My dad was an instrumental and electrical technician on the DH100 in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Mine flew them before going on to Vulcan ... you never know who met who on the airbases of the RAF back in the day

@Alexandre-sz2jb I'll give you some words if you like....

@@ronlucock3702 I've reported the filth but it keeps returning?

Oh man! The stories I bet he could tell!

Megaprojects did a video on it a few weeks back.

@@sparky4878 I'm gonna check it out. Thanks for the info

I sat in a hawker hunter also seen several de vampires up close

Yes. A very special request from me too. My father flew combat missions in the Hunter in 1965 in the Indo Pak war.

​@Alexandre-sz2jbnobody asked you. This is a vid about a jet plane. Please relocate to a religious site...

I wondered when I heard that!

Ah, yes... the beginning of the end... after WW2 it was all downhill for the UK aircraft industry... a slow death spiral that led to total collapse in the 1970s

​@WilhelmKarsten government interference and shortsightedness had alot to do with this also. BAC was decades too late😢

@@markwalker2627 The economic collapse of the British empire after the country's defeat in WW2 was exactly what doomed the UK aircraft industry... BAC was the merger of 4 failed British aircraft companies that under normal circumstances would have all gone out of business... BAC was a recipe for failure. Cheers!

@@WilhelmKarsten Hello Sandyboy, Isn't it great news that Germany is buying the F35 that BAE Systems is a principle partner in. And I know you'll agree the Rolls Royce's deal to re-engine the B-52 is great. And it's a good thing that Rolls Royce is able to dole some work for Germans on its less sophisticated twin spool engines because as you know the Germans have never been able to produce a successful jet engine without foreign help.

@@fritzwrangle-clouder6033 You're right that whilst the UK Aviation industry isn't close to the size it once was, Rolls Royce are world renowned for their engines. Just as Rheinmetall make the guns for the Challenger 2 and upcoming Challenger 3 MBT. When we Brits and Germany put our heads together, you get some amazing machinery. Alongside our European friends, Tornado and Eurofighter are some amazing aircraft that's come from the cooperation.

Thank you Norway

How do you a-fjord it?

Yep, and always recognisable by the Goblin's characteristic whine, as much as the twin booms.

i saw a vampire fly in Louisiana at an air show

He will think you are Trol-ling.@@localcrew

Now playing on the Disney channel. Worth a visit. Also a great story.

A nice little short story.

You mean The Shepherd of course.

Misspelled there, often get that word confused.@@B-A-L

Would read that book to my son every Christmas week finishing it on Christmas Eve

You flew it? 😮

This is my wife’s e mail address, it does confuse matters as to who flew the Vamp. Yes, I did fly these aircraft during my Airforce career.

My father grew up in S Rhodesia but moved to N Rhodesia when he was around 18, I was raised in N Rhodesia/Zambia, I remember the bush war but didn’t really know much about it, I was 8 when we left. They were good times, for me anyway !

​@Alexandre-sz2jbbro what has this got to do woth jet fighters 💀💀💀

that hunter had a LOT of guns

Truly a beautiful aircraft. I can see why John Travolta bought one.

The local airport near me and a place I worked in the early 1990’s had one parked across the runway for years and belonged to another person that had dealings with the airport. I asked my boss at the time why the person never did anything with it and he said that he wasn’t allowed because the last time he got it out and took off the exhaust had tore up the runway on take off and they told him when he got back to park it.

Well that's interesting@@Kpar512! I hope John got a fair amount of flying hours in it having loads of fun.

I don't know who you are, but please go away.@Alexandre-sz2jb

Ever heard of evergreen air ? Was a CIA front cargo air company might still be

Looks like a Jet Engine version of the P 38.

I always thought that they look like the design was found laying on the floor in a German lab after the engineers jumped into American jeeps after someone mentioned Operation Paperclip to them 😂

@@huiyinghong3073 How so? The P38 was a twin engined piston aircraft which had two booms extending from those engines for control. The Vampire had a twin boom arrangement to remove fuselage sectioned jet pipe weight /drag. You may as well say 'The C123 was a transport version of the P38'. Or the Argosy was a four engined C123.

