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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video, we take a look at the Arado Ar 240, a heavy fighter/destroyer/dive bomber/ground attacker/night fighter from Germany during World War II that was intended to replace the Messerschmitt Bf 110. We first talk about the issues surrounding the Bf 110 and heavy fighters, and why despite these problems, the Bf 110 served with Germany until the war ended. We then talk about the start of the pre-war attempts to replace it in both the Me 210 and the Ar 240. We then talk about the early stages of Arado as a company, and how they became a small but interesting element of German aircraft production.
We talk about the proposed technologically advanced features of the Ar 240, from new self-sealing tanks to remote-controlled defensive turrets. We then talk about the early flight testing of the Ar 240 prototype, and how it controlled terribly. We talk about why the project likely continued regardless, and look at the many prototypes and proposed variants. We look at the very small production run and extremely limited combat use, before then finishing by comparing the Ar 240 to a "raw" NFL prospect.
6:14 The V-22 Osprey uses this design feature, where a drive shaft powers both propellers if an engine fails. However it can’t sustain flight but allows for an emergency landing rather than falling out the sky during a vertical takeoff or landing.
Luftwaffe.. "wow that plane is really fast , how many can you build" ?
Arado.. " build? You mean you want to us to build it"?
That reminds me of the time the Brits wanted a new sniper rifle and the contract was won by a couple guys building guns in their garage-- who then had to scramble and rent a warehouse to appear as their factory while scrapping up friends to stand around as shop workers when the government wanted to check out their production facility! At lunch after the inspection, they told the guys they needed to come check things out just to be sure they weren't "three guys in a garage."
@AmbuBadger was that accuracy international?
@@winterassassin22 Bingo!
@@AmbuBadger And then, the MoD contracted a missile manufacturer to make the rifles, only for the missilers to decide they knew better about rifle design (they did not. And are no longer around.)
an arado plane is like a great idea in a dream that just cant be remembered, but you know it was really good but you cant remember it no matter how hard you try.
DH Mosquito: wing loading 195 kg/m2. Ar 240: wing loading 300 kg/m2. With almost equal top speeds, the Mossie would have been by far the superior airplane.
Terrific airplane... even more brilliant from a sourcing of labor and materials. Sailboat, piano, and cabinet makers weren't in heavy use making tanks and metal airplanes.
2:14 Note the flame suppressor on the exhaust manifold for night fighter stalking bombers.
That’s a cool-looking airplane and one I wasn’t aware of. Great video! BTW almost all multi-engine planes have the props rotating in the same direction simply for cost and maintenance reasons. But of course there is the P-38, and others, including a Piper or Beechcraft GA twin I can’t remember at the moment… but you certainly pay for contra rotating props (a great idea aerodynamically) in terms of initial cost, supply chain, and maintenance headaches.
I love the serious humorous side can you imagine being the test pilot 🙈
There is a section on the Internet that think that every advancement in engineering since 1945 is due to German engineering. Aircraft like this one severely rain on their parade.
Thankfully lately these view have been om the retreat thanks to people like Potential History. Germany lost the war for a reason, after all.
I think they're called _Wehraboos,_ a combination of "Wehrmacht" and "weeaboo," the latter being a term used to describe white people who think everything Japanese is culturally superior to its Western counterpart. Ironically, the Japanese nowadays tend to see any German-made being better than anything made anywhere else...
Yes and his name is hitler😮
@@mikewazowski7024
@@mikewazowski7024Finally some ppl who aren’t propaganda coq sugers.
@@mikewazowski7024 Potential History is a grifter nobody takes serious my dear redditor.
Luv the narration. Brilliant and informative. Very interesting. 🎉
Clearly this video has no correlation between the revell re-release 😅
The whart
@@chunkblaster wort?
@@chunkblaster its re release of the scale model of this plane
I built the original Ar240 A-02 1994 release, it was a really great kit other than the decals. 👍
Airfix FTW!
Love you videos! EXTREMELY informative and educational and the detail; EXCELLENT!! THANKS!!
BTW, the U in Luftwaffe is long.😉
The u in Luftwaffe is short, but a different colour than IHYLS pronounces it. I'd compare it to how you pronounce the u in the word Pudding.
A work horse that didn't get eaten on the Eastern front.
... only because humans can't eat metal
Another excellent factual video.
Excellent stuff bro
Last time I was this early the ME 109 was new
The last time I was this early, the Wright Flyer was the most modern fighter aircraft in the world!
..called BF 109 too
I heard from a guy, 😶, that a spy fudged with data at the wind tunnel that made the wings super draggy for a whole batch of German planes. Thats why it took til the Me-410 to fly well. Thats when they found the error. 😮
Arado. When crashing is a feature, not a bug.
The plane in the image kinda of reminds me of an A10 Warthog. If the Germans dropped the 2 prop jobs on the wings and slapped on a couple jet engines beneath the tail it would be very similar to an A-10.
The crash landed plane, with the 2 red flags, seems to have a TE x MU registration. Which might explain things.
I feel like I should know what you’re referring to, but I can’t for the life of me figure it out
@@crysisrevelation6132The registration spells Temu. That Chinese company notorious for its poor production quality.
The moment i saw the prop hubs i knew something was up
"In combat heavy fighters are often very vulnerable.." EXCEPTING the situation when we talking about YOUR IMPERIAL BUILD heavy fighter which was (OBVIOUSLY😱) the most BRILLIANT of all 😂
didnt the british bucaneer have that cone air brake set up?
Sort of, it was a bi-valve system, with only two flaps opening up, rather than the four flaps on this thing
Looooftvaffaaa
One of my favorites
Gee the Mosquito didn't have contra-rotating propellers and that didn't seem to hold it back.
