Only one allied pilot ever flew an Me 163b with the rocket motor: that was the Royal Navy test pilot Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown. At the end of the war, he was tasked to find German aircraft of advanced design. He found an engineless 163 at an airfield, and questioning of his two German helpers revealed where a Walter rocket engine could be found. When Brown told his assistants that he intended to fly a 163 with it's motor, the Germans begged him to reconsider, knowing just how dangerous it would be. Having been told by the Air Ministry that he could fly a 163 as a glider, but under no circumstances to try using a 'live' one, Captain Brown knew that he had to try, if only to get a proper sense of what the 163b could do. Reluctantly, his helpers fuelled the aircraft, and again pleaded with him to give up. He flew the plane, and reported it as a delight to fly. He landed successfully, much to the relief of his German assistants, who he had absolved of any blame if the thing crashed or blew up, writing them special releases. Captain Brown flew virtually every aircraft type of the last war, and many more in the years following. He died, aged 97, in 2016.
I watched his memorial flypast at RNAS Yeovilton and listened to his book "Wings On My Sleeve" many years ago. He got careers advice from Ernst Udet during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Advice that would bite the Luftwaffe on the arse.
When you say he died at the age of 97 in 2016, presumably he was lying down in a hospital bed fading away with a normal age related disease and not raising hell in a cutting-edge new aircraft.
That actually spins while in flight to generate electrical power. Modern airliners have a similar deal called a ram air turbine for the same purpose in emergencies.
One of the test pilots for the Komet was Hanna Reitsch... amazing woman. She is also the first person to fly a helicopter indoors. When Berlin was crumbling she made a few flights in and out of the city. How a movie hasn't been made about her amazes me.
....for political reasons, likely, since she was unrepentant about Hitler and the Nazis, though she found the treatment of the Jews as shocking when the truth about the camps came out. She never believed the rumors during the war. (From her book)
@@hertzair1186 My thoughts exactly my friend. Ideology aside... she has my respect. Hanna was "doing it all" long before the term Womens Lib came into fashion. ;)
@@hertzair1186 I'm sorry to admit I had no idea she had written an autobiography. But... I now know what my next reading venture will be. All the information I have of her was garnered from the Internet, the History Channel, etc. over the years. Thanks Hertz!
As a top turret gunner in a B-17, my Dad saw one of the turbojet or jet-powered German fighters when it slowed down, but before he could react, it sped away into the distance.
The same problems these jet pilots had, by that time the jets were much too fast for a contemporary air combat. Pilots of Bf 109s did have a similar prob when they wanted to shot down Russian U-2 biplanes, or Allied fighters with Fi 156s *. . .*
Ww2 era jets had very poor acceleration at propellor speeds. If it slowed down enough it was going around the speed of a b17 it wouldnt be zooming off like that. Prop planes had a pretty big advantage at lower speeds actually, generally more maneuverable, accelerated faster. Jets however, could go way faster than prop planes, obviously.
Excellently done, many new film footage that I have never seen before, we had a German exchange pilot when I was in the USAF who was a big fan of the ME 163 and he told me that using modern computer analysis that they had figured out that if the wings were swept back just 3 degrees more the plane would have broken the sound barrier!
Was a gorgeously deadly design. There is one a man flies as a glider. He gets a tow up and glides down. If i had a large budget i would make a mold and produce a C/F replica with a hybrid rocket like rutan uses. I am a very highly experienced private pilot and the komet wouls be a absolutely kick in the pants to fly. The climb was not as fast as a modern aircraft , but was outrageous in its day.
thanks bud ...cool video to watch , it made me remember a rocket glider i scratch built in the 80's from a few pictures in a history book , read the short couple of paragraph's many times back then and marveled that they had rockets so long ago , i was like 10yrs old, we didn't have access to any videos of these...i ended up making like 10 versions before i got the aerodynamics and rocket figured out. had to go a few times to different libraries to find a books on aerodynamics..... it felt cutting edge to be like 9-10yrs old wowing all the adults with a rocket powered r/c glider built from wood, tissue paper and paint. thank for striking up an old memory man
I have seen one of these in person,At the Air Force National Museum on the Wright-Patterson AFB,in Dayton,Ohio. You wouldn't believe how small these things are. The center section is smaller than a new Volkswagen Beetle,TINY.
Indeed! It was also my first thought when I stood next to one. It was on display in the the mezzanine floor of the main concourse of the Frankfurt Airport's B section of what is now Terminal 1
@@daszieher Franfurt doesn't have an original Me 163, the two in Germany are in Munich and Berlin. Maybe that was the famous, airworthy replique built by Josef Kurz *. . .*
@@letoubib21 hahaha! It might have been a replica, but it seemed full-size. I remember it having an individual insignia: with the words "Klein, aber oho!" and depicting a flea. It was not there for long, so it might have been on loan.
The similarities on both sides of a war are astonishing. It is usually just the leadership which is different. Most regular Joes around the world just want to do something cool and go home for a beer after that.
