Each chapter of this unique series has gotten better, Warbird Mistress. The minutia, insights and breadth of topic you provide are fascinating, with an information density that multiple viewings of this installment certainly aids in fully digesting it's scope. Oh Claire, I 'm so sorry about your losing the first edition of this Part lV. The digital realm is an incredible tool, but it can indeed leave us even more vulnerable to losing huge investments in time and effort. Your research and collation of such vast amounts of little-known material is always impressive. But you out-did yourself here! You infuse each W.M. production with a quality rich in details. Such as your correct enunciation of German (and all other languages, for that matter) terms & names. You're an expert linguist! Double thank you's, sincerely, for creating and posting "Holding Patterns". It was well worth the wait!
Thank you so much! And thank you for your support!! Honestly, the worst part of it all was the combination of being an emotional burden and that it was lost right when I started working fifty to sixty hours a week as a retail manager. I've changed cloud storage providers to one that's better (and slightly cheaper) and I've already got most all my sources set apart for Part V plus the outline is all done, slides finished, and it's ready to be fleshed out. Immer weiter!!
@@TheWarbirdMistress Without having looked it up yet, I know what I THINK it means...😉🤭 *EDIT:* Okay, _Truth In Advertising_ time. I googled it and THAT is NOT what I thought it meant. I was thinking more of a _"Rule 34"_ kind of thing...😊
I hate to lose bacon at any time, glad you are back Claire, great content, formidable aircraft that could have had more of an effect perhaps if given more resources, never tell your enemy when they are making a mistake as the FL282 could have been a real threat, dip sonar and torpedos are lethal to submarines.
Finally, I'm getting the time to catch up on your videos. I have been interested in WWII maritime operations for many years. Your videos in regards to Luftwaffe ops have filled in a gap. You really do such great work. Thank you!!
@@TheWarbirdMistress This is you at your best. Longer format vids with rich and interesting detail on lesser known subjects. More please when you can. I got a genuine buzz when I saw a 45 min vid from The Mistress, xx
A SUGGESTION TO ALL VIEWERS: Before watching this Part 4, do (or redo) a binge on the following "Warbird Mistress" videos: - "Luftwaffe at Sea: Parts 1-3" -"Victory in the Dodecanese: Kos & Leros, Astipalea, and the 1943 Dodecanese Campaign" -"Germany's Carrier Strike Force: The Arado Ar 95, Ar 195, & Fieseler Fi 167 Torpedo Bombers" -"German Manufacturing Efficiency: Myths and Reality" -"Kriegsmarine vs Luftwaffe: The Battle for Wings at Sea" -"The Carrier Graf Zeppelin" These will greatly contribute to understanding the vast scope of this underrated, but incredibly interesting and important history. Within it lay many lessons that have since had to be relearned .....at considerable cost.
16:39 Using a winch for shipboard helicopter recovery was an idea ahead of its time - it was eventually fielded by the RCN in the 1950s as Beartrap, and integrated as part of LAMPS III in the USN.
I knew about the LAMPS, but I had to google the Canadian Beartrap when I saw it mentioned in the comments. It was simple and it worked: KISS maxim approved.
At about 11:52 in this video: Now in the 21st century, we tend to be 'somewhat acclimated' to seeing large aircraft such as contemporary Boeing & Airbus airliners. But back in the 1930s and 1940s, LARGE AIRCRAFT as shown in this video were as JAW-DROPPING as the STRATOLAUNCHER is today. It still somewhat amazes me that the standard WINGSPAN of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, 132' 7" -- an aircraft I worked on in both the US Navy and US Coast Guard -- is approximately 12 feet LONGER than the distance of the first flight of the Wright brothers on December 17th, 1903. And there were already aircraft with GREATER WINGSPANS than that when the C-130 first flew in the 1950s.
I got to walk through a C-5 once. I was amazed. I'm pretty sure it's a good thing that the Corps doesn't have one. Could you imagine the beer that thing could carry if a war broke out?!
@@TheWarbirdMistress>>> They could haul an ENTIRE BREWERY in one of those planes...🤭 Back in 1992, I was in the US Coast Guard, and working at Air Station Miami {at Opa Locka Airport}. After Hurricane Andrew hit in August, our airport was for a time the largest one close to Southern Dade County still operating. A *LOT* of relief supplies got flown in on military transports, including C-5 Galaxies. One day I walked out to a C-5 that was parked on our ramp and climbed up to the flight deck. The C-5 has an emergency escape hatch over the flight deck, which was open for ventilation. I stuck my head up through that open hatch and looked toward the tail. The C-5 is SO BIG that the tail section of the airplane I WAS STANDING IN was so far away it looked like it must be part of ANOTHER AIRPLANE. But I knew it was not.
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman There was one circling near home a few months ago - probably landing at or taking off from McGuire - and a neighbour commented that she was flying low. All I said was, "No, she's not." Lol
@@TheWarbirdMistress>>> That reminds me: On one deployment to Guantanamo {the US Navy base}, I was walking somewhere when a C-5 Galaxy took off from the Leeward airstrip there. For SEVERAL MINUTES after I could STILL see it flying away...😊 People just do not realize how BIG those things are.
