This video was made before I started studying history at University and uses poor methodology. Much of it heavily references Wikipedia and videos by TheGreatWar, Real Engineering, and Sabaton History. You can find said videos in the video description. This video is not a reliable source of historical information.
I salute the need to leave a disclaimer. It is the honorable thing and which is favorable to a career of distinction. Of this video, I most liked the compilation of early moving pictures. I knew such existed by that time, though was surprised they were so prevalent on the field of battle. Well done.
Why does very one assume we want a cd playing at the same time as narration? If I want to listen to a cd ill put one on thanks. I gave up the competition 2:25 which is such a shame as the narration was very interesting.
@@christosgerakinis2628was just about to make the same comment, and no armour, a fuel tank unusually behind the engine, i.e right in front of the pilot. And centre shot guns before the interuptor gear, usually shot off the propeller. Brave brave men.
I built and fly an aerodrome kit of a sopwith pup and se5a and while flying it is incredible to think about. And I have modern engine with throttle and my plane is aluminum frame instead of wood.
My Grandfather in the 1st World War, crashed a plane 3 times and survived as a test pilot (we have his logbook), thanks be to God I am here as witness to his survival!
With all the computer voices accompanying RUclips documentaries, I am utterly delighted and grateful for not only a human voice but a voice of someone whose command of and seeming love for the many languages of the combatants and the plane manufacturers. And whose tone shows deep respect for those whose history he is relating. Thank you!
I made the mistake of opening this video on waking up for a few minutes in the middle of the night. I couldn't go back to sleep until I had finished it. This video was that good. The archival footage was some of the best I have ever seen. I subscribed and wanted to thank you for the work that went into making this video.
I've been introduced 2 WW1. aerial combat after having life saving operation 35 years ago by "The Blue Max". I was told that I needed a hobby 2 take my mind off the pair, chose building WW1 aircraft and I'm still building! I've got 4,900 of them carefully researched painted in their colours!! I really enjoyed ur film,well done great job!
it’s really incredible how much progress they made. They went from throwing stones at each other to having their guns synchronize with the propellers in so little time.
They started on the synchronization gear systems before the war started, earliest patent seems to be 1910, and they didn't have airplanes with it until May of 1915, and the first actual victory, that is "kill", with one on July 1st. Lots of problems for different nations also depending on the type of machinegun, and related mechanics. Austrian and French guns were largely not great for converting to using a synchronizer system. So I don't know, it seems fast, but not in proper context of the everything else going on with technological, and tactical innovations.
My great grandfather was in the RFC and later the RAF. He went up in the observation balloons. He survived that and the mustard gas. He died in the 1960s from the mustard gas damage to his lungs. His entire platoon died the day he was gassed all except for him. I have his military service discharge papers still. Proud of him.
Thanks for sharing! My great grandfather was also discharged for lung damage because of the Gas. He served in the Machine Gun Corps of the British Army. Sadly he didn't tell much at all about his service.
@@LeandroCapstick It was a different world. I think it was so harsh the conditions they were in and seeing often their best friends wiped out most didn't ever speak about what they seen. That was the horror at home that they were drafted to serve in sections of the forces depending on which road they lived in. Back then a lot of families lived within the same few roads. So a lot of people you watched die were your love ones and best friends from school. I was lucky to know a few WW2 veterans and they also never mentioned their time during the war. One just told me never to buy anything made in Japan. He'd been a prisoner of war working on the Burma railway that killed so many. He only ever mentioned he'd been sunk 5 times before they caught and imprisoned him. He mentioned the sharks and the rest I believe was too painful and private to relay to me. I must have been 8 at that time and I'm now 53. He's long since passed RIP.
This is the Best Documentary about WW I aviation I have ever seen, and I may have seen them all. You have a great knowledge of the subject and excellent production. Perfect French as well ... Bravo -
Excellent presentation of the aircraft, the engineering of the various types and the flying capabilities and strategies employed in the air during the Great War. My maternal grandfather served with the Scots Greys during the war and survived. My father served in the RAF during the Suez “crisis”. There are a lot of videos that cover WWII but there are far less covering WWI and most of these do not give much attention to the air war. Your production was interesting, informative and excellently produced.
I was an airman, and an aircraft mechanic in the USAF in the 60's at Selfridge AFB. I was there when they were finishing the restoration of a French built spad 7 aircraft. This is the plane flown by WW1 fighter ace, Captain, Eddie Rickenbacker, in the flying Escadrille in France during WW1. Captain Rickenbacker flew 134 combat missions and shot down 22 planes and four observation balloons for a total of 26 kills. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was an American fighter ace in WW1 and a Medal of honor recipient. 🎖 He was the country's most successful ace pilot. Captain Rickenbacker was in his 90's and was President of Eastern airlines at the time. The plane was to be flown by our base commander, who was an accomplished fighter pilot but he said he wanted instruments added to the plane, before he would fly it. The original plane had no fuel gage, altimeter or air speed indicator, and he requested they be added! The plane was being refurbished in the carpenter shop at the base and I saw the fabric being stretched over the wooden frame and glued in place, not to much different from the model planes I built as a kid! That was quite an experience, and I never forgot seeing the plane and Captain Rickenbacker, it was quite an honor!
Great to hear about Eddie Rickenbacker again! When I was a kid I built a plastic model of a Spad with Eddie Rickenbacker in it doing the 'thumbs up' sign. I wish I still had that model today. It must have been a great honour to see Eddie Rickenbacker and his plane, especially while you were serving. Good luck to you, Sir, and thank you for your service. Regards from Jonathan from Australia.
In fact the Sopwith triplane first flew in May 1916 and was fully operational with No 1 Sqn RNAS by December the same year. Called the “tripehound” it was a successful combat aircraft, though difficult to maintain. B Flt 10 Naval Sqn claimed 87 victories in 3 months and the CO (R Collishaw) scored 34 of his 60 victories in the “tripehound” - B Flt (Black Flight) was an all Canadian unit and painted their cowlings and fins black. It was replaced by the Sopwith Camel, a more robust and better armed aircraft. The Imperial German Air Force studied captured examples of the Sopwith triplane and produced numerous prototypes (34!) of which the most successful was the Fokker Dr.1.
