The Jet the Nazis Designed to Be Flown By Children

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  • Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2024

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  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut  Год назад +16

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  • @ToaArcan
    @ToaArcan Год назад +162

    "Shortly after Adolf Hitler managed to take out Hitler."
    Amazing stuff, Simon, absolutely the funniest way to skirt the "RUclips gets Big Mad if you say suicide" rule.

    • @joelellis7035
      @joelellis7035 Год назад

      It's been said that the greatest general for the Allies was Adolf Hitler. Assassination plans were scrubbed, conjecturally, out of fear that someone more competent could come to power.

    • @Yoder023
      @Yoder023 Год назад +8

      I'm going to start saying this
      The butthurt "can't say suicide" people piss me off so much. I'm chastised for that and I'd be talking about MY dad!
      Get over it people. It's facts, quit hiding from reality!

    • @LRM12o8
      @LRM12o8 Год назад +6

      ​​​@@Yoder023 yeah, tell me bout it! I've been suicidal nine years ago (my life has completely turned around since then) and skirting around that word whenever I tell my story to encourage others to keep pushing through is so damn frustrating and insulting to me. It feels like they don't want me to show empathy and inspire hope to those who are struggling with that currently.
      Talking 'bout sinking the ship with good intentions! 🤮

    • @frankgesuele6298
      @frankgesuele6298 Год назад +4

      With a score of 0-42 trying to kill him.
      As it turns out he was the only one who could do it.

    • @nunyabiznis3595
      @nunyabiznis3595 Год назад

      @@Yoder023 sorry to hear about your dad

  • @inurokuwarz
    @inurokuwarz Год назад +64

    Albert Speer: "I'm just a number cruncher there was nothing I could have done about the atrocities"
    Also Albert Speer: " *PUT THE CHILDREN IN THE SKY* "

    • @Av8r0214
      @Av8r0214 Год назад +2

      100% he was the original “Your kid can work at my shop this summer” guy.

  • @ughettapbacon
    @ughettapbacon Год назад +211

    Mobilizing the children, a sure sign that the war is going great.

    • @Masterhitman935
      @Masterhitman935 Год назад +14

      The unfortunate outcome of a total war, when the “state” believe that they are the only future it’s it’s people.
      Some people unfortunately can’t see a world outside in what they believe it should be. Even if it mean in survival of the population.

    • @KaliChernenkov
      @KaliChernenkov Год назад +10

      I wouldn't put it past Putin to do such a thing

    • @imnotyourfriendbuddy1883
      @imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 Год назад +19

      ​@@KaliChernenkov
      he already started to. russia has lowered and raised conscription ages

    • @EskChan19
      @EskChan19 Год назад +10

      @@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 And added a basic military training class to the schools curriculum. They call it "live skills" but it's about digging trenches, handling weapons, walking long marches with heavy load and long throwing egg-shaped objects with precision after pulling the pin. So... yeah...

    • @EskChan19
      @EskChan19 Год назад +7

      "This war is going so well, children could beat our enemy! In fact...."

  • @dapprman
    @dapprman Год назад +23

    The HE162 is a very pretty plane in the flesh - there is one at the RAF Hendon museum - same hall as the Lancaster, Flying Fortress, and Vulcan. Head from the Lancaster towards the Vulcan and it is just behind to the left (looking at my picture while typing this).

    • @finncarlbomholtsrensen1188
      @finncarlbomholtsrensen1188 Год назад +1

      I saw one hanging in IWM in London some years ago, and it was close to the balcony, to be seen. I think it was planned and built during 5 month? But German wood glue at that time wasn't always first class and it was mostly built from wood!

    • @Dexter037S4
      @Dexter037S4 Год назад

      There's one at the Canadian Air and Space Museum as well, as with all other planes in the museum, it is in flying shape, I believe it's the only flyable 162 left.
      There's also a 163 there, DO NOT TOUCH IT, IT WILL EXPLODE.

