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Why do you keeps switching stats from imperial to metric units and back?

This is lifted from a series called " Wings of the Red Star. Narrator is Sir Peter Ustinov.

Yes... with better engines and especially props this aircraft could have been a winner.

Has to be one of the best-looking but failed designs of the war. Also flies in the face of the usually true assertion that “if it LOOKS good, it will fly good …”

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Great history of a not so successful fighter that nonetheless provided helpful air support for ground troops... The Boomerang was not a world-beater but it deserves the respect of aviation enthusiasts, for it was a substandard fighter that was pressed into service in an hour of great danger, did the job and survived.

Not me109 G6 me 109 K4 ?

Love the Halifax

What's with this calling Japanese aircraft fabric covered?

If Merlin had been chosen at the beginning, it might have received more support in the right quarters.

The UN should expel Russia just as the League of Nations did, and for the same reason!

Those Germans sure knew state of the art technology!

So many good lives lost through rudder stall and many too, lost in determining the best shape of rudder from A, through E F G Modified C until finally D type.

Quite the effort when you consider that the entire population of Australia in 1940 was only around 7 million.

When people say "Why didn't they just use a Merlin?" they are forgetting a few important details. At the time, the only variant available was the Merlin II or III, developing only 880 hp. On paper, the Peregrine was capable of delivering roughly the same horsepower, but weighed 500lbs less! It's not until the introduction of 100 Octane fuel and the two-stage supercharger that the Merlin output goes past 1,200hp. The Merlin is also 15 inches longer than the Peregrine, throwing off the planes' center of gravity, or requiring a complete redesign of the nacelles and/or elimination of the Fowler flaps. If you're a designer in 1938, and you're offered a choice between a reliable Merlin, or a temperamental Peregrine around two thirds of the weight but with roughly the same power, and your overriding objective is speed, you'd be a fool not to design around the lighter engine, and hope Rolls Royce can work out the reliability issues. Who could have foreseen that Merlins would go from 880hp of the Mk III, to over 2,000 hp by the time of the Mk 130?

once all your arms are converted to defense, its really just a matter of time

Pilot’s vision was restricted by the built-up fuselage behind him, the wing and bulbous engine cowling in front and the lower wing blocking the ground view. What a terrible design.

I already drove one of these in a simulator. Due to the upper wing the field of vision is very limited. I would say, horrible.

Great video, but your opinion on fascism making business a mere 'subservient', 'arm of government' is far too simplistic. They-owners and shareholders- made a lot of money, could not go out of business, had no labour disputes or any of the usual problems a business might have in a more purely capitalist economy. Most of Germany's current wealthiest people and companies made fortunes under Nazism and the monarchy before 1919. Business and fascism have always been bedfellows, across decades and continents (Adam Tooze's "The Wages of Destruction" is a great read on all this). Aside from that small bit of pedantry, thanks for a great video.

Possibly the greatest missed opportunity for the RAF. The Whirlwinds problem was its engines, were not good enough. Its huge advantage were its weapons, cannons as opposed to the .303 machine guns of the Spitfire and Hurricanes. Had this aircraft been equipped with Merlin engines from the start and added to its weaponry this would have been a fantastically effective bomber destroyer during the Battle of Britain.

I do agree! All along this vid, i kept thinking this plane is a great what if...all in all, what a wasted chance. With a little more range endurance, it could have been a great asset for the RAF!

would have been great for the royal navy

Great video

Thanks for another great video, on a sturdy not terribly well known dive bomber and pre cursor to the JU 87 Stuka! If you are a modeller like me it builds into a nice kit especially in a three tone early war splinter camouflage! Cheers everyone.

For the Last of the Biplanes , if I could not Fly one I would have one just to wash it ion my Lawn every Sunday , only other to come close was the Bucker Jungmiester , both perfect Aircraft..

I wonder why designers persisted for so long with the “rounded leaf” tail and rear wings. It’s like they were stuck in the WW1 era for 25 years. Same for the built-up fuselage behind the cockpit, adding weight, restricting vision for no good reason.

One factual error - The Hs 123 B did go into general service - the major difference between the A & B versions is that the A had a partial Fabric upper wing (Metal forward half , fabric rear surfaces) where the B was All Metal. Many A versions were retro fitted (usually at request of the pilot) with the armoured headrest but it was standard on the B. Udet and Von Richtofen did enquire about restarting productrion of the 123, but Henschel had destroyed the custom made Tools and Jigs in order to recycle the metal, making it impossible.

Shows how at times the low tech solution is the best.

They should have built more and a naval version

That armament must have delivered a serious storm of hot metal , very impressive machine!

Very cool fighter and interceptor

Love the cowl

Why are you saying Beau - fud , instead of Beaufort ?

Showing us quite a few shots of the Macchi C200 kind of makes this look like poor research and execution. "Generality is the nemesis of all art".

Post WW1 biplanes ( Hawker, Gloster,Fiat,Curtiss,Grumman,Polikarpov,Fairey Swordfish,& many more…) are the coolest,manliest aeroplanes extant. Cooler even but not by much than WW2 piston fighters in my humble opinion.

How come all infamous people are German?

thank you for going after the lesser known aircraft. your mentioning of the Ju 87 brought to my mind the Ju 86. have you any thoughts about covering it?

Sometimes simple is better.

And now eighty years later air forces are returning to the idea of a light close support aircraft with armed Embraer and Pilatus offerings.

Bit of a brute to look at but I always quite liked it's lines. Amazing to think that some of the pilots flying these birds in Spain just before the start of WW2 were flying jets by the end of hostilities.

Its superpower was that it could take off and land from small, muddy fields. Possibly something the Luftwaffe had never considered before ordering.

Sorry for the late post. The real world was being difficult. But please enjoy one of my now favourite aircraft. I loved finding out more about the 123. And a big thank you for 2000 subscribers!! 🎉

One of my favourite planes ever since I made the Air fix kit as a kid.

Sturdy looking, and quite fast and well-armed for a mid-30's biplane. You've got to admire the pilots flying them with modern fighters on the opposing side -- and with the open cockpits during winters on the Eastern Front.

A rugged beauty!😊

A pretty bird!!

Great video