I wish the documentary was longer- I'm sure there could have easily been two or even three more episodes covering the training. That's no criticism of Guy, rather the production team trying to cram all the different positions into less than an hour.
The main bulk of the show was 20 out of 10.. The ending of the show.... -5 out of 10.. Very very disappointed with the end and I was waiting for Guy to be taken to one of the actual dams but it never happened.. Very bad ending to an amazing show.
It's crazy to me that a dude that has ridden around the Isle of Man fully pinned is tentative when doing some work on a Lanc. Just goes to show how much respect Guy has for the machine, the process and the people that now restore them and built them way back when. Great vid appreciate it muchly Cheers.
Two engineers who clearly have a great deal of mutual respect. John Romain is always depicted on TV as an experienced vintage warbirds pilot, but first and foremost he clearly remains a skilled practical engineer. Even my wife remarked how quietly spoken and informative he was and found this video interesting.
110% in everything he does, a thirst for knowledge and a driving urge to get his hands dirty. gotta love our Guy from Grimsby, his saga has gained another verse
I love Guys little "ok, ok"s, its exactly like how a mechanic would handle extremely bad news that his project is going to be THAT much harder and harder with each new step lol
John has the kind of quiet authority that comes from knowing exactly what he is doing. Lovely to see Guy showing him and the Lancaster such reverence and respect.
How can you not love Guy Martin!!! Watching his total focus and commitment to whatever the task and the person talking, shows just what a humble and respectful person he is. Great work!
I do greatly appreciate Guy and all the others involved in the process of showcasing these relatively ancient techniques, all of which need to be preserved for posterity.
The attention to detail is amazing and how seriously Guy takes it is fun to watch. Getting to work on such an iconic plane must have been a joy. Keep the videos coming we love them!
Guy loves the hands on approach and things, mechanical, obviously just amazed at the amount of work needed, yet alone the obvious expense of keeping such an airplane in working order.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I could watch experts like this all day and especially when John Romain is involved. Guy is so respectful and interested as well. Top man.
I Follow the resorting just Jane Lancaster and wow these chaps are amazing so to see guy doing his bit and knowing he does the job right well do guy 👏👏👍
I watch it in silence. So interesting and john is such a good instructor too. Silence ☺️ As I was stunned.. And it do have experience with this process. 👍🏻😉
Excellent video, great explanation, he seems like a good person to have an apprenticeship with, need any help help there? Good one for no music too works well.
Awesome restoration work, I hope these guys pass on there skills to younger enthusiasts, a proper Gent friend of my dad's was a spitfire pilot and a passion he had were Rolls Royce cars, he had 3 proper 1930's era with the long running boards and huge head lamps, I used to love cleaning them and chatting with him about his experiences, we did a lot of disassembling cleaning and painting to the chassis and running gear on one he bought as a part done job, a couple of other guys John Sutcliffe and Dave Reid made the front mud wings and running boards by hand from flat alloy sheets rolling them back and forth through various stages of rolling wheel sets it was amazing.
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Very interesting video, following your videos as there some very cleaver people out there. Just been watching the electric beetle. Great video, love to do that to my works van. 👍😁
Hard to fathom the fact that they were pumping these planes out at the rate they were. But then again you have to consider the nation was behind it and factories full of workers were focused on the task.
@@geemail369 Well in fairness, the De Havilland Mosquito had an almost completely wood structure in an era of metal-skinned aircraft... and was still the the ultimate go-anywhere-do-anything workhorse of the RAF. The 'wooden wonder'
@@jgraaay18 the mosquito was built predominantly in piano factories I believe. just wood, canvas, some super glue and metal wires for control lines. designed to be built anywhere in the contry, by any skill of worker and yet they still look beautiful. when someone asks me what the most beautiful plane ever built was, I have to say its a joint first for anything from the RAF :P but I could just be biased.
@@AnikaJarlsdottr Indeed, a magnificent aircraft! My granddad actually worked on them on the assembly lines at Airspeed, who were also building Mosquitos after the company was acquired as a subsidiary by De Havilland.
