As for the tiny hands, it is a real photo, but each time you see it in the video, his hands get photoshopped to be smaller each time.

"Have you ever seen a squirrel in knight's armor?" Yes, on my Magic the Gathering playmat.

The first picture of Lord Beaverbrook was correct. Each subsequent time the picture was showed, it was photoshopped so the hand kept getting smaller and smaller.

The wood pulp and Ice aircraft carrier was called Project Habakkuk, there are some good videos out there about it.

“Block Buster”? Wait until you see the “Tall boy” and “Grand Slam” both 12,000 and 22,000 pound respectively! 😂

Not only was the british radar in their night fighters smaller, it was also the subject of equipment envy from the german night fighter pilots. In fact it got so bad that the germans litterally invented a radar that was on the tail on their aircraft to alert them to a mossie on their tail. The source for this? A memoir from a german night fighter, which is a really good book as well

13:20 his hand gets smaller each time its shown XD

9:39 Lord Mountbatten, who was convinced a wood pulp/Ice ship (Referred to as "Pykrete"), organized a meeting with serval admirals, several generals, and even Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He placed a block of wood on a table, and next to it placed a block of Pykrete. He then drew his service pistol, and shot the wooden block. It shattered instantly. Then, he shot the Pykrete block. The bullet ricocheted off the block, grazing the trouser leg of Admiral Ernest King, and embedded itself up the wall.

The Mosquito is the Blackbirds grandfather 3 times removed.

"These days, they have Onlyfans." hey dude, more power to grandma. She can earn money any way she wants as long as it's legal.

I swear there's two things that are common with militaries around the world. Grunts being grunts, and military officers thinking they know better than the grunts

The Mosquito is one of the best aircraft of WW2

The MOAB actually stands for massive ordinance air burst (or blast I can’t remember which). The fat electrician has a short video about it too.

"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked." - Hermann Göring, 1943.

DeHavilland was a visionary, his company was the first to make commercial jet planes too, but those weren't made of wood

On the German Mozzie what really put the nail in its coffin was the fact that he glues they became unstuck so the plane fell apart in mid flight, Mitch was so mad about the Mozzie saying they are building a wooden plane with cabinet and piano makers and building them by the thousands. De Havilland was told to stop making it as said but still built it in secert since he knew they not want it now but they will want it and we are all glad he was not stopped and gave us a way to troll the Germans all the way to hell.

The boat made of wood chip and ice is called "Pycrete". Yes, it was a thing.

I just like the idea that this plane was the grandfather to the modern day stealth bombers if you really think about it.

On the "just don't fly it into shit" comment of the De Havilland wanting to make wooden planes, ammunition of the time was naturally built to pierce metal armour. This would allow the round sufficient time to enter and then explode within the plane. However, like as seen with the torpedoing of the Bismarck, if you have a weaker armour on your plane, those rounds go straight through your armour, exploding after it's passed straight through you, possibly not detonating on the other side at all. (Or, in the case of the Swordfish bombers in that mission, a canvas skin with wooden internal structure. The Germans would have had better luck shooting at paper planes.) TL;DR, the De Havilland Mosquito was OP in literally every way right down to its armour.

The hand was photoshopped to be smaller every time he showed him.

The Mossie (4,000lb) took a bomb load greater than a B17 (3,500lb)to Berlin! Beautiful and very versatile, Recce, Bomber, Night Fighter, Fighter Bomber. It was used for the Highball bouncing bomb, it was used a torpedo bomber and my personal favourite, the Tsetse variant had a 6 pdr anti tank gun - great for spoiling a U Boats day! It was also used to courier vips to Sweden in its specially fitted bomb bay. Its first mission in 42 was as a Pathfinder (marker) for the 1000 plane raid in late 42. Operation Jericho was the Amiens prison break (blowing down the walls) to free or silence French resistance fighters before D Day! The raided Gestapo HQ in Oslo and in Denmark.

As good as the fat electrician did of this he missed out the 4 machine guns and a cannon with armour which hunted german U-boats. This thing quite literally did it all and I cannot think of another plane before or since that was so good at everything for the time it was made.

The blockbuster bomb is in fact the namesake for describing a great movie as a blockbuster. It was used because the people going to the movie theater would block access to the building as a whole.

They had one version (Mk XVIII) with 57mm 6lb auto loading howitzer and 4X20 mm cannons. Primarily used for Submarine hunting, also used for anti shipping, bunker busting, V1 flying bomb interceptors V2 ballistic missile production sites etc. Known as the Tse -Tse after the killer mosquito.

