One British aviation magazine called WW1 pilots "The Few, The Brave and The Lucky" and this was spot on. Mechanical malfunctions, lack of training, lack of safety equipment and utterly primitive aircraft made the life of a WW1 aviator glorious and short. Even in 1918, few new British pilots survived longer than three weeks. But military aviation had arrived and aviation would change the world.

I knew there was no way in hell he would get that thing up without crashing

Tri-Planes are just so iconic of that time. I can't get over them, my favs.

Aerial weapons today: Guided missiles, massive bombs, guns that can shoot forever Aerial weapons in WW1: *s p e i k*

Is no one gonna mention the fact that mr blue sky is playing.

Those flimsy control cables are on my 1971 Piper Cherokee 140.

Just curious, can anyone make a 3-winged plane like that without factory help? For personal only use of course. Thank you.

Very good video! I love watching these older aircraft. Really nice!

This guy looks like a combo of Henry Cavill and Tom Cruise

It's amazing what aircraft the Shuttleworth Collection has - and they are kept in airworthy condition!! May it remain so for a long time to come!!

Thank you Dan Snow and BBC team Keep up the good work.

hey look, a post war gladiator...

@4:36 When Your TOO Ashamed To Face The Camera After Such A Shitty / Hard Landing ... 🤣

still blows my mind they had machine guns shooting between propellers

Mr. Blue Sky.

Somethings wrong with the explanation about the gun interruptor mechanism. He said the firing mechanism was connected to the crankshaft? Surely the rotary engine crankshaft is fixed, the cylinders revolve around it, don't they? I've always wanted to see a clear explanation of that mechanism and how it works with rotary, in line and radial engines.

OMG dan snow has the time stone, he can slow time

Thankyou! This helped me write my AP document based essay!

My school teacher has given us assignment of listening and writing what you heard in the vid Love from India , West Bengal , Kolkata....

I love the music choices. Great video!

Mr loo while they are shooting with pistols! well done BBC!

bf1's design plane is awsome

My teacher played this video in class, so I thought I was crazy when I heard Air Balloon by Lily Allen in the background.

Yep

Actually the Brits did also work on a syncronised MG at the same time. Unfortunately the guns they used (Vickers .303 and the Lewis Gun) were both open-bold action and therefore their rate of fire was a bit more random. This still caused a likelyhood of about 5% of hitting your own propeller when syncronised. The Germans instead used the MG 0815 which had closed-bold action making its shots more predictable.

I SERVE THE SQUIDOINEN EMPIRE

Battlefield 1 hell yea

I got here thanks to my school, they put a QR code under this plane model. I scanned it and it brought me here.

I guess the castle could yelloa a nail

all I have to say is "Balls of Steel" how they fit their balls into that seat i will never know.

Bend it like my golf car III

Yep

what song?

What's The Song In Minute 3:11 Please Help

Germans are very innovative

Isn’t there a Bleriot 11 hanging from the ceiling in Chambery airport

Wow! He’s actually flying!…….

Just curious how old must you be to be able to fly a bi-plane?

The gloster gladiator is from WW2...

30% talking about the video. 70% talking about the music in the video

BATTLEFIELD 1 FTW

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1:39 1:53

Might have been an interesting video but I stopped halfway through when the completely out of place background music took over. Why would you blare this over the sound of an early aircraft engine that many people may not have heard before?

3:11 song pls

my son Logan semi-owns a Sopwith pup

I came here for BF1..

Filmed at Shuttleworth? Wish they'd had the Pup out--more of an advancement from previous machines than the Tripe.

Dearest Dan, I understand your show is called "Dan Show." Now, if I may ask, because this fascinates me, is this the best you can do? I mean, I suppose it's clever in an ironic way, "oh it's a show with a man called Dan, get it?" But it doesn't show a flair of creativity. How we will know what your show is about besides the fact that there could potentially be a man called Dan? Think of all the other great shows of the past. Now, I don't watch TV, I'm severely addicted to my mobile phone and the internet has reduced my attention span to dust. But think of it like this, if I want to watch a show with planes, guns, bombs, etc - you should call it "Planes, Guns, Bombs, etc" -- that would be a hit! Peace and love Elliott Sargent.

A few oversights in this but otherwise a great overview. Aerial combat was kicked off by the Italians in an earlier conflict, the Italo-Turkish war. But WW1 saw combat as we now know it. The interruptor gear was a French innovation but an example quickly fell into German hands. Fokker copied and quickly refined the system. The brits used deflector plates and, most worryingly, a form of tape to hold the prop together just long enough to pop the aircraft back down.

bf1 yaaa

Why not really flew with it?

SONG AT 3:11?????

Why is it called Dixie

Zee synchronizer mechanism by Anthony Fokker.

What’s with the music?

You shave wood with a 'plane' son. We call them aircraft or aeroplanes in this country.

Just imagine a plane flying and then crashing immediately by the Red Baron, that must be horrifying to see family die but again when people had guns on there planes (and yes they didn’t have guns in there plane on the first try) but when they did they actually had shot there propellers so they had tried steel but it didn’t work so somebody being a smart man made a machine that would disable when the propeller was in front of the gun and actually got a kill, so that could of killed many people like the Red Baron and all his victories because it would be more easier when shooting. I just explained planes to you

Nice Green screen

British Anzani engine ?

Those who had control of the skies. Most often controlled the ground. But not always.

Bf1 belike😂

1.10 minute. What he said? (something) this one still flies. What was this "something"? "If wormacibly", "Imwormacibly"? There isn't that word in dictionaries...

I hate my teachers forcing me to watch shits I don't wanna know

I don't believe canvas was used to cover plane framework. I think it was linen.

1:55 dont that background look fake? or is it just me

Man he didn't even fly that thing

Do people have a life all they talk about is BF1 as if they just came here to see what a video game would look like in reality!😛

are they gonna forget about the wright brothers cos theyre british and think they did everything?

Really poor choice of background music. Almost ruined the presentation.

BBC vs TAE

Bohot tatti video .

Poop

Green screen and wub wub music? Makes me want to puke. Want a REAL doco on the rise of combat aircraft in WW1? Look up Reaching For the Skies: The Aeroplane goes to War. Now THAT'S how you do a documentary, mate...

The horrible music totally ruins this

BBC vs TAE