The fact that he was punished for speaking to the media after such a heroic and selfless act is mind blowingly disappointing... Some things never change.
When faced with death, people's true character is revealed. The pilot told his crew to save themselves. He chose to try and save lives by making a landing rather than jumping himself.
Maybe the reason we have such a capacity for violence and war is so that we can root out heroes and figure out what true character and humanity is! Life has become a lot of sitting around of late. Each man has within him a streak, foolish, risky, etc. Some of course more than others.
There may not have been enough parachutes for him. (My father was a US Army helicopter pilot/instructor but was also given the opportunity to attend "jump school" during training. On his first day as a pilot afterwards he was told by a superior to remove all "jump wings" (either patches or insigia indicating you learned how to parachute) from his uniforms because knowing the pilot CAN bail makes passengers uncomfortable.
Really admirable of the one pilot to have the other three men escape and actually fly those planes around to ensure that no civilians were injured. It's too bad how his life ultimately ended, though.
There are plenty of incidents like that spread across military aviation. I take my hat off to each and every pilot who stayed with their plane in order to try and prevent bad things from happening to those on the ground and the fact that it has happened on a lot of occasions by no means diminishes just how heroic any specific instance was.
B-17s "The Little Skipper" and "Nine Lives" had a similar fate. The planes wedged themselves into each other, but this time most of the engines were still operational. The landing was not as smooth, and the Nine Lives disintegrated.
“If I had a nickel for each time two planes collided in mid-air and got stuck together during WW2 I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.”
Funnily enough, I live a stone’s throw away from Wagga Wagga, often abbreviated down to just “Wagga”, or “shithole”, and this accident is news to me. Never knew Also you’re right Qxir, I’m having an absolute gobshite of a day, and this video has definitely helped turn it around a bit for me. Thank you kind sir, regards from not quite Brockelsby, Australia
There are lots of place names like this in Australia and my understanding is that the repeating of the name was pluralisation, notice Wagga Wagga means many crows. Don’t get it twisted though. There were an astounding number of distinct languages and while I’ve heard it applies to many, I’m sure there are exceptions.
The rather unfortunate and relatively mundane deaths of Leonard and Hugh remind me of Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer; a WW2 ace who piloted a Bf 110 G-4 bomber who throughout the war shot down 121 planes (primarily if not exclusively other bombers if I'm remembering correctly), both he and his two crew members were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (with Schnaufer himself eventually getting the Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds), and survived the war with the rank of Major and with his plane preserved in the Imperial War Museum. He was then killed in a car crash 5 years later at the ripe old age of 28 while visiting France to buy wine after having managed to revive his family's winery from pretty much non-existance to a reasonably thriving business.
The Bf 110 G-4 was a heavy fighter variant designed with heavy firepower specifically to shoot down bombers, so it’s not strange to have killed bombers with it.
As a survivor of a highspeed roll-over, where I was "involuntarily" ejected through a window (that's how my attending physician refered to it) I can tell you that in most car wrecks the driver is often the least injured. (My father was driving, he broke a toe, I and my stepmom were passengers, she broke her neck and I broke a shoulder, received some glass cuts and got a moderate whiplash type head injury)
Just remember, if you get ejected from a car the police have formulas to know how far away parts of you will be found, plus a checklist to make sure they have as much of you as they can find. Well If a raccoon doesn’t steal your toe before the police can retrieve it. Also follow the birds. A bridge jumper was found when the police noticed a gathering of seagull’s. This led them to the deceased man. He was missing a good chunk of his brain and an eye all thanks to those birds
@@LongdownConker in my case the accelerator stuck and we spun out at 80+mph on a highway offramp and then flipped/rolled when the car hit the median. I wasn't wearing my seatbelt (I was 12yo child at the time) and got thrown through the passenger's window on the 3rd roll, breaking both the window and my shoulder in the process. Thankfully I hit the grassy ground surprisingly well. Before my MRI the emergency medics were extremely worried that I had a traumatic brain injury. My head DID swell up pretty bad, but the glass was the worst looking part. I still have facial scars from it, including one on my cheek that can be felt from inside and out, as it went completely through. Watching stiches being done in your face is pretty nerve-wracking especially because the surgeon made no attempt to hide the hook shaped suture needle from view. But in many cases the driver has the least injuries because they are held in place better by the steering colum and closer airbag, they are the most likely to be buckled in, and most importantly they usually have the most forwarning before a collision.