13:05;the Vickers FB26 'Vampire'! An improvement on the 24,29&32 Squadron DH2's,and the latter 40&41 Squadron's FE8's but unfortunately not put into mainstream production.Faster,more manoeuvrable AND with ×3 machine guns but to no avail. Haven't seen the earlier footage of the Bristol F2b Fighters &SE5a before,VERY nice😊👍🏻
Congratulations. A truely well prepared and researched video. I note the variety of source material of aerial footage covering both combatants. I learned quite a bit from this presentation and I especially liked the way you developed the story along with the development of the aircraft. If you can follow this effort with similar material I will be forced to subscribe out of sheer respect.
It's really crazy, barely able to conquer the skies at all just for a good decade, already fighting for their lives and setting air to air combat standards for the future to come. I very much enjoyed this documentary you put together!
A few points. The high speed of the Ansaldo SVA V was partially helped by having a thin wing section which would partially flatten at high speed. I'm not sure if that was intentional however. Interrupter gear wasn't tried on the French aircraft in the early days because the Hotchkiss machine gun ammunition had a tendency to hang fire. The problems with the DR1's integrity was largely due to poor quality control allowing shoddy manufacturing.
Really Kick Ass War Video, I Must Say.! Very Comprehensive, & Chalk Full Of Info I'd Not Have Known Except For Your Quite Informative Production.! So I Say In Your Old Saying . . . "Good Show Man".! If You Keep This Up, I'll Keep Watching Your Work.!
Very nice production. Nice honest description of the Fokker Dr1, iconic as it is, it’s main attributes were a very fast climb rate and insane maneuverability. As for construction, Fokker had a history of poor wing construction through the D VII; at one point, officials wanted Fokker jailed!
@@pleasedontdestroy4851 As far as I can tell from the limited research I did, it was a good plane held back primarily by it's technical problems. It definitely wasn't obsolete.
Yes, I hope you keep up the good story telling! With having to sacrifice the facts. Bad picture usage that other makers seem to do when rushing or just don't really know the topic. Keep up the good work
However not perfect, I enjoyed this tremendously! Thank you so very much for your work, the presentation and the upload! 🙂Very grateful to you! Please, keep it up!
Well done. If you are into WWI - and like making and watching Documentaries, have you seen Peter Jackson's 'They Shall Not Grow Old'? It was really impressive as a documentary using original not seen British War footage. Keep up the effort, very impressive and informative. Much better than some huckster throwing their intro or watermark on someone else's work. Thumbs up and Subbed
Thank you for posting this great and interesting video of a time and subject nearly lost to history, though we must never forget. I quite enjoyed seeing the footage of all the different aircraft and I was guessing the names of them before you mentioned them. I thought you did a very good job of pronouncing the German names and words.
You should update your citations regardless of how many you have to include. I've been on a WW1 aviation binge, and a lot of what you say comes word-for-word from other peoples' content. I appreciate how you string it all together, but you owe those people their due credits.
You're right, when you're in the flow of writing the script it's easy to forget how heavily you start borrowing. Glad you enjoyed the video non the less.
@@LeandroCapstick Your channel is still very young. I know first hand how much work goes into this type of scripted content, and I look forward to seeing more from you.
In 1913,during the Balkanic wars,the Romanian army used airplanes for reconaissance mission,against the Bulgarians.Also the Italians used planes during their campain in Lybia -1912
Really good, thank you! Only the music is too loud and... Too beautiful! I'd have preferred a quieter and more indifferent background! Fine work tho! 👍🏻
It's true! I gotta type up an essay, regarding how Aerial Warfare evolved in WW1 - this alongside 2 Imperial War Museum articles were linked as sources. This is a really high quality video on the informative side, hoping you get a little more attention to your hardwork in the future! Stay safe man!
The picture at 12:33 isn't from WW1. The machine gun held by the gunner is an MG 15, while the plane appears to be an Heinkel He 46. Both first saw service in the early 30's.
@@LeandroCapstick @Leandro Capstick Definitely enjoyed watching! By the way, nearly flawless german pronounciation, as a native speakerI have to say, I was quiet impressed. You rarely hear native english speakers (which I'm assuming you are) pronouncing german words correctly.
@@carlos_magnus3465 thanks a lot! I am indeed a native speaker, but I live in Switzerland so I speak German, French and Italian too whuch definitely helped whilst making this video. I thought I'd pay special attention to properly pronouncing everything cuz it rly takes you out of it when ppl don't even try to pronounce something properly.
@@LeandroCapstick Interesting. I know a handful of swiss people from the german speaking parts of Switzerland of which the most speak German, French and Englisch. But since I visited Switzerland on a trip to Italy last year, I always wondered how many people in Switzerland acutally speak the 3 main languages. Eventhough I didn't stay long, the country made quiet an impression, surely will visit it again this decade.
Particularly appreciate ure commentary's balanced mix of modest tone with a careful focus on several important elements of military effectiveness. Many, if not most, film narrations fail to manage it, probably & mistakenly counting on visual specifics to make up for intellectual & informational lapses... Hope u can keep up the low-key authority. I imagine it requires a time consuming amount of research & preparation, while making learning & enjoyment nearly simultaneous for an audience, or at least this auditor & viewer.
Great video and information on WWI aviation and pilots……I used to read many years ago that Mick Mannock had 73 victories which trumped Bishop’s 72 victories……I read now that the authorities have changed that total by Mick Mannock…so that 12 of his claimed victories have now been designated as U/C or unconfirmed…..so now he has 61 victories credited to him……the 73 previously was based on a friend and fellow pilot of Mick Mannock’s a man named Ira Jones who attempted to get the 12 U/C victories given to him posthumously………seems in the end the extra 12 victories in question we’re duplicated in error, shared or just plain unconfirmed victories……..
Very well researched and very well presented. I can vouch for the manoeuverability of short wings and slightly unstable aircraft having been an aerobatic flyer an extra certificate or endorsement on my PP.. One of the planes I flew was a New Zealand made aircraft by the name of Victor Airtouter. He was fast and highly manoeuverable for the reason that you explained the turning moment will end of the wings was far quicker than the other aerobatic aeroplane that I flew which was the s C150. The sleek body and bubble shaped or T shaped canopy and short wings also gave at great speed camera by a Lycoming engine.
