Arado Ar 234 Blitz - The First Jet Bomber
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2021
- The Arado Ar 234 was an aesthetically graceful and powerful German aircraft that became the world's first operational jet and reconnaissance bomber.
Built by the Arado Flugzeugwerke company, this unique airplane was powered by two Junkers Jumo 004 B turbojets. It was expected to outrun Allied interceptors such as the de Havilland Mosquito.
The Blitz, as it was known, operated few missions as a bomber. But the few times it flew, the plane proved to be faster than any other.
Perhaps in different circumstances, the Ar 234 could've dominated the European skies. But the Blitz entered World War II a little too late.
It's only relevant participation was with the KG 76 unit during the attempt to destroy the Ludendorff Bridge, one of the last crossings standing at the west bank of the Rhine River.
Some experts believe that, had its shortcomings been solved sooner, the bomber could've delayed the victory of the Allies and forced a more favorable resolution to the war.
But what impact this technological marvel might've had in the outcome of the war will never be known. Its participation in history was stopped short, and only one of its kind survives to this day.
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Not mentioned in this video of the Blitz bomber is it's advanced features. Pressurized cockpit, ejection seat,and computer. Learned this by reading a book on German aircraft during WW2.
Early models lacked landing gear and relied on a dolly for takeoff and a skid for landing. Taxi after landing was therefore impossible. Rear visibility was so poor, a tank periscope was fitted. Most had to rely on rocker assist engines for takeoff RATO.
Thanks for the extra info bro. Good ish
James, do you recall the name of the book?
Bollocks
@@mikemooney3500 - That comment must hare required a great deal of thought, Mister Mooney!
As of this writing on 1.21.21, my father is currently the youngest still surviving American POW of ww-2 after captured as part of "Task Force Baum"... the failed mission to liberate the POW camp at Hammelberg, where Pattons son in law happened to be. Dad got credit for 32 days, 30 was required for POW status. He told of how morale in his POW camp was badly affected when they saw the first German jets fly fast above them. He explained how incredibly fast and other-worldly they were compared to all the prop planes, which reinforced the pervasive rumors of secret German weapons that would turn the war around.
That is a fascinating first-person account of this amazing jet. God Bless your father and I thank him for serving!
The German jet was well knows before that time. It had entered combat while the Allies were still hung up in Normandy.
One flew a photo reconnaissance mission over the Normandy beaches shortly after the invasion. They also flew over the UK. I read one fascinating account by an Arado 234 pilot telling how, whilst flying over the channel towards England, he encountered a British reconnaissance mosquito flying the other way, the pilots just looked at each other and flew on! They were both unarmed in any event.
Theu almost did...
Few realize how close Washington and few other cities within the USA along with England Cities were to total annihilation from nuclear weapons.....
You should thank the badass ski teams and elite special forced who stopped them in the process of manipulating water whihc is last key in making weapon
All things different: it reminds me of how some in Roswell in 1947 saw a composite of plastics and aluminum. And reacted like everyone in 1947 would do. With astonishment! Then the oral tradition kept on and it became because of ayys.
What a span of 5 (or 6) years of aeronautical history WWII was. The changes, upgrades, breakthroughs, and designs in aircraft that came and went will likely never be repeated. To do so now would bankrupt almost any country.
@Glenn Krieger: or you just sell your F35 year and years later for a price beyond imagination and state that it is state of the art technology.
Kicking Nazi ass was worth more than any money.
There also just isn't as many leaps forward to take anymore
I have seen this aircraft at the Udvar-Hazy Museum located on one end of Dulles Airport. Beautiful aircraft.
Me too. I’ve always been very interested in any jets that entered operations or first flew during WWII.
I never saw it but I understood that it was beautifully restored...
I saw it, but unfortunately when they started making renovations
@@IGNACY-fp8zo already doing renovation on an airplane that was restored something like 10 years ago? Have they ruined it🥺?
