WW1 Mega Bomber - Germany's Zeppelin-Staaken R Series
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2020
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Strategic bombers surprisingly became part of warfare in the midst of World War I, with one of the first of its kind being one of the most massive, even by World War II standards.
The Zeppelin-Staaken R.6 was the only Riesenflugzeug, or "giant aircraft," produced in quantity during World War I. It was also one of the first military aircraft with an enclosed cockpit. As the largest wooden aircraft to enter production during the war, it featured an impressive wingspan of 42.4 meters or 138 feet, almost as big as World War II's American Boeing B-29 Superfortress...
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The Wright brothers first flight was 1902. the Zeppelin-Straaken R Series first flight 1915. The XB-70 first flight 1964. Hard to think just how far aircraft have come in such a short time
Even harder to imagine that people that dogfighted in bi-planes also saw the moon landings.
Don't forget the X1 beat the sound barrier just a few yrs after the war. And Orville Wright was a member of the NACA board at that time.
1903 was the year of the first flight.
Донецкий Военно-Исторический Клуб I can’t even read this comment but I already know he’s talking about the Russian guy who supposedly flew in the late 1800’s
@Донецкий Военно-Исторический Клуб «Согласно последним исследованиям, проведённым в ЦАГИ, развиваемая силовой установкой самолёта Можайского мощность была недостаточна для установившегося горизонтального полёта».
1:16 this clip and the next make this guy seem really good at his job.
lol
Rapid fire yeets
He was like "o yes, show time" and then just casually dropped tens of bombs by hand. Amazing how the way they fought in WW1
💀💀💀💀😂
they defenetly have more than 2 hands
You have to have tremendous respect for the guys that flew these things! No power assisted controls, no auto pilots, a stalling speed only slightly lower than cruising speed, unheated cockpits and all over enemy territory. Their safety record was surprisingly good, despite everything.
2:07
Let's just appreciate the men standing upon the fuselage without any safety concerns.
that portuguese guy that copied birds: XD
@EnricoAwsome Me in BND standing right next to a 7000 studs robot:
@@laotse9655 ah yes
I saw a silent film where a guy was walking back and forth on the fuselage in flight. While a mechanic was checking under the hood of an engine on a wing! And without a safety net! It was this behemoths incredible low stall speeds in the 30mph range that made this wing walking possible.
I have seen a WW1 Vickers Vimi heavy bomber fly overhead, huge things and pretty impressive for the time.
Are you a time traveler? 🙄
@@CGRCOOL Lol no, I live close to an airport that hosts a large airshow and they had WW1 planes that year. Next morning the WW1 bomber flew home over my house :) Incredible sight !
@@magicknight8412 wow you are so lucky 👌
@@CGRCOOL there is a flying replica. It was built in 1994 and as far as I know is still flying.
Why you lie?
Imaging flying a plane the size of a B29 on a bombing run at night without electronics.
Or hydraulics
Mr Murders unsafe?
Safety was next to the absolute last thing on their minds. Trying to come close to completing the mission was all they were trying to do. These men did not ask for PPE or scheduled meal breaks. Lol
Its no wonder their losses were high.
Yet they had the know how and the guts to make them work.
@Waxel Punkt. germans had them tho
The actually planed to launch Siemens developed wire controlled glide torpedos at British battle ships.
this thing was huge wow
Mr_executionater wait what do you mean was huge
Very huge
Much german
So plane
Wow
Don't forget they carried lots of spares and could shut down and repair any engine in flight. Other versions had an actual engine room with each engine clutched in and out at will so it could be shut down and repaired with one huge propeller at the front.
@@womble321 you can't do that with an f35 🤣
@@milkybar06 that's progress
Too bad someone hasn't built a full-size flying replica ✈
Yeah. I really wanna see these old kite bombers flying again. the pictures are always so awe inspiring, seeing something that *enormous* just, floating along at high-interstate speeds. Actually *seeing* one though? Hell, flying in one? Would be *amazing.*
@@5peciesunkn0wn Apparently there’s a replica Vickers Vimy flying around on the airshow circuit.
@@thethirdman225 Wuuuut?! WHERE?!
@@5peciesunkn0wn It really wouldn’t have hurt you to look it up:
www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-collection/aircraft/vickers-vimy
I'm not entirely sure a replica of this thing would be entirely safe to fly, to to be honest. Look at the thing.
With a wing span of 138 feet it was only beaten by the B-29 at 141 feet in 1942. That is one big aircraft.
7:33 Xbox
Haha
Lol looks like it
Lol 🤣
yes
I love old crazy big shit, especially when it worked!
