I once met Hajo Herrmann in his law office in Düsseldorf, but we didn't talk about the Reichenberg because at that time I hadn't heard of it. The project is described down to the smallest detail in Hanna Reitsch's book "Fliegen mein Leben" (she named it "Selbstopfer").
Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown as well as being an, exceptional test pilot was fluent in German. He interrogated a number of key Nazis and the impressions he got are in his biography "Wings on my sleeve" (where RN /FAA wore their wings). Amongst others he "interviewed" deathcamp commandants, Herman Goerring, and Hannah Reitsch. She was a dyed in the wool unreconstructed Nazi, as well as a fine pilot. (Ironically Brown's first ever flight was in a German trainer. His first instructor was Ernst Udet ! He met also a number of other prominent Germans under interesting circumstances. All that as well as flight testing more aircraft than anyone else in history. He only counted types, so all the different Spit Mks he test flew he only counted as a single type.
@@bajablaster1 Neither does the owner I doubt, the videos you are watching are generated by Artificial Software. Punch in a few variable and voila. Ive made several sheaethead.
In the film Operation Crossbow the manned V1 is portrayed as being created simply to investigate why the unmanned version wasn't performing as expected, rather than as a weapon in its own right.
That is in at least a couple of books! Not sure where this story came from. I have heard it denounced in the past! The Germans weren't into suicide weapons.
@@brealistic3542 To be far the germans had superior technology compared to Japan and weren't as limited on fuel supplies. I think Japan's culture made plane-based suicide bombing more acceptable, but they also had limited options to defend themselves against the US's capability to carry put bombing runs from an aircraft carrier.
@jnharton Actually the Germans were chronically short of fuel. They had substitutes and made the most of what they had, but they were limited on fuel! Just not as bad as the Japanese. The military usually could get enough fuel, but it was tight! The civilian economy made do with coal and wood gasification burners to power their cars and trucks.
Timing was the blunder.. too many fronts and a winter war that drained resourses faster than planned. Filter was not all there by that time. Others had an equal share if the blame.
@@do0ranfrump260 There was no Chance for a long time peace between Hitler and Stalin. Sometimes Stalin would start his invasion. When he feels stronger or think Hitler is weaker. So no real differene.
My Uncle Tony was killed on the HMT Rohna in the Mediterranean in Nov. 1943. Troop transport supposedly hit by one of the first guided bombs used in combat. The inventor was actually forced to guide the device into the ship and apparently suffered mentally the rest of his life because of it. 1100 dead💔💜
Hanna survived the war and was very funny in the interviews I watched. She also flew the first helicopter inside a building in Berlin. Flew into surrounded Berlin to meet H in the bunker. Used a converted street to land. One of the best test pilots of all time. Apt name.
@Balthorium She was one hell of a pilot! No doubt about that! I don't think she herself was evil, but she sure picked the wrong leaders to idolize! But quite a few Germans made that mistake back then!
I wonder if she ever met Eric Winkle-Brown? That would be a conversation worth listening to. Hitler’s disdain for the Japanese penchant for suicide is recorded. He was not keen on it.
Yeah right ....no need for suicide when sent to an inevitable death courtesy of Adolph....the Japanese had much disdain for the Germans when they surrendered at Stalingrad....it was a shock to them that their ally capitulated and yet it was Hitler's insistence that they not break out of the cauldron ......some may argue that to be a form of forced suicide rather than a tactical blunder
Hanna Reitch was also the first person to survive flying a V1. They had issues with the V1 when it came to flight. so they stuck a cockpit on there and put in test pilots. they died. They called Hanna and she tried. It nearly killed her and put her in hospital but she told the engineers enough to correct the issues.
I’m certain Hanna Reich only had a V1 fitted with a cockpit to diagnose the problems they had with the bomb veering to the side. In the 1950s she was living in Accra, Ghana and was a keen member of the gliding club. My uncle who was working out there and was a glider pilot himself, said it was discussed many times. Aside from the risk of losing pilots, the cockpit could not have accommodated anyone heavier than 55kilos (121lb). Not many male pilots that small!
I am 68 years old and from my 17 th year on for 50 years I practiced flying sailplanes in several states in europe. In 1978 I was in Chateauroux observing the gliding championship. Hanna Reitsch was also there. She flew sailplanes too very long years. I certalinly knew about her strong Nazi convicttions. She had begun flying sailplanes in the Riesengebirge mountains learning to fly the "Moazagotl" wave. She really was a strong Nazi believer. Others from the Netherlands also learnt not only flying sailplanes there, but becam Nazis too and had to live in Austria after WW2 in order not to be persecuted by their nation of origine. But not everybody of these young glider pilots became a Nazi . There is a Dr.Wolfgang Kuettner, who switched from studying law to studies of meteorology, wrote his promotion about the waves of the Riesengebirge Mountains, was Luftwaffe pilot during the war and had the opportunity to go to USA after ww2 and made flying research about the waves of Sierra Nevada in the fifties, reaching 14000 m altitude in doubleseater Sailplane with oxygene there. I believe, that Kuettner kept his inner distance to Hitler.
My father is from Schesien, and shortly begore the wall came down, we went to his home (I think we even found his family's apartment). When we came in that area, in front of the biggest summit of the Riesengebirge in the otherwise cloudless blue sky stood one single cloud. And I thought to myself "I think I just see the Moazagotl". For the others, the Moazagotl is the name of this specific cloud, because it is not moving with the wind like other clouds, but stands statically in front of the mountain range. It is caused by the wind flowing over the mountains and valleys of a mountain range, bringing it into a kind of vertical oscillation. And behind the mountains in the flat plane, this oscillation not only continues, but due to the missing friction at the surface of the mountains increases in amplitude. And so you can get zone of lift (and zones of sink) that are independent of the usual thermal uplifts a glider pilot uses, and sometimes you can even reach the stratosphere. I was flying RC gliders, so I know a bit about the "big" ones. My only flight in a glider was in Unterschleißheim, in Slingsby T-27, open, side by side training glider, on a winch start. It was amazing. The tiny windscreens masked off the wind completely, it was totally quiet. You could hear the birds sing on the ground. Grüße aus München.
