robertoroberto9798]

@@RedWrenchFilms and that smell of urine in those buckets? Nothing to worry about.

[@AtheistOrphan]

A couple of Heinkel HE-162s on display in the U.K. Fascinating little aircraft.

[@goldfish587]

I don’t know if you take requests but can you do a vid on the m51 super sherman ?

[@Skorpyy406]

You could suggest it on his discord server

[@Astrofrank]

Good video, absolutely deserves the "like".

[@alfabethev2.074]

VERY comprehensive! Tnx. alot👍🏻

[@salamander163]

Great video, thanks, just a little corrrection: the flying wing was Ho IX . the sole example was the Ho IX V3,and rename Go 229 when the RLM transferred the project to the Gothaer Waggonfabrik

[@danweyant4909]

Good content, thank you. Well done. And no mention of a certain rocket plane. Indeed

[@AverageSpaniard0505]

yay a video about planes finally

[@RGCaziMaster10]

2:01 correction he said that it was the first jet aircraft but the first one was made back in 1910 in romania by henri coanda

[@Kalashnikov413]

it never flew though

[@RGCaziMaster10]

@@Kalashnikov413 yea

[@MrPPCLI]

As a thought experiment, it would be interesting to consider how well the Me262 would've done in Korea- assuming that the engines were made reliable. I don't think that they'd of been up to the F-86 or MiG-15 standard, but I think that they'd of done better than the Meteors or P-80's- or any of the piston engine fighters...

[@ussindianapolis487]

262 wouldnt stand a chance against mig15 or f86 and would be at severe disadvantage against f84 or f80.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Well, Sea Furys shot down MiG-15s on more than one occasion, and the F-84 Thunderjet could be shot down by Yakovlev or Lavockhkin La-11 fighters, and were, in Korea, so it was a transitional era.

[@juslitor]

​@@ussindianapolis487 Would have been a travesty if the russkies and yanks hadnt been able to improve on their designs, considering all the confiscated german research and "liberated" german engineers. von Braun to name one.

[@williamzk9083]

The Korean war was 5 years after WW2 and the Me 262 was faster than the P-80A and out climbed the YP-80 but the P-80B and P-80C were much better. But if we look at the modifications to the Me 262 that were planed for 1945 or early 1946 or already in testing we would expect the 900kg thrust Jumo 004B4 to be replaced by 1100kg thrust Jumo 004D with a new fuel control system that would make the engine quite reliable. The engine was testing. The guns would be replaced by the Rhinemetall MG213 rotary breech revolver guns which fired a heavy 20mm shell at 1000 m/sec at over 1000 RPM. Rotary guns dont jam during high g manouvers so the Me 262 would have the most powerful, reliable and accurate armament of the Korean war. The DVA research institute had developed area ruling bulges that were fitted above the wing inside of the engines to reduced transonic drag. You would also expect an electronic yaw damper which was already in use on the Henschell Hs 129 but planed on the Me 262. The Me 262 was to get a ranging radar called FuG 248 and a computer called Elfe that linked into the EZ42 gyro sight accuratly fire the guns. -So a Me 262 would not be totally outclassed. -There were plans to fit the HeS 011C of 1700kg thrust and likely the 1900kg thrust Jumo 004H (which was a new engine shrunk down from the Jumo 012). These would have been Me 262 with 30, 37 or 45 degree sweep (eg the Me 262 HG-III). These engines whether part of an Me 262 with swept wings or not would have had better surge margins and higher altitude capability. -In General the Germans were planing a new generation of swept wing fighters such as Ta 183, P.1011 and P.1012 but you might expect the Me 262 to be in production for a long time simply because it would be near impossible to changeover to new designs once the factory was built. -I would expect an aircraft competitve below 15,000ft if with the existing wing due to good power to wright but issues with Mach limit above that. unless swept wings were fitted as speed of sound is 750mph at sea level and 660 at 36,000ft.

[@markrowland1366]

Thankyou for this great presentation.

[@jvelas_]

Great vid! Suggestions I have for the next would be the many German SPAAs, or any form of Japanese armor (either WW2 or modern day)

[@faizanrana2998]

Uh no.

[@Black.Templar_002]

it was already intended to be a bomber before hitler saw the aircraft

[@thethirdman225]

The Jumo 004 engine was a lot more sophisticated than the BMW 003. It was designed to be a service engine, whereas the BMW was a lot simpler and considered more disposable.

[@ianbell5611]

Thank you. Another great video

[@Failure_Thunder]

Let's just forget the US P59 that was created 2 years before

[@RedWrenchFilms]

3 years AFTER the He178. There's footage of it at 18:34 as well so nobody is forgetting anything.

[@Swagmaster07]

The Pulse Jet was definitely used on the V1 rocket with that noise and look. Yep the video said it but I said it before I saw it lol.

[@praetorian3902]

A 21 year old PHD student. Bro started writing his thesis at age 10.

[@OneMoreDesu]

Im a huge fan of the 262, and this video was a treat.

[@televisedpork7993]

Can you do a video on Germany’s rocket-powered aircraft? (Me 163, Me 263, Ba 349, DFS 194, He 176)?

[@Kevin_Kennelly]

Nice work. Thank you.

