I think 13k aircrew is not a insignificant number and this aircraft and it's crews deserve much more recognition
@dabrab8 ай бұрын
Quite remarkable to think that the equivalent of over 1,850 seven-man bomber crews were saved. I had heard of the Warwick but thanks to Ed to bringing it to our attention and telling its story.
@Luddite-vd2ts8 ай бұрын
Thanks for this programme @Military Matters. The air sea rescue function gets almost no mention. As you say, it lacks glamour. However, these guys had to perform when, by definition, weather was often at its worst as that was often a contributing factor to aircraft crashing. So they would have flown in the most atrocious of conditions in order to try to save their comrades. The book, 'Dinghy Drop, 279 Squadron RAF 1941-1946' covers some of this for those wanting further reading.
@johnhudghton35358 ай бұрын
That is a huge number of aircrew. Star performer.
@jackdaniel74658 ай бұрын
Looks like a pretty stout aircraft!! 🇺🇸👍
@johnhudghton35358 ай бұрын
@@jackdaniel7465 they were constructed like the Wimpy. They were constructed geodetically which made them as tough as old boots.
@DaveGIS1238 ай бұрын
My dad flew air-sea rescue patrols with 280 Squadron, RAF. The squadron re-equipped with Vickers Warwicks in October 1943 but, before this, 280 used Avro Ansons. My dad said it was a helpless feeling, going to war in a plane that couldn't fight and couldn't run away. The Annies were only just capable of doing the job. The inflatable dinghies they carried were so big, the Annies had to fly with their bomb flaps open, because they couldn't close the doors! Even though the Anson was designed as a maritime patrol aircraft, their range was too short for them to patrol the North Sea for very long, so they patrolled closer to the UK shore, while longer-ranged and better-armed aircraft like the Lockheed Hudson patrolled closer to the enemy coast. The much larger and capable Warwicks were a welcome replacement.
@wbnc668 ай бұрын
Few aircraft get the glory of saving live in wartime. But when someone looks up and sees a big beautiful aircraft dropping a life raft that means they don't end up as fish food...that's a truly worthy achievement.
@bobroberts61558 ай бұрын
I love that the human side of operations is reflected in these videos, the summing up was very well judged. My father was a mid upper gunner in Lancasters (83 Pathfinder Sqdn) but it was only operation Dodge, the repatriation of 8th Army personnel from Italy to England, that he liked to talk about. As they neared the coast he would invite these men, who had endured years of bloody fighting in the Mediterranean theatre, into his turret one by one for a first sight of home. He never forgot their reaction to this small act of empathy.
@larry47898 ай бұрын
My dad was with 83 Squadron at the same time. He'd transferred there from 61 Squadron in June 1945 to train for Tiger Force after the Germans surrendered. He met my mother there, who was a WAAF and they married in Horncastle in 1946. I have photos of him from 61 Squadron at Skellingthorpe but none from Coningsby and he couldn't remember his new crews names. The best man at mum and dad's wedding was another ex 61 Squadron rear gunner. Small world eh ?
@bobroberts61558 ай бұрын
@@larry4789 Same story here, Dad trained for Tiger Force, had his tropical kit issued and jabs before the A bombs were dropped and Japan surrendered. Interesting how that transfer led to your parents meeting. Dad thought that Tiger force would suffer heavy casualties and that I owe my existence to the atom bomb. Strange to think our fathers might have trained together and rubbed shoulders in the mess, unless yours was an officer of course!
@ottermanuk8 ай бұрын
13,000 flight crew back into planes to fight again, all for the cost of 100 airframes you could use in anger anyway, yep it doesn't sound glamorous but absolutely crucial.
@Sturminfantrist8 ай бұрын
iam sure the 13.000 werent flightcrews only but also alot of Sailors from sunken ships
@pavarottiaardvark34318 ай бұрын
Well the 13000 will include some axis aircrews (the sea does not take sides, neither do rescuers), so it's more "an extra farmhand" than "a pilot back in the fight"
@bowser5158 ай бұрын
Some planes just look right, and the Wellington was definitely one of those. It was beautiful and graceful. The Warwick was also that, but looked a little angry at the same time. Thank you for this one. It definitely deserves more recognition.
