Comments by "Neil of Longbeck" (@neiloflongbeck5705) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. It's so funny that Dassault was also pushing for the adoption of the single-engine Super Etandard because of the engine issue....
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  2. Surely Fridge Raider?
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  3. You missed a major issue. Until mid-1939 the FAA was part of the RAF.
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  4. Without the Adrian helmet Churchill might not have survived the battlefields of Flanders, he preferred the French helmet over the Brodie helmet.
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  5. Sounds like the pilots forgot the first rule. "If lost when flying at night or poor visibility, climb. For no one has ever collided with the sky."
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  6. One reason that Grumman and Douglas built so many aircraft for the USN was that the USN for many years, and they may still do this, would only accept aircraft from manufacturers who had a track record of building carrier-based aircraft. Hence Northrop had to get into bed with McDonell Douglas to get the USN to consider their YF-17.
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  7. After the Brodie helmets were issued to British soldiers in WW1 the number of head injuries increased and the Generals considered withdrawing the helmets until it was pointed out that those soldiers would have been killed if not for the helmet.
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  8. The only variant of the A-12 that never got off the drawing board was the bomber.
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  9. Wasn't the A10 going to be withdrawn in the early 1990s?
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  10. Obsolete against most German tanks, but Italian and Japanese tanks were still vulnerable.
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  11. Deep stall affects the air flow over the elevators, not the ailerons. If you lose elevator control, you only get out of the stall by a sudden thump with the ground. Any aileron input close to the stall can put you into a spin.
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  12. Well as Airwolf came out in the 1980s, it's bound to be a bit grey now...
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  13. It must have been seen as a bit of a joke to call the MFI the Flatpack😉
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  14. It looks a bit like a biplane version of the Ju-87.
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  15. The Douglas AD (originally the BT2D) was their 2nd attempt to fulfil the requirement. You really should be comparing the XBTK with the Douglas XBTD.
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  16. So ducks are a clear and present danger to the USA? Got to laugh.
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  17.  @johnross6314  yes, but the bomber version remained unrealised.
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  18. It was certainly one of the first aircraft to use bogies.
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  19. Why does the KH31 remind me of the Bloodhound missile?
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  20. Blackburn his first monoplane from Marske beach on 24 May 1909. It wasn't much ic a flight lasting only a minute and leaving the plane a write off. Things got better.
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  21. There are no truly wild horses in the UK, but we do have feral and semi-formal horses. The ones in the Carneddau are feral Welsh Ponies. The Exmoor, Dartmoor, New Forest, Shetland and Fell pony populations are semi-feral.
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  22. The requisitioned French Marylands also had their throttles changed around to push forward to increase power.
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  23. The F-4 Phantom confused Macnamara in its USAF guise, the F-110.
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  24. There UAPs out there with their standard navigation lights on...
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  25.  @mtkoslowski  it was a night navigation exercise. One of those killed was the Navigator who could of taken star shots and worked out their position if they could gave got above the clouds. Also onboard was the Radio Operator. Unfortunately the RO took a wrong radio bearing due to miscommunication. As for equipment the aircraft as it was from 239 Operational Conversion unit it would have been fitted with all the equipment in use on the operational squadrons including Gee-H which had been introduced back in 1943. The aircraft on this exercise would have sufficient fuel for their task plus a reserve, and considering the British weather in March they would gave gad suffcient to climb away from the hills and mountains of Wales and England. At the time of impact they had been airborne for about 7 hours. Now a Lincoln has a combat radius of about 2,800 miles at 15,000ft and 200mph with 14,000lb of bombs. The same fuel load would equate to a much greater range considering that no bombs would have been on board.
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  26. Those ventral fins folded to be out of the way for landing and remained in the airflow. They didn't retract.
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  27. The Hangar Myth is also laughable due to most maintenance on the Stirling being intended t9 be carried out in the open air (as stated in the specification).
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  28. But so did the Tiger Moth.
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  29. Along side as a medium bomber.
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  30. ​ @allangibson8494  the Manchester and HP.56 were both medium bomber not heavies.
