Giant B-17 bomber takes fire from a massive Apple Cannon!!
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We go even bigger with a Giant 12 foot B-17 Flying fortress and an apple turret!! Will it survive!? Ha
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I'd rather do not, thank you
seeing the second ad i actually feel disgusted with you guys do you just not have any integrity?
have you looked at the footage in the ad for a second? some parts literally have a mouse cursor
glad to see how much you care about money and your viewers
Sorry guys love your content but warpath is a terrible game, I have played it before.
@@pegasusgaming21 it’s not flitetest fault I think I’m pretty sure it was warpath who gave them the ad footage. Also the game “historically accurate” when while calling a Stuka a fw190 and it being in a dogfight with tank buster cannons AND no gear that was always fixed to be down and not retractable
Just run normal ads if you need to. Ugh the in video ads are super gross.
Flak canon: "Im juiced!"
B-17: "Tough to the core baby!"
stop
Saucy...
@@joedafpv6770 no
@@imbasing yes
Today: Giant B-17 bomber takes fire from a massive Apple Cannon
Next week: Real-life B-52 gets rekt by Android Launcher
#iLoveTheSmellOfLithiumInTheMorning
Q: “How does a tail-heavy plane fly?”
A: Once.
Came to the comments for this
i mean truthfully it doesnt, it just straight up crashes, wobbling about in the sky with zero control isnt flying
But with ambition..always looking up. 😂
Thats a good one
Did some decent tricks in an S.E.5a that was a bit tail heavy.
My dad flew a B-17 in WW2....many stories about real heroes coming back. Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer!!! Avg age for a B-17 pilot was 22! He lost so many best friends too.
Like the All Amrican. Look that story up. Also your dad sounds like a nice dude to be around. Lucky person to have him as your dad.
@@youreverydayhellknight4257 half a wing!? just one wing that had been cut in half? or one wing had been lost entirely and the other just being half a wing
22 and handling such equipment. What a time that must have been.
@@alegk8394one wing cut in half while the other was fully intact
There's a reason why B-17s were nicknamed the flying fortress. Not only for their armament, but for being tough as hell. They were well known for taking a beating and surviving
Yeah we really saw an example of that at the Texas airshow a couple months back.
@@dinokulalic468 lmao why what happened at that
@@dannyzavolta1231 a b17 was hit by another fighter aircraft during an air show
Same with the P47s of that time, which were similar to the modernish A10, in that the P47 was built around it's engine, the A10 was built around it's gun, and they both have extremely good survivability
B17 is the Toyota hilux of the planes
I still would like to see you build an airframe skeleton out of foam board and wrapped with tissue paper so you can get better scale damage for battles. Can do dog fights with airsoft (biodegradable or paint marker BBS) and have paint ball AA guns on the ground.
Chicken tacos
Yes that would be great!!
Best way to do a build like that is balsa and spruce spars. Foam board would be good to replace the light ply used in most mono coat stick builds. Tissue paper can also be used it is typically painted with ca glue to seal it but ive used shaker can spray pain and fogged it on as well. Thing about tissue paper is unless it is strengthened or sealed it wont take the load of a large scale build typically used for rubber band powered or slot car motor powered free flight planes.
Would be awesome to see used in a large build though and it could be done
Theyve done that before in past vids
fr that would be cool
7:41 A B17 could carry 4000-8000 pounds of bombs depending on the mission, and would often use 100lb bombs: that would be 40-80 bombs. With 250lb bombs it would be able to carry 16-32 bombs. So 40 apples is a very realistic number!
I beg to differ. If the apples weighed in excess of 10lbs each, then yes, 40 would be an accurate number. That’s if the model is 1/10th scale. Then again, 100lbs of bombs is different than 100lbs of apples, too.
@@Raycefan They were more talking about number of bombs to number of apples, not lbs of bombs to lbs of apples.
