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@mlw9712 жыл бұрын
Yyyyyyyyy____
@mlw9712 жыл бұрын
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
@finscreenname2 жыл бұрын
Grum-man
@ABetterWeapon2 жыл бұрын
It's not Grueman, it's Grumman
@norfolkbyrd2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for verbalizing the section headers. Extremely helpful for people like myself who watch/listen to these videos will performing other tasks and not always watching the screen.
@theBlankScroll2 жыл бұрын
Thiiiiiiis
@terryenby23042 жыл бұрын
And people who can’t read English, have visual impairments or have a migraine or whatever. Simon is remarkably accessible for me as a disabled person (with hearing processing issues amongst others). I am always disappointed when videos have bad CCs as it literally means a video is pointless for me to watch :( But SO happy when I found out Casual Criminalist would be on YT too with subtitles!! 🎉
@BigGahmBoss2 жыл бұрын
Hear, hear!
@otacon56482 жыл бұрын
This
@Otokichi7862 жыл бұрын
0:42 "The Grumman F9F was a freighter!?" How many tons of cargo could it carry? Simon, you have earned another "Dark Skies" medal: The Nickel plated Bazooka with "Dingaling tassels." Keep this up, and your name is "Meyer.";)
@kitbag90332 жыл бұрын
Get the feeling you've been at the mulled wine this week Simon; freighter for fighter, Dock for deck, torque for thrust. I couldn't stop giggling.
@TheRealRedRooster2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, rushing to get all those videos out has QC seriously lacking...
@vic50152 жыл бұрын
Ah, you noticed that too? Also it's "Mach", *not* "Mack".
@VikingTeddy2 жыл бұрын
Also Cougar being the first jet to break the sound barrier. I can forgive him, it's what happens when you don't actually know anything about a subject and are just given a script to read :).
@ABetterWeapon2 жыл бұрын
What about Grueman for Grumman
@antoniogarridoanton650 Жыл бұрын
2000 pounds to 450 kilos. also a mistake
@j0eblden3422 жыл бұрын
please pease please cover the englidh electric lightnig, its such a cool and unique jet.
@j0eblden3422 жыл бұрын
*english, oops
@rooseveltbrentwood96542 жыл бұрын
@@j0eblden342 you know you can edit your original post?
@mr88cet2 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon, my dad worked for Grumman, on the Apollo LM. He always pronounced the company name’s first syllable like that of the word “grumble.” That is, not like “groom.”
The Cougar wasn't the first jet to break the sound barrier, that was the XP-86 in 26 April 1948 (officially), also in a dive.
@jb60272 жыл бұрын
...which was several years before the first Cougar ever flew.
@klardfarkus38912 жыл бұрын
If you don’t limit it to deployed aircraft. Experimental aircraft are a diferent category.
@bradenr867 Жыл бұрын
Umm no. officially the bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis was the first to break the sound barrier piloted by Charles E “Chuck” Yeager on October 14, 1947
@WayneKitching2 жыл бұрын
Freighter/interceptor? Fighter/interceptor makes a lot more sense.
@owenshebbeare29992 жыл бұрын
Likely the script is wrong. Blame the ignorant American scriptwriters and editors. Narrators read sic erat scriptum, exactly as written.
@TheQuickSilver1012 жыл бұрын
I can't explain why, but I love these early jets. Thanks for this and please keep these videos coming!
@WAL_DC-6B2 жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid in the early 1960s standing alongside Willow Rd. on the north side of Glenview Naval Air Station at Glenview, IL and watching the all-white with orange trim Grumman F9F8-T Cougar trainers doing practice landings and takeoffs.
@rooseveltbrentwood96542 жыл бұрын
Hah, that’s where my dad saw his first bong. Said one of the Navy guys brought it back with him.
@jordanvali2 жыл бұрын
Happy holidays everyone!
@The_Lone_Wolf2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sir, I am military warbird history guy and thank you for using both kilograms, kilometers and pounds and miles per hour, makes the video much more immersive and interesting.
