The Spitfire
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2022
- ALICE LOXTON
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Sadly Mitchell never lived to see his creation in action.
But he had the hindsight and drive to design the spitfire after witnessing first had the rise of the Luftwaffe in the mid 1930's and realised that the woefully equipped RAF needed a fighter capable of meeting them on equal terms.
The merlin engine sounds like a symphony.
One of the best British aircraft ever made.
Hahaha ☺️
@@loh300 no not really
one of the most iconic not best
@joxar9285 nah its the most iconic not best the hurricane was better
@@joxar9285 indeed
The faster production was due to Lord Beaverbrook, a Canadian Newspaper Magnate, who Churchill had appointed as “Minister for Aircraft Production.”
His innovative ideas included, only concentrating on five types of aircraft and spreading production to multiple sub factories, to make it much harder for the Luftwaffe to delay or stop aircraft production.
The RAF actually ended up with more fighters at the end of the Battle of Britain than they started with, despite losses during the Battle. This was absolutely down to Lord Beaverbrook and his policies.
Yay Canadians!
The spitfire is a beautiful plane for the RAF so amazing ❤❤❤❤❤❤
My mother was one of many women who worked on building the Spitfire during WW2
One of the most beautiful aircraft ever made.
The one shown close up had American painting on it rather than RAF
Gives me goose bumps just to hear a Merlin let alone get up close to one of these, or a Hawker Hurricane!
I love the spitfire, but it always makes me smile seeing an aircraft from JG/27 :)
Yellow 14 Bf109F by any chance?
Only because Rolls Royce had spent years and money pre war developing light weight alloys for engine blocks and cylinder heads was the Merlin's power to weight ratio superior, which made the spitfire and many other planes of the RAF and the USAF so effective in battle.
Thank you Alice of Loxton.
Thank heaven for Reggie.
Xcellent coverage w factual data. Grt job,TY!!👽🤳🎶🎶🎶🎶🛸
So well presented
Cheers to the Spitfire and the brave 'few'
We will never forget
Great video
What a legendary aircraft that stands for defiance, freedom, liberty democracy lest we forget to the poilet's who flew her from the UK, commonwealth,USA, conquered Europe
Love your videos
She's just reading what it says on Google, word for word. You'd think she'd at least mix up the words a bit.
So nice ❤❤
Don’t forget how due to the wings angle, it creates a lot more lift when turn fighting which made it a lethal dog fighter because of such a good turn rate
saving up money to propose to the spitfire
A woman who knows history, talks about an iconic aircraft with credibility and exudes class with her accent. There is a lot to like on this channel.
Mitchell wanted to call it the Shrew.
The narrator is beautiful, a fascinating discussion.
Let's not forget about the Spitfire that was equipped with the huge Rolls-Royce Griffon engine and duo-counter rotating propellers!
Prior to the contra-rotating propellers, the Mk14 had similar problems and assets caused by the huge five bladed prop (which incidentally rotated in the opposite direction to the Merlin.) as the much earlier Sopwyth Camel. The torque from the prop was terrifying. In battle it could turn one way on a farthing, but taking off, it was bloody hard work going straight. But it was bloody fast and was very well armed.
The contra-rotating propellers cured the torque problem at take off, (and the tight turning asset,) in later Spitfire models.
Only the seafire had variants with contra-rotating propellers
What a beautifully presented aircraft. The ground crew has done a great job.
You didn't fly a Spitfire, you *_wore_* it!
Excellent short vlog. You should produce more about World War Two 👍
Spitfire MK V in us colours .. nice ..
4th Fighter Group of the Mighty 8th Air Force
MK16 Spitfire RW382
If attacking together The hurricane was usually employed to attack the bombers and the spitfires took care of the 109s. By the wars end the hurricane actually brought down more enemy aircraft than the spitfire.
What a perfect team.
2.3 to one. Wonderful stuff you blokes!
Spitfire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
Sorry Alice, the Hurricanes took out more luftwaffe aircraft in the battle!
Beautiful props, Alice.
The design ideas and differences between the Spitfire, Hurricane and Bf109 Emil model are interesting and really reveals why the Spitfire was so good.