@@paoloviti6156
No, the building was under renovation and they covered it up with plastic wrap
You could see it, but it wasn’t that nice
I think they are restoring “Flak Bait” though, unless that’s also been going on for a decade
One of the test pilots for this aircraft was a young Junkers 88 pilot named Gunther Eheim . He went on to develop a multi- million dollar company developing and selling innovative and ultra high quality Aquarium filtration equipment under the EHIEM brand name.
When you think you've seen all the German WW2 wonder weapons, something you haven't seen before always comes up.
Which one was the most impressive for you?
@@stacystables117 Ho 229. You?
@@snicketysnickerdoodle8484
Hard to say. I am fascinated by the developments of surface-to-air missiles such as Rheintochter, Feuerlilie, Taifun, Wasserfall or HS117 Schmetterling.
Had any of these weapons been suitable and massively used, our major cities might look a little nicer today....
But also "joystick"-guided glide bombs like Fritz X or the HS 293 (with video transmission) have their fascination for me.
Don't you know the Haunebu and Vril Flying Saucers?
@@stacystables117 Or the Ruhrstahl X-4 guided air-to-air-missile.
Incredible, historic footage. Always thank the people who filmed, processed, and restored this history. And after all these years I'm seeing footage of the Arado for the first time. What a machine.
It is truly amazing how fast the technology was advancing during this 2 world wars.
I mean the first airplane was flying 1903, then in WW1 heavy bombers and first Arial combats, in WW2 we had already jet powered engines, it's 40 years between the first airplane and a jet powered airplane.
That is remarkable when one thinks about it.
And in 25 years from the end of world war two we will be on the moon
The short comings weren't due to the airframe, but the engines. That is understandable, since they were at the cutting edge of development.
They were also made out of whatever materials that were available. Jet engines need special alloys to with stand the tremendous temperatures and stresses of jet power. Germany didn’t have access to them.
True. We take it for granted now, but the evolution from prop engines to jet engines is a quantum leap in technology. The Germans were hampered by the lack of exotic materials necessary to manage the high temperatures jet engine produce. Still, it's amazing they got as far as they did with what they had to work with.
@@at6686 Yes, and it's likely the metallurgy wasn't completely understood anyway. You could only find out these problems by doing it. First principles can only take you so far.
@@weirdshibainu It is quite extraordinary what the Germans achieved. Let's not forget Whittle's development, hampered by British indifference during WW2, finally giving up and moving to the US. Notice one huge problem ..... durability. By just 10 hours, the engines need rebuilding, by 25 hours, they were scrap metal. The other problem was fuel consumption. There was the operational characteristic too, of the engine taking time to wind up to full power. It was one of the reasons why the Ju-287 bomber had forward-swept wings, to give more lift.
@@channelsixtysix066 All true. While a technological marvel, it's high fuel consumption was a particular disadvantage given Germany's chronic and punitive oil shortage. Paradoxically, even if this had been introduced earlier in the war, if built in large numbers, it would have cannibalized fuel at an even higher rate with little change in outcome of the war.
WOW! Many decades spent on history with WWII being a fave and I didn't know this. Well done.
How
If one knew about the ME-262, one would’ve known about the other jets the Luftwaffe had, right? 🤔🤔🤔
@@jjojo2004 Or just knew anything about Luftwaffe during ww2. This like saying. Omg I am so into Napoleonic wars but I never heard about Wellington in Spain. Lelele
It's technology like this that justified "Operation Paperclip"
Yep, it wasn't just rockets.
It's too bad they had to go be a bunch of Nazis on the rest of the world. However, much in the way slavery delayed the adoption of steam and gas powered mechanical agricultural technology in the U.S., I sometimes wonder if the Nazis relied too much on slave labor and didn't take advantage of the incredible minds that they ended up killing off. How many of these revolutionary technologies were delayed, ever so little, by not taking advantage of the engineers they had wasting away on menial labor.
