Sponsored by the RAF? Our boy is growing up

Sponsored by the RAF? *THE RAF?!* Well, congrats man

A german lad explaining how Britain defeated the Luftwaffe. That was unexpected!

Better than the "documentaries" you get on the regular TV. Well done Bismarck :)

I was lucky enough to interview and to get to know one of the ladies in those statues, Eileen Younghusband. She died only a couple of years ago but I knew her well enough to say that she would have thanked you for this video. She always wanted people to know about the work of the Filter Room. You have done her and her comrades proud with this video.

Damn your production quality on this video is so good.

Nice video, and as a former member of the Royal Observer Corps (we were "Royalled" for our work in the Battle of Britain), thank you for the mentions. However Observer Corps posts were not only on the coast but inland as well, otherwise we would not be able to track raids once they crossed the coast.

As someone that works in Air Operations in the modern Royal Air Force, I’m pleased to see the RAF sponsoring you to share our history with a wider, younger audience.

For the last few years I've been pretty much living and working in Uxbridge yet have never checked out the bunker, which is about a mile from me as I am keying this. I must take remedial action.

People think it was radar that won the Battle of Britain. In fact, it was the whole air defence system that won the battle. Excellent video on a war winning organisation.

WOW!! I've seen this system in movies but nobody has ever explained just what all went into making it work. Thx m8.

Ah you should have told me you were visiting Bentley Priory Museum . I fly over it all the time. It's a way point for flying a southerly circuit at Elstree Aerodrome. Drop me a PM if you want to come flying some time.

Your English is getting better bis, and this video's made me think. Wow, home boy bis who loves aiplanes and play games on KZfaq is now being sponsored by RAF. Congrats bis

You're a natural presenter, I really enjoy your content!

The publican in my local has one of those Observer Corp sector clocks, which I helped get working again. They were slave clocks supplied by the GPO and kept in sync down special phone lines. Really, just an adaptation of the slave clocks used in government offices all over the country. All the Observer Corp clocks had hand-painted 18 inch dials in a mahogany case. The clock in the video has 5 minute sectors, which was the case at the time of the Battle of Britain, but later in the war they were repainted with two-and-a-half minute sectors to give better time resolution and more suited to aircraft that could travel more distance in the same time. The master/slave clock system was a military secret at the time. The RAF stations had sector clocks too, but of a different design (with outward pointing triangles) and were self-powered with silk-screened dials and the RAF emblem. They are nothing like as rare, although originals of both are very valuable.

Excellently done video! Sponsored by the RAF! Bismarck is the best aviation historian on KZfaq! Now, we need to look at the Luftwaffe's command structure and how they felt about this British ingenious design

So basically the RAF had the first Integrated Air Defence System (IADS), knitting sensors and shooters together into an orchestrated unity. Great video!

Wow the production quality of this was incredible, as well as being sponsored by the RAF

Never expected such a sponsorship

This is fantastic! My kids now in their 20’s grew up on the “Battle of Britain”. This video broadens what we know considerably.

I've loved this since a boy in the 60s and you have explained to me in this vid what I had never known ..thanks

I wonder how Bismarck flew to Bentley Priory without being shot down...

Thank you for this Bismarck - I doubt you can imagine just what an impact you make. My Great Grandmama (Mitzi's mum) and a Great Great Aunt (Leven's mother's sister-in-law) worked behind the scenes on this system of Command .. and they have shared some stories with me (because they really 'like' you .. Hmmm?) Like so many of that generation, now swiftly dwindling, they did not speak very much about their roles, and because they knew a number of languages Margot (104 years young) and Tulia (just 103) became more involved in the sneaky-beaky bits; your little visit brought back so many memories, it is a delight to hear them. P.S. Grampa Leven wants to share a cartoon that sounds just like him and his brother Eugenio (it sounds like Oi-gen-yo) when they are speaking a form of German (throw in loads of slangey Italian/ Churchy Latin type words - and you'll have them off pat). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZZxqN2fnbvJdGw.html I hope you enjoy.

I had heard of the Dowding System; but seeing it explained was inspiring! Fantastic video. Genius!

Love the system emphasis. It's really showing the extend to which support structures where developed and why sharp edge of spitfires squadrons was so well aimed. It also shows how small advantages accumulated throught whole campaign gave victory! Yay!

