2023 and still watching this....well done Jeremy and crew!

"Sydney, ghastly place, full of Australians." - Jeremy Clarkson

Countless hours on a plane. Mr Clarkson, the Gameboy was made for just such an occasion.

I really don't know how people can be offended by him. He exaggerates for comic effect, he is happy to insult and compliment any nation in equal measure. Some people are really humourless. But he actually had topics that are informative and well as fun

it never crossed my mind that people would find it hard to believe there was a plane without a propeller. interesting stuff

One of the best documentaries I have seen.

Encyclopedia Britannica: Whittle obtained his first patent for a turbo-jet engine in 1930, and in 1936 he joined with associates to found a company called Power Jets Ltd. He tested his first jet engine on the ground in 1937. This event is customarily regarded as the invention of the jet engine, but the first operational jet engine was designed in Germany by Hans Pabst von Ohain and powered the first jet-aircraft flight on August 27, 1939. The outbreak of World War II finally spurred the British government into supporting Whittle’s development work. A jet engine of his invention was fitted to a specially built Gloster E.28/39 airframe, and the plane’s maiden flight took place on May 15, 1941. The British government took over Power Jets Ltd. in 1944, by which time Britain’s Gloster Meteor jet aircraft were in service with the RAF, intercepting German V-1 rockets. Whittle retired from the RAF in 1948 with the rank of air commodore, and that same year he was knighted. The British government eventually atoned for their earlier neglect by granting him a tax-free gift of £100,000. He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1986. In 1977 he became a research professor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. His book Jet: The Story of a Pioneer was published in 1953.

47:29 Damn it Clarkson, did you have to be so damn good at predicting disasters!

I love all the songs/music used

Clarkson’s documentaries are in another league. The choice of music, shots, his depth and articulation of knowledge presented in an easy to grasp manner are just impeccable.

29:30 and that right there is the intro song for "The Grand Tour" 😉

Cheers for the soundtrack! Great set of 'cafe del mar'ish chill out collection...

47:29 foreshadowing by Clarkson with respect to the Covid-19 pandemic

Watching this in 2023 and hearing Jeremy going on about SARS coming out of China. Would think we would have learnt some sort of lesson

Nice documentary, Jeremy Clarkson! Greetings from Morocco XD

I'm just sat here thinking how simple but effective the production is on this, like in terms of logistics, the way they film it, it is 75% Clarkson and then what ever setting they decide to film him in, e.g. they go from one country to another like it's nothing but then only include 30 seconds worth of Clarkson making whatever point he's making. Just goes to show really. If you've got the budget to fly wherever you need, even just economy, you can make basic conversational stuff seem interesting in a video entertainment sense by using this simple formula! But ultimately it is 75% Clarkson so you need to have interesting ideas and a way of communicating it effectively in the first place. Really cool when you think about it!

Best presenter In the world😉 BBC you are fools

@Lucky Waleson - What the Germans are credited with is the first operational jet powered plane. And Jeremy mentions him, Hans von Ohain

Очень правильный подход к созданию передач, которые должны показать, что многие важные изобретения фактически созданы в твоей стране.

I once flew non stop Tokyo to New York. Economy class. Never again.

Concorde was a wild time, they charged "if you have to ask you can't afford it" prices for tickets. I remember it as a fighter jet with passengers, they would take off over my house and sounded like the F-15s of the time

wow!...they really spared no expense..they went with 46 pixel resolution on this bad boy

@29:32 Jeremy has teased us about the first episode of The Grand Tour

Clarkson you’re a legend

Thanks for the video. Hope Jeremy lives forever.

The music at the start is the same as the final scene in Spaced, and now that I've figured that out i can enjoy the documentary ty xx

Frank Whittle IS the undisputed true inventor of the turbine engine. Coanda's engine was a piston powered compressed air duct fan.

39:20 the pilots must have noticed the voice of this tv presenter sound exacly like their plane's GPWS.

From the sounds of it, Griffith was thinking of the Turboprop engine. This sort of engine using the same gas turbine principle as the jet, but doesn't produce sufficient thrust through the exhaust gas exiting the engine, instead spinning a propeller

I find this stuff fascinating and I've just come across it, and you Jeremy/the series. I first started watching Jeremy about 1996/7 on Top Gear, in NZ. I'm no petrolhead but I became one because he made all things motoring, fascinating. Much like the rest of the crew...Hammond and May. BBC right shot themselves in the foot. On all 3 fronts. These were and are extremely intelligent people, very humble, and overwhelmingly curious...as well as so funny and entertaining and having great broadcasting voices. I watch anything I can from Guy Martin for similar/same reasons. I want to see more of this stuff on the net.