@chunkblaster8 ай бұрын
Lmao the wellington looks angry??
@bowser5158 ай бұрын
@@chunkblaster No...?
@chunkblaster8 ай бұрын
@@bowser515 i reread your comment and you're right, you said the Warwick looked angry, my b
@bowser5158 ай бұрын
@@chunkblaster That's okay lol.
@offshoretomorrow33468 ай бұрын
It would never have occurred to me that anyone could find the Wellington "elegant". 'Homemade', maybe.
@bigblue69178 ай бұрын
Sometimes the wrong aircraft is the right aircraft it just needs placing in the right roles.
@neilcoligan86218 ай бұрын
Hey Finland, say hello to the Brewster Buffalo!
@NoName-ds5uq8 ай бұрын
CAC Boomerang, not a lot of use as the emergency fighter it was designed to be, but great at CAS!
@bigblue69178 ай бұрын
@@NoName-ds5uq As I said. Once you've found its niche just stand back and leave them to it. It would have been interesting to have seen the CA-15 in action.
@bigblue69178 ай бұрын
@@neilcoligan8621 That's another aircraft which was flown by many countries was did not get the recognition it deserved.
@NoName-ds5uq8 ай бұрын
@@bigblue6917 that would’ve been a sight! It’s such a shame it took so long in development.
@agrivator59018 ай бұрын
I never got to meet my grandfather but I know from his log book that he spent ww2 as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in Coastal Command operating various aircraft like Ansons, Whitleys, Wellingtons and Liberators. He also had logged time on both Warwick’s and a Defiant so it was great to see both in this video. The Defiant had me wondering if it was gunner training or Air Sea Rescue. Later in 1946, he was on a Liberator involved in the search for a missing Quantas Lancastrian airliner that went missing over the Indian Ocean carrying some of the Avro bigwigs to Australia. Might be an interesting story for a future video…?
@timdavies52198 ай бұрын
if anyone is interested ... the only figures I can find about the Airborne Lifeboat drops are: 113 dropped (of which 15 were from USAF B17s, the rest from RAF Warwicks and Hudsons). 61 were successfully boarded by at least one survivor. So if we guesstimate an average of 6 men boarding that would be 360 -ish aircrew saved directly by the lifeboats. There are many accounts of the survivors being simply too exhausted to make it to the boat or the the drop just going wrong, the boat sinking etc.. The operation was often fraught with difficulties, but could work if everything went well. (info from RAF historian Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork's book, "Shot Down and in the Drink") Amazingly there is a story of a Warwick crew who dropped a lifeboat successfully on survivors, and were then shot down by Luftwaffe fighters and took to their dinghy. They were eventually spotted by another Warwick which dropped a lifeboat, but it capsized .A third Warwick dropped another lifeboat and they managed to board. Another Warwick found them next day and was able to lead a Navy patrol craft to recover them!
@sergeipohkerova72118 ай бұрын
Its aggressive, purposeful lines make it look like a German plane. It kind of gives off Ju-86 vibes, like a Vickers Wellington and Dornier 217 hooked up at a dive and had a kid who grew up not wanting to talk to either of them anymore.😮
@X_eidos28 ай бұрын
My father flew the Warwick SAR version during WW2. He flew in the MTO as a member of RAF sq. 284. He dropped his lifeboat to a downed. Spitfire pilot off the coast of N. Italy. High winds prevented the parachutes from detaching properly and they drug the boat away before the pilot got onboard. The pilot got rescued by HSL.
@thatsme98758 ай бұрын
hooray, I am first to respond !!! Ed, please keep up the great work, your productions are very very informative. I have never heard of the Vickers Warwick, which seems to be another black hole in aviation history.....
@yaragi8 ай бұрын
Fascinating! It must have been such a relief seeing one drop a boat and supplies whilst drifting in the sea cold and extremely miserable.. I suppose it's not bad for morale to know that if you ditch, someone is going to try and help.
