LUTZ as in current clutches?

Thanks Calum! I think I must have misinterpreted that bit. It goes without saying that I love your book. Let me know if you’d ever be interested in giving one of your expert presentations on the channel!

@@flightdojo - Its an extremely dense book, thematically and technologically - so tiny slips like that are inevitable. Yes of course we can do a presentation. You can contact me via the contact form on my website, or track me down on Twitter.

@@CalumDouglas ACTUALLY…it was sir Fredrick Nitrous in the 15th century who invented it, to speed up his horses with the push of a button to evade law enforcement. When breathed in, it was said to add 1 horsepower, since it made his horse twice as fast as other horses. FYI

@@nicholassilvestri1804 I'm guessing it used farts for propulsion

That I didn´t know!!!//Lars

Not true. It was direct injection on the DB601 onwards, the 300SL used a fairly normal mechanical injection into the inlet manifold. The 300SLR (not the same car although similar looking) did use direct mechanical injection from the W196 GP cars

@@zaphodbeeblebrox5973 Oops! Typo error there, it was supposed to be the DB 601 instead of the DB 600, silly me... correcting it now.

@@zaphodbeeblebrox5973 The street 300 SL Gullwing engines used direct fuel injection, not port injection. It is one of the iconic technical advances of that car that established it's place in automotive history.

It's funny that the best part of a century after aircraft first had fuel injection, actually more than a century for a small number of engines, but let's just assume this is an early mass market fuel injected engine. Anyway, here we are best part of a century on from warplane worthy fuel injection and yet if you buy a brand new $100,000 aircraft engine it will default to having a carburetor and magneto ignition. Like a model T Ford or a pre war Vincent motorcycle.

what do you don't like about the french naval diesel that are built like a giant car engine?

Sarcasm

@@anuvisraa5786 For a start, I have a masters degree in marine engineering,secondly I am a female, third I was a chief engineer for over twenty years. I have been involved with a lot of machinery built in a number of countries. I can honestly say that the French have a penchant of doing things their way. Perhaps that is why they are somewhat unheard of!.

Engineered like no other.

@@johna.s.3847 Well at least there is a like. My dad worked at the same facility Von Braun and he admitted he got his ideas from others. Go Cubs.

@@belliduradespicio8009 Take a look at the KZfaq channel "Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles". He has a video looking at the details of the engine control system for the BMW 801 in the FW190.

Germany had engineers, but America had hot-rodders and gearheads.

@@oldchap1228 nearly perfect ;-) Kommandogerät (commanding device)

The first application of an engine management system, years before Volvo, Renault, fitted such systems to their cars and lorries.

@@oldchap1228 yep, you butchered it: Kommando Gerät.

I cannot imagine a better job then doing that all day long I have a smile on my face every single day.

Onan wiki

Boring, his name was Hermann Boring

Goring

My fuel injected M100 with its mechanical fuel injection and inbuilt altimeter really sounded like a bomber taking off. The nose of the 6.3 would lift as the massive torque hurled the car forward. That fuel injection system was based on WW2 aircraft!. Well made and very durable.

A little known advantage of the inverted V engine was the ease of access by the ground crew. A High percentage of maintanance could be done from the ground.

@@petersattler3454 that's why they were called 'ground crew' instead of 'aircrew' lol jus kidding

Also, in the developing dive bomber blitzkrieg concept, an inverted vee engine was determined to aid accuracy (longer visual time on target). As Germany had, from a production resources standpoint, to standardize on the minimum necessary engine designs, this became one more important factor arguing for inverted inline a/c engines.

Another advantage of inverted DB engine notice by pilots who flew both the Merlin Bouchon and DB engined 109s was the lower exhaust noise in the cockpit.

It also allowed a lower center of gravity for the engine while allowing a cannon to fire through the prop. I believe it also improved aerodynamics by reducing frontal area and the pilot has greater visibility over the narrower engine profile.

And to think the Ukraine incident is causing the nickel price to be incredibly expensive

Many veterans, old and young alike that grew under Hitler would hide or not report guns for when "the reich would come again", even after defeat. Could be one of those types of situations.

Your gramps didn't get one of those Stg 44s?

@@kristoffermangila sadly not. He couldn't quite recall the situation on who technically owned the objects inside after opening. He snuck the bullet out as a keepsake though

@@trevortammen2341 oh well, at least there's the bullet...

One of the best books I've ever read. Written by such a pivotal figure himself, no interpretations. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in aircraft engines, piston or turbine.

@@PMcKay00 if its british im not interested.

@@florencemodina6293 fair point. I mean, what did the British ever do for aero engines?

Have you seen TIK and his channel history has been written by the losses to make the Union against the USSR more palatable

@@gingernutpreacher TIK knows his stuff, he's dedicated his life pretty much towards his craft.