​@Alexandre-sz2jbwhat about the prophecy that the messiah would be called,"God with us?" This prophecy was about a man. This man is the man called Yeshua. The Latin version of that name is Jesus. The Aramaic version of this name is.....Issah I think you recognize this prophet

Jesus my gardener thanks you.@@benjaminchartier6458

And there was another twin boom fighter predating both the P-38 and the P-61, that was the Fokker G-1 which first took to the skies in 1937 and was a modern and capable fighter for that time. Sadly only 35 were built when the war broke out and they were quickly overwhelmed by the large number of German planes attacking and after two weeks most were lost.

Theres also SAAB J21 fighter

Was looking for this comment because…

Looks like a Jet Engine version of the P 38.

Okay, I'm glad I'm not wrong on this.i was thinking the same thing.

'almost vertical t/o'? You mean the Zoom Climb of the Vulcan?

@@uingaeoc3905 Yes.

@Alexandre-sz2jb nobody cares

I found it interesting but you’ve made it obvious your only care is yourself (aka narcissism).

I went a school on the bath road in reading that had a Vampire T2.. Presentation College, the Aircraft's registration was XD536

@@zaphodbeeblebrox5973 I went to Presentation College!

I was at the Mildenhall airshow the day they collided. Tragic loss.

The Vampire and the Meatbox were never safe aircraft to fly, they have the highest loss rates and fatalities statistics of any RAF plane until the introduction of the dreaded de Havilland "Sea Bitch"

​@@WilhelmKarsten Fryed Ryce Munchyrz Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they SHUD note good with much awestruckness and much better wonderment etc. _The accident losses for the fabulously superior Gloster Meteor were in fact not particularly high for fighter aircraft or jet fighter aircraft of the period._ *When powered by the world's most powerful jet engine at the time in 1944 - the RR Nene, it subsequently broke jet aircraft speed records in 1945.* A 1945 Gloster Meteor of course was the world's first Turboprop aircraft. *_Some later aircraft from other countries had higher accident loss rates._* Non combat phase accident losses % of Aircraft built. *US Lockheed P80 (Intro 1944) 46%* *_UK Gloster Meteor (Intro 1943) 17%_* Any Kweschuns lad? Cheers 👍🙂 . . ... . . .... xciivvxxvv

@@petemaly8950 *NAME A SINGLE BRITISH JET AIRCRAFT STILL IN PRODUCTION?*

​@@WilhelmKarsten _*Fryed Ryce Muncherz Krappenz DiktorBummer KARZEESTAN Jurkzxoffenzstadt & co - they should note with much awestruckness and great wonderment? *As they will know, Indeed RR of England is the largest Gas Turbine Aircraft Manufacturer in Europe.* *_DID SOMEBODY ACTUALLY SAY SOMEWHERE THAT THERE'S AIRLINER ASSEMBLY LINES OR SIMILAR IN THE UK OR IRELAND OR THAT Airbus or BOW-WING is actually British? (B-47 wings on many occasions folded up in flight or dropped off while parked)._* Of course Brazil makes very good airliners & Brazil is 100th down list along with Indonesia for wealth per capita. *Norway Holland Denmark Ireland Belgium - Top 20 wealth per capita - Don't make airliners - its as simple as that.* BAe Systems & RR combined now do more Airbus work than German on an absolute basis & significantly more work on a per capita basis. _BAE systems announced recent £4 Billion takeover of Colorado based US based Ball Aerospace._ *BAE systems now does a significantly higher value of work for Airbus than it did when it was a major Airbus shareholder before 2005.* *_RR now owns US Engine maker Allison for example which does classified Aerospace work for the US Govt._* The UK has more important stuff to do these days. _Routine simple passenger aircraft airframe assembly is becoming more of a 3rd world / trailer park area thing._ *_The DH Comet - world's first high altitude capable pressurised passenger cabin jet airliner in regular service, world's first jet airliner aircraft to cross the Atlantic, worlds first jet airliner aircraft to complete a global circumnavigation flight series._* *They might try to sensibly answer this question - why do they believe that BAE Systems & RR (aero engines etc) & other companies, for example should be doing anything other than what they currently do & where do they get the idea from that the DH Comet had any affect at all on the progression UK aerospace sector.* *Anybody currently flying on a widebody airliner stands a good chance of being on an aircraft powered by RR gas turbine aero engines built in England.* 📯📯📯📯 *The New RR Trent Ultrafan* *Built In England* *_World's Largest (see T&Cs)_* *_Gas Turbine Aero Engine_* 📯📯📯📯 👍Manufactured by the people on a small island with less than 1% of the world's population.👍 *_A typical but small glimpse of what goes on in the very internationally orientated British aerospace sector._* - Boeing Apache Attack Helicopter. AH-64: *75 UK suppliers,* 7% UK content, global fleet of 1280+ aircraft. *F35B more than 130 UK Suppliers, more than 30% UK content.* *_F35A & F35C more than 130 UK Suppliers, more than 15% UK content._* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 extra points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear / Defence / Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍🙂 Cheers . ... . . ..... . . ... . . ... . ..... ccicci vivvixxixxiccicci

