From Tragedy to Triumph | The Record Breaking Fairey Long-Range Monoplane [Aircraft Overview #77]
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2022
- Today we're taking a look at the Fairey Long-Range monoplane, a record-setting aircraft from the late 1920s / early 1930s. For a time it held the record for the longst nonstop flight, covering 5,341 miles in 57 hours.
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Taylor.H.A (1974), Fairey Aircraft Since 1915.
Thetford.O (1975), Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918.
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I Don't know If you've covered it, but a video on the de Havilland tiger moth would be great
Speaking of requests and record-breaking, how about a video on the Macchi M.C.72 that, besides being the most beautiful plane ever made, still holds the speed record for piston-engined seaplanes that it set in 1934?
Once again requesting the Heinkel He162
Could you cover the Handley Page H.p42/45?
Wish you can cover the design and functioning of aircraft carburetors and fuel pumps, specially the ones designed for combat aircraft
Fairly Long-Range Monoplane
It is a pretty long boi, sleek though
Boo. Hiss.
I sincerely hope that your comment was an attempt at humour. But in case it wasn’t, in the late 20s early 30s 5000+ miles was an extremely long way in addition to the first non-stop from the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 to India 🇮🇳 was a superb triumph and achievement. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦
BADUM-TSS🤣
@@allandavis8201 thank you Allan
I want to express how much I enjoy this channels in depth coverage of the early period of aviation advancement, an era which I feel isn't given as much attention as it deserves.
Rex, I can't begin to express how much I appreciate what you are doing here. When I was a young kid here in Battle Creek Michigan, there were two aircraft setting idle outside a hangar for years; I kind of grew up looking at them. One was a B-25 Mitchell and the other a Beechcraft Model 18 (my favorite airplane ever). I don't know what became of the Beechcraft, but one summer day when I was in my mid 40's I saw the B-25 fly overhead. Someone in Detroit had bought it and flew it away. I've loved vintage aircraft most of my life and have always about knocked down the door to get outside when I hear a radial engine. Now, at 75, I'm thrilled to watch your videos. Your knowledge of the aircraft, the construct of your videos, and even your presentation are phenomenal. Thanks a million!
There is always something clumsy or awkward about these interwar designs. They are starting to look like the airplanes of WW2 but at the same time many of them still look as if they are disguised WW1 designs. I guess in the future people will think the same about our present aircraft designs. Please keep making more of these videos, Rex's Hangar!
Aircraft design has barely changed for 30 years, since CAD was introduced, & will not change at all in future. It is at a technical limit.
It was only in the 1930's that the monocoque structural design--first developed before World War I--became commonplace in airplane design. The Douglas DC-1 to DC-3 of the 1930's were among the first widely used planes to take advantage of this.
Clumsy? Why sir, they had Moxy! Without carbon glass and turbines, these girls look like they had glad rags on and were out for a jaunt in the sky.
@@papalegba6796 those angry bees electric manned drones want to have a word with you.
Nope. Only the control systems have changed, aerodynamically there is no improvement possible, the same designs would have been made last century.
That is the EXACT sort of aircraft that should not have been scrapped. One of a kind, it should have been warehoused for posterity. I understand the thought process on these things was different at the time, but still, sort of mildly tragic anyway.
If this was a "rough cut" I can't say I noticed. Thought it was 1st rate.
Made me think that there could plenty of material in inter war record breaking aircraft to keep a RUclips channel going for a good while!
I love the 20min videos as they are short enough to digest, and long enough to get alot of details too
If you could cover the F7F Tigercat, that'd be pretty cool cause it's an aircraft that really doesn't get talked about much, if at all
Nicely proportioned with sweet lines, I wonder how a small rubber-band version might perform.
I was actually thinking about building an R/C version myself. Very cool and great looking plane
Likely abandoned after a short distance due to declining power output🤣
Build it! 😃
Just starting the video, those initial specifications surprised me. A total weight of 16,000 pounds, gasoline weighs about 6 pounds per gallon and it was intended to carry a thousand gallons.
So. 6,000 of the 16,000 in total weight as fuel is impressive.
