The Worst Military Airplane Ever 

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7:08 "Achieved a speed of 197mph" - yeah, straight downwards towards the ground. RIP Pilot Cuthbert Mills.

I have a BS and MS in aerospace engineering. During my last undergrad year, the head of the department dedicated a whole class to the Christmas aircraft as a “what not to do” when designing an aircraft.

The fact it flew, however briefly, was a Christmas miracle.

The only plane with a 100% death rate.

Pilot: "So, we all good for the test flight?" Scammer: "Uh... sure. Just gimme one second..." *saws madly at propeller* Pilot: "Dude... I can see you, you're right there. Sure there's nothing I need to know about?" Scammer: "Nah, you'll be fine. Bigly fine".

"the most shameless, dangerous charlatans in American history". Now you've got my interest!! We've had more than our fair-share of those.

He should've been jailed and prohibited from engineering any other thing. He wasn't qualified to build a sandwich

He managed to convince the army to pay him $100000 for his "flexible" strutless wing design patent. Good to see somethings have only shifted, not changed...

Fact Check: the Fisher XP-75 didn’t have twin V12 engines but a single 24 cylinder Allison 3420. I know this because we have a 3420 in our hangar.

The most shocking thing I would argue is that the steel bird with crappy wings actually got off the ground.

After the first test flight, Christmas said: “It was a magnificent flight, really awesome. Believe me, I have the best planes. It’s going to be great, really!

3:39 So... the ChRistmas AeroPlane Company or CRAP Co. for short?

9:37 Note: SBD Dauntless was a dive bomber, not a torpedo bomber. Dauntless was not equipped to carry torpedoes. There was, however, the less-successful TBD Devastator torpedo bomber, which was a close cousin of the SBD Dauntless, and the much more successful TBM Avenger torpedo bomber.

William Whitney Christmas is my new cuss substitute for when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

The old paper layer "aging" effect you try to achive makes it very difficult to read the text on your images. I would prefer when you just use the original photos.

i see your editors have had a misadventure in premiere today

I have an idea for ya: The origin of shoelaces. When did they show up and, more importantly, when did tying them the way we do become a thing?

There’s been this one dude in Soviet Union who pulled off a similar stunt, but during the Second World War. His name was Alexander Sylvanksiy and the plane he built was almost a complete copy of some other designer’s concept and just as Christmas he had to saw off a few centimeters off of the propeller in order for it not to dig into the ground. The plane was called ИС-220.

Now imagine making a plane so bad that they send you to a gulag because of it.

What's with the writers blue Square over the photos?

Me: *Sees thumbnail* "This is going to be about the Christmas Bullet. ALSO Me: *watches anyway*

The wings fell off! - No, don't be so silly, what are you talking about! XD

“It would seem that such construction would result in a low factor of safety, but the designer claims a safety factor of seven throughout.” Maybe he meant a safety factor of seven per cent?

So the plane was built in Amityville NY? Not surprising since it ended up being a "horror" too.

Nikola Trucks: “Hold my beer”

I'm old enough to remember the "Body by Fisher" tagline on 1960s GM car ads. The Eagle P75 brings a whole new meaning to that phrase.

My vote goes to the Australian Nomad, an aircraft so fundamentally flawed (like the tailplane falling of) that pilots refused to fly them. It's a cruel world.

someone didn't check their layers before exporting

Nicely presented information! For the most part. I think you uploaded an incompletely edited version in which the photographs are not cropped to fit the blue frame. Otherwise, well done!

Why does the graphic of the guy look like an unfinished photoshop edit? Actually why does it all look like that?

Simon could recite a telephone directory and make it sound absolutely riveting.

It is amazing he wasn't locked up.

Future topic: How is the glass sculpture ceiling in the Bellagio hotel Los Vegas dusted?

0:45 Simon isn't a regular person. He's a LEGEND.

10:29 "at this point the plane had already been surpassed in its intended role... by amphibious main battle tanks."

Turtle approved.

The first thing that came to my mind was the Yak-38.

The Christmas bullet! Amazing that someone actually made a video about it!!!

first time i have ever seen what seem to be editing mistakes in a TIFO video... are the images of Christmas in this video supposed to look like that?

Is this swindler Christmas related to notorious disgraced Los Angeles art dealer Doug Christmas?

Read about this in "The Worlds Worst Aircraft" by James Gilbert.

Still amazed how this channel manages to bring us new videos every day since some years now

GDC?! Those incompetents developed the area of central Florida I live in. My town has spent decades and millions trying to fix the drainage systems GDC put in place. We have constant floods in low areas due to inferior drainage. Every road they put in had to be repaved well ahead of schedule because GDC didn't properly prepare the roadbed and laid such a thin final layer the roads were crumbling before all the houses were built. There are miles of empty, yet named, streets on the outskirts of town silently sinking back into the swamp.

I guess I could get funding for my revamped design of Icarus' Wings... With knee guns! Only one billion dollars... My sale price!

GM still screwing over customers worldwide with terrible cars, and laughing all the way to the bank.

Bell dubbed "inventor of the phone"?! You break my heart and that of Mr.Antonio Meucci, the actual inventor of the telephone

It looks like a lot of those images were supposed to be cropped, but weren't.

I think the mask on your photos screwed up

This is great! The moment I read "The Worst Military Airplane Ever" I *knew* it must be about the Christmas Bullet!

Just watched the monopoly, free parking episode from December, 2016. Turns out RU-vid is rough on a playa! You used to be so spry and youthful!!! Now just jaded and more fun than ever, as you’ve evolved into the boy with the blaze.

1:41 to start

Mr. Whistler has a lot of channels, and this is my favorite.

Plus 4.5 minutes of ads or discussion of ads on a 12 minute video. That is worse than the USA network TV.