Without overriding the the boost pressure regulator, the P-51 Mustang flew around 285 mph at low altitude with transport heads.

@@WilhelmKarsten Poor old Sandyboy, you are so pathetically bitter. From WWII Aircraft Performance, Max Sea level speed for the P51 - 388 mph and I'm guessing you can't see the heads and banks from there.

From the era when plywood was still a cutting-edge material. The carbon fibre of its day.

An oldie but Goldie 🤗

​@@raypurchase801from the Era when all-metal aircraft were cutting edge and de Havilland was well past its prime.. Wood and linen fabric were obsolete materials in the Jet Age

@@WilhelmKarsten Plywood became obsolete AFTER the Vampire and the Sea Hornet. But not at that time.

@@raypurchase801 Plywood was obsolete for fighter aircraft before WW2, all-metal aircraft were invented in 1930.

It actually sounds insufficient to say Eric Brown was an aviation legend. The fact that he made it to old age when you consider that he was often testing brand new technologies and designs - surely the greatest test pilot in aviation history.

​@Alexandre-sz2jbSorry but what is the relevance of your comment?

@@ianmacfarlane1241 Hands down. A national treasure for the Brits. Everyone should know who he is. A movie of his life would be awesome.

@@ianmacfarlane1241 Psst. Ignore him.

Worth getting a hold of a copy of his autobiography, "Captain Eric Brown, Wings on My Sleeve". It makes for amazing reading.

this channel is as accurate as a stormtrooper's blaster

​@@TimHunoldRepetitive too but entertaining.

There are always howlers and mispronunciations in Dark Skies videos, all part of the fun!

Yes it was a Swift.

@@TimHunold True - the video footage is somewhat, er, arbitrary...

The Me262 is a better Jet though

@@huiyinghong3073hmm. Maybe. The Schwalbe had some pretty serious problems. It was a first, and the best actually deployed during the war, but the first generation of jets did not follow the template of the Me262 for a reason.

@@Justanotherconsumer Whats the reasons though? The 'serious' problems are due to the inherent shortage of materials faced by Germany during the war not because of inherent design flaws.

@@huiyinghong3073 The 262 was a bit of a death trap for its pilots - the engines needing to be treated with kid gloves, and needing a rebuild virtually after every sortie. The rather primitive axial compressor was inadequately protected against stalling.

@@huiyinghong3073 inherent design flaws. Recreations have been built and they generally get modified because the aerodynamics result in problems with directional stability. Transonic flight raises entirely new issues that designers of the period just didn’t understand. It’s not that the Nazis were dumb, it’s just that they made the same mistakes everyone else was making at the time.

Absolutely. If you ever that you've done something daft, just remember who gave Eric Brown his career advice. Homer Simpson has nothing on Ernst Udet😂

He was the first to land a jet aircraft on an aircraft carrier which was a Vampire

Odin is my favourite @Alexandre-sz2jb

The man started his flying career in biplanes and ended it flying Jet Fighters. He also holds the record for the most carrier landings and takeoffs.

@@s1lentw1nter And he interviewed Goering just before his death! The man was remarkable.