The correct term is National-Socialist, "Not-see" is German Commiespeak of the 20's and early 30's that was later even adopted by British propaganda. Stop using it.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. I have flown gliders in the US for 30+ years. One of my earliest instructors was a German youth in training at high school flying gliders near the end of WW2. After the war he came to the US and became a researcher in biology. He loved sailplanes, often staying up for hours even in poor conditions. I recall him shouting over my shoulder during the landings: “Geschwindigkeit ist die Hälfte deines Lebens!”
I would be shocked if the Ohka project didn't have considerable inspiration from this. One area that is particularly indicative of that is the mothership concept.
Bro the Japanese where allied with the third reich. They got the plans from the germans and where thought how to build them. Also they got help with engines and turbochargers from the third reich
@@marcbeebee6969 This is exactly correct! The Japanese had built a version of the me 163 comet as well. Also jumo jet engine technology from the Me 262.
The Ohka and V1 is two very diffrent concepts. While they look fairly simular with short stuby wings and a round narrow fuslage, its basically becasue they carry out the same mission. They are basically cruse missiles. Even cruse missiles of today look similar. When you look deeper in to how they work, basically nothing is the same. The V1 was radio controlled (via radio beacons, not direct control), it started from the ground, it had a air breathing engine, it had a solid boaster to launched it of the While Ohka was launched from a plane. It use only a solid rocket engine, it had very short range, and it was made to target ship, not land targets. The V1 was also consideraly heavier and a bit larger, while the Ohka was light, the rocket engines pushed the grose weight almost all the way up to that of the V1.
I'd imagine that it wouldn't be just the jet engine that the flyer of the V1 would have to worry about because if he did sucessfully bail out he'd have to land on the ground of the country he'd just attacked and killed a lot of people so stood a good chance of being beaten to death by the natives.
Not in England. Because we had an extremely good system for extracting information from crashed German fliers. He'd just get kicked a bit till Civil Defence turned up.
The V1 was not guided. It had to have it's launching ramp aimed in the direction of the target and calculations of time to target and fuel burn were manually factored in to shut the engines off sending it into a dive towards it's target. Most V1 and V2 never came close to their targets as they lacked any kind of guidance system which missiles have. These were essentially unguided rockets with stabilization systems and not guidance systems.
Reminds me of a classic science fiction story where a man rediscovers how to do math such as multiplication and division without a computer and this resulted in military interests in using unexpensive human pilots instead of expensive computers with their missile guidance... At least, this was at a time where computer automation was just not possible. However, you'd think they could've developed something that wouldn't suck the bailing pilot into the engine, perhaps by pairing up two V-1's ti either side of a central pilot fuseoage as well as having extended wings and control surfaces ti make the craft more controllable. The would distance the pilots from the noise of the engines and absorb some of the vibrations from the pulsejets as well as preserved the fuel tanks. Really, they could've made it a wooden glider with two V-1's strapped under both wings, detaching them when they reached the destination and the pilot would just glide to a safe landing to spend the rest of the war as a PoW.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 I think the whole purpose was to use what they had without too many alterations or redesign work. Plus they had to train the pilots as the craft was difficult to fly, you could sort've crash land the resulting aircraft of the engine was on top but not if the engine was underneath. Training the pilots was why they had four versions with the first being an unpowered glider.
To be clear the moment someone can suggest an idea like this and nearly everyone else doesn't say oh hell no you have lost the war. It is time to try for a peace deal asap.
we, usa, were working on the same thing at the same time. only reason we didn't implement it ourselves was because a thinktank reported back that public sentiment for war would be negatively affected by such a "guided weapon".
@@hobbyfarmer62 The video made it pretty clear that a lot of people including Hitler did say "Hell no". However war itself is about sending soldiers to their probable deaths.
I am not so sure about the validity of all of this. There is film and photographic evidence of a manned V1 that was flown by Hannah Reich but it has always been attributed to her volunteering to fly it in order to gain data on how the unmanned version would perform. There was never any suggestion of a kamikaze type, suicide programme within the Third Reich (although some of the later ideas almost amounted to the same thing). No, I think that the basic premise here is wrong and the whole thing is nothing more than clickbait.
Japanese IMO lost the war from the start, as they hoped to bring their enemies to the peace table. Can't really hope to win a war that way. The Confederacy in the US Civil War made the same mistake.
the idea of having a pilot and an instructor on a 'one way flying death trap/suicide bomb' had me ... very effective way to end any war ....as always good research . [and I suppose it was an early flight simulator ,it only simulated flight ..].
The V1. was hardly a guided missile, it was hardly a missile, more just a point and shoot rocket! There was no mid-course correction mechanism for it, England was hardly a small target!
In 1959, my family went on a visit to Ottawa, Canada. We visited the war museum, and there was one of these on exhibit. I was photographed in front of it. I had no idea at the time, of how horrific this weapon was.
Instead of having the pilot exit the top of the flying bomb they could’ve put a door in the bottom so you could’ve slid out from the bottom and open his parachute when he was clear
G'day, She could certainly fly an Airframe, and manage an Aero-Engine. However, her Judgement regarding Who to agree to be Led by, Whose "Orders" were worthy of Obeying, And the Moral & Ethical Responsibility Attendant on agreeing to Launch a War of Aggression In pursuit of the Conquest of Land, Resources, Oil, Coal, & Human Labourers..., And on agreeing to Fight while trying to kill Strangers in the Expectation of eventually Winning the Fight and Eating all of their Lunches, Because "Might Makes Right...!" And Because Adolf the Infallible..., told all of Germany that it was So...! Armed Robbery In Company. She CHOSE To fight for a Loser Of a "Side" ; Driven as it was, By the Overcompensated Inferiority Complex Bequeathed onto all his Subjects by Kaiser Wilhelm II, when he Ran off to Cower his life away, Fearfully trembling - in Self-imposed exile in Holland. Hanna was A Product of her Times. A talented, skilled, experienced talented, highly accomplished Greedy selfish murderously mindlessly obedient Silly bloody Fuckwit...; Overall. Who died of old age, still professing her deep Faith in Hitlerism....(!). ACTUARIALLY. Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
@@EdVanMeyer she was one of many women pilots of WW2. Allied ferry pilots were largely women and flew unarmed. Germans were not and presumably had gunnery practice. The Soviet union had several squadrons of fighter and bombers that were all women. I don't know about the Chinese,they didn't have a programme to train them until 1952.