Guy is so OCD about his work like myself. Why working home remodeling and refurbishment fits me so well. A jack of all trades and attempted master of all is how I roll.
To some people this would be the most boring job in the world. To me this would be super exciting I would love to get up in the morning going to this job every day. Fantastic.
I seen the Canadian Lancaster fly , A spitfire And Hurricane.. Bucket list is a Mosquito And hopefully Someone out there is restoring a Hawker Tempest Mk V or II
I was watching the full programme on All4, but this, and so much else of what we see Guy doing, is why he would be wasted as aircrew. He is who makes a bouncing bomb, not the one you send out to drop one.
I think they came back many times full of holes where the bullets went through. A quick patch and turnaround and it was off again! I seem to remember 42 was the magic number! The number of sorties they were required to fly before "retirement" ..... of course many pilots did not retire at that number, and many did not reach it eather! "The Brave Few"!
@@totherarf 30 sorties was the usual first tour, followed by a spell at a training or conversion wing, dangerous by itself. If you survived a second tour of 30 ops you couldn't be called back, but some just continued on and on. The number of ops required for a tour could be moved up or down depending upon whether any crews had finished recently or upon the workload for example in the period before and after D-Day with the concentration on France.
They aren’t going to redo it with ceconite (dacron) which essentially lasts forever? All modern fabric aircraft are done with it or something similar. Nobody uses linen anymore. It doesn’t last and ceconite looks identical.
Well sort of. That is 250 hours of labour and in the war there were hundreds of people doing these jobs. Especially very skilled women who knew how to weave and handle materials like these so were very fast at what they did. So its quite possible 20 women did one of these a shift. And sadly we have to remember these aircraft were not built to last decades as the life expectancy was in weeks. My Mum with hundreds of others built torpedoes at Oxford Morris Motors but never told anyone (even Dad) until after the war.
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I wish the documentary was longer- I'm sure there could have easily been two or even three more episodes covering the training. That's no criticism of Guy, rather the production team trying to cram all the different positions into less than an hour.
The main bulk of the show was 20 out of 10..
The ending of the show.... -5 out of 10..
Very very disappointed with the end and I was waiting for Guy to be taken to one of the actual dams but it never happened..
Very bad ending to an amazing show.
Could watch those two build an entire plane. Very relaxing
I love the way that Guy gets so involved in these tasks. And the way he takes to it so well and so humbly. He's a great inspiration.
Love that he gets to be trusted to do stuff as he’s not a total noob. He must love knowing that a part of him is flying with that plane.
he truely aspires and adheres to the old age work ethic. "if its worth doing, its worth doing properly".
It's crazy to me that a dude that has ridden around the Isle of Man fully pinned is tentative when doing some work on a Lanc. Just goes to show how much respect Guy has for the machine, the process and the people that now restore them and built them way back when. Great vid appreciate it muchly Cheers.
Two engineers who clearly have a great deal of mutual respect. John Romain is always depicted on TV as an experienced vintage warbirds pilot, but first and foremost he clearly remains a skilled practical engineer. Even my wife remarked how quietly spoken and informative he was and found this video interesting.
110% in everything he does, a thirst for knowledge and a driving urge to get his hands dirty. gotta love our Guy from Grimsby, his saga has gained another verse
Hes in the Dibner league.
Respect to the editor for not dubbing music in while Guy concentrates in silence.
I love Guys little "ok, ok"s, its exactly like how a mechanic would handle extremely bad news that his project is going to be THAT much harder and harder with each new step lol
John has the kind of quiet authority that comes from knowing exactly what he is doing.
Lovely to see Guy showing him and the Lancaster such reverence and respect.
How can you not love Guy Martin!!! Watching his total focus and commitment to whatever the task and the person talking, shows just what a humble and respectful person he is. Great work!
Astonishing to see these old techniques brought to life. Have loved following the vlog on this restoration.
I love this Guy. Thank you.
I grew up with Mr Forester an Australian crewman on the Dam Buster Lancasters.
Correction to my last it was FltLt Arnold Easton Navigator Gunner with the Dambusters.