The Staaken R series were barely flying. The engines were under powered with lub issues. They were built with no consideration for the weight ( 12 petrol tanks of 500 liters made of double layer steel).....etc.
Most of them crashed without being took down by fighter planes.
@@seb250cr Shit flew
@@seb250crFrenchie spotted spreading lies!
@@seb250crThey didn’t crashed lol
@@seb250crMe when a French spreads misinformation in the Internet: 💀
From your speed it appears that dogs are chasing you.
Funny but So True~!!
Its amazing because the plane itself had only been invented only 7 years prior! Nothing accelerates technology faster than War! WW2 started on horseback and with bolt action rifles, ended with Jet fighters and the Atomic bomb.
well, I mean, no nations of the war used cavalry exept the poles, but some nations, like the germans used horses for transport
@@Engie_Boi Interestingly enough the Germans did employ Cavalry during the Second World War. Before the beginning of the war they had 18 Cavalry Regiments and upon mobilization all but one of the Regiments was used to form thirty-eight Reconnaissance Battalions for the initial wave of Divisions and sixteen for the second wave. True Horse Cavalry at that.
From what I can find they performed very well during the invasion of Holland and I've read of a Battle from the invasion of Poland were German Cavalry and Polish Uhlans fought what was described as a classic Cavalry Battle with Sabre and Lance. The SS also continued to create and use Cavalry Brigades and even started expanding them to Division size around 1942-1943.
There are a number of other really interesting excerpts I have found that seemingly showed their effectiveness. Especially in open terrain such as the East. Russians also utilized Horse Cavalry to great effect for Recon and Night Attacks/Raids.
10:32 For those who don't know Dutch: "At Poelkapelle on the field of Daniël Parrein at the Stadenseweg 72, wreckage pieces from a plane from the First World War were found during ploughing. Together with his daughter Bernadette and vacationer Sami Dhaese, Daniel Parrein shows the remnants at the place where they were found."
finally ww1 knowledge
It's been a while since the last time I watched your videos, but it looks like u gained much more confidence!! Way to go! Very interesting content as always 😃
WOW! AMAZING, Dark Skies! Thank you.
This channel ALWAYS finds the most awesome stuff. I had no idea there had been strategic bombing by heavier then air craft in WW1, I thought it was all done with huge zeppelins!
Have never heard of this craft. Much appreciation for featuring it. Thanks!
They operated from an airfield here in my town together with Gothas for the london raids, we also had crashed zeppelins here at the coast
WW1 had so many things that never become finished or were that good but they were trully innovate and ground breaking for their time
I always love learning something new, and although I am an avid military aviation enthusiast, I never realised what strategic bombing actually meant. Thank you for that.
WOW !!! Your shows are so detailed, and professional ! Better than the documentaries that were on TV ! Like Wings or Victoty at Sea .type ! thanks so much for your great videos !!
Dark Docs are also known to have a lot of mistakes
All this old footage is neat,surprisingly is still in great condition. Love the history! On all your channels.
Love this channel!
Right?!? Awesome content for sure. Totally agree.
Me also mate.
Tommy Jacobs how do you know that???
Loving this channel, great job! Hey, I would LOVE to see a video on the F-20 TIgershark. That was a bad as jet for the time. 2 of the 3 crashed... has a neat story too!
Funny, Germany was so ahead in bombers in WWI but didn’t have much in WWII
There Airforce doctrine for early to mid WWII should explain why they were to late in there realization that they needed long-range heavy bombers. With development only reaching substantial levels to late in the war for a single prototype to be approved for frontline service and production.
Let's piss off the United States without considering how to disrupt their overwhelming industrial capacity.
Ooops!
That's the problem with master plans for world domination.
They had many restrictions applied to them after WW I, to prevent another war. The Germans flagrantly ignored those restrictions. For example they built tanks and called them tractors. Military bombers were called civilian aircraft. The sanctions didn't work.
I don't know where you got that idea from. The British had plenty of capable bombers that were just as advanced.
@@hard2getitrightagain314 Are you kidding?
This is the best information channel on youtube about wars and military
Mark Felton's channel is also an absloute delight.
Thank God youtube has 0.75x speed lol
Now he sounds drunk lmao
@@the_real_mister_blooper yeah🤣
Listen faster
I guess some people’s brains are too smooth to retain the information
Wow, that's pretty advanced for WWI! Thanks for the fascinating video.
excellent info on history. pls make more ur great!
Will you please cover the USS Liberty?
I love all of your channels.
Just me or does anyone really love the look of WW1 bombers, they’re so box like it’s so different from today?
