Wrecking & Trolling The Germans With A Wooden Plane - DH-98 Mosquito
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It's easily my favorite none american plane ever.
Yep
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“Shpelling mishtake”-🤓
Well it was designed in freedom factions so it makes sense
you're going to get shit for saying fighter jets instead of fighters. those people can kindly fuck off. We know what he meant.
My late grandfather flew mosquitoes over Borneo for the RAAF, his favourite way of describing the aircraft was "slipperier than an eel in spit".
I think your grandfather would be the guy to sit down with and have a beer or three... and let him try to explain just how do you get an eel "in spit???" Maybe nothing important would have been settled but a really good time would have been had by all!! 👍😂🤣
@@MrGaryGG48😂
@@MrGaryGG48consult the E-4 research and development team. There is a way to achieve anything.
my great grand uncle fount the imperial Japs in Bataan. He flew his p40e and did what he could. he was a victim of the Bataan march and later helped devise the greatest pow escape of ww2. he later testified to congress telling about the Japanese treatment of war prisoners.
I imagine since then we went full, amen.
Was it during WW2 or the Malayan Emergency?
"trolling the Germans" describes more of WWII than we'd care to admit
Stealing their submarines, telling them carrots is how radar works, fake planes, the shit never ends
Don't forget inflatable tanks!
Holy #$%π! Accurate
Yeah but American is the king of trolling. We threw an actual sun at the Rising Sun.
Not to mention the 'window' chaff system to mess with German night fighters.
So no one wants to talk about how it's technically the first stealth aircraft before the concept of radar cancelling technology existed?
It also predate the Horton Ho 229 and actually flew combat missions. It's really the first stealth multirole aircraft. Like an F35 but with tremendously long range.
@@granatmofthe Ho 229 was never even a little stealth tho
Neither were stealth. The 229 ended up making craters instead of test data. And the mosquito just had a reduced signature. Paint and wood and windows still reflect. Just less than metal.
We needed Lazer radar to map the amazon because radar doesn't just pass through wood and leafs and shit. It's just not a mirror of an aluminum shell
And there is no vergiyable data including a full replica built to Horton specs 30 years ago. And it has the radar cross section of a cessna
My grandfather was a RCAF Navigator who flew in a Mosquito as a *_Pathfinder_* in WWII. He always told my mom "I *never* dropped bombs, _only flares."_ As the Navigator, one of the tasks my grandpa had would be to calculate when to drop the flares so they'd land on the target to signal the bombers where to aim, but the enemy would try and confuse the bombers by lighting up matching colored flares miles away on the ground. My grandpa and the pilot had to STAY IN THE AREA flying around while being shot at, and DROP MORE FLARES of _different colors_ to reestablish the target location for the bombing run. He'd be 100 years old (joined up at 16 and lied about his age) but he passed in 2010.
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Honestly, pretty smart of the Germans to do, and the absolute BALLS of him and other pilots to stay behind to do their jobs.
Kinda interestingly ironic that those Germans also had to risk lighting those flares and being targeted by those bombers.
May he Rest in Peace and may another terrible war like WWII never happen
That's a very cool story. I bet it was great listening to his stories.
I can't imagine current day 16 year olds doing this.
@@matthewpeterson4305 1 they couldn’t get away with lying about age 2 they might if there was a reason but the time of real external threats for America is over. 3 I know a few people who would but there’s no platform for that type of person these days.
I knew a man that flew one on WW2, his stories were amazing. He said that bullets just went right through doing very little damage. He would fly in first and drop flares on targets for other bombers to use as a reference point to drop their pay loads. He was shot down 3 times, each time successfully crash landing the plane in friendly territory. He also went on to circumnavigate the globe with his wife in a sail boat where he actually met Jacque Cousteau. They became friends and he had pictures of them on adventures with each other. He had a degree in engineering and we both built a Hot Rod in his garage when I was 17. He was a humble and brilliant man. He died with no family, just me and my mom next to him in a hospital in San Antonio, TX. Through our friendship this man who was an atheist came to know Jesus and was at peace in his final breath which was, "Let's see where this breeze takes me" which is on the Stern of my sailboat today!
You met a main character, go forth and carry on the legacy
Most based man ever
Im glad to have heard this mans story. Have a great day
What a beautiful story.
