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The Insanely Weird-Looking US Warplane That Shocked Everyone

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Dark Skies

Dark Skies

Күн бұрын

Technological development is an evolutionary process, and the Boeing P-26 Peashooter is a perfect example of this transition, marking the shift from the biplanes of World War 1 to the all-metal monoplane fighters that would dominate World War 2.
In December 1941, over the Pacific skies, the Boeing P-26, America’s first all-metal monoplane fighters, scrambled to defend against an advancing enemy. These planes, with their distinctive open cockpits and fixed landing gear, faced off against the swift and agile Japanese Zeroes.
Dubbed the Peashooter for its compact but innovative design, this aircraft combined agility and speed. In the chaos of dogfights, the Peashooter's pilots exploited every bit of their aircraft's agility and toughness, challenging the technologically superior Zeroes-this underdog battled for survival, leaving behind a legacy of determination and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds.
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@monroetruss4737
@monroetruss4737 Ай бұрын
The summer of 1967 a WWI colonel offered me $5.00 to sweep a small warehouse and his small brick home beside it. While I swept the warehouse he sat and chatted with me. He talked of trench warfare, the misery of trench foot, the black-market, and early aviation. He was an interesting old man and I tried to soak up every word. Flight was in still in its infancy, while mainly used early on as reconnaissance, pilots would carry a 45 pistol, a grenade or 2, and a couple of bricks. Bricks I asked? He laughed and said yes. He said many wings were no more than cloth or very light material and if he found advantage he could throw a brick through the wing and down the pilot. Grenades were meant for machinegun nest, and the 45 was for dog fights. As the war dragged on aviation improved, and mounted gun were added. I've rattled on long enough and won't bore you any longer, but he relayed many stories, I'd have paid to listen to. He was a good old man.
@Dr.Pepperdave
@Dr.Pepperdave Ай бұрын
Never heard of the brick missle before!
@monroetruss4737
@monroetruss4737 Ай бұрын
@@Dr.Pepperdave Except for the old vet I never have either.
@mgweible8162
@mgweible8162 Ай бұрын
I'd love to hear more retelling if the colonels stories
@Mr.Scootini
@Mr.Scootini Ай бұрын
If what I’m reading here is true, you should start a YT channel so those stories can be heard! I think we need those types of stories more now than ever before.
@memkiii
@memkiii Ай бұрын
@@mgweible8162 Not his stories. The US wasn't in the war until near the end of the conflict. This stuff is well known, and another third hand account is not exactly necessary.
@mowgli2071
@mowgli2071 Ай бұрын
The aircraft survived because it was too cute to shoot down
@ridethecurve55
@ridethecurve55 Ай бұрын
I was thinking the designers subconsciously were trying to design something aesthetically pleasing, vs. aerodynamically fit for purpose. It had a distinct 'art-deco' nuance about it, as did most things designed during the early 30s.
@stevenleek1254
@stevenleek1254 Ай бұрын
Yep! Everybody would love to have one of these!
@ronaldbyrne3320
@ronaldbyrne3320 Ай бұрын
😂👍🏻
@charles2241
@charles2241 Ай бұрын
No, pity towards the designer, because it was ugly as sin.
@user-iq4pj9wf9x
@user-iq4pj9wf9x Ай бұрын
​@charles2241 yours seems to be the minority opinion. I think it's the cutest instrument of death ever.
@Tom-Lahaye
@Tom-Lahaye Ай бұрын
It was the most adorable fighter plane ever made, there is one flying example which I have seen at an air show at Duxford, UK and the bright colour scheme coupled with the popping sound of the engine makes it something special amongst the warbirds.
@keithallver2450
@keithallver2450 Ай бұрын
Even though it was obsolete by the start of WW2 the P-26 was one of the few planes that could out-turn a Zero.
@patrickshaw8595
@patrickshaw8595 Ай бұрын
It's climb performance was not slouchy either. My uncle flew P-40s and to keep them humble their wing commander used to take a P-26 up and whip them in air combat. The funny part of that is my uncle did the exact same thing later when the first P-51s showed up. The seasoned pilot in the obsolete ship always cleaned house on the newby flying the latest-and-greatest.
@keithallver2450
@keithallver2450 Ай бұрын
@@patrickshaw8595 Didn't Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) say something along the line ''it's not the crate but the man in it that counts''
@memkiii
@memkiii Ай бұрын
*Any* contemporary biplane fighter could out-turn a Zero, or a Spitfire, or Me-109 etc. A seagull can out-turn a Zero.