The Spitfire is almost like a racing plane pushed into the role of a fighter. The elegant lines of the elliptical wing and rounded fuselage offer brilliant aerodynamics, high lift and low drag, but at the cost of being difficult to manufacture. Mitchell and Supermarine built several racing seaplanes for the Schneider cup in the early 30s. The Spitfire is slightly aerodynamically unstable, making it responsive to inputs and agile, but this also means it doesn't like flying in a straight line. In a dogfight, that's not a problem, but it's not a stable firing platform for shooting at bombers.
This is where the Hurricane comes in. Sydney Camm of Hawker designed the Hurricane as an evolution of his previous design, the Fury. The Hurricane is more stable though, meaning it is a better platform for bomber hunting at the expense of responsiveness. The airframe was easier to manufacture as it wasn't this new technique of a stressed metal skin used on the Spitfire. Result was it was cheaper and quicker to build than a Spitfire.
Then there's the Bf109E. The 109 was a good plane, but not designed for the bomber escort role it was pushed into. It's advantage over the Spitfire of being slightly faster and a better energy fighter were unused due to the orders to stay with the bombers in the formation.
The Spitfires could attack with an altitude and speed advantage, keep the 109s busy while the Hurricanes killed the bombers. It worked extremely well.
SPITFIRE!!!!!!!!!
Surely this Spitfire WAS NOT THE ONE OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN...!
THIS was a later type, with 4 - blade propeller...so what does she want to tell us ...??
Reginald Mitchell's name and picture look very brittish.
PUD- This means that it is Air Candy. 😂 Beautiful Piece of Cake! 😍 (yes, I know the book contains Hurricanes instead, I read it in middle school.)
Really cool Alice . 😊🎉❤
One thing that people don't know is that the British almost lost the damn War because they were dilly-dallying around in 1939 and in 1940 with the production of War materials including this aircraft. While the Germans were going full bore especially at the skoda plant building Mr Schmidt 109 the most produced airplane of the War the British were arguing with each other.
529 vs 230? Was that for a certain week or months because there were a ton more than that shot down on both sides..
That is the MK9 variant it was used during the late stages of the war but instead of a rolls Royce Merlin engine they used the griffin
No it’s a MK16 that used a Packhard Merlin
Why do I feel so connected to this flying beauty??
Not only you😂
@@alejandromandil6357 well it's a single cockpit, so had I been in that machine in the air the condition whold be with only me, in my life, in my air, with my heart and with our God.
Sweetie, that's a Mark IXe variant. It did not fought in the Battle of Britain (those were Mark Ia and IIa types, and some Mark Ib and IIb models), and Reginald Joseph Mitchell only designed the prototype. Joseph Smith took over the project after Mitchell sadly passed away. Mark IX flew first in the first half of 1942, Mitchell passed away in 1937. He couldn't even seen the Spitfire with variable pitch propeller.
Its actually a Mark XVI but fitted with a Merlin 60 series engine which technically makes it a IX.
My Maternal Grandfather Jack Brown helps build those planes during WW2
The Spitfire also burned octane 100 fuel which the Germans did not have. That's why it was able to out maneuver the BF109. Little known fact.
That had more to do with the shape of the wings. In fact the ME109 was fuel injected and did not have a tendency to suffer an engine cut out when carrying out tight turns or rolls in the air. Power wise the two aircraft were closely matched.
Actually, Luftwaffe also had high-octane fuel, named C3 (96 octanes). During Battle of Britain a lot of "109"s were converted by replacing their engines from DB 601Aa type to DB 601N, the last ones were able to burn that high-octane fuel.
Aye but never forget that the Hurricane shot down more enemy aircraft in the BoB.
Are you shure?
@@alejandromandil6357 I feel that I'm missing a pun there but yes, I'm fairly sure.
For the RAF I'm meaning.
Yeah buddy, stars and bars on that bird
Let’s remember, the spitfire had to take off and intercept while the BF109 had to fly all the way to England too. The 109 is an under appreciated piece of engineering.