Economic ties with hostile regimes probably happen all the time. Wallstreet and the Communist Party of China are also closely tied together.

Well now I know.

There is much work being done to uncover the facts. It would be beneficial to back up claims with sources to preclude muddying the waters. The fact of the matter is, when you open an automobile factory in Germany in the 1930s it happens to be predominantly Germans who you employ. If a percentage of them join the Nazi movement and takeover the country (by democratic vote I might add) then the National-Socialists socialize your factory. It was not Ford the man, nor the company, who operated a Ford plant throughout the war. It was Nazi Germany who operated it for their own benefit after confiscating the means of production in the manner of ALL true socialist nations. Ill Add, Standard Oil literally produced the very first 100 Octane fuel ever, and they delivered a shipment to the UK at the onset of the Battle of Britain. Without that one ship full of aviation fuel, there is a pretty good chance the Battle of Britain would have ended a complete and total loss in the air for the Brits, and the worst hand to hand fighting of the war would not have been on the beaches of France. You want some more well known facts? After WWII the British Labour Party (Socialists) SOLD the greatest military secret they had, the Meteors upgraded Turbojet engine to the USSR because they were Commie sympathizers. That EXACT engine which pushed the Meteor to 606mph, ended up COPIED by a gross violation of intellectual property rights, and ended up in the skies over Korea in the Mig-15. The Mig-15 also utilized the exact same NACA reports on flow through aerodynamic bodies, nose inlet imbedded jet engines etc. They ended up with an F-86 Saber copy without ever seeing one because of the NACA papers which were funded by US taxpayers. Then the US hem-haws around while they KNOW Russian relations have soured in the Late-40s into the early 1950's they stand by and ALLOW the USSR to develop their own nuclear weapons via world class espionage, theft, and once again carbon copying what the West had already done a decade before. If they had been stopped before 1951-52, there would have been no cold war, no Korean war, no rise of Red china, no Taiwan dispute. And and there would have been an end to Stalin. And they would have killed millions by dropping a bomb on moscow, but it would pale in comparison to the 20-80 million people who died in Russia and China in the 50s-70's to starvation, lack of food, water, and of medical treatments. But all those American and British idiots are dead, and now their children run this country and the rest of the world. To scared to call out Putin as Evil. To scared to rattle Fat Kims ego, wont even drop pamphlets to N.Korea to show them reality. To scared to call out the Communist leaders in china. They stand by while the Chinese hack and obtain every secret we ever had and begin flying around in 5th gen stealth fighters and nuclear submarines, when they lack any and all means to develop those themselves. And So it will only get worse.

@@jj4791 Aside from Antony Sutton’s books(start with his first Trilogy, “Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development”) then “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution”, “Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler”, and “Wall Street And FDR”. Mr. Sutton was a professor at Stanford and had access to the Hoover Library-he snooped where no one ever thought that so many decades later someone would go looking for State Department Decimal Files for evidence. Things that are hidden not only from the public but to most other elected officials. Further enlightenment comes from reading Douglas Reed’s 1956 book(only published in 1978)and Carroll Quigley’s “The Anglo-American Establishment. From the days of Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner, who really ran that Empire, through the secret Milner Group, Inner Circle, Round Table and Kindergarten. And where do you think the Germans got funding post WWI/Versailles? Especially after 1923?

The Masters of Deception have done a great job at hiding things, coating history with a daily layer of lies to keep it that way. MacArthur discovered the truth about the Korean War, and he got immediate retirement and a parade. Patton got run over by a truck before him. People still don’t know what the Vietnam scam was after all these years. Some American pilots that flew far north were confused to see Ford trucks, which were in fact soviet Fords-

Yep. That Bosch system is exactly the same as Bosch produced for the 1969-1973 Porsche 911, and also for race cars like the 917 and the 935.

the nazis were highly developing electronics based on the vacum tube

I always get a kick about the story of German pilots when they would inspect a fighter that had been downed and would say "what the fuck are all these levers for?" ha ha ha ha

@Alfred Wedmore you seem to not understand rotating comutators/slip rings etc and magnetic pick ups,all of which were used pre transistor

@Alfred Wedmore look fuckhead i worked on leyland buses and they used a mchanical commutator for tachometer and speedometer that turned 24 volts dc into a variable frequency 48 volt 3 phase output to ac motors in tacho or speedo,i dont know of any similar system in use today,i am a qualified H/D mechanic with an interest in historical machinery and cars,there were early race V8's which used 8 sets of points to trigger injection systems,you are very ignorant of the past alfred and dont know about what wuld now be considered "dead end" technologys that no longer exist,have you ever seen a buzz box or trembler coil on a vintage car?,didnt think so,STFU

Pre- war no doubt.