Incredible how only 11 years after the 1st flight in 1903 there was already a race for air combat superiority in machines you had to be nuts to want to pilot. War, as horrible as it is, has been the catalyst for most of the greatest technological advances of the past 100 years.
20:18;this is the box art for the 'PROFIPACK' Eduard DH2 model kit(can't recall correctly if it's 1/72 or 1/48 scale-the latter I think)and very nice it is too! It depicts what could be Captain John Oliver Andrews of 24 Squadron under the illustrious Major Lanoe George Hawker- C.ommanding O.fficer. Andrews was A-Flight leader and he shot down and killed Jasta 2 leader Hauptmann(Army Captain)Oswald Boelcke's replacement Oberleutnant(1st Lieutenant("Leftenant")Stefan Kirmaier who was flying an Albatros Dii.Kirmaier was no slouch. The vanquished pictured is an Albatros Ciii 2 seater.
28:00; In fact the Bristol Fighter F2b(shown here as the F2a variant) was a superb 2 seater;very fast&deadly when eventually used as a fighter with a sting in it's tail. Just a shame William Leffe-Robinson VC didn't know it during 'Bloody April' when he led 5 other F2a's up against MvR and Jasta 11,losing 4/6 and he himself becoming a prisoner only to die of Spanish Influenza on return home on the last day of 1918.😔
Due to the mistreatment he received while a pow at the order of the German camp commandant.He was physically weakened by starvation and long periods of solitary confinement and beating's by the guards,I'm not sure but I think the commandant was charged by the British at the end of the war.And all this because he shot down a Zep and was awarded the VC.
@@cumberlandbills I've been tinking of covering the B-17 next. I'm currently finishing of my Uni Semester. So that's what I have i mind, but we'll see what I make.
@@LeandroCapstick thats cool bro, looking forward to watching it when its ready. I appreciate it takes time to make these kinds of videos. It's perfectly fine to wait for good quality content in my book :-)
@@cumberlandbills Thanks, it does take a long time to make. But that's not the reason for the gap in uploads, the reason has been my pre-occupation with Uni and laziness when on holiday. But I have promised myself I won't let it be a full year since my last video till I upload the next one.
French critters of victory evaluation were much more severe than german ones; that means that in fact, it was Fonck and not von Richtoffen the most successful ace in the great war .
The Junkers J-1 that you show is NOT the all metal trench straffer. The plane you show is OBVIOUSLY fabric covered. The Junkers CL-1 was the first ALL metal airplane in the first war. And the Nieuport 11 was built as a race plane of the time and pushed into service as a warplane. Also, the rotary engine did not come about with the Sopwith Camel, it was a standard type of engine for most aircraft for most of the war.
I too, look forward to seeing your future work on other various subjects. I would enjoy anything after the affects of the Establishment of Poland through WWII. Not much to ask.
Thanks for your informative video - a few new pieces of information,r which I found enlightening. , I have had considerable success with inter-club competition, however, whenever I try my hand with the computer, I usually wind up crashing whatever I choose to pretend to fly. I Munster thought assert you that I can work very well in a proper flight simulator - but this cost of using these is often in excess of ‘wet hiring’ club aircraft, at least per hour up to a Cessna 206 or a single seat Pitt’s special.
Passing on a comment from my 83 year old Father who lived in Eastern Prussia during WW2 survived the Russian advance and migrated to Australia did National Service in Australian Army and so being a member of the Returned and Services League, at the club some comment or it might have looking at the refurbished Memorial Garden in the club which he had helped refurbished and at the mention of “The Great War” he exclaimed “there was nothing great about it!”.
Very true! The whole thing was a horrible affair. But I prefer naming it the great war instead of WWI because I find saying WWI makes it sound less important than the second one, so I'd rather say the great war as it better exemplifies just how important it was for the course of the twentieth century. Also, it has to be remarked that the word great was used differently at the time. Today it's mainly used in a positive light, but one must only look at conquerors like Constantine or Alexander who carry titles of "the great" to know that it was more to say mighty or powerful than good.
19:02-That's debatable too as Britain's Mick Mannock(R.O.Irish Lineage) 'officially' had 61 'confirmed' victories YET many times took out the rear gunner of a German 2 seater only to let the newbie flying alongside him deliver the coup de grás for morale purposes.Ira 'Taffy' Jones(one time friend& squadronmate) puts Mannock's final tally at 73(+12)and even that may not be sufficient as Mannock flew with 40,74(with Jones)&85 squadrons(as C.O.) and so could have had even more as it was a practice he frequently undertook. Also William Avery Bishop,in recent years, has been doubted alot as many of his 72 kills were alone and unwitnessed by anyone else.The Canadian government even took out an official study on it not too many years ago AND I've read that German records on an account of Bishop's famous VC action of a solo attack on a German airfield was not recorded by them;ie,never happened. I don't mean to knock Bish as he was,imo,an incredibly brave man and worthy of all respect he achieved. Let us not forget that the Canadians had some of THE very best pilots fighting for the allies in the Royal Flying Corps and The Royal Naval Air Service(pre R.A.F.),e.g;Raymond Collishaw(61) and William Barker V.C.(50) to name just the top two others.There were many,many more.
"coup de gras" - sorry to laugh, but is that a typo or actual ww1/aviation buff lingo eg the way British soldiers pronounced Ypres "wipers"? (I'm leaning towards the former, but the acute accent on the 'a' seems deliberate, that's why I'm wondering.)
15:20;Major Ferdinand Waldron C.O. of 60 Squadron(killed in July 1916 and his damaged Morane type 'N'-as seen here-was very much photographed by the Germans near where he crashed,as was his corpse!) with Robert Smith-Barry as his #2. . Both very important men. Smith-Barry went on to open the Gosport school of flying that taught neophyte fliers REALLY important things learnt from actual frontline experience like current German tactics and manoeuvres likely to save your life in combat.
The Wright Flyer (1), flew three times in December of 1903. This war was fought 14 years later. From heavier than air flight, to heavier than air fight in 14 years! That is progress...
Your German pronunciation is exquisite m8 and,despite me giving more than my tuppence here(sorry can't help it-WW1 and flight is a great passion and has been for most of my life)most of what you say on here is bang on imho.
