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

  1.  @ScottKenny1978  All true. I don't know much about the Skyraider in the Vietnam War.
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  2.  @ScottKenny1978  Funny how updating aircraft from the 1950s can keep them in service into the 21st century: C130, B52 etc.
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  3. The American designer Dunne produced a tailless swept-wing biplane in 1911.
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  4.  @jessfrankel5212  Seems like there are TWO nerds here who are more knowledgeable than me!
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  5.  @jessfrankel5212  I read somewhere that the Dunne tailless biplane was built in the USA, hence I assumed Dunne was an American. Thankyou for checking your sources. There's enough rubbish on the net already without me adding to it.
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  6.  @jessfrankel5212  WELL DONE! Always makes me laugh when numpties write comments about swept wings and tailless aircraft being invented by the Nazis.
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  7.  @jessfrankel5212  Also - isn't it nice when you correct somebody on YouTube and they THANK you, instead of gyrating and getting angry and conducting a 200-message argument?
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  8. The Bristol Fighter was very successful in the Great War. The concept performed well with Hawker two-seat fighters in the thirties. Boulton & Paul manufactured two-seat Hawkers under licence during the thirties. The idea of a two-seat fighter which resembled the Hawker Hurricane seemed like a great idea at the time. Keith Park commanded 11 Group during the BoB. He'd been a Bristol Fighter ace during the Great War, and expected better from the Defiant. If Defiants were used in 12 Group instead of 11 Group, they'd have gone up against unescorted bombers as they'd originally been designed to do.
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  9. Are we talking "Fighter" or "pursuit"?
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  10. Air forces in the late 30s tended to assume that the concept of the single engined fighter was obsolete. Hence the Me 110. The Air ministry had intended to phase the Hurricane and Spitfire out of production, in favour of the Beaufighter. Few plans survive first contact with the enemy. Intentions changed very quickly.
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  11.  @pewpscoop  Winkle Brown tested the maximum diving speeds of fighters at Farnborough, both during and after the war. Brown tested the Mustang at the request of the USAAF. I can't remember the Mach numbers recorded, find them via Wiki. The Tempest achieved the highest Mach number of any wartime piston-engined fighter, faster than the Mustang and identical to the Meteor. The Tempest's speed was put down to its thin wing, much thinner than that of the Typhoon. The 262 was marginally faster than the Tempest and the Meteor. In real-life combat, no pilot would be so stupid as to push their aircraft to the absolute limits of its flight envelope.
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  12. I'd have thought a single seat Gazelle helicopter, with a pair of Sidewinder missiles, could've done the job.
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  13. It would've been interesting to see the Seafang or Spiteful go up against this Me. I guess the Supermarine would've beaten the crap out of it.
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  14. If Pablo Picasso designed a fighter aircraft...
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  15. Many different kinds of "fastest". The DH Sea Hornet achieved an AVERAGE speed of 436 mph between Gibraltar and RAF Bovingdon in 1949. See the Sea Hornet's Wiki page. Other fighters were faster in short bursts, but none could beat the Sea Hornet's speed for a long-range flight.
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  16.  @PRH123  Mosquito was private venture. Concorde lost money hand over fist.
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  17.  @PRH123  You may wish to read the Mosquito's Wiki page.
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  18. Early jets were very thirsty and had a short range. That's why the Sea Hornet and Spitfire-descendants were used from carriers during the early postwar years.
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  19.  @shaider1982  I was at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton, England yesterday. Fascinating.
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  20. I'm pretty certain the photo in the thumbnail isn't a Mark VIII. Bubble canopy. A five-bladed airscrew.
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  21.  @madigorfkgoogle9349  No no no no no, you've misunderstood. Some closet Nazis claim that if WW2 continued for another six months, the Nazi flying saucer, the Nazi anti-gravity time machine and the Nazi trans-dimensional warp-speed flying wing neutron bomb would've won them the war and we'd all be living in a Nazi paradise today. Every REAL German hates the Nazis. If you're triggered because I ridicule closet Nazi arse-wipe incels who believe the crap on the History Channel, you're aiming at the wrong target.
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  22. The easiest way to bomb America would be with a captured allied bomber. Take a B24, the Germans had several. Paint it with black crosses. Fit extra fuel tanks. Delete some unnecessary armour and guns. Shorten the range by flying from Norway. Bish bash bosh done. But instead, the Nazis preferred a hugely expensive project with phenomenal technical difficulties, which required years of research but had to be ready next week.