Thank you for sharing, this was like a mini movie. A really beautiful one at that... Maybe it should be made into one .. would you want to do that?
Fun fact, the DH Vampire JET FIGHTER still used wood for parts of it's fuselage.
My dad trained at the DH technical college, he describes a lot of what they did as "interesting".
I can only imagine how much sandpaper they went through
The German flying wing with turbines was mostly wood, till it crashed
@AdmiralYeti8042 mostly used "planes" to finalize shape
@@briansharp4388The Ho 229?
@ardantop132na6 the one the 2 Brothers (sorry, getting old, can't remember names, but towards end of war. The brother flying it was killed when it crashed during testing, a collision? with another plane. Was flown in prone position
A few months back I had the honor of drinks and a meal with a 102 year old WWII Mossie pilot at the RAF club in London. A gentleman and aviator extraordinaire. Great stories and fabulous company all around.
What did you guys drink?
I’m a curious mind
@@DSToNe19and83 a few beers and dinner. We had a small group of aviators. About 6 of us. Despite his age, his whit and storytelling were quite intact. He trained to fly in the US before we joined the war effort and ended up in Mosquitos for the duration.
I love how subsequent pics of Lord mini-paws have smaller and more tiny mitts. The last one made me burst out. Lol
I have watched this episode like 8 times and, I am ashamed to admit it, only noticed that was happening this time...
I have failed at interning...
The mosquito was way ahead of its time, the first composite aircraft put into production, arguably the best plane of the war, certainly the most versatile, easier to make and repair in service, they used these for pretty much every kind of mission, spitfires are great, mosquito's are the twin engined spitfires, awesome!
No.. it wasn't the first composite plane put into production... It was mainly wood with some metal in key areas... This was being done back in WW1.
@rodshoaf you're missing the point. Ww1 planes were wooden framed
It was 'composite because it was made from a composite: hardwood ply. The Mosquito 'hot molded' composite ply panels which were incredibly strong and removed the need of stringers. GDH borrowed this tech from British racing boat builders who were building superfast sailing dinghies in the early 30s Uffa Gox being a particular Pioneer of this tech.
Although it's base material was indeed wood hardwood ply was a state of the art material in the 1930s, not because it was a new material, plywood had been around since ancient Egypt, but because of the tech in the expox polymers used to bind it.
Hotmolding ply had been around for about 50 years previously but due to manufacturing challenges, it was mostly used for furniture and some musical instruments. Fox pioneered its use in boatbuilding when epoxies had advanced sufficiently to allow rapid cooling without compromising strength.
Yes, composite laminates were used for strurs, propellers etc in WW1 but self supporting molded ply panels strong enough and large enough for curved plane panels were a new technology in the 30s.
@@HarryFlashmanVC The very first plane... had plywood... The Mosquito was not a composite plane... If you want to call a wooden skinned plane a composite then there were quite a few other planes in front line service around the world before the mosquito.. It was a throwback plane.. using techniques that had been lost by aircraft makers once they switched to all metal aircraft
Haha uz are funny. Look up the company who bulit the mosquito and it destroys OP point as mossie was baaed on the albatros that was built uaing same ply-ballsa-ply monocoque frame. The company also designed and bulit many of moths.
@rodshoaf the Mosqueto is very much a composite built aircraft! You really need to look up the word composite in the Oxford English Dictionary to realise what the word means.
Love the fade away and the frustration rant at the end lmfao!!! Back to watching interrogations now
Love history
But the end was the best of anything I've seen or heard in the last 3 years.
The raw truth and so simple an idiot like me understands it.
Ain’t that the damn truth
My next door neighbour was a mosquito pilot in WW2,when I met moved in he was 80 something,he used to go to the working man's club every Friday and get absolutely piss drunk,to the point I'd have to undo his door for him,he never talked about the war,just"I was in the RAF,flew mosquitos"....that's all you'd get out of him.
Voting for the mosquito on your poll yesterday and seeing it was the lowest percentage makes me so happy to see this video right now😂
haha underdog
Kind of a genius tactic. Take the least known, least popular choice and make it the star.
Yep, put a smile on my face.
Yes I voted for it also!
I've watched quite a few documentaries on WWII and other than a brief mention here and there it seems like very little is ever really said about these amazing aircraft! I've heard of them but thank you for all the awesome background info!
