Which Modern Plane Company Built Hitler's Luftwaffe? 

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So that's the reason why the a320 has its iconic whistling noise! It's the grandchild of the Ju-87!

That would be hysterical🤣🤣🛬

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Funny (sort of), like Boeing's 737 Max - aMurica's famous Stuka equivalent 😗

Yes. Putin told us this years ago. It is obvious if you think about it, we are after all living in nazi europe. I apologize for our right-winged aircrafts, we can't help ourselves😪

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Reminds me of scene in Dr. Strange Love 😎

Good one….

Before taking over BFW he had his own design buro, just like Mikoyan-Gurevich in the USSR. In fact all those soviet aircraft designers were just that, design buros, as all the factories to produce aircrafts were own by the state. Dr. M, wasn't just appointed chairman, with the money he got for the model E (Battle of Britain) he bought most of the shares of BFW and became the owner, changing the name. You can read Martin Caidin's Me 109, for more information.

@@gustavogarcia-echeverria1190 Yes but he was still working for BFW from 1927. My point is that he didn't create Messerschmitt AG in 1938, he just renamed an existing company.

You're smart.

@@MrHws5mp Precision in written works and speech is all, very nice to see.

I was confused by the 1938 date since the Bf109 was first deployed to Spain in 1937. It would be hard for a company to build and deliver an aircraft before being founded...

The Arado jets were so futuristic..well except for the ski landing system.. but to look at.. wow. Thank goodness they came too late.

IIRC, B&V was primarily a shipbuilder, and, for the most part built aircraft under license.

Erich Bachem designed the Ba 349 Natter rocket-powered interceptor. After the war he built “Eriba” caravans.

Don’t forget Henschel

@@bebo4374 Or Mitsubishi on the Pacific side.

Airbus the "most successful" airplane company? A ridiculous statement! Where were these legacy Germany companies when Boeing came out with the 747 in 1970??? No where to be found in competition!

Nice man

At least Airbus doesn't seem to be plagued by the same safety issues as Boeing.

@@georgeschaut2178 Ya tell it to the Air France jet that went down in that storm off the coast of Brazil 20 years ago! Yokes that did not move in tandem!?!?

@@iamgermane It outsells, outproduces, and out-earns Boeing by a significant margin these days. There is a very good argument in calling it the most successful. Most iconic? Probably not.. at least for now.

Interesting. Thanks.

@@NVRAMboi You're welcome!

We need more people to think like Hugo and speak out. The warmongering has been horrific last few years, as if they forgot war is hell!

Did he instead moved into garments and become the Boss of Hugo?

@@hgm8337 ba dum tshh

Yes postwar production in Germany of those small cars that ran like cockroaches on the streets.

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When I heard "Heinkel," I thought this was the same company which manufactures and sells kitchen knives. 🙄🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

It would have been a very nice surprise if it wasn't also the most obvious answer!

I suppose Airbus' corporate motto is "You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!"

Yeah. It was pretty obvious.

Airbus the "most successful" airplane company? A ridiculous statement! Where were these legacy Germany companies when Boeing came out with the 747 in 1970??? No where to be found in competition!

@@iamgermane _"Airbus last year topped Boeing for the fifth straight year in the orders race, with 2,094 net orders and 735 delivered planes. Boeing had 1,314 net orders and delivered 528 aircraft. Airbus currently leads Boeing in sales of large single-aisle planes 80%-20%, according to figures from Alton Aviation Consultancy"_ Given Boeing's recent issues with MCAS killing 340 + passengers & crew, another Boeing with a door blowing off due to manufacturing defects, and now stranding astronauts on the ISS, I wouldn't be blowing Boeing's trumpet too loudly at this time. They may once have been the world's greatest aviation company, but that is now a distant memory. They went rapidly downhill after the merger with McDonnell-Douglas, once the bosses with engineering degrees were replaced by bean counters. I am 68, a frequent flyer, and for the first time in my life, I am checking flights I am on, and making sure I my flight is not scheduled to be using a Boeing. _"If its Boeing, I ain't going"_