@johnhill66732 жыл бұрын
I had a couple of plastic F-9 Cougar toys when I was little.
@Goldie6442 жыл бұрын
First I've heard the Cougar was a "freighter" 😜😜 Also jet thrust is measured in lbs, not lb.ft, which is a measurement of torque
@WayneKitching2 жыл бұрын
Yes. Lbs f is pound force not pound feet.
@paspax2 жыл бұрын
@@WayneKitching ... Foot pounds. Torque.
@owenshebbeare29992 жыл бұрын
Or, in the rest of the world, Newton-metres, Nm.
@joshuagathright6702 жыл бұрын
@@paspax Wrong. As somebody who works in the Aviation Maintenance industry, Wayne is correct.
@paspax2 жыл бұрын
@@joshuagathright670 .. LOL. Have you looked at a torque wrench lately?
@bradwatson20852 жыл бұрын
The ole Freighter/interceptor aircraft.
@scottstewart57842 жыл бұрын
Yup. You know what they always say - "Slinging missiles by Day, Hauling freight by Night"
@rooseveltbrentwood96542 жыл бұрын
Hey they successfully launched a ballistic missile from a cargo aircraft, I’m sure somebody’s done a study on loading a 747 full of long range radar guided missiles.
@ratbert69uk2 жыл бұрын
Flexible DECK testing!
@martynraveybracey72022 жыл бұрын
Lubricated rubber DeCKs
@VicariousAdventurer Жыл бұрын
F9 Is my new trivia answer for a supersonic radial jet. Great job!
@VicariousAdventurer Жыл бұрын
Great job by Grumman to develop a jet light and aerodynamic to do this with a Nene, (essentially) and STILL be robust enough to land on a carrier. More scary was that it was preferred to the NA F2 with more power (and weight)
@brandonb32792 жыл бұрын
"Dry Thrust" _Oh my_ I don't believe I've heard that term before. It's now forever linked with Cougars in my mind....
@alexamg66752 жыл бұрын
You should do one on the Avro Arrow !
@vincedibona46872 жыл бұрын
Well done sirrah. You got me to watch the first video first. Now on to this one! *_harumphs in grudging respect_*
@MargoMB192 жыл бұрын
I was never the least bit interested in war planes or learning details about planes in general, until I started watching Simon's videos. Now I can't get enough.
@garyneilson18332 жыл бұрын
Simon if you want to look at another unusual aircraft try the Hunting H.126 experimental aircraft. It was designed to have very low speed characteristics and had a stall speed of 26mph. It is also on display at Cosford
@twocvbloke2 жыл бұрын
"Remember the intro on the last video?" - Nope, my memory isn't capable of remembering intros... :P
@tedjones39552 жыл бұрын
Thank you Simon. A very Merry Christmas to you and yours. And a better year in 2022.
@swampyftw5552 жыл бұрын
Haven’t been this early in a while
@PaulMcElligott2 жыл бұрын
What’s this company called “Grooman?” I’ve heard of “Grumman” (rhymes with “gum” not “groom”).
@owenshebbeare29992 жыл бұрын
Americans! Suck it up, your ways are not universal.
@PaulMcElligott2 жыл бұрын
@@owenshebbeare2999 Uh, so correctly pronouncing the name of an *American* company is cultural imperialism? Sure…
@thejdmguru621 Жыл бұрын
Hey, ever since I was a kid, I’ve always known it being pronounced Gr(oo)man
@timerover4633 Жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to see you do one on the Saunders Roe flying boat fighter, the SR.A/1.
@fanstfs76612 жыл бұрын
Early jet age was phenomenal .. lots of new models and inventions..something like a race
@harryspeakup84522 жыл бұрын
Jet thrust is not measured in pounds feet (lb/ft): that is a measure of twisting force, or torque. Thrust comes in pounds of direct linear force (lb f), though all you have to say really is pounds or kilograms
@owenshebbeare29992 жыл бұрын
Blame the ignorant American researchers, scriptwriters and editors.
