Another plane for u to do the tbf advengers torpedo bomber

Glad you are embracing a long format video style for aircraft with longer history! I look forward to more! I hope we get a video like this for the Me 163! I longer discussion of rocket motors would be amazing!

When R.J. Mitchell was designing the Spitfire one area he looked into was it having a reversed gullwing. He did not go ahead with idea, I think partially because the wings were to be used as a radiator and he realised the last thing he needed was hot steam meeting cold water. Plus if the wings were hit the water would escape. But there are claims he planned to make a naval version of the reverse gull wing spitfire. It could be interesting to look at the reversed gullwing Spitfire and was there a plan to build it for the British Royal Navy.

Suggestions, I mentioned it in passing before, but the DH Albatross, small wooden airliner, some have said it insprired the Constellation.

@@lilnono951 already on my list :D

Sounds like an interesting film.

@@EneTheGene Principle filming was completed in 1942, and was sent to Rome in early '43. During the subsequent upheaval in Italy, the film disappeared. Publicity material and production photos survive.

@@craigmeador3372 What a shame. Hopefully it's still somewhere forgotten and will be eventually found.

There's an Italian/Russian made film with an English Title of _Attack and Retreat_ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_and_Retreat . The Italian Title is _Italiani brava gente_ . It's about the Italian Army in The Soviet Union during WWII. 50 years ago I saw the English version, which at least had English Subtitles - but I can't find it now. This is an HD version on UKposts of the whole movie but - it is in Italian - like the DVD I bought. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/kqFkeYyqhWh7o6c.html .

I've got a photo of those so-called "MiGs" - I can't believe I forgot to mention this!

Thanks! I highly recommend "Heinkel He 112 in action" by D. Bernéd. It is the most thorough book on the aircraft that is not loaded with incorrect facts of needless hyperbole.

Mr. Heinkel and A.Hitler did not get along very well, if i recall correctly. Mr. Messerschmidt was more to Hitlers liking. that's the reason Heinkels planes were handicapped eventhough they were often better. In August 1939 the turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft, made its first flight.

@@waltrohrbach2459 Very true. Also, the German air ministry wanted Heinkel to concentrate on bomber production.

@@RexsHangar This was a great episode on the He-112, learnt a lot. I'd love to see a follow up on the later He-100 and how the Japanese at Kawasaki constucted their Ki-61 with heavy influence from both the He-112 and He-100.

The Heinkel had a few crashes on its first 'showoff' flights and after the Spanish civil war the 109 was already chosen.

Is there a book about this subject? I'd like to learn more. Thank-you.

@@tekis0 There is a lot of Material...

The pilots of the Condor Legion flew He-112s though and the Luftwaffe used He-112s until September 1942.

@@christiansamuel7900 Then point him to some you clown

@@jerrell1169 that's why they got there ass kicked at school.

You are indeed correct, after checking my files I had put the image in my He-176 folder on accident and I was too focused on editing the video to notice this glaring error 😅

@@RexsHangar Given your track record I think you can be allowed an honest error or two every so often. Thank you so much for your interesting, well-researched, and beautifully illustrated and edited videos, sir.

Yes. Some state the Bf-109 reached its peak in 1940 with the E-7 variant (though I consider the F-4 may actually be the pinnacle of that plane). I'm pretty sure the He-112 airframe may have had a greater potential for further development, with more powerful engines and armamaent, despite it was less easy to mass-produce. Just like the Spitfire. Alas, it is what it is. Hitler bet everything on a short war and prioritized quantity over quality. At least in the early stages. We all know how it ended... 😏

@@razorback20 not sure about quantity. They were taking ages to makes decent numbers pf anything before realising that war means lost of stuff lost and Speer came along to fix that end of the problem. Also bad logistics.

Messerschmitt had Hitler in his pocket. Nobody else had s chance.

The extra one to two hundred miles of range could have made a massive difference to the battle of Britain

Considering the added production cost, it would have gone poorly.

Germany would have lost. Again.

@@annoyingbstard9407 Documentaries made 80 years later wondering how the war would have gone if Germany had the sense to use the more mass-produced effective Bf-109 instead?

@@LostShipMate I assume the Fw190 cost more than the Bf109 to produce, but it was a better overall fighter, particularly the Dora version. Why Kurt Tank wasn't instructed to address the Fw190's poorer high altitude performance much sooner has a lot to do with the Luftwaffe continuing to settle for the Bf109 with all its faults.

Agreed, Heinkel produced some beautifully designed elliptical wing planforms melded to a nicely curved fuselage.

@@taffwob True.. I think the He 70 is possible the most beautiful plane ever built.

And your opinion is factually incorrect

@@mrcat5508 Whatever!