@@PureAmericanPatriot
Excellent point!
When I was little, there was an ancient man in my neighborhood named Dr. Eckstein. Decorated Imperial German artillery officer and mathematics professor. He fled Germany in 1935 and became an American artillery instructor at Ft. Sill. Those maniacs drove out perfectly good talent.
My cousin- Josef Spinnler- was one of the many rocket scientists smuggled into the country to work for the U.S. government...
@@andrewlanford2378 Not many people go around telling that a relative was in paperclip to work for the U.S.
This aircraft was such an awesome sight when I visited the air and space museum as a kid. What a magnificent piece of engineering.
The aircraft inoressed me also in a visit to silver hill restoration facility A&S
The De Havilland Mosquito was nicknamed the "wooden wonder", not the "wooden bomber".
Thank you.
@@Ob1sdarkside 😃!
This channel always has mistakes and never seems to get better. Must a be a few kids doing this
A book I read on the Mosquito said their nic was "the mossie".
@@snoopstp4189 planes often had several nicknames. Wooden Wonder and Mossie are both correct.
“Not living-up to expectations” is true but by that time German planes were FAR out-numbered and the jets weren’t perfected- pilots inexperienced. Under end-of-the-war and beginning-of-jet-technology it was impressive.
american pilots were inexperienced tho...and not far outnumbered,only at the end of the war
In terms of jet bombers the Germans were certainly not outnumbered... the Allies did not have any jet bombers during WW2.
The allied intersted in this tech so they make operation paperclip
Vulnerability of the German jet aircraft is during landing and take off their engines didn't spool up real fast. You couldn't just jam the throttles forward. American fighters with the lawyer around known German air bases with jet fighters and bombers and they would pick them off when they would come into land. This forced the Germans to fly a combat Air patrol over their bases whenever they were operating the Jets. The Air patrol was either BF 109s or FW 190s. The biggest weakness of the ar-234 as a design was the complete lack of rearward visibility. If you could get behind them low and slow they wouldn't even know you were there. Ultimately the fix was to put a tank Periscope onto the AR 234 with an aerodynamic fairing to look backwards.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 Didn't need them. The Nazis were being pummelled day and night by Liberators, B17s Lacasters etc...
Yet another great video. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for another awesome video!
Have still yet to see the only example and can’t wait to see that and the DO 335 next to it.
The narrator neglected to mention the latter four engined variant, although it's shown several times in the video.
very true
That's bcoz they don't do research or fact-check or even care about what they are saying as long it gets views...
@@tylerdurden4006 Yes indeed, the boneheads at this channel are nitwits!
He did mention the 4 engine variant, at 6:48. You either don’t know the name or didn’t hear him mention it. The 4 engine production variant is the C series, ranging from C-1 to C-4. By the end of the war barely over a dozen airframes were complete and many lacked engines. Their impact on engineering and the war as a whole is so minuscule that I assume that the author of the script neglected to mention them for that reason. Regardless they’re certainly visually distinct and there are a lot of pictures and footage of the few complete models, which I assume is why people think their use throughout the war is more prolific than in actuality.
@@chuichinagumo7145 Allied jet aircraft had even less impact on the course of the war...
I love this plane to death 😍 by far one of the best looking planes ever. Sleek AF
If you ever play 'Jane's WW-2 Fighters', it'll outrun your P-38, easily!
Wonder if a swept wing variant was ever in the thoughts of those brilliant German Engineers
@@hertzair1186 Me262 HG II? Several were built and a wooden mock up of the Me262 HG III. You also had the P.1101 which would have been the first supersonic jet, though it was 85% completed before the war came to an end.
A beautiful aircraft
@@hertzair1186 Yes, there was... it became the Boeing B-47
Love the videos!!! Thanks
Grace in motion .. wonderfully beautiful for it's time
Maybe a small correction: the Arado Ar 234 Blitz was the world's first operational jet-powered bomber and secondly a reconnaissance as this was preceeded by the Me 262A in this role. Produced in limited numbers it was used almost entirely in the reconnaissance role. In its few uses as a bomber it proved to be nearly impossible to intercept. It was the last Luftwaffe aircraft to fly over the UK during the war, in April 1945
Wow, what a plane for the 1940s. It was the future!
