Hitler’s Last Ditch SS Interceptor; The Junkers Klf 255
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- When a German aerodynamic expert saw that Allied airpower was shredding the Luftwaffe, he came up with a novel solution - a rocket interceptor launched from a rail cart.
And the idea caught the attention of Hitler himself, which led to this remarkable aircraft, the Junkers Klf 255, first flying on the 1st of April, 1945.
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You neglected to mention the integral R2D2 unit. Obviously an early model with some reliability issues.
R1A1 unit, R2D2 wasn't produced until a long long time ago
@Aqua Fyre not to mention the axuliry R5-D4 motor that had a bad motivator which exploded.
Poor droids always ignored and underappreciated.
It crashed because it lacked an astromech of any type at all.
The Germans had trouble getting it to stop saying BEEP Hitler
Oh bloody hell...I just realized today is April 1.
I originally thought this was legit and new-to-me.
But upon further digging?
It appears to be an April Fools joke begun in 1973 by a French publication, 'Fana de l'Aviation'.
Good one, Ed.
☮
French? That explains why it’s a ‘canard’. A term also used to refer to a hoax. 😁
Well, shit. Got me.
Having 'bricked', or rather boxed, up the bathroom doorway with boxes whilst my wife was having a shower I was in fact aware of todays date and - knowing Ed - I feel suitably mistrustful.
*So in the still pervading sprirt of paranoid cynicism* I decided to check this 'Fana de l'Aviation' tale of the Junkers Klf 255 thinking 'yaeh - right'.
Bgrme HE'S RIGHT they really did! 🙄
Poor old Froggies - Way under appreciated and quite undeservedly
(Except that bstrd cafe owner once)
@@xanten69excellent knowledge of French... Thank you for sharing!
So the pilot kicked in the boosters and it crashed in the neighboring woods……
Maybe the pilot got it right, better to die flying a prototype then being sent to Berlin to fight the Russians using sticks and stones….
Wether or not it’s a April fools joke, I have to admit it’s a sleek looking aircraft and looks plausible.
Happy April 1st everyone, nice one Ed!
😁
@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters You got me for a moment, there,
@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters with this thing being designed by someone with such an odd name,even by German standards,how could it not fail....obviously its an april fools joke but you did have me fooled at the start.nice 1 Ed.👍👍👍
@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters it was actually designed,built and flown by Buster Crabbe in the 1930s Flash Gordon tv series.🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a good thing these comments are here because it's not April 1st anymore and we can still watch the video.
The Klagenfurt Klf-255 prototype was a funny April Fools Day joke of the "Fana de l'Aviation" magazine, issue #43. Happy April's Fool Day to viewers and, of course, Mr. Ed Nash. Amazing channel!!!!
The KLF is gonna move you.. :)
Well said, Bullgrim!
Nice work, THG XD
They're justified and they're ancient, and they drive an ice cream van. All bound for mu mu land
Mu mu land? Is that where you live, must be lib, believe any lie
Designed with help from the Justified Ancients of Moo Moo no doubt. Almost had me there Ed, happy April 1st 😂😂
Bravo!
Which way is the last train to trans central?
having deleted the back catalog of design information, crashed into the woods burning up at a cost of 1 million quid.
@@thelandofnod123 Where's their ice cream van?
@@raypurchase801 might have to ask Tammy Wynette.
That STILL blows my mind, a KLF - Tammy Wynette colab. When it was released I was like “wait, what?”
You had me going for awhile. However, things didn't start to add up until I realized what day it is. On the other hand, if someone had come up with that idea, Hitler would have approved it, if it was turned into a bomber.
Snailbomber *(cough)* ... Schnellbomber.
Had me going until I saw your comment! 😊
If he hadn't pointed out that it was April 1st when he released the video, I would have bought it. Only then did I scroll down to see the date and then this comment. Ed got me good 3 weeks later with this one!
Helmut Von Klagenfert... lmfao!
What's brilliant about this is that the last ditch German wunderwaffen were so ludicrous that this was almost plausible... I mean, with the plane fueled with hypergolic rocket fuel, to the bizarre vtol proto-helicopters... who knows?
This almost makes more sense than some other Wunderwaffe concepts. Well done!