@@michaelbooher339 That's the only explanation I could think of, unless the museum just got the part mixed up and it wasn't from the aircraft they said it was from.

@@24934637 England was not very careful / smart with there technology in the 20’s - 30’s. AKA the Whittle engine.

@@michaelbooher339 That's very true. I'm sure that there was something that was sold to the Russians in the 1950s that in retrospect was a massive mistake, but I can't remember what it was.

@@24934637 The Whittle jet engine technology was lost to the Russians in a pool game.

The pinnacle of which was the fuel injection system used on the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL.

@@kristoffermangila IIRC the 300SL (for the civilians; the earlier race version was carbureted), had direct injection; subsequent Mercedes did not - but they all used that magnificent mechanical fuel injection pump from the DB600 - which resembled a miniature engine.

+ Turbobus The cannon is sitting between the feet of the pilot, and the blast tube passes through the engine VEE and a hollow propeller shaft. So not necessarily complex, just hard to reach.

it was actually very simple German aircraft were very simple though they did have the worst motor cannon Russians did it far better without much fail their guns were just a whole lot more powerful it actually broke the plane

Much less complicated than a double row radial or a Napier Sabre. The massive 30mm cannon mounted inline was a major advantage.

Not really. It is an empty space. No harder that accessing a lot of guns. The main difficulty is making sure the vibrations dont screw with the engine.

Not only so much history , but so many lies !!!

+ Beagle76 The wreckage of an original Condor Legion Bf-109 was found in a dump in Spain way back in the 1980s. It has been under rebuild to fly and I think it will be stunning when it is complete not long from now.

It's kinda sad because if engines deserves a book, it's surely those. Well made and high technology.

In a war time situation usualy call "strategic metals".

Platinum was needed for spark plugs, and Silver and Indium for the best bearings. All of which are precious metals.

​@@CalumDouglas Platinum Spark plugs were invented by Bosch in *1960*

Major innacuracies like what? - Be specific and give time stamps.

Can’t tell a German he’s wrong…. Square heads

Germany recognized before the war that larger displacement engines would be needed to operate at the Maximum potential of aerodynamic technology... The Rolls-Royce Merlin was clearly too small to meet power demands of modern fighter designs like the Tempest. Germany clearly had a major technology advantage with the widespread use of Gasoline Direct Injection and variable speed superchargers... this was vastly superior to carburators and fixed speed blowers in every way. GDI allows lower octane fuels to be used without the risk of damage from "Knock"

*MW50* had another important advantage.. its extended the amount of *TIME* that WEP or emergency combat power (P-MAX) could be used... some Luftwaffe aircraft carried enough MW50 to extend WEP up to 20 minutes per flight, 400% more than a typical Allied aircraft (5 minutes max.)

That would be because you have never built a stealth fighter and have no concept of what it takes to design, engineer and build one.

They did. Check out the video list

@@chrismartin3197 oh really? Thanks for that

The mighty Pratt & Whitney R2800 Double Wasp! One of the greatest engines of any kind ever built, in my humble opinion. As someone else mentioned, Flight Dojo has a video on this iconic engine, and it's excellent.

My BMW car is also awesome and so is my Mercedes car, reliable well-made and run forever

The configuration on the DB lead to generally worse combustion and less knock resistance compared to placing one plug on each side of the cylinder (the flame front has to travel from one side to the other, vs having two flame fronts meeting in the middle). I believe they may have persisted with it simply due to a lack of space between the cylinder banks to accomodate the plugs; they were also cramming a 20mm cannon in there after all.

German engines had GDI during WW2... that's why they could run boost on lower octane fuels.. Allied pilots and ground crews were often severely injured by high lead fuel fumes.

That may be true but only if the transgressor module on the vengeance function of the retribution valve were to be activated during post synchronous jimmy nahoobie.

Chrysler developed an inverted V12 very powerful one toward the end of the war with No market for any more prop engines as they were going into the jet age. So it was already yesterday's news by the time it past the development stage.

Most likely a 1650-9 a merlin 101

@@tomstulc9143 most likely a copy of a merlin 101

The inverted Liberty was actually around 1100 or 1200 cubic inches. Built by Allison it was also air cooled.

I think the Nomad looked more crazy/mean although it came out in 49.

What’s weird is that the Brabham Formula 1 team ran into oil starvation problems in the 80’s when they laid their BMW in-line 4 engines on their side to obtain a lower center of gravity. The car was an utter failure 🤷‍♂️.

I have a BMW e24 that is fitted with kugelfischer mechanical fuel injection. Yes it is complicated but logical. This car performs better than a lot of more modern models. When you know how it is quite easy to set up.

Klugelfischer is a port fuel injection system and was developed by Fischer AG. in 1960s