I heard this and immediately thought of that meme of the squirrl owing you a life dept for not hitting him on the road. "And in your darkest hour when you need him most. The squirrel arrives.!" And it shows a picture of him in knight armor.
The first picture of Lord Beaverbrook was correct. Each subsequent time the picture was showed, it was photoshopped so the hand kept getting smaller and smaller.
@@RipOffProductionsLLC WW2TV did a live stream with Frank Blazich, who has been doing work on Habakkuk and floating airfields...really terrific information given in that stream. You can find it here... ua-cam.com/video/aIA7Zdyg01c/v-deo.html
Not only was the british radar in their night fighters smaller, it was also the subject of equipment envy from the german night fighter pilots. In fact it got so bad that the germans litterally invented a radar that was on the tail on their aircraft to alert them to a mossie on their tail. The source for this? A memoir from a german night fighter, which is a really good book as well
"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked." - Hermann Göring, 1943.
9:39 Lord Mountbatten, who was convinced a wood pulp/Ice ship (Referred to as "Pykrete"), organized a meeting with serval admirals, several generals, and even Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He placed a block of wood on a table, and next to it placed a block of Pykrete. He then drew his service pistol, and shot the wooden block. It shattered instantly. Then, he shot the Pykrete block. The bullet ricocheted off the block, grazing the trouser leg of Admiral Ernest King, and embedded itself up the wall.
Nearly gets shot and then proceeds to do the exact opposite of everything that British commanders told him to do. Man, I'm glad that weird paranoia US military commanders seem to have never continued into the future.
I swear there's two things that are common with militaries around the world. Grunts being grunts, and military officers thinking they know better than the grunts
I mean management thinking they know better than people on the ground is way more universal than the military. 😂 I worked in a factory for years and arguing with the higher ups because they were constantly trying to change everything to squeeze out slightly more productivity, while actually making the job slower or more dangerous was a regular occurrence.
Only fans if for losers, if you use it you are the problem and anyone trying to justify it is just as bad. It brings nothing at all productive to society and reinforces the belief that being a slut is not only fine but a better idea than getting a real job that actually contributes something to society. Not only that, but god forbid any of those skanks have kids. Life's hard enough already without having an automatic disadvantage that people are going to criticize you because your mother's crack can be bought for $5 on the internet.
They had one version (Mk XVIII) with 57mm 6lb auto loading howitzer and 4X20 mm cannons. Primarily used for Submarine hunting, also used for anti shipping, bunker busting, V1 flying bomb interceptors V2 ballistic missile production sites etc. Known as the Tse -Tse after the killer mosquito.
As good as the fat electrician did of this he missed out the 4 machine guns and a cannon with armour which hunted german U-boats. This thing quite literally did it all and I cannot think of another plane before or since that was so good at everything for the time it was made.
The gun it carried was a 6pdr quick firing anti-tank gun with an autoloader which allowed the variant (known as the Tsetse) to attack U-boats and motor torpedo boats, so it was mainly used for coastal patrol.
The blockbuster bomb is in fact the namesake for describing a great movie as a blockbuster. It was used because the people going to the movie theater would block access to the building as a whole.
On the German Mozzie what really put the nail in its coffin was the fact that he glues they became unstuck so the plane fell apart in mid flight, Mitch was so mad about the Mozzie saying they are building a wooden plane with cabinet and piano makers and building them by the thousands. De Havilland was told to stop making it as said but still built it in secert since he knew they not want it now but they will want it and we are all glad he was not stopped and gave us a way to troll the Germans all the way to hell.
Right, because two Merlins, props, radiators, landing gear, wheels and electric and control cables plus four Browning .303's and four Hispano 20mm plus mags and ammo and 500 pounds of bombs on FB's OR 2,000 pounds of bombs on bombers were also made of wood.
@@nickdanger3802you have to remember that "stealth" just means low radar return. Compared to a metal airframe that's essentially a massive metallic mirror for radar to bounce off of, the radar return from Mosquito is likely so low that radar at the time likely had a very hard time picking it out from noise in the system itself.