  • @Reddotzebra
    @Reddotzebra Год назад +9

    "We need to check more boxes for being evil, but we've already done all the mundane things and the guy up top would kill us if we started kicking puppies, we need ideas, and they need to be original!"
    "How about child soldiers..."
    "That is a terrible idea, everyone has already done that and we don't want to re-use other people's schtick!"
    "...In the air force."
    "Hans, you're a genius!"

  • @jean-clauderainville677
    @jean-clauderainville677 Год назад +12

    Oddly, while you were mentionning the V2, you were showing a picture of a V1... 🤔

    • @jrmckim
      @jrmckim Год назад

      Pretty damn close tho.

    • @jean-clauderainville677
      @jean-clauderainville677 Год назад +3

      @@jrmckim The V1 being an 8m small plane with a motor on top vs the V2 being a full-fledged 14m rocket does make for quite a visible difference I'd say 😉

    • @AdamHowellProvo
      @AdamHowellProvo Год назад

      Came to say this. I presume he meant to say the V1, because I don't think the V2 killed that many people (9,000).
      Here's the timestamp: ruclips.net/video/z_lwm2m7Vos/видео.html

    • @jean-clauderainville677
      @jean-clauderainville677 Год назад +1

      ​@@AdamHowellProvoYou could very well be right, Britannica mentions the V2 attack deaths amount to about 5000... but on the other hand, The National Archives say the V1 caused 5,475 deaths, with 16,000 injured.... Numbers don't seem to add up...

    • @frankgesuele6298
      @frankgesuele6298 Год назад +1

      Only off by 1.

  • @Theangrybadger420
    @Theangrybadger420 Год назад +6

    Something about it keeps reminding me of the A-10 warthog. From the rounded nose and cockpit, the strange rounded engine and its even stranger positioning and even the tail with the the 2 vertical stabilizers.

    • @Av8r0214
      @Av8r0214 Год назад

      It’s probably because it looks very similar to an A-10 Warthog

    • @phantomechelon3628
      @phantomechelon3628 5 месяцев назад

      Its a baby Warthog!

  • @JaleDoris
    @JaleDoris Год назад +9

    My wife’s grandmother talks about these planes all the time and how she almost learned to fly as her father was an instructor.
    She is 97 this year so I take every memory of hers with a tablespoon of salt.

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um Год назад +25

    Numerous aircraft were captured by the Allied forces along with ample supplies of parts from the production lines. Eric Brown flew one just after the war and considered it a first-rate aircraft with few vices.

  • @cotati76
    @cotati76 Год назад +13

    Ah yes this brings me back to my F-18 training in preschool.

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert Год назад +3

      I got kicked out for pulling the ejection handle. It was yellow and I like yellow.

    • @frankgesuele6298
      @frankgesuele6298 Год назад +3

      Buzzing the school yard was the height of my day😎

    • @cotati76
      @cotati76 Год назад +1

      @@frankgesuele6298 there’s a toddler flying overhead right now out of Jacksonville Naval Air Station. I can see the binky in his mouth from down here. Adorable.

  • @The23Anonymous
    @The23Anonymous Год назад +8

    It is always great to learn something new about the clean, great and totally not deeply disturbing history of my country (:

  • @nunya___
    @nunya___ Год назад

    I'm glad this channel docent play loud music like your other channels. TY! 💜❤

  • @kl0wnkiller912
    @kl0wnkiller912 Год назад +1

    The faulty glue issue was a common issue for a lot of German aircraft made of wood. There were several issues that caused it, one being sabotage by the slave labor. It was eventually resolved near the end of the war but too late to affect the war. The He-162 was actually a pretty good design. Eric Brown flew one after the war and considered it one of the best Nazi aircraft although it was moderately unstable due to the high center of gravity and the high wing loading. This made it completely unsuitable for inexperienced pilots. Also, the ejection of the pilot also triggered an 'ejection' of the engine as well, although this was another item that that needed more modification and was largely disabled in functional aircraft. This aircraft gets a bad rep from a lot of people but it was actually a promising design and with proper development it could have been a game changer had it showed up a few years earlier.

