Germany would of won if they didn't fight 2 wars at once (Russians, U.S.A.) they had allot of advanced stuff for there time and i would of love to fly for the Luftwaffe
Hanna Reitsch was one to the first test pilots of the "Gigant". However, she flew the glider version. There were supposed to be 200 built for "Operation Sea Lion", the invasion of Britain. There is a video on YouTube of Reitsch talking about it. "The controls were zoe hard" she says. She was arguably the greatest test pilot in history, she was also a hardcore Nazi until the day she died in 1979.
The Me-231 was a glider, It needed 6 HE-111 Heinkel bombers or 3 HE-111 Zwilling (Twin) to get this huge glider airborne. The Me-321 could also fly by itself, and could carry about 120-130 fully equipped soldiers. The Me-321 started off as a glider, But then they put engines on it, So it could travel further distances. And by the way, It could also carry the big Pzkw III tank, Which i actually think it could carry a couple of :) (Im not sure about this, i only think its like this)
Didn't this plane design start off as a glider? I remember an interview by Hanna Reitsch about this aircraft. She said it was a very demanding plane to fly. Never the less, like other German engineered aircraft and weapons, it's overall design was decades ahead of it's time.
@MrDavkoz You are right, the plane you refer to is the Me-321 sailplane. To get it into the air, 6 Heinkel-111 bombers were needed. There were even special Heinkel-111 'zwilling' ('twin') planes built for it. It was not just demending to master, but a very easy target for enemy aircraft as well.
ME's Are Crap, Theyre Only Bombers, Can Easily Be Destroyed. Spitfires And Hurricanes Are Same-alike So You Cant Tell Which, Spitfire and Hurricane Rocks BTW.
I've read that if Germany had focused on a long-range bomber to reach and bomb England, then the war would have had different results. So, why didn't Germany use this Me-323 as a platform for a long-range bomber? I guess the Ju-390 was the plane for this?
@danf321it was glider cargo plane really. Too heavy for the engines of its day. Rocket engines could have given her mor push, but its range as a sea plane bomber could have been limited.
@danf321 Why would they need a long range bomber to bomb England ? They were bombing England from France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Norway on a daily basis.
@britgary Yes, you make a good observation. I just remember from many documentaries that say Hitler should have focused on large bombers, which he didn't for some reason. Weren't most of the German bombers twin-engine? Just think how difficult it would have been for the U.S. to bomb Japan if all we had were B-25's and B-26's?
@danf321 Yeah man if we all stopped saying with an "if" in history, maybe there would be less stupid books written on history. No one can judge what can modify history with an if.
Excellent WW2 footage although it was taken just kinda the propaganda movie than . Too bad for Germans because those ''Gigants'' were the sitting ducks for both USAAF & RAF fighters ... the crew members of those giants were the real heros , there's no doubt about that ! Nevertheless - it has been the real sight in the air , just the remarkable piece of the aviation technology through its time ! Thumb up :)
Quite a few design features that, as far as I know, were original: didn't the Russians copy something very similar after the war & follow it up with a jet engined version (note the undercarriage)?
Also the 'Bristol Freighter' (a smaller, twin engined British aircraft of ca. 1949 - 1950's) featured the same basic layout - bulbous nose loading doors etc.(but more conventional undercarriage).
@freeman8128 I Believe you are correct, and the Russian Flying Fortress was pretty similiar in layout and disign and shape, possibly just slightly larger
@rottenruth5 The Russian Flying Fortress was a direct copy of a US Flying Fortress that came temporaraly into Soviet hands when a US 'plane on a mission over Japan was damaged & had to make a forced landing on nearby Soviet territory (near Vladivostok). The crew were repatriated to the USA & so, eventually, was the 'plane - but not before Soviet experts had meticulously examined it down to the last rivet in order to create their own version.
@freeman8128 Just one correction. You're referring to the aircraft as the "Flying Fortress" which was the name given to the B-17. The name given the B-29 was the "Super Fortress."
@freeman8128 One correction, the copied U.S. plane was the B-29 Superfortress. All else is as you described. The copy was the TU-4, NATO codenamed "Bull." It wasn't quite an exact copy. Not only did it have Russian engines, but all dimensions, fasteners, etc. were Metric. Their closest equivalent to the thickness of the B-29s aluminum skin was a bit thicker, so the airplane was several thousand pounds heavier.
Anyway, what a nice kick in the nuts after Lend-Lease, huh?
@TheBatteking not just two they made a fair amount of em ;) enough that the Allies shot down a bunch in a few masacres and the one I think you're saying disapeared they tested one with a 36,000 lb bomb and it broke up in flight. hope this helps!
@ChorltonBrook Yes, Hanna Reitsch was one of the test pilots involved with this plane. She was also involved in many other Nazi aircraft, ME-262, a Helicopter and manned version of the V-1 flying bomb as well as other rocket planes. She flew into Berlin to visit Hitler when it was surrounded by the Russians, landed on a street and flew back out again. There is a 3 part video series about her on YouTube I recommend. She was an unrepentant Nazi however.
@clintonearlwalker You say nazi aircraft how can an aeroplane be part of a politcal organisation? It's not a nazi aircraft it's just german or Luftwaffe.