@@PaDDy7389 the xf5f is the most beautiful aircraft of WW2

@@mrcat5508 Well, that's just your opinion.

@@PaDDy7389 no, I have sources

This Spanish episode about the shootdown of a P38 is interesting and forgotten by the most of books/webs etc.

@@magomo5635 @marcconyard5024 It's crazy how a plane with that junk of engine could take down a p-38

W. Wonker Messerschmitt was a good seller. Excellent chatter, generous with wine and money ... Sold his Widow maker well. Probably working for the Brits.

Bf109 was an excellent design for cheap uncomplicated manufacturing

I think at one time Lindburgh made one

@@buckwaddell301 not that guy but Lindberg

@@thunderstruck6647 Actually, Lindberg Line produced a 1/72 model of the He-100, a different aircraft. The Germans released some misinformation about a ''new'' interceptor-night fighter they called the He-113, but they were really He-100s in disguise. A flight of 12 He-100Ds was used by Heinkel at Rostock-Marienche for plant defense, and the PropagandaKommando exploited the photo op. The He-100 was a record beating speed aircraft. One of its tricks was having surface evaporation cooling, with glycol tubing just under the skin. No radiator drag = one slick bird. Bad choice for a warplane, however. One stray bullet in the wrong place and your powerplant's melting itself together. Later version had a conventional radiator, but lost its airspeed edge. He-100 was also powered by the DB601 and the RLM already knew they were prioritized to Messerschmidt. I'm sure I saw a 1/72 model of the He-112 once, but I don't recall the maker. Possibly MPM from the Czech Republic. I looked in my stash, but my MPM kit is an He-100. Maybe some other Eastern European model makers?

RS Models makes the only known kit of the He-112 in 1/72.

@@HootOwl513 thanks. I'll see if I can locate one.

I remember those as a kid during the Cold War

Warthunder has 6 or 7 available in the German, Italian, and Japanese trees both as premiums and tech tree vehicles

Maybe there were a few there that records got lost of

@@920utdoors9 this is Germany we're talking about...

At least they died for science.

It was a sacrifice he was willing to make

That reminds me of a line from a satirical song by the great Tom Lehrer which commented on von Braun's facilitating cute and cuddly Adolf Hitler with rocket technology: "Once they go up who cares where they come down, That's not my department said Werner von Braun."

Hey, FOR SCIENCE!

​@@thomasschreiber9559 but you got to admit, those test pilots have balls of steel.

Yes, that would be interesting!

There are stories about the similarity between the wings as I believe someone in Britain purchased a German plane that the design of the Spitfire's wings borrowed from but there isn't much to go on. Funnily, the first mention of this I discovered in an English classic car magazine.

@@anthonyxuereb792 Thanks for the backing-up of my perhaps implied supposition that the Spitfire had partially German origins. Possibly it was in a classic car magazine due to Heinkel, post-war, going on to produce what were known as 'Bubble Cars'.

@@christopherbentley7289 Yes it is possible and I can't say for sure as there were at least two instances regarding this, one even had a picture of the aircraft in the UK and other was in a book review which mentioned the similarity, It's one subject that's taboo to enthusiasts maybe, just like the P51, praises galore and rightly so but don't mention the fact that it was designed by a Bavarian, the same gent who went on to design the F86 and F100 if I'm not mistaken. Anyway it's all in the past.

@@anthonyxuereb792 Yes, it's probably because there was such a high-profile flag-waving feature film made, starring Leslie Howard as Reginald Mitchell, 'First Of The Few', which cemented the Spitfire in mythology and became a sort of 'Gospel'. It wouldn't have played very well in the movie theatres at that time to have admitted that the Spitfire had possibly German influences! Some years ago I was involved in a campaign to have the Art Deco Bus Station in Derby (UK) retained and refurbished in response to the 'Riverlights' development proposals. In some of the artist's impressions of the new Bus Station there was a model of a Spitfire hanging from the ceiling as a tribute to Rolls-Royce, which never became reality! They might as well have hung a model of a Ju 87 Stuka up, since its prototype used a Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine, but I suppose that wouldn't have looked so good! I've looked into the P 51 and although James H. Kindelberger may have had German ancestry he was born in the U.S. It's like the designer of the Hampden, which I have mentioned, being described as 'German' (George Volkert) when he was British-born. I'm wondering if you may be thinking, since I have mentioned the Ju 87, of the Stuka ace, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, who was born in what is now Poland but settled in Bavaria in later life. I know that his advice was called upon in designing the A 10 'Warthog', even though it would have been an open secret that he had Neo-Nazi sympathies.

@@christopherbentley7289 Edgar Schmued is the man in question. Judging from the amazing amount of periodicals in newsagents concerning WWII hanging a Ju 87 might just have been just the thing. Hope the art deco turned out ok.