The Rare B-29 Exterminator That Shocked the US
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- It's 1942. While the world is engulfed in war, a different kind of battle is about to unfold in a hidden corner of the Pacific. On a secluded Japanese airfield, five aircraft await: an imported German Messerschmitt Bf 109E, a captured American Curtiss P-40E, and three Japanese models- the Ki-43, Ki-44-I, and the newcomer, Ki-61.
Kawasaki's latest creation, the Ki-61 Hien, was Japan’s first-ever model with a liquid-cooled inverted V engine. So unique is its design that Allied intelligence, mistaking it for a European model, had already dubbed it "Tony."
While Kawasaki is confident in their groundbreaking design, top commanders at the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Headquarters remain skeptical. This competition is set to challenge their doubts.
As engines ignite, the sky transforms into an aerial arena. One by one, the aircraft leaps into the air, their pilots pushing machines to their limits. The Ki-61, powered by its 1,175 horsepower engine, begins to outclimb, outmaneuver, and outpace the other models in a series of tests.
With this, the doubt on the officers' faces slowly gives way to outright awe.
Soon after, the Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien would be deployed throughout the Pacific Theater. The most un-Japanese-looking fighter was ready to take the skies by storm.
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My Grandfather was with 6th Bomb Group flying out of Tinian. He was Flight engineer on Flak Ally Sally B-29 #53 6th Bomb Group. I remember him telling me how happy he was when the Marines took Iwo Jima. Them taking that Airfield gave the B-29 crews a bingo strip 1/2 way back from Tokyo to put down on instead of ditching in the sea and praying for the best. I Also remember him speaking of the Bravery/Audacity of the Japanese pilots. His Name was Charles (Doc) Dougherty. You can google the aircraft,there are lots of cool pics of the Bird and crew! Great vid and thanks for the memories my friend. Respect and honor them,there will never be another generation like them. Keep these brave Americans story’s alive for future generations! Best Regards from Ft. Pierce Florida everyone. Let Freedom Ring!
Don’t sell the current kids short. There are plenty of guts in this generation that’s been fighting the so-called “War on Terror “.
@@shawnmartin5738No Disrespect intended! Hooah! Our Grandfathers were not subjected to the same ROE. As us! I Have flight logs of incendiaries being dropped on population centers for example! I feel ya Brother.
@@shawnmartin5738war on terror😂😂😂 thought you backed Netanyahu
@@helmandtigers ????? What are you talking about?
I'm glad to hear both US and Australian aircraft mentioned. Australians often get overlooked in military matters when it comes to WW II
..... Australians often get overlooked in military matters when it comes to WW II .....
Make that, "ANZACS." for the Kiwis, (one of whom -- and as definitively as Nelson won Trafalgar) single-handedly won the Battle of Britain) are also often overlooked. Especially by "the Poms." (Limeys) The Aussies somewhat spectacularly turned the Germans 180-degrees at Tobruk and sent the barstewards packing and as decisively turned the Japanese through 180 degrees at Milne Bay.😎
You all participated in Coral Sea among others, you aren't forgotten
@@BrianRichardAllen First successes against the Japanese in the Pacific on the ground and in the air were by Australia in defense of Port Moresby. That was no small feat by the green pilots of the RAAF 75th Squadron in denying air superiority to the Aces loaded combat veteran land based pilots of the Imperial Japanese Navy out of Rabaul.
A beautiful aircraft - I have been fascinated by it since I built a model of one, sixty years ago!
