can you guys make a video on beate d köstlin in the future? she was a transfer aviator for the luftwaffe during WWII and might even have been the first woman to learn how to fly a jet plane. oh and she invented the sexshop.
NO WAY, I THOUGHT Y'ALL'D NEVER COVER HIM! I'm the great great grandson of Francis Gary Powers! I recently did my junior year U.S. History presentation on him! I'm so glad you decided to do this. My name is Robert Edward Powers!
@@Yarnhub My family aren't really history buffs, but I adore your work and have been following your progress for quite some time! My father did enjoy the video as well, and even learned he died in a helicopter crash. He had no idea. Proud of you all, keep up the good work and continue making amazing content! I get super hyped when you upload.
Hello Robert, my congratulations to you on your studies and your presentation. I am just a bit surprised that this video calls your great great grandfather a “CIA agent”. I would have thought of him as a ‘pilot’ (and a rather competent one, considering what he was flying). I would expect the word “agent” from a cold-war Russian propaganda article, not in a modern video 😉. Kind regards, Garret
What's most impressive for me personally is that, If am I not mistaken, they use Unreal Engine 4 for their animations. It's so cool to see that technology repurposed so creatively!
"he's a high altitude weather enthusiast, who flew off course." "Oh, ok that seems reasonable. Wait a minute, why does he have a gun and a poison needle?!" "He's a... Very naughty high altitude weather enthusiast who flew off course."
More than 25 years ago I read a book about Powers & U2 which was released in USSR. Soviets stated that Powers decided to jump from damaged plane instead of using catapult as he was afraid that plane could be mined with explosives by CIA. Another mentioned fact was that Su 9 (ceiling of 20km!) was used as it was the only soviet fighter capable to have visual contact with U2. Book did not mention destroyed Mig 19, unarmed Su 9 or a dozen lunched missiles. Thanks Yarnhub, that was great video!
He was shot down near my city where I live, our locals gave him water and tried to provide some help until the army and police arrived greetings from Russia the city of Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) No war.
2 years late, but I've always been floored by how much Russians just want peace. Being raised by parents who grew up during the Cold War and growing up in the USA, I had been propagandized into thinking that Russians were evil. When I grew up and actually started looking into the history of relations between the two countries, I realize that there were a lot of heroes in the Soviet Union, far more than there were in the US. Our heroes were never the ones who advocated for peace, yet there are stories of the people on the ground like those locals, or more importantly, the story of Stanislav Petrov. I know from the outside it seems like many Americans hate the Russians, but I think that's a consequence of what the media wants to portray as normal. It is sad that the countries are antagonistic towards each other, I'd love to visit one day.
@@Alexander_Grant We are natural allies with much in common culturally, it is one of the greatest tragedies of our lifetimes that we have been manipulated and used against each other like pawns on a chess board. I’m no fan of communism, and I understand why many things during the Cold War were the way they were, but it is solely political and military industrial propaganda that maintained that division beyond the collapse of the Soviet Union The relatively cozy relationships we’ve maintained with nations that truly view us as their enemy and are guilty of countless unspeakable atrocities, I mean we keep breaking the record for largest weapons deals with Saudi Arabia, which they use to fuel the massacre of civilians in Yemen.. Allegedly women are allowed to drive cars there now, but how many are tortured by the sharia morality police still? Right now, while hardworking Americans are struggling more than they have in decades, billions of dollars is sent to Ukraine to fund this nonsensical war. If it was put to a vote I don’t even think 25% of Americans would support it, yet on it goes. Billions to Ukraine, billions to Israel, billions to illegal immigrants, while they just take more and more from tax paying Americans. It is the very definition of taxation without representation….
@@Alexander_Grant "The consequence of the media?" Yeah, because shooting missiles at hospitals and kidnapping tens of thousands of kids is just propaganda, correct?
He was a helicopter pilot, there is more to the story, Powers was a good guy. I spent more than half my 45 years flying both airplanes and helicopters flying the same model of the Bell 206 jet ranger
Khrushchev: Who the hell is this?! Eisenhower: He's a high-altitude weather enthusiast who flew off course! Khrushchev: Okay that seems- wait a minute! Why does he have a gun and a poison needle?!
@@Pvt_Wade American spies have a poison needle in there kit so they can kill themselves before falling in the hands of the enemies so no one interrogates them and the secrets are kept secrets
I was privileged to meet Francis Gary Powers. Delightful gentleman. Thank you for being fair in describing him and his actions during his captivity by the Soviets. He later died when the news helicopter he was flying ran out of fuel.
