Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "Found And Explained" channel.

  1. I had a 1960s fridge made by English Electric. It broke, so I threw it away but kept the "English Electric" badge. If ever I get an electric car, I'll fit the badge to it. I've also got some "Hawker Siddeley" badges from an old fire alarm system. Might make people think my electric hatchback has VTOL capability.
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  2. Agreed. The 262's kill: losses ratio was 1 : 1.5, not very good. By comparison, the Tempest's kill : losses ratio was 7 : 1 on all types and 6 : 1 against single seaters.
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  3. Insane and wholly useless designs which could not have flown properly, at a time when the Germans needed new aircraft immediately. Meanwhile, the British started designing the Canberra in 1944, although the end of the war delayed development and it didn't fly until '49. It's almost as if the German designers were high on amphetamines. Which some of them were.
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  4.  @xisotopex A hundred 262s arriving over the Normandy beaches would've faced 500 Spitfires, Tempests, Mustangs and Thunderbolts. Lots of circling and tail-chasing, lots of speeding-in and speeding-out, 262s flying at 400mph, dropping their bombs haphazardly about a quarter of a mile from their intended target. Wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference. The preferred tactic of the USAAF and RAF was always to pursue the 262s back to their airfields, and rip them to pieces as they tried to land. 100 262s over the Normandy beaches would've seen their demise much earlier.
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  5. LUFTWAFFE 1944: "It's an emergency, we need quick-to-produce aircraft which can be thrown into action with barely trained pilots next week". GERMAN INDUSTRY: "Let's design aircraft which will take years to develop, might be unflyable and which require 2km-long runways which aren't full of craters".
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  6.  @craigs71  Yep. The little white vortices trailing from their wingtips. The thunderous bass of their reheat.
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  7. Lots of flying wing gliders in the 1930s. The Hortens had experience with prewar gliders. That's where they got the idea.
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  8. Fascinating. Excellent video graphics and editing. Lots of efforts went into this video. Well Done, mate.
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  9. This was definitely some kind of optical illusion. Any solid object moving through the air at that kind if speed would leave a trail of condensed vapour. No vapour trail = optical illusion.
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  10. The office of Barnes Wallis is preserved at the RAF Museum in Hendon: His furniture, desk, drawing board etc. There is a small aerodynamic test model of this aircraft in the recreated office.
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  11.  @alfnoakes392  Agreed. And the Westland Hill Pterodactyl which served in the RAF in the 1930s.
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  12. No point in evading radar. The USA (quite rightly) didn't have an air-defence radar system in place. Much easier to bomb Washington or New York with a captured Liberator. Paint it with black crosses. Rip out unnecessary weight. Fit extra fuel tanks. But how much damage could 4000 lbs of bombs actually achieve? Want to nuke NYC? Use a U-boat.
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  13. Take a BAe 146 and fit four Pegasus engines. Job done.
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  14.  @mrubin3770  Agreed. The same applies to this V/STOL jetliner.
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  15.  @haditjandradjaja8403  The US had no radar protection system in 1945. Stealth technology would've been useless.
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  16. None of these designs would've worked. In the meantime, the British started work on the Canberra bomber in 1944.
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  17. "Invisible"? I watched the entire video and couldn't see it.
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  18.  @xisotopex  I responded to your reply which included the phrase, "the Luftwaffe actually showed up to the fight". A comment about my "reading comprehension" is needlessly abusive. The Luftwaffe suffered heavy casualties from allied strafing during the weeks leading up to Overlord. As a result, the airfields remained operational but the aircraft themselves were relocated towards the interior and the routes taken by heavy bombers en route to the Ruhr. These locations were perfect if the allies had invaded near Calais, as expected. Agent Garbo convinced the Germans that the Normandy invasion was a diversion. Aircrews were ready and waiting for the "real invasion", which didn't happen.
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  19.  @xisotopex  Please elaborate. I don't understand.
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  20.  @johnearle1  True.
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  21.  @TheAneewAony  richardvernon's reply (above) deals with this. If the Luftwaffe had THAT many aces, they would've won the war. Goebbels was very keen on proclaiming victories which didn't happen.
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  22. What about the flying wing, under which Indiana Jones had a fight in Egypt? You mean - it wasn't a real aircraft? Oh, man!
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