@@iamgermane Boeing has built a lot of famous and infamous planes, but financially they're a very unstable company. Developing the 747 almost killed them back in the day and they were merely lucky they got it ready while there was still a demand for moving a lot of people. That plane was basically a last ditch effort and they were only barely able to get it in the air despite being out of money, but it saved the company purely because of what the airline traffic was like in the 70s. Every time a company like that designs a new plane they depend on the airlines ordering a lot of them, and they haven't been good at holding on to those contracts - there have been a lot of cases where the airlines they contract with back out, scale back, or just go bankrupt before the planes are delivered. When they acquired McDonell-Douglas it was immediately followed by several of the new MD-80 and MD-90 falling out of the sky for one reason or another - and that pattern has continued ever since. Whenever they introduce a new plane, there's always several with fatal problems and especially in the past two decades nearly all the Boeing crashes have been due to design or manufacturing defects. The passengers and airlines have lost faith in Boeing and if you pay close attention to which planes that go in and out of the airports, nearly all the Boeing are old models because they're reliable, which cannot be said about their newer siblings. Airbus haven't been without fault, but financially they're solid, and statistically their planes are more reliable and cheaper to keep flying because they're built properly.

​@@iamgermaneYou haven't read the news for the last few years haven't you?

Every Boeing employee atm envy to them, as their engineers at least not die in mysterious ways 😂

"If it's Boeing, I'm not going"

Ya because Airbus has never had any planes crash or had any mechanical problems Airbus would not exist without government help

@@FP194most airplane manufacturers would not exist without ”government help”. stop deepthroating Boeing, I used to love Boeing but they’re currently a shady, unreliable company.

@@FP194 Boeing has had plenty of help from the US government and will no doubt continue to receive that kind of help. Since the engineers on the board of directors were replaced with Harvard business graduates the company's fortunes have sadly declined, and I believe that will continue until the CEO is once again an engineering graduate rather than a business graduate. Companies that make heavy engineering products need a CEO who understands how the products work, and also has a reasonable grasp of business. Having a money man who sort of understands engineering will not cut it.

Mitsubishi is so much more, they even build ships all by themselves. Same whith samsung in Korea. Just a chunk of GDP, about 5 or 10%. Idk how to classify Asian economies, these are not private and not state run, but something in between.

What happened to Kawanishi? Just Curious!!

They all disintegrated after WW2 into subcomponents by the decree of General MacArthur. Mitsubishi motors is not the same as Mitsubishi heavy industries

Subaru is also linked, (Fuji Heavy Industries),as well as Toyota.

@@Satvik_3334 Became Shin-Meiwa they still make Flying Boats.

They also build cars

they don't really POINTtec makes the watches and then licence the names

⁠@@punkypink83i’m pretty sure POINTtec parted ways with the Junkers branding a while back. Didn’y Iron Annie replace Junkers, and Junkers watches are no longer made by POINTtec? The new Junkers’ are most likely made cheap, with low quality by another company. I’d assume they’re mass produced by some low tiet company that assembles the watches from Chinese parts in Germany.

@@pirjoajonen Yes, the Junkers family very abruptly pulled out of their license agreement with pointtec. The new Junkers watch company is partly owned by the family now, but they still produce in Germany. Messerschmitt watches on the other hand are made by Aristo Vollmer in Pforzheim Germany, they are licensed by the Messerschmitt cultural heritage foundation.

Why didn’t the Luftwaffe armor their aircraft? Seems like other countries did.

Ha, i was right when i thought of the P-40. The Flying Tigers

Same with the Dutch Aerospace company-Fokker. What a shame as Fokker made great planes. At and aerospace company I worked for 10 years ago, I used to by landing gear made by Fokker. It was used on one of the fighter jets for the USAF. It has been so long ago I can't remember what jet it was used on.

From what I have read, CW was once the largest aircraft manufacturer in the US, far outpacing other US manufacturers in WWII in terms of planes built, but due to reasons to I really don't understand, the company was slow to adopt the jet engine into new designs of planes so Boeing and Lockeed-Martin overtook CW in market share and it was all down hill from there for the aircraft division of the company.