I built the Revell 1/72 Tony in 1969, and it was one of my first good builds! I still have that model today. I consider this aircraft as one of my favorites!🛩️😊😎
Yup, a stunningly beautiful plane
Both my older and younger uncles on my mom's side were in that 8th ARMY AIR FORCE BOMB WING and 100th GROUP!! The older one had all his uniform shirts with the EIGHT BALL SHOULDER PATCHES and his SHEEPSKIN LINED CAP AND JACKET with GLOVES inside a separate closet all cleaned and pressed ready to go!! BIG PAINTED PICTURE OF B-17S in FLIGHT FORMATION taking off at DAWN HUNG in PROMINENT SPOT on the LIVING ROOM WALL like FOREVER until he died SITTING IN HIS CHAIR FACING IT at an ADVANCED AGE as he had everyday. He was also wearing his GLOVES to keep his hands warm all the time. Looked and sounded AMAZING LIKE "LUCKY JOE" with a TALL FRAME, STRONG SKULL/JAW and DEEP BASS VOICE that had rails and rattles. More 8th AAF AIRMEN died in WW2 than all the MARINES in total (OVER 45,000) BURNING UP, CRASHING, BLOWING UP, SHOT UP, SHREDDED BY FLAK and/or FREEZING/CHOKING ON THEIR OWN VOMIT IN THEIR OXYGEN MASKS!! TRULY HELL at 30 THOUSAND FEET but UNSWERVINGLY VALIANT!! GLAD JOE GOT TO PUT HIS STORY DOWN for POSTERITY!! My younger uncle was in the fighters. Saw a picture of him sitting on the wing of a P51 EMBLAZONED with a CHECKERBOARD PATTERN on the FUSELAGE and TAIL FINS/RUDDERS. GUESS that was for the GROUP ID!! BOTH SUFFERED LONG TERM PTSD BUT NEVER WANTED TO TALK ABOUT IT!! Younger uncle would stand over the stove TURNING HIS FACE SIDE TO SIDE every time we saw him to WARM IT no matter if it was BLAZING HOT SUMMER!! We kids just thought he was WEIRD. LITTLE DID WE REALIZE!! GOD BLESS THEIR HEROIC SOULS and PRAISE THEIR SACRIFICE!! I served in the modern AIR FORCE because I REVERED their HONOR and BRAVERY!! GOD BLESS THEM ALL!!
The amount of original footage you find for these things always astounds me
Interesting but a not small part of clips are, well known, images of Regia Aeronautica Macchi C202 and C200 clips in N. Africa and Italy... Easily recognizables by general configuration, different canopy, vertical planes, Piaggo propeller details, white recognition fuselage bands etc.
Just because it black and white and features aircraft in flight does not mean it's actual "authentic" footage of the plane he is talking about...quite the opposite actually, Mr.Dark uses whatever "stock footage" he can find. He is also well known for his clickbait titles and thumbnails and for using "footage" from old movies as well as from video games. For a person who is well versed (such as me) in the types of subject material that he likes to make "quickie" videos about, they are a joke and each episode is riddled with factual errors, footage that is not even remotely close to what he's talking about and mispronounced common words. I literally watch these for the comedic value. If you actually want to learn something, find another channel!!!
@@rogergoodman8665I’m surprised he’s not using AI to generate his footage
@@artnull13 : He probably will be in the future!!! I reached my bullcrap limit yesterday with Mr. Dark and un-subscribed from ALL of the Dark channels including Dark 5 that I thought used to be his best channel. His using the new AI voice was the final straw for me.
@@rogergoodman8665 I’ve noticed he’s used AI clickbait thumbnails recently - you’re right though there are other better channels that do this type of content accurately
The Db601 variant that Japan bought a license for was the single stage supercharged one and would've lacked performance at the B29s optimum altitude. Ki 61s were initially ferried to Wewak and the numbers lost on just that journey resulted in a mix of Ki43s and Ki 61s. It was the crankshaft and block mains that gave trouble to the replacements to machinists that had been drafted during the 2nd Sino Japanese War in grinding journals and line boring mains in the untypically long V12 powerplant.
The Ki100 was a Tony fitted with a Mitsubishi Kensai radial that was lighter and more powerful resulting in an even better aircraft as designed but it rarely reached anything approaching it's potential in operation due shortages of materials like nickel used in armor, high octane fuel and wartime workmanship by a relatively unskilled replacement workforce. There was a directive in the F6F pilot manual to avoid leaving the fight with Ki 61s in a dive.
I'll add that going level might've been your best bet against Ki 61s or 100s but leading or following in an F6F vertically with a well built, maintained and piloted Ki 100, such as there were in '45, might be questionable. . . Imo. It's not a Zeke or an Oscar.
