The Wright brothers first flight was 1902. the Zeppelin-Straaken R Series first flight 1915. The XB-70 first flight 1964. Hard to think just how far aircraft have come in such a short time
Донецкий Военно-Исторический Клуб I can’t even read this comment but I already know he’s talking about the Russian guy who supposedly flew in the late 1800’s
@Донецкий Военно-Исторический Клуб «Согласно последним исследованиям, проведённым в ЦАГИ, развиваемая силовой установкой самолёта Можайского мощность была недостаточна для установившегося горизонтального полёта».
@@CGRCOOL Lol no, I live close to an airport that hosts a large airshow and they had WW1 planes that year. Next morning the WW1 bomber flew home over my house :) Incredible sight !
I saw a silent film where a guy was walking back and forth on the fuselage in flight. While a mechanic was checking under the hood of an engine on a wing! And without a safety net! It was this behemoths incredible low stall speeds in the 30mph range that made this wing walking possible.
You have to have tremendous respect for the guys that flew these things! No power assisted controls, no auto pilots, a stalling speed only slightly lower than cruising speed, unheated cockpits and all over enemy territory. Their safety record was surprisingly good, despite everything.
Mr Murders unsafe? Safety was next to the absolute last thing on their minds. Trying to come close to completing the mission was all they were trying to do. These men did not ask for PPE or scheduled meal breaks. Lol
Don't forget they carried lots of spares and could shut down and repair any engine in flight. Other versions had an actual engine room with each engine clutched in and out at will so it could be shut down and repaired with one huge propeller at the front.
Yeah. I really wanna see these old kite bombers flying again. the pictures are always so awe inspiring, seeing something that *enormous* just, floating along at high-interstate speeds. Actually *seeing* one though? Hell, flying in one? Would be *amazing.*
The Staaken R series were barely flying. The engines were under powered with lub issues. They were built with no consideration for the weight ( 12 petrol tanks of 500 liters made of double layer steel).....etc. Most of them crashed without being took down by fighter planes.
WOW !!! Your shows are so detailed, and professional ! Better than the documentaries that were on TV ! Like Wings or Victoty at Sea .type ! thanks so much for your great videos !!
This channel ALWAYS finds the most awesome stuff. I had no idea there had been strategic bombing by heavier then air craft in WW1, I thought it was all done with huge zeppelins!
I always love learning something new, and although I am an avid military aviation enthusiast, I never realised what strategic bombing actually meant. Thank you for that.
Its amazing because the plane itself had only been invented only 7 years prior! Nothing accelerates technology faster than War! WW2 started on horseback and with bolt action rifles, ended with Jet fighters and the Atomic bomb.
@@Engie_Boi Interestingly enough the Germans did employ Cavalry during the Second World War. Before the beginning of the war they had 18 Cavalry Regiments and upon mobilization all but one of the Regiments was used to form thirty-eight Reconnaissance Battalions for the initial wave of Divisions and sixteen for the second wave. True Horse Cavalry at that. From what I can find they performed very well during the invasion of Holland and I've read of a Battle from the invasion of Poland were German Cavalry and Polish Uhlans fought what was described as a classic Cavalry Battle with Sabre and Lance. The SS also continued to create and use Cavalry Brigades and even started expanding them to Division size around 1942-1943. There are a number of other really interesting excerpts I have found that seemingly showed their effectiveness. Especially in open terrain such as the East. Russians also utilized Horse Cavalry to great effect for Recon and Night Attacks/Raids.
It's been a while since the last time I watched your videos, but it looks like u gained much more confidence!! Way to go! Very interesting content as always 😃
10:32 For those who don't know Dutch: "At Poelkapelle on the field of Daniël Parrein at the Stadenseweg 72, wreckage pieces from a plane from the First World War were found during ploughing. Together with his daughter Bernadette and vacationer Sami Dhaese, Daniel Parrein shows the remnants at the place where they were found."
Loving this channel, great job! Hey, I would LOVE to see a video on the F-20 TIgershark. That was a bad as jet for the time. 2 of the 3 crashed... has a neat story too!
0:21 'it was also one of the 1st military aircraft with an enclosed cockpit" (shows open cockpit version)................. 4:57 hindenberg, not ferdinand zeppelin.