It took the Krauts a while but they finally got a German agent in close to examine the system. Surely victory will come now that their secrets are revealed? Not going to lie, the quality of production of this video astounded me. Shot like a well funded documentary but concise and efficient. And sponsored by the RAF of all organizations. My how this channel has grown since the days of War Thunder.

An Excellent Video on how important command and control system's actually are in any form of warfare.

Thanks for enlightening this subject for me. I always suspected that the air plotters and air command / organization were far more influential than previously thought. Radar, (chain home) was an important innovation but together with air command and control it was a battle winning combination that deserves the attention you have given to it.

Excellent. And this (in digital form) is how air intercept is still done today.

This is like a documentary you’d find on television, but with less filler and you get to the point. I love it.

Amazing video sir. Great filming, very lively and precise at the same time, the production and staging are also a complete success in my opinion. The GSM was such an ingenious system. Exactly the kind of video I would want to see on the KZfaq front page even when I'm not connected to my account. Congratz for the sponsoring, I'm glad you managed to land safely, maybe they should reactivate this system! Fly safe!

This is one of the most informative videos regarding this subject I have ever seen. Well done.

EXCELLENT segment! As always, thank you so much for sharing. Steve

Great job on this video. Thankyou for the great watch.

Third time I've watched this. Time for me to say, man, this is good work. Absolutely tip top.

Really good job on this one. Fantastic camerawork and the meteorology part was just spot on.

Really well done professional video. It’s great to see how you have evolved from video game play thrus with funny banter to top notch historical vids. Good job!

The video work is slick. Lots of panning shots that FIT - i.e. they aren't just done because they're available but because they add something to the emphasis. The sound is slick too. Walking, talking and tracking. Good work to your whole crew!!

Excellent video, great content.

Great video - and brilliantly explained - super job.

Brilliant Bis. Great presentation.

That was really well done. Nice work!

Very cool and informative.

Good show! Very clear explanation of the operations. Some mention should be given to intelligence from Bletchley Park and RAF Cheadle, which helped inform Dowding and Park of both high level decripted comms and low grade cipher traffic from Y stations.

Superb video. The production values and presentation take this to the next level.

Thanks for all the work you put into these videos, which are always fascinating.

Bentley Priory is one of the last places I visited with my late father. Hugely recommend a visit. Excellent vid as usual, sir! congrats on the RAF sponsor

Brilliant stuff Bis, you're knocking it out of the park.

Excellent work. I watch a lot of your videos. Much appreciated

best explanation i've ever seen. Marvellous, thanks

An excellent and very informative video. Thank you.

This is a fantastic video. It really makes you think about the BoB differently - and warfare more generally. Thanks!

Another well presented video. Please could you do some on the Luftwaffe? Everyone can visit museums, and read books and media covers the Battle of Britain well, but it's always good to see the other side. How did the Luftwaffe plan it's assault on Britain, and how did they continue to put up tough resistance to the Day and nightie bombing raids late 44 into 45. As you are a German speaker with superb English it would be great to see the other perspective!! Keep up the great work on your channel!

Brilliant. So clear in his explanations about how the system worked. Thank you

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks.

Your videos are are getting really good! You are creating a fabulous educational resource for the future - well done!

awesome video, also great to see how your channel has been evolving:D.

It was nice that you mentioned the work of the Observer Corps,some videos on the B of B don't,there were some things not quite right.The Observer Corps covered the whole country not just the coastal areas,even to the Shetland Isles eventually, with 40 of their own operations centres feeding information in real time to the RAF. For their work during the B of B they were given the Royal title in April 1941.There is only one of the 40 Ops Rooms left now and that is in Bury St.Edmunds in Suffolk in the Guildhall.I will be there on the next open day on the 30th October to explain how the Observer Corps system worked using our Plotting Table and Long Range Board and how the RAF received the information they needed to counter the German aircraft.

A great video Bismark, loving the very professional presentation! Fingers crossed more videos like this to come ^-^

Great program thanks 😁👌👌👌

Great Video !

Thanks, this ironed out a few details for me.

The quality is superb

Excellent video 👍

Great quality!

Excellent video, well done Bismarck 🙂

Brilliant. Well done sir.

Very well done. Thank you.