@@dark2023-1lovesonithanks, for us it was black ice and rain that sent the car sideways off the road and 60mph, into a wall and rolling in a field. The worst part is that it was a really old car that had a poor safety rating, no abs, traction control or even airbags. The driver is now paraplegic and has permanently injured hands and needs full time care. I have short term memory loss, my forehead was sort of degloved (all tissues and muscles were off the bone) so the muscles on my forehead don't work properly and one of my eyebrows can't move anymore. I also have a back injury that causes nerve pain down my legs. My facial scars will never go away but I don't mind them,
1:35 Fun fact about the Welsh language, we actually have more vowels than English, A E I O U W Y are the Welsh vowels. Also Cwmystwyth is pronounced Koom-Uh-Stwith and means Ystwyth valley, the Ystwyth being a river which also lends it's name to the more famous Aberystwyth meaning mouth of the Ystwyth.
You've got a really good presentation and narration style, you don't waste time with a lengthy intro or interrupt your videos with garbage adverts, and your drawings and animation are really good and hugely enjoyable (especially the expressions!). Thank you, its really appreciated.
Surviving a mid-air is a very rare event. The recent Key Lime metroliner/cirrus collision is especially wild- the cirrus pulled a safety chute, being unflyable, and the Key Lime landed safely looking a lot like Aloha Flight 243. There were no fatalities or injuries.
I know the Nav ejected when he was given world by Fuller, but it's a crazy coincidence that specifically only the controllers of the plane whose engines died mid-flight survived more than ten years. I mean, I bet Fuller thought that landing would be his last until it happened and he was unharmed, and I bet his Nav believed he was a hero for risking his own life to save the other three, only for the twists of fate to claim Houston and his Nav in completely unrelated instances.
Fuller and Hewson's navigator were the ones who died in those unrelated incidents. So, one from the plane that still had functional engines, and one from the plane doing the steering.
I save a guy who was drowning. He later killed a man in a drunk driving accident. I saved another guy who was choking to death after downing a bunch of strong rum in a drinking contest with another guy (I saved him too). The first guy went on to kill half a family and severely injure the others for life (paralysis/brain damage etc) while on too much xanas. He overdosed at a fairly young age. He did have 4 or 5 children though.
OMG lmao i was hoping someone would write that EDIT: ik it was terrible and of course i give my sympathies to all the friends and family hurt in the accident
You really hit the nail with saying you shouldn't laugh at the Waga Waga and after that not leaving us hanging on the pronaunciation of irish towns. i thought about both those things and right after i thaught about it you cleared it in the vieo :') very good
Except "wagga wagga" doesn't even mean "place for many crows" and actually means "dance and celebrations", or more literally "dance dance" (hence the double use of a single word). Obviously qxir was spending more time pandering instead of researching the facts. You CAN laugh at anything, even silly Aboriginal place-names. Anyone that tells you otherwise is just being self-righteous for political reasons.
Something similar happened in Florida in a pilot training college I was in where a Piper warrior didn't see a Cessna 152 collided and became stuck together. The Cessna made a safe landing with the Piper on its roof
Your commentary on the city names had me laughing my ass off. I love your channel. I could listen to you talk about anything, and I'd find it interesting.
I never heard of this story! The only thing I can recall that was remotely like this was 1 instance of a wildcat and a zero playing chicken during a dogfight. The zero lost a wing and crashed while the wildcat limped back to its aircraft carrier. I can't recall the guy this happened to but it should be easy to find.
This also happened with 2 American B-17 Bombers. After they both lodged up into each other, the top one's pilots shut off their engines and steered the 2 planes to Germany, where they eventually crash-landed and the crew who hadn't bailed out of the crafts were captured, and were released after the war ended(probably).
I saw this happen when 2 single engine planes landed on top of each other at a small airport. Both planes were "repairable, but write-offs" and all 4!!@ pilots and instructors were fine.
There was a similar plane collision/merger that happened also in WW2, but on an actual mission over occupied Europe with two bombers. I wish I could remember more of the details, but I know that I learned of it from a video from the channel Yarnhub, where they show (through animation) and tell weird, interesting and unusual stories from military history.