I'm glad you liked them!
I used to work in a nursing home (years ago) and one of our residents had been a mosquito pilot in the war. Apparently they used to come back sometimes with tree branches in the leading edges of their wings from having flown so low, so fast on their way home.
Sometimes they came back with some poor woman's washing line and washing draped over the wing.
I live 20 miles from where the factory was, it's now a university, which my daughter attended.... Hatfield, they have a DeHaviland campus in memory of this...👍😎
So do I , cool name by the way.
Wouldn't that make the Mosquito the first stealth air craft?
Maybe the little bi planes we used in ww2.
We used swordfish that where canvas and wood for most part
de Havilland also made the first commercial jet airliner
Yes, but it doesn't count because it wasn't designed to be stealthy, that just sort of happened.
I don't know how much less signature they had, a lot of success was from the simple fact they had excellent pilots and flew sometimes below treetop level.
@@sethb3090 Yes, airborne radar wasn't really around much when design of the Mosquito started.
The mosquito was one of my favorite aircraft for the longest time, not because it’s just a stupidly good plane or it’s history, but because it influenced De Havilland when they made their first jet fighter and my third favorite aircraft of all time: The Vampire. A jet fighter smaller than a Spitfire and made of wood.
The Vampire! that's a cool name.
As someone who grew up in northern Minnesota, I can attest that these planes were *brilliantly* named for how the British used them.
I call Jet-Skis "mosquito boats".
I absolutely love your content and sense of humor. I've learned way more about various military operations and how things actually work than I ever learned in school.
My grandad was a navigator in Mozzies, he was in one of the Pathfinder squadrons based in Norfolk (England obviously, not Virginia!).
He didn't speak much about his time in the RAF, but did talk about dropping the marker bombs / flares over various German cities.
Holy crap I could write the exact same comment, my grandfather flew out of Norfolk in mosquitos as a bomb aimer/navigator for Pathfinder squadron. I've got all his flight books, recon photos and
One of the flags from the base. He was RCAF and Grandmother was RAF. My Mom was born in Norwich. After the war grandfather brought his wife and new daughter to Canada.
I have been working for 3 weeks to install wood shelving in my bathroom. I am not qualified. All thar college isnt good for the "real" long game. Kudos to the brilliance. If i was an early engineer, we would stay the Stone Age.
Was in school for aviation maintenance and when we were learning about wood structures we sat down and watched a bit of a documentary on the mosquito.The thing is indeed a beast of a plane and glad to have learned more about it through this since the documentary went over only its development in world war ii and not much on its start as a concept.
I know I'm a year late to this party. BUT... As a retired local govt IT worker, I absolutely LOVED this video! It speaks to me on a level I cannot express in words. Very well done! 😁
So loved the ending. You Sir, have described humanity to a tee. Keep doing what you do. Obviously, we all love it!
I wasn't expecting this but...I really enjoyed the video. Great work! The Mossie was a brilliant plane and still cruelly over-looked. It could carry nearly as much payload as a B17 but could outrun most fighters. With the Hispano cannons fitted in the nose the Mossie was the modern day Warthog and a total baddass for ground attack and used to tear up Panzer columns and German troop trains for fun. Thanks for keeping its memory alive.
Bit of something to know. When he went to try and sell the idea to the government for the mosquito it's true they turned him down, BUT they told him if he wanted to build airplanes it was ok as long as it didn't use any material that was needed for the war effort. When he got back to the company and all the people that worked on it were waiting to find out if they had a contract he told them " No they don't want it, but THEY WILL". So they started to build them.
If you look up some of the missions one that is really cool is when they liberated a bunch of French freedom fighters that the gestapo had as prisoners. I don't want to spoil it but it is REALLY worth finding that story.
When the wooden plane has germans raining from the sky it puts a whole new spin on yelling "TIMBER!"😆
It was equipped with cameras and cannons. The Mosquito was a great ground attack A/C and Recon A/C. As well as a lite bomber.
As a US Army Veteran and cheese lover..... I thank you for your very entertaining and pleasantly informative videos. You rock!
A wonderful video that’s made me appreciate my favourite warbirds.