An Imperial gallon of gasoline weighs 7.2 lbs, so total fuel was about 7200 lbs, 3 Imp tons, approx 3000 kg.
It is an English airplane so it would use Imperial gallons (5,65 litre) instead of American gallons (3;78 litre) so 1000 gallons would weigh 3.2 tons.
Then add in the weight of all the in-wing tanks, lines, valving, fuselage tank, slipstream-driven backup pump-
Over 40% of take-off weight.
Wow.
1 Imperial gallon is 4.545 litres.
I really like learning about airplanes that I didn't know existed. This was another of you great videos. Thanks for making it.
Could be worth a Docudrama imo. Imagine the scene while in transit. One person flying, the other pouring over charts, or sleeping in the foldable bed. What did they eat, how was it packed, and did they have provision for tea? 😁
Full load take off completed just 4 days before record attempt! They didn't mess about in those days. I was intrigued to know more about Flt Lt Major (e.g. how he came to be an experienced navigator). However, a quick search showed nothing.
I so wanted him to be promoted to Major! Almost Catch-22...
@@paulhaynes8045 and very ‘Flying High’ (Airplane!)
I guess that they must have lacked the materials to build a wing as thin and narrow as is on the U-2 Spyplane (as opposed to the once-passable Band) then they might have been capable of remaining aloft for many more hours with the great lift and fuel economy! I guess the lack of retracting undercarriage is because that would cut into fuel storage space (in the wing) , and probably more likely is that in those early days of Aviation, well managed paved runways were few and far between - with the Farmer's Field being the usual wilderness airfield (and you never knew how rutted and rocky that might be)
Which is why they often found themselves stuck to a hillside. At least perceivably more often than nowadays.
I would enjoy a history overview of the "range wars". So many interesting aircraft.
Large aircraft, basically the size of a small WW2 bomber, massive monoplane wing with a fairly inefficient gasoline engine in most cases. Very weird time to be in aviation, for sure. Really efficient air frame designs for the amount of lift they could create based off their current knowledge. But the engines of that time period are just objectively garbage. We didn't really see any decent gasoline engines till the start/midpoint of WW2 when engineers had to start solving real problems.
Always breaks my heart when you say they scrapped. There used to be scrap yard next to the rail lines in Havant where fuselages from old aircraft used to appear I always hoped one had been kept.
Very sad that this one wasn't preserved! Great presentation! Thank you.
They never even tried to save a single 'Halifax' bomber and the solitary post-war preserved British Hampden airframe was scrapped in time.
The Halifax was a hated deathtrap & deserved to be scrapped. The Hampden was much liked by pilots, but didn't carry enough bombs so was replaced by horrid 4 engine deathtraps. That pilots hated.
Indeed!
What kind of bathroom facilities would they have on those long range flights?
A little bucket with a lid and sawdust? Would they open the door and squad down over the sideboard?
Bombs away! I read an account one time of an RAF crew man who took the opportunity to relieve himself over a target in Germany once the RAF started flying during the day late in the war. True? I have no idea.
Great example of a plane that looks ready to do what it was designed for. Thanks for another good vid, cheers.
Rushed perhaps, but another wonderfully produced and narrated video on a fascinating aircraft which deserves note.
Thank you so much for your efforts -well done!
Congrats on the 100k subs! Also great video as always!
more high quality content - ty RH
What a great way to start my day!
I remember back in the 80's a bloke called Dave Chinnery designed one of these in the early days of electric model flight. Apparently it was a good performer no doubt due to the high aspect ratio wing and the fairly clean airframe.
When you look at it , it's a Design Fairy just would not let go of..the Fairy Battle and it would also pass as the Fairy Barracuda's Great granny..with look's only a mother could luv..Nice one Rex.
This aircraft was used as the mythical plane used in the 1933 book “Lost Horizon”. Check it out.