Because all this anti-Nazi rhetoric was born out of a hatred for the German identity. These people were patriots fighting for their country and get the rest of the world wanted to erase them
My dad was in England prior to the Normandy invasion and heard several V1s fly over. He said it sounded like a weird machine gun. I cannot imagine a pilot flying one several hundred miles with the noise and vibration not to mention the erratic G forces.
My Grandfather flew a mkXIV Spitfire in anti V1 missions from RAF Manston 💪 my grandmother on the other side was at work making artillery parts at Woolwich when her house on Blackheath was hit by a V2!
when people wonder how women could help with the holocaust and killing women and children...and claim "oh well they were poorly education and had little self confidence. Working in the camps gave them a feeling of being powerful."...they forget Hanna Reitsch.
@@ronaldbyrne3320 I'm sure she would without any hesitation She was not affraid to die. Hanna Reitch also took the most suicidal assingment to fly a plane into destroyed Berlin during the battle for Berlin, while she was attacked from every side by the russians. She managed to land the plane onto a bombed out road near the victory column monument. She wanted to rescue Hitler, and fly him to a save location, but he refused. After Hitler thanked her for her support and let her stay for a good diner, she managed even to take of with her small transport plane,while again being attacked by the Russians. But she managed to escape, and survive the war. So she would be fully prepared to die, if really necessary. There are some interviews to find with Hanna Reitch, maybe she talks about it.
I was thinking the canopy could have been sized to plug the jet intake when it opened, keeping the pilot from being sucked in. Since there was no upper rudder to fall back into, getting out topside shouldn't have been a big deal. That one dude he mentioned did it. At the point where the pilot needed to get out, the bomb was probably pointed straight at the target, so no need for the engine to keep running anyway.
I think, given more time and resources. Germany had allies that were not always much of a help. England had strong allies. Russia was very clear with the citizens about how tough the war was, and the Germans were angry at times at how little they knew about what was happening. Germany even faked a broadcast on Christmas from Stalingrad. Suicide missles would not be in keeping with the official fantasy the war could still be won.
This was very interesting! I live in Ottawa and I've probably seen the one at the War Museum without even realizing, I'm going to have to make another visit to go see it.
The Fieseler Fi 103R, or "Reichenberg," was essentially a manned version of the V-1 flying bomb. It was a last-ditch attempt by the Third Reich to turn the tide, requiring pilots to guide the explosive-laden craft directly into enemy targets, sacrificing themselves in the process.
This might have worked early in the pacific war but I don't think there were that many high value targets in England. We could crank out liberty ships faster than they could replace pilots. Factories in England were not centralized. What were these critical targets?
@@littleblackcat2273 Lol. I wonder if this was the inspiration for the song: 🎼Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small, Himmler has something sim'lar, And Goebbels has no balls at all🎶
The ME 262 had an ejection seat, so they were available. Along with a fuel cutoff, pilot survivability could have been achieved. Although capture was pretty much guaranteed.
The aircraft pictured is a Condor 4 engined maritime surveillance aircraft. I doubt that if the Reichenberg would fit under an HE 111 without extending the landing gear.
The V1 was not a guided missile, other than pointing the launch ramp, they had a system that allowed them to maintain stable flight, but that was it, no steering. They dropped when they ran out of fuel.
You're half correct. Yes, the V1 was set up to maintain a steady course, using gyroscopes. A compass tied to the rudder via pneumatic servomotor controlled the steering. But it also had a vane type odometer; it was pre-programmed for the expected flight distance. Once it had counted down to zero it triggered spoilers and locked the rudder. This put it in a steep dive. The g-forces interrupted fuel flow and the engine quit immediately. But we all agree: the V1 was an unguided missile. The guidance system was instead classed as a crude autopilot.
The Japanese Ohka made much more sense as the targets were large, high value, US warships. What's the point of wasting a pilot and all that stuff just to demolish a few tenement buildings.
V1 was the most devastating weapon worse than the v2. Most overshot because German operators ignored onbord radio equiptment and relied on on compromised agents which were force to say the the v1s were falling short, instead they overflow London. If they had relied on the instrumentation the results would have been devastating for london
Hitler did have a habit of ruining perfectly good designs by insisting they be made to “Do it all”. The ME262 (Which was originally supposed to be an air superiority fighter, or interceptor) was one of those. That thing would have been ready at least 15 months earlier, had Hitler not insisted it be able to carry bombs.
I've seen pictures of them before, but without any context given I just assumed it was some early prototype of the V1, maybe to have a test pilot evaluate the aerodynamics
The Japanese "Okha" kamikaze rocket plane was built from the V1,thankfully,the war ended before they could be put into production,large-scale production that is.
I'm sorry but even though I've served in multiple horrible combat operations around the world as a member of the united states Air force and Army from 1989 to 2006, and I hate war more than anyone can imagine, I have always wondered why there are so called rules of war, and if you have served in real combat you'll know what I mean especially if you served in theaters Iraq and Afghanistan and others against terror organizations rather than legitimate standing armies, because rules of war make no sense because we're engaging in the act of mass killing and destruction of other human beings and their way of life and we have the hypocritical gall to enact rules of war? There's nothing romantic or noble about war and there is no real code of honor and all of that BS that's a lot of propaganda created by people who don't have to fight the wars they start in order to convince others it's a good thing to brutally attack and kill each other over ideology or religion or something else as useless when you are dead, because when it comes to the reality of it all we kill and murder and destroy each other for the gain of the people in charge and most of the time we have no real idea why we're going to war or bombing someone regardless of the nation, and especially now a days where everyone likes to believe we're so sophisticated and enlightened and all of that crap when the truth is we're more likevevil and destructive jealous self centered animals than we've ever been, we're just able to Bull Shit people and convince them to kill and die for whatever the current propaganda is at the moment than ever before because of the internet, which I honestly think it's been more of a curse to human kind than a blessing... It all just boils down to no matter which side you're on no matter what view point you take the truth is we always believe that is the correct righteous way to believe and think, and guess what, the guys we're killing and destroying and raging against believe the same thing... So tell me, which way is right? Ours or theirs? Yours or mine? His or hers? Those or these? Let me know if you ever get the answer to that question
4:18 - it was not any faster than the RAF's fighter planes of the time, in fact on occassions RAF pilots used their planes' wings to 'tip over' the V1 rockets thus destabilising their gyroscope & causing them to crash.