@mgb104 If you look closely at many Nazi aircraft you will notice a swastika emblazoned on the side. That makes them the tools of military aggression for which the Nazi political regime was most well known. Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, were all cities attacked from the air by the "political organistation" of the Nazi's.
@clintonearlwalker I remember now - I saw that on a programme about her. She seemed like a nice old lady if I recall right. Still all full of wonder and enthusiasm, at her age. (in the 1970's)
@ChorltonBrook Her interview is in the related vids of this vid. She flew a Fiesler Storch into Berlin when it was surrounded by the Russians to take a general to meet with Hitler in his bunker, landed on a street, and took back off and flew out of Berlin. The Russians fired everything they had at the plane because they thought Hitler was escaping. She did many other amazing things also. She was still a Nazi though, and I have no respect for them whatever their exploits.
@clintonearlwalker A child of her time I suppose. I imagine a lot of potentially good people got taken in by all that flag waving stuff etc. Especially after the depression and WW1 defeat. It's hypnotic even now - things like 'Triumph of the Will'. Scary the way minds are manipulated.
@ChorltonBrook Actually, your last comment prompted me to read a bit more about Hanna Reitsch. One site said that she actually confronted Himmler about the extermination of the Jews. Himmler acted as if he was shocked by this news and said it was all Allied propaganda. So she continued as a Nazi believer. At the time, what was done to the Jews was very secret, it just seems so impossible now with instantaneous communications.
@clintonearlwalker Yeah, I remember hearing that somewhere. I suppose people had a lot to deal with anyway - with the war going on and it wasn't the sort of regime to encourage people to ask questions. Gotta sleep now, it's 6am where I am (UK). Night. I'll dream about massive planes no doubt. : )
@ChorltonBrook Thanx for that, you probably won't see this till morning, I'm going to bed also, 2 a.m. here east coast US. Your comment about the Nazi's being hypnotic is accurate for me as well. I find myself trying to memorize the words to "Die Fahne Hoch", and then I think, "what the hell am I doing?". It's pretty unbelievable what Hitler managed to pull off. Rise and shine.
@clintonearlwalker I suppose it was the perfect storm of a few things lead to it. The vacuum left by the Austro-Hungarian Empire & advances in radio, cinema, air transport (Hitler used a Ju 52 a lot to canvas the public) Even the red of the commie and swastika flags was made from new synthetic dyes. I read WW2 was really an oil war. German industry/economy needed the Soviet &Romanian oil fields and the Japs needed Indonesia & Burma. Communism had been discredited by then.
@ChorltonBrook You are one of the first people to mention radio. I read that German tanks had radios in them and it gave them a great advantage when they attacked France. Oil was certainly a problem for the Axis. I know they Allies spent a great deal of effort attacking the oil fields in Ploesti, Romania. I also read that getting fuel was the number 1 concern of mechanized German troops toward the end of the war. The Nazi's were evil incarnate, you can see it here on YouTube
@clintonearlwalker It just goes to show how the human race is a slave to circumstances. Similar horrors could happen again one day, probably in the far future and now we have nuclear bombs!
@ChorltonBrook I've pretty much been scared of nuclear weapons my entire life. When I was a kid, they used to test them all the time in the Pacific Ocean. The US still maintains submarines at sea carrying Trident 24/7. During operation Chrome Dome, the US kept nuclear armed B-52's in the air 24/7. One crashed near here carrying two H bombs. My uncle was in the air force, flight engineer, he said they flew H bombs all the time.
@clintonearlwalker Same here (worried), we'd be mad not to be. One crashed on landing over here once, it was years before they told us. Sometimes I wonder if it's just a matter of time. Have you ever heard about the September 26th 1983 incident? Google the date. He ended up losing his job and pension because he didn't launch. And that's the stuff they tell us ... God knows what really goes on.
@clintonearlwalker Sorry I was wrong there, he didn't lose his job etc. That's what it said on an incorrect (I imagine) documentary about the day that I'd seen.
@ChorltonBrook Just looked it up, I'm sure these false alarm type of things happen all the time. My uncle said once an H bomb they had on a plane on the ground in France, the timer started counting down. I think he said the detonator wasn't in it though. The B-52 that crashed near here, killed several of the crew. Some froze to death lost in the woods. There were warm houses only about 1 mile from where they were, but they didn't know it. That happened in the mid or late 60s
@clintonearlwalker Wow, it's a wild world. And now India, Pakistan, Korea, Israel and soon Iran will have them. Shit I don't wanna think about what could happen. Christmas is coming and I wanna be in a good mood. Anyway it was good chatting ... have a good festive season! While we still can : ) And all the best for 2012.
@ChorltonBrook I'm 50 years old, and I've been thinking about what could happen nearly the entire time. Anyway, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you as well, Cheers!!
A Beautiful plane thats what shes was, ahead of its time the c-130, c17, c5 pay tribute to it another leap forward in human technology thanks to the germans. thumbs up
In order for a huge airplane like this to cross the Atlantic to bomb NYC, it needed a lot of air support given that England might just object no matter where ever it was headed! At night it could pull it off alone but not for long . Not after America developed night fighters.
This plane was originally a GLIDER, then those crafty German engineers said "fuck it. Put engines on it" and it worked.