Don’t worry about release days look at RUclipsr Ahoy, quality trumps quantity ie. a quality video is worth waiting for
Interesting. I have seen this aircraft for the first time in a Biggles comic book, where, of course, the prototype was flewn by Biggles, Algy and Ginger, and later stolen by BIggles big adversary Von Stalhein. The streamlining and relatively big shape in relation to 1 engine already struck me then, this is the first time I saw pictures of its variants and flights. Beautiful aircraft.
Vickers Wellesley was used for records flight and not just one but few of them. Would love to hear that story.
Retractable undercarriage helped a lot, as did geodesic airframe.
There's an Ed Nash video on the Wellesley...
Over the last few years, I've become obsessed with endurance flights. Just a few hours ago I gave an in person presentation about the longest endurance flight (with refueling) that still stands to this day, a mere 63 years later.
Thank you so much for this fantastically researched and produced video. You've got another subscriber!
I'd never heard of this craft. What a beauty she is and a perfect subject for modelling!
I modeled it in 2003 as an electric powered free-flight and it was an outstanding flyer, with many great flights both stable and reliable until it came off the worst, flying itself into a brick wall.
@@Ken-fw9dh Re-enacting the Tunisian incident?
Very interesting. Now I'd love to see some overview videos of the various range/speed/altitude prize races during this era. What country and manufacturers were working on designs for each and whether they did succeed in taking the record. (And then obviously that demands follow-on, more in depth, videos on each design). Where there any that hit their design goals but yet didn't get to claim the record; because another better plane snagged it first?
Body panels of a Ju-52, landing gears of Fi-156, stretched main wings from a Lockheed Vega, enlarged tail assembly of a D-VII, and the end product looks like a weird interwar Pc-6. I love it!
Just how the hell do you compare this airplane's tail assembly with the comma-shaped rudder and the counter-balanced elevator tail controls of Fokker's D-VII as well as this airplane's body panels being ROUNDED unlike the straight/slab-sided Ju-52's??
@@tomt373 I must have my ww1 Fokkers confused and the body panels I was talking about was not the shape but by the material it is made of. Heavily corrugated aluminum panels.
@@migueldelacruz4799 The Fairey had a fabric covered fuselage, not corrugated aluminium.
CFIT. The weather could also have confused the pilots especially if they were in the clouds.
This still happens frequently, unfortunately.
An impressive looking aircraft. 57 hours to fly from England to South Africa compared to around 2 weeks by a passenger ship in those days.
Thanks!
Thank you for that very interesting talk.
Great work Mr Rex thank you
o7 nice video rex, as usual
Thanks for another great documentary video Rex's Hangar!
This was fascinating, and the plane really was neat looking. Thanks for another great video!
Excellent commentary I look forward to each production
This thing is awesome. Thanks again for great content
Thank you.
Enjoyable and informative despite it being rushed.
Cheers
Excellent, as usual!
Excellent Rex.... A local company for local people (league of gentlemen reference) Based just up the road from me.
dont forget ruth nichols. 83hrs in diesel powered stin
son in 1931. engine was giberson radial.
A video on the Bristol Type 138 would go very nicely after this.
The Bristol type 138! I had a model kit of that one, but I could not Google that plane because I had forgotten the name of the manufacturer and what it was called. Thank you!
Love airplanes, and love you vodeos. Different interesting models all the time! Exiting!
Nothing rough about this video at all. It was as ever slick and very interesting.
Good job
Nice to see something a little different - very interesting.
Beautiful craft.
Thanks! :)
Good to see that you now have so many Wing Commander Tier Patrons that you can no longer read out their names. 😉
I would be very interested in video about Czechoslovak prewar fighter biplane Avia B-534 and possibly assesing its chances against German Luftwaffe in 1938
I've always found that fighter to be quite beautiful... Almost looks sleek enough that a monoplane version would have been possible with little modification
And then they got to fly with the Luftwaffe . . . .
Ah! the Proto Fairy Battle .. to the joy of all luftwaffe fighter pilots :D
@RexsHangar >>> Great video...👍
Next, please do the Bristol high altitude record aeroplane. Good program, subscribed.
Damn... Damn boy... Damn boy! Look at that wing.
Back up early, back up often.