@@ShuberFuber "The Mosquito being made out of wood couldn't be detected by radar" I have never seen or heard anything from DH, the Air Ministry or RAF claiming anyone thought the Mossie was stealth because it was made of wood. If they had, they probably would not have been used for "diversion" raids. Search Hyperwar Royal Air Force 1939-1945
The Mossie (4,000lb) took a bomb load greater than a B17 (3,500lb)to Berlin! Beautiful and very versatile, Recce, Bomber, Night Fighter, Fighter Bomber. It was used for the Highball bouncing bomb, it was used a torpedo bomber and my personal favourite, the Tsetse variant had a 6 pdr anti tank gun - great for spoiling a U Boats day! It was also used to courier vips to Sweden in its specially fitted bomb bay. Its first mission in 42 was as a Pathfinder (marker) for the 1000 plane raid in late 42. Operation Jericho was the Amiens prison break (blowing down the walls) to free or silence French resistance fighters before D Day! The raided Gestapo HQ in Oslo and in Denmark.
So freaken funny that the maker of this plane inadvertently made a pride trap- "There no way in hell my powerful fighters are gonna be made with cheap wood!" 😂and it's what completely derailed the idea of copying the design
On the "just don't fly it into shit" comment of the De Havilland wanting to make wooden planes, ammunition of the time was naturally built to pierce metal armour. This would allow the round sufficient time to enter and then explode within the plane. However, like as seen with the torpedoing of the Bismarck, if you have a weaker armour on your plane, those rounds go straight through your armour, exploding after it's passed straight through you, possibly not detonating on the other side at all. (Or, in the case of the Swordfish bombers in that mission, a canvas skin with wooden internal structure. The Germans would have had better luck shooting at paper planes.) TL;DR, the De Havilland Mosquito was OP in literally every way right down to its armour.
You're assuming explosive ammunition, which wasn't always the case. The RAF for example used regular .303 ball ammunition for most planes until they got into the cannon game in 1943/44. A lot of the destructive power from regular ammunition came from smashing up engines, breaking fuel and hydraulic lines, injuring the crew, and starting fires by breaking fuel and oil lines onto hot surfaces. Explosive ammunition really did the same thing, but it had an increased chance of doing it by throwing shrapnel everywhere when it exploded.
Same thing with the geodetic airframe of the Wellington bomber, designed by Barnes Wallis. The frame was metal, but the surface was cloth, so unless the bullets would accidentally strike a tube of the narrow chainlink-like frame, they would just pass through the aircraft. And even if large sections of the cloth skin of the aircraft would get blasted off by Flak or burned off by a lucky incendiary bullet or 20mm fighter cannon, the frame was still intact so it would still fly.
Yes, the Brits would have been better off if they had started building the Mosquito earlier, but it used the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, and there was much more demand for that engine before the end of the Battle of Britain. And since the Mosquito used 2 Merlins while each Spitfire used only 1, it is clear why the Mosquito was always going to be a much lower priority as long as Germany was bombing so often. It was only after the Luftwaffe had been defeated and Britain had plenty of Spitfires in the pipeline and Merlins to spare that Britain shifted production to planes like the Mosquito and Lancaster and other Merlin engined aircraft.
On the other hand, the Lancasters used four Merlins, and the Mosquito had far superior survivability, so building more Mossies and fewer Lancs might have been a better plan. There's no doubt though, that the Lancs had a much bigger payload, like the Tall Boys and Grand Slams.
@@davemacmurchie6982 You make a good point...2 Mossies more for 1 Lanc less could have been a very good tradeoff, you are not wrong. But as you note, the Lancs could carry much bigger payload...and as long as he had any say in it, Bomber Harris was almost surely not going to want to have less Lancs and more Mossies...at least not from what I have learned of him.
@@davemacmurchie6982 The tradeoff there believe it or not was pilots. A Lanc and a Mozzie both took one pilot (the lanc not having a secondary control position like the US aircraft) and the Mozzie pilot actually needed to be slightly more skilled (harder to land/take off and much more low-level flying to do) so oddly what you'd find is that the bomber pilots would start off on Lancs and then move to Mozzies if they were good enough and lucky enough to complete sufficient missions to get good at flying. So you have a shortage of suitably qualifed pilots for both aircraft, but a more acute shortage for the Mosquito due to the higher aptitude requirements.
Drachinifel has some really interesting stories on Navel history. He has more of a historian approach, but he did tell that story about the Russian fleet, and it was funny. Also, his story about the USS Jonston during the Battle of Samer was pretty interesting.