  • @808bigisland
    @808bigisland Год назад +4

    Average age of a spitfire pilot was 20. An Airforce is the best way to kill your most promising resource…young men and has vast societal repercussions

  • @twistedyogert
    @twistedyogert Год назад +25

    I already feel bad that children were forced to fly one of these death traps. I feel worse knowing that if they crashed and died they wouldn't get a proper burial. I doubt their parents knew that one of their children was dead until the war ended.

    • @CaptHollister
      @CaptHollister Год назад +4

      They were theoretically intended to be flown by youngsters, but none ever was.

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert Год назад +3

      @@CaptHollister He said that they were being trained and some of them crashed and died during the training.

    • @lsmmoore1
      @lsmmoore1 Год назад

      Sometimes the friends of those kids (from the same HitlerYouth group) didn't know their friend died until the end of the war.

    • @kirbyculp3449
      @kirbyculp3449 Год назад

      It would have been exciting!

  • @Melw44
    @Melw44 Год назад +10

    Got up close to the one at chino air museum. My wife and I where the only ones in there at the time . The guide let me take photos all around and underneath the plane. This was pre digital camera. So all the pics are on 35mm film. I should get them scanned. I recall that the nose gear mount showed obvious damage from a hard landing. It was a good time i love aircraft of all types.

  • @stuartwood7252
    @stuartwood7252 Год назад +1

    Thank goodness they didn't think of two smaller engines further back. It could have been the first A-10.
    Great content Simon.
    Stu. Melbourne

  • @Balsiefen
    @Balsiefen Год назад +4

    Broke: Child soldiers
    Woke: Child air support

  • @duckydarrick7460
    @duckydarrick7460 Год назад +1

    Thank you for clarifying that the 162 did indeed score a couple of victories because nothing else I've ever watched or read has actually gone so far is to do that

  • @jimservu
    @jimservu Год назад +3

    Adolf Galland needs a deep dive on biographics. Truly one of the most honorable airmen who doesn’t get enough attention in history, especially the Fighter Pilot’s Revolt that he led in January 1945.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena Год назад +1

    KID 1: Where did you learn how to fly
    KID 2: At my Playstation

  • @stefanschleps8758
    @stefanschleps8758 Год назад +44

    My friends father died right as Covid hit Europe. He was inducted in Vienna into the crash course on piloting that thing, (pardon the pun) but the war ended before he would have been sacrificed for the Reich. He was 14 when he was trained to fly "the people's hunter", he was 92 when he died. He was a very quiet unassuming man. After the war he married his high school sweetheart, and fifteen years into their marriage they had one child, my friend Eddie. The kids that would have flown those plans, weren't any type of super Nazi's. Only the term Volkssturm had any semblance of threat. As Simon and company mentioned, they were indoctrinated old men and children. They were just ordinary young men. In WWII the world lost three generations of people. Look around you, how many are we losing today? The Nazi's used propaganda to achieve their goals, who is using propaganda now? Who is the marmalade Mussolini? Call out propaganda when you see it, and don't fall prey to it, be on your guard against it. Good luck.

    • @imnotyourfriendbuddy1883
      @imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 Год назад +5

      your warning means nothing if you don't call out russia by name.

    • @cotati76
      @cotati76 Год назад +12

      @@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883he said “marmalade Mousolini” so he isn’t talking about Russia. He’s talking about the tangerine totalitarian.

    • @imnotyourfriendbuddy1883
      @imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 Год назад +3

      @@cotati76
      I don't see a difference

    • @cotati76
      @cotati76 Год назад

      @@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 ah I see. Took me a minute. Thanks for clarifying.

    • @Bob-qk2zg
      @Bob-qk2zg Год назад

      America has a senile Stalin.

  • @MrJohnnyseven
    @MrJohnnyseven Год назад +1

    It wasnt a bad aircraft infact it was darn good given the short time it was developed..theain weakness was the glu in the wings

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +10

    This channel truly lives up to its name😊😊😊😅😅😅

    • @PeachM0de
      @PeachM0de Год назад

      Minus the fact that he doesn’t post here daily anymore.