@mkbarber652 жыл бұрын
Interesting how the AV Roe jet looked strikingly similar to the Avro Arrow
@steveatbuccscoin3362 жыл бұрын
Love to see one on the Buccaneer and Hunter aircraft as I worked on both when in RAF in the late 70's and 80's. Steve
@The_TD5_Discovery2 жыл бұрын
Simon. Have a look at the Soviet “Skval” torpedo. It’s a rocket propelled torpedo which uses supercavitation with hot steam to make it travel up to 200Kts.
@johnweems45862 жыл бұрын
I recently visited San Diego and got to tour the USS Midway museum ship. There was an F3 Fury aboard I'd had no idea that the F86 had ever been navalised to serve on a carrier. So getting to see this video was nice!
@egyeneskifli78082 жыл бұрын
If you talk about the FJ-2/3 Fury, you should talk about the original FJ Fury as well. Just because the F-86 is based on that aircraft. This is why the Sabre's adoptation to carriers were so easy.
@sureshot83992 ай бұрын
Apart from the fuselage being shorter and less slender, the Saunders-Roe SR53 is a bit of a dead ringer for the F104 Starfighter in profile......or rather the other way around as the SR53 came first.......I wonder if there was cooperation or espionage.
@jasoncoetzeeadadjjzjdatune96172 жыл бұрын
At first I found your videos amusing, then I started liking them now I straight up love this stuff
@SRW_2 жыл бұрын
You COULD watch the story of santa. OR you could watch: MACHINES OF WAR!!
@spacepeanut89932 жыл бұрын
"Burn fuel before landing" The shear wired safety switch labeled "Fuel Dump" begs to differ.
@jonmarc80782 жыл бұрын
Always heard it was GRUM in instead of GREW min… Sorry Si to keep jumpin’ on you for your infamous mispronunciations, still love 💕 you and our long forgotten Danny too !
@TommygunNG2 жыл бұрын
I LOVE the F9F Panther! Solid and dependable, one shot down four Russian-piloted MiG15s in Korea in an amazing dogfight. And it's just a fine-looking aircraft.
@WayneKitching2 жыл бұрын
I had watched a video about those MiG kills a few days ago on Ward Carroll's channel.
@kenhelmers26032 жыл бұрын
Interesting jets, thanks Simon and co. :)
@jayyydizzzle2 жыл бұрын
6:17 nice
@ljphoenix43412 жыл бұрын
Simon, you should cover New Zealand's tallest building here on Sideprojects, The Skytower! Or maybe the most impressive Railway engineering in New Zealand? The rail network in NZ has a fascinating history.
@tigercs12 жыл бұрын
Bob Semple tank if the info is plentiful enough to make a video
@ljphoenix43412 жыл бұрын
@@tigercs1 yes! That'd be a really cool Sideprojects video!
@kevinmccarthy87462 жыл бұрын
FUNNY, Funny person. I love the British humor. Your prodigal son the USA.
@dereksollows9783 Жыл бұрын
I love your videos. Please advise your writer that "pound-feet" is a measurement unit for torque, not thrust. Jet and rocket thrust is measured in pounds. Other than that, please convey my appreciation for that persons fine research.
@richardferg64552 жыл бұрын
Bachem natter never used operationally. Also that rocket plane didn't use guns but shot a salvo of unguided rockets.
@treed59532 жыл бұрын
Not JUST to annoy Simon, but the creation of National Geographic, and the people involved, would be very interesting
@canuck600A2 жыл бұрын
Nothing on the He 178, Gloster E28/39, Bell X-59A, Gloster Meteor, Messerschmitt Me 262? Those were true early jet aircraft.
@keithdurose705715 күн бұрын
The Bachum only had rocket armament. No guns. Named Natter. The ME 163 did have 2x30mm cannons.
@ericknutson86792 жыл бұрын
I like it when surrounded by cougars
@Boppinabe2 жыл бұрын
Navy pre-1962 designations for aircraft are alphanumeric indicating Mission, Model in sequence from Producer, and Producer, followed by a hyphenated number for different submodels . F9F=Fighter #9 from Grumman(Grumman was coded 'F' in the US Navy). F2J=Fighter #2 from North American(N American was 'J') Yes. The N American B-25 was PBJ(Patrol Bomber#1 from N American).