Let’s remember, the 109 had to take off and intercept while the Spitfire had to fly all the way to France too.
Because the RAF was limited to British airspace?
Exelente presentacion ..iconico avion con su motor v12 merlin
Just saying the 109 was way better at low altitude then the spit, the spitfire liked being up at higher altitude and performed a lot better
Your coat is the same colour more or less and just has nice.
One of the aircraft of all time
And not many know that a Spitfire could fly from the uk to Berlin and back with time over Berlin.
Also Hurricanes shot more enemy aircraft down during the BOB than Spitfires
In addition one pilot who flew on ops both types was of the opinion that The Tempest was the best of the brunch
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Not unless it took of from Belgium it couldn’t get to Berlin! Now a P51 Mustang with drop tanks could get to Berlin and back !!
Tempest born years after the Spitfire.
Eu sou muito fã 🌟👏
Interesting
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The Hurricane shit down more planes in the battle if Britain... but the Spitfire is the most iconic plane still, in the world.
I don't go for the glamour the Hurricane was the work horse more built and very cheap and shot down more Germans may not be pretty it's for shooting down Germans
You need to be a bit more careful with your typing.
@@deang5622funny though
nothing to be sniffed at
Yeah those Luftwaffe pilots hated being shit down ! 😂😂
wrong variant but that's OK, best fighter in WW2, named after the designers granddaughter who he called his little " Spitfire "
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No there's a lass who knows what it's about.
What Mark is that one. Looks late by the cannons.
It's fuel load capacity remained extremely low throughout the war years therefore it could not escort bama's across the channel and the pilots would be spared conflict with the Germans. This was an in detention employed by the English to allow the Yanks to die for the for the for the queen.
Get your facts correct.... Spitfires were pure fighters, designed originally for one task. PRU Spitfires had a longer range and few PRU missions into Germany from UK bases. Post invasion and the establishment of RAF bases in France, Spitfires took on thousands of missions into axis occupied territory, including deep into Germany. Bomber command flew night missions and there was no need for any fighter escort as it would have been totally useless. The USAF decided to fly day missions and required fighter escort. That was originally provided by P47's and then later P51's that were equipped with a larger fuel load capability, and external drop tanks and had a near laminar flow wing design. Fun fact the P51 only became a decent fighter after they were equipped with the same Merlin engines (built under license by Packard) that the Spitfire had at the time.....
#Spitfire succumbed to the #German fighter craft
The earlier types were outclimbed and outdivedby the 109 'E'. Due to it having a fuel injected engine, whilst the Spit's Merlin engine at the time was a float carburettor type that couldn't do extreme climbs or dives without almost cutting out. The problem was remedied by a woman (whose name I forget). It basically ensured that the Merlins could be put to better and effective use in the future.
@@commandingjudgedredd1841 ameliorated, not remedied - by Miss Shilling’s orifice, a flow restrictor, allowing short moments of negative G not flooding the carburettor completely.
The real solution was the Bendix (a US corporation) pressure carburettor - a system where gravity was not used to function and had no effect, injecting fuel into the airstream.
The fuel injection engine still had many advantages - they could open both valves of a cylinder for a long period, removing all exhaust and removing heat via the air flow, allowing them to be more fuel efficient, where the carburettor could only provide an air-fuel mixture, so a cross draft would cause fuel to self-ignite in the exhaust. Cooling needed more fuel (evaporation cooling) under high engine loads.
Smoking kills, but why does it have USAAF markings?
Rolls Royce of the sky!
What's the music
Unfortunately that particular Spitfire was NOT in the battle of Britain. It was a later version as it had the 20mm canons, ALL BoB Spitfires were only armed with the .303 machine guns as were the Hawker Hurricanes. Also this particular model has 4 bladed prop where as the BoB Spitfires were a 3 bladed prop. Obviously this reporter was unaware of her Spitfire models or was given the incorrect information. 😖😒
Well, no, she isn't misinformed or not knowing her Spitfire types. Its not relevant that this particular Spitfire wasnt in the BoB, she is talking about Spitfire's in general and wants to talk about the BoB because that's something most viewers will be aware of and interested in. If you want to talk about the BoB and you only have a later Spitfire model to film, you're going to use that later model.