Ya think?
This, the heinkel 219, me163 and the me 262 are all my favourite aeroplanes . I distictly remember being given a hippo aircraft book in the 1960s, there was a darkened black and white photo of the Ar 234B in it and it stuck in my mind being modern looking . futuristic and menacing
Great video! Never knew of this amazing air craft until now.x
The Mosquito was referred to as the Wooden Wonder, or Mossie, not Wooden Bomber. Great video though.
I used to fly one of these back in the day. We all called it the wooden bomber.
@@roshambo5895 OMG and how did it feel?
@@roshambo5895 I suspect you weren't even a twinkle in your fathers eye when the Mosquito was being flown - If I'm wrong do tell us more about your flying experience.
@@roshambo5895 - I highly doubt you did, and this is the first time in over 40 years as an aviation enthusiast I’ve ever heard it referred to as such. Always been ‘The Wooden Wonder’.
@@roshambo5895 No you didn't.
thanks
Great video, thanks and congratulations !
love your channel(s)...keep up the great work
Good one !
One minor mistake on the Ludendorf bridge.
Actually the rigged explosives went off for the bigger part but they only had industrial grade explosives at their disposal which weakened the explosion considerably.
The bridge lifted up and fell back on its pillars, damaged but not destroyed.
Dark skies, we read wikis so you don't have too.
😂😂
Great presentation thanks xxx
Thanks....Once again...!
This lookes modern even by 1950s standards!
Maximum speed of 480 mph at 6000 miles! Good trick with a range of only 1240 miles. Who writes this stuff...
@@mikusoxlongius Yeah, I bet it was supposed to be 6000 meters, a more sensible altitude for a jet's top speed.
Haha ya they suck at making videos. They are only good with this cool mood and music thats it. Mistakes everywhere never getting better
@@mikusoxlongius metres Bud
Awesome! So much content I love it!
Excellent review. Keep up the good work.
Oh cool, I've seen one of these at the Udvar-Hazy museum in Virginia. Didn't know it was the only one left.
It was stolen!
What about the British museum AR234 , or is that a replica
@@theblackhand6485 It was reparations.
@@troygroomes104 - There isn’t one in the British Museum (or anywhere else for that matter). Also, there are no aircraft whatsoever in the British Museum, it’s an archeological museum.
@@AtheistOrphan got some amazing Mesopotanian pottery though. Cutting edge kit from 6500 years ago.
All these uploads are making me get way too excited, good job 👏
I agree
These videos prompted me to begin building WWll fighter planes again!
Great vid
Outstanding video and presentation.
1:50 Nicknamed the "wooden bomber"
NO! It's was/is nicknamed the Wooden Wonder! Honestly, get some fact checkers in! It's in the first paragraph of the wiki entry!
I really enjoy your videos (when the audio mix doesn't completely obscure your voice), but I continually spot errors which makes me doubt the rest of the "facts".
Damn! That's not fair, I wanted to tell him off.
That was the Mosquito (first paragraph here):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito
Whilst I generally agree about their sketchy fact checking, I couldn't find a reference to either nickname in the Arado 234 wiki page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_Ar_234
I love your content it’s really informative and interesting. Could you maybe do some more post WWII aircraft?
Always thought this was a really attractive plane. So elegant and simple in its form.
One of the best you have done. At least the vision matched (as well as you have managed) what you are saying.
My favorite WW2 Aircraft. Next to the FW190
Fw190 is a sexy beast
@@Bye-kd8xo If you love the FW190, then you will worship the Ta 152 H then.
