I remember the boxart of the Ar 240 in 1/72 by Revell and it was drawn as a night fighter. It looked badass
@jlvfrАй бұрын
Is there _any_ plane of that era that Eric Brown didn't fly?!
@IntrospectorGeneralАй бұрын
I don't think that he ever flew the Short Sunderland, Consolidated Coronado, or Martin Mariner flying boats which were all in service with the UK during WW2. He flew the big Blohm & Voss flying boats so it obviously was due to lack of confidence. There are a number of Japanese fighter types missing from his list and, for the truly pedantic, he didn't fly the CAC Boomerang.
@jlvfrАй бұрын
@@IntrospectorGeneral so he only flew 95% :)
@IntrospectorGeneralАй бұрын
@@jlvfr I check the list every few years for additions. A man who flew that many aircraft is bound to forget a few. The Bell P-63 doesn't appear on the 'official' Guinness Records list but is recorded as flown on a day when he flew eight different aircraft types (of the 30 types he flew that month). The list is about 100 longer than when I first read about Eric Brown circa 1970.
@robbuddenАй бұрын
Basically, yes
@derekowens1817Ай бұрын
Only one Aichi type, no Avia, Fokker, IAR, Kawanishi or Tachikawa models and, presumably many other aircraft not flown by him. D
@BV-fr8bfАй бұрын
So the equivalent of the Me210 twin engine aircraft, without the large production orders & the fix, the replacement plane is a '4' series aircraft (Me410 and Ar440.)
@edxcal84Ай бұрын
Had they gone with a more conventional flap/aileron set up, this might have helped with stability.
@mickmuzzmkmz1628Ай бұрын
Interesting video, but an explanation for the unusual "hollow" spinners, shown on the DB603 powered examples, would have been nice.
@gort8203Ай бұрын
It was the intake for the engine coolant radiator.
@robbuddenАй бұрын
Yes, pressurised annular radiators. The spinnersbhad internal fans
@micodyerski1621Ай бұрын
Thanks for that. I never of this one before.
@The_armed_WhaleАй бұрын
Why the Minecraft music at the start 😭
@MrDino1953Ай бұрын
So they tried many versions and they all had “problems”, but we have no idea what they were.
@MachDoch74Ай бұрын
Greetings from the site of the ex AGO Flugzeugwerke Oschersleben
@PeteSampson-qu7qbАй бұрын
Um. I'm unaware of a source claiming the 240 was fitted with DB 603's; which just barely entered production in mid 1942.
@MrNaKillshotsАй бұрын
Took long enough, to get it up and running
@jussi8111Ай бұрын
that cockpit reminds me of the Yak-2/4
@kaletovhangarАй бұрын
Also that two wheel landing gear, just like YAK-2/4.
@AlistairGaleАй бұрын
Was that a rubber powered model near the end?
@AlistairGaleАй бұрын
The outsized propellers, the way it seemed to wallow when freewheeling. Not to mention the earlier plainly obvious RC model landing in tall grass.