Thank you for another great video! Great choice of subjects as well. You really put heart and soul in these. And at last a beute flugzeug (Fokker T.VIIIw). Didn't the Luftwaffe make more use of those naval beute aircraft? They must have had French, Jugoslav, a few Scandinavian (althou those were mostly German types) and Italian (after 1943). Production of the T.VIIIw continued after the occupation in May 1940 and 20+ were built for the Germans.
Indeed they did! These were likely the examples that were in the Mediterranean at the time. In my video on the Hungarian air campaign against Jugoslavia, I go into it.
Work was more than sixty hours a week for over a month, but it's over now. Check out the latest post in the community tab to see what's up! Thank you, Dear!
Just finished the busiest season of work for the year. A month and more of 60+ hours every week. Add to that the Memorial Day events and a hefty vets events schedule and I'm more burned out than an ordnance range after napalm day. Getting back into the groove today, in fact! (Now that I put about 400 rounds downrange ;) )
Glad we're getting more content from you.
Hear, hear!
Glad that I'm over this particularly burr-bedraggled bump in life and in production! Thank you!
Each chapter of this unique series has gotten better, Warbird Mistress. The minutia, insights and breadth of topic you provide are fascinating, with an information density that multiple viewings of this installment certainly aids in fully digesting it's scope.
Oh Claire, I 'm so sorry about your losing the first edition of this Part lV.
The digital realm is an incredible tool, but it can indeed leave us even more vulnerable to losing huge investments in time and effort.
Your research and collation of such vast amounts of little-known material is always impressive. But you out-did yourself here! You infuse each W.M. production with a quality rich in details. Such as your correct enunciation of German (and all other languages, for that matter) terms & names. You're an expert linguist!
Double thank you's, sincerely, for creating and posting "Holding Patterns". It was well worth the wait!
Thank you so much! And thank you for your support!! Honestly, the worst part of it all was the combination of being an emotional burden and that it was lost right when I started working fifty to sixty hours a week as a retail manager. I've changed cloud storage providers to one that's better (and slightly cheaper) and I've already got most all my sources set apart for Part V plus the outline is all done, slides finished, and it's ready to be fleshed out. Immer weiter!!
I know, right? It seems like Bad Luck knows just when to rear its ugly head.
Here's hoping your 2023 "takes wing"! Ich freue mich sooo auf Teil V!!!
The Canadian Beartrap comes to mind.
I looked up what you meant and I'm glad I did: I hadn't heard the term before now, or at least it didn't stick with me. Thanks!
@@TheWarbirdMistress Without having looked it up yet, I know what I THINK it means...😉🤭
*EDIT:* Okay, _Truth In Advertising_ time. I googled it and THAT is NOT what I thought it meant.
I was thinking more of a _"Rule 34"_ kind of thing...😊
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Well, it COULD be...
@@TheWarbirdMistress >>> Like I said: _"Rule 34."_ 😊
I hate to lose bacon at any time, glad you are back Claire, great content, formidable aircraft that could have had more of an effect perhaps if given more resources, never tell your enemy when they are making a mistake as the FL282 could have been a real threat, dip sonar and torpedos are lethal to submarines.
Especially the small subs the British were using against harbour ops.
hurray!
Yippee, too!
Exceptional historical perspective. Thanks for posting.
Thank you! 😊
Finally, I'm getting the time to catch up on your videos. I have been interested in WWII maritime operations for many years. Your videos in regards to Luftwaffe ops have filled in a gap. You really do such great work. Thank you!!
Thank you! I've got one more of these to do. Have to get back in the gears!
Excellent video presentation. Thank you Claire.
Thank you!!!
@@TheWarbirdMistress This is you at your best. Longer format vids with rich and interesting detail on lesser known subjects. More please when you can.
I got a genuine buzz when I saw a 45 min vid from The Mistress, xx
@@minkymoo4794 I'm definitely working on more things like I did in the past.
A SUGGESTION TO ALL VIEWERS:
Before watching this Part 4, do (or redo) a binge on the following "Warbird Mistress" videos:
- "Luftwaffe at Sea: Parts 1-3"
-"Victory in the Dodecanese: Kos & Leros, Astipalea, and the 1943 Dodecanese Campaign"
-"Germany's Carrier Strike Force: The Arado Ar 95, Ar 195, & Fieseler Fi 167 Torpedo Bombers"
-"German Manufacturing Efficiency: Myths and Reality"
-"Kriegsmarine vs Luftwaffe: The Battle for Wings at Sea"
-"The Carrier Graf Zeppelin"
These will greatly contribute to understanding the vast scope of this underrated, but incredibly interesting and important history. Within it lay many lessons that have since had to be relearned .....at considerable cost.
Thank you so much! That's a great list to watch, indeed! Cheers 😊
16:39 Using a winch for shipboard helicopter recovery was an idea ahead of its time - it was eventually fielded by the RCN in the 1950s as Beartrap, and integrated as part of LAMPS III in the USN.