Literally, powered box kites.
Slow down when you do the narrative, it would make your series much better.
Keep up the great work
Wow, this is fascinating material. Thanks!
Amazing what they managed to achieve given the limits of technology at the time
14 years (ish) after the invention of manned flight!
It's back when people had brains.
Excellent upload, Great story, Thank you..👍
Great video!
Dark Skies has gone dark on this PC. This video was an ad avalanche. I barely survived and got out alive. Greed is killing the Tube. It started at only 1 minute in.
Can you do an episode on the Horton brothers flying wing? Keep up the great videos! Your very interesting to listen to and learn about history!
Fascinating video. Very fast, staccato voice over, which grates. However, that can be fixed. Keep up the good work!
0:58. Says 'cavalry,' shows video of infantry. Good video. Better narration and pronunciation. Still, the narration is too fast for my mind to keep up. I frequently have to rewind. I can follow along better at 0.75x speed.
Personally, I have no issues keeping up, but I do think the pace is unnecessarily fast. It creates false sense of urgency which is out of place in a documentary type video.
To the narrator - Relax and take a deep breath, no one is chasing you with a hatchet :)
I have no problem watching it at my usual speed of 1.5 so I think it's ok.
Agreed. The pronunciation gets muddled at time due to unnecessary speed. You don't need to slow down much, just enough to pronounce each word clearly. By the way, the common nickname for the R.VI was the "Gigant", Giant in German, but the pronunciation was so fast I couldn't make out whether the word was said at all.
Yes I had the very same problem~!
So many incorrect pictures and movie clips. After a minute or two all I could do was see the errors. This is going to mess a bunch of people up in what they think they know.
The self starter part gave me an idea, have you considered a video on aircraft with engines started with blank shotgun shells? I remember this from a few movies and find it curious.
That nose wheel is interesting huh? In case it pitched forward on landing?
I think it need the front nose to take off too since there’s no wheel in the back
This footage is incredible. Some of it is probably ww2, but those shots of design/assembly are amazing
This, the Gotha, and the DR.1 are my favorite ww1 planes
Good vid bro.
0:21 'it was also one of the 1st military aircraft with an enclosed cockpit" (shows open cockpit version).................
4:57 hindenberg, not ferdinand zeppelin.
The Zeppelin was named after Hindenburg? Weird way of going about it.
thank you.
Good video
Very interesting doco. The colour thumbnail photo of the bomber looks good. Is there a larger version available ?
Where did the colour photo of the bomber come from?
That was very interesting 👍👍
you guys are awesome
Amazing
What they could do with the knowledge and techniques that had is inspiring.
4:22)The man with the sunglasses is also wearing an US Army M1898 Campaign Hat made by STETSON. Also called the Peaked, the Montana, the DI and Park Ranger.
The Gotha bombers were of two sizes.The limeys had no idea about the 4 engine Giants until one crashed.They were going nuts trying to find out why their gunsights weren't working.The sights were designed for the smaller 2 engine bomber.The Giants' size made it look like the fighters were within firing range.The Gothas had one side effect.George V took on the alias of Windsor. His grandfather was Prince Albert Coburg - Gotha - Saxe. The people were close to having another "Dump The King Party."
"Gräfin", not "Graffen"
Climbing the ladder to get to you upper wing gun position must have been exciting especially when flying in a combat situation or in turbulence.
This would be a good UA-cam channel if you could slow your narration down.
Perhaps you can speed your cognition up? I’m watching at 2x speed and have no problems understanding him.
As no english speaker in found this video like a listening challenge.
Yeah... it's a shame. Slow down bro. Would have been a really good video otherwise
He could be slower but if you put it at 0.75 speed it sounds fine
I like the fact that you included the newspaper clipping from the find. Besides French they also speak Dutch in Belgium and the newspaper clipping has Dutch text. I'll translate to English for anyone curious:
At Poelkapelle(Place name) in the fields of farmer Daniel Parrein at Stadensweg 72(Address) an aircraft wreck from the first world war was found while plowing. Together with his daughter Bernadette and Dami Dhaese on vacation there, farmer Daniel Parrein shows off these remains at the place where they were found.
That's it. i wonder if there was more of an article attached when it was first released.
His voice is so much better at x0,75 speed
Amazing 'history'!
2:10 dude's just standing out on the tail of a flying machine like it ain't no thing.
My friend Dennis built the Roden 1/72 scale plastic model kit of this flying German beast!!
Do a video on the Do 335
Attempt#5
... informative and well documented .... BUT please, speak SLOWER and more comprehensible ... it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Don't waste your time. This clown never improves his speech.