Oswald Boelcke was THE greatest German airman of WW1 imo. He pioneered communication stations to the front allowing defence fighters to intercept the French& our incoming aircraft using specially designated 'forward airfields'(small landing grounds where a pair or 3 fighters could be kept for quick deployment&interception)as he was an communications engineer before becoming an Airman. He kept Max Immelmann(The Eagle of Lille-he who the term Blue Max was named after)on his toes in the early days of the Eindeckers dominance-up until he was KIA 18/6/1916),also wrote the Dicta Boelcke fighter pilots rules,whose governing principles are still used today in the Jet age+(incredible when you think of it),and lastly without him Manfred Von Richthofen and the other top German fighter pilots;Üdet,Löewenhardt,Voss,Jacobs,Bäumer,B.Löerzer&Berthold etc,would not have reached the heights they did without his influence. I rest my case!😆
Leandro, a well done history of an aspect of military aviation that interests me, but the soud track is too quiet to understand - and so unlistenable. I'm sure you worked hard o your script, so is their any way that you can boost it?
Finally a channel with impeccable German & French pronunciation! Your English, not so good... (Kidding. Though occasionally I thought a 'th' tended towards an 'f'. Could be my ears, though, I am fairly ancient and going a bit death)... Now this is a subject that I've been informally researching for years, and I approached this offering hunting for errors. The only possibility I found was when rotary engines were mentioned for the 1st time when you were introducing the Camel. An inference could be made that this was a new type of engine specific to this aeroplane. Obviously not the case. It used a variety of powerful heavy types that generated an enormous gyroscopic effect. Combine that with the engine, tank & pilot being confined to a short length of fuselage and you have a monstrously manouverable beast. That's my best shot. All in all an excellent effort, young man, and I have no qualms about awarding you an A*.
Poor Heinrich Gontermann(Jasta 15 commander) fell foul of the DR1's initial structural problems. IF I recall correctly his death led Ernst Üdet to quit Jasta 15 for another squadron🤔
As an American I love the distain in your voice when you convert the metric system into standard I don't know why we refuse to switch It's much easier using 10s instead of fractions of an inch
Having looked into my channel statistics I discovered the vast majority of my audience is american so I might as well make the conversions. But yeah, metric is a lot simpler.
Metrication happened in Australia in the early to mid 70's. I was schooled on miles feet inches pounds and ounces etc. Metric is so easy. About the only thing we still use is car tyre pressure that is pounds per square inches. As for hectapascals. I haven't a clue.
This video was made before I started studying history at University and uses poor methodology. Much of it heavily references Wikipedia and videos by TheGreatWar, Real Engineering, and Sabaton History. You can find said videos in the video description. This video is not a reliable source of historical information.
Ya but we like it.
@@mckessa17 Glad you do :) Just felt obligated to leave a disclaimer.
@@LeandroCapstick there are always a few in the comments section. 1 or 2 semesters in college and they think they know everything.
I salute the need to leave a disclaimer. It is the honorable thing and which is favorable to a career of distinction.
Of this video, I most liked the compilation of early moving pictures. I knew such existed by that time, though was surprised they were so prevalent on the field of battle. Well done.
Why does very one assume we want a cd playing at the same time as narration? If I want to listen to a cd ill put one on thanks. I gave up the competition 2:25 which is such a shame as the narration was very interesting.
So much respect for ww1 pilots. They pretty much got into a flying bicycle with guns and just went up there
If i may add, no parachute !
@@christosgerakinis2628was just about to make the same comment, and no armour, a fuel tank unusually behind the engine, i.e right in front of the pilot. And centre shot guns before the interuptor gear, usually shot off the propeller. Brave brave men.
Flying bicycles, like that description. They were also called motorized kites.
I built and fly an aerodrome kit of a sopwith pup and se5a and while flying it is incredible to think about. And I have modern engine with throttle and my plane is aluminum frame instead of wood.
My Grandfather in the 1st World War, crashed a plane 3 times and survived as a test pilot (we have his logbook), thanks be to God I am here as witness to his survival!
With all the computer voices accompanying RUclips documentaries, I am utterly delighted and grateful for not only a human voice but a voice of someone whose command of and seeming love for the many languages of the combatants and the plane manufacturers. And whose tone shows deep respect for those whose history he is relating.
Thank you!
Agree...
Finally, someone who pronounces german correctly. Vielen Dank!
I made the mistake of opening this video on waking up for a few minutes in the middle of the night. I couldn't go back to sleep until I had finished it. This video was that good. The archival footage was some of the best I have ever seen. I subscribed and wanted to thank you for the work that went into making this video.
I'm very glad you enjoyed it this much. Thank you!
You also. Lololo
This is by far the best video I've ever watched about the poorly documented aerial warfare in WWI. Congratulations on your excellent production.
I've been introduced 2 WW1. aerial combat after having life saving operation 35 years ago by "The Blue Max". I was told that I needed a hobby 2 take my mind off the pair, chose building WW1 aircraft and I'm still building! I've got 4,900 of them carefully researched painted in their colours!! I really enjoyed ur film,well done great job!
it’s really incredible how much progress they made. They went from throwing stones at each other to having their guns synchronize with the propellers in so little time.
They started on the synchronization gear systems before the war started, earliest patent seems to be 1910, and they didn't have airplanes with it until May of 1915, and the first actual victory, that is "kill", with one on July 1st. Lots of problems for different nations also depending on the type of machinegun, and related mechanics. Austrian and French guns were largely not great for converting to using a synchronizer system. So I don't know, it seems fast, but not in proper context of the everything else going on with technological, and tactical innovations.
The French used deflector plates on the propeller. Very crude but effective.
My great grandfather was in the RFC and later the RAF. He went up in the observation balloons. He survived that and the mustard gas. He died in the 1960s from the mustard gas damage to his lungs. His entire platoon died the day he was gassed all except for him. I have his military service discharge papers still. Proud of him.
Thank you very interesting. I know when my great grandfather was in the observation balloons they didn't have parachutes personally.
Thanks for sharing! My great grandfather was also discharged for lung damage because of the Gas. He served in the Machine Gun Corps of the British Army. Sadly he didn't tell much at all about his service.
