As someone from Cambridge, someone who had many aviation fanatics as friends and someone who played a considerable amount of War Thunder when this came out; Thank you.
I live on a B-52 base here in the U.S. in Louisiana. They are loud and big, but god I love watching them take off. They are very loud. Doesn't matter were you are on base, you can here there engines reving up and you know when they take off. Listening to them never gets old.
I come from a city in New Jersey, USA known for it's airport called "America's First Defense Airport". During WW2 they trained about 1,500 P-47 pilots. In 6th grade i meet one of those pilots. What was awesome was that i played Medal of Honor back in 2006 and during a mission we have to call a P-47 to take out a German tank. Well HE WAS THAT P-47 PILOT that was trained in Millville where i LIVE!
In case you were wondering, that Mitchell variant was a B-25J. The easy way to tell is that if it has a glass nose and forward mounted dorsal turret, it's a -J. Technically, though it is a PBJ Mitchell since it was in Navy markings.
The SR-71 was beautiful. . They had a prototype called the a-12, where the pilot had to eject. Guess you can go out there and still get pieces of it out there. (the pilot survived). That A-10 made me smile, I used to live near Moody AFB, and they'd fly overhead... Love the Hog. Wow, look at all the tanks... Man, we don't have museums here in the states with this much veriety.
Jingles...thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall in the early 80's and guarded several of those aircraft. The one hanging from the ceiling you weren't sure of was an F-80. Did you know that the B-52 on display at Duxford was actually flown in and landed on the grass strip after it was de-miled? Thanks for the memories...some day I will visit again.
My father knew a pilot that used to fly the SR-71. Couldn't say much, but the things used to leak like a sieve on the ground. When they flew they heated up so much that it sealed the leaks and expanded the wings several feet. He couldn't say exactly how high the op alt was, but it was midnight at noon according to him. My favorite plane and I defy anyone who says that there is a cooler one in existence.
The F111 was still flying with the RAAF up until 2010 when they were retired after 37 years service. A remarkable aircraft the fastest ever operated by Australia. The dump and burn manoeuvre where they would dump their fuel and light it with the afterburner was an airshow favourite really missing the Pig!!!
I cant tell you the amount of times ive been to Duxford IWM! Went there so much im able to point out and name the majority of the vehicles/planes there, used to get a lot of weird looks from older people when i was younger naming them all haha
Cool to see that T33 otherwise known as the "T-bird". That was an early jet trainer aircraft, which my grandfather flew. It gave him the training to check out in the F89 Scorpion.
Just to clarify for all you wonderful folks, the Sherman medium tank shown in Mr. Jingles video is actually a Canadian M4A1 Sherman. I can verify that it is a Canadian variant because in the city of Vancouver, about an hour away from where I live there are Two Sherman firefly tanks in front of what I believe is the Seaforth Highlanders armory. These tanks have almost identical markings. The Red box that has the 52 on the Duxford tank is identical, except the one in Vancouver is 53 not 52
In the 1980's when I was about 7 or 8 years old my Father and I built a 1/72 model of the SR-71. I remember taking it to school for show and tell, and no one, not even the teacher believed it was a real aircraft. That's 25 years after it was designed. It was even still in use at the time. SR-71 mantra. And though I fly through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For I am at 80,000 ft. and Climbing!
The SR-71 Blackbird. It leaked fuel on the runway, just spilled it on the ground. When it got up to altitude and speed the ram pressure heated the panels and they expanded to seal the fuel leaks. It didn't need any defensive guns because nothing could catch it even if they somehow managed to spot it on radar before it was already going past them. Truly an amazing airframe and a genius design on the part of Lockheed Martin Skunkworks.
well I guess that answers my question from the last video about meeting any subscribers. Thanks for showing us around Jingles, cant wait for the air show. BTW I was playing the Jingles drinking game and Boy am I hammered!
Another factoid on the SR is its skin was designed to stretch in the air. The aircraft actually got longer in flight. The added length sealed the fuel cells which leak on the ground.
They're there to help crossing obstacles. Imagine every tank in a platoon carrying one of these - combine them and you could easily form a bridge or a rudimentary ramp on very soft ground (e.g. marshes).
Hey jingles there is a air museum in America called march air museum it is in California. They have an SR-71, B-52, B-29, and they have days that they allow you in the cockpits of all the aircraft including a replica of the only surviving P-38 lightning.
In case you didnt know the logs purpose is that if the tank gets stuck, you tie the log in to the tracks providing extra grip from the ground. And it actually worked really well. Very cheap tool too =)
Jingles, great video! Please keep them coming. I think the "Sherman" is really a Canadian made Grizzly. They are almost the same. Grizzlys had all metal tracks while the Sherman tracks had rubber pads. There are probably more differences, but that is the main one I know of.
Also, because it's in US Navy markings, the B-25 is a PBJ, for Patrol Bomber, and the J is the Navy code for an aircraft made by North American (N and A were taken in the US Navy manufacturer code system).