It's a brilliant story, well told by Fatty E. The only slightly unfair bit was the reason why the Mosquito wasn't immediately ordered was demand for the Rolls Royce Merlin Engine. Merlins were the best British aviation engine by a mile and arguably the best in the world at the time despite being carburetor fueld rather than injection as in the Benz engined ME109. The problem for De Haviland, and also AVRo, who built the Lancaster is that in 1939 and 1940 the priority was to build as many fighter planes as possible: Spitfires, Hurricanes, for defense rather than bombers for offense. By the late summer 1940 the fighters had successfully stopped the Luftwaffe so production shifted to building Merlins for the bombers. Around this time Merlins started being made under license in the USA (Packhard , was one of the companies used, if my memory serves me). The supply chain issues were solved and the superb Merlin would go on to power allied aircraft until after the war. Indeed, the Spanish used Merlins to power their BF109 fighters in the 1950s and 60s.
Operation Jericho was much later in the war and the target was a prison in Amiens that was about to execute resistance fighters.... other than that he's pretty spot on 🇬🇧
I LOVE stuff like this because it proves that "more advanced" isn't always better. everyone's wanting metal planes with armor and guns just to eventually have their asses blown off by wooden planes like SCP D-Class personnel being told to fight SCPs that are playing music like freebird or something while they're having a good ol' time turning the enemy into scrap metal receiving a red paintjob by their pilots. Edit: I find myself wondering what could've happened if the german politicians had pulled their heads out of their asses and allowed the construction and deployment of wooden planes too
There is a theory in business that only 5% of people can see the turn in the economy coming and accurately predict how to react. Ex, as America in the early 2000's is racing toward a housing market collapse, the largest builder in California pulled out. The entire industry laughed at them, for a bit. I spoke w/a builder in CA who was on the verge of losing everything, he told me that story. What we have here in WWII is a man in the airplane business that predicted the turn, and accurately predicted how to react.
I'm afraid that he overstates the effectiveness of the intruder missions. Intruder missions are the night missions over Nazi airfields. These missions did put a bit of a crimp in the Luftwaffe's night fighter operations but they didn't shut them down. And the Luftwaffe had really, really good night fighters. One pilot knocked down twelve British bombers in a day; five between midnight and sunrise one night and then seven more between sunset and midnight the next night. The British bombers often suffered more casualties during night bombing as the Americans did during the day.
On the ice and wood pulp aircraft carrier, yes that is legit, they call the resulting composite material Pykrete and it’s supposed to be as strong as concrete, the project was code named Project Habakkuk, the story goes that when the British sold the idea to the Americans so they could get them to send supplies to Canada to allow them to build it. The captain in charge of the project put a piece of pykrete on the table in front of Admiral King head of the U.S. Navy, then pulls out his gun and shoots it, the bullet bounced off and hit King in the leg, but instead of being a disaster, King got so excited about the possibilities of indestructible iceberg sized carriers that he forgot he had been shot.
Sooo... in the case of both Britain and Germany, their air forces were led by veteran combat airmen. These experienced subject matter experts said, "We need this plane." The people with giant corporations and shitloads of money said, "Naaah. That's not the way we do business around here." 🙄Sure glad that sort of thing never happens here in the U.S. 🙄
the aircraft carrier was made of pykrete named after its inventor it was several times stronger than steel and they did actually build part of it in canada i believe
9:43 Legit. It was a logistical and physical nightmare. Even the myth busters tried to do one smaller and it worked initially, but it crumbles way too fast and is not worth the effort to produce.
To be fair, the waters they were in weren't NEARLY as cold as the North Atlantic, where said ships would have been operating. Which, funny enough, is also the reason why most of the people on both the Hood and, three decades earlier, the Titanic died within minutes of aforementioned ships sinking...
I have a personality similar to De Havilland, I sort of don't know when to hit the Stop button, if I'm going to break something important, body included, it's going to have to be Fun, and my body shows all the damage through the years, I have enough titanium in my arm to be worth something, several bone grafts, destroyed muscles and tendons, almost every major bone broken at one point or another. Would I do it again, Damn Straight I would.
The Mosquito wasn’t quote a relic, it was just designed for a very different purpose than other aircraft of its era. I used something similar in the Middle East (still classified) that let me fly (barely) with a backpack rig I could still carry on top of most of my gear. Max load of the heavy version was 800 pounds (~500 useful load), letting me carry most of our man portable artillery and still fire a mk19 or m134 (mortars would knock me out of control, but I could airdrop them), with 6 hours of loiter time. The light version would still give me 50 pounds of useful load and only weighed 30lbs (but only 30 minutes of loiter time). Huge once opened but would fold up to the same size as my ruck (and replaced it). This was pre-handheld drones of course and had no armor, but I could take off in 10 feet with a light load, or 100 feet at max load.