Lord Yes~Was a Speed Reader necessary???
Roy Baker jeez angry much
@@toxicgopher1022 Only when I hear this goofball.
Bro those people are just standing on that Jawn
can you do a video or two on the ta series fighters the 152 and 154 they were focke wulf fighters
I'd always thought that this was another one of Germany's wartime engineering oddities. Not a production aircraft with advanced features and sturdy construction that enabled it to become a rather formidable airframe.
Can u change ur mood in these vids wow
i wish this channel used the world standard units of measurement.
Very interesting topic, and fascinating photos. For any further videos narrated by this speaker,, I politely recommend that, even for native English speakers, you are Too Fast and would do well to slow down markedly.
On a side note, when I get bored I use paper and close pins n stuff to make mini ww1 type planes. At this point, I have an airforce of about 47 aircraft, and while most have a wingspan about the size of a pencil, I have two identical bombers with the name “freebird dove.” They have a wingspan of 3 feet, have eight fake engines, four tractor and four pusher, and I won my school’s science fair with one.
Nicely done. Upvoted. But why show several random pictures of the American post-war Curtis NC-4? 3:15, for instance
Wow!
Adjust the playback speed to .75 and this guy suddenly becomes understandable
Definitely mention the First Bombs were Artillery Shells with Fins stuck on. Whatever works!
Insanly big for a WW1 plane
Video ended abruptly. Like there should be more
Fascinating video. Impressively edited and narrated. I have often desired to learn more about large WW1 bomber aircraft and you guys granted me my wish. I am grateful! Hat's off to you at "Dark Skies"! Peace!
Germany never said “let’s make a smaller version”. Always much much bigger
The Germans in the First World War had made pretty impressive strides in developing a sophisticated heavy bomber program...certainly, it promised more than the technological (and fiery) dead end of lighter-than-air bombing.
They were building the Foerstmann Giant, a huge triplane designed for an eighty-hour transatlantic round trip. Fokker was working on a flying boat design that approached the Spruce Goose's size, also intended to bomb the U.S. Northeastern seaboard.
One of these crashed with an blockage balloon and kept flying. These things were sturdy as hell
They should talk about the mannesman poll giant tri plane
Watchers: If you want to understand what this narrator says, change your playback speed to 0.75 That also helps the video to play closer to its correct speed. And then compare with Mark Felton's production on the same subject. Dear Narrator: Take a breath !
Those aircrews had some chutzpah, flying without parachutes.
Very nice video! The commentary seems a bit odd: the intonation of the sentences seems to be OK, but the are all exactly the same and lack emotion. Also the tempo does not change at all. Is the voice computer generated?
I Hated it~!!!
Well, yes, at the very least it is difficult to get used to! 😀👍👍👍
Like a constipated Dalek.
Aircraft technology moved so fast from 1900s to the 1960s. After that we've just had small iterations here and there. Hard to grasp that aircraft speed havent progressed at all since the 60s
A maximum speed of 84 seems incredibly dangerous. I mean there's probably little gap before stall speed.
Is the music in this from Glass Masquerade?
The ending felt too sudden tbh
What's the rush? Speak clearly, please.
Yes~Irritating as Hell~!
@Kingnotail oh please, if you're doing "mini documentaries" you can take the time to learn annunciation. Furthermore, all is his content seems rushed and is full of minor mistakes. He can, should, and will improve. I don't think feedback like this is going to do anything but help him.
@Kingnotail it’s not the way he speaks it’s sped up by 0.5 milliseconds.
1:05 that's photo of Gdynia port in Poland shortly before beginning WW2.
2:15 is a Boeing 314 Clipper... which was not made by Sikorsky...
His visuals are wrong is just so many places. The info is generally accurate, if not a little wikipedia-y, but the choice of images and footage belies his lack of general knowledge. So may mistakes.
I think it's on Netflix, but there is a documentary about post wwI with footage taken from a photographer at the time from the air, it's really a great,documentary. Maybe add to that how the landscape remains effected and the no,go zones in,France today because of then??
A very impressive bomber indeed. I like this channel, but I gotta slow it down to x0.75 to understand you lol
This was awesome! But I figure now I'm on to 4-hours of learning about Igor Sikorsky. I didn't know he contributed to the Boing 314's--oh I'd love to fly one to Hawaii!
To my knowledge, he didn't. I have no idea why he used a picture of the Boeing 314.
Later in the 1960s the British would build an extremely successful Zeppelin, but this time with Lead.
The old films of manufacturing are interesting: no gloves, no safety glasses, no hardhats. Mean wearing ties.