Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "The Drydock - Episode 076" video.

  1. 25:34 You seem to be describing the ROTARY engine, a short-lived design used in WW1 visually similar to the RADIAL engine while motionless. In the rotary engine the propeller was fixed to the circularly arranged cylinders and both turned together, while the crankshaft was static. The mass of rotating engine amplified the torque effect. Such a bizzare solution was adopted because the airplane speeds were insufficient to provide enough airflow to cool the engine with fixed circularly arranged cylinders that rotate the crankshaft to which the propeller is fixed - which is a basic description of a radial engine. Rotary engines had a lot problems, so once the engines became powerful enough to propel the planes at sufficient speeds to generate enough airflow to cool them properly, they were abandoned. Sopwith Camel for instance had a rotary engine. WW2 designs such as Swordfish, Zero, Wildcat, Thunderbolt, early FW-190 all had radial engines. Every propeller- driven aircraft (be it rotary, radial or inline engined) with an odd number of engines suffered a torque effect. Japanese carriers Akagi and Hiryu had islands on the port (left) side however. They were expected to operate in divisions made of 2 carriers with islands on different sides (Akagi's pair was the Kaga and Hiryu's the Soryu, both of which had islands on the starboard or right side) sailing side by side, island to island, so that planes could bank to different sides and reduce the risk of collision. By the time they were designing the Shokakus they realized that the former requirement was unnecessary and prioritized making things easier for the pilots going around torque effect-wise like everyone else.
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  2. Italian naval artillery designer: "What kind of muzzle velocity do you want for that?" Italian admiralty: "YES!"
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  3.  @bkjeong4302  Well it is true that ultimately there were no survivors from Chokai after the destroyer Fujinami which scuttled her and picked up the crew was later herself sunk with all hands by US aircraft so we will never know for sure the true sequence of her doom.
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  4. ​ @bkjeong4302  10 ships firing in a fast-paced action at 10 aircraft coming from a partially cloudy sky whose true number nobody determined of which 4 get shot down within 1 minute. I assume getting something like kill 30 claims would not be unusual... And even after intelligence analysts combed through those I guess something like 8 would be declared "confirmed".
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  5. Make a mental note that between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, the BLACK sea is the one closer to Africa :D
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  6. Carriers in surface action: Taffy 3 - one of those escort carriers (USS White Plains) may have caused a crippling hit on the Japanese heavy cruiser Chokai (on its loaded torpedo launcher to be specific) which had to be scuttled later - although it may have been a bomb from a US plane instead. [edit] Ah ok, now I heard you covered that too later [end of edit] Also: the HMS Glorious and HMS Formidable (whom you mentioned) and the damaged IJN Chiyoda - fought a gallant hopeless rearguard action at Cape Engano against US cruisers under admiral DuBose: From tabular record of movement of the carrier Chiyoda from the www.combinedfleet.com "- 1624 CHIYODA attacked by gunfire of U.S. Navy Task Group 38.3 (four cruisers NEW ORLEANS, WICHITA, nine destroyers) surface forces, and stubbornly returns fire. They open fire at a range of 20,000 yards. - 1640 CHIYODA is a mass of flames and giving off a towering column of black smoke. - 1655 Hit repeatedly - CHIYODA rolled onto her starboard beam ends - hung there for a few moments - then settled bow down and disappeared. [2] Though scores of men are seen "swarming over her sides" as she heels over no survivors are permitted to be rescued. Thus, apparently Captain Jyo Eiichiro and the entire crew of probably about 970 officers and men perish"
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  7.  @bkjeong4302  Source?
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  8.  @bkjeong4302  I only saw them show one side. Chokai had torpedos on both sides + reloads.
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