Funny you mention government spending money on insane things for equally insane reasons. Our favorite electrician has a new video out on "America's $300 Million Sci-Fi Arsenal". Good stuff.
So ... if it was so good at everything. Why aren't all planes made out of wood now? Not counting specialized planes that need metal for any specific role they need to fulfill. (And yes I did see what he said at the end about planes either wanting to be so fast they can't be caught or so stealthy they're never seen.)
The airframe was technically a composite structure made using thin layers of birch and mahogany sandwiching balsa wood all held together with specialist glue. Modern high performance aircraft do exactly the same thing with carbon fibre and other synthetic materials bonded with chemical resin's. They do this for exactly the same reasons higher power to weight lower radar coefficient and ease of manufacturing.
Back in WW2 wood could still handle the load from the flight regimes excepted of a plane. After the war planes were expected to handle a lot more stress, which required stronger materials
As for the tiny hands, it is a real photo, but each time you see it in the video, his hands get photoshopped to be smaller each time.
Yeah that checks out
@@panther-nk2hn And it's sooo funny!
"Have you ever seen a squirrel in knight's armor?"
Yes, on my Magic the Gathering playmat.
In Divinity Original Sin 2 he was also riding a undead skeleton cat
I heard this and immediately thought of that meme of the squirrl owing you a life dept for not hitting him on the road.
"And in your darkest hour when you need him most. The squirrel arrives.!" And it shows a picture of him in knight armor.
I feel like I want to see that in BG3.
FOR REDWALL!!!
@@Guardian-of-Light137 YES THATS THE MEME I REMEMBERED
The first picture of Lord Beaverbrook was correct. Each subsequent time the picture was showed, it was photoshopped so the hand kept getting smaller and smaller.
Lord bitchmittens.
The wood pulp and Ice aircraft carrier was called Project Habakkuk, there are some good videos out there about it.
Unfortunately, the best one is about an hour and a half long...but as somebody else noted, Drachinifel made a good one on Habakkuk as well.
It was also tested on Mythbusters!
Mythbusters did an episode on it... They adapted it to newspaper and ice.
@@iKvetch558who made the hour+ one?
@@RipOffProductionsLLC WW2TV did a live stream with Frank Blazich, who has been doing work on Habakkuk and floating airfields...really terrific information given in that stream. You can find it here... ua-cam.com/video/aIA7Zdyg01c/v-deo.html
Not only was the british radar in their night fighters smaller, it was also the subject of equipment envy from the german night fighter pilots. In fact it got so bad that the germans litterally invented a radar that was on the tail on their aircraft to alert them to a mossie on their tail. The source for this? A memoir from a german night fighter, which is a really good book as well
whats the title of the memoir?
@@jackthunderbolt4307 duel under the stars
“Block Buster”? Wait until you see the “Tall boy” and “Grand Slam” both 12,000 and 22,000 pound respectively! 😂
Barnes Wallis for the win.
The Mosquito is the Blackbirds grandfather 3 times removed.
13:20 his hand gets smaller each time its shown XD
"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft,
but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green
and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than
we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano
factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have
now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing
the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the
nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set -
then at least I'll own something that has always worked."
- Hermann Göring, 1943.
9:39
Lord Mountbatten, who was convinced a wood pulp/Ice ship (Referred to as "Pykrete"), organized a meeting with serval admirals, several generals, and even Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He placed a block of wood on a table, and next to it placed a block of Pykrete. He then drew his service pistol, and shot the wooden block. It shattered instantly.
Then, he shot the Pykrete block. The bullet ricocheted off the block, grazing the trouser leg of Admiral Ernest King, and embedded itself up the wall.
And yet despite the fact admiral king seemed to hate the British on principle he actually liked Mountbatten
And we wonder why King was terrified of the British XD
Nearly gets shot and then proceeds to do the exact opposite of everything that British commanders told him to do.
Man, I'm glad that weird paranoia US military commanders seem to have never continued into the future.
And King's reputation was such that the people outside the room weren't sure whether or not a gunfight had broken out in the room
I swear there's two things that are common with militaries around the world. Grunts being grunts, and military officers thinking they know better than the grunts
I mean management thinking they know better than people on the ground is way more universal than the military. 😂
I worked in a factory for years and arguing with the higher ups because they were constantly trying to change everything to squeeze out slightly more productivity, while actually making the job slower or more dangerous was a regular occurrence.