If that fat morphine addicted egomaniac Goring would have insisted on building heavy four engine bombers, and done it early enough in the war, things could have turned out completely differently in the east. But Hitler prefered the statistic of how MANY bombers they could get aloft, so they stayed with the two engined light and medium planes. Whoops.
@NearAbbeyRoad@NearAbbeyRoad You are right, of course. However, that successful strategy was designed for the Blitzkrieg assaults on their neighbours.
Once they took on Russia and had to fight a war so much further from Germany, they needed Strategic Bombing from heavier bombers with longer range. When the Soviets moved production east of the Ural Mountains, the Germans were helpless to stop them.
Long range heavy bombers were the only solution to that problem
what a expensive way to get a truck to the front in winter,or a chk 38 tank.Looks like their desperate,not happy to get off that plane into the Russ winter
@SirCrapsAlotTheThird Right you are! Do you think the Nazi newsreel was trying to give the impression that the airplane could really carry all that hardware in one shot? Snicker, snicker.
They had to have a really sharp flight engineer to calculate the weight and balance of that monster. If you were a passenger on board with even a marginal load I would bet that the looks on those men's faces was well warranted. It was probably a "white knuckler" until it touched down at its destination. Talk about trust in the abilities of your fellow man! Cargo haulers were not necessarily the pilots who came out of their Top Gun school if you catch my drift. "You'll be flying rubber dog sh-t."
Correct me if I'm wrong; but, none of those things actually took off with either the 38t or the SdkFz 251 right? As I recall they were so slow and ass heavy. They were even unreliable in a slight wind. Did they attempt to use these in the massive cross Medeteranian resupply of the Afrika Korps in Tunisia that failed?
@SuperAviatar the germans developed a specialised tug plane made from two Heinkel 111 joined via a 5th engine nacelle by the wings. This was called the He-111 Zwilling and we just as impressive!
@xlx1979 Everyone with a little interest in these airplanes should have read a bit about them - and know their fate. So please go to Wikipedia, search for "ME-323" and read about their operational history...
@Camerameister No, I mean after Germany tried to take back the land stolen from it in WW1 , and to save its citizens in Danzigs from jewish Polish slaughter, Britain and France with jewish support, declared war on the germans.But also,, the treaty of versailles was initiated largely with jewish support.
@RichardHammond: Correct. It started out as the Lastensegler (Cargo Glider) Me321. It was so big, they had to do most of the assembly outside of the assembly hall.
@HerrSchnellmann Many flew, it started life off as a glider towed up by a 'troika' of ME 110 or Heinkel 111 (I think) they then fitted engines and laterly rockets to boost takeoff. Quite a few were shot down over the Med whilst supplying German forces in Tunisia.
You can't tell me that any German pilot flew the 323 willingly. Out of duty,yes. Can you imagine, fresh out of flight school & you get assigned the 323. Hats off to all those that did, though.
Dood... I couldn't have figured out more suitable background music for this plane than the "ride of the valkyries"... That is just absolutely massive.
Now we know where Howard Hughes got his inspiration for the Spruce Goose. Did any of these survive WWII? Would have been a shame if they all got shot down. I have no real desire for war, but the engineering fascinates me from all sides. Had Hitler not been an egomaniac, and Goebbels not so incompetent, much of Europe would be speaking German now
@Mechknight73 True, but if Hitler had not been such an egomaniac he would have never started the war in the first place. BTW did you know that English is practiclly German to begin with? There re some great German military songs w/ lyrics and translation elsewhere on YouTube.
@badflamenco I was under the misguided impression that German is a lot more orderly thAN English. I do remember a Movie, "Das Boot" or "The Boat" in English. The story of a WWII U boat and its crew, and the journalist tagging along as an observer. The captain puts on a record, "It's a long way to Tipperary." Typically nutty submarine crew. You have to be a certain level of nuts to want to crew one
They were initially designed as large assault gliders for the Invasion of the UK (operation sea lion)The Me323 is a motorized variant of the Me 321 Had a payload of between 10-12 tonnes.Powered by four Gnome-Rhône 14N engines .270 km/h (170 mph (150 kn)) ,Range: 800 km (500 mi) .
Germany would of won if they didn't fight 2 wars at once (Russians, U.S.A.) they had allot of advanced stuff for there time and i would of love to fly for the Luftwaffe
83297458329745 1 week ago
Hanna Reitsch was one to the first test pilots of the "Gigant". However, she flew the glider version. There were supposed to be 200 built for "Operation Sea Lion", the invasion of Britain. There is a video on YouTube of Reitsch talking about it. "The controls were zoe hard" she says. She was arguably the greatest test pilot in history, she was also a hardcore Nazi until the day she died in 1979.
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
как он летал
zizi533 1 month ago
..more fresh meat to the front !
mybluebelly 2 months ago
The Me-231 was a glider, It needed 6 HE-111 Heinkel bombers or 3 HE-111 Zwilling (Twin) to get this huge glider airborne. The Me-321 could also fly by itself, and could carry about 120-130 fully equipped soldiers. The Me-321 started off as a glider, But then they put engines on it, So it could travel further distances. And by the way, It could also carry the big Pzkw III tank, Which i actually think it could carry a couple of :) (Im not sure about this, i only think its like this)
EliasKvistDK 2 months ago
На 1:10 второй двигатель стоит. Это так надо?
2010Ozzz 2 months ago
That's BIG!
