World War 2 Greatest Engine - The Battle Over European Skies Documentary WW2

World War 2 Greatest Engine - The Battle Over European Skies Documentary
The best engines in ww2

here is the video of great world war two engines that powered some of the aeroplanes that rode the skys between 1939 - 1945. World War Two saw huge developments of the aircraft engines of the era before the start of the Jet age of the late 1940-50's.

the air battles of World War two over europe pushed innovation right the way thru the darkest times of the world. Each modification, development was pushed to its limit. From Bristol Airplane company, The rolls royce company, Junkers BMW and Daimler Benz all created engines that would push man higher and faster thru the skies over europe. From The Battle of Britain to the final push of 1945. Enjoy this World war two aircraft engine documentary.
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7 Engines that were used Over the European skies in WW2
WW2 Aircraft Engines

Bristol Mercury, Rolls-Royce Merlin, Bristol Hercules, Junkers Jumo 211, BMW 801,
Daimler Benz DB 605, Rolls-Royce Griffon

The reciprocating engine reached its finest form during the Second World War. Greater and greater engine power was the prime demand, as aeroplanes tried to outmatch their rivals. This attempt to outmatch one's adversaries was a struggle for survival.
Internal competitive companies helped with development. In Great Britain there was The Bristol and Rolls Royce. In Germany, Junkers Daimler Benz and BMW Each with their own merits but all competing to create the best engine.
It was in Germany and Britain that the reciprocating engine reached its upper limits and finally gave way to its successor, the jet engine.

Bristol Mercury, Rolls-Royce Merlin, Bristol Hercules, Junkers Jumo 211, BMW 801,
Daimler Benz DB 605, Rolls-Royce Griffon

Images and footage: RAF, German Ministry of Defence, NAA, Rolls Royce, Junkers

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0:00 World War Two Greatest Engines - The Battle Over European Skies Documentary
0:05 Intro
0:59 7 gReatest WW2 engines
2:15 Bristol Mercury,
3:54 Rolls-Royce Merlin,
5:25 Bristol Hercules,
6:52 Junkers Jumo 211,
8:28 BMW 801,
9:40 Daimler Benz DB 605,
11:29 Rolls-Royce Griffon

[danraymond]

Ahh man. Good video but where's the Pratt & Whitney R-2800? Ya gotta include that! I understand this is partly opinion, but the R-2800 was a great engine. It was very robust, and there are several cases of it flying home missing cylinders, even including the master cylinder! It was used in the fastest piston plane to see combat during the war - the P-47M - which went 473 mph. It also powered the XP-47J, which, as the name implies, was an experimental P-47. However, to my knowledge, (and I have put much time into trying to find another plane to take this title with no success.), the XP-47J was the very first piston plane to break 500 mph in level flight, going 505 or 507 mph (depending on what source you listen to) in 1943. As far as I know, it was also the most powerful piston engine by the end of the war, producing 2, 800 hp at the end. It had 2, 535 to 2, 600 hp from early '44 on. Another great engine, at least once they solved its reliability issues, was the Napier Sabre. That was an extremely powerful engine, especially considering its size.

[Freemagictandi]

Incredible engines.. love the sound of a rotary engine, , and the smell

[j.m.]

Some of those German planes made extensive used of large single castings during production. Meant their quality was more consistent and while they had nowhere near the production capacity of the USA they were able to crank out a good number of planes despite their reduced resources

Also pretty much every technological advancement we take for granted in our automobiles today was present to some extent on WWII era planes. Superchargers, fuel injection, variable valve control, water methonol injection, nitrous oxide etc etc

[bobsakamanos]

By the end of the war the advanced Merlin was tested WEP at 2640 hp. See briefing by C. Lovesey, a key engineer at RR.

[hughjohnson]

It’s all to do with manifold pressure. Because of the use of high octain fuels. WW2. Began with low octane fuel by the end of the war the Brits and Yanks were using 130-150 octane fuel, the higher the octane the more manifold pressure you can tolerate the more power you can create.

[ianmangham]

1945 over 2000bhp, that's some serious POWER 💪🙏😎

[ModellingWeekly]

this was really fascinating mate! another great vid

[egocyclic]

Perhaps it is a bit pedantic to take issue with the "Battle over European Skies" title, but there were MANY R-2800, R-1830, R-2600, and R-1820 over Europe during the war. The late-war versions of R-2800 were regularly making 2, 800hp in aircraft that had legit presence in Europe. There were likely more R-2800 in just P-47s in Europe during WWII than all the Griffons ever produced (most of which probably went into the post-war Shackleton). Even today there are a handful transports and water tankers in active service still using the R-2800, and there are surely greater numbers of similar aircraft in service still using R-1830 and R-1820. If you exclude the Merlins manufactured by Packard, then the R-2800, R-1820, and R-1830 were all produced in greater numbers. Even including the Packard production, the R-1830 still tops the Merlin's numbers. The R-1820 was produced from around 1925-26 until 1959, and while I didn't dig deep enough to verify I suspect that is a longer time than any engine mentioned in the video.