Good info. Thank you!
every german inline engine in fighters had a single variable supercharger, it wasn't as powerfull on higher altitudes compared to multistaged engines from the allies but was fast enough to still get to the bombers, amerika was a bit arrogant by bombing a mid altitude wich mad it easier for japanese engines, the ki100 was a beast tough
Didn't the US bomb Japan and then after a short time decided the jetstream made the high alt stuff wildly innacurate so they switched to bombing from 10000 feet or so ?
@@mikemessing5053 Incindiaries and mostly at night. Not sure of the altitude exactly but that sounds about right. Fighters based at Kyushu would have an opportunity to attack the B29s approach during daylight. When they were still bombing at high altitude I know that Ki 84s based at Okinawa would chase down stragglers on their way back to Saipan or Tinian. Overheated R3350s or engine fires were the primary source of problems that would make a B29 lose altitude returning from a mission.
@@vaerenbergh The Db601 came in two variants and the earliest was a gear driven single speed, single stage, not the one listed as hydraulic driven. That is the variant that Aichi and Kawasaki built. That particular "variable" method was new to me though. I had assumed the next supercharger was a two stage. So thanks for replying.
My grandfather was bombardier on plane #11 (Staff Sergeant William Birch). His target was the Yokohama factory. He passed in 2007.
I never thought I would see this plane in one of your videos but I’m glad I did
I don't comment on videos very often but your series is the most informative I have come across. I had never come across this model mentioned before, well done and thank you from Wales UK.
A little sidenote: if Ki-61 has a small triangular side window at the lower front part of the canopy, it is an earlier version - Ki-61-1 (you can clearly see it at 00:37). Later version, Ki-61-2 had no such window and normally it was blacked out ( 01:20 is an example). Thank you for the video!
On Okinawa, there were several, small, concrete hangars for the Tony fighter. They were well camouflaged by being covered with dirt growing weeds etc.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
This aircraft suffered from extremely variable engine quality and most couldn’t get near the B-29's ceiling.
The B-29 was its own worst enemy, of the 414 lost against Japan, only 147 were brought down by enemy action, the rest either caught fire or crashed. Almost a 2 to 1 loss ratio due to self owning itself.
Weirdly, it was the Soviets that solved the overheating and engine fire issues suffered by the B-29 when they reversed engineer the ones that were forced divert into Soviet territory to make an emergency landing due to battle damage or whatever.
The Soviets discovered that the air cooling system for the Wright Duplex-Cyclone need a redesigned cowing with additional cooling flaps which the incorporated in their Tupolev Tu-4 copy of the B-29. It apparently solved the problem.
The aircraft also suffered from genetically faulty pilots that could never measure up.
@@tropicthndr Exactly what are you trying to say here?
@@gumpyoldbugger69446:03
@@gumpyoldbugger6944 that sesign flaw cause untolled suffering and death amongst our air crews
Exterminated the B-29, eh? Not quite.
@@MrKentaroMotoPI Takeo Doi is my favorite Japanese aero designer but to be real Curtis Wright's management exterminated more B29s.
When your genetically born messed up and can’t fly, fall back to ramming.
Some unrestrained hyperbole & enthusiasm in this vid...
The DB601 engine was a low key powerhouse for the axis, allowing some of the best fighter designs to keep pace.
totally agree gemany produced it and both japan and italy used it it some formidable fighters i would say it should be considered on par with the impact the merlin engine had on the war
Well, in early 1943 it was becoming kinda obsolete. Also, Japanese tended to put more and more armament on their planes, making them heavier. Soviets, who also struggled with inline engines, tended to go other way around, thus maximally clean and small Yak-3.
@@aleksazunjic9672 soviets struggled with everything due to mostly forced labor poor working conditions and little food resulting in poor quality control
@@paktahn Nope. They simply did not have technological know-how for certain things. USSR was industrializing rapidly, but in some areas they were behind others.
@@aleksazunjic9672 it is fairly well documented that quality control was a big issue for soviets during ww2 the t34 tanks had issues with the armor being improperly hardened along with bad welds and numerous engine issues right off of the assembly line their brand new aircraft had issues with engines being constructed so poorly that they lacked enough power to get airborne all of these are quality control issues and nothing to do with lacking in technology
It looks almost like the Heinkel 100.
