Top 5 Rarest German WW2 Planes That Actually Flew

Welcome back to another top five video. Today we will focus on what I believe are the five

rarest

German World War II aircraft that

actually

flew

. The key factor for a plane to have made it to this list is that it has

actually

flown in real life. It is nice to see

planes

like the Messerschmitt mep one 1:01, a prototype fighter plane that was 80% complete before of its capture, but it never

flew

under its own power, so it cannot be involved in this. list another example of this type of prototype is the 2/9 smith emmy award, it was a planned heavy fighter, only a partial wooden mockup was built, it's yet another example of a fancy aircraft that never flew anyway, let's move on with the list.

Number five for the Heinkel h ii 119 behind the co h e 119 was designed to be an unarmed reconnaissance bomber whose design began in 1936. The goal of the 119 was to have a force plate that could recognize the enemy and outrun their interceptors. to achieve high speeds and good visibility, but Heinkel designers decided to forgo the typical cockpit design. The cockpit is located directly behind the propeller within four main fuselages. Propeller power comes from two angels near the center of the plane. A driveshaft runs toward the center of the cabin. transferred the combined power made a single propeller but the shaft was protected so that the crew would not be at risk of injury from moving parts because 119 is not the only airplane that does not have its engine located near the propeller, the American people have a Similar idea for the old one is mounted near the center of gravity which is behind the pilot and between the center of the two wings, but two angels of the 119 could produce a beastly 2000 350 horsepower, which would give the 119 a speed maximum 590 km/h, it's funny to think but when I first saw a photo of this plane, I struggled, it was a single seater, I struggled, the pilot had to lie face down to fly the plane, similar in style to the Blohm & Voss BV 40 or the Arado AR e38 1.

I was wrong, it is a fairly large aircraft, only a little shorter than a Heinkel 111 bomber. The main German medium bomber could accommodate three crew members inside the 119. The pilot and co-pilot They would sit in a standard configuration next to each other in the cabin. an optional rear gunner would be manning two rear-facing machine guns, one gun facing up and one facing down. One interesting feature that made the Aichi 119 unique is its 119 cooling system that forgoes typical radiator cooling for a more experimental type of evaporative cooling vapor cooling. It is produced when the engine cools, the steam travels through pipes that channel it to the wings, inside the wings, the steam cools and becomes water again and is then pumped back to the engine so that the cycle begins again.

It is the same system that is used. used On the Heinkel 100, in theory, this cooling method is very good, but on the first 119 it was considered inadequate, so a classic radiator had to be added. Vapor cooling is quite complicated because of the slight increase in performance it provides. I imagine that is why the huncle 100 was mass produced even though it had better flight characteristics than the bf 109 a small hole in the wing and the engine would jam in a few minutes in total eight Heinkel one nine teams were built The first model arrived flying in 1937. The first two 119s had a fairly standard configuration for general aviation.

Preferably, the 119 was equipped to be a seaplane. It had large floats installed that allowed it to take off and land from the water. The fourth 119 was similar to the first two 119s produced with the exception of a larger radiator, it achieved a record flight in which a 1,000-kilogram kite or payload traveled 10,000 kilometers at a record top speed of 505 km/h. . The last four 190s had more military applications; They had chosen to count the crew from two to three and also a defensive machine gun was added as a last resort, but the fifth and six before reconnaissance, the seventh and eighth were for bombing, they could carry up to 1000 kilograms of bombs, since they The German Air Ministry was not too interested in the

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despite all the different prototypes were made showing their different uses, they were sold under a licensed production plan, which never happened, but what did happen is that the designs were used when designing the r2y for our (I took a lot of inspiration from just the 119), our two eyes. number four fog planes were made, refers to reconditioned aircraft that become glider bombs that are deployed from aircraft.

The idea was that a small aircraft would guide a large payload toward the target when the payload was in its final dive toward the target for the pilot. it could separate and fly back to base while the payload crashes into its target. Mistletoe planes typically had a fighter on top and a medium bomber below. This wasn't always the case as there are some experimental variants of these aircraft, but we'll get to those. The later mistletoe planes are quite similar to a concept used earlier in the war. The DFS 30 assault glider will be slung underneath a Fokker Warf FW 56 or BF 109.

It is surprising to see a tow aircraft attached to the glider in this configuration instead of being towed. front for DFS: the 30 glider could carry a crew or nine men for a plane to be properly classified as a mistletoe plane, the plane below must have an engine otherwise it's just a very big bomb. The most common configuration for these aircraft was to have a Yonkers. Ju 88 below and a fokker wolf fw 190 above for ju 88 will be filled to the brim with explosives if available. A special nose cone that was equipped with explosives will be installed on the ju 88.