​@Alexandre-sz2jbMuhammad was a pedo!

Don't copy and paste. It is disrespctful. @Alexandre-sz2jb

Certainly outside the UK.. Britain was bankrupt and its aerospace industry was dying a slow painful death.

@@WilhelmKarsten Hello Sandyboy, as you know Sandyboy hugely successful aircraft like the Gloster Meteor, the de Havilland Vampire, the BAC Canberra, Hawker Hunterand the Harrier set Britain up to now have the world's second largest Aerospace industry and for BAE Systems to be Europe's largest defence contractor and Rolls Royce to be the biggest jet engine company in Europe.

I was going to comment on The Shepherd but you beat me to it. Its a great story

@@clearcreek69 it’s good to hear people know about it!

@Alexandre-sz2jb Whatever

I came here for this comment!

Have recently seen a trailer for a movie of this story. Here on YT.

I think you are getting mixed up with turbines and turbans...@Alexandre-sz2jb

⁠Oh Alexandre, we are talking about an aeroplane, not a fictitious blood sucker.

LOL he told you about his dreams.

LOL he told you about his dreams.

Came looking for this - you saved me the bother :)

Didn't the two-seater also use the Mosquito canopy?

Hi Stephen@@stephenvalentine312 , I am not sure about that, though the canopy shape might have been modelled on the Mosquito's, But I am subject to correction... The Vampire 2-seater had a backwards hinging clamshell canopy, whereas the Mosquito had a fixed canopy (though I think with an escape hatch mounted in the top) and the crew entered and exited through a door on the underside of the nose.

Hi Rob, Can't remember where I read about the canopy but here is a quote from the Wikipedia page: De Havilland initiated a private venture night fighter, the DH.113 intended for export, fitting a two-seat cockpit closely based on that of the Mosquito night fighter, so you are probably right. As a very young boy I remember going into the factory at Preston where my dad worked and where almost all Vampires were built and seeing the production lines as well as some Canberrra bits. Was going to make the point about the Swift but you got there first. @@rodb9492

Unfortunately it was not very good fighter design

@@WilhelmKarsten Eric Brown did not concur.

@@terrystevens5261 Please name a single British jet aircraft still in production?

@@WilhelmKarsten Hello Sandyboy, it's always funny to see you clutch at your sad wehraboo cope questions. As you know Sandyboy, the Vampire was a very successful jet having a service career of more than thirty years and with more than thirty air forces.

Yes, the Venom replaced the Vampire, replacing the Goblin with a more powerful Ghost, and the Sea Venom was the carrier-borne version.

The line of De Haviland twin-boom fighters continued into the DH 110 Sea Vixen. That was a twin-engined Two Seat all-weather fighter that, after a somewhat unfortunate start served the RN for a number of years until replaced by the F-4 Phantom.

The Venom was the up-engined and swept wing version of the Vampire.

The Sea Vampire and Sea Venom are different aircraft. Whilst initial proposals for the Venom were based partly on the Vampire it ended up being a completely new design.

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He was a very interesting character. He visited our Gliding Club in the late 90s and assisted on a check flight, I was pleased to oblige. There is a very good radio program of him on Desert Island Discs which is available on BBC Sounds, There are also clips on KZfaq. He has more carrier landing than any other pilot.

@@christopherrobinson7541 ... correct me if wrong but i understand Chuck Yeager tried for that record and failed.

I seem to remember that I think in the 70s. That this idea was proposed with a four seat new fuselage.

Think ATEL may have been involved in this but it was a long time ago

@@barbarybar yes, the proposal was to refurbish ex-military planes and replace the fuselage only with a pressurised cabin. I believe there may have been certification issues around that and it's being single engined.

There is one flying around Taranaki NZ today

Made more sense 50 plus years ago. Its a military jet. It would not be affordable today to do such a thing. A vision jet or eclipse would be much cheaper or a good clean citation.

By 2 years…. Before the Gloster

@@robertpatrick3350 Yes, the Gloster E.28/39 also came before the Vampire, but so did the Bell XP-59A, by one year. My point is that this channel makes many incorrect claims in almost every video. I believe that the video researcher(s) misunderstood information given in Wikipedia that said the Vampire was DeHavilland's first single engine jet aircraft. The article did NOT say it was the first single engine jet aircraft in the world.

