The sound of the German R is often made really far back in the throat, and sounds a lot different than the English R, almost a bit like a 'hard' H. So I somewhat understand the confusion.
@@biko9824 Even so - it doesn't sound like this - it sounds way more like a regular r in English than the "h" sound here as The only Madmac pointed out.
Benny Hill did a great bit on the way different European countries pronounce their "R's". ... He says witchard and wobert! Ah, its the way he rolls his r's! I dont know , ive never watched him walk. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The name Arado comes from the Spanish word arado (plow). It was a trade name for a steel alloy used in shipbuilding. Maybe that's what's confusing Google. But no one in Germany had used the Spanish pronunciation, so it's Arado.
Arado Ar 232 "Tausendfüßler" is actually the grandpa of all modern combat transport aircraft like the C119 Boxcar, C123 Provider & C130 Herkules. So they were quite innovative.
The diagram at 11:05 you show is a list of specifications of the variants 1 through 11: Variants 1-3 experiment with engine configurations ("Verschiedene Triebwerksgliederung") Variants 4-6 experiment with wing angles ("Verschiedene Flügelstreckung") I'm struggling with variant 7 but something to do with weapons ("Waffen...") Variant 8a and 8b experiment with elevators and rudders on two tailbooms ("Mit Leitwerk an 2 Trägern") Variant 9 and 10 seem to do something similar too, metr here probably meaning "metrisch" ("... metr. Leitwerken") Variant 11 changes the main fuselage ("Rumpfflug...ung") 1st row is engines "Triebwerk" 2nd row i'm guessing is takeoff weight in metric tonnes "...Start" 3rd is fuel capacity in metric tonnes "Kraftstoffgewicht" 4th is fuel to weight percentage "Kraftstoffanteil" 5th is the wing area in square meters "Fläche" 6th is the wingspan in meters "Spannweite" 7th, 8th and 9th i don't understand, probably control surface areas in square meters 10th and 11th i have no clue on but they are listed in percentages 12th sounds like maximum altitude in cruise in km "Endhöhe im Reiseflug" 13th looks to me cruising speed in km/h "V->Reise" 14th is cruising speed in Mach "V->Reise/V->Schall" 15th is flight distance/range in km "Flugstrecke" The last line explains Mach at 11km of altitude "V->Schall = 1080km/h in E = 11km" I hoped this helped you out a bit (:
My best guess to the confusion of the 555-11(14) variant is, that there were 2 earlier designs before variant 555-4 from 11:05 , that the variants 555-8a and 555-8b were seen as two seperate ones bringing the total number to 14. Making the 3 variants, 555-6/7/8, from 10:25 actually the variants 555-4/5/6 since their wingspan measurements align with the chart from 11:05 .
The notion that the 555-5 variant was left out due to it having to many 5s is ridiculous, since the german military was very precise when naming their hardware and variants, unlike the american military that named everything under the sun M1/M1A1/M2/M3 ect.
The Arado Ar 234 Jet Bomber, used as a reconnaissance plane was a real issue for the allies, they had no easy way to stop it from taking pictures of the D-Day build up, An extensive dummy force and disinformation campaign was required to counteract the jet. As a Bomber only small target were suitable due to the limited number of sorties that could be carried out
@@garrymartin6474 The dummy force wouldn't have worked as well with more extensive aerial reconnaissance. Some things would have betrayed that a degree of deception was underway.
Might want to double check your info. the first recon flight of an Arado was by the V7 prototype on August 2 1944, almost two months after D-Day. Their recon efforts did impact Market-Garden.
I've built the Revell 1/72 scale kit a couple of times (many years ago and in various camo colours) and have two more left. I know it didn't take to the skies, but it's my favourite "what if" aircraft.
Hi Roger, you are talking about Revell USA and are absolutely right! However Revell Germany produced a series of "what if" planes and many modern fighters. I think it was mainly for the European market. I live in North America and could find them in my local hobby store. I think the "what if" planes are no longer in production.@@rogerrendzak8055
This is where they got the idea for the fake airplane in "Raiders Of The Lost Ark". In that video, you can see the chains driving the wheels, which actually move the airplane....
On the surface one wonders why these get called "Amerika Bombers" because they lacked the required range possibly because this is the best the E.555 proposals could come up with. However I believe all were specified with in flight refueling capability. The distance from Berlin to New York 3,967.53 miles (6,385.12 km). The distance from Brest France to New York is 3,354 miles (5,397 km). Twice this distance would be needed plus about 14% to allow dog leg courses and some penetration plus 10% reserves. That means 12800km from BERLIN NY or 10,800km from BREST-NY. The E.555-6 could fly 7500km and the E.555-11 8000km. The only way would be in flight refueling which could extend range about 33.3% if a buddy aircraft refuels 1/3rd of the way and 66% if rendevous refueling on the way back. Manfred Griehls "Luftwaffe over Amerika" shows the Luftwaffe conducted very succesful in flight refueing testing in 1943 in Hookups between Ju 252 and Ju 290 aircraft. -The Germans did have a practical design the Messerschmitt Me 264. The prototypes with 1350hp Jumo 211F engines barely had the range (essentially lightly armed, with few bombs and inadequate reserves) but as more power became available BMW 801D (1800hp) and the Daimler Benz DB 603L or H with 2400hp the aircraft could lift greater fuel load and get the range needed. These powerfull engines in the 2250hp-2400hp range were becoming available in end 1944 (Jumo 213E, DB603L) -There was a 6 engines version (Me 264/6m or Me 364) with plugs to estend the fuselage and longer span wings that was also designed and could have done the mission on weaker Jumo 211J engines or on the DB603H made up to 17000km in the recon version and 15000 in the bomber version. It was a viable design. There as a Heinkel Jet bomber and the Horton Ho XVIII that might have done the mission, certainly with in flght refueling which was specified.