Thanks
@@Raycefan thats true this is not an apples to apples comparison :)
@@saleplains SMH
10:46 “YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOU’RE LEFT WING”
*your
@@TheUnjtedstatesofAmericayou’re
@@Bruhok373 no, you’re is a combination of you and are, your is a word meant to represent ownership
@@TheUnjtedstatesofAmericaignore them for they are fools
This video just got recommended to me, a few hours after a real B17 crashed at Dallas Executive airport. Kind of eerie.
Fr
The use of wrapping paper as masking paper for large areas is clever
That's acualy a smart idea, nice thinking!
I noticed that as well!!!
Recycling
Press and seal plastic kitchen wrap is my go to for masking off large awkward areas
Did you also notice they laid down zones with painters tape and then taped the covering to that so they could add or remove or flip the cover to the other side of the line super easily.
I bet when terry put up those apple guns this was exactly what he was dreaming of doing with them lol. He was loving every second of it that was awesome ! More Terry !!
Agreed! He was on fire! 😆😝
Yes that happyness on his face ☺️
Using a AA gun 101 is guide the plane not shoot behind so when they don’t it’s not smart
True
@@Stalkergames916 however a real AA gun would have rounds that, at a set distance, burst into a shrapnel barrage, so aiming is a bit more simple
I didn't know Apple made cannons
LOL this is the only war fighting that should ever be allowed.
"Historically accurate aircraft"
**Proceeds to call Stuka without landing gears Fw-190**
ikr
that’s what i was about to say
yeah I thought I was having a stroke
fr
@Sarthak Borgaonkar they are the same
It would be fun to have the B-17 carry a payload of "eggs" and try to nail the anti-aircraft position! This way everybody gets the damaged... Lol 😂👍
Tell me water balloons wouldn't be bad ass to mix in with the eggs put like chalk powder or paint in them
@@ChemicalU235 oh nice touch that would be excellent! 💥
That would be fun to see.
Grenades…..it puts an edge on the entire situation.
Easter eggs with airsoft bbs aka cluster bomb
Should totally get some veterans to do the apple shootin wanna see what perfect aim looks like
Terry had a moment there. This is the coolest thing I've seen in a loooong time! Awesome!
The toughness of the B-17 is legendary. Glad to see an RC model live up to the legend.
god those apple launchers are the RC equivalent of the german flak 88s
And remember, in war thunder, the B-17 dies when a plane flys by.
@@navy3001 took on 4 fw and bf109s lost a tail and still made it back to base
@@gamingpentagon Your lucky, every time I go out, a fighter flys past me and my tail snaps off
@@navy3001 just insta headshots the pilot
“Warpath is the most realistic ww2 game” -Sun Tzu, after being paid a lot of money
LMAO
Their "Focke Wulf 190" is a Junkers Ju-87 without a landing gear
HAHAHAHA
@@familielauer2894 good thing I can translate to English
@@TheOfAnd lmfao I thought the same thing
This is my second time checking out this channel, and I gotta say I respect the aircraft shown in this video alone, even if only one was actually for the video. My grandmother and great aunt both worked as Rosie the Riveters to build B-17s in WWII, and my grandfather, who I unfortunately was never able to meet, flew a P-38, like the one hanging on your wall, as reconnaissance. He had engines shot out by anti aircraft and had to limp home alone with only one. It's such a wierd idea that p-38s were ever used for recon what with their insane firepower, but my whole life I've lived off of stories of my grandparents and these historic planes.
This captures something of the B-17's legendary "battered but not broken" pathos.
B-17s were known for their survivability and you guys did an excellent build
B-17s in War Thunder be like: Oh no a 7,5mm hit my tail guess its time to drop it.
Probably why it was called a flying fortress
@@capybarafan5859 i would explain why its called flying fortress but to tired rn so reply so i remember
My Grandmother was at a British airfield during the war that used to get a lot of B-17's landing there if they were cut up as it was closer than the American base. To this day she is amazed at just how smashed up these things could be and still fly. The Americans would put an armed guard on the plane until they took the wings off, loaded it onto a lorry and take it back to the American base.
