Naval Legends: Royal Navy Aviation. Part 1

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[@andrewandpat3321]

Just to note that your Historical Consultant, Yuriy Kruchkov, is a bit off at 14:32. The reason for the British R&D lag in naval aviation was not the Admiralty but the Air Ministry, who had total control of the Fleet Air Arm from 1924 to May 1939 when the Admiralty took direct control over the FAA. Consequently the FAA was competing for resources with other branches of the Royal Air Force during the period of modernisation and re-armament, and the results of that are well known. I can't provide a source, but I recall that land-based aircraft would provide modern fighter coverage to the Fleet as all action was expected to take place near land bases. A bureaucratic handicap that no other nation had to endure. When the war did start it was a case of making do with what they had, however obsolete.

[@peterflitcroft9756]

That seems to be a recurring theme with British naval aviation. When the Invincible class were built in the 70's they were classed as 'Through deck cruisers'. Fortunately sense prevailed and the Sea Harrier was developed.

[@Legion617]

4 dislikes so far? Bismarck, Yamato, Tirpitz and Musashi. The only real culprits here.

[@sirmoke9646]

I didn't know that the British Fleet Air Arm invented a teleportation device and sunk the Yamato. You learn something every day...

[@iantang2118]

Sir Moke Maybe they disliked because they got sunk by planes?

[@zzirSnipzz1]

Dunkerque* instead of Yamato or one of the Italian ships sunk in harbor

[@Ayon501]

I hate you legion716

[@peterflitcroft9756]

My late Uncle was in the Fleet Air Arm in WW2. He was an electrician working on Swordfish aircraft. When they fixed one they had to go up on a test flight with the pilot. One way of ensuring they did a good job.

[@aurelian3268]

you guys really should make this type of video for Japanese and American naval planes

[@JoshLin17]

That awkward moment when your most advanced battleship gets heavily demaged by some outdated British biplanes

[@usstunknown7387]

Fairly Swordfish, a plane built on luck that had pilots with balls of steel.

[@moltenyellowskies5418]

*WHEEEZE* Fairey Swordfish, a plane outdated before it was even designed.

[@jimyoung2188]

the stringbag sank more ships than any other type of plane

[@gdspathe1130]

no, it wasn't the swordfish was a 1930s era Biplane utilizing a powerplant far more powerful than anything available to the engineers in the 1920s no different than any other navy at the time. The UK, US, and Japan utilized 1930s era biplanes until the mid to late 1930s its important to note the era from 1935-1950 was some of the fastest eras of aviation development with planes being made obsolelescent months after they enter service

[@mikereger1186]

It was so slow that the fuses on the aa guns shells would set off too soon, missing the stringbags. Not much consolation...

[@oldgysgt]

Just think of what the brave British Naval flight crews of the Swordfish could have achieved if that had been given modern up to date aircraft, and not open cockpit bi-plains with fixed landing gear. And the poor Westland Wyvern was developed at a time when prop-fighters were a thing of the past and no one was dropping torpedoes from fixed wing aircraft anymore. What bunch of "Desk Joke" Admirals would send men out to fight in outdated equipment like this?

[@glrider100]

I really enjoy the naval legends series. Especially something like this one where they go through the history of some aspect of the navies of the world.. be it aviation, gunnery, or whatever else. The ships specific ones are great too. Especially when they go into the history of why that ship came to be, what factors and historical events influenced its design.

[@AdamosDad]

Ely, Eugene Burton was the first. Ely joined the Curtiss Exhibition Team and performed successful exhibition flights at numerous events. In 1910, made the first successful unassisted airplane takeoff from the wooden deck of the USS Birmingham. In 1911 he made the first successful airplane landing on the USS Pennsylvania, the first ship to be equipped with a landing deck and arresting system.

[@mrjockt]

AdamosDad You are correct but remember Ely did both the take-off from,and landing on, anchored vessels.

[@brendaproffitt1011]

This. plane looks so amazing .and this documentary is very cool too. Thank you so so much for everything that you do..

[@nightlightabcd]

The Swordfish flew somewhat slower than a albatross!

[@HobbiesRfun]

Since this new WG vid is about British naval aviation, I get this feeling a premium HMS Ark Royal, or HMS Furious is in our future. I wonder what British CVs and their load outs will be like?

[@ryanvalentine4151]

Exodriver Swordfish at tier 10 perhaps?