0:58. Says 'cavalry,' shows video of infantry. Good video. Better narration and pronunciation. Still, the narration is too fast for my mind to keep up. I frequently have to rewind. I can follow along better at 0.75x speed.
Personally, I have no issues keeping up, but I do think the pace is unnecessarily fast. It creates false sense of urgency which is out of place in a documentary type video. To the narrator - Relax and take a deep breath, no one is chasing you with a hatchet :)
Agreed. The pronunciation gets muddled at time due to unnecessary speed. You don't need to slow down much, just enough to pronounce each word clearly. By the way, the common nickname for the R.VI was the "Gigant", Giant in German, but the pronunciation was so fast I couldn't make out whether the word was said at all.
So many incorrect pictures and movie clips. After a minute or two all I could do was see the errors. This is going to mess a bunch of people up in what they think they know.
I like the fact that you included the newspaper clipping from the find. Besides French they also speak Dutch in Belgium and the newspaper clipping has Dutch text. I'll translate to English for anyone curious: At Poelkapelle(Place name) in the fields of farmer Daniel Parrein at Stadensweg 72(Address) an aircraft wreck from the first world war was found while plowing. Together with his daughter Bernadette and Dami Dhaese on vacation there, farmer Daniel Parrein shows off these remains at the place where they were found. That's it. i wonder if there was more of an article attached when it was first released.
Very interesting topic, and fascinating photos. For any further videos narrated by this speaker,, I politely recommend that, even for native English speakers, you are Too Fast and would do well to slow down markedly.
4:22)The man with the sunglasses is also wearing an US Army M1898 Campaign Hat made by STETSON. Also called the Peaked, the Montana, the DI and Park Ranger. The Gotha bombers were of two sizes.The limeys had no idea about the 4 engine Giants until one crashed.They were going nuts trying to find out why their gunsights weren't working.The sights were designed for the smaller 2 engine bomber.The Giants' size made it look like the fighters were within firing range.The Gothas had one side effect.George V took on the alias of Windsor. His grandfather was Prince Albert Coburg - Gotha - Saxe. The people were close to having another "Dump The King Party."
Dark Skies has gone dark on this PC. This video was an ad avalanche. I barely survived and got out alive. Greed is killing the Tube. It started at only 1 minute in.
Fascinating video. Impressively edited and narrated. I have often desired to learn more about large WW1 bomber aircraft and you guys granted me my wish. I am grateful! Hat's off to you at "Dark Skies"! Peace!
There Airforce doctrine for early to mid WWII should explain why they were to late in there realization that they needed long-range heavy bombers. With development only reaching substantial levels to late in the war for a single prototype to be approved for frontline service and production.
Let's piss off the United States without considering how to disrupt their overwhelming industrial capacity. Ooops! That's the problem with master plans for world domination.
They had many restrictions applied to them after WW I, to prevent another war. The Germans flagrantly ignored those restrictions. For example they built tanks and called them tractors. Military bombers were called civilian aircraft. The sanctions didn't work.
Very nice video! The commentary seems a bit odd: the intonation of the sentences seems to be OK, but the are all exactly the same and lack emotion. Also the tempo does not change at all. Is the voice computer generated?
i get this channels videos shown constantly, looks interesting, and then i hear him talking 1.5 times speed and i nope out every time, just watched 10 sek of this vid. nope
The Germans in the First World War had made pretty impressive strides in developing a sophisticated heavy bomber program...certainly, it promised more than the technological (and fiery) dead end of lighter-than-air bombing. They were building the Foerstmann Giant, a huge triplane designed for an eighty-hour transatlantic round trip. Fokker was working on a flying boat design that approached the Spruce Goose's size, also intended to bomb the U.S. Northeastern seaboard.
On a side note, when I get bored I use paper and close pins n stuff to make mini ww1 type planes. At this point, I have an airforce of about 47 aircraft, and while most have a wingspan about the size of a pencil, I have two identical bombers with the name “freebird dove.” They have a wingspan of 3 feet, have eight fake engines, four tractor and four pusher, and I won my school’s science fair with one.
Dude, slow down. Your narration seems to be at 1.25x. If it was an audiobook then it would be alright because I wouldn't be looking at images/videos that go along with it but the sensory details are too much to process.