@@panzerfaustgmbh4783 true
You guys should reenact "Foo-Fighter" Sightings with Quadcopters as Foo-Fighters and GoPros on WWII model planes!
YESSSSSS!!!!!!
Literally one of the first things I thought of seeing the drone circle the b-17.
@@robertcontreras9868 thats the moment i scrolled down and wrote that idea into the comments. Wow, never thought this would get 300+ likes. guess we ain't the only two people that had the same thought.
B-17S HOLD 200 BOMBS
This is the type of things you would see on UA-cam in like 2016-2018❤❤
The P-38 in the background is amazing! Grandaddy flew one in WWII, he turns 101 this year!! Cool video guys.
The typical payload for a B-17 for a mission such as this would have been around 75,000 to 100,000 apples.
With a motley mix, depending on the mission. Little greens, Granny Smith, macintosh, golden delicious, winesap, cider, crab, bad, rotten, and or crab apples, in any percentages.
Armour piercing or incendiary apples ?
@@alisonleaman333 😂😂😂
that is about correct
@@alisonleaman333 I would go with chemical. Screw the rules of war! Mustard gas apples!
9:56 for takeoff
10:19 for first fired apple
10:25 for bomb drop
10:44 for first hit
11:23 for second hit
11:45 for third hit
12:42 for landing
Thanks
you, are a chad
Thanks a lot!
KING
10 minutes to fast forward through
Americans that are playing with their greens instead of eating them. Could not imagine anything more American. Good job!
The B-17 could officially carry a load of 4,800. I've read that typical long-range missions would be about 4,000 pounds, and short-range, low altitude missions could carry up to 8,000. Depending on the size of the bombs, anywhere from dozens to just a handful.
“Historically accurate” 2:00 shows a Ju-87 G model with no landing gear and calls it a Focke Wulf 190
Bruh
it's a virus infected all youtubers
@@cv6thebige prob just likes wwII planes, and is calling out how the game is just for the money.
yeah unless its warthunder dont trust historically accruate bs
it's a mobile game
It was a great build! Still I can’t shake of the mixed feelings of knowing the things the real B-17 bomber crew had to endure during WW2.
This was fun to watch. Flying apples at that speed pack quite a wallop! I counted 3 hits. Those weren’t paint ball splats, bb or pellet hits, but a heavy wet apple. And it lifted a pretty darn good size payload! A little more tweaking on the bomb bay design and doors, you can have a pretty good ground attack plane along with its bombing capabilities. I bet you could even rig up a remote camera bomb site and become pretty accurate at target hitting. Rig up 4 compartments with 4 doors and you could make multiple attack runs.
Actually they really didn't a very few amount were lost because they flew at high altitude the the flak wasn't as accurate
@@thebirbestbirb In a single 376 plane raid in August 1943, 60 B-17s were shot down. That was a 16 percent loss rate and meant 600 empty bunks in England .. In 1942-43 it was statistically impossible for bomber crews to complete a 25-mission tour in Europe .
@@thebirbestbirb A lot of B-17s were shot down in WWII. Of the 12,731 aircraft built, approximately 4,735 were lost during the War. Most were lost over Germany. By both fighters and flak, or anti aircraft fire. The Germans had a quite deadly anti aircraft battery. It remained deadly through the end of the war. While the Luftwaffe was gradually overwhelmed by the allied air forces and lost much of its capacity and efficiency, the ground based anti aircraft fire remained quite dangerous and accurate though to the end. By the end of the war, radar was being used to direct anti aircraft fire, which was improving its accuracy considerably. Plus the gun crews had become very experienced, as they had a lot of practice shooting down attacking aircraft.
@@VladimirSaldes your exactly right There was a high percentage of bomber crews to die before completing 25 missione
I've discovered a whole group of channels lately that excite my inner child; when I used to dream of Lilliputian sailing vessels, Stuart Little vehicles, etc. I used to try to do the kinds of things these channels actually accomplish when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, except I failed miserably trying to make things out of aluminum can skins, popsicle sticks, and motors stolen from my 'Stomper' 4x4s or Erector Sets.
