Not a Toy: World's Scariest Aircraft | Last Moments

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This plane was the definition of "a fine line between genius and insanity."

There's a lot of ways to die in a war, but being digested inside your own aircraft is certainly one of the weirder ones.

I love how every single video about WW2 German tech can be summarised to praises between every single sentence about it being: “absolutely flawless revolutionary piece of futuristic engineering equipment that was way too ahead of it's time, and totally worked”- followed by a single “BUT” and 900 page essay report on how it was utter mechanical failure that didn't work at all and shouldn't had been made in first place.

This plane is like something you'd expect to find in the inventory of 40k Ork warband. Bizarre, noisy, at least as dangerous to the operator as to the enemy, yet somehow still a functional piece of equipment.

Having darkness-activated upwards-facing cannons to compensate for how difficult aiming was was actually really clever, damn.

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The idea that a "lucky" bullet in a fuel tank would "only" result in your cockpit being filled with hydrogen peroxide is so unfathomably insane!

Concentrated H2O2 scares me, and I'm a chemist. You have to be incredibly thoughtful about storage and disposal, not just because it eats nearly everything, but it also has a tendency to form extremely sensitive explosives.

Eric Winkle Brown lived to the age of 97, which is made even more impressive by the fact that he survived 11 plane crashes and being torpedoed. He continued to fly experimental aircraft well into his 70s.

I mean ... The last days of one technology are always better than the first days of a new technology. Especially when that new technology literally dissolves you in the likely event of something like a less than perfect landing or sheer bad luck.

9:35 "Yeah, so the fuel that powers this thing is extremely dangerous, in fact if there's a spillage there's a chance it'll digest you alive-" Captain Brown: I'mma fly it.

There's also a really wild story of an accident with the ground crew. Remember how the T-Stoff and C-Stoff had to be kept separate but in different types of containment materials? This sounds simple in theory, but it was a nightmare in practice. Both were a clear liquid and were nearly indistinguishable from each other. Smelling the fumes to tell them apart was not only hazardous, but often impossible given the thick asbestos suits and PPE handlers wore. So the story goes that once a ground crewman saw a bucket of what he thought was C-Stoff on the floor of the hangar, probably having been drained or recovered from an aircraft being serviced by another ground crewman. So, the unfortunate ground crewman picked the bucket up and attempted to return it to the larger C-Stoff storage tank also located in the hangar. The content of the bucket was actually T-Stoff. He was killed instantly by the blast, and the whole hangar was engulfed in flames.

Flying in as Aspestos suit, right next to concentrated hydrogen peroxide, and in front of hydrazine, without landing gear, and probably high on meth. Crazy times

Hydrogen peroxide doesn't react with aluminium (oxide, which is a ceramic which forms when aluminium comes into contact with oxygen. It forms a tiny, self-healing layer around it), but any form of impurity in the metal would cause it to break down into steam and oxygen. And pure aluminium isn't too easy to make, especially when your industry is as badly damaged as Germany's

"The glider was so good, it was almost too good." Classic German engineering moment.

One can be seen flying at Shuttleworth, Bedfordshire, UK. Released after an aerotow and flown as a aerotowed glider at their air shows. Very impressive.

Also to note about plane speeds circa WW2. The fastest piston fighters of the war, when running flat out in best conditions, were getting into the upper 400s in mph. A gap of 200+ mph here literally means the better part of 50% more speed, at the top end. Just to help put things into better context.

I remember hearing that both of those chemicals it used as fuel were colorless. That one mechanic poured the wrong thing into the wrong tank and "Before he realized the severity of his mistake, his insides were spread thinly around the hangar."

"impossible to stall or spin" WT players: you underestimate my power