I don't watch the vids.... And he's still too fast. The channel doesn't seem to want to fix it, as it's one of the most common complqints, and it hasn't been rectified
I like this guy. But Imo he talks a bit fast for me. thankfully RUclips had settings to alleviate this minor issue I typically set this plane guy to .75
Watchers: If you want to understand what this narrator says, change your playback speed to 0.75 That also helps the video to play closer to its correct speed. And then compare with Mark Felton's production on the same subject. Dear Narrator: Take a breath !
I think it's on Netflix, but there is a documentary about post wwI with footage taken from a photographer at the time from the air, it's really a great,documentary. Maybe add to that how the landscape remains effected and the no,go zones in,France today because of then??
His visuals are wrong is just so many places. The info is generally accurate, if not a little wikipedia-y, but the choice of images and footage belies his lack of general knowledge. So may mistakes.
Aircraft technology moved so fast from 1900s to the 1960s. After that we've just had small iterations here and there. Hard to grasp that aircraft speed havent progressed at all since the 60s
Ah, yes, good old Uncle Ferd... I don't know the real connection, but I once asked my grandmother if her German parents had ever taken her to "the old country" to meet relatives who had never seen her and so on. Indeed she had; it was a lovely trip on a beautiful ocean liner when she was 12. "We met Auntie Beatrix and Uncle Karl ant de Graf Spee ant de Graf Zeppelin..." she began. "Wait a sec," say I, "Zeppelin and Spee were *relatives?*" "Oh yes, dey were" but it was so long ago that she couldn't recall if they were uncles or just what. My bucket list includes tracking down my German forebears and figuring out exactly how they relate to these historical figures. The things you can find out in casual conversation!
I appreciate the video and the narrator's efforts but the super fast monotone speech is distracting and some pictures are not allowed to stay long enough to focus one's eyes on them.
I'd always thought that this was another one of Germany's wartime engineering oddities. Not a production aircraft with advanced features and sturdy construction that enabled it to become a rather formidable airframe.
A small mistake: In german language, the name Staaken is not spoken Stacken, but Stahken, the double aa is a long spoken a. The noblemans family ,von Zeppelin' came once from a village ,Zöpelin' somewhere in northern Germany. Today they call themselves ,von Brandenstein- Zeppelin', and Zeppelin company is today a construction machines company.
Six of the R.XIV variants served with the air fleet of the Ukrainian People's Republic and fought for Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence. A curious mix of entente and central powers aircraft served the air fleets of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) and the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR). Both forces fought extremely bravely and included notable individuals. In the East Viktor Pavlenko who managed the stavka's air defense, during the first world war, became head of the UNR's airforce and managed it to the best of his availability in very difficult circumstances. In the West, Petro Franko, son of one of Ukraine's most famous poets, headed the Ukrainian Galician Army's aerial academy. Another notable Ukrainian aviator was Konstantin Kalinin, who, after his service in the UNR Air Force, became a successful aircraft designer in Soviet Ukraine. His Kalinin K-7 was the world's biggest aircraft, bigger than these I believe with 7 750hp engines I installed. It is believed that sabotage from the rival Tupolev design bureau caused a crash. I don't know what aircraft Kalinin flew in his Ukrainian service, but I'm sure he was aware of these Zeppelin Staacken and was influenced by them. He was murdered in Stalinist purges in the 30s like many Ukrainians involved in academia or sciences as an accompaniment to the Holodomer genocide and man made famine ordered by Stalin.
Too many adds! I liked the video but I won't recommend them if the next one has so many adds. You do a good job but the cost is too high compared to other channels.
Very interesting doco. The colour thumbnail photo of the bomber looks good. Is there a larger version available ? Where did the colour photo of the bomber come from?
"It was powered by six engines, which drove three propellers?" At 5:57 (and at several other points), you can clearly see four engines mounted in two nacelles in classic "push/pull" configuration, driving a total of four propellers. Also, the "ie" in "Riesenflugzeug" is pronounced "ee." In German, "ie" is always pronounced like a "long e" and "ei" is always pronounced like a "long I." (That's why the German word for "free" {frei} sounds a lot like the English word "fry.")😉
Two engines driving one propeller, seems that two engines combined their power to turn a single prop. An engine faced forward driving a single puller sharing a nacel with a man and behind him was a second engine driving a pusher prop. Several included a nose mounted engine too.