Lately I've seen all kinds of crazy things, like a leaf blower turned into an airplane engine, floating battleship vs RC airplane wars, etc. Damn, the fun I would have had back then if things available now would have been around back then. As it was, I ended up blowing up a lot of stuff with bottle rocket engines and balsa wood planes. For me, it all started when I did a school report on the 'Monitor vs Merrimac' Civil War battle. I used aluminum baking pans like for Thanksgiving trying to build my models, and it sucked.
i hated the result, and wanted to crush it, but my mom wouldn't let me, and I got a good grade on the project, which I didn't feel was deserved. It felt like a participation trophy. The things these guys do these days astound me. I guess the old adage has some weight, "What separates men and boys is the cost of their toys".
This video was way too much fun. Thanks to Warpath and Adidas for sponsoring it.
Microsoft Flight simulator will blow apart Warpath when it goes into Combat Flight Simulator mode
But there both different game and warpath on your phone so not sure
i like how they labelled a ju87 without gears as an fw190
Uh... DCS?
@@tommysallami r/woosh
@@monsusneux619 ?
Warpath: “historically accurate”
Ju-87: no gear, labeled as a fw-190
Warpath: *”YEP HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!”*
No offense to you guys you make awesome content I just find war path stupid.
I said this on a earlier reply to someone else but it would’ve been better if they got sponsored with War Thunder. I played warpath for a bit months before this vid and the game was ofc shitey. The people who made warpath don’t know shite bout anything really they just wanted to make a quick buck. Still love flitetest tho I’m not mad at them just the game their sponsors own.
@@FNIX_TANK tbh I was expecting this video to be sponsored by wt
I totally agree
@@maruftim I wish
Yeah wt really should’ve sponsored
FUN FACT: My great grandpa was a tail gunner in the B-17 and I read his flight journals. Something like where the plane was almost completely destroyed and it still made it! Also the B-17 wasn't even designed to have armor so it could carry almost 5 1000lbs bombs!
My great grandpa used to own the most b17 bombers than anyone else ever has
The fact that he said that war path is historically accurate and then shows a Stuka with no gear and tank buster cannons in a dog fight is sad to me.
also they call the stuka a fw190
They always say its "historically accurate" about warpath and then show something ridiculously not historically accurate 🤣
Yeah f*** warpath I played it the game is shite in my opinion. They advertise things they ain’t know shite bout. tbh flitetest should’ve trying to sponsor with war thunder because while the game is not the best it’s vehicles are historically accurate for the most part it’s fun if your not stuck in perm 40k sl because bomber airframes are made out of shite and paper.
@@FNIX_TANK Wart Blunder is absolute trash, and is anything BUT historically accurate. If they want an actual, good, and historically accurate game to sponsor them, they should look into IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad or DCS.
Yea, you guys are right... but they are making it possible to make a cool video like this... tbh, I don't care who they are sponsored by - they create great content as a result.
The FliteTest guys are conflicted between the power to create and the power to destroy. Fun video to watch.
You lost your waist gunners, But you made it home. When you make the repairs, You should leave some smoke damage. That wing shot would have taken out your number one engine!
USA
Just thinking that the apples that missed the bomber will probably become beautiful apple trees in the future.
When I was a kid my dad wrote an pamphlet for a British series called Profiles. It was about the B17. He got a boatload of pics of the B17 from Boeing and I was shocked at pics of damaged planes. It was staggering the damage that plane could take. One was the entire nose forward of the pilots was gone. But other pics were just as bad and even worse. You did a good job on your build. You left it silver so I can assume you were trying to recreate the G model which were left bare metal to save weight in paint. Oh on the bombload, usually it was 8 500 pounders or 4 1000 pounders.
Have you heard of the story of the ye old pub because I highly recommend it as it shows how much beating those bombers can take
@@commanderstorm8874 Took a bit since the first search for Ye Old Pub was about a B17 that never saw combat but was used for research after the war. Then a second search I found the plane you are referring to. A bomber so badly beat up the German didn't want to shoot it down. I heard about a similar story of a P47 that a FW190 literally emptied its entire weapons loadout of MG and cannon fire into it. The P47 still flew. The pilot also flew along side and saluted then left the P47 to fly home. It made it but was a write off.