The Mossie was also a successful ship killer with rockets fitted or a 57 mm gun in the nose. It was also earmarked to carry a smaller version of the bouncing bomb to take on battleships!
Oh man I'm SO GLAD to see the legendary Mosquito talked about here. This has been, and forever will be, my favorite plane from WW2.
Another advantage of the wooden construction was that, when shot, it would just get hole punched, where the stressed skin aluminium planes would tear open, so it was more resilient than might be expected. There was a version fitted with a 6 pounder gun (93mm!) that sank ships and u-boats, so it was the A-10 of it's day too!
SR-71, F-117, and A-10 (of its era, but equivalent in capability/use)... Absolutely astonishing.
Unironically, the German Moskito would've not only been the Wonder Weapon "he" was looking for, it would've *done* what he philandered about on the Me-262 with. Not to mention, would have been a lot less man-hours of maintenance, and used common materials and *German* *skilled* workers.
Makes me wonder if the allies 'helped along' the denial of the Moskito? It'd already proven to be 'quite the weapon' in Britain's hands.
Just a side note the 6 pounder gun was actually a 57mm Molins class M gun with an autoloader.
The was a Mosquito fitted with the 94mm gun or the 32 pounder which was the gun ripped off of a tortoise super heavy tank. One prototype was completed after the war but the project never really went anywhere.
You sir, have a talent of storytelling no one else can possess.
I’m always fascinated by Mosquito vids. My dad flew them while he was in the Navy flying for the RAF. Thanks for the content.
What a great episode, man!! Thank you! I love how much detail you bring to these stories. And your delivery is top-notch. Keep up the great work!
I've been obsessed with the plane ever since reading Tintin when I was a kid. Herge loved his military hardware and stuck the Mosquito in wherever he could with fantastic illustrations of the plane kicking ass.
The place where the Mosquito was built and tested is now an open-air museum, just on the north-western edge of London (England). It's not a bad way to spend half a day. It has 3 original Mosquitos on display, including a prototype.
Definitely one of the most underrated aircraft of WWII. Planes like the Mustang are iconic for a reason, but it's ones like the Mosquito, whose design philosophy go against all 'sensibility', that produce the best stories.
I used to work near the factory. An area once full of furniture and cabinet makers. There is a Mosquito museum near Welwyn Garden City.
Love the Mossie thanks for appreciating the wooden wonder.
I love how the Brits are excellent at trolling the bad guys
And they do it with the driest of humor.
Only after they're done trolling themselves first... (and us here in the USA seem to have them beaten on both fronts in the modern day, we troll ourselves harder than they troll themselves, and we troll the enemy harder than they do).
years of practice, usually the French its like where the two fingered salute came from it was from the days of English longbows, our bowmen were so hated that the French used to cut the first two fingers off on your dominant hand, just so you couldn't hold a bow string..... So naturally whenever we wanted to piss them off, we waved those two fingers at them lol
try using a charlenger 2 main battle tank to take out 2 guys from across a canal shooting at you while a 3rd is rescuing there injured comrade in a wheel barrow
or when a british sniper is told he cant shoot 5 guys planting a roadside bomb because rules of engagement says they are not a threat at the moment so he shoots the IED instead
or using a javelin anti tank missle to take out a taliban fighter having a dump in some bushes ( he was holding a rifle so was a legit threat to human life ) the CSM was gonna let the company sniper do it but a big fijian soldier holding a javelin missle launcher with a huge grin on his face just looked more fun
or strapping 4 guys to the stub wings on an apache gunship and landing them in the middle of a prison during a firefight to evacuate some of your injured guys on the ground in that prison while escaped prisoners are using captured weapons from the guards to shoot at you
yes we are troll or just got the worst sense of humour ever
Just watched your video on the Mosquito, on a reaction channel called wrecked nation. Pissed myself laughing at your delivery and as I see it, a much easier way to absorb and retain historical information. Top draw pal, keep it up. Newly subscribed lover of all war stuff
So this is my first real intro to the Mosquito. I have known the name and known that it is often lamented for being rather left out in most of the warbird glory stories, but after watching this, I totally get it. What an amazing plane and story, kudos to De Haviland for sticking to his plans even when completely disrespected by the mainstream.
also, subbed after one video
This is awesome. I never really thought about the SR71 - DeHavilland Mosquito connection.