The Wright brothers first flight was 1902. the Zeppelin-Straaken R Series first flight 1915. The XB-70 first flight 1964. Hard to think just how far aircraft have come in such a short time
Even harder to imagine that people that dogfighted in bi-planes also saw the moon landings.
Don't forget the X1 beat the sound barrier just a few yrs after the war. And Orville Wright was a member of the NACA board at that time.
1903 was the year of the first flight.
Донецкий Военно-Исторический Клуб I can’t even read this comment but I already know he’s talking about the Russian guy who supposedly flew in the late 1800’s
@Донецкий Военно-Исторический Клуб «Согласно последним исследованиям, проведённым в ЦАГИ, развиваемая силовой установкой самолёта Можайского мощность была недостаточна для установившегося горизонтального полёта».
1:16 this clip and the next make this guy seem really good at his job.
lol
Rapid fire yeets
He was like "o yes, show time" and then just casually dropped tens of bombs by hand. Amazing how the way they fought in WW1
💀💀💀💀😂
they defenetly have more than 2 hands
I have seen a WW1 Vickers Vimi heavy bomber fly overhead, huge things and pretty impressive for the time.
Are you a time traveler? 🙄
@@CGRCOOL Lol no, I live close to an airport that hosts a large airshow and they had WW1 planes that year. Next morning the WW1 bomber flew home over my house :) Incredible sight !
@@magicknight8412 wow you are so lucky 👌
@@CGRCOOL there is a flying replica. It was built in 1994 and as far as I know is still flying.
Why you lie?
2:07
Let's just appreciate the men standing upon the fuselage without any safety concerns.
that portuguese guy that copied birds: XD
@EnricoAwsome Me in BND standing right next to a 7000 studs robot:
@@laotse9655 ah yes
I saw a silent film where a guy was walking back and forth on the fuselage in flight. While a mechanic was checking under the hood of an engine on a wing! And without a safety net! It was this behemoths incredible low stall speeds in the 30mph range that made this wing walking possible.
You have to have tremendous respect for the guys that flew these things! No power assisted controls, no auto pilots, a stalling speed only slightly lower than cruising speed, unheated cockpits and all over enemy territory. Their safety record was surprisingly good, despite everything.
Imaging flying a plane the size of a B29 on a bombing run at night without electronics.
Or hydraulics
Mr Murders unsafe?
Safety was next to the absolute last thing on their minds. Trying to come close to completing the mission was all they were trying to do. These men did not ask for PPE or scheduled meal breaks. Lol
Its no wonder their losses were high.
Yet they had the know how and the guts to make them work.
@Waxel Punkt. germans had them tho
The actually planed to launch Siemens developed wire controlled glide torpedos at British battle ships.
this thing was huge wow
Mr_executionater wait what do you mean was huge
Very huge
Much german
So plane
Wow
Don't forget they carried lots of spares and could shut down and repair any engine in flight. Other versions had an actual engine room with each engine clutched in and out at will so it could be shut down and repaired with one huge propeller at the front.
@@womble321 you can't do that with an f35 🤣
@@milkybar06 that's progress
Too bad someone hasn't built a full-size flying replica ✈
Yeah. I really wanna see these old kite bombers flying again. the pictures are always so awe inspiring, seeing something that *enormous* just, floating along at high-interstate speeds. Actually *seeing* one though? Hell, flying in one? Would be *amazing.*
@@5peciesunkn0wn Apparently there’s a replica Vickers Vimy flying around on the airshow circuit.
@@thethirdman225 Wuuuut?! WHERE?!
@@5peciesunkn0wn It really wouldn’t have hurt you to look it up:
www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/our-collection/aircraft/vickers-vimy
I'm not entirely sure a replica of this thing would be entirely safe to fly, to to be honest. Look at the thing.
I love old crazy big shit, especially when it worked!
The Staaken R series were barely flying. The engines were under powered with lub issues. They were built with no consideration for the weight ( 12 petrol tanks of 500 liters made of double layer steel).....etc.