The first and only time I ever saw this plane anywhere was in Battle Of Europe, a pc game my father gave to me when I was a kid, some time like 2006 or something like that. It was a secret plane you unlocked whenever you finished the game and it was actually mindblowing. It looked like the 555-1. For some reason this video took me to that moment of finishing the game and going to play the last mission with the Ar555. Good times :)
Please give all units in metric as well. 60 feet something means nothing for most people. And as others have mentioned, Arado is not pronounced Ahado. But besides that nice to see this very rare design explored in some detail.
I do but since the USofA is a member of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and thus all their units are DEFINED in metrics, why should we convert units that are historically based on hand or shoe size of people who married their cousins 🤔😝
Good video. The earlier Arado E 555 designs are essentially a flying wing concept. The main danger of flying wing designs is uncontrollable yaw on the tips of the wings which in a tight turn can cause a uncontrollable unrecoverable flat stall and basically aircraft falls to the ground. That's the idea for fitting the extended booms with vertical and horizontal stableisers. Also mounting them further back also helps with low power glide to get extra fuel efficiency and range to help the airct to cross thd Atlantic and increase controlled clime rate in a emergency withou causing a stall.
This may just be the most Kerbal Space program looking plane of the whole war. All 14, or 11, or 10 :) Also since Arado isn't a German word, but just part of the name of a company that doesn't exist anymore. I guess you have seen the pronunciation of the Spanish word instead (wich may or may not be the source of the name, you never know with German company names). Also I'm not sure if the Spanish word would be pronounced that way, but if shown to a German, me for example, and given that the next word in the name is Flugzeugwerke, I'd pronounce it Arado, not Ahado. But although this time it was a swing and a miss, I appreciate the effort. Can't get them all right and your pronunciation of German stuff is way better then most youtube airplane people.
Arado designers sh etched out ideas. Gave them to an engineer. Mailed them too the Ministry. As long as Arado staff kept submitting super weapons ideas to the Ministry requests they weren’t going to be in uniform at the Russian Front!
Surely the details of engine numbers and fuel carried would affect the range and speed, and would have been the drivers of the innovations? It is all very well ridding the design of a heavy and thirsty jet engine, but the lowered thrust and the lack of engines of high reliability would have made any of these craft unlikely, for reasons of engine life, if nothing else. They were not known for their longevity, as much as for their thrust. (which came at the expense of the superior layout) but lacked the needed alloys for reliability and longevity.
It wasn't a late arrival; it was a non-arrival. At least the "sparsely numbered" allied jet fighters actually existed, while this plane never did. It was not even an experimental design. Simple design studies should not be accorded recognition equivalent to actual prototype and developmental aircraft, let alone aircraft actually in production.
@@christianschellbruck9788 Lately it seems half of all TH-cam commenters have something like Tourette Syndrome that causes them to blurt out anything that pops into their mind even when it is completely irrelevant. (Meaning no disrespect to those who suffer from actual Tourette Syndrome.)
@@christianschellbruck9788 What’s the P-59 then? Chopped liver??? Sure it wasnt good, but it DID fly with its own power, while actually being armed with guns and the required instruments instead of being barebones like the heinkels before it, thus making it the first combat-capable jet…
So why the apparent bhurt Gort? We all know its was a submission to the German Air Ministry in Response to a request for proposals for a long range jet bomber. We all know this but you feel you need to clear things up we all already understand. These proposals are nevertheless very interesting from a technical stand point and historical. The E in the E.550 name stands for "Enwiklungs" or "Development". Had it been selected for funding into production type it would have received a German air ministry number. Something like "Ar 550" (E numbers didn't convert to RLM numbers however). -Flying wings were attractive because they had a low whetted area which kept drag down and helped keep engine ducts and intakes short. They didn't offer higher speed or range but they did offer higher flying. -You can see what Arado has done. They proposed a flying wing. To control risk for the German air ministry they offered an 8 engine Jumo 004 version in case the Jumo 012 or BMW 018 is not available as these engines were in mock up stage at the time (construction of prototypes had commenced) The HeS 011A was bench testing so they offer a 6 engine version of that. In case the RLM is worried about stability they offer two proposals with a tail. In case they didn't like a flying wing they offered a conventional design. -The design was entirely feasible. The vertical tails act as wing fences to combat span wise flow.. -The aircraft completely lacked the range to reach the United States even with a single in flight refueling but it would have dominated Europe, Atlantic shipping and the Soviet Union.
@@williamzk9083 I don't read comments that start out with juvenile terms like "bhurt" because I know there will be nothing pertinent there. Okay, I peeked and I was right; your 'analysis' of the E.550 design is not pertinent to anything I said. Try elsewhere to find someone interested in it.
