Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor: Airliner at War

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  • Опубліковано 23 жов 2024

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  • @dukecraig2402
    @dukecraig2402 Рік тому +8

    Glad you're back in the saddle and putting out vids on a regular basis again 👍
    Always looking forward to your material, it's always very well researched and on point.

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому +1

      Well, I just moved this past weekend and things will be looking up!

    • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
      @Allan_aka_RocKITEman Рік тому

      ​@@TheWarbirdMistress>>> You moved? You have my SINCERE SYMPATHY.

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому

      @@Allan_aka_RocKITEman I moved to Long Island the first week of December, then back to my grandparents the first week of January. It was fun. It's still fun.

  • @Richard-Seekingwulf
    @Richard-Seekingwulf Рік тому +5

    Such a very beautiful plane.

  • @CHEGTO
    @CHEGTO Рік тому +2

    Definitely glad I found this channel great job ma’am

  • @stevepringle2295
    @stevepringle2295 Рік тому +3

    Thank you 🙏 I look forward to your next installment 😊

  • @leepeel7129
    @leepeel7129 Рік тому +4

    A Gladiator with a Condor feather in its cap!

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому +3

      More Gladiator aces than people realise when you look at it.

  • @jooleebilly
    @jooleebilly Рік тому +2

    This is amazing! So glad I found your channel. I even watched the full ad so you'll get ad rev for it, I hope!

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому +1

      Very much appreciated! This one was a short excerpted from my Luftwaffe at Sea series. Only one more episode to film for that one, but there's always so much more to do!

  • @rayrose5594
    @rayrose5594 Рік тому +1

    it is always good see/hear from ms clair....

  • @martryan2060
    @martryan2060 Рік тому +3

    Great video I have actually touched the remains of condor and it's BMW 323 engines in Ireland a local museum no longer displayed. Claire how about a video series on the Baltic airforces
    Of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
    Pre world war 2
    Got hold of the insignia series books from all 3 airforces amazing stuff
    Seeing world war 1 aircraft still in service in 1940.
    Take care Claire
    Tally ho!

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому +2

      Those are great forces to cover! I have a book on the Estonian Air Force, but on the other two I admit ignorance when it comes to hardware, logistics, administration, &c. I don't speak or read any of those languages, either, so there's that. I did an outline months and months ago that included the fledgling air forces of those nations in 1918 and 1919 as part of a video on Freikorps air assets, but life was absolutely in the air at the time. Have to maybe revisit it!

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 Рік тому +3

    I recall Capt Eric “Winkle” Brown RN talking about downing a Condor with his Martlet. In a head on attack

    • @dukecraig2402
      @dukecraig2402 Рік тому +1

      Yep, he shot down 2 maybe 3 of these aircraft over the Atlantic when he was flying off of a carrier.

    • @stephenrickstrew7237
      @stephenrickstrew7237 Рік тому +1

      The Armored Carriers channel has an interview with Capt Brown.. about the condor

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому

      @@stephenrickstrew7237 A great video, indeed!

  • @fighterace316
    @fighterace316 Рік тому +1

    Great job

  • @N71403
    @N71403 Рік тому +1

    I thoroughly enjoy your work. Do you have a different way of looking at the aircraft. And, of course, I love the new artwork or at least it’s new to me. Very very nice.

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому

      I don't know if I have a different way of looking at them, I just try to see them from every angle. It seems to work, I guess! :) Cheers!

    • @paairgunner4452
      @paairgunner4452 Рік тому +1

      @@TheWarbirdMistress Actually you do. I'm a 19 year pilot. I know. Thanks!!!

    • @N71403
      @N71403 Рік тому +1

      @@TheWarbirdMistress The Paairgunner is my hobby. Sorry. Just getting used to 2 accounts.

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому

      @@N71403 That's understandable! I still forget to switch from my personal account time to time. I'm curious about this "different way of looking." I suppose since I'm me, I don't see it.

    • @N71403
      @N71403 Рік тому +1

      @@TheWarbirdMistress I was being PC as I didn't want to outright say, "I love the sexy nose art!!!" Yes, I do! Fabulous!

  • @leepeel7129
    @leepeel7129 Рік тому +1

    Cool!

  • @mathewkelly9968
    @mathewkelly9968 Рік тому

    Just imagine if the Luftwaffe had cooperated with the Kreigsmarine

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому

      I prefer to imagine things that are more realistic, like a young Tyrone Power riding a unicorn up the street to propose marriage.

  • @thhseeking
    @thhseeking Рік тому

    I've read and seen photos, that they had a nasty habit of breaking their backs on landing. And apparently sometimes in mid-air. I wonder if that's not related to the massive fuel tanks in the fuselage, putting stress on the structure that it was never designed for?

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому +1

      Very well could be. Fuel weighs a lot more than passengers, after all.
      (Sorry for the delayed response!)

    • @thhseeking
      @thhseeking Рік тому

      @@TheWarbirdMistress That's OK :) I'm thinking that the Ju290 might have been a better aircraft. But it was never built in sufficient numbers.

  • @raymathews1474
    @raymathews1474 Рік тому +2

    It was a beautiful design - before they hung that awful gondola under it.

  • @mikepette4422
    @mikepette4422 Рік тому

    the loss of 365, 000 tons of shipping ! ouch that must have hurt the supply chain
    I wonder how the Ju-90 would have fared in the anti-shipping role or I guess the Ju-89 was the military variety as I understand they could carry about the same heavy loads

  • @onkelmicke9670
    @onkelmicke9670 Рік тому

    So did some of them have twin fins?

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому

      Not to my knowledge. My books are in boxes right now or I'd look it up.

    • @onkelmicke9670
      @onkelmicke9670 Рік тому

      I noticed a few of your pictures had that. Probably a different aircraft then.

    • @onkelmicke9670
      @onkelmicke9670 Рік тому

      Ju 89/90 I guess from 2:32 to about 3'59.

  • @martinmengh
    @martinmengh Рік тому +2

    devoting half of screen to presenter face doesn't make sense for this kind of video. People tune in to to look at airplanes, not to look at the presenter. Other similar channels that are more succesful don't show any face at all.

    • @TheWarbirdMistress
      @TheWarbirdMistress  Рік тому

      Point taken. This is a short taken from a larger video that is formatted that way, and many of my fans ask that I do more videos in this format. It takes a lot more work, to be honest, but I was responding to others. I'm glad to hear an honest opinion. Thank you!

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman Рік тому +1

    @TheWarbirdMistress >>> 👍👍