@Operator82822 жыл бұрын
4:53 If that was the case, I can see a legitimate reason for the navy to carry large ammounts of Astroglide for a reason Not for the sailors themselves...
@wills21402 жыл бұрын
trust me ya'll, Simon has a video about it ... whatever you might think of on earth and beyond. ☺ The best forgotten military aeroplane is the Navy's Vigilante ( after the now retired F - 14 "Tomcat' ). ☺ Thanks everybody and MAGELLAN tv
@javiermoya28012 жыл бұрын
I highly recommend the Tupolev TU 22 supersonic bomber that preceeded the TU 160 Black Jack
@havokvladimirovichstalinov2 жыл бұрын
I guess if you count ammo as cargo, it *could* be a freighter lol
@Scott11078 Жыл бұрын
The F-86 Saber was actually an improved land based version of the FJ-1 Fury. Soooo if it wasn't for the Navy there wouldn't be an F-86..
@archstanton61022 жыл бұрын
Looking for a Cougar joke here
@rebeccahamner87952 жыл бұрын
Blaze on!
@milksheihk2 жыл бұрын
Thrust isn't measured in Pound/feet, just pounds, foot/pound is a torque measurement.
@genEricSVG2 жыл бұрын
Simon could make videos about all of the other videos he's releasing that day or week ... like one of those list videos with cliffnotes / short summaries with links in the description or something
@tkskagen2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't the "Cougar" the transition to the "Voo Doo"? Or the other way around...
@WAL_DC-6B2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps you're thinking of the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo which led to the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo.
@shaunoleary97742 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a video about the "Peking to Paris" race in the early 20th century.
@boris23422 жыл бұрын
War is the mother of inventions
@EAcapuccino2 жыл бұрын
Lovely!! 👍🤩🙂🙂
@bronsonstrange38272 жыл бұрын
Hey, Simon. Just wanted to point out/inquire on something you said early in the video: You say that the American swept-wing technology lagged behind the Soviets, but the F-86 first flew on October 1st 1947, just a few months before the MiG-15 completed it's first flight. So from my perspective America was at the very least neck-and-neck with the Soviets. If there are any facts that do indicate that America was behind in swept-wing technology, I would be interested to learn about them.
@biocybernaught35122 жыл бұрын
Comercial ends at 8:07
@AtheistOrphan2 жыл бұрын
Thanks.👍
@Jedi.Toby.M2 жыл бұрын
The past: no, let's remove the wheels and just crash on the deck...
@Axonteer Жыл бұрын
Freighter / interceptor... ... lawl :D
@Bert4ceasar2 жыл бұрын
Did Simon already do an item about the f6 BE Lightning?
@edletain3852 жыл бұрын
For the Fury, the better choice for a foreign engine was the Canadian Avro Canada
@whyjnot4202 жыл бұрын
6:32 Would that not be "feather caught in its teeth"?
@TheManFrayBentos Жыл бұрын
Jet thrust is not expressed in pound-feet, just pounds.
@dejapoo5508 Жыл бұрын
For Thrust
@scythebergon4182 жыл бұрын
Simon will one day have as much content as migelenin
@rooseveltbrentwood96542 жыл бұрын
Magellan?
@christophercisternino832 Жыл бұрын
Saber and super saber video?
@richwright91842 жыл бұрын
One small comment to all your great videos. It's pounds force of thrust lbf, not pounds feet lb.ft
@michellepowell19562 жыл бұрын
Freighter? not a fighter?
@richaddulieu19672 жыл бұрын
The Americans stoll the moving tail plane and used it on the chuck jaegar broke mac 1 the nerve of them yanks
@SteffonDudley2 жыл бұрын
None of these are "Warbirds." That term describes high performance prop monoplane fighters.