@SteamWolf320
@SteamWolf320 Ай бұрын
@memkiii P-26s were monoplanes, not biplanes.
@maddhatter3564
@maddhatter3564 Ай бұрын
@@keithallver2450 his TRIplane was even more manuverable than the camels biplane layout.
@johnathandavis3693
@johnathandavis3693 Ай бұрын
A fella had one of these at the Chino Air Show a couple years ago. I love this little aircraft, and it was a treat to see it flying. I got to touch it too🤗
@KorySteele
@KorySteele Ай бұрын
The one in Chino is the only air worthy original aircraft surviving, IIRC.
@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244
@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Ай бұрын
It was dubbed "The Pea Shooter" because of its long sight tube. I'm surprised this video missed that one. Also, I'd love to know where the P-26 fought Japanese planes. My guess would be the Philippines, but I've never heard of it before.
@christopherjaberina7558
@christopherjaberina7558 Ай бұрын
Try to research Jesus Villamor and Jose Kare. They were the Filipinos who shot down Japanese Zeroes
@longrider42
@longrider42 Ай бұрын
It was, and if you look on KZbin, you will find a very nice video.
@pauljackson1744
@pauljackson1744 Ай бұрын
Great video on very little known plane
@flexairz
@flexairz Ай бұрын
@3:57 @6:58 and @7:10 he mentioned it.
@HootOwl513
@HootOwl513 Ай бұрын
Of 39 P-36As delivered to Hawaii by carrier Enterprise in 2/41 -- five were able to scramble during the Pearl Harbor attack 12/07/41. Two Mitsubishi A6M2s were splashed, while one Curtiss P-36 was lost. [Additionally a few P-40Bs from outlying fields scrambled.] I don't know if any P-36s were active at Clark. The USAAF already had P-40s there, and the Phillipine AAC had P-26s. Capt Jesus A Villamor led the PAAC's 6th Pursuit Sqdn which downed 3 Zeros and one Nell. On retreating, the remaining P-26s were burned to prevent the Japs from getting them. The Japanese attack on the PI is dated 12/08/41 -- this was not a day later. Being across the International Date Line, it was virtually the same day. Just a few time zones later. Contrary to what Dark Skies implies [9:40] Boeing P-26s were not active in Hawaii when the IJN attacked.
@garyrivera8405
@garyrivera8405 Ай бұрын
My father 1 Lt. Alfonso Rivera of the Philippine Army Air Corps flew the Peashooter. The Zeros flew circles around him. He went on to fight as a guerilla and had his best revenge as a forward air control flying an L4.
@davidrussellhamrick1828
@davidrussellhamrick1828 Ай бұрын
Brave man to go up there in anything, more so with an under-gunned plane like that. I know you wear his name proudly!
@thepuffin-ss9ln
@thepuffin-ss9ln Ай бұрын
Every now, and then there's a machine that is so clearly from one specific era. The peashooter was such a machine. Wild looking and stylish. So clearly of the early art decco period
@johnathandavis3693
@johnathandavis3693 Ай бұрын
I can't imagine what it was like operating this against Zeros....
@tolik5929
@tolik5929 Ай бұрын
The interwar years were full of strange looking things everywhere . Explosions in technology , and developement , not seen sense modern times .
@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoffIV
@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoffIV Ай бұрын
Plus, treaty limitations forced ingenuity. Like the German Pocket Battleship
@christopherrobinson7541
@christopherrobinson7541 Ай бұрын
@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoffIV Were they biplanes or monoplanes?
@jayg1438
@jayg1438 Ай бұрын
@@christopherrobinson7541 1920-1940 was a transitional period between monoplanes and biplanes. When did dial up baud internet get replaced by broadband???
@christopherrobinson7541
@christopherrobinson7541 Ай бұрын
@@jayg1438 There are many biplanes still flying. The best example is perhaps the AN-2, which first flew in 1947. There were other successful monoplanes from the same era, such as the Piper Cub and Supercub, of which about 20,000 were built. These aircraft were fit for purpose and have been reimagined using modern materials and have spawned generations of light-weight aircraft, such as the Eurofox, powered by Rotax engines. Progress is both evolutionary and revolutionary.