The pilot would not most certainly be sucked into the "jet engine" (which the v1 did not use) but rather establish a course and descend rate using trim controls after the pulse engine had been shut off. I suppose the biggest problem with this whole concept was that germany was already running low on experienced pilots and if this tactic were to be followed, many more would be captured on british soil, effectively making this a POW mission (rather than a suicide mission). I wonder why they did not build an autopilot solution using radio and triangulation. Maybe it was too difficult to build something reliable enough to work unmanned. The british were using the same to help their bomber squadrons to find their targets during their nightly raids.
The V2, the worlds first liquid fueled rocket, also had a winged version, the V2b. "b" for "bastard". The V2 carried a 1t bomb. The initial drawings of the V2b included a piloted spy plane version, with cockpit and pilot instead of the bomb. The worlds first technical accurate version of a SpaceShuttle! The manned V2b was never built, as the bomb version of it was still in its test phase, at the end of the war. 10 years later, it was channeld into NASA's X-15 rocket plane, although the 1947 X-1 looked much more like a V2b. 🚀🏴☠️🎸
The pulse jet had to have external air supply at start because it had to have high velocity air to run hence the rocket assist. The higher the inlet air velocity, the more thrust. Even Hitler knew it was totally impractical. Throwing away valuable pilot’s lives.
That painting of Leonidas with all those naked men and so many swords around would make me nervous. "Leonidas.............here come 30 thousand Persians Sir." "I think we should.....................WHOOPS! I think I just cut off my dick Sir!" "I'll be ok though, oh, so much BLOOD!"
They mentioned the Japanese kamikaze suicide missions, but didn't those include some jet-powered craft that looked a lot like this, if not being directly borrowed or copied from the program?
I once met Hajo Herrmann in his law office in Düsseldorf, but we didn't talk about the Reichenberg because at that time I hadn't heard of it. The project is described down to the smallest detail in Hanna Reitsch's book "Fliegen mein Leben" (she named it "Selbstopfer").
I'm impressed with this hinging smokestack 1:02
The terrible things humans will do to one another is astounding
Just about every animal can be cruel. Hell, even some plants are b*stards!
The terrible things elites will do to the public is astounding
I'd go as far and say even plants can be "Not-sees"!
Just remembver, The Enemy are somewhat less than human.
@@GregorSass-Ranitz Not C's. Only D's and F's
Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown as well as being an, exceptional test pilot was fluent in German. He interrogated a number of key Nazis and the impressions he got are in his biography "Wings on my sleeve" (where RN /FAA wore their wings). Amongst others he "interviewed" deathcamp commandants, Herman Goerring, and Hannah Reitsch. She was a dyed in the wool unreconstructed Nazi, as well as a fine pilot.
(Ironically Brown's first ever flight was in a German trainer. His first instructor was Ernst Udet ! He met also a number of other prominent Germans under interesting circumstances.
All that as well as flight testing more aircraft than anyone else in history. He only counted types, so all the different Spit Mks he test flew he only counted as a single type.
The writing on this channel has improved markedly. This was a great episode.
So AI is getting better huh
A little better. Not much.
I think it’s always been great. Love this guys work
@@TurboMountTVthis guy has multiple channels, drop yo disrespect because you can’t make a narrative video
@@bajablaster1 Neither does the owner I doubt, the videos you are watching are generated by Artificial Software. Punch in a few variable and voila. Ive made several sheaethead.
In the film Operation Crossbow the manned V1 is portrayed as being created simply to investigate why the unmanned version wasn't performing as expected, rather than as a weapon in its own right.
That probably was the original intent, and then somebody realized that it also solved the problem.
That is in at least a couple of books!
Not sure where this story came from. I have heard it denounced in the past!
The Germans weren't into suicide weapons.
@@mahbriggs of course not
The Germans even discussed what the Japanese were doing throwing their pilots away. It was roundly denounce as stupid.
@@brealistic3542 To be far the germans had superior technology compared to Japan and weren't as limited on fuel supplies.
I think Japan's culture made plane-based suicide bombing more acceptable, but they also had limited options to defend themselves against the US's capability to carry put bombing runs from an aircraft carrier.
@jnharton
Actually the Germans were chronically short of fuel. They had substitutes and made the most of what they had, but they were limited on fuel! Just not as bad as the Japanese. The military usually could get enough fuel, but it was tight! The civilian economy made do with coal and wood gasification burners to power their cars and trucks.
Germany's biggest blunder was invading Russia.
Its biggest blunder was Hitler
Timing was the blunder.. too many fronts and a winter war that drained resourses faster than planned. Filter was not all there by that time. Others had an equal share if the blame.
@@do0ranfrump260
There was no Chance for a long time peace between Hitler and Stalin.
Sometimes Stalin would start his invasion. When he feels stronger or think Hitler is weaker.
So no real differene.
Germany’s biggest blunder was becoming Nazi’s…………..
And not having proximity charges
My Uncle Tony was killed on the HMT Rohna in the Mediterranean in Nov. 1943. Troop transport supposedly hit by one of the first guided bombs used in combat. The inventor was actually forced to guide the device into the ship and apparently suffered mentally the rest of his life because of it. 1100 dead💔💜
All for nothing in my eyes sorry for your loss
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He must have been aware that he wasn't acting for the greater good like Paul Tibbets who never developed such mental issues.
Didn't know anything about this project. Good research.
Hanna survived the war and was very funny in the interviews I watched. She also flew the first helicopter inside a building in Berlin. Flew into surrounded Berlin to meet H in the bunker. Used a converted street to land. One of the best test pilots of all time. Apt name.
She was also rumored to have flown a small plane into Berlin and evacuated Hitler.
@@davidmills817 she flew the plane in, but he would not be evacuated. She was trying to get them to go, but he wouldn’t.
@@davidmills817 she actually made it to the evacuation area in over Salzburg where she was captured
@Balthorium
She was one hell of a pilot! No doubt about that!
I don't think she herself was evil, but she sure picked the wrong leaders to idolize! But quite a few Germans made that mistake back then!
She flew a storch into Berlin they will land on a postage stamp
I wonder if she ever met Eric Winkle-Brown? That would be a conversation worth listening to. Hitler’s disdain for the Japanese penchant for suicide is recorded. He was not keen on it.
If sending his troops to Russia without winter supplies wasn't suicide, I don't what was.