Interestingly Nakajima is a common ancestor for both Subaru and Nissan

F-104 "Thuds," the "widow maker" planes for their tendency to crash! Big scandal in West Germany at the time involving them.

Those hangars with holes are still there, as well as many bomb craters in the forest next to the employees parking area.

The same happened with Ford and GM after the war - and several other companies. Weird that the taxpayers had to pick up the tab for war losses.

I think Nazi philosophy has so poisoned these companies that, despite good people's best efforts, they eventually get caught up in a scandal. Volkswagen and their emissions software scandal made me decide that I will never buy a Volkswagen or even a Ford ever again. Those names should die out of our world, and most certainly shouldn't be in my driveway or jobsite.

I was a contractor on the Seastar in late 2022 for a short time, interesting plane to say the least!

If I had the money for a private plane (total pipe dream), that's the plane I'd buy, if I could. I've always loved the concepts in Dornier flying boats.

US is not necessary. It is the same, just with Boeing as the big company.

He *is* teaching history but he's doing it on RU-vid rather than a classroom where he can reach a much bigger audience.

@@reinhardtchristiansen4275 Correct

What do you think he is doing, Captain Obvious?

He does.

They own Ducati motorcycles and moto Gussi

Ducati is not owned by Piaggio anymore, its now owned by Volkswagen.

Technically Audi, but definitely NOT Piaggio 😊​@@kristoffermangila

And the also iconic _APE_

@@TheKRU251 hmm, and who owns Audi?

After the war, the aircraft builders Blohm & Voss reverted to Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB). They joined VFW and became part of MBB. The rest you know.

Sadly, No. It might be quite fun to fly in an Airbus with the fuselage on one wing, and the tail on the other😊

@@phaasch BV 141 is so enigmatic; I'd love to see one fly. I reckon it'd do your head in, but apparently pilots loved them.

@@PedroConejo1939is there sources for that? It proves quiet a chaos to trace which company belongs to VfW, MBB and DASA at which point in time but as far as I have read B&V did never belong to VfW but formed Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm with Messerschmitt and Bölkow.

@@laurencehoffelder1579 It's largely from memory of something I read a long time ago, but it does seem to match with a quick scan of Wiki. It's important to remember that Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB) and B+V went their different ways after the war. HFB were not part of B+V from then on but they met again through MBB. HFB got there via their work with VFW, so it was HFB, not B+V who were involved with VFW. There was an article tracing it in one of the aviation mags some years ago. I don't think it was Flight International but it could have been - we used to get a pile of mags at work, so remembering what was in which mag is not easy.

I attended a well-regarded Canadian university that has a large engineering faculty 40-odd years ago. The engineers proudly marched with a symbol of their profession, a giant pipe wrench named the Ridgid Tool, as a sign of their sexual prowess. The women engineers, of which there were very few at the time, had their own symbol, the Ridgid Diaphragm, which was an actual manhole cover. I see that the Ridgid Tool company still exists, although I have grave doubts that the male or female engineers still march with their old symbols.

Was the poster near the cockpit?

I love the old posters before the world became politically correct.👍😎🇦🇺🤣

Fokker is a Dutch company

Which became Universal aircraft company, which became north American aircraft co. Which built what? The P51. Also the 300 series Airbus was actually the last design of Douglas aircraft and was sold to the eurotrash upon the merger with BOEING. I RODE A 321 NEO TO ALASKA AND IT WAS THE BEST RIDE BARRING THE MISERABLE SEATS,BESIDES A 747, QUIET AND SMOOTH.

Or maybe, don't start a war in the first place...

I love that bubble car! It's the coolest one

​@@AndrewAMartin Well said, Sir!

A buddy of mine said the same thing since they strictly enforce the rules.

@@dtaylor10chuckufarle German is the best language for shouting in. When traveling in Germany I always have with me, my Berlitz - 'Shouted German'

then they are getting it wrong, aren't they

@@cynthiaalver Are you sure? I have a coffee maker of the brand and an electric bread slicer, but it’s “Krups” not “Krupp”. But I still remember the first boiler in the house I’m living in, which was actually made by Krupp.