@@daszieher Incorrect. Most German citizens were okay with mistreatment of Jews and other unwanted like the Roma and Slavs. This channel doesn't do any such videos, maybe check out the TimeGhost "between 2 wars" series or Armchair Historians "life in Nazi Germany" video. Anti-Semitism is a thing y'know.
Welp, now that I finally know what T-Stoff and Z-Stoff are made of, looks like the time has finally to strap a very finicky rocket engine to a glider and hunt down those dastardly bombers which are currently plaguing the airspace above my house.
The Chief Test Pilot of the Messerschmitt ME163 program was Rudolf Opitz. I got to meet Mr. Opitz in person at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in the summer of 1999. He said the fuel tanks that contained T-Stoff and C-Stoff were located on each side of the pilot in the cockpit. If those tanks had ruptured during a hard landing, the fuel would literally dissolve the pilot in the cockpit, which led to the rocket plane's infamous nickname, "The Devils Sled." The most incredible thing about flying the Komet, Mr. Opitz told me, was the fact that many of us test pilots were pulling incredible amount of G's without wearing any G suits whatsoever. Even its initial climb rate of 15,500 feet per minute was amazing even by today's standards. Rudy later immigrated to the United States after the war and he became an FAA Examiner in Gliders. Throughout his career, Mr. Opitz had made well over 5000 dead stick landings.
For the allies, this was an outstanding development. Not only was it equipped with a cannon with a rate of fire that made it next to useless on a fast interceptor, but as a bonus it kept killing Germans.
I spoke to Luftwaffe ace Gunther Rall, who flew an Me-163B. He crashed one day and the volatile T-Stoff (hydrogen peroxide and water) spilled on his hands and melted his leather gloves to his skin!
Compared to most history channels I've seen, this gives a bigger overview of the aircraft such as the background of the aircraft over all and the history behind each individual part of the craft sometimes. I'd like to see more from this channel :)
I thought they would have a hard time finding volunteers to fly in that deathtrap. It was new to me that pilots were eager to hop in one and take their chances having the flesh dissolved from their body in a matter of seconds.
Seriously. I'm 34, I got a girl 10 years younger to stay the night 2 days ago. In the morning I said I hope I didn't snore or anything. She said no, but you did fart extremely loud at one point. fml. I need the Nazi wunderwaffe diet.
I am on a carnivore diet and almost never fart. I just eat meat and fish, eggs and cheese. It's plant foods like veggies, beans and soy that cause gas, although some people also need to avoid dairy.
“Strict diet as to not produce gas that could mix with the volatile chemicals and explode.” I could not imagine for the life in me hold a fart in for over 30 seconds.
Yeah, I couldn’t be a pilot for this aircraft. I fart. A lot. That would really suck. You fart in the cockpit and the whole plane goes up! The video said 9 planes went up due to spontaneous combustion. I guess those pilots blew the butt trumpet.
@@JustAPairofLegs There's a video that this guy put out, since he does a lot of War thunder videos. It's a short video of what the plane would be like if it were actually implemented in a way realistic to how it operated during the war. I can imagine that would make playing the plane a joyless endeavor to what it is now in the game.
@@Grahf0 aaah spookston he’s a great content creator! And yeah it would be know fun if it was like the one irl even tho it does exploded 50% of take offs and landing in the game
@@JustAPairofLegs 1. Spookston is a really bad source for anything regarding german vehicles in WW2 (hint: the guy is biased against them like no other bloke). Thought, he does make funny videos. The only videos of him, that i find somewhat informative for people that are new to military vehicles is his "future tank" series. 2. If the Me 263 would be historically correct, it not only would be more involving to land but it would also be more maneuverable, would have a much longer flight time, up to 30 minutes for the last iteration of it's dual chamber rocket engine and it would have an overpowered version of the "schräge Musik" in it#s wings ( 6 to 8 recoilless 50 mm guns that trigger via a photoresistive sensor system, wich detects the underbelly of a bomber, with enough accuracy to kill anything in the game in one shot) That's actually something that Spookston would not tell you. ;D
The Japanese did build and fly a locally built "copy" of the Me-163, the Mitsubishi J8M. The Japanese only completed a half-dozen or so just at the end of the Pacific war, with no combat sorties.
DAMN SON that is a LOT of Komet footage I have never seen and WWII Luftwaffe aircraft especially the wonderwaffen has always been a fascinating subject for me. It must have taken you quite some time to compile all this footage, great job! I love your Dark Skies direct and informative format and I was surprised after all this time I've never hit the subscribed button. SUBSCRIBED!! =D
I was lucky enough to meet the only allied pilot to fly the ME163 - Eric "winkle" Brown. He said after takeoff he crapped his pants and jettisoned all the fuel as soon as he could. The British would later develop a fighter using the same concept but with a solid catalyst.
