Your commentary and research is absolutely sensational... I speak for everyone in thanking you for this level of dedication. Your work is appreciated and thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you so very much!
I’ve passed John Cobb’s memorial on Loch Ness many times but until watching this excellent documentary I knew very little of the man and his history. An amazing story. Were it not for the structural failure, I’m sure he would have set further records. Great content from Scarf and Goggles! 👏
Another great video and beautifully presented with a voice that you can understand every word spoken, rare nowadays, a really nice respectful touch was the silence a while before the crash, your clear easy to listen voice makes it a pleasure to watch,.
Excellent narration and script, the way he describes the approach to the timing buoys and silence and let the footage speak for itself was a nice touch.
I think that the front planing step collapsed, I've spent some time around a Vampire jet from this era and, while very well designed, the materials were just sh*t. Good video
Always an enjoyable and informative experience. I always look forward to every episode. As someone who followed the Breedlove Arfons duels I love your work.
I think the hull is broken by the last waves and duckt under. If you look at the moment frame by frame you can see a deformation between the turbine and the cockpit. They should have installed the stiffener in front of the cockpit as planned....R.I.P. John Cobb
**wakes up to notification** time to put on my scarf and goggles. and my robe and wizard hat, ofc. John Cobb and all those dudes had such _incredible_ death wishes. Whatever they got up to in the war (or foreign service, or rich boy's summer camp, depending on person and year) must really have been something else.
Brilliant as always, and always an education. I did wonder why a 6 year old Richard Noble was present, as I'd never considered a connection to Scotland... until I Googled him. I never had any idea that Richard Noble is actually Scottish - he's always struck me as English. Every day is a school day.
Thank very interesting. Water speed records are the toughest, only for the brave. Very sad loss of life, later repeated at much higher speeds by Donald Campbell. I actually saw Bluebird at Coniston when I was very young and we were camping on the shores of Coniston, it was being worked on, never saw it running.
Wonderful and very informative video about the death of one of my childhood heros John Cobb. Reid Railton was also a genius of design and it seems a tragic shame that in contruction the builders did not include the strenghtening bar for the front skimming plane. Perhaps if it had been included this disaster would not have happened.
As a UA-cam film maker myself l can only echo the comments made already about your excellent narration and the quality of the videos you produce. It's a balancing act presenting a video, l tend to go on the light entertainment side of things at times, depending on the subject matter, but always keeping it respectful. Very well done on this particular video, l'm a Donald Campbell man myself. Gary
Brilliant video, as always from S&G, your usual superb, concise but comprehensive summary of the story. Two minor points: Amherst Villiers designed the Blue Bird car, not Reid Railton, although Railton, a design hero of mine, redesigned and developed it on a number of occasions. And if you really can’t pronounce Loch, you could always refer to ‘…the lake…’ when not using the name in full. That would ease the pain for us Scots…
Speed has been my dream for my entire life. This year (unfortunately) I had to skip Bonneville. My car is almost complete. I told my new boss that next year, missing Bonneville wasn’t an option! I really hope I can accomplish something that would be worth mentioning on your channel. Keep up the good work!!!!!
Very good. Du Cane's design makes a lot of sense aerodynamically, bringing the potential centre of lift behind the c of g, unlike the arrangement adopted for Bluebird k7
the basic problem with Crusader was that it was designed as a boat - not a car! Hydroplanes get unsteady at 100mph! All fast cars have low noses but Crusader's nose was sloped up and naturally gained a wedge of air to lift it up at high speeds. As the nose lifted the wedge of air escaped and nose dropped. Then another wedge built up then escaped but this got worse as seen in the video. The wake of the front slide gets intermitent as wedges build and release. The side sponsons also then are affected by the torque of the jet as at each lift the torque acting on the sponson increases its effect so that when the boat drops the torque reactions pass to other side. Having the weight of the engine at the rear plus the air resistance of the high body meant loading was at the rear so when the wedge lifted the nose the egine thrust line lifted to push the nose up (smae problem as grounded the Boeing 737Max after 2 crashed) - plus the gyroscopic precession pushed one side down to incraese the wedging! As speed built up the wedges/releases, torquings and side sponson loadings all began to get out of whack until eventually the boat flipped. A safe WSR vehicle should be longer, slimmer, lower and running on wheels not sponsons as water is pretty solid at speed - as proven watching videos of plane and boat crashes. Wallis's bouncing bomb shows water is pretty solid to a high speed round object? The jet should be at the front exhausting between two rear wheels that are unfaired or minimum faired.
7:20 just imagine where naval architecture would be today if Peter DuCane had further developed toad-power for boats instead of concentrating on rocket-power the way he did.
