The Bomber That Made The B-17 Look Small | Douglas XB-19 

Thank you for the plans to the same scale - I have never appreciated the size of the XB-19 from the photos I have seen.

Thank you for sharing! For anyone interested in seeing both sides of the story to stay fully informed, check out the link above and let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you for covering the XB-19 Do-19 (or Do-11 , heard or read that the Do-11 flew also with Reichsbahn/Railroad Comp. markings. ) or the Ju-98 , Ju-290/390 , He-277 / He 274 the latter completed by the French after the war and used for tests Or the other Nations 4 engined Pe-8 or the Piaggio 108

Had England capitulated this intercontinental bomber would have been needed.

@@lawrenceallen8096 G'day, IF Your Grandmother had Have had Caterpillar Tracks...; THEN She would have Been a Sherman Tank...! The same Circular Pseudo-"Logic" Applies to your Statement. The Great Brutisch Empire was NEVER ever "Going to capitulate" To Germany and it's Army of HORSE-DRAWN Logistics, but NO Amphibious Landing-Craft with which to ferry their Horses & Wagons Over the Kanal to be Sunk while trying to Capture a Harbour in which to Disembark. Britain was Never Considering Quitting... EXCEPT Inside the Wishfool Thunkin's of Adolf and the Hitlerites, And the Halfwits who Swallowed German Propaganda. Besides. IF Britain had Followed the French And Surrendered...; The ONLY way for US Investors to retain their EuroPeon Assets Would have been to Pivot... Swinging around to supply War Materiel to the Wehrmacht... When it went to Attack the USSR. In 1942 J.Edgar Hoover was STILL Arresting Communists, for "Premature Anti-Fascism". It took TIME To Recalibrate AmeriKa to Accept the concept that White EuroPeon Racist Christian Fascists were the Designated Enemy...; Whereas the Dreaded Russian Communists Were SUDDENLY NOW Comrades in Arms. The likes of Lindbergh & Henry Ford & J. Edgar Hoover WOULD HAVE Ensured that If the British Empire had Folded up like the French & Dutch Empires both did, Then Unkle Spam would have Bin-Fightin' COMMUNISTS, while helping their Aryan Eugenic Kith & Kindred, to "Defend and Rescue EuroPeon Kultur, from the Communist hordes of Slavic Untermenschen...!" Or, Words to that effect. Read some HISTORY Books. Just(ifiably ?) sayin', Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

How cool is that? Good on your Dad!

@@blatherskite9601 c zźż

Thank you for your family’s support to the war:)

That’s a great memory that you shared. We have lost all of the people like your dad that took initiative for the good of the mission.

That's awesome man! Wish we could have seen Intercontinental bombers in some form during WW2!

How? The F-14 isn't that heavy.

I never heard that about the tracks on the 36. Odd concept.

F-14? But it’s only a 2-seat fighter.

F-14 is heavier than a B-17, obviously motjing compared to a B-36 but if the runway wasn't built to spec for WW2 heavy bombers combined with poor maintenance I believe it.

@@fguocokgyloeu4817 It was probably a sinkhole or a pothole rather than a weight issue.

That’ll cost 5k and your mortgage in repair costs

free kills? :0

Bet it'll be 2.3

That shit would fly worse than the Catalina 💀

Bruh war thunder is literally a flight sim

A reference to bugout Doug?

If I was forced to spend a fortune developing a test bed at a loss just so the government could then force me to hand those plans over to my greatest rival for free I'd go insane too.

😅😅😂😂🤣🤣

*- headsmack -*

Who wants to go with two boring regular tires when you have government funds to make super cool big ones lol.

@@testy462 laf. Plus it has that ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ look.

I was thinking the same thing, spread the load out

@@Colt45hatchback At least they didn’t go with bicycle tires to save some weight. Put those extra tanks in the bomb bay who needs bombs on a bomber.

Just like in Amazing Stories 'The Mission'!

A collab must be done. If rex is air and drach is ship, then maybe covering some lesser known specific airships?

I would rather bestow that title to "Greg's airplanes and automobiles" nobody is more detailed than him

BIG words - are you flying HIGH?