And politicians getting in the way
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@fullcircle8231 sadly, morality is based on the where and how you were raised.
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Only fans if for losers, if you use it you are the problem and anyone trying to justify it is just as bad. It brings nothing at all productive to society and reinforces the belief that being a slut is not only fine but a better idea than getting a real job that actually contributes something to society. Not only that, but god forbid any of those skanks have kids. Life's hard enough already without having an automatic disadvantage that people are going to criticize you because your mother's crack can be bought for $5 on the internet.
The Mosquito is one of the best aircraft of WW2
They had one version (Mk XVIII) with 57mm 6lb auto loading howitzer and 4X20 mm cannons. Primarily used for Submarine hunting, also used for anti shipping, bunker busting, V1 flying bomb interceptors V2 ballistic missile production sites etc. Known as the Tse -Tse after the killer mosquito.
A pilot in a Tsetse was credited with shooting down a Junkers 88, one shot from the 57mm removed the engine from the wing of the Junkers.
As good as the fat electrician did of this he missed out the 4 machine guns and a cannon with armour which hunted german U-boats. This thing quite literally did it all and I cannot think of another plane before or since that was so good at everything for the time it was made.
The gun it carried was a 6pdr quick firing anti-tank gun with an autoloader which allowed the variant (known as the Tsetse) to attack U-boats and motor torpedo boats, so it was mainly used for coastal patrol.
DeHavilland was a visionary, his company was the first to make commercial jet planes too, but those weren't made of wood
The MOAB actually stands for massive ordinance air burst (or blast I can’t remember which). The fat electrician has a short video about it too.
Your correct. The nickname for it also lines up with the acronym is mother of all bombs
Massive ordinance air blast.
The boat made of wood chip and ice is called "Pycrete". Yes, it was a thing.
The hand was photoshopped to be smaller every time he showed him.
TFE: "UK was trying to build an aircraft carrier out of wood pulp and ice."
OMR: "Legit?!"
Yeah. Look up pykrete.
The blockbuster bomb is in fact the namesake for describing a great movie as a blockbuster. It was used because the people going to the movie theater would block access to the building as a whole.
On the German Mozzie what really put the nail in its coffin was the fact that he glues they became unstuck so the plane fell apart in mid flight, Mitch was so mad about the Mozzie saying they are building a wooden plane with cabinet and piano makers and building them by the thousands. De Havilland was told to stop making it as said but still built it in secert since he knew they not want it now but they will want it and we are all glad he was not stopped and gave us a way to troll the Germans all the way to hell.
I just like the idea that this plane was the grandfather to the modern day stealth bombers if you really think about it.
Best part
The Mosquito being made out of wood couldn't be detected by radar
The British had the first stealth bomber
Right, because two Merlins, props, radiators, landing gear, wheels and electric and control cables plus four Browning .303's and four Hispano 20mm plus mags and ammo and 500 pounds of bombs on FB's OR 2,000 pounds of bombs on bombers were also made of wood.
@@nickdanger3802you have to remember that "stealth" just means low radar return.
Compared to a metal airframe that's essentially a massive metallic mirror for radar to bounce off of, the radar return from Mosquito is likely so low that radar at the time likely had a very hard time picking it out from noise in the system itself.
@@ShuberFuber "The Mosquito being made out of wood couldn't be detected by radar"
I have never seen or heard anything from DH, the Air Ministry or RAF claiming anyone thought the Mossie was stealth because it was made of wood.
If they had, they probably would not have been used for "diversion" raids.
Search
Hyperwar Royal Air Force 1939-1945
The Mossie (4,000lb) took a bomb load greater than a B17 (3,500lb)to Berlin! Beautiful and very versatile, Recce, Bomber, Night Fighter, Fighter Bomber. It was used for the Highball bouncing bomb, it was used a torpedo bomber and my personal favourite, the Tsetse variant had a 6 pdr anti tank gun - great for spoiling a U Boats day! It was also used to courier vips to Sweden in its specially fitted bomb bay. Its first mission in 42 was as a Pathfinder (marker) for the 1000 plane raid in late 42. Operation Jericho was the Amiens prison break (blowing down the walls) to free or silence French resistance fighters before D Day! The raided Gestapo HQ in Oslo and in Denmark.
I really wish The Fat Electrician used the angry "NEIN NEIN NEIN" Hitler scene from Inglorious Bastards instead of the cartoon guy getting angry
Tbf... it isn't just a cartoon guy
It's mfing *Hades*
I've never heard the phrase "air battle for England." before.