Yes, the Brits would have been better off if they had started building the Mosquito earlier, but it used the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, and there was much more demand for that engine before the end of the Battle of Britain. And since the Mosquito used 2 Merlins while each Spitfire used only 1, it is clear why the Mosquito was always going to be a much lower priority as long as Germany was bombing so often. It was only after the Luftwaffe had been defeated and Britain had plenty of Spitfires in the pipeline and Merlins to spare that Britain shifted production to planes like the Mosquito and Lancaster and other Merlin engined aircraft.

Fat Electrician is an amazing channel.

The more I learn about history, the more I wish duels were still a thing. Because we need to weed out all the politicians!!

TFE: "UK was trying to build an aircraft carrier out of wood pulp and ice." OMR: "Legit?!" Yeah. Look up pykrete.

I've never heard the phrase "air battle for England." before.

So freaken funny that the maker of this plane inadvertently made a pride trap- "There no way in hell my powerful fighters are gonna be made with cheap wood!" 😂and it's what completely derailed the idea of copying the design

Drachinifel has some really interesting stories on Navel history. He has more of a historian approach, but he did tell that story about the Russian fleet, and it was funny. Also, his story about the USS Jonston during the Battle of Samer was pretty interesting.

The F-22 of 1942

Youll love this one, since its the creation story of the USN. "America Dismantles Pirate Nations For Touching Their Boats - The Barbary Wars"

There is a theory in business that only 5% of people can see the turn in the economy coming and accurately predict how to react. Ex, as America in the early 2000's is racing toward a housing market collapse, the largest builder in California pulled out. The entire industry laughed at them, for a bit. I spoke w/a builder in CA who was on the verge of losing everything, he told me that story. What we have here in WWII is a man in the airplane business that predicted the turn, and accurately predicted how to react.

Aircraft carrier made out of ice was known as Project: Habbakuk. There is an article on wikipedia if you want to know more.

Pykrete and Project Habakuk was amazing, the Mythbusters proved it was awsome!

Sam o'nella. We got to get you doing sam o'nella!

Do Fat Electrician's Battleship Texas video! Some gems in that one

I LOVE stuff like this because it proves that "more advanced" isn't always better. everyone's wanting metal planes with armor and guns just to eventually have their asses blown off by wooden planes like SCP D-Class personnel being told to fight SCPs that are playing music like freebird or something while they're having a good ol' time turning the enemy into scrap metal receiving a red paintjob by their pilots. Edit: I find myself wondering what could've happened if the german politicians had pulled their heads out of their asses and allowed the construction and deployment of wooden planes too

the best inventions of the world mostly come from the same place, drunk men in sheds :P

26:16 Absolute power corupts absolutely

I would have built those planes out of Ironwood specifically. The wood is as strong iron, therefore metal.

the aircraft carrier was made of pykrete named after its inventor it was several times stronger than steel and they did actually build part of it in canada i believe

On the ice and wood pulp aircraft carrier, yes that is legit, they call the resulting composite material Pykrete and it’s supposed to be as strong as concrete, the project was code named Project Habakkuk, the story goes that when the British sold the idea to the Americans so they could get them to send supplies to Canada to allow them to build it. The captain in charge of the project put a piece of pykrete on the table in front of Admiral King head of the U.S. Navy, then pulls out his gun and shoots it, the bullet bounced off and hit King in the leg, but instead of being a disaster, King got so excited about the possibilities of indestructible iceberg sized carriers that he forgot he had been shot.

Lord Teenymittens LOL🤣🤣

I'm afraid that he overstates the effectiveness of the intruder missions. Intruder missions are the night missions over Nazi airfields. These missions did put a bit of a crimp in the Luftwaffe's night fighter operations but they didn't shut them down. And the Luftwaffe had really, really good night fighters. One pilot knocked down twelve British bombers in a day; five between midnight and sunrise one night and then seven more between sunset and midnight the next night. The British bombers often suffered more casualties during night bombing as the Americans did during the day.

I really wish The Fat Electrician used the angry "NEIN NEIN NEIN" Hitler scene from Inglorious Bastards instead of the cartoon guy getting angry

If you haven't seen Drachinifel's _Voyage of the Damned_ videos on Tsushima.....You need to.

the US made a wooden aircraft too. it is called the H4 Hercules

4:39 Dad hands you an unopened beer. “There ya go.”

13:39 Someone's probably already said this, but the hand's been photoshopped. Lord Teeny-Mittens, and all.

9:47 yes, they did that.