@CrusaderSports2508 ай бұрын
It also gives you the incentive to push that bit harder, getting the job done, crew protection/rescue is an often overlooked area but can be more influential in achieving an objective than having the best available kit.
@stevecastro132523 күн бұрын
100% agree about beauty being in the eye of the beholder. I worked on forest fire crews, and the standard was the Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey”. It was a pudgy slow thing vs. the sexy Apache and Cayuse, but it took us into and out of the fire (literally!), dropped us food, water, first aid and fire fighting gear, and took our exhausted, dirty and injured bodies back to base camp. I really do love those chubby birds!
@brianknowles71308 ай бұрын
My father was a ground engineer assigned to 283 SQ. in Malta and worked on these Warwicks. The first demo in Malta of dropping an under slung 'boat' to downed aircrew ended with it being turned into a pile of floating matchsticks ! There is an example of one of these 'boats' in an aviation museum in Norfolk, UK. Thks
@johnforsyth79878 ай бұрын
Thank you for another very informative video about an aircraft I did not know before your excellent video.
@petesheppard17098 ай бұрын
Your one-sentence closing is powerful in its eloquent simplicity. I wonder how much of its relative anonymity was simply due to confusion with the Wellie. In US vernacular, such rescue aircraft were nicknamed 'DUMBOS' and were employed in the Pacific, as well as postwar. For those whose knowledge is as patchy as mine, the Double Wasp is the R-2800.
@AnthonyEvelyn8 ай бұрын
This is why I love this channel, I never knew about the Warwick.
@limbichostwax8 ай бұрын
There is never anything insignificant about search and rescue, it is one of the most vital and appreciated noncombat roles of any military service.
@washingtonradio8 ай бұрын
It's a role that even today doesn't get much coverage in the media even if the conditions are dangerous for the aircrew. Usually when it's mentioned it is part of another story such as the PBY that found the USS Indianapolis survivors. But the actual patrols and missions don't get a dedicated history.
@RetroGamesCollector8 ай бұрын
Unbelievable that such and important and useful plane could get largely forgotten. I'm glad you highlighted the many jobs it undertook. Great video Ed.
@carrickrichards24578 ай бұрын
Sunderlands and PBY Catalinas with much longer range, heavier payloads and sea landing option, did alot more (overall) to save lives and sink subs. You mention engine production constraints, but the issue was much more important than realised from todays perspective (Dad was in manufacturing throughout the war (Solex: Engines and other projects)).
@mgrzx33678 ай бұрын
Whenever I hear the name Warwick, I think of one man. Derek Warwick, racing driver. The way he spoke in interviews I would have guessed he was a Duke, Lord or Earl of Warwick. See they named a plane after him before he was born. He's that darn good.
@bensmith75368 ай бұрын
It looks like a Wellington in a tie and jacket.
@allandavis82015 ай бұрын
With all of the in development power plants that ultimately failed to meet expectations and were scrapped you would think that we were unable to get it right, but from the ashes a mighty world leading power plant industry has developed, perhaps even the best in the world, all those failures have not been for nothing. Thanks for another excellent article, interesting and informative. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦
@rednaughtstudios8 ай бұрын
Nicely done and a great ending.
@NoseyGitOnWheels8 ай бұрын
My dad was flying asr in Italy and flew Warwick's and walrus flying boats. He'd have definitely have approved of this video.
@boomslangCA8 ай бұрын
You're right Ed, we here love the workhorses. Thanks for this one.
@hawkertyphoon45378 ай бұрын
I always had a soft spot for the Wimpy´s younger, angrier Brother. Thank you for shining a Leigh-light on it!