I've always been a Kawasaki fan. I love their dirt bikes and their engines are just as good as a Hondas motorcycle engine if not better...
I rode a KLR650 for many years, took a few multistate roadtrips. Great bike. Sadly discontinued, as it was a carb bike.
ive rode all the brands. honda CB series is boss.
This engine was plagued by poor design,the main bearings were constantly burning out, and when the US submarines cut the supplies from Germany the 20mm Mauser cannons which this aircraft was armed with were useless, because the shells were electricity primed and the Japanese ammunition industry did not have capacity to manufacturer
I miss my kx125 😢
Kawasaki made some very good engines, but also some lemons . Honda has not missed a step
Several hundred hybrid versions of the Tony, fitted with radial engines called the Ki-100, were built by Kawasaki in 1945. In spite of the mismatch of air frame and powerplant, it proved to be a successful fighter design but it was so new and unknown that it never gained an allied nickname, frequently being mistaken for a Frank or a George in combat. It wasn't until after the war when examples were found abandoned at bombed out Japanese airfields that the "Radial Tony" was finally identified as a unique type.
Fascinating video thank you. Makes me realize it was a world war and not just fought over Europe.
Once we had air cover, And newer aircraft. The party was over.
Not Too Bad, Reminds Me Of The Heinkel He-112. Thank You.
Are there any of them left?
How the heck would the Doolittle raid learn all this info?
He studys the simplicity of sience and Fisichella like gravity and understands the desire better to add to it
@@markkramer5412 huh???
To answer the question if Ki 61 was developped from He 100 or Bf 109. Fact is some of the young Kawasaki engineers have worked with "Bloom & Voss" for a while. Several basic design features for modern stressed skin aircaft B&V has developped before the war can be find with the hien fighter.
@@aurosan750AU Evan early in this century one of the P38 pilots in the 475th out of New Guinea interviewed still thinks they were Bf 109s. They didn't even look like 109s.
Plane was based on Ha-40, which is license built German DB-601 engine. This engine was fine for 1941 or 1942, but in early 1943 it was becoming a bit obsolete . Japanese did experiment with DB-605 (Ha-140) but could not get in serial production. This is reminiscent to Soviet struggles with their effort to replace Klimov M-105 with M-107. However, Soviets as war progressed tended to lighten their planes (culmination of effort was Yak-3). Japanese had to add more and more powerful guns, thus making Ki-61 even less nimble.
This is a pretty aircraft.
beautiful warplane 🤩
I had just recently watched a documentary about the Germans developing a special airwing for using 109s to ram B-17s and B-24. But they concluded that ramming the bombers was not very effective bc they were losing experienced pilots and a fighter for each bomber they destroyed. I suppose taking out one B-29 for each KI-61 seemed more worthwhile bc the KI-61 gave their pilots a better chance of surviving the ramming.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty certain they were using Focke-Wulf FW 190s for that
Ki-45 was the USAAF B-29 truly feared.
I had a model of one of these as a kid, built the model, broke it the next day. Typical boy of the 60s and 70s.
I bet it broke against a skulking wall in a dogfight battle!😎
For once the title and thumbnail aren’t complete clickbait. Nice.
This is a great channel.
For the thumbnail… That is until you realize its a Caudron Renault CR.714 and not a Ki-61…
Dont F with Tony bro
@@hars5410 You mean the thumbnail that obviously shows a ki 61, they look nothing alike
Edit: a new RUclips feature allows a channel to use multiple thumbnails to gauge how effective they are, it shows different thumbnails to different people. The thumbnail of a ki-61 with a yellow rising sun flying through the air was apparently less effective than the thumbnail of a Renault CR.714 disassembled on the ground with multiple German officers standing on it, probably due to the big red circle
@kennyxkazuki713 I honestly cannot for the sake of me tell if you’re being sarcastic or genuine…
If you’re being genuine, look at the air intake below the spinner, or the gun pods below the wings (the humps with 2 holes each)
Your research is Amazing!
He received a second bukosho. Dangimas gozaimasu
In 1980, I was reading a book I checked out of my school library. It mentioned an encounter with an Me-109 in the Pacific theater of the war as America pushing towards Japan. The book if I recall was written around 1947(?). This was pre-internet of course so I couldn't find any more information about 109's in the Pacific. Seeing this now makes sense of what the pilot who saw it reported.
