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I think that the US provided some fighter planes to the Soviet Union that had Allison engines with no supercharger. AeroCobra. The Russians loved it.

21:27 nazi Luigi

my dad worked on this project... it broke his heart when the yanky bomber formations came home with heavy losses. then the germans started attacking his young family with v1 flying bombs and he found other things to worry about... never truly recovered... nor did mum who in later life still jumped when a plane flew over her home..

Accuracy was very dependent on the operator's skill.

Very nicely done, old boy. The constant parroting by Merrick'ans about how the R.A.F had area bombed but that USAF had engaged in precision bombing has been grinding my gears for years. The truth about the bombing campaign is that by the end of the war, the R.A.F. could hit targets at night with the same precision as the U.S.A.F. could achieve during the day. The technology story of WW2 is so much more interesting and complex than most know. In the minds of most people, it was the Nazi's that had the edge technology wise, but that is simply another myth.

Too much talking head. Not enough visuals of actual mechanical workings.

If you really originally thought that the Norden Bomb sight was anything more than a slightly more sophisticated version of other bomb sights - and basically obsolete by the end of the war you shouldn't be making videos about WW II technology.

Anyway we started firestorming

I took a hot - balloon ride one time, and got a beautiful lesson in wind - shear . About every 20 to 50 feet , the wind would change direction , often Drastically, like 90 or more degrees . The balloon pilot would get to Approximately where he wanted to go , by raising or lowering his altitude . The uneven heating/cooling of the earth over hills and valleys would send thermals all over the place . And we were at altitudes of only a few hundred to a couple of thousand feet . Now , trying to get bombs to hit Somewhat accurately from 20,000 + feet ?? For an individual bomber , Good LUCK . That's part of the reason USAAF started using monster formations .

Even if the Norden had been more accurate , those aircrews have AAA (later , with proximity fuses) , 109s , & 190s coming at them . Sometimes 110s would spray a load of rockets into the bomber formation . With all the danger going on , and sometimes a mechanical failure, is it any wonder a B-17 or 24 would have some pretty bad misses ? Oh , yeah , then there were cloud and ground - smoke visual issues . I don't know how accurate the Norden was , on clear - sky Test - ranges in the southwest deserts or where ever in the U.S. , but those TWO situations just can't be compared .

The only people who thought this worked were the American's, we Brits knew it was a lot of nonsense that's why we did night bombing, it was too dangerous and it was not accurate enough to warrant the danger. Christmas tree lights turned out to be relatively more accurate and safer.

Not the first time I have rewatched this documentary. This is a haunting story that will one day have a conclussion. Well done in your attempts to recreate the flight that must have taken weeks. As the story unfolds you get the sense of growing confussion even with all the resources being made available the weather, terrain and less than perfect technology were getting the best of rescue attempts.

Also, imagine if they could have put modern turbos on it! The altitude they reached, over 40,000 feet is quite respectable. Im curious about lonvevity/tbo , fuel consumption figures, too. Any info on that?

Fascinating engine. The logic of the design is so common sense, how some of the other WW2 engjnes ran at all is baffling. It would be interesting to know what the harmonics were from as it is( kind of ) a triple plane opposed flat 8, and fuel injected to boot! Love the photos of the various aircraft, btw, especially the Uhu.

This was incredible tech for its time. we have the luxury of calling it a big lie with time. It is a mechanical computer which at the time was phenomenal. I have much more respect for those who built the Norden bombsight than these clowns today with super computers.

This is ai produced , right? You know nothing about two stroke internal combustion engines other than what you were told to scan. You missed half of it.

Actuality the most secret thing was Bletchley park . UK .

Well done! Lots of material about Allied engines; not so much about Axis engines. Wonder what happened to MBZ since Y2K? The 2024 E-Class had a CR predicted reliability of only *44* and I can’t understand how a proud company could allow itself to sink so low.

Im from the connecticut river valley, its great to see wherever i go in the world,bits of home....pratt n whitney, hamilton standard, colt, indian, springfield armory.....ive seen our stuff as far away as italy and hawaii.....too bad its almost all gone

i flew aboard the P-3B Orion in the 70's. It used a Sperry computer for navigation and that was top secret as well.

Brought to you by a grant from the Sperry family. ;-)

Wonka’s eyes at 0:00 💀

How can the Sleeve Valves be a tight fit.

You still have the Bore & Stroke backwards. It is a 5.5" bore and 6" stroke. When you restated it after your little giggle you just flipflopped the order of statement and not the fact that in fact the engine is a "long stroke", meaning that the stroke is longer than the bore is wide. You still have it backwards in both statements.