@@LeandroCapstick It was a different world. I think it was so harsh the conditions they were in and seeing often their best friends wiped out most didn't ever speak about what they seen. That was the horror at home that they were drafted to serve in sections of the forces depending on which road they lived in. Back then a lot of families lived within the same few roads. So a lot of people you watched die were your love ones and best friends from school. I was lucky to know a few WW2 veterans and they also never mentioned their time during the war. One just told me never to buy anything made in Japan. He'd been a prisoner of war working on the Burma railway that killed so many. He only ever mentioned he'd been sunk 5 times before they caught and imprisoned him. He mentioned the sharks and the rest I believe was too painful and private to relay to me. I must have been 8 at that time and I'm now 53. He's long since passed RIP.
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May He RIP Such a Hero ! Thank you for sharing Bless you
Thoroughly enjoyed that dude, learnt a couple of things too.
Really liked your accents as well.
Thanks for half an hour well spent
It became clear to me that one man can produce "Discovery Channel" level content alone. Thank god RUclips exits. Good job man, keep up the great work.
Thanks a lot! I'm almost done with the script for my next video!
Your ability to pronounce the most difficult French and German names is amazing and adds so much more to the professionalism of the production
It wasn't Discovery Channel level but it was close
The Discovery channel, is more interested in the audience that loves to hear about ancient aliens, the Bermuda triangle, and Atlantis.
@@roberthogue5138 the Discovery Channel has programs about history still though
This is the Best Documentary about WW I aviation I have ever seen, and I may have seen them all. You have a great knowledge of the subject and excellent production. Perfect French as well ... Bravo -
Thanks:)
Excellent presentation of the aircraft, the engineering of the various types and the flying capabilities and strategies employed in the air during the Great War. My maternal grandfather served with the Scots Greys during the war and survived. My father served in the RAF during the Suez “crisis”. There are a lot of videos that cover WWII but there are far less covering WWI and most of these do not give much attention to the air war. Your production was interesting, informative and excellently produced.
I was an airman, and an aircraft mechanic in the USAF in the 60's at Selfridge AFB. I was there when they were finishing the restoration of a French built spad 7 aircraft.
This is the plane flown by WW1 fighter ace, Captain, Eddie Rickenbacker, in the flying Escadrille in France during WW1.
Captain Rickenbacker flew 134 combat missions and shot down 22 planes and four observation balloons for a total of 26 kills.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was an American fighter ace in WW1 and a Medal of honor recipient. 🎖 He was the country's most successful ace pilot.
Captain Rickenbacker was in his 90's and was President of Eastern airlines at the time.
The plane was to be flown by our base commander, who was an accomplished fighter pilot but he said he wanted instruments added to the plane, before he would fly it.
The original plane had no fuel gage, altimeter or air speed indicator, and he requested they be added!
The plane was being refurbished in the carpenter shop at the base and I saw the fabric being stretched over the wooden frame and glued in place, not to much different from the model planes I built as a kid! That was quite an experience, and I never forgot seeing the plane and Captain Rickenbacker, it was quite an honor!
Great to hear about Eddie Rickenbacker again! When I was a kid I built a plastic model of a Spad with Eddie Rickenbacker in it doing the 'thumbs up' sign. I wish I still had that model today. It must have been a great honour to see Eddie Rickenbacker and his plane, especially while you were serving. Good luck to you, Sir, and thank you for your service. Regards from Jonathan from Australia.
In fact the Sopwith triplane first flew in May 1916 and was fully operational with No 1 Sqn RNAS by December the same year. Called the “tripehound” it was a successful combat aircraft, though difficult to maintain. B Flt 10 Naval Sqn claimed 87 victories in 3 months and the CO (R Collishaw) scored 34 of his 60 victories in the “tripehound” - B Flt (Black Flight) was an all Canadian unit and painted their cowlings and fins black. It was replaced by the Sopwith Camel, a more robust and better armed aircraft. The Imperial German Air Force studied captured examples of the Sopwith triplane and produced numerous prototypes (34!) of which the most successful was the Fokker Dr.1.
This is a very good piece of work. A well organized analysis, very coherent with lots of information.
After watching far too many crap documentaries, this one is an outstanding piece of work- and well worth repeated viewing. GOOD JOB!!
Thank you very much for the kind words :)
13:05;the Vickers FB26 'Vampire'!
An improvement on the 24,29&32 Squadron DH2's,and the latter 40&41 Squadron's FE8's but unfortunately not put into mainstream production.Faster,more manoeuvrable AND with ×3 machine guns but to no avail.
Haven't seen the earlier footage of the Bristol F2b Fighters &SE5a before,VERY nice😊👍🏻
Why does this channel only have 300 sub's it clearly deserves much more. Keep doing more ww1 videos and you have definitely earned a sub.
Congratulations. A truely well prepared and researched video. I note the variety of source material of aerial footage covering both combatants. I learned quite a bit from this presentation and I especially liked the way you developed the story along with the development of the aircraft. If you can follow this effort with similar material I will be forced to subscribe out of sheer respect.
a very well researched and presented WW1 documentary.
It's really crazy, barely able to conquer the skies at all just for a good decade, already fighting for their lives and setting air to air combat standards for the future to come. I very much enjoyed this documentary you put together!
Thanks a lot! It's been well worth the effort!
Great information in this video. Very interesting too! The men that flew those airplanes had some GUTS.
Great job, subscribed. Looking forward to seeing more.
A few points.
The high speed of the Ansaldo SVA V was partially helped by having a thin wing section which would partially flatten at high speed. I'm not sure if that was intentional however.
Interrupter gear wasn't tried on the French aircraft in the early days because the Hotchkiss machine gun ammunition had a tendency to hang fire.
The problems with the DR1's integrity was largely due to poor quality control allowing shoddy manufacturing.
Really Kick Ass War Video, I Must Say.! Very Comprehensive, & Chalk Full Of Info
I'd Not Have Known Except For Your Quite Informative Production.! So I Say In Your
Old Saying . . . "Good Show Man".! If You Keep This Up, I'll Keep Watching Your Work.!
This was really well made, I'll make sure to watch out for future videos. Thanks for using your time to make this!
Thanks a lot, I hope I can keep up the motivation!
