Guy in his element servicing a legendary WW2 Hurricane | Guy Martin Proper
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- In this brand new documentary, made for Channel 4, Guy follows in the footsteps of the brave young pilots of World War Two to discover if he could have been a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain. If he makes the grade, he’ll face his toughest test yet: flying a Hawker Hurricane in a dogfight against a Messerschmitt 109. In this exclusive extra scene not in the documentary, Guy services a legendary Hurricane and we hear amazing stories from veteran Vic Bashford. To watch the full documentary, click here 👉 www.channel4.c...
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Guy services a legendary Hurricane and we hear amazing stories from RAF veteran Vic Bashford. To watch the full documentary, click here 👉www.channel4.com/programmes/guy-martin-battle-of-britain
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Thank you Vic ilford 🎖
My dad was air force ground crew in North Africa. He told me they didn't receive the African Star medal because they didn't see action but in his words " It didn't stop the bastards shooting at us every day"
Yet my dad was Royal Navy and got the Africa Star and Clasp. Not sure what he did there, but I doubt it was anything like what you dad went through!
@@somebloke13 I`m sure your Dad earned it my friend. My Father was in The Merchant Navy, he served on The North Atlantic Convoys going to Murmansk and Archangel in Russia.
My grandfather was career RAF ground crew up until the 1960s. He served in the Battle of Britain, they were as much at risk as the aircrew.
When I was reading the comment did I thought "Dont see any action? Bloody hell, those men made sure the pilots could get into the air"
But that most likely beat enemy shooting at you
@@Danspy501st Which bit of 'Thre, maybe four Dornier D17s came in at about 50 feet, just cleared the hangers, spraying everything and dropping delayed fused bombs' went over your head as fast as those Dorniers went over the RAF Hurricane's Aerodrome?
Had the rare pleasure of sitting in the cockpit of R4118 at Goodwood a few years ago. As she is the only surviving Hurricane that a actually fought in the Battle of Britain it was a few minutes of my life beautifully spent. Very emotional experience.
This is the aircraft found in India.Thank you to all those involved in rebuilding this gorgeous piece of history. What an aeroplane and what a story it can tell. A bona fide BoB veteran. Long may she keep the world aware of those dark days
found in india where???
@@djarsh1 It was found in 1996 in Bombay. Check it out here. www.hurricaneheritage.com/
The picture says 1982 in the website
Guy Martin: Doing journalists jobs better than actual journalists.
Well especially in special interest areas, that's not hard, journalists fail all the time when it comes to aviation as they just don't have the time to really read up on it.
To the brave souls who fought not only to save England, but did their part to save the world we salute you. Such sacrifice by the pilots and the people, they truly are the greatest generation. Love from 🇺🇲
Agreed DM It really annoy's me when you see the entitled of today bang on about how hard they get it? All the Snowflakes, Karens & Kens
Men like Vic didn't get a choice and we're more than happy to assist, They are the reason we have the lives we lead today, But are the forgotten heroes of yesteryear
@@paulthompson5416 Amen brother. Did those brave men and women ever talk about "toxic masculinity"? Hell no, masculinity and tough women kicked ass, saved Great Britain, and beat the hell out of those nazi pukes.
@@paulthompson5416 Did i say Great Britain? Yes and the rest of the planet. In my opinion they literally saved the world from a living hell.
@@DM-qp7do 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Well said Sir if it wasn’t for the men and women of Vic’c era Europe would be speaking German!!
No disrespect meant to any German viewers in any way.
@@paulthompson5416 Thank you. Im afraid for the western worlds future with the young generation. Im generation X which isn't anything special, but this new generation? Generation "You're not important or relevant unless you're a victim" generation is ridiculous. That's what I call their generation, the " Im a victim" generation. With that being said there are plenty of people on this planet that have been victims of something. But to be perpetually offended by everything to get that dopamine rush of being a victim is sad.
Mad respect for Vic Alford (sorry if thats wrong, its what i heard)
Not only did we build proper good planes, we gave em proper good names too.