TheLahna87 2 months ago
Didn't this plane design start off as a glider? I remember an interview by Hanna Reitsch about this aircraft. She said it was a very demanding plane to fly. Never the less, like other German engineered aircraft and weapons, it's overall design was decades ahead of it's time.
MrDavkoz 2 months ago
@MrDavkoz You are right, the plane you refer to is the Me-321 sailplane. To get it into the air, 6 Heinkel-111 bombers were needed. There were even special Heinkel-111 'zwilling' ('twin') planes built for it. It was not just demending to master, but a very easy target for enemy aircraft as well.
samopdrift 2 months ago
ME's Are Crap, Theyre Only Bombers, Can Easily Be Destroyed. Spitfires And Hurricanes Are Same-alike So You Cant Tell Which, Spitfire and Hurricane Rocks BTW.
kieran2735 2 months ago
I've read that if Germany had focused on a long-range bomber to reach and bomb England, then the war would have had different results. So, why didn't Germany use this Me-323 as a platform for a long-range bomber? I guess the Ju-390 was the plane for this?
danf321 2 months ago
@danf321it was glider cargo plane really. Too heavy for the engines of its day. Rocket engines could have given her mor push, but its range as a sea plane bomber could have been limited.
Wolfen443 2 months ago
@danf321 Why would they need a long range bomber to bomb England ? They were bombing England from France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Norway on a daily basis.
britgary 1 month ago
@britgary Yes, you make a good observation. I just remember from many documentaries that say Hitler should have focused on large bombers, which he didn't for some reason. Weren't most of the German bombers twin-engine? Just think how difficult it would have been for the U.S. to bomb Japan if all we had were B-25's and B-26's?
danf321 1 month ago
@danf321 Yeah man if we all stopped saying with an "if" in history, maybe there would be less stupid books written on history. No one can judge what can modify history with an if.
Madmachine73 1 month ago
Excellent WW2 footage although it was taken just kinda the propaganda movie than . Too bad for Germans because those ''Gigants'' were the sitting ducks for both USAAF & RAF fighters ... the crew members of those giants were the real heros , there's no doubt about that ! Nevertheless - it has been the real sight in the air , just the remarkable piece of the aviation technology through its time ! Thumb up :)
Damir1able 2 months ago
I shoot this plane down in IL2... helluva resilient piece....
bads06 2 months ago
Quite a few design features that, as far as I know, were original: didn't the Russians copy something very similar after the war & follow it up with a jet engined version (note the undercarriage)?
Also the 'Bristol Freighter' (a smaller, twin engined British aircraft of ca. 1949 - 1950's) featured the same basic layout - bulbous nose loading doors etc.(but more conventional undercarriage).
Further info or correction welcome.
freeman8128 3 months ago
@freeman8128 I Believe you are correct, and the Russian Flying Fortress was pretty similiar in layout and disign and shape, possibly just slightly larger
rottenruth5 2 months ago
@rottenruth5 The Russian Flying Fortress was a direct copy of a US Flying Fortress that came temporaraly into Soviet hands when a US 'plane on a mission over Japan was damaged & had to make a forced landing on nearby Soviet territory (near Vladivostok). The crew were repatriated to the USA & so, eventually, was the 'plane - but not before Soviet experts had meticulously examined it down to the last rivet in order to create their own version.
freeman8128 2 months ago
@freeman8128 Ahhh i see, i did not know that. So the Russian Flying fortress is pretty much just a copy??
rottenruth5 2 months ago
@freeman8128 Just one correction. You're referring to the aircraft as the "Flying Fortress" which was the name given to the B-17. The name given the B-29 was the "Super Fortress."
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Jer64ss 2 months ago
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Jer64ss 2 months ago
@freeman8128 One correction, the copied U.S. plane was the B-29 Superfortress. All else is as you described. The copy was the TU-4, NATO codenamed "Bull." It wasn't quite an exact copy. Not only did it have Russian engines, but all dimensions, fasteners, etc. were Metric. Their closest equivalent to the thickness of the B-29s aluminum skin was a bit thicker, so the airplane was several thousand pounds heavier.
Anyway, what a nice kick in the nuts after Lend-Lease, huh?
Jer64ss 2 months ago
@Jer64ss Thanks for the detailed info. - much appreciated.
freeman8128 2 months ago
@Jer64ss and the b29 was no light weight to start with
KinSmallProductions 2 months ago
one of it's engines was out lol
RFKFANTS67 3 months ago
questions
how many did they make? was it 2?
didint the last one disapear?
TheBatteking 3 months ago
@TheBatteking not just two they made a fair amount of em ;) enough that the Allies shot down a bunch in a few masacres and the one I think you're saying disapeared they tested one with a 36,000 lb bomb and it broke up in flight. hope this helps!
flightdeckreviews 3 months ago
Fantastic idea but was far too slow and most were shot down by Allied fighters
Yep - bit of death trap!
Those troops don't look too confident - until they manage to get off
mikeismad61 3 months ago
i hope that thin bomb my city
arne1939 3 months ago
DEar santa!!!
arne1939 3 months ago
Looks like a death trap - I bet those guys were nervous or drunk. Didn't Hana Reitsch pilot it?