Drachinifel is a very well meaning hack. Rex actually does a shit load of research and cross checking before he opens his mouth.

@@A_barrel I'd say Greg is in a separate bracket, Drach can be very detailed, but usually not quite as excessive as Greg. I think Rex and Drach compare quite well, we just need a Greg for ships.

I was hoping to find a comment like this. I very much hope he does a comparison.

XB-15 too...

You have to have the B-50 in there. Government shenanigans at their finest.

Yes I concur with everything previously said

Doo it doo it doo it 👍

Sac Omaha has an original B 36 wheel. Huge.

Same it's ridiculous

Last time I went to the museum at Wright Patterson (2005) you could wander around underneath a lot of the larger aircraft. The main gear wheels on the XB-36 are huge.

Where would you keep it?!! That thing was larger than Rhode Island!!!

Could have...

When you enter the Kanas Cosmosphere. The SR-71 is the first thing you see. But the space museum in the basement is even better.

Theres a hangar in Duxford which is entirely filled with a B52, you walk in and people ask "where's the big plane" and then you tell them to look up.

@John Forsyth Omg, I know I've been there, and all of it is awesome. Want to go there again.

the airforce museum has a b-31 and a few b52's and yet it was the xb-70 that they had to build a hanger around

It might as well be called "The Sky Fortress" because of it's size.

If someone would make a replica even a wooden one it would be on display

Athefumen

Good call, unpleasant experience to be sure.

@@Driver-ur9mf i usually wish for people that their phone would only charge with the cable angled but this one was a bit too ancient.

Ahh, back when ADHD was used usefully!

G'day, It's probably bullshit, but the son of an old Aircraft Maintenance Engineer claimed that the Oscilloscope was invented for the purpose of Testing & visualising what was Actually occurring within the Ignition Harnesses Of those old Multi-Row Radial Aero-Engines. 18 Cylinders, 36 Plugs, 28 Cylinders, 56 Plugs...; So the Flight Engineers were Furnished with Oscilloscopes in order to be able to switch into the Left or Right Magneto's Harness on any of the Engines, to better attempt to diagnose Perceived Rough running in flight.. I have the impression that it was the Lockheed Constellation, which old mate's father worked on ; but sometime during WW-2 the Yanks started fitting Oscilloscopes into the Flight Engineers' Stations, The better to monitor All that Sparkliness...(!). But the Thymes They be A' Changeling... These dayze, of course, As you alluded to, They'd have a Microchip Trained up to do All that...(!). And then when the Microchip dies, During a Voltage-Spike, The "Cure" would be to Swap out the entire Engine, and return it to the Manufacturer... Who holds the only remaining supply of That particular Flight-Certified Microchip, And the Powerplant Manufacturer's Type Certificate required, in order to sign-off on any Engine as being Fit to Fly, After Replacing any Component therewithin, At all Whatsoever... Because unless the weight Of the covering Paperwork and Permits Exceeds the total Takeoff-Weight of the Aeroplane concerned ; then it is generally not lawful to sit Inside such a machine and Attempt to Levitate With insufficient Paperwork. As a generalisation, Kinda Thing (!). Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

I seem to remember it was similar to a pilot. Instead of pilot/copilot, it was Aircraft Commander/pilot. It made more sense on the older big planes that needed a whole crew to simply fly the thing. Take the B-29, for example. The main throttles are controlled by the flight engineer, not the pilot. There literally needed to be constant communication between the pilot and engineer just to keep the bird in the air.

@@WarblesOnALot STOP! Boring me ;-)

I'm a retired C-130 flight engineer, most of my time on E models with no computer assistance. I think those duties sound reasonable for one well-trained aviator. Probably just enough going on to keep you awake through the flight. It might get hairy when things go wrong, though.

You should try paper skies. One of the best aviation youtube channels

Rex's Hangar is the Drachinifel of aviation. Thorough information, good editing, and I'm American, so his accent is like smooth butter in my ear holes. 10/10 channel.