[@nuajbo4693]

has anyone noticed how the button to leave fullscreen on youtube looks oddly similar to the crosses on the luftwaffe planes?

[@Modified-bf109]

Yes

[@thethirdman225]

8:10 No, that isn’t right. The aircraft was built with bomb carriage in mind and had the necessary reinforcement before Hitler saw it. All German fighters were built to carry bombs and the 262 was no exception _because it was designed to be a fighter bomber, rather than a specific interceptor._ This myth about Hitler’s intervention is pretty widespread but it isn’t supported by German documentation.

[@levischittlord6558]

The reason why the glue failed on the 162's because it was too acidic was because the slave labor that the Germans were using started secretly urinating in the glue 😂 (and then they all clapped when a plane crashed).

[@josefhorndl3469]

Lack of fuel and experienced pilots turns every "wunderwaffe" into a "sitting duck". But nevertheless the Me 262 and Ar 234 were (and are) fantastic designs!

[@KlipsenTube]

The big thing about the Me-262 was its engines: axial flow. Had Germany not introduced any jet fighter, Britain would still have introduced the Gloster Meteor ... and been first. But those centrifugal flow jet engines - not really the optimal solution.

[@ShadowsOfTheSky]

The Heinkel 178 is absolutely beautiful, and clearly WAY ahead of its time. If it hadn’t been overlooked so quickly and a bit of time was spent improving the first engine, it could have easily been a force to be reckoned with by late 1940. Imagine coming up against one of those in early 1941, and Germany mass producing them by 1942, being able to absolutely shut down allied bombing runs by having a squadron of planes descend, wipe the bombers, and then retreat without the fighters even having a chance to do anything… a couple of Bf-109s following right behind to clean up the disgruntled fighters and any limping bombers…… ahh who am I kidding, Germany wouldn’t ever use those kind of tactics institutionally, they’d be too confident in their super weapon wonder plane and end up putting it in unfavorable fights and it wouldn’t be worth it, and as mentioned in the video with the early Junkers engines, there probably wouldn’t have been enough of the more valuable materials needed to manufacture the engines to perform well. I still think it’s an absolutely gorgeous plane and way ahead of its time, and was very sad to hear the original was destroyed when the museum was bombed.

[@jeanjohnson5145]

What happened to your tank round video?

[@WildBillCox13]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[@mustang5132]

Would love to see more aviation videos!

[@michaelnaisbitt7926]

You missed one Me 264 forward swept wings 4 engined jets two under wings rwo more mounyed òn nose designed as bomber Russians captured it and played around with it till around 1948---49,

[@RedWrenchFilms]

You’re thinking of the Junkers 287. Which yes, I didn’t include!

[@jonmcgee6987]

9:57 Is it just me. Or does the gentleman in the picture look like Eric "Winkle" Brown?

[@stevetheduck1425]

Royal Navy, yes, could be!

[@Brumbieman]

I wonder if the pulse jet engines on the V1 could have fit into the ME 163 airframe. Its the same basic layout, just need a couple of small air intakes ahead of the engine. Add some form of simple landing gear to it and that could have some serious potential as that rapid response intercepter. The airframe was certainly good enough if it'd had a safe engine. Likewise for the HE 162, couldn't be too hard to swap the rare, shitty jet engines for a pulse jet on the frame. The jet engines

[@JMunge379]

Yesssss! More aircraft please!

[@williamburroughs9686]

Pulse engine?! I have never heard of such a thing. However, when I heard it, it reminded me of the V-1's that I have heard before. It all clicked together for me. That the V-1 used a pulse engine. Which you confirmed latter in this video. I also have no idea that the Germans were considering using pilots to guild the V-1's in. Guess they took lessons from the Japanese. These mistakes of holding the aircraft together with a few bolts and acidic glue sound crazy and despite. The German flying wing looks like our B-2 stealth bomber and was most likely acquired from Germany after the war. What you probably don't know is that the V-2 made the first suborbital flights in history.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

The glue factory wasn't bombed. It was the victim of fires caused by an air raid in February 1943. The factory making the glue caught fire and all of the glue burned along with the instructions for making it.😊

[@lllordllloyd]

You need an award for "Best Armchair Pedant". And by "best" I mean "most tedious".

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

@@lllordllloyd ah insults. The refuge of the person who has nothing constructive to say.

[@stevetheduck1425]

@@lllordllloyd Facts are those things that are outside your own head. Easily demonstrated. For example, others had ejected from aircraft before the He-280 ejection, notably in the large number of tests from a Ju-87 Stuka's rear cockpit during testing and proving of Junker's ejection seats.

[@stevetheduck1425]

- and similar glues were available from other companies within Nazi-controlled areas, but Tego-Film (a Urea-Formaldehyde variant, apparently) was intended for the design as it had been fully tested in furniture and aircraft manufacture and was a known quantity. Others were not.

[@lllordllloyd]

@@neiloflongbeck5705 Arrogance and pedantry go hand in hand. But to say the factory wasn't bombed but burned down as a result of bombing isn't really pedantry... it's idiocy. Either way. . unconstructive criticism of a KZbin creator from someone who contributes nothing and constructs nothing.

[@jimkennedy7050]

should have put speed flaps on it rather than bomb racks