Northrop P-61 Black Widow - Defender After Dark

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@tkskagen
@tkskagen Жыл бұрын
In my opinion, this was one of the most beautiful aircraft to serve in the latter part of WWII.
@RobertaMurphy-qv1lb
@RobertaMurphy-qv1lb Жыл бұрын
P-61 flight crews trained at Kissimmee Field, Florida until the 349th was transferred to California. In the early 50's, Don "Big Daddy" Garlits ran his Swamp Rat on the runways at Kissimmee.
@hokep61
@hokep61 Жыл бұрын
My Dad was a crew chief on the P-61 with the 427th NFS in the CBI. He loved the aircraft. Dad was the one man ground crew for his aircraft. Maintenance was more intensive on the 61 due mainly to it's much more sophisticated systems. Many of the pilots in their unit had the turrent removed as it wasn't really needed. That would give the aircraft 10-15 mph more airspeed, plus the 4 x 20mm cannon were all that was needed. The top turrent was mainly to defend against attacking enemy fighters, which seldom happened in actual combat missions. In short.....for it's designed mission.....detect and destroy enemy aircraft, the P-61 was an excellent aircraft. That was the opinion of my Dad and others who actually followed the aircraft into battle. Not third hand opinions of those who never served with the aircraft let alone real air combat experience. True, with a nightfighter, glorious dogfights were mostly didn't happen. Realistically.....ground would vector the nightfighter to the bogie's general area....the planes radar op would pickup the target and direct the pilot close enough for a visual conformation. Pilot would usually maneuver below an behind the target....then open fire. Most likely, the enemy never knew the nightfighter was stalking them.
@shanepatrick4534
@shanepatrick4534 3 жыл бұрын
The very first model I ever made was a p-61. Beautiful and deadly aircraft for sure.
@Arcangel77able
@Arcangel77able 2 жыл бұрын
It is still disputed which was the best night fighter of WW2, the P-61 Black Widow or the Heinkel 219 UH. A comparison between the two would be very interesting.
@millsnerd
@millsnerd 2 жыл бұрын
As a fan of both, that would be an interesting comparison. The He 219 was an attractive and forward-looking aircraft, but I’ve come to understand that its service record wasn’t particularly impressive. One of those machines whose legend doesn’t stand up to the scrutiny of more modern scholarship.
@thegreatdominion949
@thegreatdominion949 11 ай бұрын
Mosquito hands down.
@jasonrusso9808
@jasonrusso9808 Ай бұрын
P-38M, F6F5N, & F4U-5N too.​@@thegreatdominion949
@torg1
@torg1 3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite planes! Excellent
@P61widow
@P61widow 5 ай бұрын
I knew a lot of the P-61 personnel back when I did research for my P-61 projects. The biggest problem the P-61 had was Command. They did not have a clue how to use it, unlike the RAF and Luftwaffe who made night fighting an art form. This hampered the aircraft from being as good as it could have been.
@restaurantattheendofthegalaxy
@restaurantattheendofthegalaxy Жыл бұрын
Very well researched and presented!
@thurin84
@thurin84 2 жыл бұрын
fun fact when col muccis 6th ranger bttn was raiding camp cabanatuan to free pows, they called in a p-61 to distract camp guards and keep them looking up while they crawled into position.
@Rafael-nz6pp
@Rafael-nz6pp 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the channel and content. When describing the planes, can you add metric dimensions/values for us outside US as well? Please keep the videos coming. I appeciate it.
@thishominid871
@thishominid871 3 жыл бұрын
I wish I had one of these 1:25
@750suzuki
@750suzuki 2 жыл бұрын
You don't have the SKILLS to fly that one!!! Get Neil Armstrong, he can fly anything!!!
@Idahoguy10157
@Idahoguy10157 2 жыл бұрын
Seems to me the third crewman should be a navigator
@750suzuki
@750suzuki 2 жыл бұрын
Fiesler 103??? 12:03 you mean the V-1. The Fiesler 103 was a manned V-1, developed to work out kinks in the V-1 design.
@neiloflongbeck5705
@neiloflongbeck5705 Жыл бұрын
The Fiesler Fi-103 is the V-1. The Fi-103R or Reichenberg is the manned version of the V-1 .