There was another case were this happened when two B17 flying fortresses were returning from a mission, a number of German fighter planes took on the bombers heading back to Britain and got a lucky shot taking out both pilot and co pilot leaving the plane unmanned and drifting through the formation, both planes pretty much were stuck just like this video the B17 with the pilots managed to turn both Bombers back towards Germany ordering all remaining crew to bail out, both pilots stayed with the stricken aircraft and made a crash landing becoming prisoners of war There is a animated video as no pictures other than repots from the allied the pilots themselves some from the group heading to Britain and the German flak batteries
I absolutely love the foley of the secondary explosion when the two hand-drawn airplanes drop off-screen and hit the ground. I'm not sure why that makes me laugh as much as it does, but make no mistake.
There was another incident like this, as there was two B-17 bombers that managed to have the same fate of being stuck together, and one had more control than the other.
"Unfortunately, the air men could not afford this luxury, as their wreck was in the sky. And you can't walk away from anything in the sky! Because there's nothing to walk on." No, really? You're telling me there's no ground in the sky? I never would have guessed!
"Ages 19 and 22". Their skill and heroism is amazing at that age! When I look at the same age boys of 2022, the comparison, well, there is no comparison.
Forest Hill was where my grandfather became a pilot for WW2. He ended up flying the longest surviving Lancaster based on missions flown. He promptly crashed it on takeoff on his second mission. At least it was not shot down. He was stationed at Skellingthorpe.
You know the day he survived, he put it to good use and prevented needless injury. So to go peaceful 😛 from a bus, maybe it is how we all really go. What didn't kill us are of what our legends are made .
I am an Aussie and I did not even know about this until today thank you Qxir, I need to brush up on my Australian WWII history I have shared your story on my twitter and Facebook page
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2 b-17S collided over the channel in 1944 and were lodged together before crash landing in germany.
You should do a video about the story if taffy 3
Airplane porn. Hard to come by these days. Even harder....
Makes you wonder if they were supposed to die and death came for them......Final Destination 🤔😳
@@j.k1688 I was about to say that but yes, two B-17 bombers collided with each other and merged scaring the germans down below.
Wow! That this "merge" even happened is incredible. But the fact that the man landed the concoction afterwards is just mind-blowing!
All I can think about is "happy ending".
"concoction" has to be my favorite word to describe the event!
The fact that it happened twice is mind blowing
Spoiler alert???
The fact that he was punished for speaking to the media after such a heroic and selfless act is mind blowingly disappointing... Some things never change.
When faced with death, people's true character is revealed.
The pilot told his crew to save themselves. He chose to try and save lives by making a landing rather than jumping himself.
Maybe the reason we have such a capacity for violence and war is so that we can root out heroes and figure out what true character and humanity is! Life has become a lot of sitting around of late. Each man has within him a streak, foolish, risky, etc. Some of course more than others.
@@finished6267 nah some people just suck
@@finished6267 War and violence is very often about money, power etc not exactly as glamorous as the media would have you believe.
There may not have been enough parachutes for him.
(My father was a US Army helicopter pilot/instructor but was also given the opportunity to attend "jump school" during training. On his first day as a pilot afterwards he was told by a superior to remove all "jump wings" (either patches or insigia indicating you learned how to parachute) from his uniforms because knowing the pilot CAN bail makes passengers uncomfortable.
"In their last moments, people show you who they really are."
-Joker
Really admirable of the one pilot to have the other three men escape and actually fly those planes around to ensure that no civilians were injured. It's too bad how his life ultimately ended, though.
I mean don't all lives end? It's just a shame his was cut short by such a freak accident.
@@dillonventola408 getting hit by a bus isn't that freak of an accidenta?
There are plenty of incidents like that spread across military aviation. I take my hat off to each and every pilot who stayed with their plane in order to try and prevent bad things from happening to those on the ground and the fact that it has happened on a lot of occasions by no means diminishes just how heroic any specific instance was.
@@venkkooo oh so it's pretty common where you live? I can safely say it's not where I live
@@venkkooo I mean, compared to what happened to him yeah its relatively mundane but its not really that common.
_"He didn't even live to see the end of the war!"_
This made me feel abnormally sad.
