How WW1 Pushed Aviation Forward - Amazing World of Aviation ep3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- The decades following the First World War saw air craft designers pushing the boundaries of aeronautical technology, moving the industry forward at a rapid pace. With new commercial markets opening up, it was the visionaries who held the key to success. Each invention promising a future filled with endless possibilities. Airplane manufacture was moving from an era where designers often built their own inventions, to a level of complexity which required the expertise of specialist mechanics and engineers.
Amazing documentary, many aeroplanes shown have not featured before.
Very, very interesting! Most of the content had never been seen by me before.
An interesting thought, my grand parents were bourn in the mid eighteen nineties. So during their lifetime aircraft had been invented and men had got to the moon !
I really enjoyed taking my children to the US Museum of the Air Force in Dayton Ohio. There’s a hallway separating two of the exhibit which are arranged slightly in chronological order. If you look into the Room on the right there is a right flyer which basically looks like two beds made out of wood and canvas with an engine and pilot awkwardly sit in the middle between wires and thin wooden poles. Then if you look to the left a massive B 29 super fortress all silver polished aluminum rivets giant engines and a wing span just about as long as the first Wright brother’s flight.
I told my children to look to the right and then look to the left and explained to them that humanity made that progress from 1903 to 1945. In that span of time we went from airplanes that could barely fly a few hundred meters at tens of feet off the ground, to an airplane that could fly in pressurized and heated comfort at 30,000 feet high for thousands of miles and cross the ocean. The sight of those two different airplanes brings that home in ways words can not.
The real genius behind Fokker was Reinhold Platz. Also, Junkers was building all metal aircraft during WW1 as early as 1915.
In many respects engine design progressed faster than airframe. By 1918 the most advanced engines were vee twelves with twin overhead cam shafts on each bank and four valves per cylinder the largest, producing 600hp and weighing less than two pounds /hp. Airframes were still predominantly biplanes , wire braced wood frame covered with canvas.
Cool. Not heard of some of these craft before.
The first non stop trans Atlantic flight by an aeroplane was made by John Alcock and Arthur Brown in June 1919 flying a Vickers Vimy bomber. They made the crossing from St John’s Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara Ireland. They made the flight in very bad conditions in under 16 hours, and in so doing won the Daily Mail prize of £10,000 for the first non stop trans Atlantic flight in less than 72 hours. It should be noted ( though it was not in this video) that Charles Lindbergh did not make the first trans Atlantic flight as many mistakenly believe, he made the first SOLO trans Atlantic flight in 1927, some 8 years after Alcock and Browns flight.
So disjointed at the start I couldn't keep watching it... no mention of WHY Roland Gaross's aircraft was sent to Fokker...just that it was, and that THEN Fokker developed the interruptor gear for firing through the propellor arc. As it was, that aircraft was sent to be looked at because it had steel deflector plates bolted TO the propellor blades. allowing - with some level of danger - for forward firing. Fokker was essentially being asked to duplicate that crude system... but instead proposed something better. You would never know that from the narration....Awful.
I wish I was working in aviation
Some careless narration, missing out major things such as Alcock & Brown's transatlantic flight, and claiming that the wingspan of the Oiseau Bleu was 85 metres, rather than 85 FEET.
I believe that you can tweak the ad frequency in TH-cam, though I was unaffected because I see none of them.
Subbed. Great video.
Some interesting and rare footage, but a terribly disjointed narration which actually says nothing about the influence of WW1 on aviation in terms of technology or aerodynamics.
Nah! By 3&m24s after about the 10th advert I've had enough - do you want to educate or capitalize? Hmmmm! Still, you got the hit on the video, eh!
That's just TH-cam getting THEIR cash. If you run an Ad Blocker, you just get t watch the content.
ads ads ads. Just to much to enjoy
What's the problem with advertising every 4 minutes. The video looks interesting but there is as much advertising time. Too bad but I stopped watching.
How many adverts? Ruined the continuity very much. Nothing kills one's interest in a documentary like constant interruptions. Shame
Greedy people. Had to stop before the 2nd commercial played. Sad, utube used to be fun. Now like facebook, ruined by greedy
Fokker didnt invent the interrupter gear, it was a german naval ARTIIFICER who invented a means of firing torpedoes throgh the propellors of a warship, fokker merely downsized it for use on an aircraft, a much overrated 'designer'.