@DaveSCameron8 ай бұрын
Thanks again Ed, you have just the correct span and details for my time and keep it coming please Sir 👍 📚 🇬🇧 🙏
@timdavies52198 ай бұрын
This has prompted me to look into the deployment of these airborne lifeboats and it is fascinating. The first were the Mk1s (71built) which fitted the Lockheed Hudson and were first used operationally in May '43. The Lifeboat-Warwicks used the Mk 1A (402) and later the larger Mk2 and 2A (241) and were operational from Oct '43. It was a very tricky operation...first the survivors had to be located of course, and the boat was dropped from about 700 feet. Large parachutes were deployed but the boat would still hit the sea at quite a rate and was sometimes damaged or turned over. (They were wooden after all!) During the drop a CO2 bottle was triggered which inflated the buoyancy chambers, and on reaching the water a battery switch would trigger 2 rockets (yes!) to fire out lines to either side for survivors to grab , and another rocket would fire out a line from the bow to deploy a sea anchor. If the boat was not close enough, or the sea/wind conditions were not helpful, the survivors did not always make it on board. Sometimes multiple drops were needed to save a crew. If they did make it, there were two small 2-stroke engines, or 1 larger engine in the later versions , and they could attempt to head to a friendly coast. The vast majority were picked up by patrol craft directed by the rescue plane. Perhaps Mr.Nash could give us a video about wartime Air-Sea rescue development? It's an interesting story.
@EdNashsMilitaryMatters8 ай бұрын
Lol I think you've provided the info already!
@timdavies52198 ай бұрын
@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters Sorry! I think in my over enthusiasm I have repeated some of the info that you already narrated in the video. Apologies.
@EdNashsMilitaryMatters8 ай бұрын
@@timdavies5219 Perfectly fine. Think you added some valuable extra info
@johndavey728 ай бұрын
Thanks Ed. I did know of this workhorse but only the tip of the iceberg , so to speak . But had no idea of it's prolonged gestation . Top man Ed.
@pavarottiaardvark34318 ай бұрын
The Warwick became an air-sea rescue plane, the Anson became a trainer, the Defiant and Henley became target tugs. Never waste a good airframe!
@CrusaderSports2508 ай бұрын
The Defiant also made a good night fighter, the Battle made a good target tug, which was about all it was good for!.
@pavarottiaardvark34318 ай бұрын
@@CrusaderSports250 This IS still good though. If you look at records from WW2 there are officers in the commonwealth writing to London going "got any more target tugs? we need more of them!"
@McRocket8 ай бұрын
You've done it again, Ed. Though I might(?) have heard of the Warwick. I had no idea it had Double Wasp engines (originally). Or that it performed so many interesting tasks with the RAF. Thank you. ☮
@adrianbruce29638 ай бұрын
I've always liked the non Wellington Vickers heavies but knew very little about them before. Well, thanks to this excellent video, I know a bit more now.
@radiosnail8 ай бұрын
Glad you told the Warwick's story.
@RichardShaw-p3d8 ай бұрын
Good video, my Grandfather was groundcrew on Warwick asr 281sq on Tiree. Thank you for posting.
@CrusaderSports2508 ай бұрын
A glamorous posting if ever there was! 😊.
@RichardShaw-p3d8 ай бұрын
@CrusaderSports250 I know, sent there in disgrace I think ! Still, at least as a youngster I was the only kid with an ASR Air drop Lifeboat spec box kite....
@JaymesEaston8 ай бұрын
As an aside to the role the Warwick played in saving 13,000 lives, you had a brief note of the role of speed-boats played in the channel. Something that was foreseen by none other than RAF Airman Shaw, nee T. E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia. Could you do a feature on this most remarkable man?
@bruceburns16728 ай бұрын
It is hard to believe in this day and age with the modern deindustrialized Britain we see today that Britain once had a massive aircraft industry.
@CrusaderSports2508 ай бұрын
We had massive industry!!.
@rickhobson32118 ай бұрын
Great vid! Thank you for producing these!
@Lord.Kiltridge8 ай бұрын
Alas, poor Warwick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times.
@minuteman41998 ай бұрын
I never would have guessed that the Wellington was the most produced British bomber. They certainly don't get the most coverage.
@rwd768 ай бұрын
When a Wellington and a B 26 love each other very much...