The sherman at 9:42 is a Sherman M4A1, because it has a longer chassis than the M4 and note its fully cast upper hull. It is mostly recognisable by its longer chassis and the slightly raised parts of the frontal armour.
The log is used to help a stuck tank get out of the mud by putting the log in front or behind the tracks so the tank could drive over it and get out of the mud for all those wondering
Aha! Thank you! I was at the Blackbird Air Park in the Mojave Desert and the plaque said "T-33". I knew I was right when I said it was the P-80. Thanks. :D
The logs are for when they get stuck in the mud (or are approaching a mud put) they put down the log infront of the tank so that the tracks have something to grip to.
I've been to all of the great museums in Paris, Berlin, WDC, NYC... But never London. It would take a year to get to all of the ones that I want to see
SR71 used ramjet (vs turbofan) engines, and the inlet cones were adjustable to control the shockwave of incoming air. The skin is titanium and the aircraft would leak fuel until it grew as much as 6" in length from air friction.
Jingles, you should look up the McMinville air museum in Oregon, they also have an SR-71 and the one and only Spruce Goose! Largest wooden aircraft in the world! And while you're at it, check out the Tillamook air museum. They have the only operational ki-43 Oscar in the world and it's in the largest wooden structure in the world, a WW2 blimp hangar. Check them out!
Jingles, about the Sherman, there were different factories that made different looking tanks. Some used rivets and made the flat armored tanks and some used welding and made the rounded armored tanks. I think thats just an M4.
Jingles, if you ever get over to the states and are in the dayton ohio area, check out the wright-patterson air force museum, they have a section of a b-29 that you can actually walk through.
Nice gorgoues women xxx singing and duxford is fantastic place to go ,been to lovely duxford 30 times,hoping to go to flying legends airshow this year ☺
Jingles, You should come to America for some of the airshows. one of the ones I went to last year had a fleet of 30 B25's and 2 B17's all flying in formation
I wondered that too. I read some where that they had them incase they got stuck somewhere, presumably in muddy placed and such, they would use it to try to get it out of sticky places
I got the chance to go up close to an active serving B-52 based out of Guam and i was surprised how small the bomb bay was. And the F111 was retired by the RAAF in 2010, The Royal Australian Air Force was the only other Air Force to use it and was the only Air Force to do a dump and burn
Sorry Jingles, that M4 is just an M4 as it has a hull cast and is not welded. If the hull was welded to the rear then it would be an M4A1. Early Sherman hulls were one piece as they were casted as a whole.
The A-10's gun won't stop it in flight, but 2 would make it go backwards; the engines produce 4 tons of trust each, and the gun produces 5. Also, you might want to check your nicknames; the A-10 was called the Thunderbolt. The Warthog is the A-10B variant.
I love planes but havent played war thunder yet. i still really love the displayed beautys. and i think i probably love your show of the tanks even more. "yes, but has it a log?!" :D
Not just Russian tanks, tank destroyers in general carried logs because it didn't obstruct the turret, they provide added protection and could be used to get out of mud.
avenger is my fav, biggest carrier plane of the war, had crew of 3 and gunner in both turret and ventral positions, .50 cal each and could carry a shitload of bombs or torpedos
cos, they have huge guns, and the logs are like counterweights, to keep it balanced. and most of its equipment, like shells, radio, turret most of the time is located in the front.
It's a T33 Shooting Star. Introduced in 1948 & first flown by Tony LeVier. First used in combat in Korea but already outdated it was destined for only a role as a training aircraft.
12:09 - actually Leutnant's Gruber "Little Tank" was SdKfz 222, this looks like some early PzKpfw IV with 50mm, from the markings on the front - from 3rd Panzer Division.
it was a very cheap and easy way of adding or reducing weight to a tank so it could get better traction in snow and mud and i hear theres a lot of that stuff in eastern europe.. then if you needed speed instead of traction you just take the log off kind of ingenious if you ask me.
lockheed t-33 (shooting star) is a jet training aircraft, hence why no one has ever heard of them. also the F-111 was in service in Australia until about February last year when we finally retired the good old 'pig'.
I doubt he'll see it, but the jet aircraft behind the F-100 and the Mitchell was the Lockheed T-33, derived from the P/F-80 Shooting Star. Correct me if I'm wrong my cross-Atlantic friends, but I believe it was the USAAF's first (successful, at least) jet aircraft?
the T-34 was re designated as the T-34-76 and T-34-85 separately because of all of the huge differences that took place, not just gun wise but with it's design.
i know that not most people dont know this but the a10 is not officially called the warthog it is officially know as the thunderbolt 2 to honor the original thunderbolt
Hey jingles, did you know the SR-71 actually had intakes that bypassed the main turbofan intake, and were used in high-speed flight to reduce the drag effect of the turbo fans? I believe the pipes you saw around it were them actually. and the cones on the intakes could be rotated inward or outward to keep some sort of shockwave effect it experienced inside the engine? this thing was an incredible machine! Thanks for sharing =D
