Arado Ar 234 'Blitz'

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[Buddha_the_Pug]

"They might have had more impact if more had been produced". So many german vehicles and technologies can be described this way. They were way ahead of us in a lot of ways, but one super advanced (whatever) vs 10 mediocre ones still isn't much of a fight

[AtheistOrphan]

One of my all-time favourite aircraft. Read Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown’s accounts of flying them from Germany to England immediately post-war. Fascinating.

[ignitionfrn]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - History
3:55 - Chapter 2 - Design features & specs
8:35 - Mid roll ads
10:05 - Chapter 3 - Variants
13:00 - Chapter 4 - Noteworthy missions
15:05 - Chapter 5 - The end of the blitz

[distinguishedcolleague]

I love that, nothing more American than having a plane built by the Germans, stationed in Norway, surrendered to the British and yet some how is in Virginia.

[oy]

“Waltuh, I’m not bombing The Allies with you, Waltuh.”

[cassandrab]

After the war, the US began production of the B-45, a light jet bomber virtually identical to the Ar-234. It even had engine problems, like the Arado. The Russian Ilyushin-22 was a much larger copy of the Arado, but it never entered service. The British developed the B-57 Canberra, which had a generally similar layout: engines mounted on straight wings (not swept-back). However the Canberra's wings were mounted mid-fuselage with an internal bomb bay. It was a direct descendent of the de Havilland Mosquito, with which it shared many construction techniques. Canberra's served around the world until 2007.

[timenginemannd]

@ 14:45 that is a P-51A with the Allison engine hence the different nose than all the other Mustangs which had Packard built Merlin engines.

[rixxroxxk]

There is one in the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space museum in Sterling, VA. Beautiful aircraft! I have plenty of pictures of her.

ALLEGEDLY, all of the aircraft on display are in perfect flying condition.

PS-I have a still picture that almost matches the picture you used of the cockpit.

[utubejdaniel]

Simon, great video! However, tell the writer(s) to stop using pound-feet as thrust. Pound-feet is a torque value. Tell them to just stick with "pounds" of thrust, just like kilograms of thrust.

[padawanmage]

Always loved this plane and tried to find models of it to build

[Palinghufter]

I just ran out of videos to watch. Thank you, Simon for the rescue!

[fenman]

Germany lacked the rare metals to build a reliable jet engine, engine life was 10 hours or less also fuel became scarce.

[twocvbloke]

The part about them having periscopes rather tickled me, like they're a submarine, but in the sky... :P

[brett]

Side Project episode suggestion: Do a video on what it takes to make a Simon Whistler video from start to finish.

[johnforsyth]

I would like to suggest an idea for a new Sideproject for this channel. My suggestion is the Beechcraft Model 18. It was an aircraft that was in continuous production for total of 32 years. (1937 to 1969) Over 9, 000 were built during this time. During WWII, it was used to train of 90% of all of the navigators and bombardiers of the USAAF. After WWII ended, it was used for everything from passenger travel and mail freight to fighting fires and movie productions. I hope you will consider making a video for this important historical aircraft for your channel.

[ProperLogicalDebate]

1:03 There's a policeman's quote that applies but I don't think it was ever done mayby by a lack of coordination. "You can outrun me or my car. But can you outrun my Motorola?"

[terryrogers]

The advantage of external (bomb) stores for a 'Blitz Bomber' is indeed that no internal room need be provided thus on the return (escape) trip, one is not flying with empty, drag producing compartments and is faster and has longer range. This is how fighter/bombers are designed today.

[AvB.]

Besides the Do 335 Pfeil/Arrow, probably one of the most interesting operational german aircraft of WW2.

[midnightrambler]

Simon Whistler talking about WWII aviation? Of course I clicked!

[ethannorton]

I think I've seen this mentioned before but LbF is pound force. Lbft is pound feet and it's used for torque. Ik it's confusing I'm american and I hate the imperial system.