Kawasaki make the fastest motorcycles on the planet, today.
Their H2R holds the world's record @ 249 MPH.
They also pioneered bullet trains in the 1960s.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries was into a wide variety of products including ship building.
Historical Kawaski makes fast as hell motorcycles that turned to shit, just like the Ki-61. I guess somethings do not change.
@@a.b.2849 My ZH2 has 40K miles on it, and makes 218 RWHP...reliably. My '07 ZX14R has 63K on it and I still track day it.
@@whalesong999 350 BHP jet skis, helicopters, commercial planes, transport planes, fighter jets, subway trains(made in Nebraska), bullet trains, cargo ships, containers, geo-thermal plants, satellite parts, generators, small engines, etc. etc., even components on the ISS.
So what's your point ??
The first 100 produced, carried 20mm mg 151 Mauser cannons. Then, when stocks ran out, the HO5 cannon. The Tony was subject to engine failures to numerous to go into. The "accidental" B29 killer was the Ki100.
I was pretty sure those planes in the Doo Little raid were B25 Mitchell bombers not B29s lol
Never heard of it until now. Well done!
You might want to look around for more information on the Ki-61. I've known about it since I was a school boy and I'm in my early sixties. It isn't that obscure.
Since when did engines “ignite”?
Gorgeous Aircraft!
Seems there were problems with the ball bearings quality.
It was a good plane. It is just very hard to find anything written about the plane. I have read a few things here and there, but I did not know it was developed sooner than 1944. Thank You for the History lesson.
Had a model of one of these in the early 70s as a kid. It came in a two airplanes in a single box series. As I recall the Kawasaki Hien came with a P-47 Thunderbolt. I'm doubtful that those two planes saw each other in combat.
For the most part, a liquid cooled aircraft engine is easier to turbocharge, and having a lower frontal area as well. In contrast the FW 190 and it's counterparts were liquid cooled with a round radiator that made it appear to be a radial engine. In contrast, a true turbojet engine is quite efficient at altitude. Turbofans dominate these days simply because of the time spent in takeoff and climb. The bypass feature makes the less efficient fan less a factor.
Dear Team, please share a documentary on Kawasaki Ki 45 Toryu
Toni was a German Henkel KR-100 design and used the same DB-601 Engine as the ME-109
Never saw that footage of the PBY Catalina's under attack.
An inverted V-12 liquid-cooled engine? Sounds a lot like the ME109.
Amazing heroics on both sides😮
The Macchi C202 Folgore ( Lightening) fighter was also powered by a Daimler Benz 601 engine and resembles the Ki61.
What were the advantages of an inverted-V engine? Is it the lower CG? I would imagine it made the oiling of the main bearings problematic.
Dry sump with high pressure lubrication. It gave room for guns and lowered the exhaust flame visible at night. (Same as Bf 109.)
@@tonyduncan9852 also easier to maintain the engine
both wrong, gets the engine output on the prop centerline ie skip a geabox - as you can see they also mounted the engine lower than typical european fighters because they wanted guns over the engine
Mains are not splash oiled, they're pressurized. Aircraft/motorcycles/race cars using dry sump oil systems do so because there is thus no need for a bulky sump as on ground vehicle engines.
"B-29 exterminador" and the thumbnail show German Soldiers and a Franch crashed plane...
I have a repetitive complaint that many crews were lost to B29 defects. Curtis wright got the contract using a magnesium crankase so that the power to weight ration of JUST the engine was some number
For a few less bombs, there could have had an engine that did not burn through the main spar in 30 seconds. Never resolved cowl flaps and heating meant that the 29s often could not hold formation and flew in trail. Compare that to the Dauntless, meant to be pilot friendy, and to win a war, not just the contract
Why is the thumbnail a clapped out air cooled baguette 😂
The Henkel HE100 really looks like this
I wonder if perhaps some inspiration was taken from the He-100 since the Japanese purchased 3 He-100's with the intention of license building them.
not really the layout an profile of the k1-61 is closer to a bf 109 which is what the allies who first encountered it mistook it for
The logo on the large hangar door (3:34) has resurfaced as the new Kawasaki powersports logo...what is old is new again...
