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"They might have had more impact if more had been produced". So many german vehicles and technologies can be described this way. They were way ahead of us in a lot of ways, but one super advanced (whatever) vs 10 mediocre ones still isn't much of a fight

Simon, great video! However, tell the writer(s) to stop using pound-feet as thrust. Pound-feet is a torque value. Tell them to just stick with "pounds" of thrust, just like kilograms of thrust.

Germany lacked the rare metals to build a reliable jet engine , engine life was 10 hours or less also fuel became scarce.

One of my all-time favourite aircraft. Read Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown’s accounts of flying them from Germany to England immediately post-war. Fascinating.

There is one in the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space museum in Sterling, VA. Beautiful aircraft! I have plenty of pictures of her. ALLEGEDLY, all of the aircraft on display are in perfect flying condition. PS-I have a still picture that almost matches the picture you used of the cockpit.

The part about them having periscopes rather tickled me, like they're a submarine, but in the sky... :P

1:05 - Chapter 1 - History 3:55 - Chapter 2 - Design features & specs 8:35 - Mid roll ads 10:05 - Chapter 3 - Variants 13:00 - Chapter 4 - Noteworthy missions 15:05 - Chapter 5 - The end of the blitz

Always loved this plane and tried to find models of it to build

I just ran out of videos to watch. Thank you, Simon for the rescue!

@ 14:45 that is a P-51A with the Allison engine hence the different nose than all the other Mustangs which had Packard built Merlin engines.

After the war, the US began production of the B-45, a light jet bomber virtually identical to the Ar-234. It even had engine problems, like the Arado. The Russian Ilyushin-22 was a much larger copy of the Arado, but it never entered service. The British developed the B-57 Canberra, which had a generally similar layout: engines mounted on straight wings (not swept-back). However the Canberra's wings were mounted mid-fuselage with an internal bomb bay. It was a direct descendent of the de Havilland Mosquito, with which it shared many construction techniques. Canberra's served around the world until 2007.

I would like to suggest an idea for a new Sideproject for this channel. My suggestion is the Beechcraft Model 18. It was an aircraft that was in continuous production for total of 32 years. (1937 to 1969) Over 9,000 were built during this time. During WWII, it was used to train of 90% of all of the navigators and bombardiers of the USAAF. After WWII ended, it was used for everything from passenger travel and mail freight to fighting fires and movie productions. I hope you will consider making a video for this important historical aircraft for your channel.

Hi Simon, how about a project on the Pilatus PC6 Porter, made famous (to me, anyway) by the movie Air America?

I think I've seen this mentioned before but LbF is pound force. Lbft is pound feet and it's used for torque. Ik it's confusing I'm american and I hate the imperial system.

Besides the Do 335 Pfeil/Arrow, probably one of the most interesting operational german aircraft of WW2.

Side Project episode suggestion: Do a video on what it takes to make a Simon Whistler video from start to finish.

“Waltuh, I’m not bombing The Allies with you, Waltuh.”

I've never heard of this plane, great video!

I really need to go back to the Smithsonian. I do not remember seeing the Arado 234 the last time I was there.

*They also used this airframe as a carrier for the world's first airborne radar plane, the forerunner to today's AWAKS*

I’m a fan and a subscriber. But I’m also an aerospace engineer. For the love of God, it’s not “pound-feet of thrust.” It’s pounds *force* of thrust. Pounds*feet is torque, not thrust. You’re making the understandable, common mistake of confusing the abbreviation “lbf (pounds force) with lb-ft (pounds times feet). Like I said, this is clearly an honest mistake. But it’s also an existential question: are you Fact Boy, or “I feel like this is true” boy? And yes, I believe I *am* fun at parties! Why do you ask?

Thank you , 🐺

I love that, nothing more American than having a plane built by the Germans, stationed in Norway, surrendered to the British and yet some how is in Virginia.

The advantage of external (bomb) stores for a 'Blitz Bomber' is indeed that no internal room need be provided thus on the return (escape) trip, one is not flying with empty, drag producing compartments and is faster and has longer range. This is how fighter/bombers are designed today.

Both the britts and the swedes developed jet engines in the 30s. Never put in to production. The Swede Alf Lysholm had a working prototype in 1932…. You can see this engine at the Technical museum in Stockholm.

Good video 👍

Ooo do the Vought V-173 next! That thing was even more wacky.

1:03 There's a policeman's quote that applies but I don't think it was ever done mayby by a lack of coordination. "You can outrun me or my car. But can you outrun my Motorola?"

Pounds-feet of thrust? Never heard that term before for jets. . .

I can't say it's beautiful but it's damn fascinating!

I got to sit in the cockpit of this one just when it was rebuilt for the Air & Space Museum.

Freeman field outside Seymour, Indiana, had captured Luftwaffe aircraft, including a Ar 234.

Simon Whistler talking about WWII aviation? Of course I clicked!

You don't land 'em ya crash 'em...cheers.