B-17s "The Little Skipper" and "Nine Lives" had a similar fate. The planes wedged themselves into each other, but this time most of the engines were still operational. The landing was not as smooth, and the Nine Lives disintegrated.
It was actually “The Little Skipper” and the “Nine Lives”
Guess it didn't really have 9 lives
@@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7 I mean. How many lives must it have gone through during that landing?
@@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7 physics glitch
@@juliandavidhoffer2022 Probably used up it's last life surviving the mid-air collision lol
“If I had a nickel for each time two planes collided in mid-air and got stuck together during WW2 I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.”
That b17 that landed itself in England was wild ,seeing as the crew abandoned long before lol
Perhaps a lost crewman from before is about believable
Today that'd be worth $1,584,909.00!
Well technically it only happened once…
2 nikels stuck together. I guess it is called a platinum
This story is a perfect example of: "It's okay to screw up, but how you manage the aftermath is what really matters."
Funnily enough, I live a stone’s throw away from Wagga Wagga, often abbreviated down to just “Wagga”, or “shithole”, and this accident is news to me. Never knew
Also you’re right Qxir, I’m having an absolute gobshite of a day, and this video has definitely helped turn it around a bit for me. Thank you kind sir, regards from not quite Brockelsby, Australia
I hope things got better for you.
There are lots of place names like this in Australia and my understanding is that the repeating of the name was pluralisation, notice Wagga Wagga means many crows.
Don’t get it twisted though. There were an astounding number of distinct languages and while I’ve heard it applies to many, I’m sure there are exceptions.
Don't call Wagga Wagga Wagga, you don't call Woy Woy Woy.
Junee over here, 30 minutes away. YEAH!
"Have you ever wondered what happens if two planes collide together?"
Yes.
@@isabellind1292 ok isabel
@@milkkorsmth what did she say
@@muffy_bunny smth like "Haha! Very funny 🤣😂🤣"
@@milkkorsmth Exaggerate much?! All I said was "Lol!" w/a 😊It was a harmless response you little wuss!
The rather unfortunate and relatively mundane deaths of Leonard and Hugh remind me of Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer; a WW2 ace who piloted a Bf 110 G-4 bomber who throughout the war shot down 121 planes (primarily if not exclusively other bombers if I'm remembering correctly), both he and his two crew members were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (with Schnaufer himself eventually getting the Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds), and survived the war with the rank of Major and with his plane preserved in the Imperial War Museum.
He was then killed in a car crash 5 years later at the ripe old age of 28 while visiting France to buy wine after having managed to revive his family's winery from pretty much non-existance to a reasonably thriving business.
The Bf 110 G-4 was a heavy fighter variant designed with heavy firepower specifically to shoot down bombers, so it’s not strange to have killed bombers with it.
yeah it was a fighter not a bomber
also 4 wheelers are worthless rubbish
Life is a bitch like that. Best not to think about how mundanely and unexpectedly our hard work to live a good life can be ripped away from us.
@@Blox117 Two wheels good, four wheels Baaahhd!
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, August 1945
As a survivor of a highspeed roll-over, where I was "involuntarily" ejected through a window (that's how my attending physician refered to it) I can tell you that in most car wrecks the driver is often the least injured. (My father was driving, he broke a toe, I and my stepmom were passengers, she broke her neck and I broke a shoulder, received some glass cuts and got a moderate whiplash type head injury)
I also survived a high speed roll-over, the car hit a flagstone wall and rolled multiple times. The driver was the most injured,
Just remember, if you get ejected from a car the police have formulas to know how far away parts of you will be found, plus a checklist to make sure they have as much of you as they can find. Well If a raccoon doesn’t steal your toe before the police can retrieve it.
Also follow the birds. A bridge jumper was found when the police noticed a gathering of seagull’s. This led them to the deceased man. He was missing a good chunk of his brain and an eye all thanks to those birds
@@LongdownConker in my case the accelerator stuck and we spun out at 80+mph on a highway offramp and then flipped/rolled when the car hit the median. I wasn't wearing my seatbelt (I was 12yo child at the time) and got thrown through the passenger's window on the 3rd roll, breaking both the window and my shoulder in the process. Thankfully I hit the grassy ground surprisingly well. Before my MRI the emergency medics were extremely worried that I had a traumatic brain injury. My head DID swell up pretty bad, but the glass was the worst looking part. I still have facial scars from it, including one on my cheek that can be felt from inside and out, as it went completely through. Watching stiches being done in your face is pretty nerve-wracking especially because the surgeon made no attempt to hide the hook shaped suture needle from view.