ChorltonBrook 3 months ago
@ChorltonBrook Yes, Hanna Reitsch was one of the test pilots involved with this plane. She was also involved in many other Nazi aircraft, ME-262, a Helicopter and manned version of the V-1 flying bomb as well as other rocket planes. She flew into Berlin to visit Hitler when it was surrounded by the Russians, landed on a street and flew back out again. There is a 3 part video series about her on YouTube I recommend. She was an unrepentant Nazi however.
clintonearlwalker 3 months ago
@clintonearlwalker You say nazi aircraft how can an aeroplane be part of a politcal organisation? It's not a nazi aircraft it's just german or Luftwaffe.
mgb104 3 months ago
@mgb104 If you look closely at many Nazi aircraft you will notice a swastika emblazoned on the side. That makes them the tools of military aggression for which the Nazi political regime was most well known. Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, were all cities attacked from the air by the "political organistation" of the Nazi's.
clintonearlwalker 3 months ago
@clintonearlwalker I remember now - I saw that on a programme about her. She seemed like a nice old lady if I recall right. Still all full of wonder and enthusiasm, at her age. (in the 1970's)
ChorltonBrook 1 month ago
@ChorltonBrook Her interview is in the related vids of this vid. She flew a Fiesler Storch into Berlin when it was surrounded by the Russians to take a general to meet with Hitler in his bunker, landed on a street, and took back off and flew out of Berlin. The Russians fired everything they had at the plane because they thought Hitler was escaping. She did many other amazing things also. She was still a Nazi though, and I have no respect for them whatever their exploits.
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
@clintonearlwalker A child of her time I suppose. I imagine a lot of potentially good people got taken in by all that flag waving stuff etc. Especially after the depression and WW1 defeat. It's hypnotic even now - things like 'Triumph of the Will'. Scary the way minds are manipulated.
ChorltonBrook 1 month ago
@ChorltonBrook Actually, your last comment prompted me to read a bit more about Hanna Reitsch. One site said that she actually confronted Himmler about the extermination of the Jews. Himmler acted as if he was shocked by this news and said it was all Allied propaganda. So she continued as a Nazi believer. At the time, what was done to the Jews was very secret, it just seems so impossible now with instantaneous communications.
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
@clintonearlwalker Yeah, I remember hearing that somewhere. I suppose people had a lot to deal with anyway - with the war going on and it wasn't the sort of regime to encourage people to ask questions. Gotta sleep now, it's 6am where I am (UK). Night. I'll dream about massive planes no doubt. : )
ChorltonBrook 1 month ago
@ChorltonBrook Thanx for that, you probably won't see this till morning, I'm going to bed also, 2 a.m. here east coast US. Your comment about the Nazi's being hypnotic is accurate for me as well. I find myself trying to memorize the words to "Die Fahne Hoch", and then I think, "what the hell am I doing?". It's pretty unbelievable what Hitler managed to pull off. Rise and shine.
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
@clintonearlwalker I suppose it was the perfect storm of a few things lead to it. The vacuum left by the Austro-Hungarian Empire & advances in radio, cinema, air transport (Hitler used a Ju 52 a lot to canvas the public) Even the red of the commie and swastika flags was made from new synthetic dyes. I read WW2 was really an oil war. German industry/economy needed the Soviet &Romanian oil fields and the Japs needed Indonesia & Burma. Communism had been discredited by then.
ChorltonBrook 1 month ago
@ChorltonBrook You are one of the first people to mention radio. I read that German tanks had radios in them and it gave them a great advantage when they attacked France. Oil was certainly a problem for the Axis. I know they Allies spent a great deal of effort attacking the oil fields in Ploesti, Romania. I also read that getting fuel was the number 1 concern of mechanized German troops toward the end of the war. The Nazi's were evil incarnate, you can see it here on YouTube
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
@clintonearlwalker It just goes to show how the human race is a slave to circumstances. Similar horrors could happen again one day, probably in the far future and now we have nuclear bombs!
ChorltonBrook 1 month ago
@ChorltonBrook I've pretty much been scared of nuclear weapons my entire life. When I was a kid, they used to test them all the time in the Pacific Ocean. The US still maintains submarines at sea carrying Trident 24/7. During operation Chrome Dome, the US kept nuclear armed B-52's in the air 24/7. One crashed near here carrying two H bombs. My uncle was in the air force, flight engineer, he said they flew H bombs all the time.
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
@clintonearlwalker Same here (worried), we'd be mad not to be. One crashed on landing over here once, it was years before they told us. Sometimes I wonder if it's just a matter of time. Have you ever heard about the September 26th 1983 incident? Google the date. He ended up losing his job and pension because he didn't launch. And that's the stuff they tell us ... God knows what really goes on.
ChorltonBrook 1 month ago
@clintonearlwalker Sorry I was wrong there, he didn't lose his job etc. That's what it said on an incorrect (I imagine) documentary about the day that I'd seen.
ChorltonBrook 1 month ago
@ChorltonBrook Just looked it up, I'm sure these false alarm type of things happen all the time. My uncle said once an H bomb they had on a plane on the ground in France, the timer started counting down. I think he said the detonator wasn't in it though. The B-52 that crashed near here, killed several of the crew. Some froze to death lost in the woods. There were warm houses only about 1 mile from where they were, but they didn't know it. That happened in the mid or late 60s
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
@clintonearlwalker Wow, it's a wild world. And now India, Pakistan, Korea, Israel and soon Iran will have them. Shit I don't wanna think about what could happen. Christmas is coming and I wanna be in a good mood. Anyway it was good chatting ... have a good festive season! While we still can : ) And all the best for 2012.
