An enjoyable watch but one does have to look past the oh so very typical claim from a US documentary that a European piece of technology was in fact American. British publications tend to do the same thing with the aeromechanical airscrew so you get used to it. But still...
According to the documentary the BMW 801 was a license built Pratt & Whitney, the Fw-190 concept was based on Vought prewar prototypes and its acceptance in the Luftwaffe was a result of Howard Hughe's racing plane. Oh yeah and the Zero used an American designed engine cowling to achieve its streamlining.
hmm...history is so wrong. All those international aeronautical publications hailing the 801 engine as a revolutionary and original design back then: wrong. Kurt Tank: plagiarism city. I am enlightened. The best fighter in the Luftwaffe was American. Vote Republican, kill Muslims, we're not stealing Russian oil and gas through Afghanistan, honest. It's all a Muslim extremist terrorist conspiracy, they took over from the Jews and we are Neitzschean supermen saving the world.
Yes Adolf. We understand.
Ahem, but if you turn the sound down or have selective hearing, the footage is a great watch, so thanks for the link. I did enjoy it, but waved my fist at the screen a few times too. lol.