@flightlinemedia8 ай бұрын
Nice video Ed! Great B-roll footage in your video as well.
@mikepette44228 ай бұрын
The Vulture engine the bane of all bomber designs
@steveshoemaker63478 ай бұрын
Thanks Ed Nash and all of y'all excellent research that goes into making these video's 👍 Old F-4 2 Shoe🇺🇸
@nigelsmith73668 ай бұрын
Maybe Air sea rescue could do with a video all of its own
@RincetheWind8 ай бұрын
Speaking of SAR, could you maybe do a video on the Do 24? The last one was only recently brought into a museum.
@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus8 ай бұрын
Great video of a relatively unknown aircraft! It certainly looked the business in the later variants. 👍🏻
@ericgrace99958 ай бұрын
Thanks for adding to my store of knowledge.
@GARDENER428 ай бұрын
Silloth, Kirkbride & Anthorn airfields in Cumberland were stuffed full of new, unused Warwicks from mid 1944 on.
@richarddouglas6888 ай бұрын
Never even heard of this plane. Thank you for this video
@sapper828 ай бұрын
There is a Warwick on top of Cheviot in Northumberland, right beside the Scottish Border. It was on a ferry flight to be scrapped in 1941 when it struck the top of the hill in poor visibility.
@martindice54248 ай бұрын
Unsung and absolutely essential for saving lives. Planes like these are my favourites because they exemplify how the Allies approached waging war. Yes, there were many projects that turned out to be bloody useless for anything but there were many which failed at their specified job but turned out to be rather good at applications their original designers hadn’t even considered. Of course, the Axis did this also but the Allies were far better at it.
@HerbertTwack8 ай бұрын
Facinating video, on an aircraft I'd never previously heard of. That being said, I really want to hear more about the Fox boats.
@yes_head8 ай бұрын
Nice one, Ed. Thanks.
@Philliben19918 ай бұрын
My grandfather was a navigator and trained on Wellingtons, flew Halifax and Mosquito during the war and then post war flew on the Warwick.
@stuartcoleman10328 ай бұрын
Really interesting, I previously knew nothing about this plane, or its contribution..!
@bacarnal8 ай бұрын
As with a lot of good British aircraft that were delayed by engines that had major teething problems, this one goes on a long list. Would it be possible to make a video about U.S. engine development with successes and failures? Great job!!
@vickydroid8 ай бұрын
Love that RAF operational requirement for unglamourous bimbling along doing its job 😂
@SimonWallwork8 ай бұрын
Another very 'spot-on' video.
@dmcarpenter24708 ай бұрын
Ed: It would be interesting to see a vid on the many engines, which did not live up to the pre-build, calculated expectations. Secondarily, how many otherwise good aircraft designs failed, due to the planned engine not being up to snuff. We hear about this on several of your vids on aircraft. It would be interesting to see it in macro. Thanks
@jimdavis83918 ай бұрын
There's dozens of them and the reasons why they were dropped are hard to fathom.
@dmcarpenter24708 ай бұрын
@@jimdavis8391 Most of them were because, as I wrote, the engines did not live up to expectations. Ed has mentioned dozens on individual vids. That is why I suggested a roll up vid on that subject.
@scrumpydrinker8 ай бұрын
I think that the development of high output, high specific output engines were alway going to be a challenge regardless of the country that were developing them. You can point to the B 29 and HE 177 as examples as well.
@adrianbruce29638 ай бұрын
I do wonder if the failed engines like the RR Vulture would have been perfectly fine if developed in peacetime without the pressure forcing manufacturers to build rather than design and develop.
@michaelguerin568 ай бұрын
I first became aware of the Warwick when I read All Weather Mac, a most interesting book.
@KevTheImpaler8 ай бұрын
Please do a video on the Fairey Monarch engine.
@kevinfinn90868 ай бұрын
Really interesting ed one of your best
@micodyerski16218 ай бұрын
Yup. Enjoyed that. Thanx
@lachbullen80148 ай бұрын
It may not be as iconic as the Lancaster or the B17 but the Vickers Warwick did have a crucial role saving some 13000 + lives Is no small feet It's roll in the air search rescue servicer the equipment and the methods they developed in the second World War are still being use until the very day I guess there are some good things that do come out of war..