    • @Planet.Xplor3r
      @Planet.Xplor3r Год назад

      @@PeachM0de At least it's more manageable

  • @JAEUFM
    @JAEUFM Год назад +1

    Taking the problem of supplies for construction, and the glue shortcomings for the wooden wings,...in the hands of an experienced pilot, those aircraft might have made a noticeable impact on the air war. Not that it would have turned the outcome around, but, might have delayed the ending and bought some time.

  • @laurakuhn8743
    @laurakuhn8743 Год назад

    Thank you! I did not know that

  • @TurfShifter
    @TurfShifter Год назад +4

    The photo is the V1 not the V2.

  • @andrefiset3569
    @andrefiset3569 Год назад +1

    On previous wooden airplanes the germans used Tego Film with great success but the factory was destroyed in february 1943 and the acidic adhesive they used after lead to catastrophic failures.

  • @151mattwilson
    @151mattwilson Год назад

    There used to be one hanging from the ceiling at the IWM London, shame it's not there anymore

  • @duncancurtis5108
    @duncancurtis5108 Год назад

    One for Mark Feltons daily fascination.

  • @nemesisofeden
    @nemesisofeden Год назад +2

    Came into this video about jets for kids with a like rating of 747. I found humor in that lol

  • @IrishMike22
    @IrishMike22 Год назад +2

    Hey kids! Tired of watching your dads, brothers, uncles and neighbors die right in front of you while you just sit around eating candy? Ever want to fly a plane? Well have I got an offer for you...

  • @d.sparkes346
    @d.sparkes346 Год назад

    I have recently seen one in the flesh.
    The Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa has one on display.

  • @WasabiSniffer
    @WasabiSniffer Год назад

    To quote Hudsucker Proxy, “you know, for kids!”

  • @auro1986
    @auro1986 Год назад +1

    it was their guided missile program

  • @pacomg_2553
    @pacomg_2553 Год назад

    They were truly trying to check all boxes for being villains, don't tell me they kicked puppies and blended kittens.

  • @jakejacobs7584
    @jakejacobs7584 Год назад

    A bit sticky bailing out of that one.

  • @thefrecklepuny
    @thefrecklepuny Год назад +3

    At 4:45 you surely mean the MiG-15?

  • @joeharris3878
    @joeharris3878 Год назад

    Look on the internet, find out about the American-German youth who attended military school,
    who flew the He162 as a civilian from manufacturing plants to Luftwaffe airfields,shot down
    in the last days of the war, went on to join the United States army

  • @jrmckim
    @jrmckim Год назад +3

    It was only a minor problem.

  • @brianallen9810
    @brianallen9810 Год назад

    This was tested by the famous RN test pilot Eric "Winkle" Brown at the end of the war. He stated it was a pretty good aircraft, but there was no way embryo pilots good handle it.

  • @johns3544
    @johns3544 Год назад

    Veitnaum did very well devolopping babby bombs.

  • @DerZocker2000000
    @DerZocker2000000 Год назад +9

    as someone who natively speaks german
    that pronounciation was....something

  • @LethalBubbles
    @LethalBubbles Год назад

    man that's dark

  • @shanemoore6182
    @shanemoore6182 Год назад

    Imagine dying because glue didn't hold up

  • @danielpaulson8838
    @danielpaulson8838 Год назад

    I would have loved one of those. But I would just play.

  • @thepsychicspoon5984
    @thepsychicspoon5984 Год назад

    Title: Jet the nazis designed to be flown by children.
    Internet: OMG, that's awful. A crime against humanity.
    Me: I wish I had a jet as a kid.