Ed - you had me wondering for about a minute - and then Fireball XL5 came into my head - that's when I remembered the date. Great stuff!
Every detail is so damn plausible for the way Germany operated at the end of the war. Genius work, Ed! The grainy photos are perfect - I suppose they were created by that French magazine. The only thing that gave me pause was the launch rate of 3 per minute.
actually that was one that didn't, as I envisioned several 'readied carriages' seated on the same track. Roll one, (pause) roll next once the first reaches 3/4s of the way to launch.
The one other thing that confuses me is how it lands after a flight, as that was never mentioned.
Sounds completely authentic. Nice gag, bro.
Nice one Ed. You did mention that the proposed KLF 255 pilots would be selected from the SS. My understanding was that, additionally these pilots were to be small in stature and light in weight to help maximise perfomance of the aircraft. Himmlers intention was to select and train members of the SS Gerechtfertigte Alte von Mu (SS Jockey Club) as pilots for the KLF.
Whereas the minimum height requirement in the SS was 5'11", the maximum acceptable height of SS KLF 255 pilots was 5'1".
Fully justified decision.
No worries.. Call Hanna Reitsch
You had me up to the concept of rails being easy to repair. The USAAF could just have dropped a leaf in the general area to render the concept useless.
Actually, rails are far easier to fix than roads.
@@killerkirbydude It's supposed to be a humorous reference to a frequent excuse for problems running trains in the UK: leaves on the line. Or the wrong sort of snow. Or, well, anything really.
@@wbertie2604 We have that in Germany as well. The Four Horsemen according to Deutsche Bahn (the national German railway company)?
Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
@@wbertie2604... just leaf it alone.
Fascinating aircraft 👍
They would have pulled some serious G forces !
You could do with a short intro mate...
Klagenfurt ? Trumpet Fart ? 😂
Considering how wacky some of the German designs were near the end of the war, this could actually pass for a real aircraft if not for the date today 😂
Bravo, sir
Yes, notice the “canards,” used by several aircraft designs today.
The Me163 could be considered a April Fool's joke, unless you happened to be the pilot, ordered to fly one.
@@michaelmoorrees3585... "would you like some T-Stoff or Z-Stoff as your in flight beverage, Mein Herr? Perhaps a mixed drink?"
@@1954shadow, I'm going to use the word "canard" as a derogatory noun from now on.
@@warpartyattheoutpost4987 Bwahahaha!
Your good Ed allmost brought It!
Although there were many similar proyects floating around during the last months of the war.😊
I’ve never seen one of your videos this early after they’ve been uploaded! Keep up the good work.
Despite being fearful of airfields Klagenfurt eventually had one named after him.
Blows my mind that even as I consider myself an armchair expert on the majority of ww1 and 2 weaponry and vehicles. I still end up learning about things I had never once heard of.
First .....
of April?
Idiot
@@oskarrunhaar6607 He might know airplanes, but his calendar knowledge is still lacking :D
I work overnights didn't even occur to me that it was the 1st now 🤣
@@timbrwolf1121, I hear that! I was working overtime when 9/11 happened and didn't find out about it until the next day.
As usual , close but no cigar . But what an advanced aircraft and yet again Ed , a first for me. Thanks
It's Fireball XL5 !!!
You caught me fair and square. I believed it until I realised what day this is. Congratulations to you and to the French magazine.
Ed, you did such a good job with this that I can see into the future of model manufacturing that one of the model makers will bring a kit out in the near future. So many of Germany's "Wonder Weapons " of the last year of war have been made into kit form that if the war had lasted into 1946, we might have seen them as real objects.
Someone has beaten you too it fantastic-plastic.com/JunkersKLF225Catalog.htm
The Klagenfurt Klf-255 prototype was a funny April Fools Day joke of the "Fana de l'Aviation" magazine, issue #43
I was all in until I opened the comments halfway through. Got me.
OK, at first I was like "Man, how does Ed find these obscure planes I've never heard of." But then he leaned a bit too hard on today's date. Nice one, Ed. 😄
For a second you had me believing this, well done! A good April Fools joke. The Fireball XL5 shape gave it away.
Steve von Zodiac.