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
There were successful-for-their-day monoplanes from the very early days of flight, well pre-WWI. There was at least one fighter monoplane in service during that war. IIRC it was a Fokker but I can't recall its name. Also IIRC, the primary reason that biplanes were the preferred, essentially standard design during the period of their heyday was the significant increase in lift that the extra wing provided. This was far more significant back when the planes' top speeds were not much greater than the speeds at which many of us have been driving our cars ever since we starting building Interstate highways.
@Groffili
@Groffili Ай бұрын
"Insanely Weird-Looking"? Nah... ICONIC!
@frozencanary4522
@frozencanary4522 Ай бұрын
Love the paint schemes.
@edwardpate6128
@edwardpate6128 Ай бұрын
I've always loved this aircraft. I built a model of one as a kid painted in the livery of the 1st pursuit group at Selfridge Field Michigan which is just a stones throw from me. They do have one at the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB in OH.
@peoplehavetherights
@peoplehavetherights Ай бұрын
It's a Boeing P-26, I remember making scale models if them at about 12-16 years old, radial air-cooled engine, not much longer were retractable landing gear, no outside wires, and closed canopies were coming soon in this era.
@BOB67666
@BOB67666 Ай бұрын
Wow what an ending. I watched every second of this and the ending is awesome
@JSFGuy
@JSFGuy Ай бұрын
How so, it's a 13 minute video you commented 7 minutes after it started, how do you do this?
@rfw7
@rfw7 Ай бұрын
@@JSFGuy2x speed
@JSFGuy
@JSFGuy Ай бұрын
@@rfw7 sure, I was born at night just not last night.
@rfw7
@rfw7 Ай бұрын
@@JSFGuy wdym that’s a feature
@JSFGuy
@JSFGuy Ай бұрын
@@rfw7 Right, you're not the only one that is claimed this. You can't understand anything at that speed. Makes Ben Shapiro look slow.
@billwendell6886
@billwendell6886 Ай бұрын
Agile yes, speed not really. It was obsolete when they starting drawing it. Willy was already working on the 109. It's bomber brother the B10 could out run it. Which is why everyone thought it was state of the art.
@pyrtwistPyrtwistWorldInMotion
@pyrtwistPyrtwistWorldInMotion Ай бұрын
Excellent video. Love all the history put into to this. I really love pre-war livery of these planes.
@SSmith-fm9kg
@SSmith-fm9kg 29 күн бұрын
A classic in design.
@stanleybest8833
@stanleybest8833 Ай бұрын
Episode details. One of your early top wing planes on this show is a Flying Quaker, a free flight model. The P26 was externally a copycat of a pylon racer, but more advanced in materials. It was not just a stepping stone, but a shrewd and nimble plane all in itself. It desperately lacked a locking tailwheel.
@daystatesniper01
@daystatesniper01 Ай бұрын
Excellent once again Dark mostly relevant film and info , keep it up
@christopherpardell4418
@christopherpardell4418 Ай бұрын
About 15 years ago the San Diego Air and Space Museum gathered a bunch of old geezers who had been engineers or workers in old aircraft factories of yore and had them build, From Scratch, a brand new P-26. They hand formed and stamped every single aluminum part and riveted it all together. The original plane had custom designed tires that were more aerodynamic since they stuck out the bottom of the cowling. And there was only ONE of these tires left in the world, and it was so ancient that no one wanted to fill it with air for fear it would burst. ( the Smithsonian had an original P-26 but it sported motorcycle tires that were not correct ) These geezers came to me to make a set of molds and a method for casting FAKE tires made of solid urethane… like inline skate tires- except they had to match the originals in look. Luckily we had that one tire to make a mold from. The tires did not have to fly, but they DID have to be robust enough that the plane could be wheeled around on them. Me and their engineers designed a means to cut a stearman hub in half to be able to mount a solid urethane tire- and I designed a wooden core for the cast urethanes to distribute the load and prevent the urethane from splitting under load. We cast 4 usable tires, two are on the plane in San Diego. The other two they sent to the Smithsonian, but I don’t know if they mounted them on their P-26
@jimcurt99
@jimcurt99 Ай бұрын
A great plane to build a model of- it has an interesting shape, and some of the coolest paint jobs ever
@kbjerke
@kbjerke Ай бұрын
I *love* that little fighter!! I suppose it's a bit odd, but I really like the Brewster Buffalo, too, LOL! Thanks for the video!