But in many cases the driver has the least injuries because they are held in place better by the steering colum and closer airbag, they are the most likely to be buckled in, and most importantly they usually have the most forwarning before a collision.
@@LongdownConker glad to hear you survived, hopefully without any permanent injuries.
@@dark2023-1lovesonithanks, for us it was black ice and rain that sent the car sideways off the road and 60mph, into a wall and rolling in a field. The worst part is that it was a really old car that had a poor safety rating, no abs, traction control or even airbags. The driver is now paraplegic and has permanently injured hands and needs full time care.
I have short term memory loss, my forehead was sort of degloved (all tissues and muscles were off the bone) so the muscles on my forehead don't work properly and one of my eyebrows can't move anymore. I also have a back injury that causes nerve pain down my legs.
My facial scars will never go away but I don't mind them,
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Fouler is a damn hero why is no one saying this in the comments? Saved the lives of his navigators and the other pilot.
Give it time, grasshopper
You are saying this in the comments! You!
...which is fair enough.
@@MadScientist267 Grasshopper? Hahaha!
😉👍👍💜
Yeah seriously!! And a REALLY good pilot
This was a rare time. These are the kind of men that earned the title of “Greatest Generation” and deserved it.
1:35 Fun fact about the Welsh language, we actually have more vowels than English, A E I O U W Y are the Welsh vowels. Also Cwmystwyth is pronounced Koom-Uh-Stwith and means Ystwyth valley, the Ystwyth being a river which also lends it's name to the more famous Aberystwyth meaning mouth of the Ystwyth.
"I am convinced the Welsh accent was invented by a dad losing at Scrabble."
- Jimmy Carr
A fellow Welshman! How do you do?
Not a man but I am Welsh! And I'm doing quite well thank you
Why don’t you just spit the rocks out of your mouths when you talk and get rid of the extra vowel
Nah, Welsh is as much of a language as Cornish, y'all made it up so you could talk about the English behind their backs.
You've got a really good presentation and narration style, you don't waste time with a lengthy intro or interrupt your videos with garbage adverts, and your drawings and animation are really good and hugely enjoyable (especially the expressions!).
Thank you, its really appreciated.
This happened to two America b17s in ww2 maybe you could do a video on that also
@@FAKE-NAME Pardo's Push, during the Vietnam war.
incredible how young those pilots were. Glad they all made it through, sad that two of them later died before the war's end
Surviving a mid-air is a very rare event. The recent Key Lime metroliner/cirrus collision is especially wild- the cirrus pulled a safety chute, being unflyable, and the Key Lime landed safely looking a lot like Aloha Flight 243. There were no fatalities or injuries.
6:43 Thanks for the clarification.
I know the Nav ejected when he was given world by Fuller, but it's a crazy coincidence that specifically only the controllers of the plane whose engines died mid-flight survived more than ten years. I mean, I bet Fuller thought that landing would be his last until it happened and he was unharmed, and I bet his Nav believed he was a hero for risking his own life to save the other three, only for the twists of fate to claim Houston and his Nav in completely unrelated instances.
Fuller and Hewson's navigator were the ones who died in those unrelated incidents. So, one from the plane that still had functional engines, and one from the plane doing the steering.
I save a guy who was drowning. He later killed a man in a drunk driving accident. I saved another guy who was choking to death after downing a bunch of strong rum in a drinking contest with another guy (I saved him too). The first guy went on to kill half a family and severely injure the others for life (paralysis/brain damage etc) while on too much xanas. He overdosed at a fairly young age. He did have 4 or 5 children though.
Since 'mundane' means 'of the earth' or 'of the world', it is fitting in describing an airman killed by a bus on the ground.
That first line didn't age quite so well
OMG lmao i was hoping someone would write that EDIT: ik it was terrible and of course i give my sympathies to all the friends and family hurt in the accident
I feel UA-cam recommended me this once since I watched the news coverage of the other 2 planes. Sad
Man I stumbled upon this channel a couple months ago and I'm so glad I did! Love what you do man keep doing what you're doing!
‘Collides mid air’ oh damn that must have been explo-
‘Becoming stuck’ …huh?
