Ride of the Valkyries - nice omage to the helicopter attack scene in Apocalypse Now.
@daviscampbell90202 ай бұрын
Glad more people are seeing this. Most who research the subject & know about pre ww2 & ww2 helicopter technology. Try to chat to others about it & are not believed.
@petebeatminister2 ай бұрын
This was still during WW2? Amazing.
@PeriscopeFilm2 ай бұрын
Yes check the description on KZbin -- flight trials ended in October 1944, a total of 83 flights had been made, with a total flying time of 20 hours.
@petebeatminister2 ай бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilm Yes, I've seen it. But I was not aware that the Germans had made so much progress in the helicopter developement.
@wwiiinplastic47122 ай бұрын
@@petebeatminister When you dig deeper in aviation research, you'll find a lot of these advances came a lot earlier than most of us have thought. When they teach you about the German forces it's always Panther this, Tiger that, Stug over there, Bf109 here...but they had a lot of crazy irons in the fire as did the Allies.
@petebeatminister2 ай бұрын
@@wwiiinplastic4712 Well, I know that there were experiments with a similar machine (FW 61) as early as the late1930s. But its the first time I see it actually being used for something. And thats in 1944, years before the first useable helicopters were built in the US.
@waymonstoltz50012 ай бұрын
Yeah, but as soon as the Nazis could get a production line going they'd be destroyed by bombers@@petebeatminister
@admiralyisoonshin49952 ай бұрын
나치독일의 과학기술력은 21세기에 다시봐도 정말 감탄사가 절로 나옵니다.
@DABrock-author2 ай бұрын
A horse-drawn wagon and a helicopter. If that’s not the most perfect image of just how screwed up German logistics were during the war I can’t imagine a better one. 😂
@PeriscopeFilm2 ай бұрын
Believe it or not the German army used a lot of horses for transport in WWII -- far more than seems to be generally recognized. I assume a lot of the horses were eaten by starving soldiers on the Eastern Front ...
@DABrock-author2 ай бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilm That’s exactly my point. The Germans had a reputation for ’lightning war’ but in reality they were chronically short of trucks and rail transport so most of their troops could only move at the speed of a marching soldier and a horse-drawn wagon. The British Army was fully mechanized before the war started and the Americans were not far behind. The Italians were even worse off than the Germans were.
@wwiiinplastic47122 ай бұрын
That's a Feldküche (field kitchen) behind the horse. It was basically a big stew pot and burner they would trot into a bivouac. They usually showed up later when an area was secured so speed was not of the essence. The kitchen unit itself could be towed behind a truck when packed up and the horses diverted to towing field artillery. Not knocking your point about the Germans not being as mobilized as people think; just pointing out the specific nature of the unit in question. This wasn't something you'd use as transport to the front in the way you wouldn't likely arrive in Ukraine ready to roll in a food truck.
@skyedog242 ай бұрын
Bingo 🎯 @@PeriscopeFilm
@ericjohnson37462 ай бұрын
There are many photos of the American south with horse drawn wagons that were taken in the 1950's and early 60's. Some parts of the south didn't get electricity until almost 1960. A Vietnam veteran could have grown up in a home with no electricity, no running water and of course no car.
@Filmpilot2 ай бұрын
And we thought we invented the external load
@J_Calvin_Hobbes2 ай бұрын
thumb 👍 the 2nd song Blue Danube made me want to watch 2001 A space Odyssey Again 😁
@wwiiinplastic47122 ай бұрын
I have a 3 foot model of Discovery above and behind my head right now.
@PeriscopeFilm2 ай бұрын
@wwiiinplastic4712 what dumb space agency would design a spacecraft with an emergency airlock that doesn't seamlessly create an airtight interface with their pods? Oh nevermind! -- sgned, Dave
@wwiiinplastic47122 ай бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilm They didn't really think that through.
@stevew61382 ай бұрын
Oh look, Uber Eats on the Russian front...................
@TheopolisQSmith2 ай бұрын
I just watched a KZbin vid about these being tested off of a German WWII cruiser. It was on Skynea History channel.
@bardo00072 ай бұрын
That helicopter looked amazing, I wonder what happened to it? Were they easy to fly?
@WOFFY-qc9te2 ай бұрын
07:44 Bit rough on lifting the net, much soup lost. Following shot the whole show was re rigged.
@PeriscopeFilm2 ай бұрын
Interesting detail -- but maybe it was Schnapps!
@WOFFY-qc9te2 ай бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilm No I think not as the ground crew would have been shot. Since they re rigged you would have thought they would have re shot the sequence. It shows the German are not as thorough as we thought. The craft was very stable in hover.
@georgegeorgakopoulos59562 ай бұрын
Ante gamisou lidl elas
@allgood67602 ай бұрын
The Germans were good innovators in WW2 and I love the music by Wagner 👍
@PeriscopeFilm2 ай бұрын
@allgood6760 well it is true that this was innovative but the design did not go far after the war...and can be considered something of a dead end... whereas the American competitor -- the WWII designed and built R-4 helicopter actually had a significant post-war career.
@catalino80102 ай бұрын
How do they go left and right ?
@felixcat93182 ай бұрын
The use of the Cyclic Stick tilts the Rotor Heads in the chosen direction and the aircraft obeys, flying in that direction.
@catalino80102 ай бұрын
@@felixcat9318 yep, i imagined thats how is done
@felixcat93182 ай бұрын
@@catalino8010 Apologies, I should have said Rotor Blades rather than Rotor Head. That's what happened when you (I) type when you (I) should be sleeping...
@samuelglover76852 ай бұрын
So the Nazis relied on horses to drag cargo up to this advanced new flying machine. It's a perfect metaphor for how profoundly incompetent and self-defeating they really were. The Nazis loved pouring money and slave labor into expensive "wonder weapons" that never really accomplished much, while their logistics "systems" weren't all that much better than Napoleon's.
@PeriscopeFilm2 ай бұрын
Yep. Germans used a lot of horse drawn supply wagons and artillery pieces. They famously lacked winter clothing for fighting in Russia. And some of the advanced German jet aircraft built during the end of the war - He-162 and others - had fuselages made out of plywood due to shortages of metal. (And the dictator in charge never allowed the country to go into a full time war economy.)