Why this Soviet Bomber was Nicknamed a "Widow Maker" - TU-22 

That's like all of these videos lol. They're almost always what you think, but there's also usually tidbits I didn't know, too, so they're still fun and interesting

Well yeah, eventually the interesting AND obscure historical facts dry up. So you gotta start doing videos on stuff that's a bit better known.

Taikonouts 🇨🇳 : Comrades, please hold our TSINGTAO 🍻🍺

I'm gonna build a vodka-cooled PC. Thanks for the idea!

I'll be honest here. It actually was not what I thought. My first guess was the water alcohol mix was injected into the engines for a takeoff boost. That said, I like the real story better than my guess.🤣

Taikomnouts🇨🇳 : Comrades.. Please hold our TSINGTAO 🍻🍺

😁😁😁😁😁😁shit.

It was better than this one

Kim Sung Park : Comrades, please hold ma SOJU 🍶

Does it make sense to believe in this nonsense?

Make VODKA Great Again 💯

Oil crisis in Russia? Are you trying to stupidly joking?

the only way they could get blind from methanol is by drinking but that's impossible because they wouldn't be drinking methanol from a plane cooling system right?

They actually came up with a deception. Basically the air force claimed replacing it with any industrail alternative would cause toxic fumes to leak into the compartment, as the TU22 would always smell of alchohol due to faulty sealing. This was accepted and never questioned since

​@@Loli4lyf right?

@@Loli4lyf Russia bro

@@Loli4lyf even if they dont drink, methanol could still seep from the cooler to the cockpit and persist in the air, waiting to be inhaled not counting the maintenance guys handling the thing on the ground methanol is nasty

They dont have enought pilot , they only have duell pilot for training plane

Well, obviously so that the crew can have more vodka afterwards. One less crewmember means more vodka to go round for everybody else comrade )))

Well it's not the first time a heavy bomber piloted by only one pilot, for example WW2 Avro Lancaster is only have one pilot

@@philipharris3387 Two better, that way, one can get really drunk and they can still fly

@@KC-bu8qq true lol

And the title

Same

You guys keep waiting ... it's coming!

@@NotWhatYouThink me 2

Ok

nazdrovia

@@Ass_of_Amalek nie ma lekko

Starfighter was a Soviet plane?

Just like the f104 which was literally called the widowmaker

@@Silver_Prussian I dont remember the f104 intoxicating most of its crew, in this case the tu22 clearly has 1 more point over the starfighter

That or they'll figure out a way to purify the alcohol.

That is probably a misconseption. Methanol injection is only used by turbocharged piston engines.

@@snakeplissken2148 the purpose is different and similar: various turbojet & turbofan engines have used water or another fluid injections. to cool off the engine. think of the rolls-royce pegasus, as a common example. when a harrier is taking off, water is injected into the engine to cool it as the vtol airflow/load ratio was insufficient for cooling. however, as far as i could find, the tu-22 engines did not use it for cooling. the water/ethanol was just used for AC. there was extra if they overfilled the ac tank, or turned the ac down.

@@snakeplissken2148 turbojets are very much turbo charged

In high spirits 🤣

Not fuel air-conditioning

Not what you think is generally PR for the failed Ukraine offensive.

The Russians are crazy. 😂😂

Sounds like someone venting some very specific insights about dating Persian girls. 😂

Iran has one of the highest numbers of nose jobs in the world proportional to its population. So it was a reference to that 😉

@@NotWhatYouThink Oh no doubt. I am from the gulf and have seen it myself, but that is still some obscure reference right there. 😉

@@NotWhatYouThink Hahahaha alright I see now 😆

@@NotWhatYouThink Still sounds racist.