Not fair. Some of Germany's last ditch efforts were so sci-fi that this is believable. Best kind of April Fool's.
Well done Ed. I loved a bit of KLF back in the day......Rave On....
Another nice one Ed, though I have a lot of books with last ditch German designs and prototypes, this one is new for me. Thanks a lot for sharing and keep up your good work!! Greetz from Groningen 🇳🇱
78 years ago today, April 1st. Makes ya think.
@@DavidOfWhitehills remarkable designs need remarkable dates
Damn it..... I was fooled😂 I did wonder why I hadn't ever heard of it before. Got to admit the design looks cool tho.
A bit Fireball XL5.
@@ajivins1... I kinda want to 3D print one.
me too
Given the use of KLF you should have suggested the engine was one based on the one designed to run on pulverised coal (which was real) but redesigned to run on burning RM100 notes :).
Thumbs up for the humour and the effort of making that last picture of the plane going down to its ultimate demise. That one I have never seen before (or was it included in the original French magazine article?).
The original Fireball XL5, maybe Gerry Anderson got the idea from this? Then again due to the date, it could be the other way round? My version of Fireball in the mid-sixties was launched with a heavy rubber band!
I have never heard of this one, I am amazed 😮
Euh dude... maybe check the date?
55 seconds...it took me 55 seconds before I realised what the day is, I think thats too long. My hat off to you sir!
The three per minute launch rate and the _screaming_ winch payout gave me pause. The ending told me why. Good one! 😆
I don't understand how you're able to fool me EVERY April 1st. 😂
Very good-It was fun to devise a cross between Fireball XL-5 and a Dan Dare Rocket ship.
Excellent April Fool--it really had me until you dropped the hint about the date, though I was wondering why it was a Klf 255 not a Ju 255.
Same reason why the 152 was a Ta and not a FW.
@@MothaLuva... I'm disappointed by the lack of Blohm&Voss.
@@warpartyattheoutpost4987 I’m confident you’ll get over it.
You got me good, Ed !
I could just picture all the bigwigs smiling and slapping each other on the back, only to have their new "wonderwaffen" crash and burn.
If I'm right this plane must be the Grandfather of Fireball XL5
Rocket interceptor, ... launching out of a cave, ... along a rail.
How "Thunderbirds" is that!?
Ummm No this is actually a smart idea… the Ba349 Natter was the April fools joke
AND it looks like the 'International Rescue mole' ... ❤
Fireball XL5? I so hoped that his was real and that I had learned something new. However I just relearned how gullible I am! Happy April 1st all😊
Last plane to transcentral? 😉
All aboard all aboard, whoa oh
Nazi vengeance of moo moo
I know what u r meaning.
That’s right. Took it in 1993.
Hail Eris, Kalisti!!
It looks like something out of the *Blake and Mortimer* comic books by Edgar P. Jacobs.
Maybe that's where the inspiration came from?
Great looking plane.
Look at Gerry Anderson's 'Fireball XL5'?
I came on RUclips this morning looking for a few good jokes to start my April 1. Ed, you did not disappoint. Perfectly, believably told story in your usual fine and thorough style. 😆
Ed never fails to deliver. Cometh the date, cometh the prankster 😂
The launch method sounds like the launch sequence from Battlestar Galactica and various other sci-fi properties where a fighter or ship is launched through a tube.
That was my first thought as well.
@@KJsProjects, morning, Starbuck. What do you hear?
@@warpartyattheoutpost4987 Nothing but the rain.
@@KJsProjects, grab your gun and bring the cat in.
Are there steam tubes, CCTV and high end concubines involved?
This episode is made really exceptional by the fact that so MANY equally weird projects WERE looked at by the Germans, that one was unsure at first, even on April 1, that this was a joke! Brilliantly done!
Well done Ed, you certainly had me going until I remembered the date 😂
Happy someone reminded of the date.
Otherwise quite plausible and impressive.
Like many, I was completely suckered by this. Well played Ed, well played sir.
Jets need suckers, rockets don't.
Not yet seen the video, but the title _à la_ History Channel made me burst out laughing!
Wow I consider my self well educated on WW2 aircraft but had no knowledge of this one. Cool, thank you for the brief.