You also gave a proper great engine to us yanks for our P51 Mustang. It was a turd without that engine. Im American but my mom is from England and used to play in the bomb craters as a kid. My brother in law works construction and is still finding unexploded ordinance in England. I have the deepest respect for England and the amazing pilots that did their part to save not only England, but the world. Respect 🇺🇲
@@DM-qp7do and Scotland too!
@@SigmaJAD Yes!! Scotland too, they fought like hell also🇺🇲
Though R.J. Mitchell the designer exclaimed "Spitfire? Just the sort of silly name they would give it!"
@@johncartwright8154 Yep and the Spitfire was originally named ‘the Shrew’ - tha k god they changed it !
I love Guy's honest commentary. The Few saved Britain and the ground crew's kept them in the air.
And the Radar operators, Filter room staff etc and Observer Corps made interceptions possible. And the(civilian) repair teams from the aircraft factories put many aircraft back in service overnight (or very quickly at least) ...a great TEAM effort.
What a fantastic thing to be able to do 👍🏻👏🏻 those machines and men and women kept us an un invaded island 🙏
I walk my dog on Kenley aerodrome.
Love hearing stories about the area in wartime.
Respect and admiration for everyone who walked there before me.
Once the Poles got a hold of these fighters, they absolutely ripped into the Luftwaffe in a big way.
Guy Martin ..Proper Geezer should be on tv more often 👍
Brilliant plane flown by true heroes
Love Guy Martin's TV programmes from constructing a Spitfire, working on Hurricanes, breaking world records on the wall of death.
Top personality with tons of charisma and someone that makes interesting topics more assessable to enthusiasts with his brilliant can do attitude and TV shows. Cheers Guy.
Guy "I wanna see what makes it tick" Martin 👌🏽
1:10 my Dad did the same job as this man and he said exactly the same, the Hurricane was great to work on as the Spitfire was very tight and everything was tight fitting like the engine panels could be a swine to refit.
Thank You, so much.
Thanks for the awesome video. Great video 👍🏻
Kudos to Guy for preserving such history
how good would it be if could sit down with Vic and talk about his memories .......a story or 2 to tell.....
I have to agree with Guy the sound of correct torque when torquing something down is a lovely sound of achievement.
Awesome content. As a motorcycle enthustiast and a pilot myself, seeing Guy beign so interested by aviation stuff is bonkers !
watched every video ever made my guy on tv and TH-cam, proper bloke proper down to earth great work fella keep them coming 👍
What a beautiful beautiful aircraft. Guy you’re so lucky and privileged to be able to touch them :-)
Brilliant job! 😎👍
Truck fitter checking spark plugs on a service? unheard of. With respect to the groundcrews and pilots.
And all respect for the people who worked and flew with them. Europe ows you..
Sadly Europe don't seem to think so any more. We apparently owe them ...
@@1chish I know. I'm Dutch and our government dares to critic the Brits while our own MP is a f*cking lier and fraud.
@SkinPeeleR. Don't worry we, true Brits, have huge respect for the Dutch people and what you went through in WW2. Without your help, in so so many ways, we'd all be living very different lives and the ability to comment, on our shared history, would be just a dream. I'm just learning about your country's unlikely association with Holyhead, in North Wales. Well worth researching, if you've got a few hours to fill....
@@cheshirerob thank you. I wil look it up.
What a beautiful machine! :D
Proper aircraft, proper bloke servicing it, Proper!
I was a ground crew mechanic on the sea harrier FA2. They are not maintenance friendly.
My Uncle joined the R.C.A.F. in 1937 and was attached to the R.A.F. during and after the battle of Britain and he flew both Hurricanes and Spitfires. I asked him once which aircraft he personally favoured and he said the Hurricane without any hesitation. When I asked why he told me that he liked the Hurricane because it was more maneuverable even if it suffered a slight speed disadvantage at the time. He also commented that despite their reputation for catching fire, the Hurricane could take more battle damage that a Spitfire since it was a frame built aircraft with a fabric skin allowing enemy rounds to pass through with little or no damage. The Spitfire with it's monocoque construction was more susceptible to structural failure as the skin was the frame and it did not like holes being punched in it which weakened the entire aircraft. He was flying a Hurricane when he performed some act that earned him a D.F.M.