The main difficulty that Germany would always have faced is radar, from both land based stations and also picket ships. How many did they plan on sending? 1 to 2 thousand? The transatlantic flight would have made it a suicide assignment, either on the way there or on the return leg. Some decent 4-engined heavies perhaps, for continental warfare, but forget the intercontinental nonsense, which was unattainable by the day's technology.
I get the feeling the allies would have just crammed rockets on to some existing propeller fighters. I'm a terrible engineer because stopgap measures are my favorite measures. Edit: wtf Google, text to speech keeps getting worse?!
Provided some of the Amerika Bomber projects were feasible and achieved intercontinental range it would've met first generation of US jets. And state of art radar fire directors coupled with VT-fused high caliber ammo. Good luck against those in an overweight bomber riding the razor edge between maximal and stall speed.
An important detail... The map "Europe 1944, Allied Gains in Europe" is wrong as showing the European side of Turkey a a gain. In fact, Turkey neither intervened in the war nor was invaded.
Probably too late to tell you but Nintendo actually did remake Battalion Wars 1 and 2 for Switch. They released, around the same time you were making this video, even. Shocked that the comments didn't point it out yet.
Hi. Please don't take too seriously the Google translator, has several flaws. I'm a native Spanish speaker and English is my second language. German pronunciation of the letter "r" is closest to the one of the letter "g" in Spanish, like in the English name "Agatha". The way you are pronouncing it is closer to the letter "j" in Spanish, like in the English word "Handler" which I find utterly incorrect for German. Please stop giving credit to that Google translator. In my personal experience with English, at least, Wordreference do a much better job. My best regards, love this channel.
Would have made a great swift cargo aircraft, to supply the 6th Army at Stalingrad. Larger body, large rear cargo door, to parachute cargo . Too fast for enemy fighters - no need for cannons.
Retreating would have been the best idea. Anything but the Ju 52 which had a poor performance above 200-250 km radius. It was slow and burned a lot of fuel and its short range meant its airfields were in range of Soviet Fighters. Arado 232 millipede transport, Ju 252 anything would have been better. The He 111 was actually the best cargo plane the Germans had. The problem in Stalingrad was the runways or lack thereoff. The Arado E.555 would have been only able to deliver SB Sonder Behelter parachute supply packages from its bomb racks. Certainly possible to make some deliveries especially if a blind bombing system was available. The requirements of 400-600 tons a day just weren't feasible. If you have 150,000 men you would need several kilos for each per day. Could you live of a kg of food, a quarter liter of of fuel to keep warm?
wow, to base the comment in your video on google translate... nope! beside this, none of these paper projekts would have survived basic testing... if alone wind tunnel... engines? how long could a german jet engine function without a major overhaul ? right, not very long...
Jeder Deutsche Flugzeugproduzent hatte laufend einige Entwürfe parat, um beim Luftfahrtministerium Entwicklungsaufträge zu bekommen. Diese waren dann natürlich mit Finanzen verbunden, die diese Fabriken ja dringend brauchten. Und wenn man es genau sieht, waren zu dieser Zeit, als die Deutschen Flugzeugbauer mit derartigen "Entwürfen" kamen, eine Produktion und Herstellung von Prototypen gar nicht mehr möglich. Allerdings muss man zugeben, das gerade die Deutsche Flugzeugindustrie, die jenige war, die Weltweit am Fortschrittlichsten war. Letztendlich haben in den Nachkriegsjahren, vor allen Dingen die "Siegermächte", also Russland und die USA, den grössten Nutzen aus den deutschen Entwürfen gezogen.
I think they also realized by mid 1944 they simply did not have enough fuel to be able to sent enough missions to make much difference in the war. That a few jets dropping 4000 or 8000 lbs or bombs would only piss of the Americans even more. After all if 1000 plane raids were not breaking the morale of the German people, why would a few raids of maybe a dozen plane raids on NYC break the morale of the USA. As well, by the time a second raid was on the way, there would be P-80s waiting for them. Without nuclear weapons there was just no point to trying.
Germans bomb the Brits: Brits get more determined. Brits bomb the Germans: Germans get more determined. Germans: let’s build a plane to burn way more fuel than we can get to send a few bombs to America, bombing them will work this time...
You drop a few bombs on NYC, and watch those east coast dandelions force FDR and congress to pull back half our fighter planes from Europe and Asia to defend their above-ground sewer cities.
Perhaps the details on the CD and thrust characteristics were investigated as a matter of course, for the Germans were way in advance of the allies in this regard as was made plain after the war. The attempts at wing sweep were only absorbed very gradually by the USA and Britain, with the USSR also having a good cast of kidnapped aerodynamicists from German aircraft companies to aid their advanced aircraft (MIG-15)
the second letter is NOT pronounced with an "h" sound even though on a casual listen it might sound so....its actually more of a guttural "r" as though you are saying it in your throat
Narrator does not speak German ans so has no idea about how to pronounce "Arado". Listen to a German speaker say 'reich', 'recht', 'raus' or 'raum': that is the proper sound, not the American R or certainly not H. Google translate is NOT a credible authority on pronunciation or German words.
Google translate is wrong. German is a phonetically consistent language, and all you needed to do was watch one of many Germans online talk about the aircraft to learn how to say it. Takes 30seconds. Great research.... Not. Won't be back here to have my brain cells executed.