[@sarpkaplan4449]

Ryan Valentine naah, bis is tier 8

[@mikereger1186]

Well, you’re looking at Swordfish, Fulmars, Skuas, Rocs, Seafires, Corsairs, Fireflies and finally Sea Furies, which should utterly kick arse as the final generation of piston fighters. Apart from Ark Royal, most Royal Navy fleet carriers sacrificed hangar space for armoured decks - which was helpful against the Japanese. But this was made up for with deck parking systems later on, allowing a larger complement of aircraft to be carried.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

ah the channel dash when the raf were busy with the suicide run to berlin... indeed while the swordfish was outclassed, getting creamed on the deck trying to land was more of an issue and something that biblically slow was still handy.

[@Razorteeth55]

Another beautiful naval history video. Part 2 needs to be about IJN and Zeros

[@ryanvalentine4151]

7:47 Landing in the water with the land gear down is a bad idea? Who knew?

[@Sovietskikh]

When it's a new technology for a new plane, no one knew.

[@andrewm1058]

They knew too, it was a accident

[@xxnvvsjd8100]

It could be a bad idea, because went landing in the water, the water will push the landing gear, if it landing gear being push too much, the landing gear will broke off. except went the plane goes very slow

[@badcornflakes6374]

Vought F4U Corsair + USS Enterprise 👌

[@bullreeves1109]

I love the name of the *SUPERMARINE WALRUS!* Also While I like be this I think the Aviation should be on WoWP Edit: Fun fact the British attack on Turanto Actually inspired the attack on pear harbor.

[@yeetspageet6707]

Joeseph Hunnicutt we also watched the video.

[@bullreeves1109]

Ryan Ferguson Yeah the Pearl Harbor one I added before finishing the video.

[@EAFSQ9]

I wonder if we'll see the Westland Wyvern in World of Warplanes...

[@musketeersmadhouse2262]

I love the wyvern on wt, load up the torp and 19 rp 3 rockets

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Love the stringbag!

[@roaklin]

Furious would be an interesting tier iv ship

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

It's always weird when they say a number converted to metric from it's original specification. They have some odd number convention as a result. For instance 272 kg instead of 600 lbs.

[@BoltJensen]

The us is the only place that uses imperial...

[@nou-jn6uz]

They should make it so the Hellcat and F4U Corsair can also wield rockets and bombs like in real life.

[@nickdanger3802]

Parliament "There is a controversy between those who say that the Admiralty did not get what it wanted for the Fleet Air Arm and those who say that the Admiralty was not very clever at explaining what exactly it 796 was that it wanted. I noticed quite recently that Air Marshal Dowding has gone on record as saying that the Admiralty got precisely the types which it specified and demanded." Hansard Fleet Air Arm HL Deb 27 January 1943 page

[@arztbesucharzt8143]

The song at the start is awesome

[@charliepayne4033]

I agree

[@xXE4GLEyEXx]

AAAA! awesome! also it would be also awesome to see similar footage for the F4U ... wait we are talking British Naval Aircraft.... BRIT CVs? o.O

[@zzirSnipzz1]

Yup brit cv's that were fighting for years and even our own pearl harbor like attack at Taranto which japan were very interested in

[@JJ-cx6ro]

Waiting for US and IJN planes. We all know where the real carrier warfare was

[@yeetspageet6707]

Mr Alting us and japanese carriers have been in the game since the beginning.

[@novko138]

that's... not what he meant

[@westerlywind1035]

Mr Alting yeah real carrier warfare happened at the Falklands war

[@westerlywind1035]

Never underestimate the power of the Royal Navy at that time, perhaps you should look up the bravery of the pilots in Taranto!

[@westerlywind1035]

Which happened before Pearl Harbour!

[@rodbrown8007]

Where were the Rocs and Skuas?

[@jasony1075]

I smell British CV line

[@Edax_Royeaux]

I noticed this in the movie Dunkirk, but I couldn't figure it out, why do these British Supermarines have a french flag on the tail?

[@williammagoffin9324]

Its actually not French but its inspired by them. The French used Blue-White-Red rudder stripes on their aircraft as national markings, the RAF during the battle of France adopted the same idea with a fin flash of their national colors Red-White-Blue frequently with a smaller white stripe (today they either don't use the white stripe at all or make it equal to the other stripes so it will look like a backwards French flag).

[@nou-jn6uz]

ltflak oh ya

[@riyoriyote]

It's not a French flag, it's a fin flash. That particular version of the UK one just happens to look like a French flag in reverse.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Yeah, but on the starboard side, it's a french flag. When I watched Dunkirk, I thought it was related to flying over France or something.