You’re thinking of Krups. No connection to the steel maker

It seems I am mistaken. My apologies. It's a forty year old memory and all these years I've remembered it as Krupp. Thank you for correcting me.

The irony would be to have a Porsche-designed kitchen stand mixer, just to compete with Krupp's...

@@cynthiaalver wait until you hit 65. You won’t remember that you’re 65

Krupp was more than just a company. They were an armaments giant. Without their production the Third Reich wouldn't have gotten beyond Two-And-A-Half.

"Hard as Krupp steel!"

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--WX5zOdMprc.html A great RU-vid doc about modern German companies built on slavery during WW2

Thyssen was part of the conglomerate/cartel Vereinichte Stahl Werke (VSW). Fritz Thyssen fled Germany after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the company was absorbed into the Reichswerke Hermann Göring. Krupp & Thyssen did not merge until very late in the Cold War.

You've just reminded me that a lift in our hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland was made by the Schindler company, thus becoming "Schindler's Lift".

Don't pop off yet.

@@raedwulf61Haven’t popped off yet (at time of writing)

Is that a tongue in cheek reference to Boing (sic) tending not to get things right? They say that 'What goes up, must come down', I am starting to think that it is not correct with the Boeing Starliner that is currently docked with the ISS, although if it stays docked and is unable to return to Earth by itself it will actually come back to Earth with the ISS when it is de-orbited in 2030.

The propaganda is amazing. It is as if the Airbus A320 series never had any serious problems that caused crashes.

@@Kefuddle, and Boing* never spouted their own "Propaganda", leave it out Wankee boy.

There is also Imperial Tula arms plant, it has been in production since 1712, providing arms for Imperial Russia, USSR, and the current Russian state. Izhevsk mechanical plant has also been producing weapons among many other things since 1942. 👍 Both factories have produced guns under the “Baikal” name. I know both for their hunting shotguns, commonly seen here in gunshops in the UK.

They exist now but thanks for mentioning it cause now we can have some drones visit them 🤣🤣

Rapira makes razor blades and perhaps cannons again.

Not really - most of those names ended up in British Aerospace in exactly the same way that the German companies ended up in Airbus. Shorts (not Stirling) had a different fate as did Boulton Paul

To some extent this is also a reflection of the hyper centralisation of corporate structures across the world in the age of corporate capitalism. The biggest and 'fittest' companies hoovering up their competiton in a capitalist-darwinian process. Same happened to Vought, Douglas, North American, Brewster etc. I'd still say the golden age of British aviation came to a pretty brutal end during the Cold War.

Add Grumman, North American, Republic, Curtiss, Douglas, Fairchild and others. Boeing will find itself in the shitter fast through DEI suicide

​@@murewa31same thing happened to my dad's old company. General Electric used to be one of the biggest companies in the World. Now it's been merged/ broken up into a shadow of the mega company.

Some of them (Hawker for example) ended up becoming part of BAE Systems. And BAE not only contributed to the development and construction of Airbus aircraft but part of the company was also sold to Airbus in 2006.

Mitsubishi?

@@hgm8337 Messerschmitt yes. The model name was Bombardier. Make one wonder if there was a reference.

I once saw a euro fighter fly above Southend on Sea high street during an air show and god was it loud I think it must’ve broken the sound barrier.

If it had broken the sound barrier, you wouldn't have heard it...

@@oliabid-price4517 What? Going supersonic does not mean going silent - quite the opposite! 🤯

Well it was SO LOUD it seemed to vibrate the street with sound waves (it might have been an Alien UFO)

@@oliabid-price4517 have you heard of the sonic boom?

There was a Zeppelin company selling airships in the recent past. Not sure what their realtionship to the original Zeppelin company is though.

​@@MrHws5mp: I also don' t know, but ZF company, known for gearboxes/ Getriebe means Zeppelin Friedrichshafen. Oh , during a historical tour of a smaller historical society i could visit current Castle of Freiherr von Brandenstein - Zeppelin, with the owner as Guide.

​@MrHws5mp Believe it or not, Zeppelin, the original company, is still in business. As far as I know, still family owned.