Interesting subject, before the only thing that I could associate with the word blitz was the tragedy of the bombing of the U.K. during WW2.

very nice

That's seems odd but starting these engines was done pulling a string like a landmover, via a small two stroke motor in the engine's bullet. Don't count on this after a flameout.

They also launched V2's at the Ludendorf Bruke aka Remagan Bridge.

What watch do you wear

Do something on the bq-7 aphrodite, would make a great side project!!

Just a small technicality, but lbf is pounds-force, rather than pound-feet. Great video, Fact Boy.

They flew a recon version of Britain. Although we spotted it on radar nothing could catch it. It was before the Meteor was in service.

I have video of seeing the Arado Ar-234B in Chantilly. It’s actually a German WWII aircraft that I actually really like. . . . . Especially aesthetically.

interesting that the arado broke the sound barrier in level flight the pilot noted that it shook quite badly

11:08 What's that behind? Not a Fw 187...a Ju 188 the tail?

That shirt is committing war crimes against my eyes.

Simon, pounds-feet is not a unit of force or thrust. If you are seeing 'lbf' as thrust units in your source data, it's pounds-force, not pounds-feet. Pounds-force or Newtons, please. Kilograms-force is sort of acceptable even though it's not an SI unit, but it's more understandable to people not familiar with Newtons.

I have a witness account in my archive from a forced labourer who was present on airfield Marx in northern Germany and saw this plane.

Pounds in this context refers to force and feet, well, feet. So pound-feet are units of energy. HTH

Bring back unhinged Simon on BB. Keep sane Simon here >:(

A sideproject definitely , excellent video 📹 Germany made many fabulous aircraft. The Germans should have made a direct copy of the British Lancaster and have an active fleet of 300. In the war, the Luftwaffe couldn't deliver a heavy punch at s single point. The Americans produced s copy of the Lancaster, the B29.

@Simon: Awesome video. I fly this thing in a game called War Thunder. Maybe you should partner with them next time you need 3d models.

pound feet of thrust?

My late Father in law was at Remagen when they were bombed by the Arado. They missed. Hitler threw everything at the bridge including V1/V2's. Didn't work.

Coolest looking plane of the war

Relatively small nothing, I've seen the one at the Air&Space museum, they're effing tiny, for a warplane.

Simon talking about the Arado 234 Blitz ... wow am impressed! Hope he goes through every Nazi jet model ...

Ironically, the plywood Mosquito was nearly as fast and much better. A good early effort, though.

Hitler wanted to make the ME-262 into a bomber. Surprised he didn't want to make this into a fighter...

Nothing wrong with the design of the Jumo 004, it's failure was material, lack critical alloys doomed them to the recorded short TBF.

Liège not leash to sounds, not one, or in Dutch Luik.

The allies had been testing jets for several years. However they weren’t so desperate as the Nazis who were forced to put their jets into service even though they weren’t really ready.

" more advanced than anything the Allies had." I think the atom bomb is a heck of a lot more advanced

@sideprojects : Simon, please tell your writer that pound-feet is a measurement of torque, not of thrust.

Wtf is a pound-foot of thrust?

Looks like the B-29.

i really like simons side projects. but can you do longer videos?

Unreliable engines and no landing gear are a logical combination (sort of)

Ahh, but the Junkers Jumo engines and the BMW 002 engines were not all bad, it was poor materials and deliberate sabotage that did them in.

Ray - mah- gen....please

That is not a handsome aircraft.....

Too little too late to make a difference. Same applies to the ME262.

If Germany had a leader who could actually focus, everything would have ended differently. But, Hitler couldn't, instead wanting bigger and better, then wrecking everything by wanting something completely different.

4:19 you forgot to mention V-2 rockets by the way

Arado 234 with undercarriage could manage 460mph carrying full bomb load speed was 50mph slower same speed as mustng P51. Simon is a amateur historian ok

This is an example of what I call the "machine-gun effect". By which I mean that these designs assume that 1 German-Arian master race pilot with better equipment could equal a dozen or more allied soldiers with inferior technology and lower morale/fanaticism. Just as one machine gun in a pillbox could kill hundreds of Allied soldiers going " over the top" and trying to get to an opposing trench through 'no man's land'. I think a lot of people forget that those top NAZI leadership were mostly still trying solutions to WW1 Era problems that were not applicable to the 1940's. The first world War was the defining experience of their generation and weather they knew it or not, their brains just weren't on the right page so to speak

Must admit that the Germans were technically very advanced, and I believe that they and the Americans were much more advanced than Britian Russia and Japan.

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Stah - WANG - 'er....PLEASE! First look up city names in wikipedia check out how to pronounce them... don't be a yank... there is no zzzyyy sound in Stavanger. IT IS NORWEGIAN.

Hey Simon: the unit of jet thrust is "pound" not "pound-feet". Get this shit right, it looks bad on your otherwise decent vids.

Good video 👍