Nothing came close to the amount of ordnance and punishment the ‘ Butcher Bird’ could take, awsum plane, later variants had liquid cooled engines and 20 mm cannon, when the rear gunner on the B17’s saw one bearing down he’d cross himself say two hail Mary’s and rub the rabbits foot in his pocket !
The Mosquito was known as, "the wooden wonder," not the wooden bomber.
yep it was not a bomber far from it
@@HesH_WT It was wooden. Some marks were bombers and could carry the same load a the B17.
@@HesH_WT Respect to your family, sir. My family made Rotol airscrews.
@@HesH_WT Thankyou for your correction, Hesh.
And the engines on the arado were not the Jumo 004, when production began, they moved to the BMW 003 jet.
Excellent Work!
Another home run video as usual!
I've seen that last remaining Ar 234 in person. It's a much smaller plane than it looks like in photos and video. Once you see it up close, you realize that it's only about the size of a pickup truck, like a Chevy Silverado.
Ryan Cauffman But. bites hard.
Years ago, I saw it being restored on a visit to Silver Springs Maryland
Dark skies and dark files are so well made. Always impressive.
Hmmm, yes and no. The information is frequently dicey. It's ok for casual viewing, but I wouldn't go taking what they say as gospel. For example, within one minute of this video the narrator misquoted the mosquito's nickname. Others have pointed out the stranr omission of not mentioning the four engines variant of this aircraft. Small mistakes, but they add up.
Another great video.
What an awesome front end !! Great doco!
The Arado 234 was sex with wings it's Design was fantastic , revolutionary but it was to bloody late . an we had the Moz , fast simple an not over Engineered but still a Babe . Great Vid .
Yep, similar story with the He 219...luckily for the allies, management infighting kept several of these game changing aircraft from arriving in quantity.
Dude I think you are on the wrong website your comment makes me think of your from phub
The problem at the end of the war was: more planes than pilots. American pilots were told to kill germans in their parachutes if they bail over germany
still a badass plane even today.
Great Job.
That’s one awesome looking aircraft 🤩
One of my all-time favourite aeroplanes. Read Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown’s account of flying them. Fascinating!
One guy who could justifiably claim to have flown 'everything'!
Right....like Richard Perlier on the german side.
Always bear in mind when viewing videos like this: they worked tens of thousands to death in their armament factories.
yes, no "lost cause" sympathy for the nazis
Thanks for the vid 👍🇳🇿
Nice! Great video, great plane. Now for the machine standing next to the Ar-234 in the museum, the Do-335.
One of the Luftwaffe's last sorties over the UK during the last couple of days of WW2 was a reconnaissance by an Ar 234 over East Anglia - completely unchallenged, nothing could catch it.
Such was the inertia of the German war machine, that they were still doing recon over the UK when Germany lay in ruins!
Should have done more recon leading up to June 6, 1944. Glad they didn't.
I’ve seen this and it looked so strange given I knew it was from ww2. I hadn’t heard of it before seeing it and I’m glad that I now know it’s complete history.
My late foster father who at one time worked on the Avro Arrow,(he was a machinist and sweet metal technician)believed that if Germany had managed to get the flying wing to work and into mass production,it may have turned the tide in Germany’s war effort.He had great respect for German aeronautics and for Warner Von Braun in particular.
Nicholas Seidl,1929-2020.
chris goodayle: The HORTEN 229 would have turned the tide in Germany’s war effor
Bullcrap.....nothing - with exception perhaps of a few dozen nuclear devices (luckily something the _Third Reich_ could not manage to produce due to lacking industrial resources) - could have but saved the day for Nazi-Germay!
Keep them coming
For future reference.. when narrating and referencing the air and space section of the Smithsonian.. please refer to the udvar-hazy building located in Dulles Virginia adjacent to Dulles airport . Thier are two air and space museums and they are 40 miles apart.
I've always admired the lines of this aircraft and airframe. In all of its variants. Even more than the Me-262. It was fast. However, it couldn't have done hardly anything or much damage as a bomber. It was simply too small and couldn't hold more than 2 to 4 500 pound bombs, IF that many at all.