Out there in videoland there's an interview with (iirc) Eric Brown the RAF test pilot where he says the performance of the aircraft was astounding but because of the issues of explosion or being dissolved it was also the most frightening aircraft he ever flew (or landed).
When the narrator says the pilots were in just as much danger of blowing up as being shot down by Allied forces, that's only partially correct. They were, in fact, in much greater danger of blowing up than being shot down by enemy fire. The risk of being shot down was minimal due to the incredible speed at which the plane could fly. This was referred to by some as the suicide plane.
Japan did manage to get their hands on the ME163's plans (the unassambled ME163's went lost when the subs were sunk) and produced some samples of their own version as the Mitsubishi J8M using a Japanese engine. Mark Felton recently made an interesting video about this.
Thank you for making this video 🙂 One thing that is sometimes overlooked it the Komets excellent flying qualities, no mean feet in such a radical departure from more normal airframe configurations
To think a little woman such as Hanna Reitsch volunteered to test this monstrosity, knowing how much upper-body strength one needed to control the descent. Maximum respect.
"The pilots were on a strict diet to prevent natural gas production..."🤣 Imagine your flight instructor telling you, "If you fart, you're going to explode. NO BEANS FOR YOU!" 💨
This was actually due to the climb rate, which also required pilots to acclimatize for high altitude, to avoid decompression sickness. They had found that the pilots could experience intestinal pain due to rapidly expanding gasses, which was caused by the rapid drop in atmospheric pressure the pilots would experience while climbing so quickly.
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Might I say how amazing your videos are. I look forward to watching them, and a, surprised at how accurate the information is. These videos are the highlight of my day. Keep up the wonderful work.
The information often has one really striking inaccuracy. There’s speculation that it’s intentionally included so that people will comment about it and get that magical engagement for the algorithm...
I've been fascinated by this plane forever. The idea of laying flat on my belly in a plane directly above a tank of fuming, caustic, hypergolic fuel in a craft with a skid rail lending gear is total nightmare material.
Hitler turned out to be the allies greatest weapon. His stupidity prevented Germany from winning the war. He stubbornly held back development of some of the best weapons like the ME 262 and Sturmgewehr rifle.
there is a Me163 in Scotland at the museum of flight, near East Fortune. Incidentally the only allied pilot to fly one was a Scotsman called Eric Brown and he flew alot of the captured German aircraft, during and after the war.
1:59 Literally space age designs imagine the innovation. I see comments on how they’d never test these contraptions and thus is the main reason as to why technological advancements to this extent have begun to precariously decrease over the past 40-50 years you must have the heart for science if your civilization is to prosper and grow.
I'm glad they didnt perfect the jets in Nov. Of '44 cause our p-51 would've had a really hard time getting them even with the supercharger on them planes
Watching this gave me chills! It’s amazing how advanced the Germans really were in design and implementation. If they had just a little more time, they could have worked out the operational nuances, to this I have no doubt.
Rocket powered planes ended up being a dead end for anything but experimental work, though. The ideas the Germans had were advanced, but they were typical advanced ideas of the period. They just pushed out stuff that wasn’t ready because they were desperate.
i dunno, if anything it shows how inefficient the nazis were, spending so much time and effort developing and implementing a technology that had next to no impact on the war effort, just to have it wiped out by a single bombing raid on the only factory that could produce the fuel
@@drakshal403 Hitler was a sucker for the "wunderwaffen" or wonder weapons instead of real military strategy & had a lot of mistrust in his generals, leaving himself to assume direct command of the forces. With the Red army advancing from the east & the western allies from the west, the result was a foregone conclusion. I feel that the German top brass encouraged Hitler's obsession with wunderwaffen knowing it would probably hasten the end of the war in the ally's favour.
@@jeerasaksirimongcol2288 The Original BF1942 has a mod called Forgotten Hope, it had all different vehicles and weapons not in the original build, they even had the Japanese Betty with the Ohka under it you could pilot
At 3.41 you said that there “unpowered test flights”. Not being in the aircraft industry does this mean that the test plane was towed up to altitude then released to glide down to earth or was there another method. Cheers for the great doco. 👏👏
Wondered about this also. Assume that, strictly speaking Japan produced their own version very heavily based on the Me163 rather than actually producing exact copies of the design?
By the way, this plane is still a popular glider for aerobatics here in Germany. Is only pulled into the air with a Jodel D140 in tow. Greetings from Bavaria.
Your one of my favorite channels man thank you 🙏. I would love if you did more videos on Japanese aircraft cause it’s talked so little about and there nearly all destroyed.
