SPAD S. XIII Best French Fighter Of WW1. 

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The 37mm/1pdr was very popular for legal reasons. A a shell weight of at least 400 grams (0.88 lb) was the lightest exploding shell allowed under the Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 and reaffirmed in the Hague Convention of 1899, and that was used to develop the 1pdr pom-pom among other infantry weapons like the French trench gun shown here, which also armed French light tanks until WWII starting with the Renault FT. It was also used in anti shipping/submarine warfare by the big French boatplanes

Thanks. I was 11 when I made my first large model of a SPAD XIII, US paint. My Grandfather fought the last 9 weeks of WWI on the front: infantry. Took out most of his hearing and smell. By 1946, he had a throat cancer from being gased. He died in the big VA hospital outside Chicago. Thanks for the memories.

Great video. I've always loved the SPAD XIII. I hope you'll do video's on the SE5a, and the Bristol F2B soon.

Great program and great subject. I appreciate how you were able to tie this one in with Rod Serling, Ferrari and, perhaps the most influential movie of my youth, The Great Waldo Pepper!

It just looks right to me. Always liked that kite.

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Another great addition! The French have always made interesting aircraft in general, and fighters in particular and they built some of the best fighter's of the Great War. It's always interesting to speculate what they'd have come up with in World War 2, if they hadn't been ousted from the war in 1940, both in terms of aircraft and in engine design. Of course, the Soviets had purchased the Hispano-Suiza H12y engines and developed them to a great degree, so it's a tantalizing glimpse of what was possible. But it'd be very cool to see what French designers would have done with the engine, as well as with their other engines and their various aircraft. I look forward to your next video!

Speaking of history... There is a Japanese carrier Kaga finally in San Diego. And it's going to be flying US Marine f-35s. Talk about a Twilight Zone episode...... 😏📺

The success of the SPAD is all the more amazing when one looks at the original, which put the observer/gunner in front of the prop in a little pod supported by ungainly struts. It looks so much like one of those planes that's just going to be a forgotten oddity. Along came interrupter gear and a simple redesign produced the VII. The inner wing struts are not for bracing, but just to steady the wires and thus reduce drag. I think one reason the SPAD (and SE5a) were so good was the strength of the airframe: confidence must have been so important without parachutes and aircraft that would readily fold up. Guynemer was a huge hero in France, more likeable than some of his contemporaries. I urge viewers to look at photos of him from lare 1916, and late 1917 before his death. Soldiers in this war aged so fast, looking fatigued and drawn. But not von Richtofen! Thanks!

Thanks - I saw a replica at the Duxford air museum just a fortnight ago; it's a shame I hadn't seen viewed video first!

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I think that keeping the pilot away of the oilspill and exhaust fumes was also a treat of the s.e.5. It even featured some idea of a "canopy" (which was not liked by the pilots, I read). And it was very fast as well. The engine eventually used was not the Hispano, but the Wolseley Viper (wasn't that a copy?). I like them both.

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The standard 2 gun placement on the SPAD 13 was also better than on the SE5 IMO. Atleast the variants we had access to in Rise of Flight and Flying Cirus.

IMO the spad is head and shoulders above all other WWII aircraft in looks.

I enjoyed your description of the differences between the model 7, 10 and 13. It is interesting to see the major differences.

Thanks for the video!! I would like to see a video about the Bristol f2b fighter, that would be super cool!

Nice one Greg. Definately thumbs up👍👍 Re the SE5, Jimmy McCudden tweeked his a bit. He fitted (he did it himself following his background as a mechanic) high compression pistons and the spinner from an Albatros. That latter alone he reconned as worth an extra 4mph. I suppose the former maintained the power at higher altitude as you told us for the Germans.

Thanks Greg , i was waiting for your SPAD XIII analysis 🎉

I love these WW1 aircraft videos. It might be nice to see a video about some of the other nations like maybe the Italians who really had some funky ideas. In this video it kept out at me at the end of the video the SPAD 13 had been built to the tune of some 8400 aircraft. Now that with all the Sopwith designs, SE 5 must been overwhelming for the Germans who mostly had a few hundred of their better designs in the sky available at any time for frontline use.

The Spad XIII might be the best french fighter of WWI but the Nieuport 28 certainly was the best sounding one. Imagine your typical 1980's lawnmower growing into some kind of mutant hulk monster. That's about the sound of the 160 hp Monosoupape

The SPAD had no real pfalz? Kidding, kidding. Hey, a comment is a comment.