It's funny I started watching this video the same time they stopped production on the 747.

there are an INCREDIBLE amount of inaccuracies in this film

The Coandă-1910, designed by Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, was an unconventional sesquiplane aircraft powered by a ducted fan. Called the "turbo-propulseur" by Coandă, its experimental engine consisted of a conventional piston engine driving a multi-bladed centrifugal blower which exhausted into a duct. The unusual aircraft attracted attention at the Second International Aeronautical Exhibition in Paris in October 1910, being the only exhibit without a propeller, but the aircraft was not displayed afterward and it fell from public awareness.

And maybe in 100 years from now when they have planes than can go around the world in few hours, people will watch this show as we watch the wright brothers first flight :/

An hour long ad for an Airbus starring Jeremy Clarkson. Cool cool.

50:35 "Im Gay, I'm gay, I'm gay'

The A-380 is already out-of-production, with only 254 made...by contrast, the 747 numbers 1,574... The Concorde numbered only twenty aircraft, one was scrapped, another was lost in the one and only crash of Concorde.

I live in an area where we often get military jets flying overhead, their engines roaring loud. I like to imagine what Whittle would think if he could look up and see them flying now, sort of like what Doctor Who did with Van Gogh. Sure, he lived to see incredible inventions, but even in the past thirty years the changes have been quite incredible. Edited for grammar.

Awl man. I'm really enjoying the 1st part here. Totally funny. When I was a kid, we tried similar things to fly. hahah. Lots of fun. Never worked :-)

I've just discovered this series and I love it, but rather unfortunate that it seems to have been recorded using a toaster.

The last 747 just came off the line. RIP to the Queen of The Skies.

Coanda's engine was a duct fan that had a piston powered compressor. It had no form of thrust other than the compressed air it chucked out. Whittle's turbine engine used the principle of expanding hot gases to create thrust and propel the aircraft forwards.

For those of you not familiar with academia in Britain, Whittle's story is repeated here year in year out. This country has a culture, which does its utmost to stand in the way of productive people. Power and control in this country are allocated unfairly to inept imbeciles who's only claim to their position is their wealth, or their aristocratic heritage or even their race or their gender....these inept lowlifes in turn through their idiocy and lack of understanding and therefore lack of appreciation for good work, put up barriers in the way of great minds which hamper their progress and make their life impossible. Many a great mind and a great work have been lost as a result of this backward culture.

My nieces and nephews always laugh at old attempts at flight. I have to remind them that these people were trying to invent a plane without any idea what a plane even looks like. Like, the average person couldn't build a flying plane today even though they KNOW what planes have looked like throughout the century. This is also apparent in old "what the future will look like" videos. Novel ideas and the ones that DO come true are completely different in execution.

No body tells it like he does!

I mean…..this was just Clarkson at this best most of this. Great narration, decent logic to deeper stories covered. The music was amazing. Golden stuff back then.

amazing soundtrack!

Great stuff as usual, but what happened to Singapore?

47:09 watching this in 2021

Miss those days.

"If Ebola got into a plane, then we would have something to worry about." Erm...

29:35 "Sunshine Day" Who would've guessed that would open TGT S01E01

Hans von Ohain of Germany was the designer of the first operational jet engine, though credit for the invention of the jet engine went to Great Britain's Frank Whittle.

41:01 Cook was killed in Hawaii wasn’t he? The Mutiny on the Bounty was plotted here though, and the descendants still live on Pitcairn, with the Bounty’s anchor and other remains still at the bottom of the sea just off the coast where they burned it. The rift between the mutineers is still going on with their great, great grandchildren, by all accounts.

2:40 wonder if he meant Maumu? I love the fact Erase and rewind is the first song and the last one too.

Jeremy Clarkson is a National Treasure. Maybe even in the UK.

When you get a dash-cam, do you also get a free pass to amble in the passing lane?

Jeremy mistakes a Comet for a Meteor.

That poor guy in the seat in front of Jeremy at 37:47. He must have had whiplash after that

I can see clearly now, on his way to LA. That is what I call foreshadowing.

Anyone know the song at around 17:00? It's not listed in the songs. Its a great song I just can't place my finger on the band.

