They didn't know what to do with it, gave the British some, they taught us how to land the Corsair on the decks of carriers! See the Brits had there usefulness, just kidding!! Lol
Good video. I've known of the Ohka since less than the age of ten. I also knew that American sailors nicknamed it the Baka Bomb. All the rest of your information is new to me. Thank you for putting this video together! (I recall reading many years ago--somewhere, I don't know where--that there is no known account of an Ohka hitting a U.S. Navy ship. This may have been disinformation, as I probably read it in the late 1950's or early 1960's) Thank you for making this video! Andy McKane, Maunaloa, Hawaii.
My dad was stationed at Deopham Green in England during WW2. He worked on B-17's as a sheet metal repair specialist.. He told my lot's of story's of airplanes coming back with big chunks missing.. I have an altimeter from a B-17 my dad got from some kind of surplus store after the war..
There are many RU-vid videos showing how to prepare and start WWII fighters. I find that this is the most concise and easy to follow and understand than the others I have watched. This is a wonderful video about an equally wonderful airplane. Thank you.
You had one kind of big error. Two of the engines would have been Wright -R models rotating in opposite direction to counter torque, I don't remember if it was left engine pair or right engine pair however. The engine modeling is already mentioned so I will refrain.
I can't find a single photo of a B-17 with counter-rotating engines. Where did you get this information? Edit: The B-17 did not have counter-rotating propellers. All rotated to the right.
Hi David (Same name as mine), those renders are incredibly well made, i wanna just point out that the engine used for the render is from a Wright Cyclone R-2600-23 (or some variant), which have a double row of cylinders, while the info you described was from the Wright Cyclone R-1280-97, which is accurate, but is a single row of 9 cylinders, minding that a B-17 was able and running these kind of engines during the war, double-row engines were not used in B-17's (Only from B-29's).
This is an excellent explanatory video.💯 I think it would have been even more immersive if, at the part with the starting checklist, we could hear the sound of the four engines instead of music.🎧 I will continue to support your work from now on.💌
You seem to quickly switch between calling the machine guns "fifty caliber" to "point fifty" to "point five oh". I only bring it up because your attention to detail is amazing, and it might confuse people who don't know any better.
