A work of art that process is, as with the system, knowing how the older systems worked in getting the most from these machines , this is a critical method with the ground crew for full safety, you don’t break method or you die, that simple, and mistakes did cause many deaths.
Whats the percentage between accidents and lost to enemy ratio of these planes? My word, this has been an informative video. Learn something new everyday.
The first written checklist was created for the B-17 due the crash of it's first test flight. The plane stalled and spun into the ground soon after takeoff, bursting into flames. Post-accident investigation determined the control surface gust lock had not been released. Hence the creation of the modern written checklist.
Ok I see this video 13 years old but I’m putting together a B17 bomber model together it seems the exhaust comes out underneath the engine where I’m guessing the turbines is right before the exhaust exits?? I also see in a lot of photos what also looks like exhaust marking on top of the wing so could there be two different exhaust exits for each engine? If you could help I would appreciate it. Thank you.
My father was s pilot and when I was growing up seldom a werk went by without hearing a Stearman, Beaver or Beech 18 fire up. Still love the sound of a radial engine, that's what flyong is supposed to sound like.
Little did these men know that 86 years later a privat pilot would be watching him explain how to start the B-17 so he could then fly it in a completely simulated world world
6:10 I'm a noob here... when the instructor's decreasing manifold pressure before the pilot pulls back the throttle to lower RPM, what control is he using? Is that the propeller control?
That is an engineering marvel, remember almost none of those gauges is electric meaning they had fluid running from all the way from the back to the cockpit. That is just astounding given the technology of the era.
Real crazy thing to think about is, Engines, fuel systems and all of this is STILL all done, its just now we have computers to do all this checking for us rather than a hundred gauges that we (humans) have to keep an eye on. And the computers even have safety systems in place to prevent damage if something is off. Its no wonder the older planes needed more people (mainly a flight engineer). Keeping an eye on all of that would just be too taxing for one person, and in this case, even for two people.
2:18 5th install the Oil control ring of the 3rd oil control ring, 6 install another oil control ring, just to make sure the 5th oil control ring works well. 7 install another oil control ring just for, why not? Just do it !!
The Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan, is about 15 miles south of me. They offer rides for a price in a B-17 and their flight path often comes over our house. I can hear those radial engines and can instantly recognize them. Amazing to see the procedure necessary to start those engines.
I want to hear about the time Mr. Instructor pulled a boner; maybe in part2. This was great, super animation, we used to watch these WWII instructional videos in A&P school. Loved em then, love em now.
I swam there in the 1950's. The bridge was still in use and was turned by two men who walked to the center and inserted long metal handles into the round horizontal wheel and walked around in a circle to swing the bridge.
Great historical video - I live near CAF Airbase Arizona (Mesa), and have watched them firing up Sentimental Journey’s engines (B-17G, of course!) at a distance, but always wondered about the complete procedure. Thanks! 🇺🇸 Believe it or not, the fire-up procedure on a P-51 is almost as complicated as this, despite the fact that you are dealing with only one engine.
Dad was a command pilot out of Foggia, Italy at 17 years of age. He did not learn to drive a car until 1945 on his return to the “ good ol’” USA. 56 missions and never lost a crewman.