@deborahphillips500
@deborahphillips500 Ай бұрын
This is such a great video because it well shows the challenges of progressing from cloth and wooden biplanes to metal monoplanes.
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
It does? Did I miss all that? Maybe I should watch it again...
@BOB67666
@BOB67666 Ай бұрын
Let's go! No dumb comments yet. Great vid so far!
@JSFGuy
@JSFGuy Ай бұрын
So far yes, the comments well looks like we got those Ethot garden tools That never fail.
@davidcastle7212
@davidcastle7212 Ай бұрын
When i was a kid i had a string controlled model of this plane.
@jeffmattes5446
@jeffmattes5446 Ай бұрын
In junior high school, I had a math teacher, who had been in the Army Air Corp. He flew every thing, from the p16 to the p51.
@thomasbalivet1057
@thomasbalivet1057 Ай бұрын
Very interesting video, as always. Thanks a lot.
@tomswift3835
@tomswift3835 Ай бұрын
"The landscape of aerial combat"? What a concept.
@wdtaut5650
@wdtaut5650 Ай бұрын
1:16 "Biplanes like the Sopwith Camel and Fokker Dr. I..." Correctly shows a photo of the Dr.I, a _triplane_ . Dark Skies gets great topics with dubious presentations.
@Jake-yx7ct
@Jake-yx7ct Ай бұрын
Hey just use stills of the subject instead of showing out of text videos of a modern scene. Videos of models of jet airliners diss's all your monologues. Not a hater just nit picking for QC.
@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoffIV
@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoffIV Ай бұрын
Cry someplace else
@mingfanzhang4600
@mingfanzhang4600 Ай бұрын
😊❤😊❤😊❤
@sonnyburnett8725
@sonnyburnett8725 Ай бұрын
Why, it adds to the story and as an aviation fan I still get it. Always nice to see other aircraft flying around.
@petekovacevic3241
@petekovacevic3241 Ай бұрын
I like the jet airliner models in the background
@leonardwilliams8109
@leonardwilliams8109 Ай бұрын
I would never call a P-26 weird looking. Jaunty, sporty, classic, but never weird.
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
I think it's a really beautiful plane
@steve-ey3rx
@steve-ey3rx Ай бұрын
"Biplanes like the DR-1"
@duncannada
@duncannada Ай бұрын
Oh hell yeah brother, this is what I’ve been missing!
@JSFGuy
@JSFGuy Ай бұрын
Got a notice this time.
@jessehamm3573
@jessehamm3573 Ай бұрын
1:12 Wrong. Not at the "cost of maneuverability". Just speed. Multiplanes have always been noted for being slower but more agile than their single-wing counterparts.
@jbrown2905
@jbrown2905 Ай бұрын
As I’ve heard it that large hump behind the pilot was a crash/ roll bar kind of detail. One can tell from just looking at the overall weight configuration that this had a propensity to snap over onto its nose. If you watch the videos on the history of the Flying Tigers, they depict the P-26 with nationalist markings so that’s where they got the experience of dueling with Zeroes.
@ronaldbyrne3320
@ronaldbyrne3320 Ай бұрын
Very educational, thank you. It’s a cute airplane with gorgeous paint schemes, I need to build a model or two of it. ☺️
@sundragon7703
@sundragon7703 Ай бұрын
The only highlight missing on the design was a chrome trim. Epic "golden age" design.
@hawkdsl
@hawkdsl Ай бұрын
How bizarre is it, that barn storming was actually a thing.
@leonardwilliams8109
@leonardwilliams8109 Ай бұрын
The best part of this post is the color photo at the beginning.
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
That's silly and greatly exaggerated. But it IS a really nice shot.
@robertmatch6550
@robertmatch6550 Ай бұрын
This appears to be one of the more fact-based efforts of this channel which normally does not get much trust from me.
@russellhowie195
@russellhowie195 Ай бұрын
Well done boys!
@guitarshredddddder91
@guitarshredddddder91 Ай бұрын
I'll see you guys in Warthunder 👌🤘
@chochonubcake
@chochonubcake 21 күн бұрын
Biplanes are slower than monoplanes, but turn tighter because of their smaller wingspan.