@RReese082 жыл бұрын
Grumman is pronounced with a soft u, as in "gr-uh-mman." Successor company Northrop-Grumman has several facilities dotting the part of Los Angeles where I live, so the name is as familiar as McDonald's or Burger King. The only thing is, unlike other local aerospace companies in town here, no way is anybody allowed to get close to any Northrop-Grumman location. Allegedly. *cough, cough B-21 Raider stealth bomber* which deserves to be featured in a future episode of Sideprojects or Megaprojects.
@JohnJohn-hd1pc2 жыл бұрын
And Bristol Siddeley is pronounced "Bristol Siddly" 🙂
@RinrvUSA2 жыл бұрын
What's up dock?
@vic50152 жыл бұрын
Poor visibility is a *very* bad trait for carrier-based aircraft to have. Carrier landings are said to be tricky enough as it is. And night landings that much harder.
@mbr57422 жыл бұрын
How stupid was the Bachem "Natter"? Well, Erik Brown refused to fly it...
@WEPayne2 жыл бұрын
Lbf for jet engines IS NOT "pound-feet" it is "pound force"
@markrowland13662 жыл бұрын
Who were Grim?
@michaelpipkin99422 жыл бұрын
Can you please do the history of The Thunderbirds??????? It's a great story most people don't know about.
@AtheistOrphan2 жыл бұрын
And Stingray!
@tkskagen2 жыл бұрын
My "Father-in-law" was present on the USS CORAL SEA in Vietnam to accept this Jet Aircraft, but this CRASHED on the deck alot...
@HMXDave2 жыл бұрын
Thrust is in pounds. Torque is in pound.feet.
@rickrudd2 жыл бұрын
Heres a really cool one that literally no one knows: the A-5 Vigilante. Huge and carrier based - looked beyond its time, but had a short life.
@dangriggs39312 жыл бұрын
Hey my mum's not a carrier based strike aircraft
@hankblaster2 жыл бұрын
factboy used to be good at this
@fredlougee28072 жыл бұрын
The F9F was the model in which a test pilot had the dubious honor of shooting himself down. It would eventually wind up as the only plane ever shot down by an F9F. Flying from the airport near Grumman's main plant in Bethpage, NY, on Long Island, the pilot was on an evaluation flight for the US Navy which included test firing of the guns. Flying straight and level, he fired a short burst from the guns at an empty patch of the Atlantic. Then he pushed the throttles forward and went into a shallow dive. This was a bad idea. As you probably know, when you fire a gun the bullet begins to slow down the instant it leaves the barrel. So he was accelerating and diving while his bullets were slowing down and dropping. He wound up intersecting his bullet stream a couple of seconds later. Oops. Impacts on the leading surfaces told him he had hit *something*, he thought it was birds, and he started losing power. He managed to make it back to land but was only able to effect a survivable crash just short of the runway. Investigation revealed the cause and he spent the rest of his Navy career as "That guy who shot himself down".
@WAL_DC-6B2 жыл бұрын
That was a Grumman F11F Tiger that shot itself down.
@fredlougee28072 жыл бұрын
@@WAL_DC-6B Ah. right. Thanks for the correction.
@TheEvilCommenter2 жыл бұрын
I feel like Simon should make another channel just for military weapons. He could even call it something like Military Machines since he likes that alliterative bs.
@jimsnee1878 Жыл бұрын
pound-feet of thrust? wtf is that?
@jamesdavid53522 жыл бұрын
Bit ropey TBH, editing wasn't great and whoever wrote the script doesn't know their stuff. The equivalent of buying the big picture book of jet fighters as opposed to anything more in depth.
@angelarch53522 жыл бұрын
"Grooman" ==> "Gr-uh-man"
@rogaineablar56082 жыл бұрын
We Yanks pronounce it Gruhman (like brush), not Grooman.
@melangellatc17182 жыл бұрын
F4D Skyray anyone?????
@martynraveybracey72022 жыл бұрын
All I heard was, dry thrust, steep dive, F.A.Ps, nose to tail, expending, lubricated rubber DeCKs, slip 'n' slide, de'tatchable dollies, slippery sufaces, gurgling tar pit, navelised, thumbs up! Somethings going on in that basement.