  • @paulpaintshop103
    @paulpaintshop103 Год назад

    Needed more of this ti go to sleep, no offense Simon 😂

  • @stanislavkostarnov2157
    @stanislavkostarnov2157 Год назад +1

    strangely, planes for child-pilots as an idea is not so unique... and others have gotten much further in their development...
    the biggest use was probably the USSR, which had a whole program of ever increasing size flying trainer-models preparation in which started as a specialized after-school activity (as part of élite boy scouts units)... whilst not as big or successful as originally envisioned, such programs enrolled at least in the high-hundreds maybe a thousand something early-teens through the years of it's existence.
    of course, all the aircraft were very forgiving propeller crop-dusters rather than jets, with top speeds closer to 150km/h-200km/h max
    --
    Interestingly, the second country to mass-produce airplanes for the use of children (not counting the Warsaw pact countries) was the UK with it's flying Cadet Corp being the original customer to a lot of the Microlight technology with the idea it will ease the way for young men into aviation... whilst these could be flown by adults, many of the early variants were very much trimmed for the lighter weight of a child rather than an adults body. (note that the initial solo Microlight-class Pilot license could be legally given from a mere "12years or older", 3 or four years before the normal drivers license)
    I believe, there was also a microlight variant produced for the proper *(American) scouts, but I am not sure of it's history or success.

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert Год назад

      I'm not against teaching kids to fly. I'm against teaching children how to be weapons.

    • @stanislavkostarnov2157
      @stanislavkostarnov2157 Год назад

      @@twistedyogert the two examples I mentioned were certainly strongly infused with militaristic ideology
      (being in both cases made for the benefit of the armed forces)...
      one directly as a military branch, in the other case, as a part of a civilian military assistance program...
      but slightly less direct I guess.

  • @SMDoktorPepper
    @SMDoktorPepper Год назад

    And now in the modern day, its likely kids can fly drones better than adults..

  • @Dodtodt1
    @Dodtodt1 Год назад

    Funny thing this was a plot of the Disney cartoon tale spin

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 Год назад +2

    Why hasn't Simon been using his TopTenz channel recently i miss the uploads

    • @MrJC1
      @MrJC1 Год назад +2

      Lists are out.

    • @chasepanish3817
      @chasepanish3817 Год назад

      I wonder why to

    • @MrJC1
      @MrJC1 Год назад +2

      Actually on this subject... what is Xplrd? I have seen that channel of his with 0 videos. 🤣

  • @onkcuf
    @onkcuf Год назад +1

    Goodby there Goodbye there Goodbye there.

  • @anug14
    @anug14 Год назад

    Tell this to Wes Anderson

  • @TheJediCaptain
    @TheJediCaptain Год назад +1

    If Hitler Youth had flown these, maybe we wouldn't have had a Pope Benedict XVI.

  • @MrLimitHoldem
    @MrLimitHoldem Год назад

    Simon has a thing for the man with the mustache and his followers. It seems like every month there is a new video about him

    • @jamiekay133
      @jamiekay133 Год назад

      Every week at this point! I used to really enjoy the 1930s/40s Germany content (certain words not used for algorithms sake.) But it's way overdone and quite a few channels just abandoned with no reasons or update why. Also way too many subjects repeated on different channels. It just seems to be a milking game now on each channel. Shame, I used to really enjoy the content but it's put me off bothering to watch his videos.

    • @MrLimitHoldem
      @MrLimitHoldem Год назад

      @@jamiekay133 same here I used to sub to all Simon's channels but now only this one and soon not this one. The same content over n over. Dude we can't get excited for mustache boy video #309 this yr alone

  • @fixedG
    @fixedG Год назад

    The children can have a little airplane, as a treat.

  • @KlaxontheImpailr
    @KlaxontheImpailr Год назад

    Next up, it's the pets! 😂😅

  • @fhuber7507
    @fhuber7507 Год назад

    All things considered, it was really a brilliant aircraft design for the time. Kind of a flaky engine for assorted reasons... and the pushing juveniles to fly it was just pure desperation.
    If they had properly trained pilots for these jets, they could have been very effective.

  • @ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy
    @ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy Год назад +4

    In contrast to the preceding "wonder weapons," the Volksjaeger was one of what I classify as "desperation weapons" programs. At that point, most of Germany's aces had been killed, and Germany has lost access to critical materials. In pure desperation, Germany was throwing whatever they could, as a last-ditch effort. Germany should have surrendered while they still could.

  • @aa64912
    @aa64912 Год назад

    There would have been no shortage of kids volunteering.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Год назад +5

    Now that's what I call desperation and it's a stinky cologne my friend.

    • @ughettapbacon
      @ughettapbacon Год назад +1

      I too have seen Super Troopers.

