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Thanks Tomato Eins. I didn't know much about these, and you've beaten the other aviation channels to it.

Thank you for uploading this interesting video. I had never before heard of the Harrow.

This is an amazingly well detailed video, thank you for making it. Though I know the British "Red Devils" at Arnhem were essentially cut off, surrounded, and mauled by an SS Panzer division refitting I've yet to see a definitive youtube video on that topic, which I do think worthy of military study. Hopefully operations room or kings and generals will do that someday.

A very interesting video of a really well proportioned plane, particularly the Sparrow. It just looks right. I'm guessing, but I suspect that she handled well and helped train pilots for large aircraft. I wasn't aware of their role in air-to-air refueling. Thanks. 👍

The Harrow was an an interesting inter war bomber. I learnt to fly in 1957 and have the full supply of 'Aircraft of The Fighting Powers' and magazines re aircraft since I was a boy.

Wow...an aircraft type I've genuinely never heard of! Nice to learn something new 😊

Pretty bloody early in the morning lol.

Coffin with wings

balsa glider?

My dad flew in one as a navigator, RCAF, and was shot down in the Netherlands close to the German border in June 1944, and was the only crew to survive. He spent three months with the resistance, successfully evading German forces, to arrive in London in September 1944.

Assigned to a Beaufighter? Has it dihedral tailplane? Yes? WHEW!

Loved the involvement of the community in the video.

Beaufighters and Mosquitos were both very fine twin engined multi functioned aircraft. Hard to choose between the two. Probably the Beaufighter was more rugged

The most British plane ever. Designed and built under cement grey skies, and eternal drizzle, couldn't handle the tropical climate. The local fuel probably gave it the runs.

Just found this somehow! I'll check your back catalogue. Cheers from Canberra _just around the corner from the AWM lol._

Wow , for some reason I have not been getting notifications of Your videos , I checked , still subscribed with notifications So ? , Hopefully now I'll start getting them again .

Great video. As much as I like the De Havilland Mosquito, for me the Bristol Beaufighter pips it to the post, I just love it's brutal looks and it never gets the recognition it truly deserves.

Very good. Cheers

Some 40 years back I had a friend who was serving at the Point Cook Air Base. On one our family get together at the air base, he invited me to see there museum. My understanding was the museum was run volunteer Raff Personnel. Anyway they had a big display of Manfred Von Richthofen, artifacts. They had his Machine-Gun Interrupter Gear, altitude meter and several other pieces. There was some Photographs 16 by 24 Inches photographs, of deceased Manfred. As a Photographer I instantly recognized the photos came from Pro 4 by 5 Inch Press camera. The photographs must have been printed on base in there Photographic division form “Original 4 by 5 inch Negatives”. Last year when I went to the Point Cook Air Base museum, I did not see the Richthofen artifacts on display. The RAAF Base Point Cook at 480-490 Point Cook Rd, Point Cook VIC 3030, is a free entry, though you have to apply for a pass on the internet. This takes about a week. Remembering the artifacts that were kept at Point Cook, I believe they were serenaded to the Museum from families from the Footscray and Williamstown area, after their Serving Ancestor had died. I guess it’s the same way Moorabbin, got there petrol tank.

One Fokker DR 1 did survive World War I ….and was in the aviation Museum in Berlin until it was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943 during World War II.

Our local airport, in Fullerton CA, had a Ford trimotor, a replica I believe, based there many years ago. I saw it often. Alas, it later crashed during a take off. Veering left. it crashed on a the major street next to the airport.

it makes me proud that i live in bahrain to the place where concorde landed the first time but i didnt exist back then :(

this is an interesting video! im glad i came across it. However - from an entertainment perspective i feel like a couple of things are missing I love the story of the plane you set out to tell and achieved, but it often feels like some elements were glossed over. "the engine fell off" ok tell me more what was the human impact, did this land in a city or the ocean? what happened to the plane after it landed? also i would love if you displayed the movie in question and discuss accuracies and inaccuracies in the movie compared to real life and maybe share some insight on how it was filmed? a bit more like at the 10 minute mark - just elaborate more on things. the talking to camera video clips look a bit strange, almost like theres water on the lense or something? not sure but thought i should let you know. the image here isnt coming through clear best wishes for you and the channel. keep improving and keep going!

I had a long lost uncle named Ted who was a tail gunner in one of those in No 10 Squadron but he was missing in action during a raid on Essen.

Thank you

What ever happened to the simmson ,

wooohoooo more indy!!! (your other content is great too!)