Yeah right ....no need for suicide when sent to an inevitable death courtesy of Adolph....the Japanese had much disdain for the Germans when they surrendered at Stalingrad....it was a shock to them that their ally capitulated and yet it was Hitler's insistence that they not break out of the cauldron ......some may argue that to be a form of forced suicide rather than a tactical blunder
@@lilianmcguigan9240It was expected to take Moscow before the winter set in.
She did meet Eric Winkle-Brown before the war. I read about it in his book, "Wings On My Sleeve".
no, he wouldn't have cared for suicide. he was a devout christian, like 98% of nazi germany.
Excellent choice of music. The tempo and stress in the voice adds tension. Nice, Thanks for your efforts 👌
An earlier ' cruise missile ' was the Kettering Bug, an example of which is at the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton Ohio.
Japan had the manned Ohka (Cherry Blossom)
Hanna Reitch was also the first person to survive flying a V1. They had issues with the V1 when it came to flight. so they stuck a cockpit on there and put in test pilots. they died. They called Hanna and she tried. It nearly killed her and put her in hospital but she told the engineers enough to correct the issues.
I’m certain Hanna Reich only had a V1 fitted with a cockpit to diagnose the problems they had with the bomb veering to the side. In the 1950s she was living in Accra, Ghana and was a keen member of the gliding club. My uncle who was working out there and was a glider pilot himself, said it was discussed many times. Aside from the risk of losing pilots, the cockpit could not have accommodated anyone heavier than 55kilos (121lb). Not many male pilots that small!
You forget not everyone was morbidly obese back then.
To gain competence in flying multiple times in this the pilot would already have the skill to fly a 109.
I am 68 years old and from my 17 th year on for 50 years I practiced flying sailplanes in several states in europe. In 1978 I was in Chateauroux observing the gliding championship. Hanna Reitsch was also there. She flew sailplanes too very long years. I certalinly knew about her strong Nazi convicttions. She had begun flying sailplanes in the Riesengebirge mountains learning to fly the "Moazagotl" wave. She really was a strong Nazi believer. Others from the Netherlands also learnt not only flying sailplanes there, but becam Nazis too and had to live in Austria after WW2 in order not to be persecuted by their nation of origine. But not everybody of these young glider pilots became a Nazi . There is a Dr.Wolfgang Kuettner, who switched from studying law to studies of meteorology, wrote his promotion about the waves of the Riesengebirge Mountains, was Luftwaffe pilot during the war and had the opportunity to go to USA after ww2 and made flying research about the waves of Sierra Nevada in the fifties, reaching 14000 m altitude in doubleseater Sailplane with oxygene there. I believe, that Kuettner kept his inner distance to Hitler.
She was a woman so therefore not accountable for her actions. Surprised she wasn't givven a medal for doing what those "nasty men" told her to do.
My father is from Schesien, and shortly begore the wall came down, we went to his home (I think we even found his family's apartment).
When we came in that area, in front of the biggest summit of the Riesengebirge in the otherwise cloudless blue sky stood one single cloud.
And I thought to myself "I think I just see the Moazagotl".
For the others, the Moazagotl is the name of this specific cloud, because it is not moving with the wind like other clouds, but stands statically in front of the mountain range.
It is caused by the wind flowing over the mountains and valleys of a mountain range, bringing it into a kind of vertical oscillation. And behind the mountains in the flat plane, this oscillation not only continues, but due to the missing friction at the surface of the mountains increases in amplitude.
And so you can get zone of lift (and zones of sink) that are independent of the usual thermal uplifts a glider pilot uses, and sometimes you can even reach the stratosphere.
I was flying RC gliders, so I know a bit about the "big" ones. My only flight in a glider was in Unterschleißheim, in Slingsby T-27, open, side by side training glider, on a winch start. It was amazing. The tiny windscreens masked off the wind completely, it was totally quiet. You could hear the birds sing on the ground.
Grüße aus München.
The correct term is National-Socialist, "Not-see" is German Commiespeak of the 20's and early 30's that was later even adopted by British propaganda. Stop using it.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. I have flown gliders in the US for 30+ years. One of my earliest instructors was a German youth in training at high school flying gliders near the end of WW2. After the war he came to the US and became a researcher in biology. He loved sailplanes, often staying up for hours even in poor conditions. I recall him shouting over my shoulder during the landings: “Geschwindigkeit ist die Hälfte deines Lebens!”
@thomaswest5931 Do you know what he was saying to you means?
Close to the Ohka, "Cherry Blossom".
I would be shocked if the Ohka project didn't have considerable inspiration from this. One area that is particularly indicative of that is the mothership concept.
Bro the Japanese where allied with the third reich.
They got the plans from the germans and where thought how to build them. Also they got help with engines and turbochargers from the third reich
@@marcbeebee6969 This is exactly correct! The Japanese had built a version of the me 163 comet as well. Also jumo jet engine technology from the Me 262.
@@sierratango6574 man i need to go make a channel in the technology museum in Sinsheim germany
The Ohka and V1 is two very diffrent concepts. While they look fairly simular with short stuby wings and a round narrow fuslage, its basically becasue they carry out the same mission. They are basically cruse missiles. Even cruse missiles of today look similar.
When you look deeper in to how they work, basically nothing is the same. The V1 was radio controlled (via radio beacons, not direct control), it started from the ground, it had a air breathing engine, it had a solid boaster to launched it of the
While Ohka was launched from a plane. It use only a solid rocket engine, it had very short range, and it was made to target ship, not land targets.
The V1 was also consideraly heavier and a bit larger, while the Ohka was light, the rocket engines pushed the grose weight almost all the way up to that of the V1.
I'd imagine that it wouldn't be just the jet engine that the flyer of the V1 would have to worry about because if he did sucessfully bail out he'd have to land on the ground of the country he'd just attacked and killed a lot of people so stood a good chance of being beaten to death by the natives.
Not in England. Because we had an extremely good system for extracting information from crashed German fliers. He'd just get kicked a bit till Civil Defence turned up.
The V1 was not guided. It had to have it's launching ramp aimed in the direction of the target and calculations of time to target and fuel burn were manually factored in to shut the engines off sending it into a dive towards it's target. Most V1 and V2 never came close to their targets as they lacked any kind of guidance system which missiles have. These were essentially unguided rockets with stabilization systems and not guidance systems.
Reitsch was as mad as March hare.
“Death trap’ mine fuhrer?”☠️
“Ya vol I’ll fly it!🙋🏼
@@Jon-es-i6o You had to be fairly death defying to be a test pilot back then...