For WWII aircraft, I think either the Focke Wulf Fw 200 or Petlyakov Pe-8 would be an interesting aircraft, both were bomber with minor roles in the war despite of their potentials as a heavy bomber
@@RK870XK Like this? 😂😂 I have to say that I'm a bit confused because in the picture it looks to be in one piece! I had no idea it was so far along!! fw200-restaurierung-bremen.de/
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Only one allied pilot ever flew an Me 163b with the rocket motor: that was the Royal Navy test pilot Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown. At the end of the war, he was tasked to find German aircraft of advanced design. He found an engineless 163 at an airfield, and questioning of his two German helpers revealed where a Walter rocket engine could be found. When Brown told his assistants that he intended to fly a 163 with it's motor, the Germans begged him to reconsider, knowing just how dangerous it would be. Having been told by the Air Ministry that he could fly a 163 as a glider, but under no circumstances to try using a 'live' one, Captain Brown knew that he had to try, if only to get a proper sense of what the 163b could do. Reluctantly, his helpers fuelled the aircraft, and again pleaded with him to give up. He flew the plane, and reported it as a delight to fly. He landed successfully, much to the relief of his German assistants, who he had absolved of any blame if the thing crashed or blew up, writing them special releases.
Captain Brown flew virtually every aircraft type of the last war, and many more in the years following. He died, aged 97, in 2016.
Hell of a man, hell of a pilot.
@@georgemacdonell2341 - Indeed. He's been a hero of mine for many years.
I watched his memorial flypast at RNAS Yeovilton and listened to his book "Wings On My Sleeve" many years ago. He got careers advice from Ernst Udet during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Advice that would bite the Luftwaffe on the arse.
Thats british training for ya
When you say he died at the age of 97 in 2016, presumably he was lying down in a hospital bed fading away with a normal age related disease and not raising hell in a cutting-edge new aircraft.
Amazing how fast it goes with that Itty bitty propeller..
You are a funny man
That actually spins while in flight to generate electrical power. Modern airliners have a similar deal called a ram air turbine for the same purpose in emergencies.
@@samsignorelli r/woosh
3 out of 4 get the joke...
@@robertkerr4199 I got the joke....just wanted to be accurate for those who don't understand what the thing was for.
One of the test pilots for the Komet was Hanna Reitsch... amazing woman. She is also the first person to fly a helicopter indoors. When Berlin was crumbling she made a few flights in and out of the city.
How a movie hasn't been made about her amazes me.
....for political reasons, likely, since she was unrepentant about Hitler and the Nazis, though she found the treatment of the Jews as shocking when the truth about the camps came out. She never believed the rumors during the war. (From her book)
@@hertzair1186 My thoughts exactly my friend. Ideology aside... she has my respect. Hanna was "doing it all" long before the term Womens Lib came into fashion.
;)
@@stevesullivan9752 . Yes, she was an amazing woman by any standard...did you ever read her book/autobiography?
@@hertzair1186 I'm sorry to admit I had no idea she had written an autobiography. But... I now know what my next reading venture will be. All the information I have of her was garnered from the Internet, the History Channel, etc. over the years.
Thanks Hertz!
She's german
00:43 early gopro alpha test usage lol
Good one! That was funny. But that’s exactly what it was. Lol!
Gopro hero none
Damn it, you beat me to it. 😂
pog
@@WayneKitching for real i just posted that comment scrolled down and saw this lol
As a top turret gunner in a B-17, my Dad saw one of the turbojet or jet-powered German fighters when it slowed down, but before he could react, it sped away into the distance.
The same problems these jet pilots had, by that time the jets were much too fast for a contemporary air combat. Pilots of Bf 109s did have a similar prob when they wanted to shot down Russian U-2 biplanes, or Allied fighters with Fi 156s *. . .*
Stop telling fake stories
Ww2 era jets had very poor acceleration at propellor speeds. If it slowed down enough it was going around the speed of a b17 it wouldnt be zooming off like that. Prop planes had a pretty big advantage at lower speeds actually, generally more maneuverable, accelerated faster. Jets however, could go way faster than prop planes, obviously.
@@e115x525 My dad saw it slow down, but by the time he fired at it, it had already accelerated away.
@@adenmitchell7633It's probably not fake. Enough Me-262s were used that plenty of vets have stories to tell about them.
Excellently done, many new film footage that I have never seen before, we had a German exchange pilot when I was in the USAF who was a big fan of the ME 163 and he told me that using modern computer analysis that they had figured out that if the wings were swept back just 3 degrees more the plane would have broken the sound barrier!
Now someone needs to build it
The aerodynamics and aesthetics of the shape of the 163 makes me smile.
It kind of looks cute 😃
Aesthetics make me spell
Was a gorgeously deadly design. There is one a man flies as a glider. He gets a tow up and glides down. If i had a large budget i would make a mold and produce a C/F replica with a hybrid rocket like rutan uses. I am a very highly experienced private pilot and the komet wouls be a absolutely kick in the pants to fly. The climb was not as fast as a modern aircraft , but was outrageous in its day.