So freaken funny that the maker of this plane inadvertently made a pride trap- "There no way in hell my powerful fighters are gonna be made with cheap wood!"
😂and it's what completely derailed the idea of copying the design
I felt that “I live in the middle of NO WHERE!” 😂
On the "just don't fly it into shit" comment of the De Havilland wanting to make wooden planes, ammunition of the time was naturally built to pierce metal armour.
This would allow the round sufficient time to enter and then explode within the plane. However, like as seen with the torpedoing of the Bismarck, if you have a weaker armour on your plane, those rounds go straight through your armour, exploding after it's passed straight through you, possibly not detonating on the other side at all. (Or, in the case of the Swordfish bombers in that mission, a canvas skin with wooden internal structure. The Germans would have had better luck shooting at paper planes.)
TL;DR, the De Havilland Mosquito was OP in literally every way right down to its armour.
You're assuming explosive ammunition, which wasn't always the case. The RAF for example used regular .303 ball ammunition for most planes until they got into the cannon game in 1943/44. A lot of the destructive power from regular ammunition came from smashing up engines, breaking fuel and hydraulic lines, injuring the crew, and starting fires by breaking fuel and oil lines onto hot surfaces.
Explosive ammunition really did the same thing, but it had an increased chance of doing it by throwing shrapnel everywhere when it exploded.
Same thing with the geodetic airframe of the Wellington bomber, designed by Barnes Wallis. The frame was metal, but the surface was cloth, so unless the bullets would accidentally strike a tube of the narrow chainlink-like frame, they would just pass through the aircraft. And even if large sections of the cloth skin of the aircraft would get blasted off by Flak or burned off by a lucky incendiary bullet or 20mm fighter cannon, the frame was still intact so it would still fly.
Yes, the Brits would have been better off if they had started building the Mosquito earlier, but it used the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, and there was much more demand for that engine before the end of the Battle of Britain. And since the Mosquito used 2 Merlins while each Spitfire used only 1, it is clear why the Mosquito was always going to be a much lower priority as long as Germany was bombing so often. It was only after the Luftwaffe had been defeated and Britain had plenty of Spitfires in the pipeline and Merlins to spare that Britain shifted production to planes like the Mosquito and Lancaster and other Merlin engined aircraft.
On the other hand, the Lancasters used four Merlins, and the Mosquito had far superior survivability, so building more Mossies and fewer Lancs might have been a better plan. There's no doubt though, that the Lancs had a much bigger payload, like the Tall Boys and Grand Slams.
@@davemacmurchie6982 You make a good point...2 Mossies more for 1 Lanc less could have been a very good tradeoff, you are not wrong. But as you note, the Lancs could carry much bigger payload...and as long as he had any say in it, Bomber Harris was almost surely not going to want to have less Lancs and more Mossies...at least not from what I have learned of him.
@@davemacmurchie6982 The tradeoff there believe it or not was pilots. A Lanc and a Mozzie both took one pilot (the lanc not having a secondary control position like the US aircraft) and the Mozzie pilot actually needed to be slightly more skilled (harder to land/take off and much more low-level flying to do) so oddly what you'd find is that the bomber pilots would start off on Lancs and then move to Mozzies if they were good enough and lucky enough to complete sufficient missions to get good at flying.
So you have a shortage of suitably qualifed pilots for both aircraft, but a more acute shortage for the Mosquito due to the higher aptitude requirements.
Fat Electrician is an amazing channel.
26:16 Absolute power corupts absolutely
Pykrete and Project Habakuk was amazing, the Mythbusters proved it was awsome!
Drachinifel has some really interesting stories on Navel history. He has more of a historian approach, but he did tell that story about the Russian fleet, and it was funny. Also, his story about the USS Jonston during the Battle of Samer was pretty interesting.
3:18 online ordering my guy!!! Get your Scheels in the comfort of your own home 😊
Aircraft carrier made out of ice was known as Project: Habbakuk. There is an article on wikipedia if you want to know more.
Oh how history repeats it self
It's a brilliant story, well told by Fatty E. The only slightly unfair bit was the reason why the Mosquito wasn't immediately ordered was demand for the Rolls Royce Merlin Engine. Merlins were the best British aviation engine by a mile and arguably the best in the world at the time despite being carburetor fueld rather than injection as in the Benz engined ME109.