@pyreneesfarm7818
@pyreneesfarm7818 Ай бұрын
twin engines made the pilots feel much more calm, because the fan on the front of a single engine aircraft help keep the cockpit cool, as evidence by how much hotter the pilots felt when the cooling fan in front stopped turning, and with two fans, they felt like the AC would work better
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
I do hope that was intended to be a joke.
@pyreneesfarm7818
@pyreneesfarm7818 Ай бұрын
@@JamesThompson-zk1ht Umm, yes. but there are always a a few who have no humor in their life, so they have hissy fits.
@bluelionsage99
@bluelionsage99 Ай бұрын
Wow. Weird to hear that Boing could only get three fuel injectors for that production run of 2s/3s.
@not-fishing4730
@not-fishing4730 Ай бұрын
I've always wondered what the difference in being able to see incoming enemies vs an enclosed cockpit.
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
... While I have always wondered how it is that so many people don't seem to notice that what they've written is essentially incomprehensible, due to their sentences being incomplete. And that gets me wondering how that can happen without it being noticed that the thoughts themselves which inspired the sentences are also incomplete and therefore incomprehensible. And that gets me to wondering no more at the fact that nearly an entire third of the American population consistently votes against its own interests, for party platforms which also make no sense, as they are full of lies and simply don't add up.
@ivanhicks887
@ivanhicks887 Ай бұрын
Thankyou
@jimm6188
@jimm6188 Ай бұрын
I like your videos and subscribe to your channel, but it would be nice if your clips had more to do with the subject matter. Thanks
@pyreneesfarm7818
@pyreneesfarm7818 Ай бұрын
Serious question here, are there any "peashooters" still flying? imagine one at any of the national fly ins?
@MikeHunt-fo3ow
@MikeHunt-fo3ow Ай бұрын
Boeing has alot to answer for
@BleachDemon69
@BleachDemon69 Ай бұрын
its one few good US planes in war thunder for low tier gameplay, now if it had 50 cal thing be OP
@proberttemporum4542
@proberttemporum4542 Ай бұрын
Model 15, one of its all-metal aircraft with steel tube fuselage and wooden wings. So not actually all-metal then
@jamestajiri58
@jamestajiri58 Ай бұрын
The brass demanded that that drag generating support wires be added that were not necessary given the cantilever wing design and the single-bank radial engine was like a parachute, both of which gave the "fighter" plane a top speed of 230mph which was no better than the B-10 bomber at that time. 😮
@leohorishny9561
@leohorishny9561 Ай бұрын
I mean, looking at it, the overall shape is a slightly saner GB racing plane fuselage.🤔
@pyreneesfarm7818
@pyreneesfarm7818 Ай бұрын
The fact that two wings that close together did not give twice the lift or maneuverability were also detriments
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
What on earth are you talking about?
@pyreneesfarm7818
@pyreneesfarm7818 Ай бұрын
@@JamesThompson-zk1ht the airflow over two surfaces close together creates interference with each of them. On paper, it works, but the physical dynamic of two wings cutting into the same air is such that they will interfere with each other. the larger gaining the advantage in air flow, but creating a pressure wave that causes reduced lift for the upper or smaller one. a single wide wing does not have that issue.
@mothmagic1
@mothmagic1 Ай бұрын
It wasn't weird for its time.
@memkiii
@memkiii Ай бұрын
Some fact checking necessary here I'm afraid. EG "The Boeing model 15. One of its early *all metal aircraft.* Employing a steel tube fuselage & wooden wings", All metal? Not even remotely correct, it just used steel tubing for the fuselage, which it "borrowed" directly from Fokker (they used the DVII as "inspiration"), and which Fokker had been using on their fighters for years. The rest of the construction was fabric covered wood, and since there were only ever 157 made, it hardly seems to warrant a mention. That said, even fewer P-26 were made.. Just 151. Hardly a world changer.
@ScooterFXRS
@ScooterFXRS Ай бұрын
How far the mighty have fallen.
@xfirehurican
@xfirehurican Ай бұрын
Respect.
@adriaanboogaard8571
@adriaanboogaard8571 Ай бұрын
It looks like something out of a old Bugs bunny cartoon. Or a flying beer can.
@stevemcdonald1033
@stevemcdonald1033 Ай бұрын
It looks very much, at first glance, like the GeeBee Special, a stubby little racing plane from 1930 that could go 300 MPH. Some of the inspiration for the P26 design must have come from it. It used the same type of WASP radial engine. The GeeBee Special was very unstable in some situations and caused the deaths of several pilots. Jimmy Doolittle was the only one back then who mastered the art of flying it and landing in one piece. I wonder if any of the P26s are still in existence and are flyable?