@@joemontgomery8740 It's amazing how a bunch of evil bastards can come up with something that is so beautiful
@@joemontgomery8740 The Rutherford engine made by RocketLabs would fit quite nicely I think. :-)
thanks bud ...cool video to watch , it made me remember a rocket glider i scratch built in the 80's from a few pictures in a history book , read the short couple of paragraph's many times back then and marveled that they had rockets so long ago , i was like 10yrs old, we didn't have access to any videos of these...i ended up making like 10 versions before i got the aerodynamics and rocket figured out. had to go a few times to different libraries to find a books on aerodynamics..... it felt cutting edge to be like 9-10yrs old wowing all the adults with a rocket powered r/c glider built from wood, tissue paper and paint. thank for striking up an old memory man
I have seen one of these in person,At the Air Force National Museum on the Wright-Patterson AFB,in Dayton,Ohio.
You wouldn't believe how small these things are. The center section is smaller than a new Volkswagen Beetle,TINY.
There's one at the Smithsonian museum.
Indeed! It was also my first thought when I stood next to one. It was on display in the the mezzanine floor of the main concourse of the Frankfurt Airport's B section of what is now Terminal 1
@@daszieher Franfurt doesn't have an original Me 163, the two in Germany are in Munich and Berlin. Maybe that was the famous, airworthy replique built by Josef Kurz *. . .*
And that wasn't just the 1:32 model by Hasegawa? *;-)*
@@letoubib21 hahaha! It might have been a replica, but it seemed full-size. I remember it having an individual insignia: with the words "Klein, aber oho!" and depicting a flea.
It was not there for long, so it might have been on loan.
I would grudgingly admit they, too had the" right Stuff ".......
The similarities on both sides of a war are astonishing. It is usually just the leadership which is different.
Most regular Joes around the world just want to do something cool and go home for a beer after that.
@@daszieher Incorrect. Most German citizens were okay with mistreatment of Jews and other unwanted like the Roma and Slavs. This channel doesn't do any such videos, maybe check out the TimeGhost "between 2 wars" series or Armchair Historians "life in Nazi Germany" video. Anti-Semitism is a thing y'know.
@@slcpunk2740 what are you talking about? Younare so woke you are just rambling.
More like alt-right stuff
Every last bit of rocket technology we have today was developed or originates from the nazis
The go pro was cooler back in the days
And it was called „Robot“, even cooler…
Good one
Welp, now that I finally know what T-Stoff and Z-Stoff are made of, looks like the time has finally to strap a very finicky rocket engine to a glider and hunt down those dastardly bombers which are currently plaguing the airspace above my house.
To fly the first fighter in the world that could do those speeds, oh yeah!
Based
The Chief Test Pilot of the Messerschmitt ME163 program was Rudolf Opitz. I got to meet Mr. Opitz in person at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in the summer of 1999. He said the fuel tanks that contained T-Stoff and C-Stoff were located on each side of the pilot in the cockpit. If those tanks had ruptured during a hard landing, the fuel would literally dissolve the pilot in the cockpit, which led to the rocket plane's infamous nickname, "The Devils Sled." The most incredible thing about flying the Komet, Mr. Opitz told me, was the fact that many of us test pilots were pulling incredible amount of G's without wearing any G suits whatsoever. Even its initial climb rate of 15,500 feet per minute was amazing even by today's standards. Rudy later immigrated to the United States after the war and he became an FAA Examiner in Gliders. Throughout his career, Mr. Opitz had made well over 5000 dead stick landings.
Rocket in title? Absolutely banger soundtrack for the video. Every time.
Ikr!....
Amazingly, there is a komet me-163 in display at the Aviation Museum in Ottawa Canada.
I've seen that bad boy too 🙂
There's one at the Flying Heritage Collection & Armor museum in Seattle as well, or there was. Also a ME262 that is in flying condition.
There’s one in Dayton Ohio roo
There is also one in the hangar next to the Ottawa aviation museum. I saw it in one of my pilot’s class.
@@samuelmathurin2167 I have just corrected my comment it was not at war museum but at the Aviation museum
For the allies, this was an outstanding development. Not only was it equipped with a cannon with a rate of fire that made it next to useless on a fast interceptor, but as a bonus it kept killing Germans.
This was an excellent overview of the Me 163 Komet. please Make a video on the Arado 234.
I spoke to Luftwaffe ace Gunther Rall, who flew an Me-163B. He crashed one day and the volatile T-Stoff (hydrogen peroxide and water) spilled on his hands and melted his leather gloves to his skin!
the hell with the vunderrocket... did you catch that cool old band saw @ 2:30?
Wish is had that
6:18 "to minimise natural gas production" That's one explosive fart.
I don’t even understand how farting would put you at risk? Doesn’t make a lot of logical sense.
@@evandotterer4365 me neither. Might not want the suit expanding.
Don't poop a World War *. . .*
This needs more investigation.
@@evandotterer4365 They're hypergolic fuels, they don't need a flame they combust by chemical reaction. Your farts contain methane and other gases.
Compared to most history channels I've seen, this gives a bigger overview of the aircraft such as the background of the aircraft over all and the history behind each individual part of the craft sometimes.