He was a forthright person - before, during, and after the Soviet incident. His helo running out of fuel due to a faulty gauge - anything's possible of course, but that's a highly unusual malfunction, not to mention the helicopter's main rotor blades are designed to auto-rotate - i.e. you can land a helicopter with no engine power by first letting the blades spin up as you fall and then use that stored energy to flare and soft-land and it's not some circus trick but is a thing you train for as a helicopter pilot.
Holy heck the middle hit part was amazing and really emphasised the gravity and seriousness of what it was like, I can’t imagine how terrifying it would’ve been hanging out of a plane billowing in flame, plummeting rapidly to the ground as tornado force wind is crushing your face , as you barely hang on to the oxygen cable. It’s unbelievable he survived. Thank you again for a wonderful new insight to an intresting history momento, and I do love the aviation related stories 😉
The one thing that was wrong is that the u2 was never a fast plane. It was just much higher than the ceiling of everything else. It actually flies only a few knots below it’s stall speed when it is at 70,000 feet.
It’s above the stall speed, but also just short of its critical mach. Either case - it loses lift and sees more drag. Something called coffin corner. It’s fairly fast for that altitude but it has to be. The only way to go faster is to sweep the wings and/or use supercritical airfoils, and probably stronger engines. A fighter can most certainly go faster.
After playing DCS world and learning about missile locks I realized the systems would not distinguish between a friend or foe if the Radar lock is not carefully utilized Then this video appeared
Thats why despite being subbed to several channels that may cover similar topics at one point or another (Sometimes around the same time on multiple channels) I still watch videos on the same topic as you learn other litlte things that people dug up, or related tangents to the topic at hand.
@@Sk.ull._.Crusherthe name of the music is probably either self produced or royalty free (like youtube’s music library), unfortunately i don’t think you’ll find it unless they tell you or someone knows it
My grandfather who lives in Peshawar (from where this U-2 took off for the mission) told me about this. He said Pakistan got into a lot of trouble after this incident. Pretty sad how Americans ignore/forget Pakistan's support to the USA in the cold war.
Pakistan isn't given credit because Pakistan is a faithless "ally" who regularly houses and aids our enemies and those who have done us harm and have done so since it was born as an independent nation.
This happened today in Croatia "In what can only be deemed a totally bizarre event, Croatia's capital of Zagreb was awakened to a loud blast just hours ago only to find a large crater filled with what appeared to be aircraft parts. Some said it was a plane that crashed and that parachutes were seen nearby, others said it was a missile. After close examination of the visual evidence, The War Zone strongly believes this was actually a Tu-141 "Strizh" reconnaissance drone that must have severely malfunctioned and crossed over the entirety of Hungary or parts of neighboring countries and into Croatia from Ukraine. Flying direct from Ukraine's border to Zagreb is nearly a 350-mile journey."
What happened near Zagreb, Croatia was a crash of a fuel-starved, repainted Soviet-era drone which was launched out of desperation from a war zone to provoke further NATO involvement in an ongoing bloody conflict. Despite my best effort, really can't see any similarity to U-2 incident very nicely depicted in the video.
Wow! These illustrations are just beyond incredible. I also liked the little humor that gets "slipped" in. I didn't know about the friendly fire incident that occurred. There's always something new that isn't general knowledge. Keep up the great work guys!
gotten me chills by the slow-motion is just incredible with a realistic stain on the rockets,i really hope i can find some more sick details,good luck yarnhub!
Lower quality channels get more subscribers, such as Simple History. But no worries. High quality videos win in the long run, in comparison to frequent but lame ones and I'm sure Yarnhub will be at the very top one day. Just a matter of time.
Your momentum on this app is unmatched. Consistently interesting, well made, and informative. They always have something to offer with the animations others dont.
Fact: the U2 incident was the main benefactor for the development of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird recon plane that would replace the U2 until the SR-71 was replaced by satellites and the program was terminated in 1989 but was reactivated in 1994 until 1999. Fun fact: I was born on Oct-7-99 and the last flight of the SR-71 took place 2 days after I was born. Yes I admit that I used the wiki to find the correct designation for the Blackbird and I ended up finding something interesting in my own way.
@@VandalAudi Actually Lockheed and the military have scheduled to retire the U2 recon plane from service in 2025 or 2050 and replace it with the RQ-4 Global Hawk drone (to clarify the US government can't make up their minds to when to retire the U-2 from service, which is why I said 2025 or 2050 but it will be retired nonetheless and it'll retire with a very impressive service record). Although the U2 have been upgraded over the years from the U-2R to the U-2S it's increasingly getting expensive to operate in military operations since it'll cost over 2 billion to retire, but NASA has been using the U-2S as a testing platform and we can't forget about the fact of the aircraft has converted into new models without making new U-2 planes which is far more cheaper and increases the service life of the aircraft.