You really hit the nail with saying you shouldn't laugh at the Waga Waga and after that not leaving us hanging on the pronaunciation of irish towns. i thought about both those things and right after i thaught about it you cleared it in the vieo :') very good
Like many however, I'm still fuckall on the second one 🤣
Just to clear things up, Welsh does have vowels. In fact, we have more than English with w and y both acting as vowels.
@@Snaily so how do you pronounce that sign
@@renameagain5808 I don't fucking know lol
Except "wagga wagga" doesn't even mean "place for many crows" and actually means "dance and celebrations", or more literally "dance dance" (hence the double use of a single word).
Obviously qxir was spending more time pandering instead of researching the facts.
You CAN laugh at anything, even silly Aboriginal place-names. Anyone that tells you otherwise is just being self-righteous for political reasons.
"Have you ever wondered... how baby planes are made?"
I had the same thought! 😝
umm by baby people ?
UA-cam is kinda sick recommending me this after the Dallas air field tragedy
Something similar happened in Florida in a pilot training college I was in where a Piper warrior didn't see a Cessna 152 collided and became stuck together. The Cessna made a safe landing with the Piper on its roof
Imagine surviving a one in a billion death sentence just to be taken out by a bus. How tragic
Your commentary on the city names had me laughing my ass off. I love your channel. I could listen to you talk about anything, and I'd find it interesting.
Well done Fuller. Respect.
I never heard of this story! The only thing I can recall that was remotely like this was 1 instance of a wildcat and a zero playing chicken during a dogfight. The zero lost a wing and crashed while the wildcat limped back to its aircraft carrier. I can't recall the guy this happened to but it should be easy to find.
Swede Vejtasa. He was in a Dauntless Dive Bomber. The Zero tried to ram him. He sliced through the lighter plane and went home.
This also happened with 2 American B-17 Bombers. After they both lodged up into each other, the top one's pilots shut off their engines and steered the 2 planes to Germany, where they eventually crash-landed and the crew who hadn't bailed out of the crafts were captured, and were released after the war ended(probably).
It's weird to be subbed to such a huge channel and see a video about something that happened literally less than an hour away from my small town.
As a Welshman and Welsh speaker I can absolutely confirm 100% that's how we lost our vowels... 😫 haha
I love this channel. It was a happy day when I found it. One video and I was hooked and subscribed.
I saw this happen when 2 single engine planes landed on top of each other at a small airport. Both planes were "repairable, but write-offs" and all 4!!@ pilots and instructors were fine.
I needed this today. Thank you for your new content. some of us dont have much of a life and really look forward to some things. This is one of them
There was a similar plane collision/merger that happened also in WW2, but on an actual mission over occupied Europe with two bombers.
I wish I could remember more of the details, but I know that I learned of it from a video from the channel Yarnhub, where they show (through animation) and tell weird, interesting and unusual stories from military history.
ye olde pub and... i forgot the other one
@@abandonedaccount123 I don’t think it was ye olde pub, that was the name of the B-17 that was involved in the Franz Stigler incident
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@@pyrebird7567 oh lol
It was 2 B-17s, The Little Skipper, and The Nine Lives.
Great video again! Even if I have learned of a topic somewhere else, I would rather hear your version of the events than anyone else's! Thanks
There was another case were this happened when two B17 flying fortresses were returning from a mission, a number of German fighter planes took on the bombers heading back to Britain and got a lucky shot taking out both pilot and co pilot leaving the plane unmanned and drifting through the formation, both planes pretty much were stuck just like this video the B17 with the pilots managed to turn both Bombers back towards Germany ordering all remaining crew to bail out, both pilots stayed with the stricken aircraft and made a crash landing becoming prisoners of war
There is a animated video as no pictures other than repots from the allied the pilots themselves some from the group heading to Britain and the German flak batteries
When two planes love each other’s very much this happens
Howd I find a video 1 minute after upload without notifacations-
Hm, yes.
Algorithm magic
Same here
very glad this is a "tales from the bottle" and not a "last moments"
Funnily enough, this isn't the only time this happened in ww2
It happened again with 2 b-17s
True that. “All American “ and “Nine Lives”. I thought this video was about them.
Love your videos. They do help make our days better.
