The Royal Navy's Sea Venom Was One Of The Best Straight Winged Jet Fighters

[@sangomasmith]

"It was intended to be an interim" invariably means that it will stay in service until the heat death of the universe.

[@eyerollthereforeiam1709]

There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program. Something I heard somewhere, but I can't remember where.

[@sergeipohkerova7211]

"I feel attacked." - Fw 190D

[@NoName-ds5uq]

@@eyerollthereforeiam1709sounds like a line from Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister! 🤣

[@TheAnxiousAardvark]

@@eyerollthereforeiam1709 Worked for a tech company where a temporary workaround could become the official solution.

[@gregbailey1753]

​@@eyerollthereforeiam1709Ronald Reagan used it often.

[@pencilpauli9442]

Narrator: "...a belly landing that ended up in the Nile..." Me: Bloody hell that was one hell of an overshoot! Narrator: "...on barrier." Me: "Oh. That makes more sense!"

[@TheWombat40]

You seem to have your RAN carriers mixed up a tad. The Australian government did purchase a Majestic Class carrier in 1948 but the was HMS Terrible, recommissioned as HMAS Sydney. Sydney operated Firefly, Sea Fury and Sycamore aircraft off the coast of Korea. Another Majestic class carrier was purchased in the early 1950s, this was Majestic recommissioned as Melbourne and was delivered in about 1955, operating Sea Venom, Gannets and Wessex. Whilst awaiting the delivery of Majestic/Melbourne the RAN used the carrier HMS Vengeance. The Sea Venom was operated by the RANAS squadrons VS 805 and VC 724 (724 was the second line/training) squadron. The Sea Venom was retired by the RAN at the start of 1975. I joined the apprentices school (HMAS Nirimba) in mid 1975 and we had a Sea Venom as one of our training aircraft (the other being a DC3)

[@RCAvhstape]

"Forced to wait in their sinking aircraft until the carrier had passed overhead before jettisoning the canopy and swimming to the surface." Now that is some weapons grade nightmare fuel right there!

[@wbertie2604]

After the second time you might consider your position as a pilot or navigator...

[@thekinginyellow1744]

I hope they were awarded dolphins!

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

I’m amazed they could make it to the surface, encumbered as they must have been with those massive balls of steel…

[@richardvernon317]

The V bomber used on Musketeer was the Valiant!!

[@ComradeKiwii]

videos never let down keep it up

[@sixstringedthing]

I'm just a somewhat enthusiastic armchair pilot from the colonies so I suppose it's no real surprise that I'd never heard of the Sea Venom. But mate, I love the fact that you're quite willing to let your own interests and fascinations with obscure variants drive the direction of the channel. Feels like a perfect mix between "TV docos, but when they were good" and "KZbin, but how it used to be". Keep up the fine work, cheers from Sydney. 👍 ed: never really got into D&D (not yet anyway), but as someone who has played the original Ghosts & Goblins I'd suggest that both should definitely be feared.

[@cabanford]

I loved watching the Swiss Vampires fly around the Matterhorn until the early 2000s. A work of art ❤

[@willemsma]

Rumanian vampires have kept me away many nights.

[@neilturner6749]

Wasn’t that Venoms and not Vampires that the Swiss kept in service for so long?

[@cabanford]

@@neilturner6749 Was just going to add, might have been Venoms... (did the Swiss have both?) From the ground they look identical. 🙂👍

[@sadwingsraging3044]

Why the 🤬 can't I throw money at a content provider like this? A man does good work I like to do my part showing how much I appreciate his hard work and his service to keeping history alive!

[@Freesavh1776]

Ever since I saw the P-38 Fork tail devil I've been in love with twin boom planes. The Venom & Vixen were just like a natural growth of the P-38. I know that it wasn't but it definitely seemed that way. Dehavilin made a mono tail jet using the center fuselage of the venom.

[@theoccupier1652]

Don't talk rubbish ... the UK twin Booms were not a natural growth from the P38 ... some people talk nothing but Sh1t

[@tonyhaynes9080]

I remember as a young boy in the sixties, going to Gaydon airshow with my dad and having my photo taken in one. Where have all the years and dreams gone?

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

A wonderful historical coverage video about British Sea Venom Fighter

[@petesheppard1709]

Very good, sir! I've always had a soft spot for these odd-looking aircraft. The single-seaters are cute, but the NFs are...'dumpy' at best. Still, remarkable performance and service!

[@roo72]

Almsot forgot! Chilling around a campfire after a long hike. Greeting from Port Moorowie, South Australia.

[@willemsma]

Simon says: Who is Almsot?

[@roo72]

@@willemsma My best mate.