Hurricane😍😍😍😍 grande gui
diesel mechanics are good with aircraft because they are so similar engine-wise. even jet engines are have a bit in common with diesel engines
Guy Martin would have been a great Spitfire pilot . . . . . . today!
Love it. Use a breaker bar there Guy, you ratchet wrecker! lol
That's one plug you don't want to bust off in the head. Or cross thread going in.
Notice the 'in-shoulder' holding action of the ratchet?
Beautiful plane. American but from all the history I’ve studied brits put up a dam good fight to be remembered
Some boy! The 303 squadron was on side :)
And I, as a very proud Englishman, salute you and your countrymen for your phenomenal efforts in helping to keep the Western world free👍Much love to you all ❤
Hah this is like me and my old Soviet motorcycle. Literally near impossible to find great parts!!
... Absolutely destroyed the German Airforce 👌 👍 you sure right are there legend
Lovely aircraft, this one lived and flew from my home village until Peter Vacher sold it
Hawker,with The Spifire, Mustang i think i see in there
Easier to replace as the gentleman said, cannon Slash from German cannon means off the roster for ages,
just stuck it on there cheers
Reminds me of my grandfather, Paddy Murphy. He was responsible for more Luftwaffe loses than anyone else in WWII.. Yup grandad was the worst mechanic the Luftwaffe ever had 🤣
Very cool video fabulous machine
That guy really didnt look like he wanted to let him touch that plane lol
Brilliant thanks 👍🏻👍🏻
Well enjoyed your battle of Britain flying. Now build on that experience and go learn too fly for good guy .
Bet he supercharged Terence the Tug before leaving too - That's Proper!
To think this was easy compared to the Spitfire which was much more temperamental.
"let's see if it'll start first" hahahaha
I thought I was the only one to do that in 2020!
2:26 these boys prob no better than me but i thought you shouldn't grease sparkplug threads because it will change the torque spec ?
There is dry torque and wet torque settings. Settings are always dry unless specified.
у ветерана медаль Ушакова, интересно где он воевал.
If I remember correctly hurricane is heavier then spitfire even if there it’s made of lighter material
I'd give anything to be allowed to touch it, let alone work on it. They were all heroes! Pilots, ground crews and the Ladies of the Auxillery Airforce that delivered the replacement/new aircraft to fighter fields..... A generation the likes we will not see again.
My Uncle joined the R.C.A.F. in 1937 and was attached to the R.A.F. during and after the battle of Britain and he flew both Hurricanes and Spitfires. I asked him once which aircraft he personally favoured and he said the Hurricane without any hesitation. When I asked why he told me that he liked the Hurricane because it was more maneuverable even if it suffered a slight speed disadvantaaircraft
Крутой истребитель
Plenty of it. Flood the cowling.
Hi
My Mum tells of mothers running for the air raid shelters carrying babys and pushing todlers in the push chairs when the planes were dogfighting. The politicians get us into these messes and we have to fight to get out of them.
By politicians do you mean Hitler? Weird argument to make, not like we've been blaming him forever now...
@@Gazmus Not just him. But who other than polittians would you blame for taking us to war, it certainly isn't anyone not in politics. You know that there have been a lot of wars not just WWII. So why say weird, makes no sense.
How did you find a fully built Hurricane. None exist anymore. They where made of canvas an wood so they fell apart an weren't maintained.
So im genuinely impressed.
There are around 14 Hurricanes still flying, 3 of them are Battle of Britain veterans, 1 is a Dunkirk veteran. Many more are on static display
What are you talking about lol, there are quite a few flying, clearly have no idea what you are talking about
@@mktm1290 i saw on a documentary only 3 surviving hurricanes exist world wide
They were steel tubular construction with wooden formers warped in Irish linen. Most are now built around the data tag but there are a few survivors.
Last I heard there was only 12 airworthy Hurricanes in the world. Had a booklet on them. Few in restoration tho
@@pattenger4688 cheers for the information man. Didn't know that
Why are the wings metal? They should be Irish Linen.
