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@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
Жыл бұрын
Where else are you going to find a one hour quality documentary like this... NOT on TV for sure !!! Excellent production, keep up the good work.
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you!
@lyudmila2882
Жыл бұрын
I'm a Yank, LOVE the story of the Swordfish disabling the Bismarck, and LOVE the story about its production and restoration. So lovely to see it in flight! Thanks for the video!!
@fergusallan7187
Жыл бұрын
My late father was an aircraft mechanic on swordfish. Loved the vid
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
Bless him
@brianw612
Жыл бұрын
It takes love for a thing to restore it with such care and devotion.
@davidelliott5843
Жыл бұрын
Swordfish gets accused of being outdated but in reality it was an excellent STOL aircraft with significant lifting capacity. It really was the only aircraft capable of operating from carriers heaving & rolling over North Atlantic swells. Nothing else came close.
@SennaAugustus
Жыл бұрын
It was also capable of night carrier operations years before it was possible by any other plane.
@Teknolojitv9340
Жыл бұрын
i love this channel
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
👍🙏🙏
@faze3100
Жыл бұрын
My Dad was a TAG on the Swordfish. Would have loved this video.
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
Bless him
@SKILLED521
Жыл бұрын
My very favorite plane!
@Nunyobu
Жыл бұрын
"Ah, it was a luck shot. Oh look, we are spinning!" Kapitan Lindemann
@keithwalker6892
Ай бұрын
I try to follow WW11 aircraft that did a tremendous amount of damage for their type . Another aircraft was the Douglas SDB Dauntless which sank 4 Japanese Aircraft Carrier’s in the battle of Midway. There is a Dauntless on display at Midway Airport in Chicago
@roelantverhoeven371
Жыл бұрын
actually the albacore also saw the end of the war, one squadron still used them, albeit land based, to patrol the scheldt river against german mini submarines
@mashelalnaar
Жыл бұрын
The Swordfish was actually better than the Albacore which was meant to replace it.
@mrrolandlawrence
Жыл бұрын
indeed would rather be at the controls of the string-bag trying to land on a carrier VS say a seafire.
@soultraveller5027
Жыл бұрын
The japanese Navy sat up and took notice of this attack one year later they had their own ''Tranato'' arrack 1941
@Dronescapes
Жыл бұрын
Taranto?
@2006gtobob
Жыл бұрын
Wow! Is that Harrison Ford at 27:48?
@nicks4934
3 ай бұрын
String bag because it could carry anything
@hughgordon6435
Жыл бұрын
Everything before the " but" is irrelevant?
@manmancanadadingdong
Жыл бұрын
First
@duanerice-mason2115
Жыл бұрын
THE REASON THIS OBSOLETE AIRCRAFT WAS ABLE TO BE COVERED IN GLORY IS BECAUSE THE ROYAL NAVY FACED THE GERMANKRIEGSMARINE WITHOUT AIRCRAFT CARRIERS WHEN THE ROYAL NAVY FOUGHT THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY IN THE BAY OF BENGAL THE ROYAL NAVY LOST ONE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS😊
@towgod7985
Жыл бұрын
Pick up a history book, ditch wherever you currently get your information from, you are not even close to reality.
@duanerice-mason2115
Жыл бұрын
@@towgod7985 HMS HERMES SUNK IN THE BAY OF BENGAL IN APRIL 1942
@towgod7985
Жыл бұрын
@@duanerice-mason2115 No Aircraft Carriers? KMS BISMARCK SUNK by Swordfish from HMS Ark Royal! Attack on Italian base at Taranto, Swordfish from HMS Illustrious ,........both AIRCRAFT CARRIERS! Learn the history you comment on and make your post on one subject.
@duanerice-mason2115
Жыл бұрын
@@towgod7985 LISTEN YOU IDIOT THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY SUNK THE HMS HERMES IN THE BAY OF BENGAL IN 1942 ALONG WITH HMS CORNWALL AND HMS DORSETSHIRE
@alanmackinnon3516
11 ай бұрын
@@towgod7985i think he means the Germans had no Aircraft Carrier's.
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