Guess how long that nose cone lasts? Guess, your answer was about six hundred and fifty kilograms. It is a shaped charge that can penetrate up to seven meters of concrete. The pilot of the plane above was able to control both planes in flight. The smaller plane's control surfaces were mirrored. In the larger one, the pilot could even change payload aging rates for longer missions. A pump could be added to transfer fuel from the tanks of the plane below to the plane above. When the mistletoe plane was close to its target, the planes would separate. the pilot detonated the explosive bolts that held the two planes together the glide bomb would then continue on autopilot experiments were carried out so that the bomb plane was radio controlled these radio controlled variants were only experimental and were not used en masse the first plane of mistletoe flew in 1943. 250 aircraft were built in this configuration before the end of the war.

His success in combat is a mixed bag. The overall result was that they weren't good, but the nature of the mistletoe plays I've seen are very expensive but fairly accurate, meaning they can only be used on high priority targets and aren't wasted whether you want them to or not, for For example, mistletoe planes were used in the defense of Berlin, they were aimed at bridges crossing the Oder River, that river was the last major defensive line before Berlin was The key to the defense of Berlin was being able to destroy those bridges to stop the Russian advance.

Other uses of mistletoe were against the Allies in Normandy with the attempted destruction, of course by air, of a port in northern France, allowing the Allies to easily bring in supplies for their forces, both mistletoe attacks caused little or no damage in relation to what was expected of them. Any cell plane can be configured to become a mistletoe plane. There were plans for more experimental variants, including the TA 152 with a Fokker Wulf 190 underneath another proposed variant. it was a Hg 162 or a vardø 2 3 4 with a Nevada III 77 a glide bomb 4 III 77 was a custom glide bomb that could hold just under two tons of explosives, although the 377 has no cockpit it still counts as a mistletoe.

Because it uses its own engines, as well as higher-powered aircraft to reach its target, it was even thought of using an Me-262 with the interior removed and converting them into gliding bombs that would be placed under another Me-262 that the had led to its objective, the main problems with mistletoe aircraft is that they are very expensive and vulnerable to attack aircraft, they are quite expensive to manufacture. The most difficult part of the plane to make are the angels and with every mistletoe they bomb valuable airframes with expensive engines. Angels could only be manufactured in specialized workshops and Pacific airborne engineering defensive capabilities were non-existent for mistletoe aircraft.

Maneuverability when attached was not good, making them very vulnerable when heading towards their target once the mother plane went down. payload regains its normal flight characteristics the background images are filmed by US aircraft intercepting mistletoe configured aircraft the fighter cover was necessary or it was more than likely that the piggyback aircraft would not reach its target sometimes the fighter cover did not was available or the target would simply be out of range of normal fighters the mistletoe project was the result of a country losing a war and needing a way to repurpose its older equipment for short term needs rather than long term needs at the beginning of the war Germany was launching v1 rockets from Heinkel 111, this seems a lot less wasteful as 410 V1s were launched from planes, most of them were launched in London which is a pretty big target.

The Vs would not be used on important Pacific targets due to accuracy issues. Some mistletoes were actually built with piloted ju 88s for long range emissions, the Fokker Wulf 190 was simply taken with it when an enemy aircraft was detected, the fw 190 could detach and attack this mother ship. The airplane concept is not the first of its kind. experiments carried out by the Russians before TB free for TB free was the mother ship that would transport fighter planes over long distances to a combat area, in the combat area smaller fighters could be separated and when the fuel ran out they could connect back to the mother ship.

And getting back to base, a little tidbit I'll add before moving on to the next plane is that Wolf 190 at the Science Museum in London actually has holders for the explosive bolts that were used on the lost planes. It's fun to think. How most people who see this in the museum wouldn't realize that the plane actually had a special purpose other than being a number three fighter plane for Blohm & Voss BV 155, but Blohm & Voss 155 was designed to be a high altitude interceptor with bombing. Raids increased in frequency and with the United States entering the war, Germany was harassed by daytime bombing raids by the United States and night bombing raids by the British.