Most of them crashed without being took down by fighter planes.
@@seb250cr Shit flew
@@seb250crFrenchie spotted spreading lies!
@@seb250crThey didn’t crashed lol
@@seb250crMe when a French spreads misinformation in the Internet: 💀
WOW !!! Your shows are so detailed, and professional ! Better than the documentaries that were on TV ! Like Wings or Victoty at Sea .type ! thanks so much for your great videos !!
Dark Docs are also known to have a lot of mistakes
7:33 Xbox
Haha
Lol looks like it
Lol 🤣
yes
WW1 had so many things that never become finished or were that good but they were trully innovate and ground breaking for their time
This channel ALWAYS finds the most awesome stuff. I had no idea there had been strategic bombing by heavier then air craft in WW1, I thought it was all done with huge zeppelins!
Love this channel!
Right?!? Awesome content for sure. Totally agree.
Me also mate.
Tommy Jacobs how do you know that???
They operated from an airfield here in my town together with Gothas for the london raids, we also had crashed zeppelins here at the coast
I always love learning something new, and although I am an avid military aviation enthusiast, I never realised what strategic bombing actually meant. Thank you for that.
Its amazing because the plane itself had only been invented only 7 years prior! Nothing accelerates technology faster than War! WW2 started on horseback and with bolt action rifles, ended with Jet fighters and the Atomic bomb.
well, I mean, no nations of the war used cavalry exept the poles, but some nations, like the germans used horses for transport
@@Engie_Boi Interestingly enough the Germans did employ Cavalry during the Second World War. Before the beginning of the war they had 18 Cavalry Regiments and upon mobilization all but one of the Regiments was used to form thirty-eight Reconnaissance Battalions for the initial wave of Divisions and sixteen for the second wave. True Horse Cavalry at that.
From what I can find they performed very well during the invasion of Holland and I've read of a Battle from the invasion of Poland were German Cavalry and Polish Uhlans fought what was described as a classic Cavalry Battle with Sabre and Lance. The SS also continued to create and use Cavalry Brigades and even started expanding them to Division size around 1942-1943.
There are a number of other really interesting excerpts I have found that seemingly showed their effectiveness. Especially in open terrain such as the East. Russians also utilized Horse Cavalry to great effect for Recon and Night Attacks/Raids.
It's been a while since the last time I watched your videos, but it looks like u gained much more confidence!! Way to go! Very interesting content as always 😃
All this old footage is neat,surprisingly is still in great condition. Love the history! On all your channels.
10:32 For those who don't know Dutch: "At Poelkapelle on the field of Daniël Parrein at the Stadenseweg 72, wreckage pieces from a plane from the First World War were found during ploughing. Together with his daughter Bernadette and vacationer Sami Dhaese, Daniel Parrein shows the remnants at the place where they were found."
This is the best information channel on youtube about wars and military
Mark Felton's channel is also an absloute delight.
Loving this channel, great job! Hey, I would LOVE to see a video on the F-20 TIgershark. That was a bad as jet for the time. 2 of the 3 crashed... has a neat story too!
Have never heard of this craft. Much appreciation for featuring it. Thanks!
0:21 'it was also one of the 1st military aircraft with an enclosed cockpit" (shows open cockpit version).................
4:57 hindenberg, not ferdinand zeppelin.
The Zeppelin was named after Hindenburg? Weird way of going about it.
0:58. Says 'cavalry,' shows video of infantry. Good video. Better narration and pronunciation. Still, the narration is too fast for my mind to keep up. I frequently have to rewind. I can follow along better at 0.75x speed.
Personally, I have no issues keeping up, but I do think the pace is unnecessarily fast. It creates false sense of urgency which is out of place in a documentary type video.
To the narrator - Relax and take a deep breath, no one is chasing you with a hatchet :)
I have no problem watching it at my usual speed of 1.5 so I think it's ok.
Agreed. The pronunciation gets muddled at time due to unnecessary speed. You don't need to slow down much, just enough to pronounce each word clearly. By the way, the common nickname for the R.VI was the "Gigant", Giant in German, but the pronunciation was so fast I couldn't make out whether the word was said at all.
Yes I had the very same problem~!
So many incorrect pictures and movie clips. After a minute or two all I could do was see the errors. This is going to mess a bunch of people up in what they think they know.