When the subject is developing faster than its security measures.
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Yeah.😆
At least they didn’t fasten the door closed with bolts.
Hanna could escape, to her certain death.
@Jones607 I assume you are referencing the kamikaze pilots. That was a myth that was proven incorrect by surviving pilots. They were not bolted in.
Reminds me of a classic science fiction story where a man rediscovers how to do math such as multiplication and division without a computer and this resulted in military interests in using unexpensive human pilots instead of expensive computers with their missile guidance...
At least, this was at a time where computer automation was just not possible.
However, you'd think they could've developed something that wouldn't suck the bailing pilot into the engine, perhaps by pairing up two V-1's ti either side of a central pilot fuseoage as well as having extended wings and control surfaces ti make the craft more controllable. The would distance the pilots from the noise of the engines and absorb some of the vibrations from the pulsejets as well as preserved the fuel tanks.
Really, they could've made it a wooden glider with two V-1's strapped under both wings, detaching them when they reached the destination and the pilot would just glide to a safe landing to spend the rest of the war as a PoW.
Or they could have put the pulse jet underneath.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 I think the whole purpose was to use what they had without too many alterations or redesign work. Plus they had to train the pilots as the craft was difficult to fly, you could sort've crash land the resulting aircraft of the engine was on top but not if the engine was underneath. Training the pilots was why they had four versions with the first being an unpowered glider.
What was the story called?
@@Shaker626 The story was called "The Feeling of Power", the author is Isaac Asimov.
@@johnwang9914 Sounded like Asimov to me, I gotta give it a read.
To be clear the moment someone can suggest an idea like this and nearly everyone else doesn't say oh hell no you have lost the war. It is time to try for a peace deal asap.
About to happen in Ukraine. People never learn.
we, usa, were working on the same thing at the same time.
only reason we didn't implement it ourselves was because a thinktank reported back that public sentiment for war would be negatively affected by such a "guided weapon".
@@hobbyfarmer62 The video made it pretty clear that a lot of people including Hitler did say "Hell no". However war itself is about sending soldiers to their probable deaths.
@@geoffreyveale7715 Please return to reality. It needs you.
You would have rhought after loosing 500k solders russia would pull out.. but no they wont learn@geoffreyveale7715
I am not so sure about the validity of all of this. There is film and photographic evidence of a manned V1 that was flown by Hannah Reich but it has always been attributed to her volunteering to fly it in order to gain data on how the unmanned version would perform. There was never any suggestion of a kamikaze type, suicide programme within the Third Reich (although some of the later ideas almost amounted to the same thing).
No, I think that the basic premise here is wrong and the whole thing is nothing more than clickbait.
If you call your weapon vengange then you know you have lost the war.
Japanese IMO lost the war from the start, as they hoped to bring their enemies to the peace table. Can't really hope to win a war that way. The Confederacy in the US Civil War made the same mistake.
And that you can’t spell
@@fenlander7114 🤣
What, no trap door for the pilot? That'd be too easy.
Or put the engine in the bottom
F 104
the idea of having a pilot and an instructor on a 'one way flying death trap/suicide bomb' had me ... very effective way to end any war ....as always good research . [and I suppose it was an early flight simulator ,it only simulated flight ..].
The V1. was hardly a guided missile, it was hardly a missile, more just a point and shoot rocket! There was no mid-course correction mechanism for it, England was hardly a small target!
But most of England is farmers fields. You have to at least hit London to achieve any military purpose.
@@AndersonDawesWasRightwell they did hit London. you can keep speculating about things that already happened if you want
The V3 did become operational and was used to bombard Luxembourg from December 1944 to February 1945. Altogether, not terribly successful.
In 1959, my family went on a visit to Ottawa, Canada. We visited the war museum, and there was one of these on exhibit. I was photographed in front of it. I had no idea at the time, of how horrific this weapon was.
As opposed to the Barney happy hugs missile?
All weapons are horrific.
@@michaellinner7772 Your point?
In Greencastle, Indiana..(Putnam County)..on the court house square..a complete buzz bomb sits as a memorial to those who served in WWll...
Instead of having the pilot exit the top of the flying bomb they could’ve put a door in the bottom so you could’ve slid out from the bottom and open his parachute when he was clear
Like the early F104 Starfighter. Ejection downwards. Great for an engine flame out on takeoff. 😢
Landing among the angry population you just bombed seems rough
Hanna Reitsch was a legend, perhaps one of the leading pilots of the last century.
Also pretty funny.
G'day,
She could certainly fly an
Airframe, and manage an
Aero-Engine.
However, her
Judgement regarding
Who to agree to be
Led by,
Whose "Orders" were worthy of
Obeying,
And the
Moral & Ethical
Responsibility
Attendant on agreeing to
Launch a War of Aggression
In pursuit of the Conquest of
Land, Resources, Oil, Coal, & Human Labourers...,
And on agreeing to
Fight while trying to kill
Strangers in the
Expectation of eventually
Winning the Fight and
Eating all of their Lunches,
Because
"Might
Makes
Right...!"
And
Because
Adolf the Infallible..., told all of
Germany that it was
So...!
Armed Robbery
In
Company.
She
CHOSE
To fight for a
Loser
Of a
"Side" ;
Driven as it was,
By the
Overcompensated Inferiority Complex
Bequeathed onto all his
Subjects by
Kaiser Wilhelm II, when he
Ran off to
Cower his life away,
Fearfully trembling - in
Self-imposed exile in
Holland.
Hanna was
A
Product of her
Times.
A talented, skilled, experienced talented, highly accomplished
Greedy selfish murderously mindlessly obedient
Silly bloody
Fuckwit...;
Overall.
Who died of old age, still professing her deep
Faith in
Hitlerism....(!).
ACTUARIALLY.
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
Agreed. Deserves great admiration but equal condemnation for her politics. The biographies are well worth reading.
And also, clearly, completely insane.
@@EdVanMeyer she was one of many women pilots of WW2. Allied ferry pilots were largely women and flew unarmed. Germans were not and presumably had gunnery practice. The Soviet union had several squadrons of fighter and bombers that were all women. I don't know about the Chinese,they didn't have a programme to train them until 1952.
How were hardcore supporters like the kids who volunteer to fly these things funneled back into a diplomatic society? Must have been rough
You know the usa brought over thousands of them after ww2.