Yyyyeah, google translate dropped the bratwurst on this one. You’re definitely still supposed to pronounce the “r” in Arado, it’s just in German dialect it would be a “soft r” almost like “ahhrado.” With the back of the tongue, rather than rolling the r. If that makes sense. Although in some German dialects (such as in Swiss German for instance), a rolled r would also be appropriate.
all the german speaking interviews I've watched including luftwaffe vets pronounced it exactly how it looks. not ahado lol. it wouldnt have taken much research to figure that out and not sound stupid for an entire video. great content though. not trying to be an ass.
Does anyone in their right mind think that jet engines of that time would be able to reliably power a German bomber, all the way to the United States?...🙄
Probably a good thing he refused to join nazi party, and government took over the company, as he himself may not have entertained these awesome aircraft idea/designs, just dismissing them.
Given the reliability of the German jets, these would have been lucky to arrive over New York with 3 engines working and would have been easy prey for almost anything the Americans put into the air. There is also the fact that they probably wouldn't have seen service until about 1947, by which time the Americans had heaps of P-80s in service.
Love your work, but can't stand the robo-voice. Whatever you think of your own voice, it's better than this creepy uncanny AI voice. Drachnifel did it, and you can too.
What I wonder about more than anything is why you provide only imperial measurements for aircraft built in the universal metric system? If you believe you are only catering to Americans, you may be surprised, and the entire rest of the planet has no genuine idea of these aircraft dimensions. AS the figures were originally developed on metric, why can you not provide that data as well please. The excuse that you got to the moon using imperial does not hold water, and is sheer arrogance. The moon landing was delayed considerably due to the multiple calculations and conversions the engineers had to perform throughout the space program. You may have saved a year or so in time and money for the landing in fact.
Do NOT trust Google Translate! Open A, and the rest is like English. We who know finds it utterly anoying and disturbing to the whole idea of your video.
Sorry but it’s pronounced „Arado“ in Germany with an R. (German speaker) (although it is a Spanish name meaning „plow“)
The sound of the German R is often made really far back in the throat, and sounds a lot different than the English R, almost a bit like a 'hard' H. So I somewhat understand the confusion.
@@biko9824 Even so - it doesn't sound like this - it sounds way more like a regular r in English than the "h" sound here as The only Madmac pointed out.
Benny Hill did a great bit on the way different European countries pronounce their "R's". ...
He says witchard and wobert!
Ah, its the way he rolls his r's!
I dont know , ive never watched him walk.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The name Arado comes from the Spanish word arado (plow). It was a trade name for a steel alloy used in shipbuilding. Maybe that's what's confusing Google. But no one in Germany had used the Spanish pronunciation, so it's Arado.
Herbs and Arado 😂😅
I've never seen anybody do solid videos on these late war german projects. Well done.
Arado Ar 232 "Tausendfüßler" is actually the grandpa of all modern combat transport aircraft like the C119 Boxcar, C123 Provider & C130 Herkules. So they were quite innovative.
The diagram at 11:05 you show is a list of specifications of the variants 1 through 11:
Variants 1-3 experiment with engine configurations ("Verschiedene Triebwerksgliederung")
Variants 4-6 experiment with wing angles ("Verschiedene Flügelstreckung")
I'm struggling with variant 7 but something to do with weapons ("Waffen...")
Variant 8a and 8b experiment with elevators and rudders on two tailbooms ("Mit Leitwerk an 2 Trägern")
Variant 9 and 10 seem to do something similar too, metr here probably meaning "metrisch" ("... metr. Leitwerken")
Variant 11 changes the main fuselage ("Rumpfflug...ung")
1st row is engines "Triebwerk"
2nd row i'm guessing is takeoff weight in metric tonnes "...Start"
3rd is fuel capacity in metric tonnes "Kraftstoffgewicht"
4th is fuel to weight percentage "Kraftstoffanteil"
5th is the wing area in square meters "Fläche"
6th is the wingspan in meters "Spannweite"
7th, 8th and 9th i don't understand, probably control surface areas in square meters
10th and 11th i have no clue on but they are listed in percentages
12th sounds like maximum altitude in cruise in km "Endhöhe im Reiseflug"
13th looks to me cruising speed in km/h "V->Reise"
14th is cruising speed in Mach "V->Reise/V->Schall"
15th is flight distance/range in km "Flugstrecke"
The last line explains Mach at 11km of altitude "V->Schall = 1080km/h in E = 11km"
I hoped this helped you out a bit (:
My best guess to the confusion of the 555-11(14) variant is, that there were 2 earlier designs before variant 555-4 from 11:05 , that the variants 555-8a and 555-8b were seen as two seperate ones bringing the total number to 14. Making the 3 variants, 555-6/7/8, from 10:25 actually the variants 555-4/5/6 since their wingspan measurements align with the chart from 11:05 .
The notion that the 555-5 variant was left out due to it having to many 5s is ridiculous, since the german military was very precise when naming their hardware and variants, unlike the american military that named everything under the sun M1/M1A1/M2/M3 ect.