@WALTERBROADDUS
@WALTERBROADDUS Ай бұрын
That's a stretch. The visual resemblance is not really there.
@WALTERBROADDUS
@WALTERBROADDUS Ай бұрын
It's not a rotary engine. It's a radial engine.
@stevemcdonald1033
@stevemcdonald1033 Ай бұрын
@@WALTERBROADDUS Right you are, correction made. I still thinks it looks a lot like the GeeBee Special.
@brianpesci
@brianpesci Ай бұрын
Notice at the 1:22 mark of the video, when turning the propeller, the entire engine moves.
@Endidixknsej
@Endidixknsej Ай бұрын
It’s known as a rotary
@michaellinner7772
@michaellinner7772 Ай бұрын
And that was the last time they had a contest at the local Grammar School District's locations, to see if the kids could design a better plane. Well almost the last 😉
@wullieg7269
@wullieg7269 Ай бұрын
polikarov?
@jill-ti7oe
@jill-ti7oe Ай бұрын
👍
@stevenleek1254
@stevenleek1254 Ай бұрын
Obsolete when introduced, under gunned, slow, and very limited combat encounters. Only one kill in the Phillipines. Who wrote your text?
@Page-Hendryx
@Page-Hendryx Ай бұрын
Well the Chinese used them against the Japanese.
@subdawg1331
@subdawg1331 Ай бұрын
wow
@aussie6910
@aussie6910 29 күн бұрын
Calling it Peashooter was not a compliment either.
@harryrabbit2870
@harryrabbit2870 Ай бұрын
Somewhat misleading post. WW1 combat aircraft were NOT less agile than metal fixed-wing monoplanes. That is utter crap. And all the combatants continued to produce and use biplanes right up to WW2. However, in fighter combat, the speed, power and firepower that could be packed into metal framed aircraft could not be matched by their biplane counterparts. Not only increased powerplant horsepower but increased firepower made the wooden biplane obsolete. But literally any fighter aircraft from WW1 could turn inside modern aircraft. They just wouldn't be able to compete with the weapons and speed. Enjoyed the rest of the post though.
@debbie6353
@debbie6353 Ай бұрын
Looks like il 16 polykarpov
@mattclark6246
@mattclark6246 Ай бұрын
The p26 peashooter also lead to the f2a Buffalo And the f4f wildcat design And later the f6f hellcat The p26 peashooter was the prototype to the f2a & f4f Boing made the p26 But Grumman revised it under the f4f wildcat hellcat programs 🕊️ Of ✌️
@memkiii
@memkiii Ай бұрын
*Literally none of that is correct.* The bit regarding Boeing making the p-26 might have been if you actually wrote that. The Brewster Buffalo & the Grumman Wildcat designs had absolutely nothing at all to do with the Boeing P26. Brewster & Grumman neither revised the P-26 design nor used it to build their prototypes. Grumman already had the F3F, (also nothing to do with the P-26). That is what the F4-f was building on. The F-4f was a design intended to compete with the Brewster F2a, a competition that it initially lost.
@WALTERBROADDUS
@WALTERBROADDUS Ай бұрын
​@@memkiiithumbs up to you. I don't know where that guy was making stuff up from?
@holiday1
@holiday1 17 күн бұрын
This isn't accurate. No P shooters had a dog fight with any Japanese planes. Only a couple of p40's and p36's made it up in the air.
@Purvis-dw4qf
@Purvis-dw4qf Ай бұрын
Didn't China have a few of these before WWII?
@choppergirl
@choppergirl Ай бұрын
1:16 An aircraft channel with 626K subscribers that calls a triplane a biplane... Yeah, I think I'll saunter back to my friend Greg's Airplanes & Automobiles...
@user-is1ze7qp5b
@user-is1ze7qp5b Ай бұрын
What?!...
@mikesiver1950
@mikesiver1950 Ай бұрын
Which came first: The Peashooter or the Gee Bee? They both look almost identical. Were they related?
@christopherrobinson7541
@christopherrobinson7541 Ай бұрын
Gee Bee, with a much bigger engine.
