Comments by "" (@Farweasel) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. That's true enough. The Harrier Pilots had a very genuine respect for them. Their Skyhawks were portrayed as pretty pathetic during the war but that was deliberate propaganda suggesting they weren't getting through the screen. (Not simply to rubbish the pilots but to hide what was happening). In fact the number of bombs on shipping targets was very high for the conditions they were flying in. Fortunately for us Brits ('though not for the Argies) there was either mix-up or sabbotage in the fitters' instructions ~ With the result very few bombs were correctly fused. Which in turn meant most didn't detonate.
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  2. Money was a huge problem. But on the technical front, early jets had woeful acceleration from low speeds Making Carrier landings a near vital 'Right first time every time' requirement If the approach went wrong it was relatively easy to end up swimming due to lack of airspeed
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  3. Look at the P61 Black Widow and try telling anyone Northrop didn't see the Fokker G.1 and start mulling design concepts over.
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  4. Pity my old dad's no longer around to watch this, he'd have loved it having flown Coastal Command Flying Fortresses and later the longer ranged Liberators out of the Azores. He seemed to reckon the Liberator was the more comfortable to be stuck in hour after hour but He always talked about the Forts with greatest affection.
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  5. Ed touches on the risk of prop strikes landing on carriers I was alredy wondering how they hoped to reconcile that risk with the need for an arrestor hook?
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  6. Well of course elephants have to constantly adjust the pitch of their ears during slow flight. Drag's causing problems too at low speeds you know. - I know these things. - I watched the original (un-cut) Dumbo.
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  7. We've got a great new fighter/interceptor capable of operating well above mach 2. Hey. We've got a brilliant new ejectors seat which will work up to 800 kph Wow - That's almost 0.7 mach - Let's get it fitted! I mean honestly, you do wonder at times how geniuses can be so, well, kind of plain stupid, don't you?
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  8. Pork Barrels sir. Pork Barrels. There's no votes to be made if you can't lobby for a factory to be built in the area which elects you or if you can't make a few meag-bucks lobbying for Cronies
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  9.  @JohnWayneCheeseburger  I absolutely loved the type too - From the point someone, probably my dad (who in this instance of unusual largesse had probably met someone in the pub who happened to have one which fell off the back of a lorry) gave me a Glow plug engined, sand brown plastic P40 tricked out in 'Flying Tigers' (of China fame) markings. It was meant to fly round in circles its hight controlled by two strings on a hand unit. It probably would have but we could never get the motor to run for more than 20 seconds. But me & my mates would spend hours simply trying to coax the motor into life, then gaze with rapt admiration when Buurup, halt, Buurup, halt occasionally burst into a high pitched scream and tried to tug the thing out of the hands of whoever was holding it. . Looking back I probably reckoned it was the most wonderful thing my dad ever bought me. Sadly, I have no idea what happened to it. Last I saw it was sitting quietly in its box almost forgotten about. (My mother's rare obsessive urge to 'clear out clutter' is the prime suspect).
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  10. What we see, when we see anything at all on the news, barley even scratches the surface of the obscenty the Tamadar/Army has made Burma into. The only situation which seems to come in any way close is probably Cambodia and the Kyhmer Rouge. Peace only returned when the Pol Pot and his Attrocity loving thugs were almost completely exterminated.
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  11.  @Steve-cc6xc  'A great Dark Skies video' is an oxymoron. The maker just wants to push as much content out to the undiscerning as possible. His narratives bundles in all kinds of mixed up tosh.
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  12. NURSE! He's forgotten his Meds again [The worrying thing is I can kind of see where you're going with that 'tho]
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  13. Do do do the Lockheed Hudson ......... Ed you're keen to show us how............. No hang on, that was the Funky Something But anyway there could be mileage in it - quite a lot of early RAF Coastal Command work relied on Hudsons and they saw a fair bit of service around the Coast so there should be plenty to get your teeth into beyond what the Aussies were up to. (Although, being Aussies they probably did some quite curious things with theirs).
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  14. A tradition alive, well and continuing with the Rafael. Saw one at Riat. lovely thing.
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  15. For sure lighter tanks & well armed AFVs are likley to prove better options than heavy armour in a region with many swampy areas during the warmer months.
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  16. From the 'narrow band' point of view 'Which Aeroplane best meets the Philippines needs' ... Its the Grippen - All the performance, simpler, requires less expert & fewer ground personnel to keep it flying. Best of all, it can operate out of dispersed DIY roads as Airfields where the F15 can't. BUT - as Ed says. If the excrement really interfaces with the Airconditioning nothing matches US support
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  17. Ed, depending how you Feel about it you may wish to File this for future reference: The Geman word Pfeil (arrow) is pronounced (depending on regional accent) as 'file/phial' with a soft inflection at the end, or as 'feel' with emphasis on the 'ee' , short L.
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  18. First 'proper' book (ie, far more text than pictures) I ever read was a copy of Biggles in the South Seas which a lass who worked for my grandpa and had been conned into babysitting me gave me to shut me up. (Well, she'd done the job previously so....). I was 7. Never heard of Biggles 'til then, never thought of reading such a 'tough' book (I liked dinosaur books with pictures and could bore for Britain on the subject by then) ............... That was it. I was hooked. I owe 'Captain' WE Johns a massive debt of thanks.
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  19. I'm sure the word must have been anal penetration.