I'd like to see more from this channel :)
I thought they would have a hard time finding volunteers to fly in that deathtrap. It was new to me that pilots were eager to hop in one and take their chances having the flesh dissolved from their body in a matter of seconds.
I wouldn't mind at all, im all up for it sir!
That was the tip of the spear to those pilots, you bet they would.
Combat pilots? Not saying they'd all line up, but get to fight in the latest, hottest, craziest fighter out there? They'd have enough volunteers.
Wolfgang Spaetz’ book is a hell of a read!
One of the Komet test pilots was Hanna Reitsch... this woman also made flights in and out of Berlin during the encirclement. Amazing person.
Please make a video on the special diet and help a brother out.
Seriously. I'm 34, I got a girl 10 years younger to stay the night 2 days ago. In the morning I said I hope I didn't snore or anything. She said no, but you did fart extremely loud at one point. fml. I need the Nazi wunderwaffe diet.
Just eat the same diet as Adolf Hitler did---he had problems
with "winds", too *. . .*
I am on a carnivore diet and almost never fart. I just eat meat and fish, eggs and cheese. It's plant foods like veggies, beans and soy that cause gas, although some people also need to avoid dairy.
@@issuma8223 Sure, the intestinal bacteria are fermenting cellulose, and building gas *. . .*
@@letoubib21 Yep, so eat a bunch of raw cabbage or broccoli to clean out your gut and it'll help eliminate the problem.
“Strict diet as to not produce gas that could mix with the volatile chemicals and explode.”
I could not imagine for the life in me hold a fart in for over 30 seconds.
Better not eat a meal of sourkraut!
Sounds like an interesting diet.
Yeah, I couldn’t be a pilot for this aircraft. I fart. A lot. That would really suck. You fart in the cockpit and the whole plane goes up! The video said 9 planes went up due to spontaneous combustion. I guess those pilots blew the butt trumpet.
the diet to reduce gas was because they were going from 0 to 25,000feet in 2 minutes. else they would get gut pains.
@@orbitalair2103 As a former skydiver I can confirm that farts do indeed expand at altitude.
My FAV aircraft in ANY flight simulator software you can own! Very sweet!
Have u ever played war thunder? It’s a joy to play in that game
@@JustAPairofLegs There's a video that this guy put out, since he does a lot of War thunder videos. It's a short video of what the plane would be like if it were actually implemented in a way realistic to how it operated during the war.
I can imagine that would make playing the plane a joyless endeavor to what it is now in the game.
@@Grahf0 aaah spookston he’s a great content creator! And yeah it would be know fun if it was like the one irl even tho it does exploded 50% of take offs and landing in the game
@@JustAPairofLegs Not lately, but I will check it out! I began with Luftwaffe Commander and IL2.
@@JustAPairofLegs
1. Spookston is a really bad source for anything regarding german vehicles in WW2 (hint: the guy is biased against them like no other bloke).
Thought, he does make funny videos. The only videos of him, that i find somewhat informative for people that are new to military vehicles is his "future tank" series.
2. If the Me 263 would be historically correct, it not only would be more involving to land but it would also be more maneuverable, would have a much longer flight time, up to 30 minutes for the last iteration of it's dual chamber rocket engine and it would have an overpowered version of the "schräge Musik" in it#s wings ( 6 to 8 recoilless 50 mm guns that trigger via a photoresistive sensor system, wich detects the underbelly of a bomber, with enough accuracy to kill anything in the game in one shot)
That's actually something that Spookston would not tell you. ;D
Its good your video is related to the subject, not just random footage. Well done!!
Used Car Salesman: Now THIS bad boy right here- *slaps side of Me-163*
Me-163: *explodes*
Joke I read about the plane on another video.
Was the video: "if war thunders Me163 was historically accurate" by spookston?
@@Urmel331 YUP!
I choked on my spit reading this one 😂
lol
The Japanese did build and fly a locally built "copy" of the Me-163, the Mitsubishi J8M. The Japanese only completed a half-dozen or so just at the end of the Pacific war, with no combat sorties.
There is one remaining Mitsubishi J8M1 'Shusui' on display at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino CA.
@@LonMoer There is a 2nd one in Japan. Original fuselage and replica wings, etc
Yup. Japanese Comet in Chino; ‘seen it myself.
DAMN SON that is a LOT of Komet footage I have never seen and WWII Luftwaffe aircraft especially the wonderwaffen has always been a fascinating subject for me. It must have taken you quite some time to compile all this footage, great job!
I love your Dark Skies direct and informative format and I was surprised after all this time I've never hit the subscribed button.
SUBSCRIBED!! =D
I was lucky enough to meet the only allied pilot to fly the ME163 - Eric "winkle" Brown. He said after takeoff he crapped his pants and jettisoned all the fuel as soon as he could. The British would later develop a fighter using the same concept but with a solid catalyst.
