Licence-Built Luftwaffe - Postwar Copies of WW2 German Planes 

holy crap that's bad ass

Dorniers? Almost impossible, except for the Do-24 seaplane. You must mean the licensed copy of the Heinkel He-111.

Had to be one hell of an awesome sight to see!!

THAT must have been a sight to see!

Similar thing happened to me; living in Chester, England on the flight path of their small airport was advantageous. On a glorious spring or summer day I heard the sound of Merlin engines. I called my small son to come quick, we stepped out back just in time to look up and see the Battle of Britain flight pass so close you could almost reach out and touch them 😎

Yep, spanish "Buchón". BF-109 with Hispano Suiza or even Rolls engines. We have a few in museums. The czech ME-262 are amazing. They have couple in a big museum (old airbase) just outside Prage.

I was sorely disappointed back then to go to the theater to see fat nosed 109s and tweaked He 111s

As a kid in the east end of London back in 1968 a flight of spitfires followed by Bf 109's flew over my house. I'd never seen anything like it and I thought I was seeing ghosts! Of course nobody believed me at the time then later the film The Battle Of Britain was released. That was it I was hooked for life on warbirds.

If you have watched the film "Battle of Britain", during certain scenes where the sunlight played over the fuselages and wings it is just possible to make out the Spanish markings under the applied camouflage to replicate German WW2 look.

​@knskumo lol I'm a huge history buff. Sucks most of the nice complete aircraft are all the way across the Atlantic Ocean lol.

Your English looks pretty good to me. It's much better than ny schoolboy German!

I'm a native speaker of English, and I like to hear it, too.

Rex of Rex's hanger fame speaks very precise 'Oxford' English if you want to polish your pronounciation. Ironically, he's an Aussie WARNING A lot of Brits are less hostile to a faint Foreign accent than the plumy RP of the 'elite' Oxford accent.

Even made decent mock-ups of the reversible winter camo parkas for Clint and Richard!...Re-used in, "The Eagle Has Landed"...So convincing that many collectors thought they were a legit variant pattern scheme.

@@projektkobra2247- there were reversible snow and autumn smocks issued to mountain troops by the Wehrmacht

I believe that was Iron Annie, Martin Caidin's JU-52, werk nu. 5489

@@M1903a4 The silver and blue CASA 2111 is the He 111 in "The Battle of Britain". The crew from the "Flugwerft Unterschleißheim" museum that restored it opted for the original spanish colour scheme for historicity.

@@M1903a4I think plane was still flying as tourist aircraft but crashed in 2022 or 2023 in Switzerland. I believe they have one more flying JU-52 left.

But unfortunately we dont preserve any Me 109 or IAR 80 from ww2

With the music I was waiting to see storm troopers marching and operation Barbarossa to begin!

Sir Mark

Ima be late for work but im not late for this 😂

You said it!

​@loganlittle3889 gotta get your priorities right!😊

My mother's cousin was married to the Observer/Radio Operator/Navigator to Lawrence Olivier, (yes, that one!) flying the Fairey Swordfish during WW2, he told us it wasn't unknown for the Swordfish to effectively land backwards due to headwinds‼️😁

@@johnrae4633 Is your mother’s cousin her first cousin? The he/she is your first cousin once removed.

I was once on a german airshow where they had a retired german paratrooper that wanted from a Transall - from 30 meters height. The speaker said they had bargained him up to 100 meters height. When I saw it, I thought "that really would have worked with 30 meters". When he jumps out, he almost stops in mid-air, and the parachute is pulled out in FRONT of him Then he starts to fall,, once loose from the plane, the chute decelerates faster than he does. So he gets under the chute, and in the moment he gets in front of the chute, the chute fully opens with a "floop", and brakes him down to practically zero. Then he swngs back, under the chute - and stands on the ground. From 100 meter, he did an additional swing.

It was so easy to fly that even Field Marshal Rommel had his own Fiseler Storch in North Africa which he would pilot himself to get a better view of the enemy positions. The German infantry deployed scattered over the desert would often get a surprise low fly-by made by Rommel to drop a note over them promising to land and kick some asses if they didn't improve their defenses !

Shades of Udet!

So I guess you never learn the definition of "facts." Keep your OPINIONS to yourself. Fact : 1+1=2 Opinion : Blue is the best colour.

Aviation historians and fans knew right away about the "incorrect" Messerschmitts and Heinkels in "Battle of Britain" but the OVERWHEMING majority were thrilled the movie makers went through the effort of trying to get the German aircraft as correct as they could instead of recruiting P-51's and B-25's and painting Luftwaffe camoflage and markings on them. It would have been a LOT easier to do the latter and most of the viewing public wouldn't have known the difference. I'm willing to overlook some mistakes in movies if the movie-makers are at least TRYING to get it right.

From what I remember, the silver-blue He 111 / CASA 2111 in the video is the one from the movie. Old acquaintances. I have a friend at the Flugwerft Unterschleißheim that restored that plane Wrote already a comment with a few more details. Seems that barber shops are for unspecific small talk only. Better stick to other places. What can be fun is that when you are e.g. in a museum where the people are simply trotting on, because somehow you have to make it through the whole museum, you tell them "Have you seen that?" and point them to some detail. And then you can explain to them why that is so, what they had in mind back then. And suddenly it becomes interesting. Can go wrong, of course, but with a little luck you can get someone interested in a new topic that he did not even know existed. It is often tiny incidents that can trigger lifelong interests. Ask Neil deGrasse Tyson or Dr. Becky how they came to become astronomers. Or that Brian May, lead guitarist of Queen, is a studied astrophysicist whose bachelor work was such an odd topic (I think dust in the milky way) that it still is one of the few sources about that topic. I once looked inside the coach collection of a palace here in Munich, had just one question, and then got a complete private tour by the guard. He was so happy that at least one person had interest. So I e.g. learned that the sled of King Ludwig II originally had oil lamps (he uses it to roam through the forests in winter nights), but he hated the stench of these lamps that he brought Wernher from Siemens himself to create the first electrically-lit vehicle in Bavaria. Or that one of the coached they haquered with transparent red paint, and then took a bellows and blew real gold leaf onto/into the fresh paint. True metallic effect of the highest exclusivity. For me that what makes life interesting is such tiny anecdotes. They provide the spice to our existence. The more absurd the anecdote, the better. And the better you can envisage it, the better it sticks.