    • @grapeshot
      @grapeshot Год назад +2

      @@ughettapbacon no offense the less you guys knew the less you could screw it up.

  • @fransmurati2370
    @fransmurati2370 Год назад

    German and Russian space ingenuity, is the DNA that enabled Space travel.

  • @Masterhitman935
    @Masterhitman935 Год назад +2

    6:29 this put a minor damper when I use this in sim battles in WT.

  • @theUglyGypsy
    @theUglyGypsy Год назад

    This would make for a great JoJo rabbit sequel

  • @1sdani
    @1sdani Год назад

    Figures that Huey would have been inspired by them.

  • @wouldntyouliketoknow9455
    @wouldntyouliketoknow9455 Год назад

    12:17 🤣🤣"shortly after Adolf Hitler managed to take out Hitler in Berlin" bruh

  • @GrievousReborn
    @GrievousReborn Год назад

    Both Germany and Japan used to Children I'm wondering did Italy use children as well?

  • @mutanix
    @mutanix Год назад

    You know... for kids!

  • @Corum.z.Dunajca
    @Corum.z.Dunajca Год назад +2

    For me as i am pole, german pilot sucked to an engine is a nice picture 😂😂😂

    • @jrmckim
      @jrmckim Год назад

      Yeah but these would've been kids...

    • @Corum.z.Dunajca
      @Corum.z.Dunajca Год назад

      @@jrmckim at the start battel of engladn not so much, in last 1,5 year propably.

    • @O4FUXACHE
      @O4FUXACHE Год назад

      @@jrmckim The nazis didn't make any such distinctions at Auschwitz

    • @harryhanz1690
      @harryhanz1690 Год назад +1

      I went to movie in Warsaw once. Moved all over the place, but never saw a second of the film.
      Everywhere I tried to sit was right behind a Pole.

  • @jmanj3917
    @jmanj3917 Год назад

    Say what now?
    The manatees really outdid themselves with this video's title...lol

  • @AshtonCoolman
    @AshtonCoolman Год назад +5

    Japanese anime has children piloting Gundams in war so this tracks for an axis power...

  • @Backpfeifengesicht45
    @Backpfeifengesicht45 Год назад +1

    But I thought the right want to protect children.

    • @jjoriordan2670
      @jjoriordan2670 Год назад

      Only from imaginary problems.

    • @Backpfeifengesicht45
      @Backpfeifengesicht45 Год назад

      @@jjoriordan2670 ah yes, that's it. But if a priest interferes with them, they get shot in school or are seriously ill, they're on their own.

  • @nevyngould1744
    @nevyngould1744 Год назад

    23
    I see the fnord

  • @Nomad111.
    @Nomad111. Год назад

    Its hard not laugh when you hear about the German Commanders choices in WW2. It was really a joke.

  • @willsmith4584
    @willsmith4584 Год назад +1

    so i cant get one for my kids?

  • @carltonleboss
    @carltonleboss Год назад

    Ah yes, Kony 1944

  • @deavo74
    @deavo74 Год назад

    12:15 Hitler managed to take out Hitler? I know I’m drunk but did I miss something?

    • @westrim
      @westrim Год назад

      Hitler gave Hitler an acute case of lead poisoning via a large capsule to the head.

    • @vlamm676
      @vlamm676 Год назад

      The bravest thing Hitler ever did was storm the Furherbunker and shoot Hitler in the head

    • @iapetusmccool
      @iapetusmccool Год назад

      He means when Hitler killed himself.

  • @guitarshredddddder91
    @guitarshredddddder91 Год назад

    It's like they learned nothing from the first war.

    • @harryhanz1690
      @harryhanz1690 Год назад

      Well to be fair, they went to war with the world twice, and gave it a pretty good run both times.

  • @budgiefriend
    @budgiefriend Год назад

    Jager😆😆😆

  • @Junxyakht
    @Junxyakht Год назад

    When u don’t know what to say

  • @worldwanderer91
    @worldwanderer91 Год назад

    If only other countries let kids fly jet planes

    • @harryhanz1690
      @harryhanz1690 Год назад

      Well, an Aeroflot pilot let his kids fly a Tupolev full of passengers into the ground a while back.