I see you're trying an improved "Cool Logo." It has a trademark now, does it have a DB603? /S
"Going from abhorrent to just godawful isn't anything to write home about."
Sounds like the story of my first and second marriages. 😂😂😂
Fuuu
Looks like the Heinkel Uhu with a tail wheel on it.
27:05 => Is that a man on the flying bomb. Is it like the "Okha"?
Looks very standard. Why was it so unstable.
What's going on with the "rising sun" crest visible on some of these aircraft?
Looks like JG 5 squadron emblem
Last time I was this early she left...
0:54 does their squadron emblem have a picture of Britain on it?
Yes, it’s the UK in crosshairs is the emblem for Schnellkampfgeschwader 210 (SKG 210). There’s a Wikipedia page on the unit. Basically it was the test pilot and tactics development squadron for the Messerschmitt 110 and 210 at the start of the war.
@@notmenotme614 Right that makes sense, I couldn't see the cross hairs, thanks 👍
If you analizə Arado ar 240 and Heinkel hs219 actually them aren't so different why one was successful the another one a fracase?.
The must difficult to understand is why the germans persisted on the me-410 instead of switching to the hs 219?
Look up the adventure of sir yeet dude😊
Blume = BLUEmeh (again, approximately)
During the Battle of Britain, it was jokingly called "the fighter that needed a fighter escort" no greater shame was to be endured than a fighter pilot who had to admit he was brought down by a 110, other pilots would give you a bit of a ribbing with questions like "are you sure it was a 110 that got you" ??? With an ear to ear sly grin.....
USA got this design still going today in the Osprey?
Funny to see a Belgian (because bilingual - by law!) advert for the Ar-70...
So Heinkel got inspired! Yoohoo/Uhu?
24:44 Tee-hee YUP! Also not great 😛
22:44 - engine problems could have been caused by slave labor. “Forgetting” piston rod bolt and other minor hard to notice “fixes” like placement of pieces rags in coolant passes.
Paint scheme, 70/71/65 or 74/75/76?
12:45 "...the plane was found to be horriblly unstable across all three axes..." Yeesh. Maybe entertaining for an experienced pilot on a clear day over friendly territory, but perhaps not too great wheb the chips are down.
>Be Germany
>Over-complicates things and completely loses the plot
Many such cases
Just wait until you saw their tanks.. just clown show after clown show. There’s still a lot of people who say Germany was the superior one in World War Two.
It's what happens when hubris is seen as a feature instead of a bug.
Still better as having the goal to make things barely work.
arado cooking with this plane
I do like your snarkiness.
Boeing wingtips are killing me 😮
12:32 most twin engine prop planes have props that spin in the same direction. Counter rotating props increase complexity of the gearbox so they’re often passed. The p-38 was one of the few heavy fighters with counter rotating props at the time
A mil is 1/1000 of an inch. It is not an abbreviation for a millimeter.
a mil is Absolutely short for millimeter. depending on context it can also be a thou, but only in america and only when already talking in imperial measurements.
A mil is NOT short for a millimeter (do some homework before you reply). There is no context, a mil is a 1/1000 of an inch or a thou. Of course a mil is an imperial unit of measure. And really, only in America (I assume you are speaking specifically about the United States OF America). Sorry a thou is a thou in the rest of the world too!
We used the phrase "a couple of mil" a lot. It could mean two millimeters, two million, or two miliradians depending on the context. It's the same with "a thou" (or "a couple of thousand"), could be one thousand or could be 1/1000, again depends on context. It's not exclusive to a system of measurement, although I acknowledge that in the US when considering "a thou" it is most commonly used in the context of 1/1000 of an inch.
@@user-ij2ru7ih1j a mil is only a thing in the usa, in britan it is jsut short for a mil mr america
Both really. And why nowadays thou is waaaaay more common in use. Anytime I hear mil I automatically assume millimeter, and I think that's true across the board. Don't think I've ever heard mil to mean a thou, but that might admittedly be a regional thing.
The good thing is that the plane would go fast... while it crashed...
Sounds like this design needed wind tunnel testing from the start. n
Or Tony Mandarich.
Looks like a prototype of the Grumman Mohawk------just sayin'
Yes it was a bug
😂😂
The prototype model was probably used in combat because it could be. Beggars/choosers theory would seem to apply, and having an extra plane in the air is better than not, or at least, it probably seemed like that to somebody. As for recon... anything that is fast enough is/can be good enough? and good enough is perfect.
Either that, or somebody made the commander's shite list.
Fw-190 when?????????
Cant giv like , a bug ?
If Germany hadn't lost the war, it would probably still be trying to produce something to match the Mosquito.
U think that the Mosquito couldn't be surpassed in 2024?
@@oxcart4172 You don't get to hear too many jokes, I assume.
Jokes sometimes rely on hyperbole.
The heavy fighter was an oxymoron.
Double engine - ok.
Heavy..no.
the more i study, or have information of german equipment. yeah america should take notes, advanced tech means fuck all if it is mediocre.
It is not V like vie, but fau
Versuch - ferzukh
I see arado and I know it's fucked
Lübbe = LOObuh (approximately, for Americans)
nah not really
What I find interesting is how the Fascists took control of the Arado company but yet they still managed to continue and be innovative. Soviet Russia is even more fascinating as they completely developed and ran their businesses and the same thing could be said.
I suppose that there were some incentives to be productive, besides being executed or sent to a coal mine, and the engineers wanted to see their machines work.
hee hee hee
Very plodding presentation.
Video starts at 7:00
I mean he's giving history for the plane in that time so...
How about focusing on that luftwaffe pronunciation?
It’s a lost cause at this point. Now I think he pronounces it that way just to troll us.
Is the narration AI? Its bloody annoying! So up and down in tone and over annunciated . A bit interesting with decent photo's