Mosquito pilot: there's enemy fighters = accelerate
SR71 pilot: SAMs launch = accelerate
one of our best decisions was making it, the zinger was calling it a mosquito cos damn was it a pain for the jerries. Edit: I'd also like to point out that england was very proud of our model plane, I grew up reading the very old and not so PC commando magazines and anytime the mosquitos show up the Germans get absolutely trounced. And in films as well, don't think I've ever seen one depicted as anything other than god tier.
I love that you included a clip of a mosquito going into a flatspin in the intro hype montage lol 0:29
hey nic, love your channel and your humor. As a farmer I always look forward to your videos in long format like this. Makes my days in the tractor or in the skid steer or on foot raking stalls a lot easier when I have a story and a hilarious storyteller to follow along with.
Dude, as a fellow sparky I salute you and your work. Love these video! As a WWII aircraft enthusiast the DH.98 was very awesome.
i knew all the history about the wooden wonder, but i laughed so hard the way you told it! thanks!
and i hadnt realized just how influential it was to later aircraft design.
Loved the "don't fly it into shit!"
You do realised he's just repeating the false history of the development of Mosquito?
Interesting fact: there were Mosquito variants fitted with a 37mm cannon, a gun out of a light tank, it also had mounting points for dumfire rockets, it still also had its 20mm armaments, turns out it was a pretty good CAS aircraft too.
😂 i’m just amazed that you did not somehow include 1,000,000 pounds of cheese in underground storage 😂
Man, I am absolutely loving your videos, my guy! The way you deliver military history is funny, witty, interesting, very informative, and just plain brilliant! And the editing is top tier! Your channel is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels to watch nowadays! I find myself immediately clicking your vids when I see a new one has been uploaded! Fucking cheers brother! Keep up the amazing work! Hahahaha!
Nice work ! You really hit this one out the park ❤
Norman de Bruyne and his company Aero Research Ltd deserve a mention it was their development of new adhesives that made construction possible. I grew up near Cambridge with a Dad working at the factory where that adhesive was made, which is still there and still making stuff for the aero industry.
Let’s go I was right it is the Mosquito glad to see it is getting the love and respect it deserves after being ignored by most.
14:55 You could say the Nazis were... Fuhr-ious :D
Take my like and leave
I built a lot of 1/48 scale model aircraft when I was a teenager and the Mosquito was always one of my favorites.
What a great episode. I felt the ending in my soul. The pain was palpable.
Loved the horse analogy. And the subsequent spiral into madness along its family tree 😂🤦🏽♂️🥃🥃🥃🥃. Also, good to know politics is the bane of EVERYONE’S existence, not just us, and even back then lol
In 2019, I moved to the "country estate" where the DH-98 was designed and where the first prototype was flown from, joining and regularly visiting the De Havilland museum where they have original prototypes and examples of other aircraft on view. Fabulous video.
Enjoying your channel greatly. You got much of this story perfectly except the German Miskito, it was built by Focke Wulf and was called the TA-154. Here is the interesting and funny part except to the crews. De Havilland had been building planes out of wood for so long that they had developed the perfect recipe for glue that was made from a certain African beetle. The German TA-154 was amazing until they started to fall apart in flight because their glue was inferior. If I remember correctly a total of 6 were built. My parents met while working at De Havillands during the war.
Keep up the great channel, it’s by far one of my favorites !
What is never talked about in the London to Australia air race is that the number two plane was a Douglas DC-2 airliner with ten passengers aboard. And it wasn't second by very much time.
I love that description “The Acoustic SR71” Fantastic. Brilliant description of my all time favourite warbird the Mossie. Excellent presentation mate. Top marks 🙂
Watching once again. Thank you, Nick, and Mrs. Sparky
In the poll I voted for the Mossie for the reasons you cite in the video.
I had faith you would do a good job and I was not disappointed. 🙂
Same. We get bonus points lol?
I voted for the b2, as soon as I clicked it iwas like, hey the mosquito kind of did the same thing before the b2... great video FE!
@@blackc1479 That would be nice.
Your tutorial about the Mosquito was very interesting to me as this was one of the planes my dad navigated in WWII. It was among his favorites. He was a member of the RCAF and would be lent to the RAF for missions when needed.