[@riyoriyote]

Ah, sorry, I should say it's basically displayed front of the plane to the back, such that on the left side it would look like the back of the flag being flown. So only on the opposite side it would appear reversed. As read the french fin (rudder) flash looks more like their flag (blue white red). Whereas the UK one used here is red white blue.

[@ROHill1956]

Swordfish!!!!! Nazi Battleship Killer....LOL

[@Mi-Nasuno]

1st? But no one cares.... but now I know about aviation, because of this.

[@chnghemeng2845]

British CV Hype?

[@nightlightabcd]

Perhaps, but the truth!

[@galaxy_ghoul2659]

4:36 Australian Cv/Ship teaser?

[@aa951742]

Seafire I guess will be up next

[@sparviero142]

Fairey Fulmar. they show it at the end. but also the seafire i think

[@akselsodrins6742]

I would love to have a world of warships put battleship h44 I think very mush people would be glad !!!

[@user-os8xr2it3p]

so.... Aviation battleship were existed far before Hyuuga and Ise ?

[@craigkoehler4363]

Amazing that it took so long (60+ years) for the Royal Navy to adopt balloon tech that had been around since at least the US Civil War.

[@xtod9892]

We had been using it before what it is saying in the video, perhaps they are just suggesting that balloons were the predecessor of the aircraft. There are plenty of records of the British military using balloons in the 19th century, and there were plenty of nations using them too, both at that time and before the USA was even founded! I believe the first use was in China centuries ago, but I don't know enough detail about stuff that far back

[@komradeboris5745]

Im 1000 like

[@Aluminati1]

Still waiting for HMCS Haida.

[@gtbsatalks]

13:49 that is alot of dds

[@lightspeedvictory]

Wat, nothing on the turret fighters?! Or r they going to b mentioned in part 2?

[@chazt8604]

Jacob Katz They only had the Blackburn Roc, not a great aircraft and not used for long.

[@stevenmoore4612]

The Attack on Taranto was Pearl Harbor before it was cool.

[@looming_]

8:36 swear this the guy from ALi g show lmao

[@douglasclaudio6597]

Legend ptbr

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

A history is only good if it covers failures and successes. Where is the Fairey Albacore and a few others? Why not speak of the shortcomings of land planes converted for carrier use? In particular range. The Westland Wyvern was a robust plane but had problems. 1) Range, The Python turbine burned excessive fuel. 2) Was difficult to throttle, so ran at constant speed. Aircraft speed was controlled by the pitch of the counter rotating propellers. The video was good, but incomplete

[@JericoLeslie]

So world of warplanes can no longer advertise their game now they are asking World of warships

[@ahorsewithnoname643]

Swordfish to Barracuda. Where is the Albacore?

[@malkymac7258]

Maybe the Albacore was missed out as it was withdrawn from service before the Swordfish, which it was meant to replace.

[@justcallmedots8339]

where is part 2?

[@nickd3056]

It’s proper correct huh

[@aurelian3268]

11:30 can someone please give the link to the music used here?

[@ikethefrontliner5899]

They made there own music

[@viochrys]

HMS Malaya?? That is the name after Malaysia where I lived

[@riyoriyote]

She was a QE class, another sister ship to Queen Elizabeth and Warspite. She was named Malaya because the funds to build her were donated by (at the time) British Malaya.

[@aizseeker3622]

Im surprise you didnt know about HMS Malaya

[@viochrys]

Aimitch Ang don't need to be surprised...

[@viochrys]

Grimsley thanks for the information😊

[@russdority6295]

Malaya didn't operate in the Pacific

[@TSODInc]

Need to do more homework the " Westland Wyvern " that you are showing is NOT a turboprop model, it is the 'H-block Rolls-Royce Eagle 22, a piston engine". Look there are, 12 on each side, 24 in all, exhaust pipes!

[@danielclaudio5764]

So does anyone else hear the little kid saying Mommy at the very end of the video? Creepy as fuck.

[@paulnutter1713]

use imperial measures for gods sake

[@Birdman369]

NIGEL!!!!!!

[@gandalfwiz20007]

British CV's !!!!!

[@redj59]

What museum has the aircraft shown?

[@chrishewitt4220]

Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Devon, UK

[@monochromaticlightsource9153]

Chris Hewitt Yeovilton isn't in Devon. It's in Somerset.

[@strigon4183]

You guys better not at British CV's before you rework them! Or you'll introduce a line that NOBODY will play

[@christophercolasurdo919]

Strigon418 Wargaming: Anybody want the GB CVs? Me: ✋🏻

[@enigmatr01]

çeviri berbat sesle çeviri arasında kayma var..