No a helmet would have possibly made him feel the flames! I was present that day. Instant death was the best thing for this accident. There also was no room for any kind of safety gear. He only had an inch or so of head clearance from canopy. The clutch’s were my biggest fear but he liked the idea. I just know from drag racing the busa that the clutch’s don’t last long under a heavy load. RIP Scotty Wilson, And no Rest in peace Everett Kendrick jr, Scotty’s crew chief! I miss you both!! ❤

War is not a messy business, it's a racket just like Smedley Butler wrote.

Great Video and info.. What was the fuel consumption? Or better yet fuel efficiency ? And how could that much power be used? could it get a pilot out of a dangerous situation? Out climb anything? Were there props that could utilize that much power? I have lots of questions...

8:00 - your description of the RAT is backwards... when deploying the RAT from the HYD panel, you only get blue hydraulic pressure; if you deploy RAT from EMER ELEC panel, you get both blue hydraulic pressure and emergency electrical generator connection.

Is anybody going to point out the fact that chevy didn't come up with the hemi

Interesting. didn't the Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet used in the Me-262 fighter use a 2 cycle piston engine to start their compression cycle before transitioning to a 'pure' turbojet?

chrystler dubbed the hemi not chevy

...And bombing accuracy wasn't really addressed until the development of the laser guided bomb during the Vietnam War.

good engine but not used in the best Fighters or Bombers in the ETO or MTO

At least it wasn’t complicated.

0:15 nahh, the radio proximity fuse was the 2nd, if not 1st, most guarded secret of ww2. also hard to see how one could also think the bombsight had more of an impact than the proximity fuse, or nukes for that matter.

I love the Sabre for its Rube Goldberg complexity. Engineering Art of the highest form! Maybe only the Nomad can out do it! One aspect that should be brought up in comparing these engines is the specific fuel consumption, e.g. gram of fuel per horsepower per hour. This is quite important for aircraft engine, as fuel thirsty engines will limit range and/or endurance. Finally a note on German (and Italian) engines: try running the P&W or Merlin or Sabre on 87 octane fuel made from low grade coal (lignite...), and let's compare the numbers again...

Only legends know that USSR is the main reason Allied won the war.

Would love to see a video on the P&W R-1830, another workhorse radial engine of the early war.

Hughes was bananas.

There is often actually something in German water, namely radon. Germany has very large uranium deposits (Germany was once the third largest uranium producer in the world) and the decay of uranium produces radon gas. In many regions, waterworks have to filter radon from the water. In some regions, cellars also need to be particularly ventilated because radon can get into the cellar through the floor slab. Radon is considered to be the cause of 5% of lung cancer cases in Germany, directly after smoking.

Arguably one of the greatest mathematical physicists ever, Freeman Dyson, was assigned as a statistician to Bomber Command during the war as a young scholar. His group would give detailed reports on every bombing run. He stated that if a bomb fell within a mile of the target, it was practically considered a bullseye. The Germans had also moved most of their production underground. This is why they dropped mainly incendiary bombs in an effort to create fire storms in the population centers (of which they succeeded in creating two in German cities). Hans Rumpf, in charge of civil defense for the Germans and author of the book, The Bombing of Germany, also said that the bombing campaign had little effect on the production of goods, largely citing the same reasons as Dyson. He also stated that it had a galvanizing effect on the population instead of the intended morale-lowering effect thought. As a side point, at the end of the video it is stated that 20% of the US deaths were airmen flying B-17s & B-24s. Interestingly, of those airmen killed, half of them died in training or in accidents - mostly on US soil. Thanks for the great video!!

I read somewhere, perhaps in the excellent book by Callum Douglas that the geometry of the radial engine creates inherent problems with deriving an efficient supercharger. Hence radial engine aircraft with good high altitude performance featured a turbo charger as well as a somewhat basic ist stage mechanical blower. The P47 and B17 both had turbochargers as a second stage and were able to maintain good power at high altitude but for some reason the Centaurus powered Tempest Mk2 and Seafury never did hence their performance was hampered at altitudes over 20,000 ft but then when you look at the bulk, weight and complexity of the turbocharger system on the P47 (its massive) you can understand why it would be easier for airframe designers to leave it out.

I have flown twice in an EA-1E Skyraider with this engine. Gotta loved the smoke and sound at start-up!

I'm sure this was previously considered, but I wonder if they checked any water locations (lakes, etc.)?

The biggest lie is the crimes they alleged the Germans did....

love those chrysler units

interesting !

The DB 605 always suffered from the 87 octane fuel available to Germany throughout the war, the Sabre had access to the 110 octane fuel (eventually) made available from America, and with it's sleeve valve system could use this to the max giving it more available power due to the dual anti detonation properties of the fuel and induction system.

I bet this engine would have had been great for an Italian “fast bomber”. Having two nacelles but 4 engines and the counter props could decrease drag, Sadly mechanical problems definitely would have plagued this beast even if it was refined or mass produced.