Very nice production. Nice honest description of the Fokker Dr1, iconic as it is, it’s main attributes were a very fast climb rate and insane maneuverability. As for construction, Fokker had a history of poor wing construction through the D VII; at one point, officials wanted Fokker jailed!
Thoroughly enjoyed this, and it was excellently presented. TOTALLY WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very solid production looking forward for future content
Thanks a lot!
Alex when will you release myezvid2 ?
@@LeandroCapstick Question, was the Fokker dr 1 truly a good aircraft? Or was it rather obsolete by the time it reached the front line?
@@pleasedontdestroy4851 As far as I can tell from the limited research I did, it was a good plane held back primarily by it's technical problems. It definitely wasn't obsolete.
@@LeandroCapstick Tank you for the info, loved this video!
That was a very well balanced and thorough introduction to the subject. Well done!
Thanks a lot!
I really enjoyed this.
This is rare.
Well done.
I can see this channel getting very big very soon
14:15;I'm wondering who the Eindecker pilot is here?
Otto Parschau perhaps?
Looks a bit like Walter Göttsch.
Fantastic picture again!
Yes, I hope you keep up the good story telling! With having to sacrifice the facts. Bad picture usage that other makers seem to do when rushing or just don't really know the topic. Keep up the good work
However not perfect, I enjoyed this tremendously! Thank you so very much for your work, the presentation and the upload! 🙂Very grateful to you! Please, keep it up!
I really enjoyed the video. Thank you very much and keep them rolling!
I'm very glad to hear you enjoyed it:)
Well done. If you are into WWI - and like making and watching Documentaries, have you seen Peter Jackson's 'They Shall Not Grow Old'? It was really impressive as a documentary using original not seen British War footage.
Keep up the effort, very impressive and informative. Much better than some huckster throwing their intro or watermark on someone else's work.
Thumbs up and Subbed
Yes I have seen it. It's probably the best historical documentary I've ever seen. It truly brought history to life like nothing else.
Some of the footage is reenactment done shortly after the battle
Thank you for posting this great and interesting video of a time and subject nearly lost to history, though we must never forget. I quite enjoyed seeing the footage of all the different aircraft and I was guessing the names of them before you mentioned them. I thought you did a very good job of pronouncing the German names and words.
Great video! Informative -- I learned a lot. Real footage well integrated with the narrative. Thanks for posting.
You should update your citations regardless of how many you have to include. I've been on a WW1 aviation binge, and a lot of what you say comes word-for-word from other peoples' content. I appreciate how you string it all together, but you owe those people their due credits.
You're right, when you're in the flow of writing the script it's easy to forget how heavily you start borrowing. Glad you enjoyed the video non the less.
@@LeandroCapstick Your channel is still very young. I know first hand how much work goes into this type of scripted content, and I look forward to seeing more from you.
In 1913,during the Balkanic wars,the Romanian army used airplanes for reconaissance mission,against the Bulgarians.Also the Italians used planes during their campain in Lybia -1912
This channel needs way more subs!
Subscribed!
Thank you very much for subscribing! Next Video should be next saturday!
Hello again
This is my first video from you. I am amazed and impressed. You earned a subscription.
Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Really good, thank you! Only the music is too loud and... Too beautiful! I'd have preferred a quieter and more indifferent background! Fine work tho! 👍🏻
I agree. The music although very nice, is a little too loud and distracting. Great video though👍🏾
very rare and exclusive material.... great film!!!!!!
This Is Superb - So well done - Bill Durham
A lot of film I have never seen before. Better than what’s on television lately.
Thanks! Most of the footage used is from British Pathé, Critical Past and the German State Archives. I also used a bit of simulator footage.
Very informative piece.Excellent👍
My history teacher linked this as class work, I ain't complaining!
Damn really? I'm truly flattered. This really warms my heart.
It's true! I gotta type up an essay, regarding how Aerial Warfare evolved in WW1 - this alongside 2 Imperial War Museum articles were linked as sources.
This is a really high quality video on the informative side, hoping you get a little more attention to your hardwork in the future!
Stay safe man!
Wow.... you have a lucky history teacher
Your teacher must be class work himself
@@LeandroCapstick some of the information is incorrect in the video though
The picture at 12:33 isn't from WW1. The machine gun held by the gunner is an MG 15, while the plane appears to be an Heinkel He 46. Both first saw service in the early 30's.
My bad, should've double checked that one. Hope you enjoyed the video despite this mistake.
@@LeandroCapstick @Leandro Capstick Definitely enjoyed watching! By the way, nearly flawless german pronounciation, as a native speakerI have to say, I was quiet impressed. You rarely hear native english speakers (which I'm assuming you are) pronouncing german words correctly.
@@carlos_magnus3465 thanks a lot! I am indeed a native speaker, but I live in Switzerland so I speak German, French and Italian too whuch definitely helped whilst making this video. I thought I'd pay special attention to properly pronouncing everything cuz it rly takes you out of it when ppl don't even try to pronounce something properly.
@@LeandroCapstick Interesting. I know a handful of swiss people from the german speaking parts of Switzerland of which the most speak German, French and Englisch. But since I visited Switzerland on a trip to Italy last year, I always wondered how many people in Switzerland acutally speak the 3 main languages. Eventhough I didn't stay long, the country made quiet an impression, surely will visit it again this decade.
Particularly appreciate ure commentary's balanced mix of modest tone with a careful focus on several important elements of military effectiveness. Many, if not most, film narrations fail to manage it, probably & mistakenly counting on visual specifics to make up for intellectual & informational lapses... Hope u can keep up the low-key authority. I imagine it requires a time consuming amount of research & preparation, while making learning & enjoyment nearly simultaneous for an audience, or at least this auditor & viewer.
Great video and information on WWI aviation and pilots……I used to read many years ago that Mick Mannock had 73 victories which trumped Bishop’s 72 victories……I read now that the authorities have changed that total by Mick Mannock…so that 12 of his claimed victories have now been designated as U/C or unconfirmed…..so now he has 61 victories credited to him……the 73 previously was based on a friend and fellow pilot of Mick Mannock’s a man named Ira Jones who attempted to get the 12 U/C victories given to him posthumously………seems in the end the extra 12 victories in question we’re duplicated in error, shared or just plain unconfirmed victories……..