The Arado Ar 234 Jet Bomber, used as a reconnaissance plane was a real issue for the allies, they had no easy way to stop it from taking pictures of the D-Day build up, An extensive dummy force and disinformation campaign was required to counteract the jet. As a Bomber only small target were suitable due to the limited number of sorties that could be carried out
The extensive dummy force was part of the D Day plans from day one, it worked very well !
@@garrymartin6474 The dummy force wouldn't have worked as well with more extensive aerial reconnaissance. Some things would have betrayed that a degree of deception was underway.
@@garrymartin6474 Yes, and it was adjusted to account for the Ar-234, along with the disinformation campaign,
Might want to double check your info. the first recon flight of an Arado was by the V7 prototype on August 2 1944, almost two months after D-Day. Their recon efforts did impact Market-Garden.
German ingenuity….taking reconnaissance pictures from a plane that didn’t exist at the time.
For any airplane use the term span instead of wide
I've built the Revell 1/72 scale kit a couple of times (many years ago and in various camo colours) and have two more left. I know it didn't take to the skies, but it's my favourite "what if" aircraft.
Revell?? Revell, usually was ships. Monogram had most, of the aircraft.
Hi Roger, you are talking about Revell USA and are absolutely right! However Revell Germany produced a series of "what if" planes and many modern fighters. I think it was mainly for the European market. I live in North America and could find them in my local hobby store. I think the "what if" planes are no longer in production.@@rogerrendzak8055
Thanks for this interesting video. By the way, Google is wrong as ARADO is pronounced with R not H. Best regards from Germany.
Just wanted to say, I really enjoy your content. I think you should have many more subscribers-good stuff👍🏻
This is where they got the idea for the fake airplane in "Raiders Of The Lost Ark".
In that video, you can see the chains driving the wheels, which actually move the airplane....
On the surface one wonders why these get called "Amerika Bombers" because they lacked the required range possibly because this is the best the E.555 proposals could come up with. However I believe all were specified with in flight refueling capability. The distance from Berlin to New York 3,967.53 miles (6,385.12 km). The distance from Brest France to New York is 3,354 miles (5,397 km). Twice this distance would be needed plus about 14% to allow dog leg courses and some penetration plus 10% reserves. That means 12800km from BERLIN NY or 10,800km from BREST-NY. The E.555-6 could fly 7500km and the E.555-11 8000km.
The only way would be in flight refueling which could extend range about 33.3% if a buddy aircraft refuels 1/3rd of the way and 66% if rendevous refueling on the way back.
Manfred Griehls "Luftwaffe over Amerika" shows the Luftwaffe conducted very succesful in flight refueing testing in 1943 in Hookups between Ju 252 and Ju 290 aircraft.
-The Germans did have a practical design the Messerschmitt Me 264. The prototypes with 1350hp Jumo 211F engines barely had the range (essentially lightly armed, with few bombs and inadequate reserves) but as more power became available BMW 801D (1800hp) and the Daimler Benz DB 603L or H with 2400hp the aircraft could lift greater fuel load and get the range needed. These powerfull engines in the 2250hp-2400hp range were becoming available in end 1944 (Jumo 213E, DB603L)
-There was a 6 engines version (Me 264/6m or Me 364) with plugs to estend the fuselage and longer span wings that was also designed and could have done the mission on weaker Jumo 211J engines or on the DB603H made up to 17000km in the recon version and 15000 in the bomber version. It was a viable design. There as a Heinkel Jet bomber and the Horton Ho XVIII that might have done the mission, certainly with in flght refueling which was specified.
The first and only time I ever saw this plane anywhere was in Battle Of Europe, a pc game my father gave to me when I was a kid, some time like 2006 or something like that. It was a secret plane you unlocked whenever you finished the game and it was actually mindblowing. It looked like the 555-1.
For some reason this video took me to that moment of finishing the game and going to play the last mission with the Ar555. Good times :)
I enjoyed and learned something!
Please give all units in metric as well. 60 feet something means nothing for most people. And as others have mentioned, Arado is not pronounced Ahado. But besides that nice to see this very rare design explored in some detail.
one meter is approx 3 feet. So just multiply or divide my 3 to go to or from feet/meter.
You don't know how to convert units?
Metric is for heathens.
I do but since the USofA is a member of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and thus all their units are DEFINED in metrics, why should we convert units that are historically based on hand or shoe size of people who married their cousins 🤔😝
Good video. The earlier Arado E 555 designs are essentially a flying wing concept. The main danger of flying wing designs is uncontrollable yaw on the tips of the wings which in a tight turn can cause a uncontrollable unrecoverable flat stall and basically aircraft falls to the ground. That's the idea for fitting the extended booms with vertical and horizontal stableisers. Also mounting them further back also helps with low power glide to get extra fuel efficiency and range to help the airct to cross thd Atlantic and increase controlled clime rate in a emergency withou causing a stall.
No idea how you get an “h” sound from an r.
>Make an r-sound from the back of your throat
>Proceed to remove the r-sound
>Attain something not resemblant of German
This may just be the most Kerbal Space program looking plane of the whole war. All 14, or 11, or 10 :)
Also since Arado isn't a German word, but just part of the name of a company that doesn't exist anymore. I guess you have seen the pronunciation of the Spanish word instead (wich may or may not be the source of the name, you never know with German company names). Also I'm not sure if the Spanish word would be pronounced that way, but if shown to a German, me for example, and given that the next word in the name is Flugzeugwerke, I'd pronounce it Arado, not Ahado.