WOW! AMAZING, Dark Skies! Thank you.
Amazing what they managed to achieve given the limits of technology at the time
14 years (ish) after the invention of manned flight!
It's back when people had brains.
I like the fact that you included the newspaper clipping from the find. Besides French they also speak Dutch in Belgium and the newspaper clipping has Dutch text. I'll translate to English for anyone curious:
At Poelkapelle(Place name) in the fields of farmer Daniel Parrein at Stadensweg 72(Address) an aircraft wreck from the first world war was found while plowing. Together with his daughter Bernadette and Dami Dhaese on vacation there, farmer Daniel Parrein shows off these remains at the place where they were found.
That's it. i wonder if there was more of an article attached when it was first released.
With a wing span of 138 feet it was only beaten by the B-29 at 141 feet in 1942. That is one big aircraft.
Wow, that's pretty advanced for WWI! Thanks for the fascinating video.
From your speed it appears that dogs are chasing you.
Funny but So True~!!
Will you please cover the USS Liberty?
finally ww1 knowledge
That nose wheel is interesting huh? In case it pitched forward on landing?
I think it need the front nose to take off too since there’s no wheel in the back
Just me or does anyone really love the look of WW1 bombers, they’re so box like it’s so different from today?
Literally, powered box kites.
Very interesting topic, and fascinating photos. For any further videos narrated by this speaker,, I politely recommend that, even for native English speakers, you are Too Fast and would do well to slow down markedly.
4:22)The man with the sunglasses is also wearing an US Army M1898 Campaign Hat made by STETSON. Also called the Peaked, the Montana, the DI and Park Ranger.
The Gotha bombers were of two sizes.The limeys had no idea about the 4 engine Giants until one crashed.They were going nuts trying to find out why their gunsights weren't working.The sights were designed for the smaller 2 engine bomber.The Giants' size made it look like the fighters were within firing range.The Gothas had one side effect.George V took on the alias of Windsor. His grandfather was Prince Albert Coburg - Gotha - Saxe. The people were close to having another "Dump The King Party."
"Gräfin", not "Graffen"
Slow down when you do the narrative, it would make your series much better.
Dark Skies has gone dark on this PC. This video was an ad avalanche. I barely survived and got out alive. Greed is killing the Tube. It started at only 1 minute in.
Fascinating video. Impressively edited and narrated. I have often desired to learn more about large WW1 bomber aircraft and you guys granted me my wish. I am grateful! Hat's off to you at "Dark Skies"! Peace!
Funny, Germany was so ahead in bombers in WWI but didn’t have much in WWII
There Airforce doctrine for early to mid WWII should explain why they were to late in there realization that they needed long-range heavy bombers. With development only reaching substantial levels to late in the war for a single prototype to be approved for frontline service and production.
Let's piss off the United States without considering how to disrupt their overwhelming industrial capacity.
Ooops!
That's the problem with master plans for world domination.
They had many restrictions applied to them after WW I, to prevent another war. The Germans flagrantly ignored those restrictions. For example they built tanks and called them tractors. Military bombers were called civilian aircraft. The sanctions didn't work.
I don't know where you got that idea from. The British had plenty of capable bombers that were just as advanced.
@@hard2getitrightagain314 Are you kidding?
Thank God youtube has 0.75x speed lol
Now he sounds drunk lmao
@@the_real_mister_blooper yeah🤣
Listen faster
I guess some people’s brains are too smooth to retain the information
Keep up the great work
Wow, this is fascinating material. Thanks!
Very nice video! The commentary seems a bit odd: the intonation of the sentences seems to be OK, but the are all exactly the same and lack emotion. Also the tempo does not change at all. Is the voice computer generated?
I Hated it~!!!
Well, yes, at the very least it is difficult to get used to! 😀👍👍👍
Like a constipated Dalek.
Fascinating video. Very fast, staccato voice over, which grates. However, that can be fixed. Keep up the good work!
Try talking slower, especially with the german words...
i get this channels videos shown constantly, looks interesting, and then i hear him talking 1.5 times speed and i nope out every time, just watched 10 sek of this vid. nope
@El Tudi this one doesnt seem as fast as the other ones, less stops or at least shorter
0.75
Problem solved.