Wrong.
Only very early MK.I Hurricanes had fabric covered wings. They would have also had 2 bladed Watts propellers.
@@pattenger4688 As my limited understanding has it the Linen was considered a key resource because of this usage. It was also because of the linen that Hurricanes were able to sustain more damage (if the fuel tank was not compromised) than the Spitfire. 20mm rounds pass cleanly through linen, but not aluminium. Linen was easier and quicker to repair. These are two of the reasons why we had more Hurricanes than Spitfires during the Battle of Britain. Although I will bow down to your greater knowledge here, when you point out that later Hurricanes were made of metal.
@@briangreen6602 You cannot just say "wrong". You must say why I am wrong. See Tenger below, who correctly (as far as I know) points out that this is a later Hurricane.
@@nicholasburns729 The fuselage was Irish linen through out all Mks and the tubular frame construction also made it easier to simply replace a tube that had damage but for the wings, fabric was used to speed production until metal wings were produced with greater performance.
Check guns for blinker fluid lad.
@@madisntit6547 proper fluid....proper...
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Our country is a mere shadow of what it used to be 😒
Shame not many of these WW2 aircraft survived after the war but understandable. The thing that always strikes me now though is the bull shit the people working on them go through in looking after them. A day to do a short service that the old boy said took 1.5 hours. Building that Spit back up in another video took years when a load of basically and quickly trained women could build one in days. Like with everything today too much fuss and no substance. It takes 3 to do the job of 1 and the safety checks take longer than the work. We wouldn't win the battle of Britain today the planes would never get off the ground. More power to the generation of men and women that served back then. We are useless self important facsimiles in comparison today.
Give it a rest Dave. Back then we needed to get as many of them in the air as quickly as possible - if it was slapped together it didn't matter because it would likely have an operational lifespan of between 1 and 50 hours before it either fell apart, got shot down, crashed, or was replaced with a newer marque.
Now we've got all the time in the world, and only a handful of Hurris (and only a few dozen Spits), lets take our time with it, make sure it's right, and make it last a lifetime. Not least because if you rush a job and break something, you can't wander off to Stores (via the NAAFI for a quick brew and smoke) to get a replacement.
@@duncanhamilton5841 I totally agree with your analysis of the war years and as to the rest everyone is entitled to their own opinion. This was simply my opinion of what is done today. Every walk of life is drowning in WHS. Heritage organisations make preserving the very things they campaign to keep so expensive with all their rules that in reality nothing gets done. And people take years to build a tiny plane. I just don't get it.
@@davetaylor4741 The main culprit is the CAA, aka the Campaign Against Aviation.
@@davetaylor4741 well educate yourself then, and you may start to get it. It’s just been explained to you in pretty simple terms but still claim not to get it🙄🙄🙄
@@Jabber-ig3iw What is there to get. When the chips are down or war you get your finger out. Like a Vivid vaccine in under a year. In times of peace you create jobs for the boys by keeping keeping on. Like normal vaccine development time 5 to 10 years. Most things can be done quicker but circumstance dictates the pace.
4:11 they could have gave that hero some water, dude is so thirsty he's got white corner of his mouth
I really wish he would learn to speak clear queen's english.
I thought he did.....
knowingly lied about his driveing licence for years wile the rest of us have to abide by the law
The Brits lost more battles than they won, if the air campaigns of ww2 were rated like boxing matches then the germans would be undefeated world champions. Change my mind...
Moron
That makes no bloody sense on many levels . First eh no we didn’t , second it’s war not boxing so what exactly is your point , third Germany lost on land sea and air so hardly undefeated , and lastly you can keep your mind as it is .... means FA to us anyway .
You are a bell end ! Change my mind....
Shut up
@@kevinthomas2662 Let’s all take the time to show our appreciation for “moist crack by the sea”. He has taken time off from saving the world in his PC games and manically pulling himself off, to educate us all, with his great wisdom and intellect. Let us all show him the respect he deserves…… OH! I see you already have.
And they are not wearing any mask.