Because all this anti-Nazi rhetoric was born out of a hatred for the German identity. These people were patriots fighting for their country and get the rest of the world wanted to erase them
They needed "re-education" reverse brainwashing
My dad was in England prior to the Normandy invasion and heard several V1s fly over. He said it sounded like a weird machine gun. I cannot imagine a pilot flying one several hundred miles with the noise and vibration not to mention the erratic G forces.
Lol i swear this guys titles are soo great and unique. Thanks for the video!
My Grandfather flew a mkXIV Spitfire in anti V1 missions from RAF Manston 💪 my grandmother on the other side was at work making artillery parts at Woolwich when her house on Blackheath was hit by a V2!
I can’t help but wonder if Hanna Reitsch would have volunteered to fly one of those Reichenbergs on a one-way mission?
when people wonder how women could help with the holocaust and killing women and children...and claim "oh well they were poorly education and had little self confidence. Working in the camps gave them a feeling of being powerful."...they forget Hanna Reitsch.
They would have not allowed that.
Hanna Reitsch was one of the most important test pilots in Germany.
@@opoxious1592 I agree, they would not have allowed her to do it. But I was wondering if she would have been willing to.
@@ronaldbyrne3320 I'm sure she would without any hesitation
She was not affraid to die.
Hanna Reitch also took the most suicidal assingment to fly a plane into destroyed Berlin during the battle for Berlin, while she was attacked from every side by the russians.
She managed to land the plane onto a bombed out road near the victory column monument.
She wanted to rescue Hitler, and fly him to a save location, but he refused.
After Hitler thanked her for her support and let her stay for a good diner, she managed even to take of with her small transport plane,while again being attacked by the Russians. But she managed to escape, and survive the war.
So she would be fully prepared to die, if really necessary.
There are some interviews to find with Hanna Reitch, maybe she talks about it.
@@opoxious1592 quite a character. I must look for her story. Thank you. 🙏🏻
I am surprised that they didn’t try using the bottom facing ejection seat. It was the end of the war. Given more time, they could’ve made it work.
I was thinking the canopy could have been sized to plug the jet intake when it opened, keeping the pilot from being sucked in. Since there was no upper rudder to fall back into, getting out topside shouldn't have been a big deal. That one dude he mentioned did it. At the point where the pilot needed to get out, the bomb was probably pointed straight at the target, so no need for the engine to keep running anyway.
I think, given more time and resources. Germany had allies that were not always much of a help. England had strong allies. Russia was very clear with the citizens about how tough the war was, and the Germans were angry at times at how little they knew about what was happening. Germany even faked a broadcast on Christmas from Stalingrad. Suicide missles would not be in keeping with the official fantasy the war could still be won.
Were ejection seats even a thing in WWII? Usually you climbed out of the plane and let wind and gravity take you from the plane.
This was very interesting! I live in Ottawa and I've probably seen the one at the War Museum without even realizing, I'm going to have to make another visit to go see it.
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
The Fieseler Fi 103R, or "Reichenberg," was essentially a manned version of the V-1 flying bomb. It was a last-ditch attempt by the Third Reich to turn the tide, requiring pilots to guide the explosive-laden craft directly into enemy targets, sacrificing themselves in the process.
This weapon was unknown to me !! Good episode! 👌👌
Hitler doesn't sound like a mass murderer here
I believe Hanna Reitsch was the first woman to fly a helicopter in a stadium
This might have worked early in the pacific war but I don't think there were that many high value targets in England. We could crank out liberty ships faster than they could replace pilots. Factories in England were not centralized. What were these critical targets?
It wasn’t just guided missiles. Piloted bombers also often missed intended targets by miles during WWII.
Sadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life.
5:39 hits his knackers on the guys head.
😂
TEABAG
A terrible leapfrog accident... RIP knackers :(
They say that after this accident, leapfrog guy was fitted with a prosthetic, but due to the wartime shortages, he had "only one brass ball"!
@@littleblackcat2273
Lol.
I wonder if this was the inspiration for the song:
🎼Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small,
Himmler has something sim'lar,
And Goebbels has no balls at all🎶
The ME 262 had an ejection seat, so they were available. Along with a fuel cutoff, pilot survivability could have been achieved. Although capture was pretty much guaranteed.
No it didn't. Heinkel had "air compression" style seats in SOME aircraft.
...but how long would the pilot survive if bailed out so close to its target...?
Added more weight to the whole contraption so pilot survivability was secondary.
A pilot could also eject UNDER the fuselage.
@@edgewood99 I stand corrected.
The Spitfire given a alert could catch a V1. Not being a fighter with the ability to maneuver it would be a futile effort.
No it would not.
Because they would attack on masse and below radar detection.
A few skilled RAF pilots mastered a technique of tipping a V-1 over; generally they crashed after that.
The aircraft pictured is a Condor 4 engined maritime surveillance aircraft. I doubt that if the Reichenberg would fit under an HE 111 without extending the landing gear.
Ah yes, the good 'ol "Buzz Bomb" or "Doodlebug", nicknamed for the sound its pulse jet engines produced.
A manned version of the V1? That's ... rough... though one option is the pilot turning the engine off before bailing out.
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Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
The V1 was not a guided missile, other than pointing the launch ramp, they had a system that allowed them to maintain stable flight, but that was it, no steering. They dropped when they ran out of fuel.
Correct. Unguided missile.
You're half correct. Yes, the V1 was set up to maintain a steady course, using gyroscopes. A compass tied to the rudder via pneumatic servomotor controlled the steering. But it also had a vane type odometer; it was pre-programmed for the expected flight distance. Once it had counted down to zero it triggered spoilers and locked the rudder. This put it in a steep dive. The g-forces interrupted fuel flow and the engine quit immediately.
But we all agree: the V1 was an unguided missile. The guidance system was instead classed as a crude autopilot.
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Suicide missions, they would even fly their combat aircraft into allied bombers. 😮Too extreme for me.
they were all rooted man ..the rockets too
The Japanese Ohka made much more sense as the targets were large, high value, US warships. What's the point of wasting a pilot and all that stuff just to demolish a few tenement buildings.
nothing i don't know...Also Japan DO it - Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Was Used in War - This one not USED
V1 was the most devastating weapon worse than the v2. Most overshot because German operators ignored onbord radio equiptment and relied on on compromised agents which were force to say the the v1s were falling short, instead they overflow London. If they had relied on the instrumentation the results would have been devastating for london
Hitler: "Not gonna lie, that thing looks pretty sketch to me.."
