The RAF's Venom Night Fighters Were Britain's First Line Of Defence 

Good call - I'd be very interested for sure Its quite a mysterious aeroplane outside of Sweden

Much was derived from captGerman tech. Germans had only supersonic wind tunnel during WW2

Aircraft made of wood and fabric degrade rapidly and have very poor durability

No match for a Sabre... completely outclassed

Deadly killer... of RAF pilots

IIRC US bombers on recon flights routinely did make it through. LeMay was, against Ike's wishes, sending B-47s into Soviet airspace to test Soviet defenses and scare the Soviets. Soviet fighters would scramble but the bombers would already be heading away at altitudes and airspeeds the MiGs didn't have the legs to catch.

Btw. the Grumman F11 Super Tiger with J79 engine would have been a better choice for the Germans than the F104 widow maker.

@@apis_aculei Buccaneer as a naval strike aircraft was the best choice

I think it's worth remembering that the US was bankrolling most of the NATO European nations at this time. Who could blame them for recouping their expenditure?

Was there not the F104 Scandal involving bribery and corruption?

@@kitbag9033was just gonna say that. But good god choosing the 104 over the Buc for a strike aircraft is crazy

Dangerous? They had ghost Mosquitos patrolling constantly for safety.

de Havilland doing its best to deal with britains surplus of RAF pilots!

And for me - those little "slats" near wing tips are even more "interesting" - also appearing on some variants - and lacking on latter (?) ones - wing fences proved to be a better solution ?

Evidence of fatal engineering flaws... typical of de Havilland jets

@@DoktorBayerischeMotorenWerke I assume they were placed to prevent air separation and the production of instability at the wing tips? Like Soviet aircraft.

@@user-en9zo2ol4z Adding fences after a plane entered production is seen by Western experts as a very troubled aerodynamic design that should have had corrective action taken before production and introduction into service. We know that britian had very limited resources in advanced wind tunnel research and technology and aerodynamic flaws were more likely to appear after the plane entered service... not good for business!

de Havilland jets crashed with staggering regularity... cueing the demise of the company

@@DoktorBayerischeMotorenWerke Compared to other manufacturers of the era, their aeroplanes were all pretty similar when it comes to safety! "Demise of the company", silly and ill informed statement! All large British aerospace companies were 'amalgamated' into two larger companies, Hawker Siddley and BAC, in the early sixties. De Havilland as a senior partner, concentrated on Civil Aircraft and the Dynamics division of Hawker Siddley (De Havilland) on missile and rocket development. Who do you think built the Trident (A De Havilland design), HS 125, the BAe 146 and Airbus wings? Try reading my other comment and you might learn something about how I know this?

@@johnp8131 de Havilland was a deeply troubled company that was decades behind in aviation technology by the 1950s... d-H aircraft had appalling loss rates, were notoriously unreliable and plagued with fatal design flaws, inferior materials and shoddy workmanship. All of de Havilland jets were cursed by spectacular crashes and massive in-flight structural failures. as a direct result of the Comet Disaster, the worst engineering failure in aviation history, de Havilland became completely insolvent in 1958 and was seized by the Crown and placed under Administrative Receivership, its remaining assets were *sold by its creditors to Hawker Siddeley in 1959* Folland and D-H were acquired through bankruptcy sale BEFORE the merger. de Havilland continued as a zombie brand until the name was retired in 1963. A once great british aircraft company of the biplane era was destroyed by engineering incompetence and criminal negligence, a truly shameful and humiliating chapter in the decline and eventual total collapse of the british aircraft industry.

It might be an even better thing now, to be fair... but yeah, growing up here in the early 80s, as kids we knew for certain we were going to get flash-fried and turned into sooty shadows on the playground if the Cold War ever went hot, what with Portland a few miles away. Nice childhood memories.

We're no Bournemouth, that's for certain. Fun fact: in the late 1990s, Weymouth & Portland borough had one of the five highest school-age parenthood rates in the country. Weather's nice though.

Took me an hour, but I got the notice the video dropped while I was in the middle of hiding a body. I mean still pretty good to get rid of a body and watch the video after only an hour, ammiright?

No. He is a very measured and steady narrator, for purposes of clarity and accuracy of delivery.

He’d nationalized it, not privatized it.

@@mk14m0 Forgive me, you are right of course, very different things.