As a pilot I may sat it takes something well beyond courage and skill to fly a Hurricane at night,with just a bare compass,all city lights out,by dead reckoning,no ground control for interception,and circling visual to shoot down an enemy in obscurity.I think no modern fighter pilot could duplicate anything alike.It's just a phenomenal achievement.Bombers have at least a navigator and a copilot to ease the navigation and the instrument flying.Doing all that on your own and surviving is awesome.My deepest respects to the brave Czech and all his mates.Best regards from Spain.
Apologies for the delay, life gets in the way sometimes! Please let me know if the video is too dark. This also a Patreon requested video, so head over there if you are interested in supporting my effrorts! www.patreon.com/user?u=60384096. Note: In reality, Kuttelwascher's Hurricane carried long-range fuel tanks but these are not modelled in this simulator.
Superb, thank you Soto Cinematics. Always enjoy your uploads. What a brave chap - crossing the wider part of the Channel, alone, at night, and venturing deep into France. Excellent visuals as always :)
Great video, not too dark IMO. Those Hurricanes still don't seem to get the recognition they earned and deserved, ...kind of like the American P-47. Great vids, keep up the great work, you are the best so far! Not bad for a one man show. 👍
Perhaps they are not modeled in this game, but Kuttelwascher's aircraft would have been equipped with two non-droppable 44 gallon auxiliary tanks under the wings of his aircraft to allow him to make such a long flight.
i tried to do this in il2 multiplayer without success (intercept a returning attack flight) im happy some mad lad did it for real, im sad said mad lad died so young
Maybe by the big fire on the ground, and/or photo reconnaissance of the area the next day. It was sometimes difficult to confirm the precise type of aircraft shot down though.
@@thegreatdominion949 No,the photo reconaissance was for targets. Do you really think,they sent a specially converted plane,to check a fighter pilot claim? No way.
My uncle Karel always acknowledged the teams that kept him able to reach the enemy where they least expected him. Mimi Kuttelwascherova TANGMERE AVIATION MUSEUM are asking for permission to show this film in their cinema. Please RSVP
As a little girl Uncle ‘ strycek Karel’ taught me to dog fight “ If you spot the enemy during the day head into the sun . It will blind them. …. zig zag constantly to confuse them”. I’ve written his story with his brother ( my father ) Jan. TANGMERE MUSEUM have copies and asked permission to show your film in the CzSlvk section ? Please rsvp … mimi
@@rockfella1377 Why do you think so? First I´m from Czech Republic and I fell nothing but deep respect for Karel Kuttelwascher as well as other our airmen . But first his Hurricane MK IIC was neither equiped with guncammera nore he recordered any of his night claims for victories of course. In fact his tripple victory described in this video cannot be verified in german records. So it seems that results of his gunnfire were not fatal in this case. And german planes were not damaged beyond repair...
Nothing extraordinary. A lot of Czechs have German surname or originally German surname. I am Czech and I also have a German surname and I'm not the only one. Czech and German (Austrian) cultures are connected. We share the same history. Nowadays, only the language is different as Czechs started speaking Czech language again 200 years ago. In the past, it was German and Czech, later almost only German and nowadays it's only Czech. So don't classify Czechs as Slavs. Czechs aren't Slavs by culture, only by language.
He was born in a village 4km away from a town then named Deutschbrod and his mother's maiden name was German and her first name spelling is German too. This used to be common. The newly created Czechoslovakia was more advanced and democratic and many people identified with the values upon which the country had been founded and the constitution. The preceding Austro-Hungarian empire used to be viewed as backwards and oppressive. I can't speak for Kut but it seems to me that the patriotism of these heroes lied in that they believed in freedom and defended universal humanistic beliefs and principles regardless of their cultural or language background. In many villages we have monuments of victims and heroes of the WWI and WWII and the family names carved in stone are of all groups of inhabitants.
As a pilot I may sat it takes something well beyond courage and skill to fly a Hurricane at night,with just a bare compass,all city lights out,by dead reckoning,no ground control for interception,and circling visual to shoot down an enemy in obscurity.I think no modern fighter pilot could duplicate anything alike.It's just a phenomenal achievement.Bombers have at least a navigator and a copilot to ease the navigation and the instrument flying.Doing all that on your own and surviving is awesome.My deepest respects to the brave Czech and all his mates.Best regards from Spain.
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Apologies for the delay, life gets in the way sometimes! Please let me know if the video is too dark. This also a Patreon requested video, so head over there if you are interested in supporting my effrorts! www.patreon.com/user?u=60384096.
Note: In reality, Kuttelwascher's Hurricane carried long-range fuel tanks but these are not modelled in this simulator.
Hell i know that! Not too dark enjoyable as always.
It’s fine Soto you did a fine job.
Super authentic with details as usual, not easy with night scenes, you got the lighting just right.
Fantastic work Soto you did amazing story of the Czech night hawk. Please do the mosquito night intruder ace story.