It carried a couple of 1100 pounders or a 2200 pounder. It was the first jet bomber.
Hermosa aeronave!!!!!
Precursora total !!!!
As a Norwegian. Your pronounciation of Stavanger was really good. Great video
I saw this amazing aircraft at the Smithsonian Air and Space its so perfect
I got to sit in the cockpit the of one restored for the Smithsonian when it was completed but not shipped to Dulles.
Didn't the pilot fly it laying down?
Love your vids Bro
Beautiful
The DH Mosquito was affectionatley called the 'Wooden wonder' by the allies because its skin was made from a sandwich of plywood and balsa woods. It did not have a wooden frame but the monocoque fuselage was formed over solid forners in two halves, the internals were then added and the two sections glued together with an early type of epoxy resin glue (which went on to become Araldite). The prototype was 25 miles an hour faster than the Spitfire V, the top RAF fighter of the day. Originally envisaged as a fast reconaisance aircraft and light bomber it went on to serve in a variety of roles from heavy fighter to pathfinder to intruder to anti-shipping strike aircraft. It remained in RAF use well into the 1950s. The Germans admired it and tried to build a similar aircraft, but couldn't get the glue right. Luftwaffe pilots lucky enough to shoot one down were awarded two kills. Nightfighter Mosquitos were sent over with the RAF heavy bombers, tasked with shooting down German nightfighters. This led to the German nigtfighter crews suffering from 'Mosquito-schrek' - fear of the Mosquito. BTW Mark Felton does this kind of thing so much better.
Last sentence is debatable. The guy cant even work out how to mix audio correctly. And has to remind himself what he looks like every video. But good one.
@@x67th at least Mark Felton gets his facts right. There are usually at least a handful of poorly researched or just plain wrong details in each of the videos from this channel.
@@ianholmquist8492 Not 100% of the time he doesn't. Just like every other channel. And this channel doesn't claim to be 100% pin point accurate either. But they do a good job at getting a majority of it correct.
"BTW Mark Felton does this kind of thing so much better." Both Mark Felton and this channel only recite Wikipedia articles on whatever topic matter they are discussing in the videos. Without referencing the sources.
@@Lukeee91 You have a point. References are important. I just found it irritating that this channel claimed that the Arado 234 was built in response to the DH Mosquito. Actually Focke-Wulf built a prototype wooden heavy fighter (Ta 154) that they called the Moskito but it was not a success because they didn't have the right glue to get the plywood laminations to stay together.
Having seen it in person, it's *tiny*!
tiny is good!
Looks very elegant in that first shot
So addicted to these mini docs! Love all the vids and channels!
The skid was replaced with a retractable three-wheel landing gear
They never check facts
Interesting to know.
Ernst Udet didn't pass away. He shot himself.
Was it suicide or a murder by a competing manufacturer?
@@828enigma6 Suicide. The position he held had him stressed out really bad. He blamed it on Goering and said as much in a note he left.
I'm quite sure that the passing away happened shortly after the shooting part....
Who knows, maybe the guy who replaced him set him up and made it look like a suicide to usurp his position. It could have been that someone in the German army wanted his own agent or whatever to hold that position and killed the guy to imbed his soldier. I'm not saying it was an enemy of Hitler but someone could have wanted to stand in his favor.
Maybe the narrator was trying not to be so graphic. Children watch these videos sometimes. Saying someone “passed away” versus saying “the man was under a tremendous amount of stress, was extremely unhappy with his job, and killed himself” doesn’t sound very nice. It raises a lot of questions. Questions a parent might find difficult to answer. We all know the man killed himself. Explaining that to kids might not be a good time for anybody. The content is supposed to be appropriate for all ages.
best video yet
More like this, please!