Skip bombing

My Dad was an RAF pilot on Short Stirlings , came down in the North Sea after being shot down, recovered all except the tail gunner (who often got trapped). These guys had a 50% mortality, and 76% morbidity, hoping for a better life for their kids and grandkids. Unfortunately, hate has prevailed, fueled by religion. He died 15 yrs ago before the fascist uprising in the West....I am glad he didn't live to see the shit unfolding in North America and Europe.. Fascism revisited with #SDE.

The owner talking about the M3A1 scout car says US yroops didnt care gor it necause of open yop? Halftrack was the same. The armor is actually fairly thin. The thickest is yhe visor over yhe windshield and thats 1/2" sides are about a 1/4". An 8mm round might not ho threw but fors leave one hell of a crater. I owned one that i testored that was nrought in grom Greece

A beautiful aircraft. Sleek and muscular at the same time.

Very good. Guessing the roller on the front is to assist in getting over steep embankments?

The boys at Fairey really knew how to make an ugly aircraft.

So what is the difference between the mosquito and the Hornet?

Attention everyone: My parents lived in the Texas town, Waco. Everyone pronounces that like Wayco. The American biplanes, Waco, however are pronounced exactly the way the presenter said: Wah-co. Congratulations to the presenter!

...did someone just set your voice to sarcastic and you don't know how to switch it back?

The Beauforts nickname was "the whistling death" and for good reasons. Its standard armament consisted of: Four 20 mm autocannons in the nose, Six .303 machine guns in the wings, and one rearward operated machine gun for the observer. And the Japanese destroyers had it all thrown right into their "faces."

the only AmeriKans at the Battle of Milne Bay were construction-engineers (building additional airfields) ... at Milne Bay it was the AUSTRALIANS who for the first time destroyed Japan's myth of invincibility.

American aircraft companies did design better medium bombers than the British. This is a simple fact as Marylands, Baltimores, Hudsons , Venturas and Marauders flew and fought in RAF markings. This aircraft was simply unnecessary and that ventral gun/bomb aimer's position was positively archaic. The .303 guns were simply inadequate and dated. It was not a bad looking beast though.

Nice video. I really think that the MK VII was one of the very best Spitfires. Not only could it climb high (and faster than most WW11 fighters), it was also the fastest merlin engined variant. The Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (AAEE) at Boscombe Down tested a MKVII - serial No MD176 in September 1944 and it achieved a top speed of 412 mph at 26000 ft, 424 mph at 29400 ft, 420mph at 34000 ft and 409 mph at 40000ft. Only the Griffon engined Spitfires had better performance and I imagine not by much at those altitudes. It is a shame that they were that bit more difficult to manufacture. The MK IX could achieve most of what a MK VII could (top speed and range excepted) with only 80% of the effort as they were largely based on the less rigid MK V airframe which was easier to produce quickly. Although the MK VII looked similar to a MK IX , the MK VII was a complete redesign of the airframe and wings, making it a much stronger structure. Having said that, there were no bad Spitfires. They were all brilliant, and we were very lucky to have a aeroplane capable of so much development in a fast changing war.

Not pretty like it's mate the Mosquito but highly effective A real unsung legend of the war

Not a bad looking aircraft but it was conceptually obsolete when it was introduced into service. It did serve, however, but did suffer some operational difficulties. Certainly a much better and more useful derivative of the Buckingham (that ventral gondola hearkened back to the Italian's WWII S.M.Sparviero !). Better attack types were available... (think A-26) but this was immediate post war Britain. They were (a) broke and (b) desperately trying to maintain their own domestic aircraft industries and technology...to the extent of placing some rather peculiar (and usually of rather pedestrian performance) types into production. Some were winners though (DH Hornet, Hawker Sea Fury...). This would be a great subject for a 1/48 kit!

Matter of fact with great photography and no music..........Paerfect.

One of my most liked aircraft often overlooked by other craft that were given more recognition .

I’ve read some of the comments and am frankly astounded. I’d read that being put on a Stirling squadron was akin to committing suicide, as they were so bloody slow - the Kraut Night-fighters snapped them up. Am I wrong ??

Instead of designing the Stirling with shorter wings to fit into existing hangers why didn't they make ten feet of the wing foldable like a carrier based plane?

Flew in one of these back in 1941/2. I was 11, and in the ATC, and on an airfield in Yorkshire. Long War Story etc.. Now I'm the last person alive, who flew in one, during the War, etc.

What a top documentary, well done.

My Australian Dad with English crew flew Stirling Mk 4’s, towing troop gliders in Operation Varsity and dropping supplies to the Resistance. 2:06