@@towgod7985 : Possible. During historical tours of noted historical society , i visited some castles of german knightly families. Most of them have nowadays economical problems, about which they don' t speak openly, but Mr. von Brandenstein - Zeppelin seems to be still rich. Even family von Hohenlohe - Langenburg, german high nobility, close related to british Windsor dynasty, seems to have problems .

He did mention that Airbus is an international consortium of much more than just German aircraft manufacturers.

They started building ships long before motorized aviation was even a thing.

My favorite Mitsubishi product is a full set of pencil crayons I got as a kid.

@@Raptorsified Why not. It's just post 1940's Japan.

I own a Mitsubishi car. From time to time I've thought about getting a personalised/vanity registration/licence plate "Zero" but perhaps "A6M" might be more inconspicuous.

@@gregmichael8473 I don't think it will matter. Those who know will know.

​@@Raptorsified- My girl owns a Mitsubishi dildo. 🤣🤣

The UK has the second largest aerospace industry after America.

Emigrating? Last gasp? BAE is a huge enterprise that manufactures in several countries. Vickers - makes submarines including nuclear ones - is also part of BAE Systems; I'm pretty sure Vickers isn't 'emigrating' Royal Navy nuclear sub manufacture to the US. Are you thinking about the M2 Bradley AFV which is a BAE Systems vehicle? The early US Army/USMC Bradleys were actually made in the UK although later ones were built in BAE Systems facilities in the US. BAE also owned Royal Ordnance and also used to own Heckler & Koch which is why getting H&K to redo the SA80 British battle rifle wasn't 'handing it over to the Germans'.

What are you talking about? Hitler wanted a unified Europe, just as the founders of the EU wanted a unified Europe. It was always just a fight over who would ultimately be in control of it, the Nazis or the globalists. I can't really say that either group is better than the other.

Hahah... they already had their fill of Communists 😂😅😂😊

Airbus has problems also

That's the Spirit. That's a former Boeing parts company that makes Airbus wings.

Or maybe Antonov! 😉

I seem to recall an accident in NY several years back, where the tail of an Airbus plane broke off shortly after takeoff. They blamed the pilot for moving the rudder pedals too drastically, which sounds bogus to me.

Gotta let those boys go back to chewing gum on the assembly line again. These new laminated plains gotta be held together by something.

neither did Mr Handy hahaha

It is very real and still at the leading edge of some of the best technologies

Yeah, sounds like a company name from a 1950's/1960's SciFi film.

Sounds like a "James Bond" movie company!

@@StalinTheMan0fSteel There was an episode (actually, a two-parter IIRC) of "The Rockford Files" that had a corporate villain named General Dynamics, which was a made up name at that point. However, a bunch of US defense companies merged and took the name General Dynamics, so before the show aired, they had to dub over every reference to General Dynamics with 'Fiscal Dynamics'...

That's "HortEN"...don't confuse it with the companies run by "Roger Horton"... 🤣

@@thhseeking sorry cheif

@@stewartmckeand6099 That's alright, Max :P

@@thhseeking Ha!

Forker- Dutch and bankrupt. Focke-Wolf ended up as as part of Airbus

Fokker is not german

@@VonLae Well from 1914 to 1918 they might as well have been! 😃

the building of fokker aircraft stopped in 1996 after bankruptcy, but business units that were viable still exist under the name Fokker Technologies. they mainly do maintenance, modification and repair of aircraft

@@janneman7710 I wonder if they'd make money building new Dr1's and D7's? There's got to be a market there somewhere! 🤩

Great companies. Pretty much everyone has done dodgy things in the past.

IG Farben was broken after the war. The most famous offspring is BASF

Well, IG Farben = Hoechst, Bayer, BASF, Cassella,…

That’s funny as hell- I buy chemicals from BASF, and Evonik-Rohm…to build parts for Airbus.

Do they still have that funky elevator?

You'd only be a furry if you were dressed as a wolf yourself whilst doing it, otherwise it's just a harmless bit of old fashioned beastiality

Nah, that's the americans

My mum and dad had one of those Messerschmitt's in the 60s. Though it was before I was born, but I also remember one of my primary teachers having the Heinkel during the 70s. Crazy looking thing with one front door.