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  20. In one of the last air displays at Cranfield University before (despite being the UK's Aeronautical University) flogging off a large tract of its runways the was a Gnat. The pilot (I think a private owner) was very enthused to demo the Gnat's STOL ability and lifted the nose really early.......... Blowing a surprisingly long trench out of the surface of the runway. It was wonderful to behold.
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  21.  @Parocha  Yep, need the ducttape to reinforce the clingfilm to wrap the wings and empennage ... She'll be right
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  22. Embarrassing when the fridge kept trying to annex Belgium I guess?
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  23.  @marcelomeglio  Marcelo that's both very clear and very interesting. As for fluency, I couldn't get close to that in Spanish. I'm slghtly better with German, but the last time I used it when it mattered ...... the German lad I was speaking to (who admittedly was very scared he might drown at the time) replied 'I'm sorry - I don't speak English'.
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  24. Ah, to be fair, at the time the Fleet Air arm was pogoing Vampires along Brit carriers the Yanks weren't even trying hard to bounce jet along theirs. And by the time they did get to F86 Sabers they had already run through Shooting Stars, Panthers (and was there another 'big cat' named thing?) before getting F86 Sabers.
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  25. I always thought it must be a hard 'o' as in 'hot' because, come on, TWO consonants between the vowels guys. Bloody erratic language ours innit?
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  26. It wasn't the Super Etendard which was so potent, it was the Exocet it carried.
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  27. I know what you mean but seriously............ You don't get half way through pilot selection these days if you couldn't pick those skills up in half a day.
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  28.  @gilvietor1918  It saves on hats but props are costly so, yes. Mind you, some people walk in front of *anything*. I'm not certain I'd want a ringside seat.
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  29. I am not a number - I am a free man!
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  30.  Schlomo Baconberg  More relevant today than what happened before the F15 flew is they are one of the many nations today around the South China Seas that are experiencing ever increasing friction with China about territorial rights, notable but not only around the Spratley & Parasol islands.
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  31. For sure it was the first, and possibly only, interceptor to give the Yank's a hell of a surprise when one bounced a U2
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  32.  @joshkamp7499  Plus they needed to discover genetic engineering in order to raise railway engineers big enough to wind the starter handles of course
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  33. IF Clint Eastwood's the lead any chance they could get Jada Smith for the dog?
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  34. It was indeed designed by Dr Doolittle San for that very purpose.
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  35. El Shittar? Comming soon the Krappar?
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  36.  @CaptainLumpyDog  Pffff to that To many in Germany, the puzzling thing is that Chobbledocker seems to be pronounced 'vichser'
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  37. ​ @mrtrailesafety  They don't love 'em (the F35s, or the F22s for that matter) all that much. They've cancelling all further F22s & have slashed the F35 order. Feb up with tech problems making everything flaky and having realised they can buy three of the new F15 EX models for the price of one F35 ...... Its F15 EXs all the way now. (And you'd still rather be in a Warthog on the floor cos its far more 'alive').
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  38. One of the few Airfix kits I DIDN'T have My Dad despised Sterlings so they never appealed, tho I had all the rest of the four engined types Mind you, he flew RAF Recce Bombers asa Flight Engineer so he had a fair idea what was going on with 'em
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  39.  @paintnamer6403  When you think about it you can see the point of that really
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  40.  @PBGetson  Cue schoolboy innuendo about travelling willies going overland with 4 wheel drive. (I'll rephrase that. Please cue schoolboy innuendo about travelling willies going overland with 4 wheel drive).
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  41. Another really enjoyable video (thanks) (But 5.55min the Boeing what now Ed?(
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  42. Those Vampires were tough, durable little bastids. I watched one having its nose repaired - with what looked suspiciously like car body filler - in the mid-nineties at Cranfield. "Oh, yeah", I was told. "It'll be fine. Its for one of the smaller African Countries' Ariforce. Oh yeah. Combat jet definitely".
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  43.  @rob5944  Wihout mines we'd be short of coal, metals, building materials ............. Ah. As you were 🙄
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  44.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Burma's been a fkup since 1942 Hell of a sad situation and a sorry mess with many nasty vested interests stiring things for their own ends.
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  45.  @MikkoHamunen  Well don't worry Mikko. We like you lot just fine. And if you're still technically at war with France do just remind them ~ Macron will probably surrender.
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  46. You *don't*? That's unfortunate Ed because if you did you might have picked up on one of the best Kamikazi tales of all (reputedly a true tale but.........) It was reported (sorry folk, no link - Google is your friened etc) close to the end of the war a Japanese General visited a Kamikazi squardron which had been treated pretty miserably by the guys at the top. (Crap rations, no girls etc etc just bulls hit). He gave them a long and rousing patriotic speach about everyone needing to take the war to the enemy etc etc.. At the end of which the Squadron commander stood, bowed to the General, and said 'For the Emperor! We will follow you and the General Staff Sir'. No missions were ordered for that unit.
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  47. Had you asked me I'd have said confidently that I was aware of all British fighter aircraft from the period. Then Mr Nash digs this thing up. Weird that although the 8th Army was crying out for air cover this wasn't built for deployment in the western desert.
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  48. You can understand folk thinking they were Corsairs which took on King Kong Afterall...... They did have a proven record of use countering Guerillas
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  49. Horse <<<<<<<<< Cart <<<<<<<<<<<< Direction of travel <<<<<<<<< The UK can, has & still does build superb aircraft But it builds its carriers ludicrously small.
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  50. I knew there had been a Hurricane modified to a slip wing biplane BUT I thought the intention had been to use it as a ship launched convoy protector
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