0:13 - Already invested 😊
I cannot believe I have never heard of this before! Thank you for this awesome story!
de Havilland was big into his twin engine planes. The DH 88 was always one of my favorites. Quite a few similarities to the Mosquito.
This guy will be that grandpa that all the kids sit and listen to during the holidays.
You are a story telling wizards sir
I want to own one.... and fly to Burning Man with it. With that awesomeness and payload, I could bring an entire camp's infrastructure with me in one trip.
If i was flying that thing to burning man it would be hard to resist bombing it. I'm mean seriously where else are you going to find a target with that many stinky hippies and dregs of society in one place. One well placed munition could save my nostrells and tax payers billions of dollars. Hell, most of them wouldn't even know what hit them they are so stoned.
Mosquito has always been one of my favorite WW2 bird's.
That and the Beaufighter.
this was hilarious, I love the humor plus the educational historical value here, take my like and subscription
Haven't seen your posts in a long time. Always fun to hear your history. You always spice it up, but you never use too much seasoning.
INTERESTING FACT
The actress Olivia de Havilland was related to Sir Geoffrey de Havilland. He was her paternal cousin. Her most famous role is that of Melanie Hamilton in “Gone with the Wind” (1939), for which she received her first of five Oscar nominations, the only one for Best Supporting Actress.
At the time of her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner and was widely considered the last surviving major star from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Interestingly, both Olivia de Havilland and her sister, Joan Fontaine (who used her mother's surname), remain the only siblings to have won major acting Academy Awards.
Dude....I keep learning the lesser publicized history with a laugh. 🤣If you had been my history teacher in school I'd have a PHD. Great stuff
The last minute was awesome and something everyone needs to realize. The whole video was awesome as well, I have been waiting to see when you could get time to make another one. Great work, you're doing an amazing job!
The Mosquito was undoubtedly the world's first stealth aircraft!!!😁😁🇬🇧
Great video. The history of the D.H. Mosquito according to Monty Python. My dad was on P40s and Mosquitos in North Africa. The USAAF flew Mosquitos on air recon and they worked great. The German Ta 152 Moskito was a disaster mainly because the glue kept coming apart.
It was also unintentionally stealthy. The wood was hard to pick up on radar.
There is/was a Mosquito in Oshkosh, Wisconsin at the EAA (on loan from Weeks Aviation Museum in Miami). Such an awesome plane, glad I had a chance to see one in person.
I just double checked - it's still there on "long-term loan".
I had always heard about the Mosquito being a very successful aircraft during the war. I had no idea it was THAT successful.
Just a think with that raid on the SS Headquarters in Holland, when the 4 Mosquitos attacked and "buzzed off", one stuck around and strafed the ever loving shit out of it with its cannons, turning the mission from a successful failure to an all out success, additionally it circled back and the co-pilot dropped a Union Jack which landed near the site of the carnage. Baller as fuck
Absolutely the best story teller I've heard in years
Can't friggin imagine working at the Gestapo building, in there just doing my job and all of sudden I just hear this massive THUD while the whole building vibrates violently. Look around as it does down, "the fuq was that?" Three seconds later it happens again and a couple seconds after that there's four massive simultaneous explosions right down the street
The Warthog is a different beast all together. The gun it carries was created first, and then they built the Warthog specifically to carry that gun
Why is it when you do a video like this, you are better than Dark Skies, Dark Seas, etc?
I think it's because I show my face and I try to make the presentation like a conversation you'd have at the bar with a buddy
@@the_fat_electrician Could be or it could be because you served.
I forgot to thank you for helping me make new friends by saying "quack-bang" & meeting other people who watch you.
One of my favorite WWII aircraft; easily up there with the F-4U, P-51, FW-190, and P-38.
I love that old school lack of technology was the reason for success, despite politics on both sides.
I always admired this plane , fast , simple and versatile
“I go mad when I look at the Mosquitos. I’m green and yellow with envy. The Englishman, who has more aluminium than we do, is building a wooden machine, and with a speed which he now increases again!”---Herman Göring.
I thoroughly enjoy the rants😂 probably my favorite part about this channel.
Can you imagine working in a cabinet shop during the war then one day your boss bust through the door and yells stop making cabinets we are building planes now
Me at the cabinet assembly line~ "SQUEEEEEEE!"