@@commanderstorm8874 My dad was stationed in London after the war. He told me about a visit to a pub in the 50s where he heard people talking in German and another language he didn't know. Then he say a few people laughing and "flying their hands". You know using their hands to simulate planes flying. What struck he was their faces. They looked weird. Turned out these people were pilots that had been burnt in fires and there undergoing plastic surgery. A scene from Battle of Britain sparked the story.
The bomber will always get through
Was it Profile Publications?
Flite Test...
You guys inspire the youth to spend money on radio control and not dope... Fentanyl heroin and meth have flooded our streets and are poisoning our kids. You guys all together are amazing and the plans you guys come up with give everybody a chance to see what it's like to fly aircraft that no longer fly. My son and I are into RC and Thank you for your inspirations! True American HEROES
👏🏻👏🏻
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A 4,000-pound (1,800-kg) bomb load was typical for long missions, though the B-17 could carry up to 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) internally for shorter distances at lower altitudes and even more on external racks beneath the wings.
With he bombs being 500-1000lbs on average. So 8 to 16
2:52 "so what are we doing mate"
True brit moment
Can’t wait to order my “no plane left behind” shirt today!
Im waiting for them to start a page where everyone can share their insane plane recovery stories. Got a video of me shooting birdshot out of a 12 gauge on top of an extension ladder trying to get a blue angel f18 out of the top of a tree. Hahahaha ordered my shirt Friday hahah
lift
Haha I was thinking the exact same thing :)
A 88mm apple Flak Gun. Looks good! Nice work guys!
Should have put a Microsoft decal on the fuselage, would make a better target for Apple.
Flak AppleEight love it
Rare documentary footage of brave volunteering German orchard farmers defending the European continent from Anglo-Saxon air gangsters, using Speer's latest Wunderwaffe; the 8-something cm FlAAK (Flugabwehr-Apfelkanone). Beautiful!
This was the last heroic flight of a B-17 coming back home, severly damaged but still landed
like many of its bigger brothers did... .on many ocassions.
Listen to "No Bullets Fly" by Sabaton, it's about Franz Stigler and the B-17
My Grandpa was a bombardier. He flew in B-17s. Many did not make it back in real life. While flying in the pacific theater half would come back sometimes. He flew over 30.
@@matt59fire I salute him!
RIP to the two waiste gunners.
I remember a story about a B17 flying home without her tailsection. The plane was called the All American.
The only issue with apples as the rounds is apples can’t detonate in air, meaning you have to directly hit the aircraft, which tends to be hard.
Next round: fireworks...
VT fuse apple?!?
Nowi know what i want for home security , an apple cannon would do the job !!
No real bullets... and I mean Real AA gun bullets
We can fix that
can we admire how this plane is flying so smooth and calm and not broken enough to land home;))))
My Uncle John H. Pittenger taught ground crews how to maintain and repair B-17s in WWII. They could take tremendous damage and still make it back to base.
Germany in 1945 presenting their new "Wunderwaffe" to finally defeat allied bombing raids
Such an incredible journey. The paint had a huge impact, but to see it continue flying with so much damage... wow. I don't think a model could be much more accurate.
"Damn! Even if we had apples, we still wouldn't have won!" - Herman Goehring
Welcome back to WWII everybody, loved the video
That was one of the coolest demonstrations I've ever seen. I've always wanted to see something like that. Just a testament to how well that plane was built. It still took balls as biggest church bells to fly one of those things into battle, I hope we never forget what those guys did for us.
My brother built battle-damaged B-17 models for the Smithsonian.
He was working from photos and drawings of actual aircraft, and re-created several well known planes.
Sections of the model were cut away, and metal foil put in its place.
The foil was shot with an air-rifle loaded with coarse sand to make 'flak' damage!