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  23. Hey Ed if you're reading this: Please consider a video about the Westland Hill Pterodactyl, the swept-wing tailless aircraft used by the RAF in the 1930s. The swept wing tailless concept was widely trialled in the thirties. Swept wing tailless gliders were used in Germany, sometimes with a rocket in the tail to get them airborne. Hence the Me 163.
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  24. You might also choose to reference the swept wing tailless Dunne biplane of 1911.
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  25. I envy you! I assume you're a bronzed muscular god with corks hanging from your hat and a tinny on ice. Have a great day, Aussie pal. (From the future Islamic Republic of Britainistan.)
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  26.  @richardvernon317  Thanks for mentioning the Sperrin. I'd forgotten about it.
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  27. Maybe 342 km/h, but not mph.
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  28. Clever title!
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  29. Perhaps it's Elon Musk's design for the next-generation Cyber Truck.
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  30. Hawkers experimented with a biplane version of the Hurricane. A second wing was fitted for a super-rapid climb after being scrambled. The second wing was to be jettisoned after achieving altitude. It never got beyond the prototype, but demonstrates "thinking outside the box" taken to a higher level.
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  31.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Maybe the late Tempests. (OK, a sort of Sea Fury.)
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  32.  @patwilson2546  Barker was indeed an ace before this combat. It's sometimes written that the Fokker was the best fighter or the war. This combat suggests that's mistaken. One Canadian ace in a Snipe versus a large number of aces in DVIIs. Which pilot and aircraft won the battle?
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  33. The Beaufighter had problems with its front-heavy weight and dodgy aerodynamics. I suspect putting a turret in the back might have pushed the C of G rearwards, but I'm guessing.
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  34. I'm surprised BAe / Aerospatiale never created a single-seat ground-attack version of the Gazelle.
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  35.  @toddduffy1658  No. The 219 was a gallant attempt but a failure. The Luftwaffe experienced what translates as "Mosquito panic". Night fighter crews terrified of taking to the skies because of roaming Mosquitos.
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  36.  @toddduffy1658  Ace Kurt Welter claimed 26 Mosquito kills in his 262. After the war, his log book was compared with actual British losses. Only three losses were recorded on the days and nights when Welter claimed a Mosquito. The easiest way to become a Nazi ace was to lie. If the Luftwaffe's claims were authentic, they'd have won the war.
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  37.  @scootergeorge9576  Funny how there's a glue named "Uhu".
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  38.  @vinceely2906  All of the records from the Battle of Britain have survived. Historians and nerds alike have delved into them, discovering minute details about which pilot shot down which aircraft. It turns out the RAF overclaimed their kills by 50%, whereas the Luftwaffe overclaimed by a factor of three. Nothing unusual about overclaiming. B17 gunners were infamous for it. Then there's the pounding taken by the Wehrmacht at the Falais gap. Typhoons and Tempests unintentionally exaggerated their panzer kills. The same panzers were attacked and hit time and time again, so that the number of panzer kills greatly exceeded the number of panzers present.
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  39. Looks like something which Peter Griffin would fly into Cleveland's house. "No no no no no nooooo!"
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  40. FUN FACT: Wellintons were trialled as glider tugs. Wellingtons were unsuitable because the geodetic structure would S-T-R-E-T-C-H .
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  41. Reminds me of the postwar Bristol Freighter.
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  42. The kind of thing Peter Griffin would build. PETER: "Let's go to the Peterornithopter!" CLEVELAND: "No no no no no no noooo...!"
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  43. I'm looking forward to Peter Griffin getting one. Claveland: "No no no no nooo...!"
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  44.  @skepticalbadger  Yeah. If stuff like a bubble canopy and a laminar flow wing make the Spitfire a Mustang, the Tempest was a Mustang as well.
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  45.  @JDWDMC  Agreed. And the later Spits all had Griffons.
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  46. Pat Pattle (South African ace, RAF, north Africa) downed plenty of Italian biplanes in his Gladiator.
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  47. Lots of pro-Nazi nutters leave comments praising the NEXT generation of Luftwaffe fighters. The ones which never actually got built or flown. Meanwhile, US & UK designs were creating stuff like this and the DH Hornet. No matter what the Germans had on their drawing boards, the UK & US had much, much better.
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