But although this time it was a swing and a miss, I appreciate the effort. Can't get them all right and your pronunciation of German stuff is way better then most youtube airplane people.
And I would still manage to crash it.
Excellent stuff bro
The close similarity to Richard Branson's sub-orbital tourist rocket is very obvious.
Arado designers sh etched out ideas. Gave them to an engineer. Mailed them too the Ministry. As long as Arado staff kept submitting super weapons ideas to the Ministry requests they weren’t going to be in uniform at the Russian Front!
Believing in this project in mid 1944 takes a level of optimism that beggars belief.
oh boy battalion wars really hit home with memory lane. Battalion wars 2 on the wii was great fun
Some very interesting crescent wing designs were used, later taken on by the British in their V-Bomber program.
The UK V-Bombers were straight-wing (Valiant), swept-wing (Victor) and Delta wing (Vulcan).
No bizarre Arado / Blomm & Voss wing designs.
Any chance you do a video on the Arado 232 millipede transport aircraft
Can you do a video on the P39 and the Chrristie tank?
Wrong channel for tanks 🤦
@@mrwhips3623 Wong. There are at least 3 "tank" vids on the channel.
Surely the details of engine numbers and fuel carried would affect the range and speed, and would have been the drivers of the innovations? It is all very well ridding the design of a heavy and thirsty jet engine, but the lowered thrust and the lack of engines of high reliability would have made any of these craft unlikely, for reasons of engine life, if nothing else. They were not known for their longevity, as much as for their thrust. (which came at the expense of the superior layout) but lacked the needed alloys for reliability and longevity.
555 is one of the coolest proposed bombers of all time, in my opinion anyway.
Someone should build it now, the version with the 6 engines. Just looks cool. You could maybe place engines recessed into upper fuselage like the B2.
It wasn't a late arrival; it was a non-arrival. At least the "sparsely numbered" allied jet fighters actually existed, while this plane never did. It was not even an experimental design. Simple design studies should not be accorded recognition equivalent to actual prototype and developmental aircraft, let alone aircraft actually in production.
Germany had the first Jet Fighter and the first Jet Bomber.
@@christianschellbruck9788 Lately it seems half of all TH-cam commenters have something like Tourette Syndrome that causes them to blurt out anything that pops into their mind even when it is completely irrelevant.
(Meaning no disrespect to those who suffer from actual Tourette Syndrome.)
@@christianschellbruck9788 What’s the P-59 then? Chopped liver??? Sure it wasnt good, but it DID fly with its own power, while actually being armed with guns and the required instruments instead of being barebones like the heinkels before it, thus making it the first combat-capable jet…
So why the apparent bhurt Gort? We all know its was a submission to the German Air Ministry in Response to a request for proposals for a long range jet bomber. We all know this but you feel you need to clear things up we all already understand. These proposals are nevertheless very interesting from a technical stand point and historical.
The E in the E.550 name stands for "Enwiklungs" or "Development". Had it been selected for funding into production type it would have received a German air ministry number. Something like "Ar 550" (E numbers didn't convert to RLM numbers however).
-Flying wings were attractive because they had a low whetted area which kept drag down and helped keep engine ducts and intakes short. They didn't offer higher speed or range but they did offer higher flying.
-You can see what Arado has done. They proposed a flying wing. To control risk for the German air ministry they offered an 8 engine Jumo 004 version in case the Jumo 012 or BMW 018 is not available as these engines were in mock up stage at the time (construction of prototypes had commenced) The HeS 011A was bench testing so they offer a 6 engine version of that. In case the RLM is worried about stability they offer two proposals with a tail. In case they didn't like a flying wing they offered a conventional design.
-The design was entirely feasible. The vertical tails act as wing fences to combat span wise flow..
-The aircraft completely lacked the range to reach the United States even with a single in flight refueling but it would have dominated Europe, Atlantic shipping and the Soviet Union.
@@williamzk9083 I don't read comments that start out with juvenile terms like "bhurt" because I know there will be nothing pertinent there. Okay, I peeked and I was right; your 'analysis' of the E.550 design is not pertinent to anything I said. Try elsewhere to find someone interested in it.
This has serious SSTO vibes. Such a shame so many of these ideas didn’t get to fly.
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The main difficulty that Germany would always have faced is radar, from both land based stations and also picket ships. How many did they plan on sending? 1 to 2 thousand? The transatlantic flight would have made it a suicide assignment, either on the way there or on the return leg. Some decent 4-engined heavies perhaps, for continental warfare, but forget the intercontinental nonsense, which was unattainable by the day's technology.
I get the feeling the allies would have just crammed rockets on to some existing propeller fighters.
I'm a terrible engineer because stopgap measures are my favorite measures.
Edit: wtf Google, text to speech keeps getting worse?!
TTS has been around for fifty-odd years, and they haven't got it right yet.
It's Been Arado not Ahado, since before Google existed
Love your videos, but why do you use a Portuguese pronunciation for the letter 'r' for a German company?
I had a model of it I still have it but some parts are gone
E-555.1 -> Won't these 6 engines clumped together cause overheating and wing damage?