Just one mistake, at 5:27, Jack Houston is the one to disappear, instead of Fuller.
my grandfather fought in WW 2 ..he was grizzled indeed..good work :)
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Glad we actually got a Qxir this week. I've been suffering withdrawal symptoms!
I absolutely love the foley of the secondary explosion when the two hand-drawn airplanes drop off-screen and hit the ground. I'm not sure why that makes me laugh as much as it does, but make no mistake.
When a Mommy airplane loves a Daddy airplane very much they come together with a special kiss ✈️😘✈️
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Your content is consistently interesting and very well presented. Discovered your channel not too long ago and subscribed after a sample of it.
There was another incident like this, as there was two B-17 bombers that managed to have the same fate of being stuck together, and one had more control than the other.
Your videos are one of the last sources of entertainment I have left on UA-cam. Thanks for making such great videos.
1 view, 16 likes, and 5 comments. WTF?!?
I lived on this military base in forest hill for 2 years and never heard this story. Truly amazing. Thanks QXIR.
"Unfortunately, the air men could not afford this luxury, as their wreck was in the sky. And you can't walk away from anything in the sky! Because there's nothing to walk on."
No, really? You're telling me there's no ground in the sky? I never would have guessed!
shugt up
no bitches?
Says good things about the robustness and airworthiness of the Anson.
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my day started bad because of a hungover, but now it's good. Thank you.
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Tbh, this might be the only UA-cam channel I've consistently watched over the last few years. Every video is a banger, lol
Thank you for immediatly pointing out this history of the name Wagga Wagga. Much respect
That's just how you make new planes. Those planes just love each other very much. Don't judge them.
These videos always make me happy. Love the variety.
"Ages 19 and 22". Their skill and heroism is amazing at that age! When I look at the same age boys of 2022, the comparison, well, there is no comparison.
There are plenty of heroic and skilled 19 and 22 year olds today, stop being an old codger
And that kids, is how planes are made.
Every time you put out a video is a happy day for us viewers!!!
Your video does help! They all do for me. It sure makes working 12 hour shifts easier and my three, fifteen minute breaks.
That's not what they meant when they said we should have a merger
When two planes love eachother very much...
Ah, two planes mating in the sky, nature is amazing
QXIR! Really enjoying the animation in this one. Keep it coming
thanks for not leaving me hanging on the name of that town
Thankyou qxir iv been feeling quite low for the past month but your videos give me a slight break 🙂.
I thought for sure this was a Last Moments episode when I saw the title
I can't believe this isn't a more famous event, thanks! I love the new outro music.
When one aiplane loves another airplane very, very much...
thanks Qxir, im sick as a dog right now and your videos and presentation style cheer me up a lot!
That Leonard Fuller who stayed with the plane (to prevent civilian casualties below) allowing the others to jump, is a true hero.
Ohhhhh so this is how RC planes are made... The more you know.
Really appreciate the side tangent about Wagga Wagga
I'm a huge aviation history nerd, and this is the first time I've ever heard of this incident. Nice vid!
Imagine surviving this then getting hit by a bus 💀
That drop animation when the guy walks off the place was fun. Don't usually see that much movement in you work, it was a neat effect!
I wonder how many other and more rare moments happened like this, just never recorded.
Your videos always make my day much better. Take care and thank you for posting another good story. 👍👍👍
Forest Hill was where my grandfather became a pilot for WW2. He ended up flying the longest surviving Lancaster based on missions flown. He promptly crashed it on takeoff on his second mission. At least it was not shot down. He was stationed at Skellingthorpe.
Qxir, no matter how the story ends your every post brightens the day!
That fuller fellow had major balls.
You know the day he survived, he put it to good use and prevented needless injury. So to go peaceful 😛 from a bus, maybe it is how we all really go. What didn't kill us are of what our legends are made .
Your videos always make me feel better
This is literally a final destination movie. They survived the incident so death tried to kill them is different ways
Thank you Q. Indeed your videos always brighten a dark day. Take care of yourself 🍄🐿️
Leonard Fuller is a legend
Your videos always make my day better. I'll let you know once that stops.
plane mating rituals are so rarely caught on camera, nature really is beautiful
I am an Aussie and I did not even know about this until today thank you Qxir, I need to brush up on my Australian WWII history I have shared your story on my twitter and Facebook page