They had excellent acoustics too, piano craftsmen were also used, resulting in each airframe being individually tuned for the different engine types.
90% of the crew yells "FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!"
That kinda happened with my grandfather. He was a shipwright who then got drafted by De Havilland and ended up with them until he retired. He used to call it the 'Bostik Bomber' though because a lot of it was glued together. He said it was also a suprisingly tough aircraft and a lot would come back full of holes. Rounds would pass right through and often do minimal damage to anything important. He also used to grumble about wasting money on fancy metal birds for CAS like the Tornado, when a modernised Mossie would do the job cheaper, louder and almost as fast.
On a similar but unrelated note, I was looking at old houses in the sf bay area and noticed details in the construction that I'd seen before...
In ships. The ship builders would moonlight as house builders and used the same techniques!
Best description of the Mosquito ever: "The best piece of furniture Brits have ever devised"
The fastest wardrobe of WW2.
De Havilland was Canadian, and it's still a Canadian company now producing small electric aircraft.
@@richardm6704 a quick google search proves that wrong. The dude was born in England. He was born July 27, 1882 in
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. Even served in the British Army in WW1. His Company was incorporated into another Company (Hawker Siddeley) in 1963, and then that company was absorbed by British Aircraft Company and Scottish Aviation in 1977. The Canadian branch of the company was bought by Boeing in 1985, then another company bought the holdings in 1992. Then another company bought the holdings from that company in the early 2000s. It's only De Havilland in name, with no actual connection to the original.
The de Havilland family originates from Normandy and later moved to the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Two of Sir Geoffrey de Havilland's cousins were actresses Olivia de Havilland and her sister Joan Fontaine.
My favorite troll on the Germans during ww2 was when the RAF saw the Germans building a fake airbase and planes out of wood during a recon mission and instead of bombing it that day/night they waited for them to be done the construction, which is when they sent in a plane to drop one wooden bomb. Please never change, Britain.
Taking the piss is in our dna, britain is basically the original Edward Khill
that is so fucking hilarious
Pricless, absolutely Pricless, at least people laughed that day on both sides except the idea man
Dude if that's real that's the funniest shit ever 😂😂😂😂
To think that we did the same thing with balloon tanks 😅
"Acoustic SR-71" is probably the most accurate description of the mosquito possible
I think we need to make ‘Acoustic SR-71’ a folk band name😂
SR-71 unplugged if you will
You know I love that comparison. My favorite is the. And I've played this over and over again. I keep hitting the rewind button
One bomb wooden wonders.
Are going to low level penetrate.
Deep into enemy territory.
Deliver payload.
Love this!
Well said sir, you beat me to it 😂
Analogue stealth
As a brit; people always go on about the spitfire, it's good to see love for the mosquito
The Hurricane needs some love ,, most dont realise IT was the main stay fighter of the Battle of Britain not the Spitfire.
The Fat Electrician is the funniest history teacher of all time.
Right? I’d have passed with flying colours if my teacher was like this!
It's sad that he teaches more history then schools ever did
My highschool world history teacher was like this. Every friday we had what he called Friday Fun Facts and he would pull random fun facts about the time period we were studying. Usually we wpuld get an influential person, place, event and a wild car which when it was about wars was usually a weapon system. Best part was he was a WWII, Korea and Vietnam vet so he had experienced alot of the history himself.
@@JosephDawson1986 bro that's fucking awesomeee
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I guess it depends which school you went to?
The Mosquito is a perfect example of what LazerPig would call Wallace and Grommeting your way out of the problem, and Clarkson's idea that every problem the British ever faced could be fixed by some blokes in a shed. I love it.
And a hammer
Accuracy International created some of the most baller rifles ever, and started as, you guessed it, three guys in a shed THEY DIDN'T EVEN OWN.
@@tylerhobbs76533 guys in a shed who strategically transfered equipment to an alternative location known as an abandoned warehouse up for lease.
Yeah I find it ironic that with all of the red tape and petty (rights-violating) stuff Britain pulls when it comes to firearms ownership; the guys getting the contracts for the good stuff are just like the equivalent of tea-drinking rednecks in a shed who are doing their thing just a _little bit_ less than legal.
@@tylerhobbs7653 so glad they gave the world the L96. It’s so pretty 😆