I'd never heard Arado spoken and was thrown off at first, always thought it was pronounced, Air-ah-dough lol
Provided some of the Amerika Bomber projects were feasible and achieved intercontinental range it would've met first generation of US jets. And state of art radar fire directors coupled with VT-fused high caliber ammo. Good luck against those in an overweight bomber riding the razor edge between maximal and stall speed.
The vertical fins (rudders) look very much like the SR-71, imho.
An important detail... The map "Europe 1944, Allied Gains in Europe" is wrong as showing the European side of Turkey a a gain. In fact, Turkey neither intervened in the war nor was invaded.
The design is similar to the aircraft seen in the original Indiana Jones film though it was propeller powered
It was also in the Hydra hangar in the finale of Captain America:First Avenger.
Probably too late to tell you but Nintendo actually did remake Battalion Wars 1 and 2 for Switch. They released, around the same time you were making this video, even. Shocked that the comments didn't point it out yet.
Hi. Please don't take too seriously the Google translator, has several flaws. I'm a native Spanish speaker and English is my second language. German pronunciation of the letter "r" is closest to the one of the letter "g" in Spanish, like in the English name "Agatha". The way you are pronouncing it is closer to the letter "j" in Spanish, like in the English word "Handler" which I find utterly incorrect for German. Please stop giving credit to that Google translator. In my personal experience with English, at least, Wordreference do a much better job. My best regards, love this channel.
Agatha does not sound like the G has a spanish G.
Would have made a great swift cargo aircraft, to supply the 6th Army at Stalingrad. Larger body, large rear cargo door, to parachute cargo . Too fast for enemy fighters - no need for cannons.
Retreating would have been the best idea. Anything but the Ju 52 which had a poor performance above 200-250 km radius. It was slow and burned a lot of fuel and its short range meant its airfields were in range of Soviet Fighters. Arado 232 millipede transport, Ju 252 anything would have been better. The He 111 was actually the best cargo plane the Germans had. The problem in Stalingrad was the runways or lack thereoff. The Arado E.555 would have been only able to deliver SB Sonder Behelter parachute supply packages from its bomb racks. Certainly possible to make some deliveries especially if a blind bombing system was available. The requirements of 400-600 tons a day just weren't feasible. If you have 150,000 men you would need several kilos for each per day. Could you live of a kg of food, a quarter liter of of fuel to keep warm?
Unfortunately woud need to land in an area where the Russians had air superiority
Then there was the annoying matter of Russian artillery
@@jamesricker3997 no, read my post again, para drops, no landing in combat areas.
gonna make this in KSP and put it on steam
Battalion Wars was the shit dude!
Google translate lied to you my man lmao. Good video nontheless
Ahado? What...
Japanese spelling😜🤣
I know what happened to these projects. England made them. The three major variants. Check the “Vulcan” bombers.
It never made it because Indiana Jones blew up the propeller-driven prototype in Egypt which had been dispatched to pick up a "special cargo"....
wow, to base the comment in your video on google translate... nope! beside this, none of these paper projekts would have survived basic testing... if alone wind tunnel... engines? how long could a german jet engine function without a major overhaul ? right, not very long...
50 hours I think , before a more or less complete rebuild
Jeder Deutsche Flugzeugproduzent hatte laufend einige Entwürfe parat, um beim Luftfahrtministerium Entwicklungsaufträge zu bekommen. Diese waren dann natürlich mit Finanzen verbunden, die diese Fabriken ja dringend brauchten. Und wenn man es genau sieht, waren zu dieser Zeit, als die Deutschen Flugzeugbauer mit derartigen "Entwürfen" kamen, eine Produktion und Herstellung von Prototypen gar nicht mehr möglich. Allerdings muss man zugeben, das gerade die Deutsche Flugzeugindustrie, die jenige war, die Weltweit am Fortschrittlichsten war. Letztendlich haben in den Nachkriegsjahren, vor allen Dingen die "Siegermächte", also Russland und die USA, den grössten Nutzen aus den deutschen Entwürfen gezogen.
Google isn't always right ! Arado!
I think they also realized by mid 1944 they simply did not have enough fuel to be able to sent enough missions to make much difference in the war. That a few jets dropping 4000 or 8000 lbs or bombs would only piss of the Americans even more. After all if 1000 plane raids were not breaking the morale of the German people, why would a few raids of maybe a dozen plane raids on NYC break the morale of the USA. As well, by the time a second raid was on the way, there would be P-80s waiting for them. Without nuclear weapons there was just no point to trying.
Germans bomb the Brits: Brits get more determined.
Brits bomb the Germans: Germans get more determined.
Germans: let’s build a plane to burn way more fuel than we can get to send a few bombs to America, bombing them will work this time...
You drop a few bombs on NYC, and watch those east coast dandelions force FDR and congress to pull back half our fighter planes from Europe and Asia to defend their above-ground sewer cities.
please remake battalion wars for switch, or a new one, anything
My Father called it the way it's spelt and he could speak German. So are ra doe is good enough for me. 😂
Ah yes put a rear facing gun directly in front of all the engines
Yeah, if you pronounce it the Spanish way, with emphasis on the second vowel, it's correct.