There was a Squadron (No 19, I think) that was flying Spifires with 20mm Cannon during the BoB. Unfortunately those Cannon kept jamming, so 19s Squadron Leader asked the Brass to give them back Spitfires with .303 guns, because they were much more reliable.
Once the Jamming problem was beaten, 20 mm Cannon were considered by the RAF to be the best armament for fighters.
And then there were the A. B. & C. wings. I forget which was which, but one set of wings had 4X20mm Cannon
Another had 2X20mm, & 2X .5 mgs.
And the third had 2X20mm cannon & 4X.303 mgs.
@@donyoung1384 don't think so some how. All BoB spitfire squadrons had spitfires that were armed with the .303 mg's no 20mm canons were installed at that stage. If they were, the campaign would have had an alternative ending.
a match ?
When u attack an aircraft that is good a high speeds but has to fly insanly slow to support bombers while ur aicraft is made for low altitudes and low speeds ???
is that a match?
Replacing the .303s with 20mm made it a much better plane.
Why the American patch?
Roundal please.
Roosevelt went above and beyond his sentiment that the USA should help the "British" it was our bit to help the USAAF
It’s has been restored by the Biggin Hill heritage centre to a mkIXc which carries the markings of the Mk.IX flown by Lt. Robert Connor of the 309th Fighter Squadron in the Mediterranean theatre in 1944.
It had .30 guns, it was not superior. The Hurricane had more kills. A 40% loss is not good ratio.
The Hurricane had more kills than the Spitfire simply because there were more Hurricanes than Spitfires!
The Spitfire was more modern than the Hurricane, but the Hurricane was easier and quicker, to build.
Also, during the BoB the vast majority of Spitfires & Hurricanes had 8 X .303 MGs, but the Hurricane was reputed to be a better gun platform. Though the Spitfire got the glory!
I think offhand it was 19 Squadron who were flying Spitfires with 20mm Cannons during a part of the Battle of Britain, but they jammed a lot and they could not make them work, properly. So they begged to get their old .303 armed Spitfires back, and got them!
In the air It wasent a match for the germans it was superior period. It was a different aircraft for a differant role. The germans had dive bombers and bombers made in the mid 30s. They were first and foremost designed as ground support aircraft for blitzkrieg. The germans had no pure fighters. Their arrogance led them to believe they wouldnt need to make one. Spitfire was a pure fighter that could be used as a bomber if necessary. It was not designed to be a dive bomber. Its basically a sports car in the air. its inception changed the vangaud of ww2 from air to ground to air to air. Just my opinion anyways
Thats seafire🤓👆
Why are you showing a beautiful british spitfire with USA markings? The 'Americans' would NEVER do that. Be more proud!
Isn’t that an American roundel? Or am I off my rocker?
Sorry, but you talk about kills but don't explain over what period. Not the whole war.
“The iconic aircraft of the Battle of Britain” is how this video starts, so I presume she’s given us the stats from that particular day. Or 13 hours or whatever it was.
@@adam_p99 She could clarify that.
It's only the battle of Britain as if you Google how many planes the Spitfire shot down it says exactly what she said so it looks like she's just reading what Google wrote word for word. The Spitfire shot down thousands of planes.
Why in the f’ do you have English subtitles when you are speaking English?!?!
Please dont describe a ww2 fighter plane without atleast explaining its weapons and armaments! What a waste of time cmon sweetheart 🙄
the missfire
I have read the version in FB and nobody agrees with these facts, all of them wrong, if somebody can add comments to asses those facts...
Over rated, More Hurricanes built and shot down more Germans and had the engine
Loss to kill ratio nowhere near close to an F-15.
But this video is about the Spitfire, so your comment was misplaced and irrelevant.
Have you tried writing your own scripts and not reading the Google answer word for word.
False the Messerschmitts where a lot better they had a fuel injector and hurricane and spitfire could just think bout it
At lower altitudes 😅 yeah huh huh ton of bits died
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