A-26 Invader "Million Airess" | Antidotum Airshow 2024
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- The extremely rare sight of an A-26 Invader at a European airshow, as Million Air's Texas-based example performed a one-off flying display at Antidotum Airshow Leszno during it's D-Day 80 European tour.
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She flew low one me in north hertfordshire 9 am this morning what a beauty
you gotta be on yer game in the sky because it's a long way down and it hurts when you stop several times
when planes were really getting cool
Ayeeee... That thing could use a turbo prop conversion like the DC-3.
I mean this in the most respectful way possible…. HELL NO 🤣
A-26 were NOT able to reach 680 kph (more like 580 which is still fast) in level flight and no they could NOT outrun a P-51.
Also that statement it wasn't used much in the Pacific because the war was pretty mich over but it was used in Europe from 1944 makes historically absolutely no sense! Mate, get your facts right!
I assume the first statement refers to some of the specialised postwar sub-variants, which were retrofitted with more powerful engines.
The second statement makes sense when quoted in full rather than in part. "The A-26 was used in the Pacific, although the squadrons in the Pacific generally weren't very keen on the A-26. *But by the time the A-26 had been suitably modified for use in that theatre to the approval of those crews there* the war was virtually over."
Well, yes if both comments about Pacific and Europe are separated then it makes a bit more sense. However it rather sounded like they used it in Europe because in the Pacific there was no use due to the war's end.
On the other hand I highly doubt there was ever a piston engine only version even after the war that reached 680 kph outrunning Mustangs. There was a prototype, the XB-26F, that made 700 kph but only because it had an additional turbojet engine fitted.
@@wanderschlosser1857 I agree that the end of one story and the start of the other could have been more clearly deliniated. In our defence, though, we only knew the A-26 was coming one hour before we started out live commentary on the morning of the show. No notes provided by the crew, no chance to speak to them, no opportunity to write a script - we just had to fall back on whatever third party info we could find and try to fumble though, with both of us reading from different sources depending on what we could find in the moment. In contrast, for every other display we had weeks of notice to do some research, sequence cards, and in some cases, pages of notes provided by the crews.
I don't know where the A-26 speed info came from, I could see Luke was reading from some American airshow documentation which I assume had been provided by an A-26 crew over there at some point in the past. My guess is that it's accurate in a very specific context, but that those qualifiers were either missed or were edited out (this is a 5 minute cut of a 10 minute display). Or maybe a number was simply misprinted in that document.
No 10hr commentary is faultless, but I don't think you'll find many errors in the other 9hrs50min of broadcasting. The A-26, however, was one of the two big curveballs of the show (along with the Bo105 night show, which deviated from its sequence card towards the end due to technical reasons of which we only became aware of the following day, leaving us with absolutely zero situational awareness live in the moment). Those two moments aside, I think we ran quite a tight ship.
@@ThisisFlight Thanks a lot for the extensive answer, appreciate it! Yes I can imagine creating such content isn't easy and small mistakes easily happen. It's certainly easier for guys like me to comment and criticise. But honestly I really appreciate guys like you creating such content, entertaining, informing and teaching the viewers. Keep up the good work! And thanks again for reaching out.
@@wanderschlosser1857 Thanks! I'm a bit disappointed because this particular one is more than a small mistake. But hey ho, that's live broadcasting! It's all plain sailing until something unexpected happens.