@GaryJohnWalker18 ай бұрын
Lindholme gear - developed at RAF Linholme - nowadays carved up into 3 adjacent prisons
@K1W1fly8 ай бұрын
Are the Prisons also joined together with long ropes? :)
@geordiedog17498 ай бұрын
I think Ive seen these before a lot but I just thought them to be Wimpies. Nice touch at the end. A few hours in a tiny dingy in the North Sea and the sight of a Warwick would be very, very welcome. I think I read somewhere that the Beaufort and mossie squadrons attacking Norway would regularly have the Warwick crews over for a thank you bash. Anyone confirm this?
@Mini13Mini8 ай бұрын
That is correct - usually 2 warwicks would sent in support of coastal command strikes by beaufighters or mosquitos off Norway. Being interested in beaufighters lead me to become aware of the Warwick. The crews were incredibly dedicated. Though standing off the coast to provide support there are accounts of them going in closer to try and assist but being caught be fighters or flak.
@geordiedog17498 ай бұрын
@@Mini13Mini Well, if they dropped me a boat in the middle of Dogger Bank while I was in nowt but my Mae West I’d certainly buy them a pint of ten.
@RemusKingOfRome8 ай бұрын
'WAR - WICK !" what a name, rolls off the tongue like a German Command :D..
@LukeBunyip8 ай бұрын
He's got a brother called Woderwick
@olivergs98408 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure German command struggled to produce it themselves
@gunner6788 ай бұрын
Warrick the second w nor pronounced😊
@IntrospectorGeneral8 ай бұрын
Possibly "VAR-ICK!" as a German command?
@timstoker8 ай бұрын
@@LukeBunyip his parents are Woger and Vewonica and they drive a wange wover.
@keithtarrier45588 ай бұрын
Excellent!
@gitfoad80328 ай бұрын
6:46 - my uncle flew on a KM-B-for-beer, I think soon after this 'photo. RIP.
@Ob1sdarkside8 ай бұрын
It's not a bad looking plane. The common theme of potentially great planes ruined by engine delays. Still, it did have a decent career
@paulelberfeld85258 ай бұрын
Awesome vid.👍
@stevenborham15848 ай бұрын
Before Ed had mentioned the stability issues I was wondering why this design hadn't sprouted a much bigger fin by the time the big Centaurus's had been installed. I have always tended to think the B-17's fin was basically the size norm for multi-engined aircraft. The FW-200 is another multi engined aircraft with a surprizingly small fin from the outset, and was never modified. Directional stabilisers never seem adequate enough with the Me-109's Nemo fin being a case in point.
@stevetournay61038 ай бұрын
Well the final German 109, the K, did have a taller fin. Not to mention the towering unit on the 209-II that was once intended to replace the 109 (look it up if you haven't seen one, it's a sexy beast...sort of a Bf109K/Fw190D mashup)...
@stevenborham15848 ай бұрын
That's about how the Me-109 should have looked all along. It looks better than the Ta-152 and a pitty it lost by 50kmh to the Dora. Thank you for reminding me of the 209, and I see its mentioned in another of Ed's videos.@@stevetournay6103
@stevepringle22958 ай бұрын
Beautiful plane.
@RobSchofield8 ай бұрын
Great Essay! 👍
@ianmcsherry52548 ай бұрын
A new one on me, even at my time of life. Very interesting.
Late, Centaurus models remind me of the Lockheed Neptune.
@olivergs98408 ай бұрын
Hi again Edd. Out of curiosity, have you found any further information on the South African Bomtrok design?
@EdNashsMilitaryMatters8 ай бұрын
Afraid not.
@jmevb608 ай бұрын
Just an opinion. I think the sabre was so beautifully elegant that arrogance crept in e.g. the enemy would fall over backwards at its elegance and a few more mph speed. Practicality as ai serviceable war machine seemed not much of a concern
@doctorshawzy64778 ай бұрын
nice work
@MrDino19538 ай бұрын
Never put your eggs in a basket with a Vulture.