I knew about the LAMPS, but I had to google the Canadian Beartrap when I saw it mentioned in the comments. It was simple and it worked: KISS maxim approved.
Love it warbird mistress ♥️
Thank you so much!
Love these vids. You made my day. Thank you
Thank you for your viewership and support, Bruce! You guys make it possible.
Excellent presentation! Thank you!
You're very welcome! It's I who should be thanking you guys for helping make it all possible!
it good hear from you always..be safe...
Great video ! A
Thank you, Gary! Glad you be back in the saddle!
Flettner Fl-282: The [Great?] Grandfather of the Kaman K-MAX.
@TheWarbirdMistress >>> *_"...found themselves in the shadow of the Unfriendly Reichsmarschall's GUT..."_*
And THAT was A LOT of GUT...🤭
Great work on the video my Mistress
As always 💖
Am trying to imagine a Fa330 operator in the north sea. There'd be rime on that ancient mariner.
Yah, I can imagine that not using it in the Atlantic Theatre was as much an act of tactical necessity as much as an act of mercy for all involved.
At about 11:52 in this video: Now in the 21st century, we tend to be 'somewhat acclimated' to seeing large aircraft such as contemporary Boeing & Airbus airliners. But back in the 1930s and 1940s, LARGE AIRCRAFT as shown in this video were as JAW-DROPPING as the STRATOLAUNCHER is today.
It still somewhat amazes me that the standard WINGSPAN of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, 132' 7" -- an aircraft I worked on in both the US Navy and US Coast Guard -- is approximately 12 feet LONGER than the distance of the first flight of the Wright brothers on December 17th, 1903. And there were already aircraft with GREATER WINGSPANS than that when the C-130 first flew in the 1950s.
I got to walk through a C-5 once. I was amazed. I'm pretty sure it's a good thing that the Corps doesn't have one. Could you imagine the beer that thing could carry if a war broke out?!
@@TheWarbirdMistress>>> They could haul an ENTIRE BREWERY in one of those planes...🤭
Back in 1992, I was in the US Coast Guard, and working at Air Station Miami {at Opa Locka Airport}.
After Hurricane Andrew hit in August, our airport was for a time the largest one close to Southern Dade County still operating. A *LOT* of relief supplies got flown in on military transports, including C-5 Galaxies.
One day I walked out to a C-5 that was parked on our ramp and climbed up to the flight deck. The C-5 has an emergency escape hatch over the flight deck, which was open for ventilation. I stuck my head up through that open hatch and looked toward the tail. The C-5 is SO BIG that the tail section of the airplane I WAS STANDING IN was so far away it looked like it must be part of ANOTHER AIRPLANE. But I knew it was not.
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman There was one circling near home a few months ago - probably landing at or taking off from McGuire - and a neighbour commented that she was flying low. All I said was, "No, she's not." Lol
@@TheWarbirdMistress>>> That reminds me: On one deployment to Guantanamo {the US Navy base}, I was walking somewhere when a C-5 Galaxy took off from the Leeward airstrip there. For SEVERAL MINUTES after I could STILL see it flying away...😊
People just do not realize how BIG those things are.
Thank you for another great video! Great choice of subjects as well. You really put heart and soul in these.
And at last a beute flugzeug (Fokker T.VIIIw). Didn't the Luftwaffe make more use of those naval beute aircraft? They must have had French, Jugoslav, a few Scandinavian (althou those were mostly German types) and Italian (after 1943). Production of the T.VIIIw continued after the occupation in May 1940 and 20+ were built for the Germans.
Indeed they did! These were likely the examples that were in the Mediterranean at the time. In my video on the Hungarian air campaign against Jugoslavia, I go into it.
Hi Claire the Halley's comet of your work and like the comet dazzling
Hopefully it's be as common as rain on a Spanish plain again!!
@@TheWarbirdMistress I actually saw Halley's comet in 1986 aged 12 will I see it again ???(half way there)
Is a Ki 48 Lilly discussion video on the possibility list ?
Definitely one of my favourite quirky, forgotten craft. The Irving, ditto.
Hey, haven't heard from you in awhile. Hope all is ok!
Work was more than sixty hours a week for over a month, but it's over now. Check out the latest post in the community tab to see what's up! Thank you, Dear!
Hey Jarhead, where you at??
Just finished the busiest season of work for the year. A month and more of 60+ hours every week. Add to that the Memorial Day events and a hefty vets events schedule and I'm more burned out than an ordnance range after napalm day. Getting back into the groove today, in fact! (Now that I put about 400 rounds downrange ;) )
@@TheWarbirdMistress So glad to hear you're well! Semper Fidelis 🤗
@@rambler6891 Oorah! Just wrote all about it in the community tab. Enjoy the weekend!
How are you doing these days? Hope you are well
Busy as busy. Pop got a pacemaker. H-1B season is over. Recording new material between the air conditioner going lol
@@TheWarbirdMistress H1-b.? Work visa? I don’t follow
@@TheWarbirdMistress anyway hope you’re good and pop is as well
HOPE YOUR WELL.HOPE TOO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.....
All good! More than busy with work. Just posted about it. Thank you so much for checking in on me!