Errrr..... Nope. It's from the 'gaeltoch'. It isn't 'gaelTOCK'. 'Back in the day' it was 'a loch' and 'a loch' it still is. Ever been down The Caledonian Canal? Seen how many lochs there are on it? By your definition, I'll start talking about 'Lock Windermere'. HTDCYU
Your commentary and research is absolutely sensational... I speak for everyone in thanking you for this level of dedication.
Your work is appreciated and thoroughly enjoyable.
Thank you so very much!
Wow - thank you very much for your kind appreciation!
Thank you! Well put together, well narrated. A remarkable story very well told.
Glad you enjoyed it!
_The bold do not live forever._
_The timid never live at all._
RIP John Cobb😔
Amen!
@@ScarfAndGoggles 👍🏻
Thanks!
Wow - thank you so much!
@ScarfAndGoggles You deserve more. Great shows man.
I’ve passed John Cobb’s memorial on Loch Ness many times but until watching this excellent documentary I knew very little of the man and his history. An amazing story. Were it not for the structural failure, I’m sure he would have set further records.
Great content from Scarf and Goggles! 👏
Had a feeling this one was coming up next!
Every new video is few in between, but thats what leaves the appetite!
I'm trying to reduce the time between videos, but they take a long time to research and life gets in the way! Thanks for your appreciation!
@@ScarfAndGoggles Oh you have nothing to worry about, your time & life = More important than cellphones/computers.
Great video, as always. Love your narration and your care for detail. Keep up the amazing work!
Will do - thanks!
Another great video and beautifully presented with a voice that you can understand every word spoken, rare nowadays, a really nice respectful touch was the silence a while before the crash, your clear easy to listen voice makes it a pleasure to watch,.
Thank you very much!
Excellent narration and script, the way he describes the approach to the timing buoys and silence and let the footage speak for itself was a nice touch.
Great video! I never knew water speed records were attempted on Loch Ness
I think that the front planing step collapsed, I've spent some time around a Vampire jet from this era and, while very well designed, the materials were just sh*t. Good video
Thank you for this channel. It absolutely quenches my soul.
Always an enjoyable and informative experience. I always look forward to every episode. As someone who followed the Breedlove Arfons duels I love your work.
Thank you very much!
Once again my UA-cam has failed me, no email or notification for this video. Always love this content, it's excellently explained and put together!!!
Thanks very much!
I think the hull is broken by the last waves and duckt under. If you look at the moment frame by frame you can see a deformation between the turbine and the cockpit. They should have installed the stiffener in front of the cockpit as planned....R.I.P. John Cobb
**wakes up to notification** time to put on my scarf and goggles. and my robe and wizard hat, ofc.
John Cobb and all those dudes had such _incredible_ death wishes. Whatever they got up to in the war (or foreign service, or rich boy's summer camp, depending on person and year) must really have been something else.
Brilliant ! Thank you 🙏
You're most welcome!
Awesome upload, S&G. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Your videos don’t come out very often but they are definitely worth the wait.
More to come soon!
As always, an amazing presentation. Thank you for the history and the ability to think and feel how they did during their endeavor.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video, thank you sir!
That was rather excellent.....many thanks!
Thank you!
Brilliant as always, and always an education.
I did wonder why a 6 year old Richard Noble was present, as I'd never considered a connection to Scotland... until I Googled him.
I never had any idea that Richard Noble is actually Scottish - he's always struck me as English.
Every day is a school day.
Fascinating story and great video. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank very interesting. Water speed records are the toughest, only for the brave. Very sad loss of life, later repeated at much higher speeds by Donald Campbell.
I actually saw Bluebird at Coniston when I was very young and we were camping on the shores of Coniston, it was being worked on, never saw it running.
Wonderful and very informative video about the death of one of my childhood heros John Cobb. Reid Railton was also a genius of design and it seems a tragic shame that in contruction the builders did not include the strenghtening bar for the front skimming plane. Perhaps if it had been included this disaster would not have happened.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Great video as usual! with explanation on engineering.
Thanks
Greetings from France
You are welcome!
very interesting and professionally done👍
Thank you! 👍
Great presentation. Thank you.
My pleasure!
So happy this got made! Well done and great to see new content! 🚤
More to come!
As a UA-cam film maker myself l can only echo the comments made already about your excellent narration and the quality of the videos you produce. It's a balancing act presenting a video, l tend to go on the light entertainment side of things at times, depending on the subject matter, but always keeping it respectful. Very well done on this particular video, l'm a Donald Campbell man myself. Gary
Wow, thank you!
This is a top quality channel.
Thank you very much!
Great research and presentation as we have come to expect on this channel.
Glad you enjoy it!
Brilliant video, as always from S&G, your usual superb, concise but comprehensive summary of the story. Two minor points: Amherst Villiers designed the Blue Bird car, not Reid Railton, although Railton, a design hero of mine, redesigned and developed it on a number of occasions. And if you really can’t pronounce Loch, you could always refer to ‘…the lake…’ when not using the name in full. That would ease the pain for us Scots…
Speed has been my dream for my entire life. This year (unfortunately) I had to skip Bonneville. My car is almost complete. I told my new boss that next year, missing Bonneville wasn’t an option! I really hope I can accomplish something that would be worth mentioning on your channel. Keep up the good work!!!!!