[@sixstringedthing]

​@@roo72You and me and the bottle makes three? Or just Me, Myself and I?

[@griff2162]

Ah, I love when it doesn't rain. Not a pound of water from air to ground today..

[@manuelkatsos5104]

Another great episode.!!!!! Keep it up. How about a video about the F105 and its Mig killing exploits during Rolling Thunder when it shot down 27.5 Mig 17s during strike missions over Route Pack 6 North Vietnam

[@VeeTaperTemplar]

Great Channel and even better narration, Americans love being explained things through a English Accent 😂😂 Captures our attention 4sure

[@mizake01]

Que?

[@ekscalybur]

Been watching your videos for years, thanks for making them!

[@davedaihatsu2585]

1:23 October 1956, Malayan Emergency, de Havilland Venom FB.1 fighter-bombers of No. 14 Squadron RNZAF, based at RAF Tengah Singapore, starting up for a mission using Coffman starters.

[@thekinginyellow1744]

I love the smell of cartridge starts in the morning. It smells like cough, hack, gag, choke, nevermind ...

[@MM22966]

1:34 Holy shit, that start-up....When engines stopped smoking on start-up, the ground crews must have felt disorientated as to whether or not the engine had turned over, lol!

[@maxcleveland3446]

That's the smoke from the cartridge starting system.

[@JGCR59]

What can I say, I am looking forward to your video each friday and as usual it was very well done

[@PaulP999]

In the early seventies I stumbled upon Swiss Venoms doing strafe practise on a floating target in a lake alongside the road I was on. I liked seeing the gun flashes before hearing the shots.

[@originalSPECTER]

One of the coolest looking aircraft. Love that tail configuration!

[@thekinginyellow1744]

It always amazed me that that whole series of aircraft had any rudder authority with those tiny little vertical stabs. Reminds me of those toothpick, string, and tissue paper aircraft from WWI

[@michaelfrench3396]

She's a pretty sweet video. Thanks for the hard work! You know it occurs to me every time I see a picture of a British or American aircraft carrier from early '60s through the mid '70s. I can't help but think how goddamn good those aircraft. Look with a black radio. The A6 intruder looked badass with that black nose. The sea venom looks badass with that black nose. Just my two cents. Hope everybody has a great weekend!

[@martinboland810]

The Melbourne was in service until the early 1980's It was the Sydney that decommissioned in the '70's (and had been a troop transport for years beforehand)

[@NickRatnieks]

Back in 1971, when I was revising for my O Levels, one of these- a trainer would go around and around over our house in Southsea on a circuit. I did pop out to see it once or twice and it was ultimately replaced by a Sea Vixen at HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent where it was based. I saw a lot more of that aircraft- a very big beast.

[@Ensign_Cthulhu]

I read somewhere that very late Sea Venoms in British service had Firestreak heat-seeking AAMs.

[@coreyandnathanielchartier3749]

Although many state they've never heard of this jet, older types as myself are quite familiar with it as it's been written up quite extensively in many books over the years. An example is 'Great Carrier Aircraft' 1996 Peter Darman ed. Also covers the Sea Hawk in some detail. The problem is, no one reads books any more, and the 'information highway' turned out to be a propaganda tool commercialized to the nth degree. Appreciate your efforts in the compilation and presentation of this doco.

[@stevepirie8130]

No ejection seat? Brave pilots

[@TyrannoJoris_Rex]

Yeah guess just hope that if you ever have to bail out, you can pull into a shallow climb and roll inverted so you don't get sucked into the wing intakes or get hit by the tail boom

[@wellitsjustG]

Excellent, very enjoyable

[@Retroscoop]

"At least, the second time was no surprise" :)) Lovely :)

[@MM22966]

Okay, but Sea Venom is ultimately derivative and a poor copy of Sea Spider-Man.

[@malcolmseigmiller1622]

I would love for you to talk about the mig23 or mig 29 you mentioned them in your soviet design Bureau video

[@toda304]

i had the pleasure of dismantling a sea venom to be shipped to a new museum when ours closed ,.a beautifully built aircraft. ours served on the HMAS Melbourne.

[@theoccupier1652]

I had a shock when I was at RNAS Culdose while looking round a Venom & SAH (school of aircraft handling) ... The whole forward fuselage was made of Plywood ... whodathunkit!

[@rodneyjackson7147]

The older i get they just get more and more beautiful!