I do greatly appreciate Guy and all the others involved in the process of showcasing these relatively ancient techniques, all of which need to be preserved for posterity.
Guy has the hands and fingernails of a working man, no question about that.
Too true but talking from experience he will probably suffer skin issues when older.
The attention to detail is amazing and how seriously Guy takes it is fun to watch. Getting to work on such an iconic plane must have been a joy. Keep the videos coming we love them!
Quality video on the process of making a wing. Loved it.
wonder if this stuff is the fibreglass before fibreglass, similar process
both you guys have a dream job
Guy loves the hands on approach and things, mechanical, obviously just amazed at the amount of work needed, yet alone the obvious expense of keeping such an airplane in working order.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I could watch experts like this all day and especially when John Romain is involved. Guy is so respectful and interested as well. Top man.
I Follow the resorting just Jane Lancaster and wow these chaps are amazing so to see guy doing his bit and knowing he does the job right well do guy 👏👏👍
I’ve visited her (on a big Suzuki last year) & became a donor. Superb place.
Guy displayed a lot of good "listening" in this segment.
This is a very good episode.
John Romain reminds me of the Spitfire pilot in the Spitfire restoration episode
That's because it was John who flew the Spitfire.
Skills from both
Fascinating ❤️😎🏴
I watch it in silence. So interesting and john is such a good instructor too.
Silence ☺️ As I was stunned.. And it do have experience with this process.
👍🏻😉
Excellent video, great explanation, he seems like a good person to have an apprenticeship with, need any help help there? Good one for no music too works well.
Reminds me of when I was a child in the seventies building balsa wood models and applying tissue paper and doping them!
Well done that man - excellent!
Fantastic fellow you no what he needs .👑👑👑
You wonder how they made so many of these bombers in such a short period of time during the war.It looks so labour intensive..
His prices and time estimates are greatly exaggerated.
You've answered your own question, thousands of people were making these
What a genuinely fascinating video! Keep this sort of thing coming!
Awesome restoration work, I hope these guys pass on there skills to younger enthusiasts, a proper Gent friend of my dad's was a spitfire pilot and a passion he had were Rolls Royce cars, he had 3 proper 1930's era with the long running boards and huge head lamps, I used to love cleaning them and chatting with him about his experiences, we did a lot of disassembling cleaning and painting to the chassis and running gear on one he bought as a part done job, a couple of other guys John Sutcliffe and Dave Reid made the front mud wings and running boards by hand from flat alloy sheets rolling them back and forth through various stages of rolling wheel sets it was amazing.
Proper gets stuck in! I like it
Absolutely fantastic really interesting guy mate.well anything you do really is I'm hooked buddy. 👍👌👌
Brilliant, Legends 🇬🇧👏🏻
What a lad
Marvellous
I'm a huge fan of Guy from the U.S. Can I find his documentaries on any streaming platform here? I think Amazon has maybe one.
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Amazing Amazing!!🇸🇪💪
Very interesting video, following your videos as there some very cleaver people out there. Just been watching the electric beetle. Great video, love to do that to my works van. 👍😁
Hard to fathom the fact that they were pumping these planes out at the rate they were. But then again you have to consider the nation was behind it and factories full of workers were focused on the task.
And yet they were relying on a single layer of *_fabric_* to get (and KEEP) airborne what was supposed to defend their country in times of war! 🤯
@@geemail369 Well in fairness, the De Havilland Mosquito had an almost completely wood structure in an era of metal-skinned aircraft... and was still the the ultimate go-anywhere-do-anything workhorse of the RAF. The 'wooden wonder'
@@jgraaay18 the mosquito was built predominantly in piano factories I believe. just wood, canvas, some super glue and metal wires for control lines. designed to be built anywhere in the contry, by any skill of worker and yet they still look beautiful. when someone asks me what the most beautiful plane ever built was, I have to say its a joint first for anything from the RAF :P but I could just be biased.
@@AnikaJarlsdottr Indeed, a magnificent aircraft! My granddad actually worked on them on the assembly lines at Airspeed, who were also building Mosquitos after the company was acquired as a subsidiary by De Havilland.