Excellent documentary, many thanks. The only thing I might add is that you could have covered the activities at Bentley Priory in a little more depth. I thought I knew the Battle of Britain story well but a visit to the Priory (a wonderful day out by the way) opened my eyes to the value of the Filter Room. The sexy and glamorous Operations Room gets all the attention and the team in the Priory Filter Room are often overlooked. You showed a brief glimpse of the chart they used but could have explored it more. The radar stations were poor in deducing enemy bearing (and height) but could electronically measure range very accurately indeed. The Filter Room map has arcs of distance from each station and the WAAFs were allocated a station each and compared, continually, the range reports from "their" station with the girls on either side using where those range arcs crossed to produce a highly accurate "fix" for the enemy aircraft, which the Operations Room then relied on to manage successful interceptions. But a very good video, Well done.

Best work yet!

This is excellent...thank you!

Extraordinary depth of knowledge and detail! Wow! Ausgezeichncit! Vielen Dank!

Excellent video.

Absolute mad lad Biz. Outstanding quality and I hope funding keeps up to continue, I’m perfectly fine waiting for this content. ❤️ u Biz 🥰

Mr Bismark, please don't forget the Luftwaffe lads, they were brave as well. I didn't know about the 15 min colour segments until now, well presented. Excellent video as always, thanks.

Just checked Winston Churchill’s book and he describes this visit on September 15th 1940. It’s fascinating. He describes the room being like a small theatre with the “large scale map table around which perhaps twenty highly trained young men and women with their telephone assistants” “opposite us where the theatre curtain would be covering the entire wall was a gigantic blackboard divided into 6 columns with electric bulbs for the six fighter stations” He goes on in more detail and describes the events that unfolded. “Hitherto I had watched in silence. I now asked “What other reserves have we? There are none” said Air Vice-Marshall Park. In an account which he wrote about it afterwards he said that at this I “looked grave” Well I might. What losses should we not suffer if our refuelling planes were caught on the ground by raids of “40plus” or “50plus”! The odds were great, our margins small, the stakes infinite.”

Nice video. Really goes in depth when I’m terribly important part of the battle of Britain. Thanks.

Good job, Great watch!

A very interesting presentation on data integration and data presentation that demonstrates that it could all be done without computers - you just needed enough people who knew what they were doing, working in a co-ordinated manner. Simple but brilliant. Very well presented and illustrates extremely clearly how the Few were enabled by the Many. Good work!!

Outstanding production.

A fascinating video. So much better quality than any of our recent British documentaries :)

It obviously because of secret pigeon Air Force used by Scotland, every one expects a spitfire but no one expects a Scottish pigeon

Very well produced and on the mark, did not detect any B.S.. A.V.M. Lord Dowding was a Leader with Great Vision and Great respect for the Safety of His Chicks... Lest we Forget. I was and still am extremely proud to have served in the R.A.F.

Very good vid.

Great work 💙

Excellent biz! Was that the visit when Winston Churchill asked how many reserve fighters were available. Only to be told there were none. Everything was in the air.

very enjoyable...i learned a lot................. der Film hat sehr viel Spaß gemacht............ich habe viele neue Informationen gelernt...danke

EXCELLENT!!!

Heck keep this up and you'll be *the* only go to guy for high calibre aviation history productions. :)

This is well made!

It was with considerable foresight that a national network of dedicated underground telephone cables were laid, independent of the Post Office.

Fantastic stuff - free, professionally produced content that's so much more detailed than the dumbed-down TV channel documentaries.

Well done sir!!!

You stepped up your production quality, looks great!

Your the best man! Thank you.

Good episode. The only things missing from it was a discussion of the 'Battle of Barking Creek' a friendly fire incident early in the war that exposed a few problems with the system that were able to be solved before the Battle of Britain proper got started. The other is that during WWI when the Germans launched a Zepplin/Conventional aircraft assault against London the British evolved something that aside from radar was pretty close to the Dowding system as it evolved prior to WWII. Both might be worth episodes.

I have one of the original sector clocks from 1938. It truly is a fabulous looking clock and I feel it’s a tangible piece from the Battle of Britain.

Oh yay! A new video!

personally I would say this map is an early (first) form of virtual reality. the real world situation was represented on a map so one person could understand the tactical situation across the whole area of operations this allowed crucial decisions to be made at a non local scale giving a strategic advantage that compensated for the limited resources of fighter command through efficient use like one well aimed round rather than a huge barrage

WOW, sponsored by the RAF. Bismark is getting some real creed in "The Hood". Way to go. You deserve it. A very professional and informative video. I always wondered and now I know.