I love all of your channels.
This, the Gotha, and the DR.1 are my favorite ww1 planes
The Germans in the First World War had made pretty impressive strides in developing a sophisticated heavy bomber program...certainly, it promised more than the technological (and fiery) dead end of lighter-than-air bombing.
They were building the Foerstmann Giant, a huge triplane designed for an eighty-hour transatlantic round trip. Fokker was working on a flying boat design that approached the Spruce Goose's size, also intended to bomb the U.S. Northeastern seaboard.
Can you do an episode on the Horton brothers flying wing? Keep up the great videos! Your very interesting to listen to and learn about history!
On a side note, when I get bored I use paper and close pins n stuff to make mini ww1 type planes. At this point, I have an airforce of about 47 aircraft, and while most have a wingspan about the size of a pencil, I have two identical bombers with the name “freebird dove.” They have a wingspan of 3 feet, have eight fake engines, four tractor and four pusher, and I won my school’s science fair with one.
My friend Dennis built the Roden 1/72 scale plastic model kit of this flying German beast!!
What they could do with the knowledge and techniques that had is inspiring.
Climbing the ladder to get to you upper wing gun position must have been exciting especially when flying in a combat situation or in turbulence.
Great video!
This footage is incredible. Some of it is probably ww2, but those shots of design/assembly are amazing
Dude, slow down. Your narration seems to be at 1.25x. If it was an audiobook then it would be alright because I wouldn't be looking at images/videos that go along with it but the sensory details are too much to process.
I don't watch the vids.... And he's still too fast. The channel doesn't seem to want to fix it, as it's one of the most common complqints, and it hasn't been rectified
@@ludaMerlin69 Nope and never will...
This would be a good RUclips channel if you could slow your narration down.
Perhaps you can speed your cognition up? I’m watching at 2x speed and have no problems understanding him.
As no english speaker in found this video like a listening challenge.
Yeah... it's a shame. Slow down bro. Would have been a really good video otherwise
He could be slower but if you put it at 0.75 speed it sounds fine
i wish this channel used the world standard units of measurement.
I like this guy. But Imo he talks a bit fast for me. thankfully RUclips had settings to alleviate this minor issue I typically set this plane guy to .75
Watchers: If you want to understand what this narrator says, change your playback speed to 0.75 That also helps the video to play closer to its correct speed. And then compare with Mark Felton's production on the same subject. Dear Narrator: Take a breath !
Definitely mention the First Bombs were Artillery Shells with Fins stuck on. Whatever works!
excellent info on history. pls make more ur great!
Excellent upload, Great story, Thank you..👍
Adjust the playback speed to .75 and this guy suddenly becomes understandable
had to put the playback speed on 0.75... you got a bus to catch or something?
I think it's on Netflix, but there is a documentary about post wwI with footage taken from a photographer at the time from the air, it's really a great,documentary. Maybe add to that how the landscape remains effected and the no,go zones in,France today because of then??
Very interesting. But dude, SLOW DOWN!!! I set the speed to 75% and it sounds almost normal. Take your time and speak clearly.
2:15 is a Boeing 314 Clipper... which was not made by Sikorsky...
His visuals are wrong is just so many places. The info is generally accurate, if not a little wikipedia-y, but the choice of images and footage belies his lack of general knowledge. So may mistakes.
Aircraft technology moved so fast from 1900s to the 1960s. After that we've just had small iterations here and there. Hard to grasp that aircraft speed havent progressed at all since the 60s
Ah, yes, good old Uncle Ferd... I don't know the real connection, but I once asked my grandmother if her German parents had ever taken her to "the old country" to meet relatives who had never seen her and so on. Indeed she had; it was a lovely trip on a beautiful ocean liner when she was 12. "We met Auntie Beatrix and Uncle Karl ant de Graf Spee ant de Graf Zeppelin..." she began.
"Wait a sec," say I, "Zeppelin and Spee were *relatives?*"
"Oh yes, dey were" but it was so long ago that she couldn't recall if they were uncles or just what. My bucket list includes tracking down my German forebears and figuring out exactly how they relate to these historical figures.
The things you can find out in casual conversation!
