Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "Arado Ar 234 - First Jet Bomber and Variants" video.

  1. "Too bad for Germany that the war had long before changed to a war of numbers. "Quantity has a quality of its own" or something to that effect (Stalin re. the Red Army)." That line is old.
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  2. Either way: war is always a matter of numbers.
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  3. I doubt if this was ever taught in any school history class.
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  4. Jets are multi fuel engines...
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  5. He’s a German speaker. In German they say “siebenundvierzig” (“seven and forty”), while we say “forty seven”. It’s confusing even for those who can speak some German
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  6. That’s easy. It was a converted airliner and was never designed to carry loads like say the Lancaster or B-17. According to Eric Brown, who flew it personally at the end of the war and also flew against it, the structure had not been modified for combat use. It was therefore considered structurally weak. Despite the ominous defensive armament, the Condor apparently pretty much always flew with a load of four 250 kg bombs. Not much. Just over half the load of a B-17 to Berlin. The structure simply wasn’t up to it. On the subject of structure, violent manoeuvring was responsible for a number of catastrophic structural failures which mostly saw the tail fall off. The Condor took a prodigious toll on Allied shipping but even then a lot of its capabilities were exaggerated. It could never have been successfully developed for the heavy bomber role.
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