Belgian Beauties; The Renard Fighters 

YES I was thinking the same thing today.

>Forgotten Weapons >Not Drachinifel

That's actually Bis at Miitary Aviation History. But this is a close second.

Nog een prachtig Vlaams design, de Rolls Royce Jonckheere

@@patrickpanhuysen9618 Was, strict genomen, geen vlaams design: Renard was een Waal...

You've never heard of it (neither have I) because we're always feed the same info, Spitfire, 109, Mustang etc.

belgian air industry is many prototypes... few successes.... but the Stampe SV4 stands out ofcourse

@@roelantverhoeven371 That's quite sad to hear. I'm getting Avro Arrow vibes as a Canadian. Some good ideas are killed for all the wrong reasons.

Cheers!

@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters can you do a video on the Fouga CM 170 Magister please.

Lol indeed!

Focke-Wulf couldn't work out that way of engine cooling years later. I wonder indeed.

@@vaclav_fejt just what I also wondered.

With the R42 configuration, my thoughts went also in the direction of the Lockheed P38 Lightning.....maybe inspiration?

@@arno-luyendijk4798 sometimes, the same ideas surface in more or less the same period independantly from each other. Especially when there are not 36 solutions to things like increasing the range of a plane. The jet engine too was developped in three countries independantly.... (strangely enough not including the USA ?)

As a Belgian I have to ask you: what exactly is a Belgian mind?

@@stejer211 Not French not dutch not german not english; inventive, fair ,critical and free. At least. And please see all this through a positive way. Yesterday I was reading Simenon "le destin des Malou": always impressive his way of writing is so nervous or though he goes straight to the matter. Spend a long time Outremeuse Liègeand also Antwerpen. Best regards

@@marcamant7258 Excellent explanation, I recognize those properties. Thanks.

@@stejer211 A pleasure to share.

Many thanks!

There's nothing wrong with being neutral. Ask the Swedes and even better, the clever Swiss.... But of course, if you have cheaters as Herr Hitler... Still, even he choose not to attack the Swiss, just to have a good look in what they were keeping in their bank vaults. All that unclaimed money, all that gold and those diamonds from executed or killed banana republic dictators etc. All that "black" money, those undeclared funds... (And maybe catch Allen W Dulles "en passant", playing OSS contact man... That, together with the fact that he never used chemical weapons remain two very surprising historic facts...

@@Retroscoop Switzerland was never targeted by Hitler for one very simple reason. It was in effect the central European exchange for international funds and Germany, lacking the material resources needed to run and arm its military and therefore being forced to obtain such material from neutral or "friendly to Germany" nations [mostly the South American nations], the only way such purchases could be transacted was through the banking systems of other neutral countries of which Switzerland was one of the main ones.

;) happy to hear it.

The Germans f'd it up. For a lot of countries...

@@iberiksoderblom If it wasn't for the Germans, Renard never would have started designing warplanes...

@@stejer211 I so understand your point, but it should be mitigated: Renard was also looking to sell to overseas markets (Ed's video mentioned China briefly). Also, renard was already building and selling airplanes long before the rumours of war were spreading throughout Europe...

@@TheOldEuropean That's why I said warplanes and not airplanes...

both used exhaust gas to generate some extra thrust

Mon plaisir, mon ami.

failed to put up much of a fight? the battle of belgium was more than just eben emael you know... there's the chasseurs ardennais and the battle of the lys too

oh and while belgium didn't have heavy or even medium tanks, the tank destroyers were unexpectedly (by the germans) devastating (T13 B and C) and they had tractor-towed artillery to reckon with. the belgian 105 mm howitzer had great precision and was adopted by the germans themselves. the Brossel 4x4 tractor/truck was one of the first miliary off road vehicles that had a good speed on the road as well. the germans were still pulling a lot of their cannon by horse or mule. i was in the air (and OBVIOUSLY on the sea) that Belgium was the most lacking... in the air the air force had biplanes and 11 hurricans (and 15 battles...) the "navy" had 9 armed trawlers that couldn't even intercept most freighters.. a fast gunboat, similar to a destroyer, was being built, Artevelde, she was captured by the germans while still building and used as Lorelei K4 in the kriegsmarine.

Agreed. I think the projection and testing figures are optimistic. If any had reached service, theyd have been much heavier.

One day. So many to cover :)

@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters take your time I love your work I look forward to whatever else you have in store for us :)

English please.

so true ,another 18 months could have made a big difference..not only for planes but from what I understand a whole bunch of milltary equipment from both Belgian and French.

@@kiereluurs1243 If it was developed faster and sooner, it could have given the Bf109E and the Spitfire Mk 1 a run for their money. I think the comment is pretty readable, with only one or two mistakes. (I may have missed/ made some mistakes)

Most Belgian Hurricanes were destroyed on the ground during an air raid on Schaffen. The Renards would've, presumably, undergone the same fate. And if this wasn't the case, their airfield would've been overrun in days as what happened to the rest of the Belgian airforce. But a really interesting start for a what if scenario.

@@mrwhite1368 the Belgian airfields that where treatend with getting overrund where abandond and the airforce moved to a another airfield. one group fought until france surrenderd and these where fiat cr42 falco

No, it's a Fairey Firefly. Different structurally and dimensionally to Hawker Fury. Not to be confused with the later naval fighter with the same name. Just look it up.