One British aviation magazine called WW1 pilots "The Few, The Brave and The Lucky" and this was spot on. Mechanical malfunctions, lack of training, lack of safety equipment and utterly primitive aircraft made the life of a WW1 aviator glorious and short. Even in 1918, few new British pilots survived longer than three weeks. But military aviation had arrived and aviation would change the world.
Somethings wrong with the explanation about the gun interruptor mechanism. He said the firing mechanism was connected to the crankshaft? Surely the rotary engine crankshaft is fixed, the cylinders revolve around it, don't they? I've always wanted to see a clear explanation of that mechanism and how it works with rotary, in line and radial engines.
Actually the Brits did also work on a syncronised MG at the same time. Unfortunately the guns they used (Vickers .303 and the Lewis Gun) were both open-bold action and therefore their rate of fire was a bit more random. This still caused a likelyhood of about 5% of hitting your own propeller when syncronised. The Germans instead used the MG 0815 which had closed-bold action making its shots more predictable.
I assume it’s just like all other single engine planes, I’m not sure what the age for a pilot’s license is in the USA but in Australia I think it’s 15, so I assume it’s somewhere around that
Dearest Dan, I understand your show is called "Dan Show." Now, if I may ask, because this fascinates me, is this the best you can do? I mean, I suppose it's clever in an ironic way, "oh it's a show with a man called Dan, get it?" But it doesn't show a flair of creativity. How we will know what your show is about besides the fact that there could potentially be a man called Dan? Think of all the other great shows of the past. Now, I don't watch TV, I'm severely addicted to my mobile phone and the internet has reduced my attention span to dust. But think of it like this, if I want to watch a show with planes, guns, bombs, etc - you should call it "Planes, Guns, Bombs, etc" -- that would be a hit! Peace and love Elliott Sargent.
Dearest Dan, I'd like to apologise for my remarks. I'm also a severe alcoholic and the liquor makes me say hurtful things. Peace and love Elliott Sargent.
A few oversights in this but otherwise a great overview. Aerial combat was kicked off by the Italians in an earlier conflict, the Italo-Turkish war. But WW1 saw combat as we now know it. The interruptor gear was a French innovation but an example quickly fell into German hands. Fokker copied and quickly refined the system. The brits used deflector plates and, most worryingly, a form of tape to hold the prop together just long enough to pop the aircraft back down.
Might have been an interesting video but I stopped halfway through when the completely out of place background music took over. Why would you blare this over the sound of an early aircraft engine that many people may not have heard before?
1.10 minute. What he said? (something) this one still flies. What was this "something"? "If wormacibly", "Imwormacibly"? There isn't that word in dictionaries...
Just imagine a plane flying and then crashing immediately by the Red Baron, that must be horrifying to see family die but again when people had guns on there planes (and yes they didn’t have guns in there plane on the first try) but when they did they actually had shot there propellers so they had tried steel but it didn’t work so somebody being a smart man made a machine that would disable when the propeller was in front of the gun and actually got a kill, so that could of killed many people like the Red Baron and all his victories because it would be more easier when shooting. I just explained planes to you
Green screen and wub wub music? Makes me want to puke. Want a REAL doco on the rise of combat aircraft in WW1? Look up Reaching For the Skies: The Aeroplane goes to War. Now THAT'S how you do a documentary, mate...