[@AaronStuartHall]

Love the D&D reference 😂

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Even though i think, as a fighting ship concept, CATOBAR carriers are approaching obsolescence, I do love seeing old British CATOBAR carriers in action 😊 As for why it's approaching obsolescence, deploying a wide variety of full size manned aircraft off a carrier is what's becoming obsolete. We're fast getting to the point off not needing _manned_ AEW&C, manned aerial tankers, manned combat air patrol. Specialist (or modular) large UAVs can take over all those tasks and the miniature EMALS cats that they're planning to add to the QE class is much more efficient. In space, in fuel efficiency, in cost, in stealth, in autonomy and in capability.

[@jamess3241]

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[@jamess3241]

BINGE* WATCHED

[@jamess3241]

Well versed IN aircraft lol

[@jamess3241]

When Biden came in office he cut a whole bunch of defense spending, and that at my job opportunities way back. I don't have a lot of money to my name right now, but if I did I would give you as much as I possibly could afford. You're very strongly deserve to be paid for the content you're putting out. Sometimes I even feel guilty for not paying to support the channel. Play avett brothers, I would if I could. Hopefully I'll be able to soon again. Vote for Trump lol

[@jamess3241]

I use talk to text, and "Play avett brothers" was supposed to say "BELIEVE ME BROTHER"

[@PeterMuskrat6968]

Claiming to have the best straight winged jet is like claiming to have the best trapdoor rifle conversion... everyone else is already using Repeaters.

[@allancarey2604]

Mmmmm…..1st the Air forces, now the Navies…..are you stoking Australia/Canada beef again? Or was the Sabre vids a little to much fun *grins*(challenge for you now is to find an army related one :) )

[@sengalsolutions7386]

HMAS Melbourne retired from service in 1982, not 1970! 😊

[@Crissy_the_wonder]

9:14 it Valiants not Victors joining Canberras in high-level bombing

[@glennridsdale577]

Absolutely no Venoms were replaced by Swifts. Only one fighter squadron were unfortunate to use the latter (56 Sqn) and then only as an evaluation - they didn't relinquish their Meteors until the Hunter F.5 arrived in May 1955. The only two operational Swift units were 2 and 79 Sqns, neither of which ever used Venoms either.

[@AC_702]

A D&D reference! Nice!

[@lessonslearned2569]

Those of us who have played Ghost's Goblins will say, "Well, actually...."

[@yakacm]

I've not play D&D, but I've played Ghosts' n' Goblins? 😆

[@haley746]

Angry AVGN noises

[@enscroggs]

No ejection seat? And I thought P-38 pilots had it bad. At least they didn't risk being rotisseried by jet exhaust.

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

Yet in 1962 when the Iraqi lunatic dictator colonel Kassem tried to seize Kuwait, those SeaVenom fighters scared him into backing down.

[@scottessery100]

1:30 coal fired?

[@Sturminfantrist]

Cartridge Start!

[@tnesp]

1:30 The Venom's diesel propulsion gets too little attention. Rolling coal to the skies!

[@chriscarbaugh3936]

What about against the Grumman F9F Panther?

[@jimdavis8391]

The panther had no radar, so it was not comparable.

[@tetraxis3011]

Its like a better Vampire.

[@neilturner6749]

It’s not like a better Vampire. It literally IS a better Vampire!

[@tetraxis3011]

@@neilturner6749 Yeah….god the vampire sucked.

[@johncitizen306]

​@@tetraxis3011 wtf are you talking about? The vampire was a fantastic aircraft for it's day

[@tetraxis3011]

@@johncitizen306 No it wasn’t. It was really slow for a jet(still better than piston aircraft). Also it became obsolete rather quickly

[@johncitizen306]

@@tetraxis3011 easily the best of the first jets, it's speed wasn't record breaking by any means but the first jet engines were terrible it first flew in 1943 ffs so hence fantastic aircraft FOR IT'S TIME stop judging it via hindsight

[@waynesworldofsci-tech]

Yep, Ghosts are more powerful than Goblins. LOL. You made me laugh with that one.

[@yes_head]

Let's face it: ALL carrier born "fighters" of the early 50's were dogs. Some just barked a bit louder than others!

[@AT-ni4sf]

God it's almost as ugly as the swedish Tunnan😅😅 But thx for another great interesting video. Keep them coming😎🤙

[@TyrannoJoris_Rex]

Ohhh I do _not_ like that nose gear spinning like that at the start of the video...

[@RedneckSpaceman]

I'm always making fun of the Brits..calling them "Limeys" and other names...fact is that those Brits knew (still know) how to design & build some badass planes! Same for their Engines! The Merlins and Griffons by Rolls Royce turned the Yank P-51s into Deadly Killers!! With proper techniques, P-51s were able to hold their own against he ME-262 Jets. Though the ME-262 had turbo-jets, the airframe was inferior to the P-51 also the P-51 was far more maneuverable!!