These American radial engines powered a wide spectrum of military combat and transport aircraft, including those serving with and/or manufactured by the UK.

And if the title had been "Greatest European Aero-engines of WWII", then at the very least the Shvetsov ASh-82 that powered many of the best Soviet fighters should be on that list...and possibly the Mikulin AM-38 from the Il-2. Just to drive the point home, the Soviets also made something like 53, 000 Shvetsov ASh-62 and M-25 engines, both of which in essence were the Curtis-Wright R-1820 reverse-engineered for metric tooling.

You could even argue that the Allison V-1710 deserves a mention, considering how well the USSR used the combined 7, 000+ P-39 and P-63 fighters over the Eastern Front. A fair number of top Soviet aces acquired the majority of their kills while sitting in front of Allison V-12s.

Napier Sabre was a fascinating design, but it was produced in comparatively small numbers and was never refined enough to warrant the description "greatest". The fact that it had virtually no post-war career, nor any successor worth mentioning that shared its key design features, clearly brands the Sabre as an evolutionary dead end. Thus its exclusion from this list is understandable. But why is the Bristol Mercury even mentioned when so many other, more worthy designs are not?

[e.d.johnson]

on another Documentary the BMW radial engine for the FW190 was a R2800 P&W built under license by BMW.

[coreyandnathanielchartier]

Obviously aimed at the European viewer, but a nice video nonetheless. Thanks as well for the lack of

[jasons]

Thank you, I've been looking for this type info on these engines.

[pimpompoom]

Pratt and Whitney R-2800, used in the Corsair, Hellcat and Thunderbolt? More R-2800's were produced than any other aviation engine in WW2, quite an oversight.

[robtob]

I gave this video a thumbs up even though you left out the Pratt and Whitney r2800.

[fritzfieldwrangle-clouder]

You refer to the DB600 series as being used in Me109 from the very beginning but that's not quite true. Ironically the first prototype was powered by a Rolls Royce Kestrel engine because the Daimler engine wasn't ready in time.

[androidemulator]

Thanks for the most interesting video..

[ronjon]

What is the engine shown at 8:28 during the Jumo 211 chapter? I’ll try and find out myself, but I’m not sure if it’s an “I”-12 or an “H”-24. Definitely not an inverted v-12 :). Mostly pretty good, with only a few instances of the photos not matching the commentary. I appreciate that you kept your selection on European continent engines, as I’m trying to learn more about them vs my country’s Pratts, Allisons and Wrights (and Lycomings, Franklins and so on). I also enjoyed the photos, ads, and documemts you’ve chosen. Nice work, I hope you continue on sharing the research it looks like you may be doing in support of your modeling videos. I’ve watched a couple of those, I thought them pretty good.

I’d love to have a copy (or photo, if you have it) of the poster behind the DB605, at 10:06. It’s hard to find drawings like the one showing the supercharger cutaway.

Finally, give the kid a break. Instead of wasting everyone’s time bashing his selection and trying to shame him for thinking the kid doesn’t know of our country’s war contributions, why not congratulate him on the fine job he did with the ones he chose - which definitely fit the bill of the title? All you’re doing is bullying, making him not want to create more content, and making us Americans out to be a bunch of hypersensitive babies. I think he can be given the benefit of doubt he’s fully aware of the sacrifices our hero ancestors made and that he’s not trying to offend anyone. Plus, it’s super annoying to go through the comments to find knowledge from viewers, and have to wade through a bunch of negativity. Shame on you.

[Medvediu]

Engineering before was fucking fun. Lots of innovations, lots of power, and we are talking about 1930s-40s! in 2022 you see 3 cilinder crap with 1liter 300hp that blow up after 50kmiles.

[poppysrcandmodels]

Wow! Fantastic video, great information! Have a great weekend!👍😎👍

[BerlietGBC]

No mention of the Napier Sabre, or the politics with RR at the time or the fact the Bristol had to bring Ricardo to get there sleeve valve working properly, a good read is Enterprise and Engines I recommend it

[shawns]

You left out the strongest V-12 of the war, the Jumo 213, you also left out the strongest radial, the R2800, you also left out the greatest engine of the war, the Jumo 004