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
The Gee Bee spawned the Peashooter. The Peashooter in turn was sent home from WWII and got busy, spawning several examples of the Bee Gee. Those were most successful when they were working together, as a unit, and it was in this formation that for a few years in the 1970s they found themselves employed all over the world. However, even at their most popular, many of the people who experienced them became very outspoken critics. Ultimately their many major design flaws became too apparent to be ignored any longer. Service contracts were simply not renewed, as they were replaced by far better performing tools of their trade, and they were retired to quieter, more peaceful locales.
@mikesiver1950
@mikesiver1950 Ай бұрын
@@JamesThompson-zk1ht Gee Bee, the airplane. Not Bee Gee, the brothers Gibb.
@WALTERBROADDUS
@WALTERBROADDUS Ай бұрын
They don't look anything alike.
@mikesiver1950
@mikesiver1950 Ай бұрын
@@WALTERBROADDUS Yeah, they do. Stubby rounded wings, fixed landing gear, big nose. Their first flights were even in the same year, 1932. The biggest difference was that the Gee Bee had an enclosed cockpit that sat way back near the tail and was a racer, not a fighter.
@stevenleek1254
@stevenleek1254 Ай бұрын
Is your text (narration) generated? No shocks here!
@usa3526
@usa3526 Ай бұрын
Your timeline is way off man. The i16 and bf109 fought way before the pshooter did in the Philippines. You make it sound like they all fight at the same time
@usa3526
@usa3526 Ай бұрын
The Soviets and Germans were way ahead in that regard
@Bailbondello
@Bailbondello Ай бұрын
Weird looking? No, it looks exactly like a 1930s period racing airplane should....
@maddhatter3564
@maddhatter3564 Ай бұрын
needed faster aircraft, true. But NOTHING matches the bi plane for manuverability.
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
Um... ? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you're saying that was the saving grace of the Peashooter - that although we did need something faster, the Peashooter, as a biplane, was unmatched for maneuverability. Right? Is that what you're saying? Or did I miss something?
@mikepxg6406
@mikepxg6406 5 күн бұрын
Radials were not the answer.
@mingfanzhang8927
@mingfanzhang8927 Ай бұрын
😊❤😊❤😊❤😊
@mingfanzhang4600
@mingfanzhang4600 Ай бұрын
😊❤😊❤😊❤😊
@jonniez62
@jonniez62 Ай бұрын
95 RS, kicking mules
@tis7963
@tis7963 Ай бұрын
Maybe don't show a Fokker DR.1, a triplane, as an example of a biplane.
@guypehaim1080
@guypehaim1080 Ай бұрын
I think the P-26 got its name from the form of its gunsight which was a tube just forward of the windscreen.
@WALTERBROADDUS
@WALTERBROADDUS Ай бұрын
Nope. It was a common bit of technology for other aircraft.
@nightlightabcd
@nightlightabcd Ай бұрын
In War Thunder, you start with the Pea Shooter!
@janrobertbos
@janrobertbos Ай бұрын
...nah...the FOKKER D7 DID...
@AlexWhitman-ep1sk
@AlexWhitman-ep1sk Ай бұрын
Meanwhile in Germany...
@jamesragus1577
@jamesragus1577 Ай бұрын
Complimentary algorithm enhancement comment!😊
@rocketshipsoapys
@rocketshipsoapys Ай бұрын
Does anyone else look what you’re saying against what is being shown. You need help.
@pinkyellowblue007
@pinkyellowblue007 Ай бұрын
It's not weird looking, not even weird for the period.
@paulhelman2376
@paulhelman2376 Ай бұрын
why is the narator so portentious. Why not a simple conversational approach?
@JamesThompson-zk1ht
@JamesThompson-zk1ht Ай бұрын
*narrator Pretentious is a word. Portentous is also a word. Portentious is not a word. Great example of the fact that no, the reader is not always automatically able to figure out what you mean when you are too lazy and inconsiderate to proofread your writing and correct your mistakes.
@jayg1438
@jayg1438 Ай бұрын
Can we stop using 'insane' and 'shocked'? And BTW a lot of aircraft looked like this in the era. You make good videos, but your video names are trashy click bait.
@ohwell2790
@ohwell2790 Ай бұрын
Who writes the captions for these videos? A child?
@auro1986
@auro1986 Ай бұрын
when you didn't have nazi technology, best you did was make ugly aircrafts to scare them away
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@vincedibona4687 Ай бұрын
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