@@magisterrleth3129 I wouldnt go that far. Drach is quite well regarded within the naval enthusiast community. Rex is more like a hobby guy

@@stacksmalacks8826 I'm a subscriber. They're good as well.

@@stacksmalacks8826 Agreed. Paper Skies is the Montemayor of Aviation. Doesn't post too often but when he does his content es excellent.

Aye aye.

Alliteration is actually awesome!

Peace was never an option.

Good point! I was thinking this myself after seeing these massive tyres. They cottoned on eventually...

They may not have been able to fit powerful enough gear hydraulics. You have to remember that wheels that size weigh as much as a motorcycle or small car.

I suppose it was one of those lessons that had to be learned the hard way. The original B-36 had single-tire mains as well.

There were technical difficulties that needed to be overcome in regards to landing, taxi-ing, braking and stowage. With a single wheel on each leg these issues are easier to comprehend but with a four wheel bogie do yo want it to have all 4 wheels touching down together, rear pair first or front pair first? Does the bogie have to pivot on the leg and if so, how do you control the pivoting over the bogie? There are a lot of questions like this that the engineers and designers were looking into in the post-war years.

Like they were so stupid with the Ford Model T cause no turbos?

The New England Air museum has one of Sikorsky's huge flying boats. It's properly impressive.

I believe Igor built the first 4 engine bomber during WWI when he was still in Russia. The Ilya Muromets.

@@tkiehn13 that's a very good point. I think you're right.

It does have sexy lines. Like the wings on the Vulcan bomber.

The XB-19 would've been a better option.

@@merafirewing6591 Since the B-29 ended up finding its fulfilling role operating at night, at lower speed, and dramatically lower altitude, that is almost worth thinking about. But the B-19 was impractical for enough good reasons and the B-29 was superior in plenty of other ways.

the Airspite.

Most WWII planes were defective in some way. Neither they nor their pilots were expected to last long and they needed to design and build them fast. The Russian T 34 tank was not built to last for more than 100 hours in use.

Or in the version for the P-75 each crankshaft coupled to an extension shaft. Another version would have had gearboxes that turned the output 90° with another 90° gearbox in each wing. Proposed for aircraft with the engine buried in the fuselage and the props on the wings. The original McDonnell proposal that morphed into the XP-67 and the proposed North American Super Strafer

It's even different to the "usual" W format (such as the Napier Lion). Being a twin design, like the similar but inverted DB605 used in the Heinkel He 177 Greif, there is no letter of the alphabet to adequately describe it. I suppose the DB605 would be called an "M" layout? The present day Audi/Bugatti "W" is different in other ways, and yet again, "W" is about the best that can be used to describe it.

Actually it was replaced with two of the modern four tire landing gear trucks.

The B 36 was going into production and the Flying wing.

Well we knew a war was gonna come our way eventually.

War was fashionable in the 40s

​@@enolopanr9820especially since FDR was doing everything in his power to get us involved in it

@@JohnDoe-cf8ho think what you want but I don't think so. There was lots of money to be made giving guns to UK and USSR and any country wouldn't miss a chance like that. As for the story that America was antagonizing Japan, that was warranted because of imperial expansion into China with mass atrocities. War was unavoidable and it was good for the world, at least most of it, that US was involved.

@@enolopanr9820 first of all it wasn't a story, FDR did everything he could possibly do to get Japan to attack the US. As for the atrocities committed by Japan, they were child's play compared to what the CCP would commit. Every where I look, I do not see a single situation where the US involvement has played out to be a long term positive.

Oh snap, yeah! I love WWII production photos.

Great Depression

Santa Monica Airport still exists, although it is supposed to be closed permanently around 2027, to be replaced by a huge park. The 'Clover Field' name isn't really used any more, but it was, through the 60's or so...... I grew up in the 50's and 60's living in a house only a couple blocks south of the airport property.

@@MarshallLoveday - Thanks. Corrected

Not these days friend.

I'm waiting on a Westland wyvern or Garrett stamp video

Yes only a few channels seem to meet this condition, off the top of my head Drachinifel and KingsAndGenerals come to mind.