Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1.  @Frankie5Angels150  It's a JOKE for F's sake! The 163 had a tiny little airscrew in the nose. I think it was for driving the electrics or something, I've forgotten.
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  2. LUFTWAFFE: "The Focke Wulf 187 vill be ze vorld's greatest night fighter!" MOSQUITO: "Focke off".
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  3. Simplify and add lightness.
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  4. I visited the RAF Museum in Hendon yesterday. They've got a Beaufighter, a Beaufort and a Blenheim. Nice.
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  5. Your comment saved me the bother of writing the exact same thing.
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  6. Me too! I love the smell of polystyrene cement in the morning. It smells like Airfix. One day this childhood's gonna end...
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  7. Phenomenal. Useful to compare the Hornet with the Dornier Pfeil, an aircraft designed for the same purpose but dreadfully over-complicated. Whereas De Havilland simply grafted a single-seat cockpit to a Mossie and made a thousand detail improvements.
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  8. This was the era when most of the French aircraft industry was nationalised and run by the French civil service. If you want to ruin any industry, nationalise it and allow the civil service to control it. Lots of money and no idea where to spend it.
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  9.  @davidlee-ln9vh  Friendly fire took place everywhere, but the Americans earned themselves a special reputation for it.
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  10. Infamy! Infamy! They've all got in in f'me!
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  11. YES I've read that too!
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  12.  @WarblesOnALot  Correct.
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  13.  @jehoiakimelidoronila5450  AGREED! CLOSET NAZI: "The Germans were the first to put swept-wing tailless aircraft into service". BRITISH NERD: "The RAF did that a decade earlier". AMERICAN NERD: "Look up the US-built Dunne biplane of 1911".
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  14. There was a proposed development of the P51 Mustang during the 1970s, fitted with a turboprop. A couple of prototypes were built but it didn't go into production.
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  15.  @yannichudziak9942  Many different categories of "top speed". The DH Sea Hornet achieved an AVERAGE speed of 436 mph on a flight between Gibraltar and RAF Bovingdon in 1949. Read its Wiki page. Puts all the short-burst max-boost claims into context. OK this was postwar, but the Hornet was designed from 1942 onwards.
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  16. Look up the Westland Hill Pterodactyl. Interesting, cubed.
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  17.  @PlumSack79  That's the JOKE!
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  18.  @brucebaxter6923  Agreed.
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  19.  @robwilde855  TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE WE ENCOUNTER ON YOUTUBE: 1.) Brilliant, enlightening fellow nerds like YOU, who expand our knowledge and - 2.) Twats who get bitter and argue for no good reason. Keep up the good work, Rob!
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  20.  @thelandofnod123  Where's their ice cream van?
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  21.  @Andy-ub3ub  Hahaha!
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  22. THANKS! I'd fallen for it!
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  23. Dick Dastardly flew something like this whilst chasing the Yankee Doodle Pigeon.
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  24. If I remember correctly, the French aero industry had been nationalised. All of this was paid for by the French state, not private enterprise. A bit like the NHS today. Want something expensive that won't fly? Get it funded by the state.
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  25. I'd love a video about the 1980s proposed propjet version of the Mustang.
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  26. Been there, done that.
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  27.  @shaider1982  The good thing about these channels is discussing with and learning from fellow nerds. The bad thing about these channels is angry disputes about tiny details. I'm always pleased when somebody adds to my comment without calling me an arsehole w*nker. Very refreshing.
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  28. Yeah. They did that almost every f*ckin' time.
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  29.  @robwilde855  Thankyou for that information. I did not know that!
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  30. Less than 25 years separates this aircraft from the Hawker VTOLs.
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  31. The Snipe did pretty well against Richthofen's circus in the hands of the Canuck, Major Barker. Look it up.
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  32. I remember Dick Dastardly and Muttley chasing the Yankee Doodle Pigeon in something like this.
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  33. You could fit a Merlin to a cheese sandwich and it would fly great.
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  34.  @rockymac3565  No, but I'm happy to Like the comment of anyone who can out-nerd me. Well done, sir.
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  35. This is what happens when designers spend too much time in the fabric-doping shed.
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  36.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  EXCELLENT, SIR! Keep up the good work. My respect goes out to you.
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  37. Old saying: There are three ways to do anything. There's the right way. There's the wrong way. And there's the way the French would do it.
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  38.  @thelandofnod123  YEP! Both cool and funny! All done with a straight face!
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  39.  @deltavee2  What was it he said? Something about "We can raise hell for six months, after which I can promise nothing", something like that. Midway came about seven months into the war. Nuff said.
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  40.  @scootergeorge9576  Every squadron and geschwader recorded its daily losses. Recorded losses are verifiable. Recorded claimed victories are not. Google Kurt Welter, who claimed to have shot down 26 Mosquitos in his Me 262. His claims were compared with RAF recorded losses after the war. Only three Mosquitos were lost on the days and nights when Welter claimed a victory.
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  41.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Hey Ed - Please look up the 1980s proposal to re-introduce the North American Mustang, with a gas turbine engine and modern avionics. It was intended as a groundfire-suppression aircraft, to fight alongside the Warthog. It never made production, otherwise it might have been in the first Gulf War.
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  42.  @Ralphieboy  Udet was brilliant. He gave a joy ride to a teenage boy called Eric Brown. Thus inspired, Winkle went to university in Germany and became a Royal Navy test pilot. And the rest is history.
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  43. A biplane torpedo bomber. The Swordfish beat 'em to it.
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  44. Egypt's Messerschmitt? No. More like a Folland Gnat on steroids.
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  45. Steve von Zodiac.
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  46. Every Nazi superweapon combined didn't add a single day to WW2. All of them were a waste of resources. None of them worked properly.
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  47.  @skepticalbadger  DAMMIT! Thanks for your correction. I've edited it.
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  48.  @kutter_ttl6786  An excellent reply. My understanding (which might be b*llsh*t) is that the USAF considered a cheap groundfire-suppressor to accompany Warthogs: Something inexpensive with a single turboprop. The designers decided you couldn't actually improve upon the Mustang, but with modern avionics. But, as you say, it didn't happen This was from the era when a couple of WW2 battleships were brought out of mothballs and returned to service.
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  49.  @AdamMGTF  Would've used essentially the same airframe. Essentially, it was believed that a P51 couldn't be improved upon except with updated avionics and a turboprop.
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  50.  @ScottKenny1978  Threw out the baby with the bath water.
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