@jasons44
@jasons44 2 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed it, U could at a few more pictures, or possibly video? And it's o.k to cut out some parts, deemed less critical to the story? Also, I have request, interwar years Aviation 1918-1939
@oscartorres6553
@oscartorres6553 2 жыл бұрын
Would like a video of the British Westland Whirlwind, a nice curves lady plane that no one talks about P.S. just found your channel and would like to give some ideas and help to the grow of the channel by subscribing and sharing since I found it interesting
@ricktaylor3748
@ricktaylor3748 2 жыл бұрын
It needed two 30mm tail cannons, and more .50 cal. machines guns. And some nose mounted cannons.
@thegreatdominion949
@thegreatdominion949 11 ай бұрын
That would have made it even heavier, slower and less maneuverable. You couldn't put any armament in the nose because that is where the radar is located. 4 X 20 mm cannons were perfectly adequate for the job. In fact that was the ideal armament for Allied night fighters (think Beaufighter and Mosquito). The .50 cal barbettes (they weren't rotating turrets) were removed on many of the aircraft that went into service due to the lack of need for additional firepower and the undesirable turbulence created by that bulge on the top of the aircraft. Naturally, their removal also reduced the weight of the aircraft which was a bit underpowered for its size to start with.
@ricktaylor3748
@ricktaylor3748 11 ай бұрын
@@thegreatdominion949 Nah, the P-61 had room for tons more armament. They could've move the radar dome to make room for 4 x 30 mm cannons. The P-61 wasn't known for great maneuverability.
@jameshall1300
@jameshall1300 5 ай бұрын
​@@ricktaylor3748literally none of what you wrote was true. The radar couldn't simply "be moved back". Every radar in the history of fighter aircraft is mounted foremost in the nose for a reason. 30mm cannons in the tall? Absolutely no point for BIGGER guns in a part of the time that would almost never be facing anything that needed that kind of firepower. The P-61 was also widely acknowledged as extremely maneuverable for a plane of its size, and adding unneeded weapons would just have hurt that. A 61 literally maneuvered a Japanese plane into crashing into the ocean without firing a shot.
@ricktaylor3748
@ricktaylor3748 5 ай бұрын
@@jameshall1300 The radar can be located inside or outside the fuselage. The P. 61 needed all the firepower it could get.Twin 30mm canons nd severs .50 cal machine guns would make it n extreamely deadly aircraft. The P 38 was far more maneuverable. Why do you think the À C 130 Gunship is so heavily armed ? thirr À 9 el
@jameshall1300
@jameshall1300 5 ай бұрын
@@ricktaylor3748 you really don't understand anything about aircraft design, do you? It's never just as simple as "durrr, stick more guns in and it go boom better".
@shainemaine1268
@shainemaine1268 2 жыл бұрын
Doesn't matter how great the aircraft is, if you can't keep more than half of your fleet operational (not to mention the amount of maintenance needed to even accomplish this) then it's inherently a bad plane. Instead of worrying about improving performance, they should've focused on serviceability in the later models...
@Chief-Solarize
@Chief-Solarize Жыл бұрын
Pratt & Whitney 2800 double wasp..... Much better than the Whitney double wasp
@wowdanalise
@wowdanalise 3 жыл бұрын
If you need a narrarator with a more traditional deeper narrarator type voice, I do good work for a reasonable wage.
@maxkronader5225
@maxkronader5225 3 жыл бұрын
It's an all-volunteer outfit. Go to the website and see how to get involved.
@pavelalexe9254
@pavelalexe9254 3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately PE is unable to pay the YT team because the channel is too small and no ad revenue. But once that starts rolling in, it will be used to pay narrators and video editors
@darrellwallace4023
@darrellwallace4023 3 жыл бұрын
😉 Promo-SM!!!
@ianhowdin993
@ianhowdin993 2 жыл бұрын
The NF mosquito was much more effective & cost a lot less to implement! The P61 was a big fat failure..... Too big, too heavy and way too slow & only in time to catch the end of the conflict!
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Жыл бұрын
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