"NOPE." & I lol'ed.

I wouldn't trust anyone with the last name Christmas but hey that's probably just me.

Funny how GM used to produce junk and kept making it all the way untill today while still staying in buisness.

G'day Simon, then there was the US made, Brewster Buccaneer light bomber. Developed in 1939 when the free world was desperate for combat aircraft for the war that had just started, the Brewster Corporation developed the SB2A (known by the USAAC as the A-34). It had up to 5 variants and when sold to the RAF, desperate for any kind of combat aircraft, they took delivery of the Buccaneers, calling them the Bermudas. From the start massive faults manifest as a much slower speed than expected, extremely poor handling conditions, requiring the pilots to continually adjust the controls just to keep the aircraft in steady, level flight. There was also a slew of electrical problems while the overweight aircraft chewed up fuel and had its range curtailed. There were also problems with the aircraft’s weapons, including their lightweight nature. As desperate as the world's air forces were for combat aircraft, the Buccaneer/Bermuda was the only aircraft produced during WW2 that went directly from the factory to various scrap yards around the world. Some were used only to haul targets for gunnery practice or as flying base 'hacks' to train new pilots coming to a squadron. The Royal Australian Air Force heard, first hand from RAF pilots, how awful the Buccaneer was, cancelled its order before they were delivered. Only the USMC used the Buccaneers operationally for any length of time, yet they did get rid of them as soon as a replacement aircraft could be found. Brewster, the company was poorly managed with the principals knowing little of aviation and because top notch aircraft workers and engineers were snapped up by the larger companies, Brewster was staffed by inexperienced workers who were treated so badly that they spent much of their time out on strike, an extremely rare event during the war. By late 1943, early 1944 the Buccaneers had been rejected by all Allied air forces and production was halted. Brewster also made the Buffalo, a small fighter/trainer that was marginally better than the totally inadequate AB2A; dubbed by many aviation experts at the time and later historians as 'the worst aircraft of WW2'. Thanks for the video on the 'evil Dr Christmas'. Cheers, BH

Very interesting! Also, was the image formatting broken in the video? It seemed to be overflowing its frame throughout the video.

Simon claims he is a regular person like us but is in fact addicted to cocaine and has a writer and a meme lord locked in his basement.

Why does your intro remind me of the PH intro?

much as some don't like it, Simon's airplane videos are awesome

I didn't know Bill O'Riley sold Planes

Interesting facts, but what the hell is up with the photos in today's video? Why are they "framed and aged" at the top but the rest of them aren't?

The Komet wasn't terrible it was ground breaking. The dangerous thing about it was it used Hydrazine. It was the first 1000KMPH fighter.

Dear Simon, Thank you for making this video. I did request it on Business Blaze two months ago (Inventions which killed their inventors episode). Not sure if my suggestion was useful or not but I felt like you made me a nice birthday present. It is my birthday today and watching the video I suggested some time ago felt like beign honoured by RU-vid God :) Thank you!

The thumbnail made me think you re-uploaded the me-163 video.

"could only have taken place in the lawless landscape of american aviation" ...or politics. when people talk about karma, they should pause to think of this guy who after killing people and lying as easily as breathing died at 95 a wealthy man :-(

If Christmas lived today, Boeing would probably offer him the position of CEO 😜

looks like your editor was as good as christmas was at making planes lol

We did some armored aircraft designs Professor: "Your armored aircraft?" Me: "Yes" Teacher Dude: "Why did you put armor on the top of the plane" Me: "ohhhhh DUHHHHH"

Read an article about the Fisher last week. Wow. Christmas: 100% success rate. ; Reality :2 test flights, 2 dead test pilots.

i honestly don't like having to buy youtube premium to not get bombarded by ads, and then still get bombarded by ads for the first 2 minutes of every video.

Hey Simmo' speaking of worsts in military equipment have you done a video on the Bob Semple Tank?

Ad before this video like: *happiness noises * Video: THIS IS THE WORST PLANE EVER

“The safest, easiest plane in the world” Some say the greatest

Interesting. Fly boys have always been a little crazy

Whew, what a character! A couple of nerdy points: The SBD was a dive bomber, not a torpedo bomber. Also the Grumman Wildcat was the F4F, not the 4FF. GM produced Wildcats were designated FM-1 and -2, while their Avengers were the TBMs.

Finally someone did a video on Christmas

I was trying to guess what you would call "the worst". Okay, for once I agree. This plane was famously bad.

This needs hardcoded subs. I cant turn my tv up loud enough to hear that whispery voice

A perfect example of "Fake it till you make it"

A 2 minute ad to start your video was enough for me to block you from my searchs

I thought it would be the f-104 the Germans lost 116 pilots...in peacetime.

If I wanted in a complete fraud, I would re-elect him.

Blackburn Roc. A WWII fighter with no forward firepower. Its only air kill credited to it was from a turret, detached from the aircraft, on the ground as anti-aircraft.

Mr Christmas clearly had the brassiest of brass necks

And I thought Trump was innovative with his deceit, apparently history repeats itself.

If Trump was an aviation engineer.

Ok.... that APR joke was pretty good😂

4:49 looks like a de havilland vampire for some reason

He would fit right in with the American Congress. They have no shame either.

Guy's plane: kills 2 of 2 pilots Guy: Safest plane ever! we have the best planes! sound familiar??

The second I heard him say snake oil salesman, I knew right away he was gonna talk about the Christmas bullet

The bit on the Eagle was fascinating.

Sounds like he was a prototype of Donnie Drumf.

Is Christmas related to Trump? they have very similar ideas about telling he truth and fiction.

Good video 👍

The Brewster Buffalo F2A says hold my beer

This story is so similar to Donald Trump's, Con after con. The Bonus Fact is so consistent with GM's history it should not be a surprise to anyone.