A Decent Plane With A Deadly Problem: Fairey Barracuda
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2024-04-30に共有
We then look at the delayed testing and production of both of these planes, due to issues with weight, power, and technology. We then look at the performance of the Barracuda when it finally arrived to combat in 1943 and how it delivered decent production, with one major positive exception in a mission against the German Battleship Tirpitz. We then look at it's more lackluster performance in the Pacific, and we end by looking at a mysterious problem that plagued the Barracuda for most of the war, where pilots were being knocked unconscious and crashing.
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There's a project going on in England to build another one out of parts from crashed ones. I really recommend it. They usually have updates every Friday.
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I really enjoy your uploads…..I laughed out loud when you said the Barracuda was kind enough to put the pilot to sleep before murdering them. 🤣
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I read somewhere that an American naval officer (captain or admiral ?) on seeing the Barracuda remarked " it seems like a great flying machine but, it will never replace the airplane".
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Swordfish, the Terror of Taranto. 🎵🏴
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As far as the teen series is concerned (F-14,F-15, F-16 and F/A-18) the reason why the 18 is the only 1 of the 4 with the "F/A" designation is at the start it was planned to have 2 distinct versions...a fighter only version (F-18) and an attack only version (A-18) but early in the programme it was decided to merge them together in 1 airframe to keep costs down....hence "F/A".
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The way they devise aircraft names, and numbers is fascinating and you should do an entire episode on that. And I actually love Heart.
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The other design fault was loss of lift caused by opening the canopy so that air came up and out of the cockpit and that airflow detached the upper airflow on the top of the inner wing and that turbulence then interfered with the tail. Fixed with a floor to the cockpit.
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You made me laugh so hard 😸 I was whistling the song even before playing the video! BARRACUDA!
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I once while on vacation in Greece I met an elderly gentleman who was a Barracuda pilot during WW2 will never forget him and his under stated description of this perilous aircraft . What an absolute hero ❤
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I really like your videos. It's always neat to learn about a plane I didn't know existed a half hour ago. Thanks and keep up the good work.
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I did learn something today, thank you. That story of the ether poisoning was definitely new to me.
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Once again Westland got told to build someone else's aircraft. On names, each company had their own conventions. In this period Avro named theirs for cities (Manchester, Lancaster, York, Lincoln), de Havilland used insects, Fairey used a mix of predatory fishes and seabirds for its carrier aircraft but were pretty random otherwise. A number used a standard often alliterative initial letter, Miles used M, Short Brothers used S, Bristol used B, Handley Page used H as did Hawker, Gloster used G until the Meteor, Vickers used V or W, Westland used W (apart from the Lysander for army reasons).
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Great song. Great video.
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Thanks for sharing 👍
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Sorry, had to comment again - the Spearfish!?! What a terrible design, what is it with these aircraft? Couldn't anyone in British aviation industry produce a decent looking/performing torpedo bomber? They were all so heavy and clunky looking, it's amazing they could take off let alone carry a torpedo a reasonable distance. I still find it incredible that the Swordfish served right through WWII even outliving it's supposed replacement, the Albacore. I heartily agree with Eric Brown's assessment of the Grumman Avenger, a thoroughly well conceived and designed navy aircraft with a good all round range, load carrying ability and speed, it looked cool too. Great breakdown, look forward to more.
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My father serviced Barracudas when he was in the Fleet Air Arm. He said they were horrible aircraft from a maintenance point of view. The undercarriage was complex and not over strong and the height of the engine meant using a ladder or staging for virtually every job. Not always easy on a carrier at sea.
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Really enjoyable, as usual. Aloha! A video about Eric Brown’s opinions on various planes might be interesting…
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17:55 Even today radar can't detect submarines. The aircraft using radar in WWII to detect submarines was only detecting these ships on the surface. Early on the days of ASW aircraft the Germans quickly learned to surface only at night. At first the aircraft used lights to find the subs on the surface, because the subs could see the lights from miles away and easily avoid them. Then the planes started keeping the lights off, only turning the lights on when the planes were very close. It was some time before the Geromans realized they were being detected with radar.
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The Merlin 32 was one of the 'cropped' Merlins with a smaller supercharger impeller, max power was achieved at only 610m altitude. That's why the top speed decreased for the Mk II, it had power only when flying low in dense air.
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Thanks. I must remember the bit about spontaneously spraying hot jets of soporific hydraulic oil at the pilot if I wake up in a pain free haze slumped inside a plunging Barracuda.