The problem for De Haviland, and also AVRo, who built the Lancaster is that in 1939 and 1940 the priority was to build as many fighter planes as possible: Spitfires, Hurricanes, for defense rather than bombers for offense.
By the late summer 1940 the fighters had successfully stopped the Luftwaffe so production shifted to building Merlins for the bombers.
Around this time Merlins started being made under license in the USA (Packhard , was one of the companies used, if my memory serves me). The supply chain issues were solved and the superb Merlin would go on to power allied aircraft until after the war. Indeed, the Spanish used Merlins to power their BF109 fighters in the 1950s and 60s.
Operation Jericho was much later in the war and the target was a prison in Amiens that was about to execute resistance fighters.... other than that he's pretty spot on 🇬🇧
New era of insults... Don't call me dad, call me grandpa SIR!
I LOVE stuff like this because it proves that "more advanced" isn't always better. everyone's wanting metal planes with armor and guns just to eventually have their asses blown off by wooden planes like SCP D-Class personnel being told to fight SCPs that are playing music like freebird or something while they're having a good ol' time turning the enemy into scrap metal receiving a red paintjob by their pilots. Edit: I find myself wondering what could've happened if the german politicians had pulled their heads out of their asses and allowed the construction and deployment of wooden planes too
There is a theory in business that only 5% of people can see the turn in the economy coming and accurately predict how to react. Ex, as America in the early 2000's is racing toward a housing market collapse, the largest builder in California pulled out. The entire industry laughed at them, for a bit. I spoke w/a builder in CA who was on the verge of losing everything, he told me that story. What we have here in WWII is a man in the airplane business that predicted the turn, and accurately predicted how to react.
4:39 Dad hands you an unopened beer. “There ya go.”
You've got a pykrete ship, just stay where it's cold.
the US made a wooden aircraft too. it is called the H4 Hercules
The F-22 of 1942
The Wooden Wonder, with a Heart of Thunder
the best inventions of the world mostly come from the same place, drunk men in sheds :P
I'm afraid that he overstates the effectiveness of the intruder missions. Intruder missions are the night missions over Nazi airfields. These missions did put a bit of a crimp in the Luftwaffe's night fighter operations but they didn't shut them down.
And the Luftwaffe had really, really good night fighters. One pilot knocked down twelve British bombers in a day; five between midnight and sunrise one night and then seven more between sunset and midnight the next night. The British bombers often suffered more casualties during night bombing as the Americans did during the day.
If you haven't seen Drachinifel's _Voyage of the Damned_ videos on Tsushima.....You need to.
I think he has
Japanese torpedo boats! Where?
_Urge to throw binoculars intensifies._
@@danielseelye6005 And then...The _Kamchatka_
@@RipOffProductionsLLC Just check - he has. The are now queued up.
@@TheMajorActual"And because this is the Russian navy we are talking about, the phrase 'And Then It Got Worse' were in full effect..."
Art of War
Generals must not get involved politics
Politicians must never be Generals
18:14 It was called the Blockbuster because it could level a city block.
13:39 Someone's probably already said this, but the hand's been photoshopped. Lord Teeny-Mittens, and all.
On the ice and wood pulp aircraft carrier, yes that is legit, they call the resulting composite material Pykrete and it’s supposed to be as strong as concrete, the project was code named Project Habakkuk, the story goes that when the British sold the idea to the Americans so they could get them to send supplies to Canada to allow them to build it. The captain in charge of the project put a piece of pykrete on the table in front of Admiral King head of the U.S. Navy, then pulls out his gun and shoots it, the bullet bounced off and hit King in the leg, but instead of being a disaster, King got so excited about the possibilities of indestructible iceberg sized carriers that he forgot he had been shot.
Sooo... in the case of both Britain and Germany, their air forces were led by veteran combat airmen. These experienced subject matter experts said, "We need this plane." The people with giant corporations and shitloads of money said, "Naaah. That's not the way we do business around here." 🙄Sure glad that sort of thing never happens here in the U.S. 🙄
Lord Teenymittens LOL🤣🤣
the aircraft carrier was made of pykrete named after its inventor it was several times stronger than steel and they did actually build part of it in canada i believe
look up Project Habakkuk for the aircraft carrier.
The more I learn about history, the more I wish duels were still a thing. Because we need to weed out all the politicians!!
NO politician was good at weeding out the dumbshits in duals than Cassius Clay. F.E also covers this unsung legend as well.