Perhaps the details on the CD and thrust characteristics were investigated as a matter of course, for the Germans were way in advance of the allies in this regard as was made plain after the war. The attempts at wing sweep were only absorbed very gradually by the USA and Britain, with the USSR also having a good cast of kidnapped aerodynamicists from German aircraft companies to aid their advanced aircraft (MIG-15)
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@@peterson7082 ? Yourself, if you don't understand ask a question, I do exactly that, and I learn.
@@Steven-p4j flying wings weren't German
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the second letter is NOT pronounced with an "h" sound even though on a casual listen it might sound so....its actually more of a guttural "r" as though you are saying it in your throat
The second letter of what word?
Figment of imagination as German axial jet engines would have time expired during the long distance flight!
Ar-rah-do, very much like the English prononciation. Ah=ha=do will have any German speaker asking "Was ist das, Ah-ha-do?"
Google translates is wrong.
Google is wrong. You pronounce the 'r'.
It's NOT "AH-ha-do", the "R" sound is to the back of the throat, and NOT an "H" sound.
ARR-rado
Cool video though.
Ay-Rado. I learned it from German TH-camrs.
The war interrupt desighn of advanced planes.
Problem 1. Invading the Azores when you do not have control of the Sea or Air 🤣🤣
Ich habe Durchfall!
ARRRRRRRRRRADO!.... fuck google translator!.... as a german, in germany - i promise you... we SPELL the "R"... Google made it spanish... 🤨
Narrator does not speak German ans so has no idea about how to pronounce "Arado". Listen to a German speaker say 'reich', 'recht', 'raus' or 'raum': that is the proper sound, not the American R or certainly not H. Google translate is NOT a credible authority on pronunciation or German words.
“The Allied jets fighters were in sparse numbers.”
I guess it’s a good thing the Ar 555 was in even sparser numbers (0) then.
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It's pronoused aradO...not ahadi, because in German you are rolling the r on the tip of the tounge. Google is wrong, as usual.
Google translate is wrong. German is a phonetically consistent language, and all you needed to do was watch one of many Germans online talk about the aircraft to learn how to say it. Takes 30seconds.
Great research.... Not.
Won't be back here to have my brain cells executed.
And can you PLEASE include metrics?... for the REST OF THE WORLD? 🙄 for gods sake!..
*No*
Jet "thrusters" are not a thing. They're engines, not thrusters.
Yyyyeah, google translate dropped the bratwurst on this one. You’re definitely still supposed to pronounce the “r” in Arado, it’s just in German dialect it would be a “soft r” almost like “ahhrado.” With the back of the tongue, rather than rolling the r. If that makes sense. Although in some German dialects (such as in Swiss German for instance), a rolled r would also be appropriate.
all the german speaking interviews I've watched including luftwaffe vets pronounced it exactly how it looks. not ahado lol. it wouldnt have taken much research to figure that out and not sound stupid for an entire video. great content though. not trying to be an ass.
Aha-doh? Arado sounds just like it’s spelled. Ah-Rah-Do
Does anyone in their right mind think that jet engines of that time would be able to reliably power a German bomber, all the way to the United States?...🙄
Probably a good thing he refused to join nazi party, and government took over the company, as he himself may not have entertained these awesome aircraft idea/designs, just dismissing them.
Given the reliability of the German jets, these would have been lucky to arrive over New York with 3 engines working and would have been easy prey for almost anything the Americans put into the air. There is also the fact that they probably wouldn't have seen service until about 1947, by which time the Americans had heaps of P-80s in service.
Love your work, but can't stand the robo-voice. Whatever you think of your own voice, it's better than this creepy uncanny AI voice. Drachnifel did it, and you can too.
Pronounced Ah Rado.... please get this right....
ARE RA DOE... NOT "AH HA DOE"
Just another paper plane that could never have flown. German Jet engines only had life of few hours before they failed.
Another episode of American butchers German pronunciation.
No one cares that much. The meaning came across.
Ah-rah-doe not ahado.
Yep. Your not pronouncing the word incorrectly at all..... Its A... RAD..... O.....
What I wonder about more than anything is why you provide only imperial measurements for aircraft built in the universal metric system? If you believe you are only catering to Americans, you may be surprised, and the entire rest of the planet has no genuine idea of these aircraft dimensions. AS the figures were originally developed on metric, why can you not provide that data as well please.
The excuse that you got to the moon using imperial does not hold water, and is sheer arrogance. The moon landing was delayed considerably due to the multiple calculations and conversions the engineers had to perform throughout the space program. You may have saved a year or so in time and money for the landing in fact.
..... please.... please never listen to Google translate.... it gets made fun of for a reason
Its pronounced ARADO LOL, narrator is clueless
Theres a 1/72 kit of this, and i hope someday to be able to afford it...
Joe biden has to go first, tho! 😂😂😂
Mr. Biden hoards all of these model kits for himself? That’s crazy, he needs to leave some for us 😢
@@Ben-mw9vz well, he sure acts like hes spent a lifetime of sniffing plastic model glue!!! 😂
Trolls.
I couldn’t watch this because of the absurd pronunciation. There are a million different ways to find the correct pronunciation besides google.
Do NOT trust Google Translate! Open A, and the rest is like English. We who know finds it utterly anoying and disturbing to the whole idea of your video.
imperial measurement system...SUCKS!!!
Metric measurement system....STINKS!!!!!