... informative and well documented .... BUT please, speak SLOWER and more comprehensible ... it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Don't waste your time. This clown never improves his speech.
Lord Yes~Was a Speed Reader necessary???
Roy Baker jeez angry much
@@toxicgopher1022 Only when I hear this goofball.
A maximum speed of 84 seems incredibly dangerous. I mean there's probably little gap before stall speed.
I appreciate the video and the narrator's efforts but the super fast monotone speech is distracting and some pictures are not allowed to stay long enough to focus one's eyes on them.
Is someone holding a gun to your head while you are talking?
I'd always thought that this was another one of Germany's wartime engineering oddities. Not a production aircraft with advanced features and sturdy construction that enabled it to become a rather formidable airframe.
A small mistake: In german language, the name Staaken is not spoken Stacken, but Stahken, the double aa is a long spoken a. The noblemans family ,von Zeppelin' came once from a village ,Zöpelin' somewhere in northern Germany. Today they call themselves ,von Brandenstein- Zeppelin', and Zeppelin company is today a construction machines company.
2:10 dude's just standing out on the tail of a flying machine like it ain't no thing.
Nicely done. Upvoted. But why show several random pictures of the American post-war Curtis NC-4? 3:15, for instance
Video ended abruptly. Like there should be more
Good, informative, and accurate video. However, you speak far too quickly. I had to reduce the playback speed to 0.75.to make sure I got everything.
Six of the R.XIV variants served with the air fleet of the Ukrainian People's Republic and fought for Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence. A curious mix of entente and central powers aircraft served the air fleets of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) and the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR). Both forces fought extremely bravely and included notable individuals. In the East Viktor Pavlenko who managed the stavka's air defense, during the first world war, became head of the UNR's airforce and managed it to the best of his availability in very difficult circumstances. In the West, Petro Franko, son of one of Ukraine's most famous poets, headed the Ukrainian Galician Army's aerial academy. Another notable Ukrainian aviator was Konstantin Kalinin, who, after his service in the UNR Air Force, became a successful aircraft designer in Soviet Ukraine. His Kalinin K-7 was the world's biggest aircraft, bigger than these I believe with 7 750hp engines I installed. It is believed that sabotage from the rival Tupolev design bureau caused a crash. I don't know what aircraft Kalinin flew in his Ukrainian service, but I'm sure he was aware of these Zeppelin Staacken and was influenced by them. He was murdered in Stalinist purges in the 30s like many Ukrainians involved in academia or sciences as an accompaniment to the Holodomer genocide and man made famine ordered by Stalin.
Too many adds! I liked the video but I won't recommend them if the next one has so many adds. You do a good job but the cost is too high compared to other channels.
They should talk about the mannesman poll giant tri plane
Germany never said “let’s make a smaller version”. Always much much bigger
One of these crashed with an blockage balloon and kept flying. These things were sturdy as hell
Good vid bro.
Very interesting doco. The colour thumbnail photo of the bomber looks good. Is there a larger version available ?
Where did the colour photo of the bomber come from?
A very impressive bomber indeed. I like this channel, but I gotta slow it down to x0.75 to understand you lol
Good video
Why is he talking so quickly? What's the hurry?
Later in the 1960s the British would build an extremely successful Zeppelin, but this time with Lead.
Why does he sound like he is speed-running every god damn script like dude chill
Needs to slow down a bit, talking to quickly.
I like your delivery cadence... crisp, clear. You do a fine job. I enjoy the channel.
"It was powered by six engines, which drove three propellers?" At 5:57 (and at several other points), you can clearly see four engines mounted in two nacelles in classic "push/pull" configuration, driving a total of four propellers.
Also, the "ie" in "Riesenflugzeug" is pronounced "ee." In German, "ie" is always pronounced like a "long e" and "ei" is always pronounced like a "long I." (That's why the German word for "free" {frei} sounds a lot like the English word "fry.")😉
Bro those people are just standing on that Jawn
Two engines driving one propeller, seems that two engines combined their power to turn a single prop. An engine faced forward driving a single puller sharing a nacel with a man and behind him was a second engine driving a pusher prop. Several included a nose mounted engine too.
Dude. If you keep narrating these videos at race caller speed Im going to have to opt out. Its not necessary.