Also Someday the USS Laffey Video of TFE
Do Fat Electrician's Battleship Texas video! Some gems in that one
Gangster lean
@@kokofan50Gangsta Fucking Leans and Pulls the Blicky
"Launching a dealership of Spicy Volvos" or one of my favorites
9:43 Legit. It was a logistical and physical nightmare. Even the myth busters tried to do one smaller and it worked initially, but it crumbles way too fast and is not worth the effort to produce.
To be fair, the waters they were in weren't NEARLY as cold as the North Atlantic, where said ships would have been operating.
Which, funny enough, is also the reason why most of the people on both the Hood and, three decades earlier, the Titanic died within minutes of aforementioned ships sinking...
I would have built those planes out of Ironwood specifically. The wood is as strong iron, therefore metal.
Great vid! Thanks!
Sam o'nella. We got to get you doing sam o'nella!
Youll love this one, since its the creation story of the USN. "America Dismantles Pirate Nations For Touching Their Boats - The Barbary Wars"
Do the one on Cassius Clay
9:47 yes, they did that.
You here about the Navy Officer who was like offended to be in the barracks area with the enlisted?
I have a personality similar to De Havilland, I sort of don't know when to hit the Stop button, if I'm going to break something important, body included, it's going to have to be Fun, and my body shows all the damage through the years, I have enough titanium in my arm to be worth something, several bone grafts, destroyed muscles and tendons, almost every major bone broken at one point or another. Would I do it again, Damn Straight I would.
The Mosquito wasn’t quote a relic, it was just designed for a very different purpose than other aircraft of its era.
I used something similar in the Middle East (still classified) that let me fly (barely) with a backpack rig I could still carry on top of most of my gear. Max load of the heavy version was 800 pounds (~500 useful load), letting me carry most of our man portable artillery and still fire a mk19 or m134 (mortars would knock me out of control, but I could airdrop them), with 6 hours of loiter time. The light version would still give me 50 pounds of useful load and only weighed 30lbs (but only 30 minutes of loiter time).
Huge once opened but would fold up to the same size as my ruck (and replaced it). This was pre-handheld drones of course and had no armor, but I could take off in 10 feet with a light load, or 100 feet at max load.
18:17 its real name is Massive Ordnance Air Burst
Hello, love your fat electrician reactions, keep up the good work!
Funny you mention government spending money on insane things for equally insane reasons. Our favorite electrician has a new video out on "America's $300 Million Sci-Fi Arsenal".
Good stuff.
Can i get context for the bent Bradley barrel? Also, the Prime Minister had shrinking hands in the video
Ah the wooden wonder
Never heard of this channel (no offense, but there’s a LOT)
I want you to know I saw this video and I came here just for 23:10. 10/10 all I wanted.
I would recommend the video of Sgt Reckless but if u do a video its kinda thing to donate $1k to a marine charity
So ... if it was so good at everything. Why aren't all planes made out of wood now? Not counting specialized planes that need metal for any specific role they need to fulfill. (And yes I did see what he said at the end about planes either wanting to be so fast they can't be caught or so stealthy they're never seen.)
The airframe was technically a composite structure made using thin layers of birch and mahogany sandwiching balsa wood all held together with specialist glue. Modern high performance aircraft do exactly the same thing with carbon fibre and other synthetic materials bonded with chemical resin's. They do this for exactly the same reasons higher power to weight lower radar coefficient and ease of manufacturing.
@@ianjardine7324 So essentially they just found something cheaper more durable and lighter than wood?
@@Guardian-of-Light137 Yep. And you don't have to wait for a tree to grow big enough to use for timber.
Back in WW2 wood could still handle the load from the flight regimes excepted of a plane. After the war planes were expected to handle a lot more stress, which required stronger materials
@@Guardian-of-Light137Cheaper not so much, but lighter, more durable, and more radar resistant absolutely, and can handle way higher speeds.
Please do the A1 Skyraider video of his it really is a good one.
Y E S !
Well America had the tall boy if I am remembering correctly, it could have been split between America and the British.
Why are none of your newer video showing up on our channel
Reminds me of the cardboard drones in Ukraine
Watch the pigeon bomb you will like it
Rep IOWA
No offense but your kind of shaped like me so you would love his video about dad's
IDGAF who they voted for, don't laugh at civilians being terrorized by nigh-indiscriminate military bombing.
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I will never understand why people do this when they have nothing to add but to be seen in the recommendations for the other person's video/credit.
Did you watch the video? Old Man is adding stuff.
Cant tell of boss has had a long day or had a few but im here for it