Do the one on Cassius Clay

I felt that “I live in the middle of NO WHERE!” 😂

I have a personality similar to De Havilland, I sort of don't know when to hit the Stop button, if I'm going to break something important, body included, it's going to have to be Fun, and my body shows all the damage through the years, I have enough titanium in my arm to be worth something, several bone grafts, destroyed muscles and tendons, almost every major bone broken at one point or another. Would I do it again, Damn Straight I would.

Also Someday the USS Laffey Video of TFE

Art of War Generals must not get involved politics Politicians must never be Generals

You've got a pykrete ship, just stay where it's cold.

look up Project Habakkuk for the aircraft carrier.

It's a brilliant story, well told by Fatty E. The only slightly unfair bit was the reason why the Mosquito wasn't immediately ordered was demand for the Rolls Royce Merlin Engine. Merlins were the best British aviation engine by a mile and arguably the best in the world at the time despite being carburetor fueld rather than injection as in the Benz engined ME109. The problem for De Haviland, and also AVRo, who built the Lancaster is that in 1939 and 1940 the priority was to build as many fighter planes as possible: Spitfires, Hurricanes, for defense rather than bombers for offense. By the late summer 1940 the fighters had successfully stopped the Luftwaffe so production shifted to building Merlins for the bombers. Around this time Merlins started being made under license in the USA (Packhard , was one of the companies used, if my memory serves me). The supply chain issues were solved and the superb Merlin would go on to power allied aircraft until after the war. Indeed, the Spanish used Merlins to power their BF109 fighters in the 1950s and 60s.

New era of insults... Don't call me dad, call me grandpa SIR!

You here about the Navy Officer who was like offended to be in the barracks area with the enlisted?

18:14 It was called the Blockbuster because it could level a city block.

18:17 its real name is Massive Ordnance Air Burst

Hello, love your fat electrician reactions, keep up the good work!

Best part The Mosquito being made out of wood couldn't be detected by radar The British had the first stealth bomber

Ah the wooden wonder

9:43 Legit. It was a logistical and physical nightmare. Even the myth busters tried to do one smaller and it worked initially, but it crumbles way too fast and is not worth the effort to produce.

The Mosquito wasn’t quote a relic, it was just designed for a very different purpose than other aircraft of its era. I used something similar in the Middle East (still classified) that let me fly (barely) with a backpack rig I could still carry on top of most of my gear. Max load of the heavy version was 800 pounds (~500 useful load), letting me carry most of our man portable artillery and still fire a mk19 or m134 (mortars would knock me out of control, but I could airdrop them), with 6 hours of loiter time. The light version would still give me 50 pounds of useful load and only weighed 30lbs (but only 30 minutes of loiter time). Huge once opened but would fold up to the same size as my ruck (and replaced it). This was pre-handheld drones of course and had no armor, but I could take off in 10 feet with a light load, or 100 feet at max load.

Never heard of this channel (no offense, but there’s a LOT) I want you to know I saw this video and I came here just for 23:10. 10/10 all I wanted.

Oh how history repeats it self

Please do the A1 Skyraider video of his it really is a good one.

Funny you mention government spending money on insane things for equally insane reasons. Our favorite electrician has a new video out on "America's $300 Million Sci-Fi Arsenal". Good stuff.

I would recommend the video of Sgt Reckless but if u do a video its kinda thing to donate $1k to a marine charity

Sooo... in the case of both Britain and Germany, their air forces were led by veteran combat airmen. These experienced subject matter experts said, "We need this plane." The people with giant corporations and shitloads of money said, "Naaah. That's not the way we do business around here." 🙄Sure glad that sort of thing never happens here in the U.S. 🙄

Can i get context for the bent Bradley barrel? Also, the Prime Minister had shrinking hands in the video

Y E S !

So ... if it was so good at everything. Why aren't all planes made out of wood now? Not counting specialized planes that need metal for any specific role they need to fulfill. (And yes I did see what he said at the end about planes either wanting to be so fast they can't be caught or so stealthy they're never seen.)

Why are none of your newer video showing up on our channel

Well America had the tall boy if I am remembering correctly, it could have been split between America and the British.

Reminds me of the cardboard drones in Ukraine

Watch the pigeon bomb you will like it

Rep IOWA

No offense but your kind of shaped like me so you would love his video about dad's

IDGAF who they voted for, don't laugh at civilians being terrorized by nigh-indiscriminate military bombing.

I will never understand why people do this when they have nothing to add but to be seen in the recommendations for the other person's video/credit.

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Cant tell of boss has had a long day or had a few but im here for it