BTW the extra 20hp for the 8B came from high compression cylinders. James McCudden fitted them to his SE5a in early 1918 when it was still powered by the geared HS8B saying he sourced them from the French

One of the humanitarian warfare conventions stipulated that 37mm was the smallest caliber you could use for exploding shells. I don't think it was upheld for very long but it directed development of munition and guns for a longer period.

The Spad and the se-5 are i think two of the best looking aircraft of Ww1.

In a book I have on Frank Luke, it said the with his 2 mechanics that he would spend hours each day on the engine. The Hispano Suiza engine was supposed to be very temperamental.

It is interesting to see the comments about choosing a replacement SPAD and its engine in the novel Falcons of France by Nordhoff and Hall (1929).

Nicely done, Greg, as usual. Since my personal focus has always been on WW 2 fighters, it's interesting to see the beginnings of lots of WW 2 technology being tried out over Flanders fields in the previous conflict. Not incidentally, the cockpits of most WW 2 fighters (a couple of Russian planes excepted), seem pretty luxurious by comparison to their WW 1 counterparts, especially in terms of pilot comfort. Given the attention paid to ergonomics in today's planes (and especially in today's automobiles), I'm always surprised by how primitive those WW 1 cockpits seem. Question (for Greg or other commenters): Could the louvers at the end of the SPAD exhaust have also served (intentionally or not) as something of a muffler - reducing exhaust noise in the pilot's ear?

I read that Rickenbacker used a standard vickers and an 11mm vickers on his Spad as a specific anti-balloon weapon. Forgotten Weapons has a review of one.

SPAD 13 was also first polish fighter, although it had most unfortunate name for any areoplane as it sounds like polish "it has fallen down/crashed".

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Thank you sir.

Coming from a racing background, Rickenbacker advised his squadron mates to go easy on the engines and not run them at full power until necessary.

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Regarding reversal of the propeller rotation catching some pilots out, I've read of something similar with the change from the Merlin to the Griffon engine (which rotated the other way) in later marks of Spitfire.

Excellent video. If I were to be a WW1 fighter pilot, this would be the aircraft I would want to be in. Dying of diarrhea and/or dysentery from flying a rotary -engined aircraft. I always wonder why I got the poops when I was messing around with my little Cox/Enya/OS Max airplane motors.....

The SPAD XIII. An early demonstrator of the axiom: Speed is life?

Thanks greg!

On the topic of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Americans who flew with the British, it is important to remember that British standards for verifying aerial victories were more lax than those of the French. This is also why British and Commonwealth pilots are disproportionately represented on lists of the most successful aces of WWI as compared to the French, despite the French by all accounts having the largest air force on the Western Front by the end of the war.

One big reason for the unpopularity of the SPAD XII was because the gun breach extended into the cockpit, they could no longer control it with a joystick. Pitch and roll were managed separately by two controls, one for each hand. So, just flying it was rendered far more difficult, and that's before the problem of having to release a control to reload the gun.

Excellent! Is a video on the Hispano Suiza in the works?

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Thank you France for providing us Americans with such an excellent fighter aircraft.

I thought that the Fokker DVII was the best fighter of WWII . That was why it was required to be turned over to the allies after the end of the war .

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This plane was flown by the italian top ace: Francesco Baracca.

Aerodynamic wire. I’m get me some of dat for my hifi. Make it sound faster

That final description of the spad could almost be copy/pasted into a video about the P40

Handswinging a geared V8 is going to burn off your breakfast - how many 'bangs per blade'?! : )

Great video! Why 37mm? It may be huge, and heavy, and slow firing, with awful ballistics, but....one hit and your target is dead. Trade-offs i guess.

18:25 - Priorities !

The SPAD XII mounted a .30 cal. Vickers MG as well as the 37mm cannon.

P-47 sounds a lot like this Spad-13.

Why bother out-turning your opponent when you can easily out-dive and out-climb him? The SPAD series definitely foreshadowed fighter development in the decades to come.

Just spitballing here, but maybe the the desire for the 37mm had to do with the size of a preexisting propeller hub.

Greg do you know what issue prevented the Bf109E from having the hub mounted cannon? The propeller spinner appears to have been designed for it from the outset.

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I'm a gunner/aviator and don't get the 37mm either.

When it look right….

Thanks for the mug comment I'll pass but..."plane"ly if you work you need to get paid.

Wrong Spad, Greg.