Smashing!
An excellent equivalent to Forgotten Weapons’ video released on the 1 April some years ago, covering a pretty unknown French secret weapon of the XIXth century.
Someone's been watching Fireball XL5. Well you're not 'Fooling' me. Anyway, great fun Ed. Thanks
Glad someone else spotted that.
@@johnp8131 We're showing our age John
Good un Ed!
Brilliant April Fools day video almost got me with this one
I'm amazed that he can keep a straight voice 😀
4:11...looks like a rocket-powered Ascender.
Well played, Ed!
Propulsion was supposed to have been supplied by a Walter HWK ... almost sounded like James Bond's firearm, Walther PPK. I was skeptical, so I checked and found that part existed and was indeed plausible.
Ah, you got me. The kicker was when I couldn't find any R/C videos.
On behalve of International Resque I often used this device in the sixties. We called it The Mole.
Nailed us! For whatever it is worth, my family drove a NASH in the 1950s which was also equipped with solid rocket booster overdrive.... food 4 thought 😎
Too good. Will be in documentaries, websites, RUclips videos and games very soon.
You had me for 2 minutes. Maybe 3. But I am glad you saved a conjured German test pilot from a pointless firey end.
Those damn solids again. Nice video, thanks. This reminds me of Fireball XL5.
At 2:17 I realized, the tyre seen on the left side looked somewhat looked strange lit. That gave it away. Besides the fact I've never heard of it, of course... Otherwise very well made and convincing.
Justified and Ancient is a great description.
You got me! It isn't April any more and my guard was down.
Had me going....up until about 1 minuet in, I paused and decided to read the comments. I was looking to see why I have never heard of this plane. NOT a historian, but love to read and watch stories about WW2 planes.
I can now finish watching.
;)
Thanks Ed for the chuckles
Amazing work on the "photos".
Great video! I have never heard of this aircraft. KLF 255...
Just make sure to check the date the video released 😉
What an absolutely great and interesting video about this white rhino of an airplane I have never heard of.Have a good one Mr.Nash.
Klf-255 prototype was a funny April Fools Day joke of the "Fana de l'Aviation" magazine.
This was a good one…on….April 1st…😊😄😄😆🤣😆😁 Good photo montage indeed 👍👍
Thank god for the comments section, I was starting to think about building a model of this thing.
A story for this special day!
Always learn something new from Mr. Nash. 👍
Lol!
So the name and town made me think of the Ich Lüge bullets in the Heathers. Bravo.
Considering the similar fate of the Bachem Ba 349 Natter, this story could have been plausible.
That's one nice looking Aprilsfool.
It really looks like a French aviation enthusiast, who knew a lot of Luftwaffe project sketches and all the French, post war, high speed research fooled around with a pack of Natter boosters👍
Splendid way to start the new month 😆
I love this, on all levels,
Thank you.
The thumbnail reminded me of Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5😂. Nice one
The Luftfhartfollfleigerministiiums finest concept boombrocketsmisilebangun that never quite made it! brilliant!😂👍🏼
An excellent history of this obscure aircraft Mr Nash! I own the deed to the Brooklyn Bridge, would you like to buy it???
Now I know where Gerry Anderson got idea for fireball xl5.
I cracked up. Well done, tho I would have called it the AFD 023
I had only started watching when I wrote the below... 2:26 in, it is clear... Well Done Ed !!
It looks as if the cannards are fixed to the glazed cockpit; and I was wondering how on earth that would work. Then you mentioned the date. Good one! You had me going right up until then.
Thanks from France ! This plane comes from Le fanatique de l'aviation first april subject !
I got nearly 30 seconds in before the pfennig dropped! Nice one Ed :)
Thanks Ed....
Shoe🇺🇸
You finally show me something i didnt know about and it turns out to be an april fools that you tube edited from my feed for over a year.
I'm currently watching this on July 28th, year not important, and had no idea this was a joke until you mentioned the date.
Had me until you said first flight was 75 years ago today... Well done.
78 years
I ate five minutes of it before the ‘anti-bait’ was served. It flew for the first time otd 78 years ago. Without that I would have engulfed all of it without suspecting anything. WELL DONE 🎉