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  31. The Manchester and the HP.56/HP.57 Halifax were MEDIUM bombers not heavy bombers (Air Ministry Specification P.13/36) . The only heavy bomber the RAF had ordered in the mid-1930s was the Stirling (Air Ministry Specification B.12/36). The letter P in the Specification identifies a medium bomber whilst a heavy bomber was indicated by the letter B.
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  32. In the words of General Tacticus: At night all armies are the same size.
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  33. The aerofoil section was selected for the Stirling was to ensure adequate take-off performance. As for the selection of aerofoil sections by British aircraft designers, many, like Sydney Camm,reliable on data supplied by bodies like NACA. In the mid-1930s NACA produced a report on laminar flow aerofoil sections that showed that they had no advantages over conventional aetofoil sections. This report was later withdrawn after NACA discovered that their windtunnel was faulty. But by then many designs had been finalised and production drawings and blueprints were being created.
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  34. No the AD1 was designed by Ed Heinemann to fill the same role.
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  35. Buckingham Palace was originally owned by the Duke of Buckingham who took his title from the town of Buckingham. The Blenheim was named after the battle in the Dpanish Warbof Succession at which John Churchill, the 1st Marquis of Marlborough, lead the Grand Alliance of England, Scotland, Austria, Prussia and the Dutch Republic in victory against the French and Bavarians. The Beaufort was named after the inventor of the Beaufort Scale, rear Admiral Francis Beaufort, a man and certainly not a stately home.
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  36. The potato famine affected most of northern and western Europe.
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  37. You are do right, the Canard configuration goes all the way back to the Wrights.
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  38. Offence taken.
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  39. No, it was the lead ship of a 5 ship class of ships of which only the Enterprise was built.
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  40. There were 2 formations that bombed Rotterdam. It was the force that came in from the north that did all the damage as they never saw the signal flares aborting the mission as the radio antenna had already been wound in by the time the abort message was sent out by radio.
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  41. War has a nasty habit of changing priorities.
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  42.  @Charlesputnam-bn9zy  would you know which kind of hoplite helmet was the inspiration? I've always assumed the medieval sallet type helm was the inspiration. The Brodie helmet certainly takes its cues from the kettle type helm.
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  43. I wonder just how much this influenced the design of the SAAB 21.
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  44. There was also a swing-wing version of the Phantom suggested at an earlier date.
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  45. Err, not according to Tony Buttler in Chapter 5 of British Secret Projects - Fighters and Bombers 1935-1950. The Armstrong-Whitworth AW.41 was not based on the Bristol Type 155, which came in 2 versions, a conventional tail-dragger and one with a tricycle undercarriage, but all their own work. The original specifi action they were built to was the B.9/38 but after mock up conferences 2 new specification were issued B.17/38 for the Bristol Type 155 and B.18/38 for the Armstrong-Whitworth AW.41 with a minimum cruise speed of 250mph and a bombload of 4,000lb an increase from the original specification of 1,500.bbombload.
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  46. @offshoretomorrow3346  it was formed in 1934 a result of the purchase by Hawker Aircraft of the companies of J. D. Siddeley, the automotive and engine builder Armstoong-Siddeley and the aircraft manufacturer Armstrong-Whitworth Aircraft. At this time, Hawker Siddeley also acquired Avro, Gloster and Air Training Services. The constituent companies continued to produce their own aircraft designs under their own name as well as sharing manufacturing work throughout the group. A fact a post-war government chose to ignore in order to reduce the number of companies.
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  47. In 1918, they said the tank was obsolete. How did that idea turn out?
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  48.  @Tiberiotertio  short for gasoline. Remember petrol is the name of a solvent produced by Carless, Capel and Leonard. This solvent could also used as a fuel and bybthe time the original manufacturers came to trade mark their solvent's name it had become the generic name for a fuel for cars.
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  49. That's probably it's named after a place not the person, in line with the RAF's bomber naming convention of using place names from within the Empire. Canada or Australia this time.
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  50. It had an ejection system that was as lethal to use as remaining for the crash. It needed a longer runway for take-off and landing due to the rear prop and the ventral fin.
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