Děkuji za tohle video o statečném Českém pilotovi. Je připomínkou, že i malí národ pomohl k vítězství nad německým nacismem.🇨🇿
I am amazed he hunted alone and the distance he travelled apparently with no additional fuel tanks. Good video.
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Single engine A/C - at night - over water - during a war - those guys had courage.
great cinematic work and absolutely great story telling. It may sound boring, but verbal historical recordings may improve the veracity. Keep going!
A very fine video. Thank you.
Superb, thank you Soto Cinematics. Always enjoy your uploads. What a brave chap - crossing the wider part of the Channel, alone, at night, and venturing deep into France. Excellent visuals as always :)
Exquisite. Superb. I am awed by your talent.
Great video, not too dark IMO. Those Hurricanes still don't seem to get the recognition they earned and deserved, ...kind of like the American P-47.
Great vids, keep up the great work, you are the best so far! Not bad for a one man show. 👍
Very good, as always, many thanks
The video was 👏
Another great vid, thanks.
Nice story Lemsip. A routine sortie 😊
Awesome performance
Outstanding videos! I just discovered your channel and am subscribed!
Amazing! Please also make videos for the German Nachtjagdfliegers!
Very well made again
Black cammo Hurries are gorgeous things
Great 1 never heard of this1.🇨🇦🤘💥
Yes a Bristol beaufighter video
The Hawker with quad 20s was a great bomber killer
How do you manage recording night footage in Il-2? The game gets so dark for me that my Night Witches Content just isn't working
Perhaps they are not modeled in this game, but Kuttelwascher's aircraft would have been equipped with two non-droppable 44 gallon auxiliary tanks under the wings of his aircraft to allow him to make such a long flight.
Interesting.
i tried to do this in il2 multiplayer without success (intercept a returning attack flight) im happy some mad lad did it for real, im sad said mad lad died so young
Fact is that these claims are not verified in german records.
Has he ever fought the enemy head to head on daylight?.
Yes … see records in TANGMERE AVIATION MUSEUM ENGLAND
How could the Allie night fighter pilots confirm their claims?
Thats what I was wondering.
Maybe by the big fire on the ground, and/or photo reconnaissance of the area the next day. It was sometimes difficult to confirm the precise type of aircraft shot down though.
@@thegreatdominion949 No,the photo reconaissance was for targets. Do you really think,they sent a specially converted plane,to check a fighter pilot claim? No way.
@@melianhoover1910 Just in passing. They wouldn't make a special trip or anything.
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Imagine the courage and experience required to cross the English Channel at Night , alone ,
heading to German occupied France .
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My uncle Karel always acknowledged the teams that kept him able to reach the enemy where they least expected him. Mimi Kuttelwascherova TANGMERE AVIATION MUSEUM are asking for permission to show this film in their cinema. Please RSVP
As a little girl Uncle ‘ strycek Karel’ taught me to dog fight “ If you spot the enemy during the day head into the sun . It will blind them. …. zig zag constantly to confuse them”. I’ve written his story with his brother ( my father ) Jan. TANGMERE MUSEUM have copies and asked permission to show your film in the CzSlvk section ? Please rsvp … mimi
Hard to believe this story.
His gun camera's recorded every kill.
@@rockfella1377 Why do you think so? First I´m from Czech Republic and I fell nothing but deep respect for Karel Kuttelwascher as well as other our airmen . But first his Hurricane MK IIC was neither equiped with guncammera nore he recordered any of his night claims for victories of course. In fact his tripple victory described in this video cannot be verified in german records. So it seems that results of his gunnfire were not fatal in this case. And german planes were not damaged beyond repair...
I wonder if he had German ancestry with such a German sounding name.
Nothing extraordinary. A lot of Czechs have German surname or originally German surname. I am Czech and I also have a German surname and I'm not the only one. Czech and German (Austrian) cultures are connected. We share the same history. Nowadays, only the language is different as Czechs started speaking Czech language again 200 years ago. In the past, it was German and Czech, later almost only German and nowadays it's only Czech. So don't classify Czechs as Slavs. Czechs aren't Slavs by culture, only by language.
@@tomassiegl4991 That is complete BS, of course.
Family name was KUTLVASR from the village of Svaty Kriz …. Later Germanised
He was born in a village 4km away from a town then named Deutschbrod and his mother's maiden name was German and her first name spelling is German too. This used to be common. The newly created Czechoslovakia was more advanced and democratic and many people identified with the values upon which the country had been founded and the constitution. The preceding Austro-Hungarian empire used to be viewed as backwards and oppressive. I can't speak for Kut but it seems to me that the patriotism of these heroes lied in that they believed in freedom and defended universal humanistic beliefs and principles regardless of their cultural or language background. In many villages we have monuments of victims and heroes of the WWI and WWII and the family names carved in stone are of all groups of inhabitants.
Born under the Austro Hungarian Empire where Cz names Kutlvasr were 'Germanised"
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