  • @NeilCrouse99
    @NeilCrouse99 Год назад

    1:20... Video starts here...
    you're welcome... *: )*

  • @CaptHollister
    @CaptHollister Год назад +3

    The life of early *German* jet engines was measured in hours, 25 nominally, but many had to replaced much earlier. The British jet engines of WW2 were quite robust and long-lived.

    • @woodchild2093
      @woodchild2093 Год назад

      The UK also hadn't been bombed into the stone age so just the fact the Nazis had a jet engine is amazing in the 1st place. So lucky for the world the Nazis weren't even more resourceful

    • @CaptHollister
      @CaptHollister Год назад +1

      @@woodchild2093 Both German and British jet engine designs predate ww2.

    • @woodchild2093
      @woodchild2093 Год назад

      @@CaptHollister I think you have missed my point

  • @Ghost22194
    @Ghost22194 Год назад

    🎉

  • @13jrohrer
    @13jrohrer Год назад

    I swear every other video from this channel is about Nazis or WW2 lol

  • @funveeable
    @funveeable Год назад

    More WW2, snore. More Nazi stuff, snore louder.

  • @idk7440
    @idk7440 Год назад

    based

  • @swj719
    @swj719 Год назад +1

    2:18 references my favorite joke...
    "People don't talk about the good Hitler did. For example, he did kill Hitler."

  • @DrewishAF
    @DrewishAF Год назад

    Say what you will about they Nazis, but those guys....uh..you know what, nevermind....

  • @louisavondart9178
    @louisavondart9178 Год назад +2

    A very dismissive summary of an aircraft that had good handling, speed and firepower. Post war test pilots liked it far more than you did.

    • @George_M_
      @George_M_ Год назад +1

      Yeah because they had an individual well made one. The actual production models had problems with the wooden parts and sabotage by the slave laborers. Not to mention postwar test pilots being highly skilled.

    • @scrumpydrinker
      @scrumpydrinker Год назад +1

      Yes, “POST WAR TEST PILOTS” they would have had the skills to be able to fly them successfully. It was intended to have barely trained recruits fly them and that would have resulted in wholesale slaughter of them. I believe that Albert Speer admitted as much after the war.

  • @rossrutherford1832
    @rossrutherford1832 Год назад +1

    I knew the Nazis were evil, but 'fighter jet designed to be flown by children' is ... a new level, even for them.

    • @rossrutherford1832
      @rossrutherford1832 Год назад

      Bonus points for 'only flies for half an hour and can't land properly.'

    • @MrJohnnyseven
      @MrJohnnyseven Год назад +1

      Actually it was to be flown by quickly trained pilots not children

    • @rossrutherford1832
      @rossrutherford1832 Год назад

      @@MrJohnnyseven Including the Hitler Youth, who were ... children. By this point in the war, the very old and young were being conscripted into ground forces as well. One more horrible casualty of a war the Nazis never should have started.

  • @maryrowe3981
    @maryrowe3981 Год назад

    😱

  • @SamIAm10262
    @SamIAm10262 Год назад +1

    Wow.. The past really was the worst..

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 Год назад

    Yikes😱

  • @Reddotzebra
    @Reddotzebra Год назад

    2:54 The Komet being so difficult to handle that it killed even experienced pilots. Oh what's that you have a fuel leak? Don't worry, we'll be sure to hose what remains of you out before we put the next guy in.

    • @MrJohnnyseven
      @MrJohnnyseven Год назад +1

      It wasn't difficult to fly, the main danger was the remaining fuel sloshing on landing leading to an explosion.

  • @myadawheelchair4421
    @myadawheelchair4421 Год назад +1

    Ĵust like Ukraine òld people fight

  • @ifneeded1
    @ifneeded1 Год назад

    This channel has turned into Today I Learned More about WW2. Where's all the non-Nazi content please?

  • @iteerrex8166
    @iteerrex8166 Год назад +1

    Of course what would you expect from them, they used up most of the adults I guess.