Nice to see plain hands doing the work, instead of the ubiquitous latex gloves.
Guy is so OCD about his work like myself. Why working home remodeling and refurbishment fits me so well. A jack of all trades and attempted master of all is how I roll.
Hi well said i am the same but be careful , you need a partner that understands and has the same interest as you
A happy Asperger's trait mon ami!
Mastering your trade is not enough... ONLY obsession will do! ⚒️🏆🇬🇧
@@hondapete1 I'm 39 and divorced, she didn't understand. But I keep doing my things and I'm actually happier single.
Just imagine the pain of maintaining these things after a raid. all that work to perfect the lining and fabric wasted by a single bullet hole
Back in the day a bunch of women did that in a factory in a week. I watched one video and they where doing a spitfire wing in a day or two!
To some people this would be the most boring job in the world. To me this would be super exciting I would love to get up in the morning going to this job every day. Fantastic.
When the cameras aren't around he just slaps some duct tape on them
I seen the Canadian Lancaster fly , A spitfire And Hurricane.. Bucket list is a Mosquito And hopefully Someone out there is restoring a Hawker Tempest Mk V or II
Guy just does 2 weeks of this fellows work in 20 minutes.
Guy check out the Milwaukee M12 and M18 riveter. I did 500 rivets on one 3 aH battery
I was watching the full programme on All4, but this, and so much else of what we see Guy doing, is why he would be wasted as aircrew. He is who makes a bouncing bomb, not the one you send out to drop one.
It's covered in cloth AND soaked in nitrocellulose which in itself is highly flammable. No wonder these planes went up in flames when hit.
I think they came back many times full of holes where the bullets went through. A quick patch and turnaround and it was off again!
I seem to remember 42 was the magic number! The number of sorties they were required to fly before "retirement" ..... of course many pilots did not retire at that number, and many did not reach it eather! "The Brave Few"!
@@totherarf 30 sorties was the usual first tour, followed by a spell at a training or conversion wing, dangerous by itself. If you survived a second tour of 30 ops you couldn't be called back, but some just continued on and on. The number of ops required for a tour could be moved up or down depending upon whether any crews had finished recently or upon the workload for example in the period before and after D-Day with the concentration on France.
What's old is new, the process bears a lot to similarities to laminating carbon fibre.
Top fellow yellow belly, come and do a program on ejection seats next Guy.
They aren’t going to redo it with ceconite (dacron) which essentially lasts forever? All modern fabric aircraft are done with it or something similar. Nobody uses linen anymore. It doesn’t last and ceconite looks identical.
I don't know how long the dope covered ailerons last, but I took the ailerons off PA474 in1974, so they could be sent away to be recovered.
How do you even figure that out ...to tighten the Fabrice...wtf ...who does this
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Are they saying "dope", "dough", or something else?
'daub'
It's 'dope'! Used to use it on my model aircraft years ago. Erik is clueless.....
Shrinking dope , aircraft dope , nitrate dope , cellulose dope . Whichever one it's definitely 'dope'
Yeah as a total noob it sounds like dope or maybe doup in a non French accent.
It's aircraft dope and stinks so much that it makes your head spin.
#teamseas................................................................................
He's not half as daft as he looks 😜
Wow! What must these Avro engineers have thought? Like we’re in a war, let’s make our ailerons through a process that takes 250hrs 🥲 Nice job Guy!
Well sort of. That is 250 hours of labour and in the war there were hundreds of people doing these jobs. Especially very skilled women who knew how to weave and handle materials like these so were very fast at what they did. So its quite possible 20 women did one of these a shift. And sadly we have to remember these aircraft were not built to last decades as the life expectancy was in weeks.
My Mum with hundreds of others built torpedoes at Oxford Morris Motors but never told anyone (even Dad) until after the war.
@@1chish My granddad worked at AVRO Yeadon on Lancaster manufacturing. Something in wood. He was a carpenter.
@@GT380man The Greatest Generation without doubt.