It's surprising that Hitler didn't insist on it having dive bombing capability.
Hitler did have a habit of ruining perfectly good designs by insisting they be made to “Do it all”. The ME262 (Which was originally supposed to be an air superiority fighter, or interceptor) was one of those. That thing would have been ready at least 15 months earlier, had Hitler not insisted it be able to carry bombs.
Wow. That was an excellent video!
I've seen pictures of them before, but without any context given I just assumed it was some early prototype of the V1, maybe to have a test pilot evaluate the aerodynamics
The Japanese "Okha" kamikaze rocket plane was built from the V1,thankfully,the war ended before they could be put into production,large-scale production that is.
I'm sorry but even though I've served in multiple horrible combat operations around the world as a member of the united states Air force and Army from 1989 to 2006, and I hate war more than anyone can imagine, I have always wondered why there are so called rules of war, and if you have served in real combat you'll know what I mean especially if you served in theaters Iraq and Afghanistan and others against terror organizations rather than legitimate standing armies, because rules of war make no sense because we're engaging in the act of mass killing and destruction of other human beings and their way of life and we have the hypocritical gall to enact rules of war? There's nothing romantic or noble about war and there is no real code of honor and all of that BS that's a lot of propaganda created by people who don't have to fight the wars they start in order to convince others it's a good thing to brutally attack and kill each other over ideology or religion or something else as useless when you are dead, because when it comes to the reality of it all we kill and murder and destroy each other for the gain of the people in charge and most of the time we have no real idea why we're going to war or bombing someone regardless of the nation, and especially now a days where everyone likes to believe we're so sophisticated and enlightened and all of that crap when the truth is we're more likevevil and destructive jealous self centered animals than we've ever been, we're just able to Bull Shit people and convince them to kill and die for whatever the current propaganda is at the moment than ever before because of the internet, which I honestly think it's been more of a curse to human kind than a blessing... It all just boils down to no matter which side you're on no matter what view point you take the truth is we always believe that is the correct righteous way to believe and think, and guess what, the guys we're killing and destroying and raging against believe the same thing... So tell me, which way is right? Ours or theirs? Yours or mine? His or hers? Those or these? Let me know if you ever get the answer to that question
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
4:18 - it was not any faster than the RAF's fighter planes of the time, in fact on occassions RAF pilots used their planes' wings to 'tip over' the V1 rockets thus destabilising their gyroscope & causing them to crash.
The V1 was not a guided missile. It was launched and then no course change could be done.
If you threw a dart at a dark board did you guide it in any way?
It just flew for a specified period of time then crashed.
@@robertheinkel6225 They just calculated the fuel need to reach a area. Point and launch.
Lots of historical errors. The V 1 was not a guided missile, it was aimed at London with a limited amount of fuel.
The pilot would not most certainly be sucked into the "jet engine" (which the v1 did not use) but rather establish a course and descend rate using trim controls after the pulse engine had been shut off. I suppose the biggest problem with this whole concept was that germany was already running low on experienced pilots and if this tactic were to be followed, many more would be captured on british soil, effectively making this a POW mission (rather than a suicide mission). I wonder why they did not build an autopilot solution using radio and triangulation. Maybe it was too difficult to build something reliable enough to work unmanned. The british were using the same to help their bomber squadrons to find their targets during their nightly raids.
Fortune favours the brave.
5:15 that is an iron cross, usually when a woman was wearing an iron cross it was from her deceased husband, but this is her own.
The V2, the worlds first liquid fueled rocket, also had a winged version, the V2b. "b" for "bastard". The V2 carried a 1t bomb. The initial drawings of the V2b included a piloted spy plane version, with cockpit and pilot instead of the bomb. The worlds first technical accurate version of a SpaceShuttle!
The manned V2b was never built, as the bomb version of it was still in its test phase, at the end of the war. 10 years later, it was channeld into NASA's X-15 rocket plane, although the 1947 X-1 looked much more like a V2b.
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Perhaps an ejector seat that ejected down instead of up could have worked? I suppose we will never know.
The pulse jet had to have external air supply at start because it had to have high velocity air to run hence the rocket assist. The higher the inlet air velocity, the more thrust. Even Hitler knew it was totally impractical. Throwing away valuable pilot’s lives.
I heard that Germany nearly did a suicide type plane where it was a pilot version of the V-1 flying bomb
Yes. I suggest you watch this video, as it might give you some further information.
There's a manned one on display in the little aviation museum in deurne, near Antwerp.
I bet the pilot gets bored. Ba-doom...tissss!
She was hiding out in a hospital after end of war but identified by Eric 'Winkle' Brown RAF Test Pilot who had met her before war,
The V-1 always hit its target. Assuming its target was the ground.
Flying Squirrel suits, no chute needed ~nuff said
The fact that Hitler seen suicide bombing as a barbaric means really shows how dedicated the Japanese were to their cause.
There's one at the planes of fame in chino california
"saving the fatherland" was never something that motivated hitler.
Pilot is sitting straddle a V1 buzz bomb, in front of the rocket intake, with minimal manual controls. What could go wrong?
Asking German soldiers to never surrender, fine.
Asking German pilots to sacrifice themselves, suddenly that's going too far!
Kamikaze but German
So, maybe Ike a kamikazische?
Japan also had human torpedos who’s pilots were locked inside the submersible with no way to get out 😅
Shurly not, no German is crazy enought to do that. Its only a myth born by the Oka
It's baffling to think such a creepy little man found something creepy.
Thanks, Dark Skies.
He had a sister "Sakura".
When a Doodlebug went over, everybody stopped talking hoping it wouldn't cut out. If it did everyone dived for cover!🙄
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Do you use AI to write your episodes?
Complete insanity but incredible engendering for the time 🤙🤙🤙
Remember it wasn’t just a “jet engine” it was specifically a freakin ear shattering pulse jet.
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That painting of Leonidas with all those naked men and so many swords around would make me nervous.
"Leonidas.............here come 30 thousand Persians Sir."
"I think we should.....................WHOOPS! I think I just cut off my dick Sir!"
"I'll be ok though, oh, so much BLOOD!"
They mentioned the Japanese kamikaze suicide missions, but didn't those include some jet-powered craft that looked a lot like this, if not being directly borrowed or copied from the program?