ChorltonBrook 1 month ago
@ChorltonBrook I'm 50 years old, and I've been thinking about what could happen nearly the entire time. Anyway, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you as well, Cheers!!
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
let me be the furur !!!
kerojis 3 months ago
1:12 lol the third engine from the left is out
terrorist277 3 months ago
holy weight and balance batman
hunterTS4 4 months ago
Wow did all that fit into one 323 ? they must have been big ;-]
topefisher1 4 months ago
@topefisher1
if i recall correctly the biggest non-jet plane.
vzq93 3 months ago
My my, the things they can do with balsa wood !
SupernalOne 4 months ago
verruckt so viel matierial = so Schwerr Möglich tragen können ! fut Luftwaffen .
yvesguilland 4 months ago
I wonder what ww2 people would say seeing todays truly titan airliners?
the me 323 length = 92ft (out of which a third is just tail by the looks of it)
airbus a340-600 length = 247ft
Foxx1981 4 months ago
Hitler was a true fool. If I was furer I conquer Bahamas,Cuba,turks and cacios and maybe belize.
llib245 4 months ago
0:31 real vintage porn
deimos2k6 4 months ago
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kingalow1 4 months ago
A Beautiful plane thats what shes was, ahead of its time the c-130, c17, c5 pay tribute to it another leap forward in human technology thanks to the germans. thumbs up
nateextreme0969 4 months ago
In order for a huge airplane like this to cross the Atlantic to bomb NYC, it needed a lot of air support given that England might just object no matter where ever it was headed! At night it could pull it off alone but not for long . Not after America developed night fighters.
norseleague 4 months ago
Tahle letadala padala jako švestky
mnisek111 4 months ago
this plane is amazing :'D
inthesky666 5 months ago
Not combat footage. Nazi Propaganda.
sigurd1979 5 months ago
does my arse look big on this gun?
antiussentiment 5 months ago
This plane was originally a GLIDER, then those crafty German engineers said "fuck it. Put engines on it" and it worked.
If that fat morphine addicted egomaniac Goring would have insisted on building heavy four engine bombers, and done it early enough in the war, things could have turned out completely differently in the east. But Hitler prefered the statistic of how MANY bombers they could get aloft, so they stayed with the two engined light and medium planes. Whoops.
EarlofCrawford 5 months ago
@EarlofCrawford
German aircraft were mainly to support ground troops. Diverting industry to bombers would reduce the army's strength.
NearAbbeyRoad 5 months ago
@NearAbbeyRoad @NearAbbeyRoad You are right, of course. However, that successful strategy was designed for the Blitzkrieg assaults on their neighbours.
Once they took on Russia and had to fight a war so much further from Germany, they needed Strategic Bombing from heavier bombers with longer range. When the Soviets moved production east of the Ural Mountains, the Germans were helpless to stop them.
Long range heavy bombers were the only solution to that problem
EarlofCrawford 5 months ago
what a expensive way to get a truck to the front in winter,or a chk 38 tank.Looks like their desperate,not happy to get off that plane into the Russ winter
bv141a 5 months ago
if that got shot down hitler would probably send up more
kreigsmann 5 months ago
Anyone notice that the 3rd engine is not running at cam shot ; 1:11 ?
And at 0:11 you see that this engine stands not with his propellor in rest position
( this is the position that not all the oil will flow in to the lowest point of the engine, cousing troubles with starting)
schuur10 6 months ago
@schuur10 its to save gas.
they only have that many engines if they have to climb fast to avoid AA.
that plane could fly on 2 engines unloaded
kreigsmann 5 months ago
DOITSZHLAND YYBER ALLES spyrde spärde
werre2 6 months ago
i counted 88 people under the plane :P
Kitrinomavro 6 months ago
Did americans also have a plane that could cart tanks like that?
Insurgent999 6 months ago
@Insurgent999 ...not back then
jacktheripped 6 months ago
Being a wing-turret gunner would be so shitty.
DerPanzerjager 6 months ago
1:30 = LULZ !!! SUCK IT YA DAMN TRAIN!!!! We get our men to the front in record time!
chobits389 6 months ago
The Me-323 is the father of all modern military transports...
23021955 6 months ago
Looks like they made it to Stalingrad for the big counter attack!
northvilledavis8 6 months ago
The super guppy is bigger
lego0931 6 months ago
You gotta give them, there were all in...
pedemeyer 7 months ago
German propaganda movies, notice the difference between the loading part and the unloading part
schuur10 7 months ago
I would expect it to slowly drag itself along the Tarmac if it had a halftrack and a bunch of infantry in the back :P let alone a tank!
SirCrapsAlotTheThird 7 months ago
@SirCrapsAlotTheThird Right you are! Do you think the Nazi newsreel was trying to give the impression that the airplane could really carry all that hardware in one shot? Snicker, snicker.
logancody05 6 months ago
did someone say antonov?
johns78c 7 months ago
looks like a flying foot
SenorBastardo1348 8 months ago
Gut arbeiten!!!