😉your comment at 00:52 of reusing the photos Fairey Long Range Monoplane flash me back to my misspent youth watching Monty Python reruns on Saturday nights on PBS at 12:00 am, "Slide No.1 The Larch" 🤣🤣😉. This another Great video on a forgotten airplane I did not know about till today watch this video👍👍
Really enjoyed it, totally not a rough video. Have you looked at da vinci resolve as an alternative editor? Very powerful and there's even a free version that just lacks some of the high end fx.
Setting records was something of a diversion from the practical need for the Empire to establish a regular air postal service.
Very cool looking plane, shame she was scrapped.
Now what about the Bristol Altitude record 138?
What a pretty aircraft.
posted 17 seconds ago, what luck!
See also the Me 261.
hello i like it 👌 saludos
Are these just my wonky eyes or does this thing look quite good. I like the cockpit in the leading edge of the wing. Low, sleek and it does look fast (for the day).
What a pretty plane
Nice lines, in my opinion.
man, those brits are insidiously persistent!
The plane that flew from Moscow to Vancouver is cool. It’s at the Pearson air museum in Vancouver.
The looks like one of those Savoia Marchetti floatplanes for the Schneider Trophy. I believe there is one of the Catamaran type preserved in South America
Wow, for a 1920s design, this looks a lot like the fairey planes of WW2.
The fin could be nicer than that, but it still looks good to me.
Upon seeing the thumbnail, it reminded me of the antonov an-25. At least for the wings and slim fuselage
Batman also used it as his personal Batplane.
You should do a video about the Aviotehas PN-3 "Isamaa Päästja"
Who needs fiction when real life & it's history is so much more interesting. Yet again, a great video expertly conjured from the mists of aviation antiquity.
I think that rubber/plastic pants with strong elastic openings were not well developed then and that fact alone would have counted me out from flying a single engined aircraft to India non-stop. If one of the RAF crew was seen as "not quite right" he was probably better suited to the job than most of us !!
Looks like Lindberghs Spirit of St Louis but larger.
Fly LtJenkins upon assignment... : "My name is Leroy sir." Flt Lt Jenkins upon landing " LEEEEEEROY JENKINS!"
I wonder how most of record-setting planes have looked, if this plain(and modern)-looking design of fairey LR is unique while it's Italian competitor - bleriot-zepata isn't.
Very interesting,thank you. It would however have been nice to say which aircraft broke the records, while the Fairey was preparing to break the record, if that makes sense.
G'Day, the flying flea please
If one day you're passing by Belgium, you should come visite the Royal Military Museum in Brussels! It has one of the biggest aircraft collection in europe!
The sad part is that it's an old museum with a lot of will to modernise but without enough funding. That means old buildings, a lot (a lot, a lot, maybe too much) of pieces but often with little information, a bit dusty...
Damn, I actually managed to make me a bit sad writing this.
I guess you should explain what the connection between Fairey and Belgium is, because most people won't know ;)
Looks like my wot4 rc plane
It's always the awesome looking once that gets scrapped.....
0:34 It looks like giant insects are carrying those planes.
Nice video, will you share the results of this planes successor?
Can imagine this appearing on one of those Indiana Jones montages
A classic Art Deco aeroplane....
Cranwell had a very long runway.
5:38 He missed his opportunity to become a meme by joining the RAF instead of the Army or Marines 😢
Amazing that they didn't try to make the undercarriage retractable as the drag reduction would have extended the range significantly.
I imagine Fl Lt Major's distress was from the fact that he wasn't promoted to Major.
I am shocked to see Fairey build a attractive aircraft ...
😂 next thing we know, there is an attractive Blackburn somewhere
Everyone who flew the swordfish thought it the most beautiful aircraft ever made.
Heh. Fairey could and did do that. The Fox light bomber (mentioned in this video) was a very fine looking aircraft, and the Scout/Fantome/Feroce fighters were real beauties. The Firefly (the original one, a biplane) resembled the gorgeous Hawker Fury fairly closely. And the World War II era Battle, Fulmar and Firefly monoplanes, while not really pretty, were handsome designs too. Then there was the Delta 2...
Wow.