He should do a video on the puma armored cars used in ww2 like the sdkfz 234/2
Wow, imagine going from being a flying ace of the cloth planes of ww1 to designing a cutting edge jet powered bomber in ww2! What amazing advancements warfare brings us
Okay....so the next war shall bring us phaser weapons and warp devices - you think?
@@alfredfabulous3640 I'd be more interested in transport advancements. Like cleaner, more powerful jet engines. Stuff that would benefit the consumer market once the war was over.
@@dominicrichardson5546 trust me....the next big war shall be the last one of humanity.
No human afterwards then....
Beautiful bird!
I had one in my FS 2004 install. I have no idea how realistic it was but it was very fun to fly.
Oh you're using one of dreams music for speedrun nice!
Make a video on dornier do 335 the "arrow"
@Daniel Large yeah the maneuverability wasn't very good but the acceleration, top speed,and high altitude performance was insane.
mark felton has a video on that
Why so I can see more narrations information mistakes
A Very Beautiful Aircraft.
Amazing plane!!!
13:50 "... never lived up to it's expectations" But it did, it could out speed every plane. Even a fast and nimble fighter!
And then you have to rebuild the engines
@@nathanblades3395 And this is the same today! Only the intervals got longer due advanced alloys.
@@jimmihenry ya but you dont have to rebuild the engine every time you fly in a modren jet so its more cost effective the Germans were short on materials and gas also so thats why it was a no go
@@nathanblades3395 All high performance engines used in combat during WW2 had extremely short TBOs by today's standards this was also true in the Korean War..
F-86 Sabre engines could require an overhaul in as little as 12 hours of flight time.
@@nathanblades3395 The Jumo 004b engines exceeded the RLMs 100 hours PFTR reliability test, this is the exact same 100 hours required by the RAF and USAAF during WW2.
Tests conducted by Operation Lusty found TBOs compareable to Allied piston engines.
Yet for some reason, even though it proved to be faster than any other aircraft that the allies used, it's outran by a La-5 in WT...
You gotta love gaijin for it
Very cool plane!
Both the Air and Space Annex at Dulles and the USAF museum at Wright-Pat are AMAZING!!! I liked the Annex over the regular Air and Space Museum...
Imagine in one of these at BR 7.3 being chased by some swedish BR 8.3 missle.
Yes that's me.
Germany suffers.
@@dd-gl2qf yeah, much suffer
Attack the D point, brother!
@@scotttill3847 I agree!
What about the SK60's AGM chasing you? That thing is only 7.3..
Knowing you were flying the best fighter and diving in your P51s onto a flight of Arado Bliz bombers, only to see them accurate out of harms way must have been like watching the future.
“...’accurate’ out of harm’s way?” Do you mean “accelerate?”
INCORRECT: At 2:02 it's claimed work on the Arado bomber commenced in 1940, as a response to the De Havilland Mosquito. Not true. The Mosquito would not enter service until mid 1941.
Better than expected.
It feels abit churlish to criticise but the engine at 4:50 looks very much like a Whittle turbojet.
The Jumo 004B was an axial flow engine and was completely different from the Whittle's Turbojet as It was an Centrifugal Compressor and used Whittle's "reverse flow" design making it a much larger frontal area. The photo of Whittle's engine was placed by mistake...
@@paoloviti6156 THis channel constantly, CONSTANTLY makes really fucking basic mistakes. They actually suck real bad.
@@paoloviti6156 arados doest use jumos: they did use BMW 003 turbojets (who was still axial)
@@leneanderthalien there was two versions: the Ar 234B that was fitted with two Jumo 004B and the Ar 234C that was fitted with 4 BMW 003. Both were axial flow engines...
@Last chance Cowboy So intolerant of German technical sophistication I clicked on a video about an Arado?
C'mon do a video on the Me-163
commented before love the narration
I stood within inches of that lone remaining Arado jet while it was at the Garber facility. We were sternly warned not to touch any aircraft (due to the effects of skin oil), but the temptation was great.