Amazing that we even have surviving footage of all of this. It sounds like historical fiction.
Out there in videoland there's an interview with (iirc) Eric Brown the RAF test pilot where he says the performance of the aircraft was astounding but because of the issues of explosion or being dissolved it was also the most frightening aircraft he ever flew (or landed).
I think Eric Brown's interview was in the 90's tv series called "Wings of the Luftwaffe", good luck trying to get hold of that on DVD.
Highly researched and intelligent documentary, as always. None of the ME163 docs I watched showed me even 25% of this.
When the narrator says the pilots were in just as much danger of blowing up as being shot down by Allied forces, that's only partially correct. They were, in fact, in much greater danger of blowing up than being shot down by enemy fire. The risk of being shot down was minimal due to the incredible speed at which the plane could fly.
This was referred to by some as the suicide plane.
Japan did manage to get their hands on the ME163's plans (the unassambled ME163's went lost when the subs were sunk) and produced some samples of their own version as the Mitsubishi J8M using a Japanese engine. Mark Felton recently made an interesting video about this.
Thank you for making this video 🙂 One thing that is sometimes overlooked it the Komets excellent flying qualities, no mean feet in such a radical departure from more normal airframe configurations
To think a little woman such as Hanna Reitsch volunteered to test this monstrosity, knowing how much upper-body strength one needed to control the descent. Maximum respect.
"The pilots were on a strict diet to prevent natural gas production..."🤣 Imagine your flight instructor telling you, "If you fart, you're going to explode. NO BEANS FOR YOU!" 💨
This was actually due to the climb rate, which also required pilots to acclimatize for high altitude, to avoid decompression sickness. They had found that the pilots could experience intestinal pain due to rapidly expanding gasses, which was caused by the rapid drop in atmospheric pressure the pilots would experience while climbing so quickly.
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@@LesSharp good comment sadly its wasted under this kids attempt to act cool ...
@@LesSharp Thank You for posting actualy useful information.
SCIENCE!!!
0:42 the OG gopro vlogger 😂
"The pilots were on a strict diet to minimize natural gas Productions" 😁😁🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's got to be one of the funniest things i eve heard.
Really cool - if you survive fueling, wheel carriage rebound, getting shot down, and a broken back from the landing!!
Those pilots pulled some serious G's getting up to altitude. Basically STRAIGHT UP!
Might I say how amazing your videos are. I look forward to watching them, and a, surprised at how accurate the information is. These videos are the highlight of my day. Keep up the wonderful work.
The information often has one really striking inaccuracy. There’s speculation that it’s intentionally included so that people will comment about it and get that magical engagement for the algorithm...
The most dangerous interceptor of WW2... To its own crews!
I've been fascinated by this plane forever. The idea of laying flat on my belly in a plane directly above a tank of fuming, caustic, hypergolic fuel in a craft with a skid rail lending gear is total nightmare material.
i bet you still wear a mask to go grocery shopping
@@maxchan179 he wears it in the car too, like a good citizen.
Ja, dieses Deutsche Flugzeug bewundert seit Jahrzehnten die ganze Welt.
best rocket jet ever
Me-163 is a literal firework with a human inside.
Hitler turned out to be the allies greatest weapon. His stupidity prevented Germany from winning the war. He stubbornly held back development of some of the best weapons like the ME 262 and Sturmgewehr rifle.
This is a great channel and the narrative is excellent
This is the best channel on RUclips. Thanks and keep up the great work
there is a Me163 in Scotland at the museum of flight, near East Fortune.
Incidentally the only allied pilot to fly one was a Scotsman called Eric Brown and he flew alot of the captured German aircraft, during and after the war.
There is an interview with Eric Brown talking about the 163. He said it was the only aircraft he flew that terrified him.
The Walter guy was also in submarine air independent propulsion and he did it. Briliant mind he was
Always something very interesting to watch. Keep it up. Love the tone of voice you use. You could make a pencil sharpener sound deadly
High quality series, thank you!
I always thought the one at the Ottawa air museum was so cool.
It had to be quite a ride!
Another great vídeo 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Gotta admit those guys had courage.
Fantastic video! Thank you
The fuel was so volatile that the pilots couldn't fart.
I am surprised that, for once, all of the plane footage is of the correct plane.
I am surprised that for once all of the plane footage is of the correct plane🤓
It’s a rather recognizable shape ….
They showed a B29 and called it a B17.
Me too, fella, me too *. . .*
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That's okay, 'cause both planes were built by Boeing *. . . ;-)*
Is there any one else who is sick and tired of the Term “TOO LITTLE TOO LATE ?”
Imagine if the Japanese decided to go ahead with their own version of the komet. Now that's a terrifying thought, rocket powered kamikazes...
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Literally space age designs imagine the innovation. I see comments on how they’d never test these contraptions and thus is the main reason as to why technological advancements to this extent have begun to precariously decrease over the past 40-50 years you must have the heart for science if your civilization is to prosper and grow.