Loved your narration, but the music at times gets in the way. Try lower it a little bit.
Loved this! AM fairly sure I could here drifts of a Sabaton refrain, so had to check!
Just found your channel Sir and subscribed immediately! Excellent job!
Thanks, Glad to hear you enjoyed the video!
Very well researched and very well presented. I can vouch for the manoeuverability of short wings and slightly unstable aircraft having been an aerobatic flyer an extra certificate or endorsement on my PP.. One of the planes I flew was a New Zealand made aircraft by the name of Victor Airtouter. He was fast and highly manoeuverable for the reason that you explained the turning moment will end of the wings was far quicker than the other aerobatic aeroplane that I flew which was the s C150. The sleek body and bubble shaped or T shaped canopy and short wings also gave at great speed camera by a Lycoming engine.
Excellent production. My compliments on pronounciation of the French and German terms. Few others take the trouble.
Incredible how only 11 years after the 1st flight in 1903 there was already a race for air combat superiority in machines you had to be nuts to want to pilot. War, as horrible as it is, has been the catalyst for most of the greatest technological advances of the past 100 years.
20:18;this is the box art for the 'PROFIPACK' Eduard DH2 model kit(can't recall correctly if it's 1/72 or 1/48 scale-the latter I think)and very nice it is too!
It depicts what could be Captain John Oliver Andrews of 24 Squadron under the illustrious Major Lanoe George Hawker- C.ommanding O.fficer.
Andrews was A-Flight leader and he shot down and killed Jasta 2 leader Hauptmann(Army Captain)Oswald Boelcke's replacement Oberleutnant(1st Lieutenant("Leftenant")Stefan Kirmaier who was flying an Albatros Dii.Kirmaier was no slouch.
The vanquished pictured is an Albatros Ciii 2 seater.
28:00;
In fact the Bristol Fighter F2b(shown here as the F2a variant) was a superb 2 seater;very fast&deadly when eventually used as a fighter with a sting in it's tail. Just a shame William Leffe-Robinson VC didn't know it during 'Bloody April' when he led 5 other F2a's up against MvR and Jasta 11,losing 4/6 and he himself becoming a prisoner only to die of Spanish Influenza on return home on the last day of 1918.😔
Due to the mistreatment he received while a pow at the order of the German camp commandant.He was physically weakened by starvation and long periods of solitary confinement and beating's by the guards,I'm not sure but I think the commandant was charged by the British at the end of the war.And all this because he shot down a Zep and was awarded the VC.
Extremely interesting and very good presentation thank you .
good job! Thoroughly enjoyed! Keep up the great work! Subscribed
Glad to hear you enjoyed it:) Thanks for the sub!
@@LeandroCapstick Hey you earned it! I would love to see your story continue through WWII planes and bombers that would be kick ass :-)
@@cumberlandbills I've been tinking of covering the B-17 next. I'm currently finishing of my Uni Semester. So that's what I have i mind, but we'll see what I make.
@@LeandroCapstick thats cool bro, looking forward to watching it when its ready. I appreciate it takes time to make these kinds of videos. It's perfectly fine to wait for good quality content in my book :-)
@@cumberlandbills Thanks, it does take a long time to make. But that's not the reason for the gap in uploads, the reason has been my pre-occupation with Uni and laziness when on holiday. But I have promised myself I won't let it be a full year since my last video till I upload the next one.
A VERY good video, this! Well done! ✨👏🏼😎✨
French critters of victory evaluation were much more severe than german ones; that means that in fact, it was Fonck and not von Richtoffen the most successful ace in the great war .
The Junkers J-1 that you show is NOT the all metal trench straffer. The plane you show is OBVIOUSLY fabric covered. The Junkers CL-1 was the first ALL metal airplane in the first war. And the Nieuport 11 was built as a race plane of the time and pushed into service as a warplane. Also, the rotary engine did not come about with the Sopwith Camel, it was a standard type of engine for most aircraft for most of the war.
Sorry, I guess I must've gotten the wrong image, it's hard to find good photos at times.
Great docu! Thanks for sharing. Greets from the Netherlands, T.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyed thoroughly. Thankyou!
24:40;that quick flash WAS a Fokker Dii!(D=doppeldecker/doubledecker or Bi-plane).
Glad I found your channel. Subbed.
great vid, you obviously did a lot of research. enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Extremely informative and well done an education of interest.
I too, look forward to seeing your future work on other various subjects. I would enjoy anything after the affects of the Establishment of Poland through WWII. Not much to ask.
Sir Thomas Sopwith's aircraft went out of business after WWI but reformed with him as Hawker for WWII.
Excellent Video!
I'm now subscribed!
Thanks!
23:19 sabaton Red Baron starts playing *HELL YES*
Finally someone has noticed it! I've been waiting months for this comment!
@@LeandroCapstick REALLY?!
@@synthtoaster yep
@@LeandroCapstick oof at least were sabaton fans I’m gonna subscribe
Note Hermann Goering (left) at 26:54.
Very nice video ! Thank you very much, i've learned a lot of things (and I bought IL2 Sturmovik 2 days ago ahah)
Glad you enjoyed the video! Are you enjoying your time with the game?
@@LeandroCapstick a lot more since I met a franch experienced guy to fly together !
Excellent presentation, footage, narration in German.
Enjoyed the video.Thank you.
31:27;PFALZ DXii(12)
and Roland DVi(6)a&b variants!👍🏻
I think that Ansaldo plane was mentioned in a copy of the DC comic 'Enemy Ace'. The protagonist feared its powerful engine.
Thanks for your informative video - a few new pieces of information,r which I found enlightening. , I have had considerable success with inter-club competition, however, whenever I try my hand with the computer, I usually wind up crashing whatever I choose to pretend to fly. I Munster thought assert you that I can work very well in a proper flight simulator - but this cost of using these is often in excess of ‘wet hiring’ club aircraft, at least per hour up to a Cessna 206 or a single seat Pitt’s special.
William Avery Bishop just left of centre at 6:29?
Passing on a comment from my 83 year old Father who lived in Eastern Prussia during WW2 survived the Russian advance and migrated to Australia did National Service in Australian Army and so being a member of the Returned and Services League, at the club some comment or it might have looking at the refurbished Memorial Garden in the club which he had helped refurbished and at the mention of “The Great War” he exclaimed “there was nothing great about it!”.