Dunno if his models are still on display; this was about 30 years ago.
I mean, they might not still be at the Smithsonian, but museums like to keep stuff around
That's pretty cool what an honor for your brother you must be proud....
Everyone has a skill so few people have enough gumption to find out what there skill is ....
Mine is stupidity I'm the dumbest son of God
That's why I read don't wanna die dumb
"Giant B-17"
Soliders from ww2: this is a certified hood classic
Me Trick or treating: Halloween Apples
Apple orchard: DUCK! BOOM
If you look at all the battle damage photos of the B-17's that returned from their bombing sorties, you shouldn't be surprised at the heartiness of the airplane. The B-17 was one of the toughest bombers ever built. You guys did good...
Real life b17: absolute beast of an aircraft
Rc b17: tanks apples going 300 mph
Warthunder: a 30 mm hit my tail so it fell off
Lol, very true. B17s are either super easy to shoot down or impossible. Depending if you have 13mm or 30mm cannons. As a 109 pilot in war Thunder, it's a gamble honestlt
Facts bro
I love that you guys do this stuff. This is my childhood dreams come true and the only thing that could be better would be flying it myself lol
Terry never told them he was a Triple A deck gunner in the Navy. 😂😂🤣🤣
This makes me want to get back into RC planes again :)
Yea it makes me want to fly them again to🤣🤣
Likewise. Air Force Special Operations, Close Air Support, stationed with the Army at Coleman Kaserne in Gelnhausen, lived in Grossenhausen. They had a glider field there, great times. Lots of jet models, helicopters, even a huge UFO. Back in '79-82.
I lost one that was from Philippines
Me too 👍🏼
Don’t ask but somehow made me think of a really old cannel I watched.
Zombie heads may have been smashed as result of my new discovery.
This was the most realistic thing I think you guys have ever done. I was amazed at the battle damage realism in comparison to the real aircraft. Kudos to you all!!!
Little known fact: Germans, when low on ammo, would switch to 88mm apples to take down allied aircraft.
another Flite Test video that makes me drop jawed, great video cuts and drone live views plus ground cannon views and rudder view. This as usual with FT is great fun!
Большие дети, Завидую. Big kids, I envy.
2:00
As a WW2 combat vehicles enthusiast, I feel personally attacked by such a cursed sighting
@@bloq6758 The only reason why I clicked on the video, I had to make sure my eyes were seeing it correctly.
No landing gear. Its misnamed and its the attack varient..
I managed to make my stuka look like this in war thunder (I’m not defending this crap btw just a funny story) by flying formation with my friend back to the airfield and he annoyed me so I clipped his propeller with my landing gear taking out both. He was pissed but thought he could glide back, if he had been a bit higher he would have made it and I managed to belly land
Always complaining
@@matt59fire they labelled the stuka the Fw 190 and removed the landing gear
I think it would be possible to fit a filming go-pro or some sort of camera into the cockpit. I think it would be very cool to see the plane flying through the cockpit to make some first person pilot shots. There should also be cockpit details to add to that
That sounds pretty neat
in the a-10 vs tank (i think) they had a camera inside the cockpit of the a-10, it was very cool
That's what I'm saying
This video is quite historically accurate: multiple hits, severe damages... but still not shot down!
Imagine if this was real
“Who’s throwing those apples at us?”
“Nobody can throw apples this high”
“Oh it’s coming from artillery”
Edit: 168 likes in four days
Imagine an apple cannon as the main armament on a tank
40th like
Ww2 but all shells were apples
@@PastorOfMuppetsVIVIVI high explosive apple
Pilot to crew - Boys, check your chutes. The Nazis are using the Apfel Kanon.
@@xx_insert_cool_username_he6876 Armor Piercing Apple
Terrific scale! Even got the shape of the vertical tail correct (usually a flub on scratchbuilt B17s). Minor nit: plane could use maybe a degree or two more dihedral.
me, a dumbass: wtf
@@LambdaHXBN dihedral is the angle at which the wings are pointed up from the fuselage. For example a cessna172 will have basically 0 but on an F-22 fighter (google image it!) the rudder (the things sticking out on top) will have like "70 degrees" of "dihedral".
basically the more the "wing" or "thing sticking out of the fusealge" is pointing at the sky the higher the dihedral
TLDR wings should be pointing a bit more upwards for inherent (positive) stability
ohh okay thank you alot!