I think your missing the point. It was the first single jet engine fighter/bomber of the RAF....Besides a lot of other countries first jet fighter. And the first successful single jet engine aircraft in the world. Lot of records set in the type. 38 and 90 ? not jet powered.

@Alexandre-sz2jb - what the hell has Allah got to do with vintage jet fighters?

Looks like a Jet Engine version of the P 38.

@@huiyinghong3073 the reason why I made that comparison is that both warbirds found a home in the civilian market after their service was up.

@@JRGProjects What about the Me262? I honestly think the Me262 is a better aircraft.

@@huiyinghong3073 yes but nobody flew the former Nazi warplane as an enthusiast.

@@huiyinghong3073 No! not really. Fast yes, but its other characteristics were nothing to 'write home about' The Vampire was the better fighter performance-wise in all departments other than a speed deficit of about 12mph And that was with just one engine. The Germans should have tried to develop a capable single-engined type. It would have been a much more viable and production friendly aircraft to produce. The video fails to mention that the first flight and thus production of the Vampire, was partly held up due to the engine being sent to the US, for their P80 development. This caused the Vampire to be delayed by up to six months.

'Pressurized'? No, just Oxygen supplied in the Mosquito and Vampire.

No there was a pressurized version of the mosquito. And a jet fighter with no pressurization would be really tough on the ears with the altitude extremes they fly, not to mention the cold at high altitude. @@uingaeoc3905

You have been reported!@Alexandre-sz2jb

Whittle's engines reversed direction, the air was forced to make 2 complete 180° turns... modern engines like the Germans used the air travels parallel to the shaft.

Yes - the narrator needs to learn how to pronounce that word.

I lived close to RAF Colerne and they would fly over regularly. I remember them as silver specks in the sky , nothing else looked like them.

The air force museum in Christchurch has one and a cockpit you can sit in plus an a4 Skyhawk and some other cool not common aircraft

@@TheWaggazMassacre Remember going there and siting in one when growing up.

The Halford H1 was rushed into production because of the massive delays caused by the Power Jets W.1... Whittle was unable to get his engine to pass airworthiness certification.

There were 2 sent to US, the first one they destroyed

Wrong , the Halfords were for the Lockheed P 80 Shooting Star prototypes and it had nothing to do with Whittles engines which by that time were being fked up by Rover before Rolls Royce stepped in

Yeah mate, I know exactly where you are, I was coming down from Wyalong a few years back, when I got buzzed by both Spitties, on the Golden Way just north of there, course had to stop to take a picture, unfortunately both had buzzed off into the distance before I could take it, I still kick myself for being so slow on the uptake, old age I guess. By the time I got onto the aerodrome the museum had closed for the day, and I never did get to tour it, oh well, maybe next time I come that way again

...and SLOW.

@@WilhelmKarsten i just knew you were gonna be here to

@@spudgun3982 You will find me lad wherever the TRUTH is told.

@@WilhelmKarsten You'll be the one covering his ears and crying "I'm not listening".

LOL he is the sour kraut@@spudgun3982

@Alexandre-sz2jb God/Allah: None higher, None Equal, All Beneath. (I'm a simple type of guy, and get easily confused by books that contradict one another, when they are writing about the same subject. )

The Vampire was made primarily from wood and fabric... like the Mosquito would rapidly deteriorate when left outdoors

@@WilhelmKarsten Hello Sandyboy, as you know the Vampire has faired very well in the preservation stakes and there are many airworthy example still today, the Swiss alone have six.

I was hoping someone would pick up on the omission of the Vamp in RCAF service.

When was that? And where was it parked? I remember driving past to go on holidays, the Hong Kong Aero Club at the corner of Kai Tak Airport used to have interesting aircraft scattered among all the Cessnas. Including a replica space capsule of some kind - a Mercury I think. But I don't remember any Vampires. Was it an old RAF aircraft?

It was in the late 60s. The plane was parked on the lawn by itself. It got the RAF roundel. @@BrianRPaterson