Comments by "Marten Trudeau" (@martentrudeau6948) on "Military Aviation History" channel.

  1. Great discussion, good to see Bernhard, Mig-21 is a great Russian fighter, if it is still competitive, it's as you said it depends.
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  2. The fearless and amazing Hanna Reitsch flying the Fieseler Storch is a great story. To me this plane always looked like nothing else, some what like an insect, a but beautiful and brilliant design.
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  3. It makes sense, it's opposite of what I would have thought, the aircraft that were blow to bits didn't make it back and those were the ones that required analysis.
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  4. I concur, point well made, thank you.
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  5. This is really an incredible story, I've heard the great classical composers came from families the had a high aptitude for math. This may have something to do with their ability to hear and see rhythms, patterns, and order in nature itself. It amazes me that the engineers and the musician collaborated to solve the problem. If this had happened in America they would have thrown a billion dollars at the problem to fix it.
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  6. HE-100 very very nice, if good looks could kill it would have been world champion.
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  7. An Alcoholic Hedgehog -- The Fairy Swordfish was very odd, who would have thought it could succeed, although it certainly had excellent torpedoes, it didn't look like a winner but it was one. If I was a gambling man back in the day I never would have bet on the Fair Swordfish, but it surprised everybody. It's Kinda like Cinderella.
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  8. Great video and very interesting, nothing better than original sources for information on German strategy to engage an attack on a squadron of B-17 and their conclusions about the best ways to do this.
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  9. It was good thinking on Japan to study the Bf-109, they should have built their own version of it, it would have been useful later on in the war, when they needed something bigger and faster to take on the Helcats and Corairs.
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  10. This is Bismarck's idea of fun to satisfy his insatiable appetite for war related tech and explains a lot about the man. Thanks
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  11. MiG-21 Great looking and well respected fighter, and a classic.
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  12. Thanks Bismarck, good analysis and commentary, the Defiant always looked wrong with that turret!
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  13. I'm impressed with the Gripen, the Finns will probably do well with this Swedish system. Being different from the other Western fighters an enemy will have to adjust to this difference, which would be to the Gripen's advantage.
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  14. Very interesting excellent show, Francis was a great, and good resource for knowledge.
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  15. TBD-1 wasn't all that bad in the beginning, but technology changed fast in the years leading up to war, and the TBD-1 was a pioneer in it's class. But it's kinda like the de Havilland Comet that showed Boeing and McDonald Douglas how to build airliners, de Havilland got left behind to sort out the new design parameters caused by cabin pressure and depressurization cycles. ~ Lieutenant Robert Laub's survival is amazing. No doubt a skilled, brave pilot, but a super fortunate man too, God bless him. ~ Japanese torpedoes were far better and more reliable, the Mark 14 was a joke, there was a "good ol boy" system operating between defense contractors and the Pentagon. It's all about money, and it's corrupt and nothing has changed since then. Fantastic analogy for the TBD-1 at the Battle of the Coral Sea, "it was like strolling through a bar room in the middle of a brawl and ordering your beverage of choice", that's great.
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  16. Maybe the best thing about the TBD-1 Devastator was it provided Grumman a bench mark which to improve upon for the TBF Avenger design, it was an evolutionary design step that would lead toward the newer Avenger torpedo bomber.
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  17.  @robinbennett5994  ~ That's a pretty good record, considering how new ejection seat technology was.
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  18. B-17 was vulnerable to Luftwaffe fighters, it was not the greatest "flying fortress", German fighters took down a whole bunch of them. The P-47 and P-51 made the B-17 effective.
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  19. The fearless and amazing Hanna Reitsch flying the Fieseler Storch is a great story. To me this plane always looked like nothing else, some what like an insect, a but beautiful and brilliant design.
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  20.  @SeeLasSee  ~ Be adult, Germany is great at building stuff, they should build it at home.
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  21. Thanks Bismarck, I'm always interested in your work. The name of this airplane, 'Friday the 13th', is note worthy, the Knights Templars were a Catholic order of warrior monks started by aristocratic French knights and it was a medieval secrete society. On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Phillip IV of France, determined to destroy Knights Templar and steal their vast riches. With the help the Pope who declared the Templar's all heretics, the king sentenced them all to death. This is called the October Surprise and is mainstream history, but who knows when we're talking about secrete societies?
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  22. I don't think the French developed this design enough. which is consistent with Frances lack of preparation for to fight WW2. It's certainly not as sleek as the Bf-109 or Spitfire.
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  23. I like the turbo props, from my no-expertise POV, what ever weapons platform provides the best armaments options would be a good choice. OV-10 Bronco had the center fuselage where cannon and 50 cal could be mounted, the Wolverine and the Super Tucano with simpler less expensive layout maybe just as good.
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  24. I like the P-39 and P-63, the Russians loved them and made them work, they were a great success on the Eastern front and I am sure the Germans didn't care for them. Really good video, thank you Chris.
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  25. The FW190 certainly looked right, and history proved it was right.
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  26. The Brits had
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