Very true! The whole thing was a horrible affair. But I prefer naming it the great war instead of WWI because I find saying WWI makes it sound less important than the second one, so I'd rather say the great war as it better exemplifies just how important it was for the course of the twentieth century. Also, it has to be remarked that the word great was used differently at the time. Today it's mainly used in a positive light, but one must only look at conquerors like Constantine or Alexander who carry titles of "the great" to know that it was more to say mighty or powerful than good.
Great video! Thanks so much
Great info & well presented,
19:02-That's debatable too as Britain's Mick Mannock(R.O.Irish Lineage) 'officially' had 61 'confirmed' victories YET many times took out the rear gunner of a German 2 seater only to let the newbie flying alongside him deliver the coup de grás for morale purposes.Ira 'Taffy' Jones(one time friend& squadronmate) puts Mannock's final tally at 73(+12)and even that may not be sufficient as Mannock flew with 40,74(with Jones)&85 squadrons(as C.O.) and so could have had even more as it was a practice he frequently undertook.
Also William Avery Bishop,in recent years, has been doubted alot as many of his 72 kills were alone and unwitnessed by anyone else.The Canadian government even took out an official study on it not too many years ago AND I've read that German records on an account of Bishop's famous VC action of a solo attack on a German airfield was not recorded by them;ie,never happened.
I don't mean to knock Bish as he was,imo,an incredibly brave man and worthy of all respect he achieved.
Let us not forget that the Canadians had some of THE very best pilots fighting for the allies in the Royal Flying Corps and The Royal Naval Air Service(pre R.A.F.),e.g;Raymond Collishaw(61) and William Barker V.C.(50) to name just the top two others.There were many,many more.
"coup de gras" - sorry to laugh, but is that a typo or actual ww1/aviation buff lingo eg the way British soldiers pronounced Ypres "wipers"? (I'm leaning towards the former, but the acute accent on the 'a' seems deliberate, that's why I'm wondering.)
You forgot Donald McLaren.
15:20;Major Ferdinand Waldron C.O. of 60 Squadron(killed in July 1916 and his damaged Morane type 'N'-as seen here-was very much photographed by the Germans near where he crashed,as was his corpse!) with Robert Smith-Barry as his #2.
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Both very important men.
Smith-Barry went on to open the Gosport school of flying that taught neophyte fliers REALLY important things learnt from actual frontline experience like current German tactics and manoeuvres likely to save your life in combat.
The Wright Flyer (1), flew three times in December of 1903. This war was fought 14 years later. From heavier than air flight, to heavier than air fight in 14 years! That is progress...
you must be from the usa the great war started in 1914 11 years after 1903
@@ronmailloux8655 indeed I am. We always get in late and assist in “saving the day”, while we take full credit for all of it... My sincere apologies.
Your German pronunciation is exquisite m8 and,despite me giving more than my tuppence here(sorry can't help it-WW1 and flight is a great passion and has been for most of my life)most of what you say on here is bang on imho.
Thanks, speaking german definitely has its perks.
Thanks for a decent content to watch😊👍🏻
Oswald Boelcke was THE greatest German airman of WW1 imo.
He pioneered communication stations to the front allowing defence fighters to intercept the French& our incoming aircraft using specially designated 'forward airfields'(small landing grounds where a pair or 3 fighters could be kept for quick deployment&interception)as he was an communications engineer before becoming an Airman.
He kept Max Immelmann(The Eagle of Lille-he who the term Blue Max was named after)on his toes in the early days of the Eindeckers dominance-up until he was KIA 18/6/1916),also wrote the Dicta Boelcke fighter pilots rules,whose governing principles are still used today in the Jet age+(incredible when you think of it),and lastly without him Manfred Von Richthofen and the other top German fighter pilots;Üdet,Löewenhardt,Voss,Jacobs,Bäumer,B.Löerzer&Berthold etc,would not have reached the heights they did without his influence.
I rest my case!😆
Indeed he was one of the best in his field, I hope I illustrated this point well enough in the documentary.
Leandro, a well done history of an aspect of military aviation that interests me, but the soud track is too quiet to understand - and so unlistenable. I'm sure you worked hard o your script, so is their any way that you can boost it?
I'm afraid I can't change the audio like this after uploading. Sorry.
@@LeandroCapstick OK, your other videos seem clearer.
@@LeandroCapstick Don't despair: I had no difficulty with the sound. Bonus points for not making the background music too obtrusive!
Finally a channel with impeccable German & French pronunciation! Your English, not so good... (Kidding. Though occasionally I thought a 'th' tended towards an 'f'. Could be my ears, though, I am fairly ancient and going a bit death)... Now this is a subject that I've been informally researching for years, and I approached this offering hunting for errors. The only possibility I found was when rotary engines were mentioned for the 1st time when you were introducing the Camel. An inference could be made that this was a new type of engine specific to this aeroplane. Obviously not the case. It used a variety of powerful heavy types that generated an enormous gyroscopic effect. Combine that with the engine, tank & pilot being confined to a short length of fuselage and you have a monstrously manouverable beast. That's my best shot. All in all an excellent effort, young man, and I have no qualms about awarding you an A*.
Poor Heinrich Gontermann(Jasta 15 commander) fell foul of the DR1's initial structural problems.
IF I recall correctly his death led Ernst Üdet to quit Jasta 15 for another squadron🤔
Very enjoyable historical video
Thanks!
As an American I love the distain in your voice when you convert the metric system into standard
I don't know why we refuse to switch
It's much easier using 10s instead of fractions of an inch
Having looked into my channel statistics I discovered the vast majority of my audience is american so I might as well make the conversions. But yeah, metric is a lot simpler.
Metrication happened in Australia in the early to mid 70's.
I was schooled on miles feet inches pounds and ounces etc.
Metric is so easy.
About the only thing we still use is car tyre pressure that is pounds per square inches. As for hectapascals. I haven't a clue.
Brilliant film, really interesting and very informative
Thanks a lot! Glad to hear you liked it!
great video!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
31:47;a Pfalz Diii from the (I am told)excellent game 'Rise of Flight'.