[@roberth.goddardthefatherof6376]

all the wehraboos crying about bismarck, sorry but it sunk and so did tirpitz and there is no museum made after it unlike yamato which had a huge museum dedicated to it. i'd much like to see the USS North Carolina and do a match up of who would win in a fight with Bismarck if america in the war since NC was the most powerful allied warship in service at that time. myself, well after careful analysis i've concluded NC would win, her Armor and Armament design is far more suited to the Long range plunging fire exchanges of ww2, while Bismarck's armor and armament is more suited to the outdated short range slaughter fests of ww1. infact bismarck is massively overrated in regards to it's fighting capability and performance at the Denmark straight, we all know it 1 shot Hood, but hoods deck was massively i'll suited to time delay fuses that bismarck was throwing and it was a very lucky hit. But what people don't know is the skirmish she had with Prince of wales and how it for a time was losing the fight and the damage that POW did massively led to bismarcks demise before POW eventually gave up at the loss of hood and didn't risk fighting a 2v1 and losing. POW rear gun turret jammed and was out of action and the other 2 were working but not very well(also massively contributed to why she retreated) so bismarck has a huge advantage, Bismarck scored 7 hits on POW, 4x 8inch shells and 3x 15inch shells an 8 and a 14 of them hit the rear smoke stacks and boats doing little damage, an 8 and a 14 hit the bridge and fire control director but did little damage, 2x 8 hit the rear starboard stern above the water line causing a bit of flooding but little damage overall and 1 15 hit below POW belt and just a few feet above the keel, luckily it was a dud otherwise this hit could have been devastating. so the damage was minimal, she took was really only electrical damage and a tiny bit of flooding and a tiny list to starboard, now lets look at the damage POW did to Bismarck POW scored 3 14inch hits on Bismarck, 1 hit a sea plane doing little to no damage but 1 hit below bismarcks armor belt, this did lots of damage, it penetrated, exploded and sent shrapnel into the Port Turbo generator room and forward port steam boiler flooding the Turbo generator room entirely and half flooding the boiler room causing a decnt 9.5 degree list to port and reduced power, but the 3rd hit was even worse, it hit the massive fuel tank stored in the bow of the ship and caused Bismarck to lose over 1,500 tons of oil to sea water contamination and flooded over 2000 tons of sea water and caused the bow to lean by 3 degrees, thats the bow 5-6 meters below it's normal water line!!!, the forward flooding was so severe that no matter how much they counter flooded the stern they couldn't get it back to normal. by the end she lost 2 boilers, a turbo generator, 1500 tons of fuel and gained well over 3000 tons of sea water and was still slightly tilting forward massively limiting her options weather or not to return to port and reducing her top speed of 30kts to 26-27. so despite POW landing half the hits, she did far more damage.

[@KOS762]

where is part 2? why tell me to watch part 2, if it doesn't exist? half the story, build up, for nothing....arrrrgggg!!!

[@ZoneSkye]

Wait a couple weeks man.

[@nickd3056]

What’s with the metric system!! Use standard!!

[@tankimsiew9155]

Yay 2nd

[@Mi-Nasuno]

Tan Kim Siew GJ though, I hope you’ve learned by watching this and earned new grades because of this.

[@yuyukosaigyouji7592]

Bismarck crew hate this Video and Tirpitz Also hate this video

[@chnghemeng2845]

Yamato hates this video

[@yuyukosaigyouji7592]

but eugen got nuke

[@sander6438]

THE BRITISCH DIDN'T SANK THE BISMARCK HER OWN CREW DID THAT

[@Wombat1916]

shock wave By the time HMS Rodney and HMS King George V finished firing, the Bismarck was a wreck, on fire and with only one way to go. I've never really seen what is so great about destroying your own ship. The Germans were very addicted to it, though. The HSF was scuttled in Scapa Flow, Graf Spee in S. America and most of the German Navy not sunk in port were scuttled as a final act shewing how impotent the GN had become.

[@iantang2118]

3rd! QUICK,say something! Read more

[@eternalbastion7454]

SOMETHING

[@bullreeves1109]

Bony bill bo

[@neilbalch]

Aww. You faker! Read More?

[@iantang2118]

Hellcat Kämpfer I edited because I spelled wrong a word.

[@LordInter]

Makes me laugh, keep saying the UK had to catch up with Germany and Italy who didn't have any Carriers, talk about misleading lol