That KI-61 looks a heck of a lot like a Messerschmitt.
It was good, I don't remember it being no superstar, B 29 beater
When they used to pass a tobacco cigarette among each other.
Hope there are some samples existing in museums.
The pic on the page looks more like a Miles Master British fighter
Would not like to have been a crewman on one of those B-29s being shot down (or rammed down) over Japan. I suspect the Japanese treated any surviving B-29 crew members very harshly.
Scorched earth tactics are terrifying!
It is interesting that Kawasaki had only license rights for the IJAAF. The Aichi concern had the rights for the IJNAF and the two concerns could not consult with each other.
You have one of the absolute best sites on RUclips. Well done, sir. I’ve never done the whole alert for new content until your channel. Keep it up!!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA........Surely you jest sir......read some of the more critical comments here......
Nope - Dark Skies is the youtube equivalent of a cheap tabloid newspaper like “the sun”. Clickbait thumbnails, exaggerated or inaccurate headings and a poorly researched video. It amazes me that this channel has 600k subscribers. There are real genuine quality channels like “rexs hanger”, “ed nash”, “tales of hut and hanger” to name a few. Proper channel’s with genuine thumbnails and properly researched videos. If they can do it why not this channel?
@@stephenwhelan2515 Aircraft Files is another good one.
His early work had all the issues that Dark Skies has and he was taken to task by his viewer.
Unlike Dark, he actually listened and made major changes all the while thanking everyone for their feedback stating it helps him improve his channel and work.
The only issue he still needs to work on is the use of a AI voice bot to narrated his videos.
He acknowledges and actually appologized for doing that and say he is just not confident enough in his narration skills or voice to do it himself. On the plus side, the AI voice he uses is one you don't hear often and actual works with both the subject matter and script.
Given a try, watch one of his earliest pieces of work then one of the later piece and see the changes he made.
Thank you.
Was there an advantage to having the engine inverted? Thinking about oiling system, I guess they were dry sump.
It was the best Japanese fighter of the war also it look more like the Heinkel he100 than the mc202
too bad they couldn't make enough engines, or luckily they couldn't for them as the extra airframes became ki-100
...en el video no se menciona que la modificación con motor radial Ki-100, se convirtió en uno de los mejores cazas japoneses al final de la guerra, sino el mejor, se fabricaron solo 374 aviones...
...in the video it does not mention that the Ki-100 radial engine modification became one of the best Japanese fighters at the end of the war, if not the best, only 374 aircraft were manufactured...
I was somehow led to believe that this video was about a B-29? Well, screw this.
I watched about half this video and I can't help but ask, why a french caudron renault with a circle on the engine as the thumbnail?
staggering altitude of over 3000 feet…
Basically a Japanese version of the German BF 109.
It looks similar in many ways similar to the ME109. But it has that Japanese style added.
the real problem is that nobody made any effort to make liquid cooled radial engines.
Isn't it same explanatory why no-one bothered?
The radial engine was made to remove the use of the liquid radiator in exchange of increase drag due to the increased surface area of the engine. Would be dumb if somebody took the flaws of both configurations.
@@Minh-Tran-04 are you sure about that? Liquid cooled inline and V engines suffer from length issues where the coolant flow from front to back leads to hotter cylinders in the back. Most are not designed with parallel flow (side to side) but with front to back or back to front cooling.
A liquid cooled radial engine could easily eliminate these problems and lead to better fuel economy due to the lowered cylinder head temperatures and fuel mixture leaning permitted by this.
Front to back liquid cooled v12, means 6 cylinders per bank front to back are cooled, and the coolant gets hotter as it passes cyl 2, 3, 4, 5, and finally reaching 6. Cooling effectiveness is reduced.
Further, No drag penalties would further occur with a radial engine, ala FW-190, a circular radiator could be placed in-front of the engine or behind, and thus permit sufficient cooling, and since the fan or propellor is blowing directly into the radiator this would reduce or even eliminate overheating problems on the ground.
Yes there would be a mass increase but this would be negligible since the added cooling would be offset by the reduced weight of the engine lacking all those cooling fins etc.