EYEREX1 8 months ago
priceless footage, thank you.
Orion8888888 8 months ago
World's first heavy airlifter
stalkingalizee 9 months ago
1:12 is that engine 4 out?
singningwongho 9 months ago
You can fly this on IL2 1946 ultrapack!
ljlassi 9 months ago
wow.... im a HUGE history buff on WW 2 and ive never seen one instance of this widely being used... dear jesus... i want one :D :D :D
spfinc1212 9 months ago
From what I've read they were used extensively.
They were just very slow not unreliable.
otester 9 months ago
They had to have a really sharp flight engineer to calculate the weight and balance of that monster. If you were a passenger on board with even a marginal load I would bet that the looks on those men's faces was well warranted. It was probably a "white knuckler" until it touched down at its destination. Talk about trust in the abilities of your fellow man! Cargo haulers were not necessarily the pilots who came out of their Top Gun school if you catch my drift. "You'll be flying rubber dog sh-t."
1955thekeeper 10 months ago
Correct me if I'm wrong; but, none of those things actually took off with either the 38t or the SdkFz 251 right? As I recall they were so slow and ass heavy. They were even unreliable in a slight wind. Did they attempt to use these in the massive cross Medeteranian resupply of the Afrika Korps in Tunisia that failed?
veederm 11 months ago
indeed a 38t
PWNarmored 11 months ago
The very First Globe Master, but in a smaller scale.
As for that Tank, thats a 38T.
EvilFingers 11 months ago
no is panzer 1
achillesd7 11 months ago
in minute 0:21 is a sherman tank ???
LFSIUN 11 months ago
That is one homely airplane.
duanedragon2 1 year ago
what a nail
churchillsteve 1 year ago
They showed an impressive pay load of 5 items, but I think only one of those vehicles at a time could be carried.
jonakiwi 1 year ago
Heap of shit
Waldenmattfinish 1 year ago
Thats thing is just nuts.
Masternater1000 1 year ago
Lol when they put the half track in there I suddenly realised it was not the same aircraft (tardis) they were packing loads of stuff into lol
ferahgo90 1 year ago
Have you seen the glider version? Same size, no engines! Took several tugs to get airborne.... mad!!!
SuperAviatar 1 year ago
@SuperAviatar the germans developed a specialised tug plane made from two Heinkel 111 joined via a 5th engine nacelle by the wings. This was called the He-111 Zwilling and we just as impressive!
ferahgo90 1 year ago
The Germans were ahead in aviation technology. This plane is amazing. Kind of paved the way for future heavy cargo transport planes.
flyboy123b 1 year ago 2
Guys riding the cargo section probably shitting themselves..wondering if they will fry when the thing crashes...
IronManXXX 1 year ago 2
I'll bet there was not a pilot anywhere in flight school that said they wanted to go on and fly Me 323s.
kolbpilot 1 year ago
Those was fucking Usless. RAF always chopped them Down. anything big in WWII was sitting ducks
paul43073 1 year ago
@paul43073 proof my friend. these allegations always require proof. else they are scrapped..without need of counterproof
xlx1979 1 year ago
@xlx1979 Everyone with a little interest in these airplanes should have read a bit about them - and know their fate. So please go to Wikipedia, search for "ME-323" and read about their operational history...
hoshiwanakatta 1 year ago
@paul43073 Without adequate fighter support ANY transport is "useless". Idiot.
warager37 6 months ago
I never knew about this awesome plane. One more German marvel designed far before its time. A lot of innovations here.
Jordache22222 1 year ago
haha, now is that a granddaddy to Antonov or what? Fat slow bastard
kimskis 1 year ago
see that guy 0:32 ? he were thinking: "Yes f *ck me with that metal big cock, yes!" BTW everything else is cool :)
zenislevas 1 year ago 22
@zenislevas He's weighing the gun down to make it easier to board the plane, you ignorant twat.
MDisaster 4 months ago
@MDisaster jelious for that monster?
zenislevas 4 months ago
@zenislevas lol
kerojis 3 months ago
news flash Hitler didn't start the war, uk and french frogland did
germaniajim 1 year ago
@germaniajim You mean the Versailles Treaty?
Camerameister 1 year ago
@Camerameister No, I mean after Germany tried to take back the land stolen from it in WW1 , and to save its citizens in Danzigs from jewish Polish slaughter, Britain and France with jewish support, declared war on the germans.But also,, the treaty of versailles was initiated largely with jewish support.
germaniajim 1 year ago
@germaniajim Sorry, not buying that.
Camerameister 1 year ago
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@Camerameister then google, Judea declares war on Germany
germaniajim 1 year ago
0:31 cannon up in his ass XD LOL
siperdellyeer 1 year ago 5
@siperdellyeer I was thinking the same thing. Hell of a way to remove a hemoroid!
igloo54 1 year ago
@igloo54 lol
siperdellyeer 1 year ago
Talk about tail heavy there at the start when the front bounce, maybe a good thing to load it right.
dtiydr 1 year ago
WTF, A PANZER COULD FIT IN THAT PLANE? I want that!
gahrzahk 1 year ago
geover elinas?;)
xazoulini1 1 year ago
how many bombs it can carry
xazoulini1 1 year ago
@xazoulini1 koita xazoulini... den 3erw poses alla sou lew ena me sigouria. POLLES
geover330 1 year ago
@xazoulini1 I think it was something about 3 8tons bombs.
kratzzjapp17 1 year ago
@RichardHammond: Correct. It started out as the Lastensegler (Cargo Glider) Me321. It was so big, they had to do most of the assembly outside of the assembly hall.