@@projectlessweforget okay, but that's not an "actually" statement, since as of this posting the U2 is still in service for atleast 3 more years. Maybe more for NASA, which coincidentally was orginazation used for the "weather recon" excuse the US used.for Gary Powers.
Dear Yarnhub , Can you do Leftenant Adnan's Last Stand in Singapore or how Awang Anak Raweng ( Iban Tracker) managed to hold his ground against 50 Communist Guerillas while defending a wounded British Soldier ?
It shows all these almost new planes they send to the scrap yard in AZ are still good. And they are , good enough to sell to other countries who get decade or more use out of them and they are just as good as what they put out today. A 1980 plane can take out a 2020 plane, it's about the pilot.
@@jmy7622 Yeah that museum, in AZ, I seen a B-24 when we passed thru there was sold to India and shipped back and was still in flying condition at the time! And for planes that stayed in service so long, try the old F104 widowmakers the Greek used over their mountains so long into the 90s I think, and the old Hawker Hunters not just used in Rhodesia up to the 70s, and over the Alps by the Swiss til the 80s!
" we shot down one of your spy planes " " those aren't my spy planes " " then what are these ? " " those are.... a weather enthusiast " " oh... then why is he carrying a poison dart gun ? " " because.... he's.... a.... very naughty weather enthusiast "
Fun fact: at 70,000 ft the stall speed of the U-2 was only 10 mph above the speed of sound. This meant that if the U-2 turned much the inside wing would slow down and stall, and/or the outside wing would break the sound barrier and snap off because it was long and thin. Thus, the U-2 could only travel in a pretty straight line when that high. Remember, unless an airplane is turning a hard "knife edge" turn there is still an inner and outer turning radius for each wing tip. There is speculation that the missile did not actually hit the U-2 and damage it that much directly, but the blast simply stalled a wing. The Soviets displayed wreckage for propaganda purposes. The pieces were fairly intact without any shrapnel damage.
Funny fact: Khrushchev specifically ordered not to disclose any information about this case, waiting for US statements. And when the United States thought that the USSR could not get anything, and the pilot blew up the plane, they announced that they had not conducted any intelligence operations. Then the USSR showed both the wreckage and the pilot who testified. Thereby showing the deceitful nature of the United States to the rest of the world.
Then things even be funnier when Khrushchev condemned the US, the US delegate waited for that to pull out "the thing", a big seal of the US which supposed to be gift but actually a bug for spying
@@mofleh177 It's fun to have a good attitude towards a person for revealing the others leader cruel dids, yet completly ignoring the fact that he was the one managing purges in Moscow, and then in the Ukraine 🤔
This incident is partly what propelled the U.S. to create ultra-high-altitude hyper-sonic spycraft like the SR-71 as a replacement for the U-2. The problem is, in the time it took them to do that, spy satellites became a thing, and the SR-71 was extraordinarily expensive to maintain. This, combined with improvements in camera technology, means that the U-2 is actually still, to this day, America's principal spyplane. Instead of flying over rival territory, it flies as close as it can and uses high-powered cameras to look across the border. The airframe of course been upgraded many times since the shootdown, but the core design is really a posterchild for the old adage, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
That's wild I can't imagine almost successfully crash landing a helicopter and then at the last second seeing two little boys playing and in them moment that short but very important moment, turning the stick to my certain doom in order to save them..... I'd Hope to think I'd make the same decision
Wow, I'm truly impressed that you've still improved somehow. The fact that triple AAA studios can't make anything like this when they have years to prepare is impressive.
The US didn't aware that the Soviet have capability in shooting down this slow jet U-2. A year earlier , China used the new s-75 missile from Soviet , shot down the Martin RB-57 ,the elder brother of the U2 already.
I thought I knew this whole story, but I didn’t know that the Soviets launched so many SAMs that they shot down one of their own. Thank goodness there wasn’t also an airliner in the area that day!
I've been fascinated by this incident for almost a decade now, and you've brought to light a dozen things I've yet to discover. What a masterpiece. Also, did you those debris gouges on the tail and wings of the U-2 match the real ones?
It was probably to reduce production time, I don't think they have models for the tanks of these years, and since it's a short scene there was no reason to make a new model
Powers was a good man, died to save the life of those young children. thats a good man... (The animations where AMAZING, but the ww2 videos where still the best. i love ww2 aircraft stories so much)