Lastly, since the engine now has better cooling it could further support higher power outputs since detonation can be better avoided with lowered cylinder head temperatures.
I posit that a liquid cooled radial engine offers a better packaging situation, better performing engine, and better economy than an inline of vee type engine.
Why is there a picture of a Caudron 714 on the title of the video?
Great content
HOW can those people so close to the blasts be so unaffected by the blasts right after 4:06 James Doolittle picture and subsequent bombs representing the Tokyo raid?
The kI 100 was also a great plane.
The bike I'm riding in the Profile Photo is a 1990 Kawasaki KX100 and I'm riding it at the ACU Team Green Schoolboy National of 1990 at Wildtrax (Chippenham) (A10) nr Newmarket, UK
And, just what was so revolutionary about coolant antifreeze? It certainly wasent new!
Best aircraft the Japanese had. Certainly the best looking by far .
i bet they did not come up against the austrailian version of the mosquito
flying at 42000 feet at over 400 mph !
Looks like a modernized version of the Bf109.
No... it looks more Italian...
but but but
0:59 it is Bf 109!
Anyone remember using the Tony in PS3 game Birds of Steel ?
Why was the thumbnail a picture of German soldiers around what I think is a crashed Moraine-Saulnier aircraft (French AF) from like, 1939/40?
And these aircraft? (the Tony) I don't think it shocked too many. In fact the really shocking thing about the Tony was that late in the war when Japan didn't have many aero engines left, they put a radial engine in it (Ki-100) which was reportedly the best aircraft of the war for the Japanese. Quite surprising for what was a late war hasty mashup.
So, what's with a photo of a Caudron 714 as the title still for this video? Also why all the stock footage of Macchi MC 202s? And why guncam footage of a P47 shooting down a FW190??
Do some real research and stop with the clickbait nonsense.
Here's some Real Research: the Ki-61 was a good-lookin' bird, but not avail when really needed, and when it DID go into action, was a distinct disappointment from readiness standpoint... bitch to maintain. It was somewhat better than P-40, and faster than other Japanese fighters... it was alright, when it could fly. But Japan just couldn't produce reliable fighters with modern engines on par with r2800, and as F4U/P-47/P-38/F6F came on the scene, Ki-61 was no solution, and out-performed, out-gunned, and out-fought.
5:38 What does „Tony“ have to do with a Macchi MC 202? Folgore doesn’t even come close to Tony and even if the Veltro would have been available then, it doesn’t sound like Tony either.
To bad the Japanese like the Germans did not figure out until later in the war. Their early success could not be sustained over the extended combat. The evolution of Air combat and equipment could not be expanded.
So why is the thumb nail a photo of German troops sitting atop of a wrecked european fighter?
It’s not that way now.
@@treystephens6166 seem's like they have finally decided to listen to their viewer and have bucked up their ways.
We best keep their feet to the fire least they get lazy again.
Actually, it still showing the crashed French fighter surrounded by German troops in my feed.
@@gumpyoldbugger6944 huh 🤔 I don’t know why that is.
You would think you would instruct your pilots to try and shoot down as many B-29's as they could BEFORE executing a ramming attack.
They would of been better off putting the Warhawk engine in the plane, more HP.
Mustangs & lightenings in the percific ?
Yes, specifically the P38 because of the range, and a second engine was a plus when one engine was damaged. Many pilots were saved because of this.
But, we made one hell of a good bomb didn’t we? Lol
The Japanese ran out of pilots! They made the training so basic, their graduates were unable to effectively fly high performance aircraft,
So, a warmed over Heinkel 100 then.
Interesting video, but the narration is a bit too dramatic
Always is . . .
@@EllieMaes-Grandadwhere’s the drama???
Starting picture looks like it is wreck of French fighter Cauldron-Renault C714.
Am I right?
It probably was.....and they called out on it.....and swapped it out.
Unfortunate thumbnail pic and title yes (for a reasonable researched piece by an established blogger)
To my knowledge there are at least 3 restored KI-61s in existence - believe 1 is in flying condition (rebuilt in NZ) another being flight tested in Florida. So much design and adaptation to just become a kamikaze ramming weapon .. Crazy