Handley Page Type O - Britain's First "Heavy" Bomber 

a top speed of 65mph?! surely that's a typo? how can ay heair than air plane fly that slow?

@@matthewfurlani8647 Really, really big wings.

but I'm so glad you're covering more WW1 - Interwar era aircraft! (which was something I've suggested in one of your past videos but I'm not sure if you saw that suggestion)

i noticed you got my request for the He-115, and it got me wondering if it would be a little neat idea to give footage of me using it in war thunder for examples? (thats if the video needs it!)

I really would really really really love if you did one on the XF-84H Thunderscreech, also perhaps more videos on early 50s experimental fighters? I really love your videos either way! Thanks for all the great content!

I often feel lucky to have grown up knowing many veterans from both wars and had the opportunity to hear some of their experiences , I still have a RN work knife given to me by an old "Uncle"(my Grandfathers best mate) who had it with him for 9 days in a lifeboat in the North Atlantic, he said the rust pitting on the blade occurred while it was in its sheaf at that time ,a fabulous gift given to a young boy in those pre knife crime days.

@@Evilroco Likewise, I've been lucky to know veterans of both the first and second world wars. Bill Smith was a neighbour when I was young. He kept chickens and goats, making his living from selling the eggs and milk. Bill had a pronounced limp, having had half his backside shot of in WWI, and had spent 3 days in a shell crater in no man's land, unable to move. Cecil Greenwood was a workmate who served aboard HMS Rodney throughout WWII and took part in the sinking of the Bismarck. He told me a number of light hearted stories about his wartime adventures and a little about sinking Bismarck, but even though he was a tough chap, I think it upset him to think about the German lads who weren't there to tell their story because of what he'd done. Another was a school friend's dad who had fought in Normandy and was possibly the first British soldier to go into the Falaise pocket after the shooting stopped. The scenes he described were appalling and really brought home to me that war is not how it looks in John Wayne movies. Lastly, and I wish I'd known him better, there's my wife's dad, who served aboard destroyers and corvettes during WWII. To her he was just "silly old dad" but he fought in the battle of the Atlantic, on the Arctic convoys, and in the Mediterranean, took part in the sinking of 3 (possibly 4) U-Boats, and was mentioned in despatches. All gone now.

@@Kevin-mx1vi I will have to make the effort of writing down all that I was told or heard from those guys before my memory muddles details and while other family members are still about.

Was going to say Airfix done a kit

@@Evilroco Please do that. Our generation is the last one that knew these people when they were in their prime and had clear memories of the things they saw and did. We heard their first-hand accounts and it's important to preserve them.

Why? It's not a flying boat !!

​@@gregdrew874does it have to be?

Drach jumpscare

The 0/400 was my favourite model build back when I was a teenager.

​@@jankorosec7 You know that Drach runs the preeminent naval history channel, right? 🤔 It was a joke.

Just the word piratical by itself is awesome to be fair. There's something very vivid on what it brings to mind

Churchill went flying but his wife stopped him getting his licence after a crash.

@@jameshall1300That is because All Good Stories have a Pirate in them 😊

Could make a good Tarantino movie...

@@eyo8766 Ok, "Inglorious Bastards-the not killing nazis prequel" with the troops armed with Lewis guns and BARs and colt carbines being the first paratroopers under the cover of a air raid to take over a hilltop that is like a "Guns of Navarone" situation.... I could see him making a movie out of that.

To really nail impressive I'd have gone Wright Fligher - Kitty Hawk 1903 - Lockheed's Mach 3 sustaining SR 71 Blackbird - Nevada 1964 ....... *SIXTY ONE YEARS* Its quite incredible.

@@Farweasel my favorite example in the speed of aviation development involves Kelly Johnston and it's insane to think that between the first flight of the P-38 and the A-12 that he worked on both, was only 23 years between them. From breaking 400 mph to cruising at Mach 3 in the same time frame that someone could grown up to age to drink liquor

I wish that they could make cars that they were making that bomber to hold up with the chance of time. They have upgraded it so much I imagine the first crew in the thing would think they about what they saw. That was really a complete plane and the thing looks like a modern one for the last several generations

To be fair the B52 is utterly useless nowadays

@@MaticTheProto Except it can haul cruise missiles half way around the globe and launch them in safety from a well considered distance. As for the electronic & other defensive warfare devices it carries all that's known in the public domaine is something's there & its probably pretty competent.

i picked up the old kit at a 2nd hand shop. its still a pretty good kit for its age, and with all the tec used these days on kits.

not irony. coincidence

25 or so years ago I attended a public meeting held by English Heritage to discuss the proposed A303 replacement (Stonehenge bypass) routing. They were getting all excited about how the roadworks would destroy ancient archeology, however, when I pointed out that the First World War airfield buildings had probably already done that, the Chairman of English Heritage looked at me and said "what airfield?" You are correct, they do tend to be a little too prehistoric centric.

Thanks for your comment. To give EH credit they did run an exhibition some years ago about the airfield but didn't take up the suggestion that WW1 was history as much as the neolithic, and info about its WW1 use would add to the visitor's experience. We also suggested that re-installing the railway siding from the Lark Hill Military Railway that ran from the site of the new visitor centre to the RFC/RAF Stonehenge "New Camp" camp (by the A303) would be a a more authentic means of connecting the centre to the monument than the Land Rover (Kninky-Knonk) land-trains!@@alastairmellor966

This video is quite Type O Positive, though 😁 It's been 14 years since he died this year. Damn.

He was a really nice guy, believe it or not.

Quite a few Typos in the CC Subtitles😛

And a short ton is 2000lbs.

As a navy project he also had a hand in getting tanks going in a similar manner

The V/1500s were suppose to fly from RAF Bircham Newton at the beginning of November but due to weather and mechanical unreliability they didn't go. It was close though a mission was suppose to fly November 9th. Which was cancelled and moved to the 10th which was so cancelled. Finally, moved to the 11th the 3 V/1500s at Bircham Newton were stood down early morning of thr 11th due to the Armistice.

The 40lbs difference between the Long Ton and the metric tonne doesn't amount to much when you're on the receiving end of either one falling on your head, buster 😏

Hi Malcolm of the sharp-eyes! I watched it all through without seeing that! Your reply made me look again more closely and I found them at 2 and 7 minutes. That's H-P V/1500 by the way, being developed from the O-400 had an otherwise similar appearance with increased span and added tail gunner, the latter not being seen in the video frames. I suppose the one seen at 7 min might have been a modified O-400 test bed for the engine installation? Or other transitional development type? It had the O-400 rear fuselage - the V/1500 rear fuselage was much deeper.

V/1500. Not many built; one of the largest aircraft of its time.