The place where the Wright Brothers flew their first machine is right outside my house and the factory they started making them in is also right next to my house :-)

Before World War II, in 1939, jet engines primarily existed in labs. The end of the war, however, illustrated that jet engines, with their great power and compactness, were at the forefront of aviation development. A young German physicist, Hans von Ohain, worked for Ernst Heinkel, specializing in advanced engines, to develop the world's first jet plane, the experimental Heinkel He 178. It first flew on August 27, 1939. Building on this advancement, German engine designer Anselm Franz developed an engine suitable for use in a jet fighter. This airplane, the Me 262, was built by Messerschmitt. Though the only jet fighter to fly in combat during World War II, the Me 262 spent a significant amount of time on the ground due to its high consumption of fuel. It was often described as a “sitting duck for Allied attacks.” Meanwhile, in England, Frank Whittle invented a jet engine completely on his own. The British thus developed a successful engine for another early jet fighter-the Gloster Meteor. Britain used it for homeland defense but, due to lack of speed, it was not used to combat over Germany. The British shared Whittle's technology with the U.S., allowing General Electric (GE) to build jet engines for America's first jet fighter, the Bell XP-59. The British continued to develop new jet engines from Whittle's designs, with Rolls-Royce initiating work on the Nene engine during 1944. The company sold Nenes to the Soviets-a Soviet version of the engine, in fact, powered the MiG-15 jet fighter that later fought U.S. fighters and bombers during the Korean War. The 1945 surrender of Germany revealed substantial wartime discoveries and inventions. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, another American engine-builder, added German lessons to those of Whittle and other British designers. Early jet engines, such as those of the Me 262, gulped fuel rapidly. Thus, an initial challenge was posed: to build an engine that could provide high thrust with less fuel consumption. Pratt & Whitney resolved this dilemma in 1948 by combining two engines into one. The engine included two compressors; each rotated independently, the inner one giving high compression for good performance. Each compressor drew power from its own turbine; hence there were two turbines, one behind the other. This approach led to the J-57 engine. Commercial airliners-the Boeing 707, the Douglas DC-8-flew with it. One of the prominent postwar engines, it entered service with the U.S. Air Force in 1953.

My 1st flight 1980 ish Vancouver Canada to Cairns Queensland Australia. Can't remember how long but looooonnnngggg. Especially as a 10 yr old.

"Beatboys in the Jet Age." - The a Lambrettas. 1979. 🎵😉🇬🇧

what's the music at 33:52?

Hasn't Clarkson heard of British Aerospace. They now have the most advanced planes in the World.

Brits have a knack for giving things away… the jet, maglev, computers, the internet, trains, America, Australia 😂

36:42, caught my attention suddenly when he said "right at Chicago".

Jezza is one damn good story teller

They should have made him fly coach XD

Human powered flight has been achieved. :)

Poor Jeremy, flying the world in 1st class, poor jezza

Why was Jezzer walking in New York in the pouring rain with bare feet?

Jeap, 2023 and still worth watching it!!

I wonder if they were allowed to use the soundtrack from A Beautiful Mind

what's the song starting at 3:17 going on about a minute or two?

Shame that couldn’t fly direct from Los Angeles to southern New Zealand to experience a temperature change from 35°C to 0°C

music at 33:52 please?

Watching this during the SARS2 pandemic in the middle of the air raid alert makes me feel so strange....

What's that Hollywood song?

@Lucky Waleson - Whittle filed and received his patent before Schmidt did.

what is the song at the start called?

I bet Clarkson never thought he would be running a farm when the new bad disease booked a flight to cause the havoc over these last few years. But he called it.

Anyone know the music playing at 1.23 (lyric I wonder)

Whats the song at 45:48 called??

Song at 29:13 please?

The GPWS callouts at approx 39 minutes while landing (30, 20, 10) are from an Airbus yet Clarkson said he was on a 747?

Why did we stop Concorde? We should bring it back or develop a new version.

29:30, it's like he knew it

Excuse me, Capt James Cook was killed in Hawai'i

for starship point-to-point rocket travel - spiral/shuffle everyone in with window seats, flight attendants buckle you back in after your zero-g experience )

Caproni should be noted for his inadvertent input to jets. He built a ducted fan aircraft, a venturi tube as a fuselage with a pretty wimpy engine driving an aircrew. Not a jet but it paved the way for the jet. A venturi tube using fans to channel air which is then heated and expanded by burning fuel. Different but somehow the same in principle.

Found this in 2024!

No matter where you go, there you are. - Boyle's Law of Location

40.55 - lieutenant Cook

Damn, who knew that the comet incident of 4 crashes will be later spelled the tragic Boeing 737 Max

The World's First Jet Engine Came From Romania. Few people know that the first jet engine was built by Romanian engineer and aviation pioneer Henri Coandă

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An Englishman calling other country's food rubbish? High comedy indeed