And now you can be abused on RU-vid in the comfort of your own home.

I had the audacity to correct my middle school English teacher when she proclaimed that the de Havilland Tiger Moth was a WWI aircraft. How foolish I was to correctly explain it was used as a trainer in WWII!

The Americans kept building V-2 rockets too.

@@toolbaggers So did the Russians, and out of captured components like the Americans did. V-1's were assembled as well for evaluation. However one-way weapons like the above are a little outside the scope of this video but the point's taken.

France got rid quite quickly of the NC-900 as they were extremely dangerous to fly. In fact, they were built almost to norm and were subtily sabotaged during construction by resistance workers.

The French began a new submarine Force again in '46 when the Allies distributed among themselves (US, UK, USSR, and France) the latest models of the revolutionary and futuristic Type 21 German submarines, which served in their Fleet till the '50s, when they began to produce their own models again.

The Amiot AAC.1 Toucan were officially retired from service in the Aéronavale up until 1962. Some of them were transfered to Portugal who used them during the Portugese colonial war (1974).

Also saw it in the theater when it came out in (1969). I believe the film company purchased only 2 HE-111s, seen taking off together in one scene. They reversed the negative to show it twice. The opening credit sequence seems to be a lineup of 111's from the Spanish Air Force, with German paint schemes. Still hands down better than any CGI could ever do. There is a company in Texas building new ME-262's with modern jet engines, all their production has been sold out so far.

Yes these were built by Herb Tischler former Luftwaffe sheet metal guy from Berlin went to work for Grumman after the war. He considered these "recreations" and Messerschmitt family bought the first one to take back to Mansching Germany. I saw these in Old Meecham field Texas before they were moved on to Paine field under new ownership. Great planes, where are they now??

I remember reading articles in aviation magazines about those Me-262's and there's also RU-vid videos of them to be seen. I'm amazed at just how lethal and formidable looking the 262 is even after 80 years. It sure doesn't look like an antique!

Jesus saVed me az well 🎉❤

From what I've read the He1111 was well-liked by the men who flew it, they said it was easy to fly and a safe airplane. The problem was it just couldn't defend itself against determined fighter attacks and since the 1111 was faster than contemporary fighters in the 1930s when it was first developed that speed had lured the Luftwaffe into a false sense of security as far as the airplane was concerned. That speed advantage didn't last long.

Yes!

You suggest just the one was used, but there were several used in Battle of Britain.

@@CaseyJonesNumber1 Maybe they used one particular plane to film the actors in. Of course there were more that we see flying in the bomber formations.

The silver-blue CASA 2111 in the video was one of those. I have a friend in the museum that restored it and where it still is.

Well done on getting the title of the film ‘Battle of Britain’ correct. M.

Formations were probably ai.

Are you sure about that? Finland did buy Me-109 from Germany. Think about it, what factory in Finland did have the capacity of building a DB 605 engine?

If ever an inanimate object could suffer schizophrenia, that would be the plane!

So it was Pee Wee's dad who had the really big adventure...

​@@jonathanljohnson I love the irony of Israel's first fighter being a variant of the Nazis' vaunted 109...

"Lol nice story, bro." Well that sounded like a load of B.S. for sure,...but I looked it up and 😮 you weren't lying ! What an interesting story ! 👍

I remember watching a documentary I think on Netflix called “on a wing and a prayer” about the founding of the Israeli Air Force. Classic documentary format of video interspersed with interviews, so I’m watching it an upper PeeWee Herman and his mother talking about their father and husband respectively

The Mustang was not much until the American engine was replaced by the British Merlin.

Yes! I was following the progress of the construction of these aircraft on their website and with all of the documentation and conversions to present day materials, I was most impressed by the Messerschmitt group, to award the designation 262 C forty years after the original versions. Quite the story and even now more can be built because of the details that have been drawn up.

The French copied General Montgomery too.made him taller, bigger nose and more moody but less competent and brave 10:18 and called it a De gaulle😂

A Focke-Wulf 190? Or a Me 109? The Doras with a Jumo 211 V-12 were comparably rare, I do not think they were license-built. Edit: all corrected.

@@feedingravens Ah yes, my mistake. 109

@@calsurflance5598Thumbs up for you correcting the text ;-))

Two seaters HA-1112 M4L are extremely rare, but they exist.

As it turns out, the guy who owned the P51, and the Messerschmitt was the son of a local tomato farmer. He also owned a MiG-21. Image my thoughts when I saw THAT go over the house!😳😱 The local airport,(formerly Castle AFB), has a flight school that teaches primarily foreign (Chinese) students basic flight. As the story goes; a student was taking off in a Cessna 150 . The guy in the MiG took off behind him and stayed low. After passing beneath the Cessna, the MiG went vertical scaring the noodles out of the student in the 150. Supposedly when the FAA rep showed up to talk to the student, the MiG was back in the hanger, the owner had left, and the guy’s mechanic was left to answer questions. There is now a MiG -21 at the Castle Air Museam. Not sure if it’s the same aircraft.

Jesus haz Daved me 🎉

Yes, amazed me also ! ;)