@Philistine478 ай бұрын
This seems to be a difference between American and British military procurement during the war: both countries had plenty of failed projects (in the air services, many of those in both countries would be due to developmental engines not developing as hoped), but while the UK response to discovering a new combat aircraft wasn't going to meet their needs was to look desperately for any _other_ roles the type might fill, the US approach was to cancel the whole program and fill their "less glamorous" needs (roles like VIP transport, air-sea rescue, and maritime patrol) with adaptations of the types it was building by the thousands anyway.
@CrusaderSports2508 ай бұрын
Made possible by having a very large production Base and one that wasn't having the Germans constantly doing their best to close it down.!.
@Philistine478 ай бұрын
@@CrusaderSports250 Maybe it's just me, but I think that seems like an even better argument for maximizing your industrial output by concentrating on building fewer types of kit in greater numbers.
@ivanconnolly73328 ай бұрын
Life's too short .
@patrickl21958 ай бұрын
Vickers Warwick: Keep calm and bimble on.
@briancavanagh70488 ай бұрын
The dropable rescue dingy looks like it has a bow sprint. Any more details on this vessel?
@chrisstuart84838 ай бұрын
Have a read of Uffa Fox’s biography
@MM229668 ай бұрын
This is a twist: Usually prop-transports evolve into bombers, not the other way around!
@chunkblaster8 ай бұрын
This has to be the first ever instance of "reliability issues" and "double wasp" being used in the same sentence ive ever experienced
@EdNashsMilitaryMatters8 ай бұрын
The early ones had some problems, which was pretty much standard with any radial.
@chunkblaster8 ай бұрын
@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters sorry Ed I wasn't trying to imply you were misrepresenting the reliability of the Double Wasp, moreso i just think the lack of discourse around failures and the double wasp is a strong indicator of the quality of that powerplant.
@EdNashsMilitaryMatters8 ай бұрын
Absolutely! As said, the centaurus turned into a good engine, but it was a while getting there. P&W really did get it right with the twin and doubles.
@kiereluurs12438 ай бұрын
English please.
@cartmanrlsusall8 ай бұрын
Wimpy had a big brother 😊it was a good looking plane in the transport configuration even with the fat belly
@pascalchauvet42308 ай бұрын
The question I have ist, was the geodetic construction easily repairable in case of battle damage, much more easily in fact than aircraft built in conventional aluminium monocoque construction?
@firstcynic928 ай бұрын
5:00. "...an engine fault made it necessary to put the aircraft down in short order." I hope they put it down painlessly. Does pink juice work on aircraft?
@stevetheduck14258 ай бұрын
Now let's look up the Vickers Warwick four-engined bomber. - and all the planes like the Varsity, Valetta, etc. that look like modernised Wellingtons. Vickers were still making planes for quite a while after the Warwick.
@CrusaderSports2508 ай бұрын
Many years ago I made a model of the proposed four engined Blenhiem as a college project, it was based on the all glazed nose Mk1 version, looking at the design with hindsight you could see it would have very quickly have become obsolete as bombs got larger due to them being stored in the inner wing, giving little chance of development.
@mikepette44228 ай бұрын
The Lindholm equipment is just genius lol 13,000 lives saved that otherwise might have perished thats not something to dismiss. The Warwick was just great in my mind but also its just another indication of how much material and human advantage the allies had over the axis. That they could spend all the resources building and Air Sea Rescue aircraft equipped with sophisticated rescue equipment is so far ahead of what the axis could offer its downed sea men
@JD-tn5lz8 ай бұрын
Just like the guy who shows up with his lunchbox and works his shift. A working man's aircraft
@robertb59488 ай бұрын
I feel you make a good presentation. There are others out there but it seems like they're just reading out of a book
@lafeelabriel8 ай бұрын
Might not have won the war, but sure did it's part. And rescuing people at sea is no small part for sure.