Damn, I wish there was a track list for this video.
I'm glad they didnt perfect the jets in Nov. Of '44 cause our p-51 would've had a really hard time getting them even with the supercharger on them planes
SILENT BUT DEADLY
Watching this gave me chills! It’s amazing how advanced the Germans really were in design and implementation. If they had just a little more time, they could have worked out the operational nuances, to this I have no doubt.
They were pace-setters in many areas of military technology
Rocket powered planes ended up being a dead end for anything but experimental work, though.
The ideas the Germans had were advanced, but they were typical advanced ideas of the period. They just pushed out stuff that wasn’t ready because they were desperate.
i dunno, if anything it shows how inefficient the nazis were, spending so much time and effort developing and implementing a technology that had next to no impact on the war effort, just to have it wiped out by a single bombing raid on the only factory that could produce the fuel
@@drakshal403 Hitler was a sucker for the "wunderwaffen" or wonder weapons instead of real military strategy & had a lot of mistrust in his generals, leaving himself to assume direct command of the forces. With the Red army advancing from the east & the western allies from the west, the result was a foregone conclusion. I feel that the German top brass encouraged Hitler's obsession with wunderwaffen knowing it would probably hasten the end of the war in the ally's favour.
A friend of mine once said that if the germans had won the war we would have had 100Mbit internet in the 1950s.
These vids are extremely amazing quality, and I absolutely love watching them. Got a patron or somthin I can support?
Where does he get all the footage from?
Joe
Not at liberty to divulge that kind of information at this time. Check back later
This plane was awesome in the original Forgotten Hope mod
What game
@@jeerasaksirimongcol2288 The Original BF1942 has a mod called Forgotten Hope, it had all different vehicles and weapons not in the original build, they even had the Japanese Betty with the Ohka under it you could pilot
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Been waiting for years for this one .
There was a Me163C version which involved feeding the pilot with 'Taco Bell' wraps (popularly knows as Free-Stoff) for extra thrust
Well, the issue was that 90% of the time, the unstable fuel mixture spontaneously combust when the taco gas is released
🤣😆🥲 HAHAHAHA!
The only rocket powered air craft to enter service you say. The Gloster Meteor would like a word
Awesome content friend keep up the amazing work!
German scientists and engineers were way ahead of everyone else.
Another excellent video.
The farting bit was hilarious, they should give out medals for most embarrassing ways to go out
Pull my finger
You should do one on the Dornier Do-31 vertical takeoff cargo plane.
Mustard did one on that
Thank - you .
At 3.41 you said that there “unpowered test flights”. Not being in the aircraft industry does this mean that the test plane was towed up to altitude then released to glide down to earth or was there another method. Cheers for the great doco. 👏👏
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Is the soundtrack used custom made or can I find it somewhere online? It's really good.
Thanks for circling the bird in the thumbnail. Wouldnt have seen it if not
So FRICKIN' AWESOME! Thank you!
11:55 - "none were ever produced" - What about the 7 Mitsubishi J8M prototypes?
Wondered about this also. Assume that, strictly speaking Japan produced their own version very heavily based on the Me163 rather than actually producing exact copies of the design?
The huge red circle and arrow on the thumbnail were too small so unfortunately I have no idea what this video is about
Try watching it then and you might educate yourself.
@@unclekevin5094 Ever heard about sarcasm?
Excellent video...keep them coming!!!!
Cool soundtrack on this one.
Great video, I was hoping to learn more about Hannah Reitsch and her famous but awful flight in this plane, but maybe she deserves an entire video!
Nice starling bro
Gta v
Very technically advanced coffin, get you to the afterlife fast too.
Good job, keep up the fine work. !
By the way, this plane is still a popular glider for aerobatics here in Germany. Is only pulled into the air with a Jodel D140 in tow. Greetings from Bavaria.
I've visited an airbase that operated 163s recently! Unfortunately, no airframes of it were preserved, only one small ram air turbine...
Other commenters note having seen them in museums in the US and Canada
Your one of my favorite channels man thank you 🙏.
I would love if you did more videos on Japanese aircraft cause it’s talked so little about and there nearly all destroyed.
Brave German pilots! 👍😎💪✌️🐺
What's the name of the song in the background man?? Really like it
It would be cool if he also used the metric system for reference.
For WWII aircraft, I think either the Focke Wulf Fw 200 or Petlyakov Pe-8 would be an interesting aircraft, both were bomber with minor roles in the war despite of their potentials as a heavy bomber
Airbus are building (almost!) A new FW-200- hopefully this is news to u!
@@oxcart4172 I've heard that before last year (or 2)
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Great news though. Never thought that would happen!
@@oxcart4172 the same, though I want to see the entirety of the project even if it's just pictures
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Like this? 😂😂
I have to say that I'm a bit confused because in the picture it looks to be in one piece! I had no idea it was so far along!!
fw200-restaurierung-bremen.de/