ATLRCFlyer 1 year ago
It can fly! OMG
Tomekwinxs 1 year ago
@LosAztecas that's what I heard. I guess the probability of the tow planes colliding was too great.
RichardHammond11 1 year ago
0:34 LOL
piske991 1 year ago
They are big, which makes them great targets to shoot down......
CPTMarine 1 year ago
Wow, I didn't know one of these ever actually flew. That's impressive.
HerrSchnellmann 1 year ago
@HerrSchnellmann Many flew, it started life off as a glider towed up by a 'troika' of ME 110 or Heinkel 111 (I think) they then fitted engines and laterly rockets to boost takeoff. Quite a few were shot down over the Med whilst supplying German forces in Tunisia.
dmzagi 1 year ago
OMG it flies! wasn't it supposed to be a glider?
RichardHammond11 1 year ago
@RichardHammond11
It was further developed into a powered transport.
LosAztecas 1 year ago
i shot this in call of duty 2
sharkboy1107 1 year ago
früher im krieg omg
Julii47 1 year ago
lol don't crash!
Sombomombo 1 year ago
LOL music when its flying. Ride of the Fatties more like
ChumbaWumbaStudios 1 year ago
That was the Antonov of old times....
RobertsDigital 1 year ago 3
@RobertsDigital C'mon, Russian already had larger planes back to 30s.
zipacna1980 1 year ago
One ugly bird indeed.
TheMiseryGuts 1 year ago
is this howard' hughes plane?
flippertyjipperty 1 year ago
@flippertyjipperty No, you're thinking of the Spruce Goose Seaplane.
edj66 1 year ago
You can't tell me that any German pilot flew the 323 willingly. Out of duty,yes. Can you imagine, fresh out of flight school & you get assigned the 323. Hats off to all those that did, though.
kolbpilot 1 year ago
Dood... I couldn't have figured out more suitable background music for this plane than the "ride of the valkyries"... That is just absolutely massive.
nallepuh6969 1 year ago 31
Its me321 but ok....I dont care because this is vere rare footage....later on the WOII they've been towed by dubble Heinkles
0jesse10397 1 year ago
@0jesse10397 nope its an 323 Cause it has 6 engines its one off a few planes that has 6 engines the me 321 was a glider
HksTopAndRock 1 year ago
Spend all your resources on flying coffins and then complaint of resource shortage.
Germans really got crazy close to the end of war. They were making crazy fake weapons just to show hem on camera.
breadbusket 1 year ago
Now we know where Howard Hughes got his inspiration for the Spruce Goose. Did any of these survive WWII? Would have been a shame if they all got shot down. I have no real desire for war, but the engineering fascinates me from all sides. Had Hitler not been an egomaniac, and Goebbels not so incompetent, much of Europe would be speaking German now
Mechknight73 1 year ago 3
@Mechknight73 True, but if Hitler had not been such an egomaniac he would have never started the war in the first place. BTW did you know that English is practiclly German to begin with? There re some great German military songs w/ lyrics and translation elsewhere on YouTube.
badflamenco 1 year ago
@badflamenco I was under the misguided impression that German is a lot more orderly thAN English. I do remember a Movie, "Das Boot" or "The Boat" in English. The story of a WWII U boat and its crew, and the journalist tagging along as an observer. The captain puts on a record, "It's a long way to Tipperary." Typically nutty submarine crew. You have to be a certain level of nuts to want to crew one
Mechknight73 1 year ago
@badflamenco just an american can say something this stupid...
The war could not be avoided, the Versailles peace caused huge pressure in europe, "This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years"
akicram 1 year ago
Is this video with wagner's music originally edited by the deutsche wocheschau?!!!??
tonymontana78bo 1 year ago
antonov 225 resemble this plane?
Acornoa 1 year ago
Охуеть! Только зомбированные бараны могли залезть в этот летающий гроб, и надеяться выжить!
Jurge69 1 year ago
Немцы походу в конце войны вообще стали в полный маразм входить. Строить гигантские самолеты, гигантские танки...
Shpornet 1 year ago
the forefathers of modern aviation.
Rico8458 1 year ago 2
the flyover at 1:09 the innermost engine on the left wing (looking head on) the prop wasnt turning
113stDFX9900 1 year ago
lol yeah probably a bird made a killing in that engine LOL
petresko14 1 year ago
There's no way all that stuff fit into one airplane!
bigcitybrian 1 year ago
six Gnome-Rhône 14N engines
barbenH 2 years ago
They were initially designed as large assault gliders for the Invasion of the UK (operation sea lion)The Me323 is a motorized variant of the Me 321 Had a payload of between 10-12 tonnes.Powered by four Gnome-Rhône 14N engines .270 km/h (170 mph (150 kn)) ,Range: 800 km (500 mi) .
barbenH 2 years ago
What's German for "Giant sitting duck"?
NVanWendy 2 years ago
The bigger,the better...
Yrevketumbezesk 2 years ago