Thanks for your comment! Best of luck with your build.
Great research, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Flying or driving with a scarf and some goggle is the coolest way to use a vehicule
Very good. Du Cane's design makes a lot of sense aerodynamically, bringing the potential centre of lift behind the c of g, unlike the arrangement adopted for Bluebird k7
Well done very interesting thanks for posting
Glad you enjoyed it
the basic problem with Crusader was that it was designed as a boat - not a car! Hydroplanes get unsteady at 100mph!
All fast cars have low noses but Crusader's nose was sloped up and naturally gained a wedge of air to lift it up at high speeds.
As the nose lifted the wedge of air escaped and nose dropped. Then another wedge built up then escaped but this got worse as seen in the video.
The wake of the front slide gets intermitent as wedges build and release.
The side sponsons also then are affected by the torque of the jet as at each lift the torque acting on the sponson increases its effect so that when the boat drops the torque reactions pass to other side.
Having the weight of the engine at the rear plus the air resistance of the high body meant loading was at the rear so when the wedge lifted the nose the egine thrust line lifted to push the nose up (smae problem as grounded the Boeing 737Max after 2 crashed) - plus the gyroscopic precession pushed one side down to incraese the wedging!
As speed built up the wedges/releases, torquings and side sponson loadings all began to get out of whack until eventually the boat flipped.
A safe WSR vehicle should be longer, slimmer, lower and running on wheels not sponsons as water is pretty solid at speed - as proven watching videos of plane and boat crashes. Wallis's bouncing bomb shows water is pretty solid to a high speed round object?
The jet should be at the front exhausting between two rear wheels that are unfaired or minimum faired.
2:36
George Wood…
Brother of Gar!
He set the
First Official
World Water Speed Record
but it is his brother
who is most remembered…
S&G, may I suggest a video about Ken Warby, the current water speed record holder.
Another great story and speed icon who lost his life too soon 😢
Quality as always
Thank you!
The conditions looked far from ideal as he headed out. Significant wind-chop was obvious, and at the crash site was even worse.
So he succeeded the intention - he's not forgotten, like many of us would be.
Thanks for that, that was a nice surprise for a boring Tuesday morning. It's a small thing, but is Loch Ness in the highlands, pretty sure it's not.
Loch Ness is very much in the Highlands.
7:20 just imagine where naval architecture would be today if Peter DuCane had further developed toad-power for boats instead of concentrating on rocket-power the way he did.
Any idea what the campbell seagrave pre war lznd speed record documentary is called? Can't seem to find it anywhere online anymore🤔
I'm not aware of the doc you've mentioned, sorry.
@@ScarfAndGoggles i think it was called something like "the golden age" or "the golden years"🤔
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Thanks as always!
It's ironic that a World Speed Record on water was attempted at a place such as Loch Ness.
The same body of water with such eerie past ???
Yooooo new Scarf and Goggles!
And the current drag boat record is over 270mph in 3 seconds from a stop
Funny to think youd struggle to build something similar today even for half a mill.
SPEED THE ADDICTION, IS A LOVELY LADY . THAT CHASED, MAY NEVER BE OVER COME.
Hey, what happened to the background music of your earlier videos? 🙂
Music added to videos junked videos
I had a lot of comments that viewers preferred no music, so I stopped adding it to later videos!
Aw snap, I thought it was perfect.
Great program shame you can’t say Loch instead of lock
It crashed into the loch ness monster. I thought everyone knew that 🤷♂️
I watched this happen on wide world of sports
Errrr..... Where is "LoCK Ness"?
You find locks on canals; NOT rivers.
It is spelled Loch Ness but pronounced lock which was the word for lake back in the day.
Errrr..... Nope.
It's from the 'gaeltoch'.
It isn't 'gaelTOCK'.
'Back in the day' it was 'a loch' and 'a loch' it still is.
Ever been down The Caledonian Canal?
Seen how many lochs there are on it?
By your definition, I'll start talking about 'Lock Windermere'.
HTDCYU
. Have you got nothing better to do?
Who thought it was a good idea to let a man named Se(a)grave compete for the water speed record?
number 1............. at last.
Curses... Foiled again.😕
@@sadwingsraging3044 Validation at last.☺☺
'Until next time..' what? What should we do until next time? 😉
Never thought of that!
Nessie is not a monster and that's the end of it
Ok. The opening 40 seconds of this looked to clean. FAKE retro B&W be damned!
Fool
Excellent, as always.👍
Thank you!
Thanks for your excellent videos.
Glad you like them!