@@andym.s.5231 good description!
My dad dialed in a little polyhederal to the last foot of my wingtips on my slope soarer and turned it into a thermal hunter. A better choice for me since I was only 13 years old then. 1974 I think. Thanks for posting some of the more techy stuff.
That was amazing. Even in model form the old B-17 could still come home after some direct hits. I love the old Forts. Boeing STILL builds amazing aircraft.
in 0:01 and also nice plane videos you have
7:45 the typical payload for a B-17 was 9 600lb bombs but it could vary
I think the standard at the beginning of the war was 10 500lb, or 5 1000 lb depending on the target.
@@ian_lewono yeah
I guess that's what Josh means when says"happy crashes,have FUN!!!". This video defines the word FUN.Just amazing!!!
Plot twist, Terry was an anti aircraft gunner out in 'Nam in 1969 at Da Nang. 😂
Flite Test: Having fun
Meanwhile the WW2 Veteran grandpop next door:
HeartAttack
The B-17 was known for taking a lot of punishment and make it back to the air field. You guys have honored the might of the Flying Fortress emensly.
I just met a guy a couple of weeks ago. He is 98 years old. He was a waist gunner on a B17 during WW2. I talked to him for awhile. He did mention German 109's and much flak , but he did not mention anything about the old Apple Attack.
Outstanding! Now I realize how much it must have taken for the Nazis to shoot my grandfather down but also how he must have been able to survive. Let's all hope it just keeps being apples and non-crewed planes, my friends. This was awesome!
as a kid I never grew tired of spending an hour building something and spending 5 seconds crashing it
Those glow worms left over from the 4th of July worked great for simulating a German bomber on fire and crashing into your sandbox.
The “All American” crew: Hey! I’ve seen this one before.
I only know this one because of YarnHub's video XD
@@hueyrosayaga same
Same here.
Y'know, i didn't know i needed this
Well built plane gentlemen! Great RC depiction of how tough the mighty Fort was!!!
3:05 - a nose-heavy plane flies badly, a tail-heavy plane flies once.
The fruit equivalent to the “Fat Man” Nuke would be a watermelon😂😂
My grandpa had a airplane hobby shop in the same building as his ice cream shop before world war II he would have loved this, a true testament to the B-17 design way to go guys thoroughly enjoyed this video over and out, Terry's rancho looks pretty cool long way from where I'm at
YT algo: "We recommend this please."
Me: You had me at "apple cannon" !
Liked, subbed, shared and....DING!
The camera work and editing job done here is outlandish. Throws most TV shows, if not outright all of them, into the trash bin. Bravo, gentlemen. Wish I could patreon. One of the best random recommended videos, ever.
I think you mean "outstanding" Hans 😃
@@shecanatakeitcaptain Hey there! Haha I think you hit it on the nail, Capt :-) I meant to say something like: "Out of this world", but I must've missed the mark haha :-) Yes, English isn't my native tongue, you got me! :-D
Have a great day and thanks for the correction!
The smile on Terry's face has the be the best part about this
Fantastic video guys! Your skills are amazing. I loved the vintage plane and the tribute to the grand old B-17!
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That WAS historically accurate with the way it looked when it got back. Im impressed with yalls construction of the B-17. Well done. Thank you for the good content.
Her: He’s probably out cheating!
Me and the boys:
You should buy a vacuformer and use those 3D printed parts as bucks for things like canopies. I'd love to see a P-51D with a clear canopy.
Definitely going to end up with a few random apple trees growing 😂
Like Bugs Bunny said ,"You can't beat an A car."
That was awesome! That took a beating and still landed
The excitement of that commentator makes me think he waited his whole life for that moment