@@bugsbunny1833 Industrial alcohol was not drunk in Hungary during communism either! Industrial alcohol is methyl alcohol. A highly toxic chemical that causes blindness and death. The MIG radar was cooled with 96% ethyl alcohol. Ethyl alcohol is the basis of all spirits, from beer to short drinks. The MIG21's coolant was concentrated grain alcohol. It is the basis of whiskey and vodka. During operation, the radar boiled this to cool itself. The time of active radar use could not exceed half an hour, because the alcohol had completely boiled off and cooling had stopped. There was a requirement that the remaining cooling alcohol must be removed after deployment. It should not be used any further. Therefore, the system was always topped up with fresh alcohol. The alcohol used would probably have had to be destroyed, which would have probably made Al Capone frown. Apparently, they did not pour out the chemically pure vodka, but took it home. During Prohibition in America, the state mixed lethal poisons with ethyl alcohol produced for industrial purposes, which killed more than thirty thousand citizens... Ethylene glycol is a long-chain alcohol molecule that is still used as a hydraulic fluid today. This is what the two stupid children in the ranks tasted, and they died of poisoning... By the way, there was a huge scandal in Austria in the nineties, because wine was adulterated on an industrial scale by adding ethylene glycol. There are idiots in every country. It is also of the type in Hungary. They did a hoax in the United States that year: A petition was circulated among university students to ban dihydrogen monoxide because it causes suffocation when it gets into the lungs. Tens of thousands of university students signed this petition to ban the water! H2O, or dihydrogen monoxide. So much for education...

Thats actually horrifying and funny. I didn't get it until i saw them actually drinking the fuel. Oh man.

They only needed 39 tankers worth 😅

restaurant also is not english, it's mispronounced french.

Actual fact - OP's comment is a lie. The Russian word for restaurant is ресторан. It is pronounced as restoran as opposed to ˈrest(ə)rənt in English.

@@Ass_of_Amalek after a word is mispronounced in another language for hundreds of years I think it becomes it’s own word😂

@@Pman353 no it doesn't, it's a loanword. but english speakers generally aren't aware of the fact that the english language is particularly packed full of loanwords.

@@Ass_of_Amalek and French is based of Latin. That’s how language works…

Керосином не отдавало из за баков?

@@Ser_YOja ему всё равно, лишь бы спи3деть.

i'm still confused about the actual composition of the coolant. you can get 40% ethanol 60% water for a lot cheaper without it being food grade. to load the plane with actual vodka would mean they were planning on drinking it... i feel like it would be more efficient to just buy vodka for that purpose and cool the plane with something else

@@adog3129 Good point. The only answer I can think of is that there are three ways of making an aircraft cooling system: The 'right' way. The 'wrong' way. And the Soviet way.

@@adog3129 I'm very certain those planes' AC didn't run on food grade ethanol, let alone actual vodka, however any grade of ethanol (technical, reagent, for synthesis, etc) is in theory drinkable without much side effects. The only exception of course being denatured alcohol, but unless specified the alcohol wouldn't be denatured but just technical grade ethanol instead. They just named it "vodka" in this video because the 40% ethanol concentration was similar to Russia's favourite alcoholic beverage, but in reality it's not the same, just the same concentration of alcohol.

@@pieterveenders9793 are you sure it's consistently drinkable though? same purity? do they clean the equipment and containers the same way?

@@adog3129 Yes, all ethanol (with the exception of denatured alcohol of course) is consistently drinkable and are of the exact same purity. The difference between various purity grades is mostly just a marketing ploy, in reality they're all made the same way and have the same amount of impurities. It's just that higher purity grades such as reagent grade are routinely assayed for their purity and certified as such, while technical grade is not and therefore cheaper. However they're both made by the same process so in reality they don't differ in purity. Being able to certify the purity of a certain grade of ethanol can be important for legal reasons, like when producing pharmaceuticals or other things which require strict quality control.

Thank you for the adequate answer to your comrades. Thank you! At the moment I am a military pensioner, I can say that this video is not true... there was no widespread drunkenness in the Air Force. Navigator Tu - 22 M3 1988-2005 forgot to add.... Sincerely, long-range aviation navigator of the USSR Air Force

ворованный

what about the royal navys rum ration? it wasn't that long ago Well, what can we hide, here in Russia in the wild nineties we often worked drunk a little or a lot. Then times have changed and people have changed with them.

Они пили после работы, а не вовремя неё.

It's too volatile (evaporates too readily). Have to top it off all the time.

Because closed cycle refrigeration is great, and can even be run in the opposite direction as a heater with a fairly trivial adjustable valve. "swamp coolers" work pretty well in hot dry conditions but are poor in high humidity, so I guess using everclear would improve the performance in somewhere like Florida.

But it's used to cool the bleed air from the compressor stage which supplies the fresh air and supports cabin pressurisation. The only odd thing here is using an open cycle chiller.

The Concord also had significant heating effects.