Several high-altitude interceptor programs were established in parallel, leading to some innovative designs. I could dedicate a whole video just talking about this type of aircraft experimental planes like the Messerschmitt mu 1 6 3 and the bakkum ba 3 4 9 there are also more practical high altitude interceptors like the Dornier doe 55 and the TA 152 but let's not digress originally The BV 155 was being designed by Messersmith for 155 when it turned out to be a rough development, originally called the ME 155. It was being designed for the aircraft carrier that Germany was producing for Graf Zeppelin. was canceled almost completed due to a change in war priorities, then the aircraft was redesigned to be a high speed tactical bomber that could carry a single 1000 kilogram bomb, they redesignated it as the M II 155 and after that design was rejected, the Messerschmitt was requested. to make a high altitude fighter, so the plane was redesigned giving us the Emme 155 b1 after a bit more back and forth between the German Ministry of Aviation and the mission, the plane was redesigned with a supercharger and a slightly fuselage. enlarged to accommodate it, this gave us two Emme 155 b1 a mouthful.

In 1943, the German Ministry of Aviation decided to entrust the project to Blohm & Voss, as Messerschmitt was already working on many projects with the design at Blohm & Voss in his hands and was renamed BV. 155 Blohm & Voss Scott would work with the first variant of the BV 155 for the BV 155 v1 Messersmith was supposed to continue working on the project, but Messerschmitt was not very happy or lose his contract, Savoy assured it was a passive back-and-forth exchange. Examples of being aggressive, missing meetings, and generally being a pain to communicate with also didn't help that Misha Smith's office working at the 155 was based in France.

I'm sure there was some distaste for workingwith Germans, the first variant of the BV 155 the v1 had an overheating problem Blauman was their solution to this problem was the installation of two huge radiators under each wing for version 2 this is easily the most prominent visible feature of the bv 1.5 It was a necessary addition to the enormous amount of heat the engine produced for additional performance. When Messersmith was producing the design, there was a plan to have eight small radiators, four on each wing. Blohm & Voss chose to simplify the process by having two large radiators instead of eight if We wonder why the 155 looks a lot like a BF 109, basically because it is a 109 that has undergone extensive improvements over the years As for armament, the BV 155 was a single 30-millimeter cannon tipped with two heavy machine guns. mounted on each wing, it also had some pretty interesting features. 4 fighter from 1944, had a pressurized cockpit and an ejector seat for a total amount of 155 s.

The bill may vary depending on how you count it free of the 155 that actually flew, but two others were almost finished but not fully assembled, so it can be argued that distant 5:1 files were made. The design of the aircraft was still being carried out in 1945 with B and V working on a third variant of the aircraft for the facilities where the 155 was. under development were captured by the British, only one example of the be v1 Popov exists and is in the hands from the American Air and Space Museum. He is not on display and will probably never be number two for Heinkel.

The 162, the 116 is a small single-seater. jet fighterits name was Volga, which translates into English as the people's plane. This aircraft was designed to be small and easy to build with relatively simple and available materials. Most of the airframe is made of wood. It was a departure in the direction of German design which normally had most aircraft had metal skin perhaps it was a lesson learned from their enemies the British and the Russians, both the Russians and the British had a shortage of aluminum so who had to resort to using wood for the construction of airplanes. Examples of mostly wooden aircraft would be the British Mosquito and The Russian no-delay system for a Chi 162 was born out of Germany's emergency fighter program, which was a program to develop aircraft that could take on high-altitude bombers;

In the past, the German air force preferred heavy twin-engine aircraft to engage Allied bomber formations. These heavy aircraft could be armored to protect their crew and could carry large quantities of heavy ammunition for large caliber weapons. Ideal for hunting bombers without air supremacy. These heavy aircraft were very vulnerable and easily intercepted and shot down before attacking their intended targets. An example of a heavy interceptor would be the Heinkel h e2 1:9. These large aircraft were also very expensive to produce in comparison. The Heinkel one-sixteenth was intended to be cheap and easy to manufacture. So cheap that it will be practically disposable at least compared to the me. -262 for me-262 pain Germany's main jet fighter at the time, the unique design of having a single engine in the middle above the main fuselage allowed for easy engine maintenance.

Late war German jet engines had a poor life expectancy due to a lack. of rare metals and poor quality control during assembly, engine life was generally around 10 hours per jet engine. All BMW 3 engines were frozen with all their design defects for mass production. An example of how the lack of metals affected manufacturing was the internal design of Jet engines will normally be made of aluminum, but due to a shortage of metals for the inside of the engine, they are either made of iron with a thin layer of aluminum sprayed inside with an old life like this for old engines, it could be easily changed. with a crane in a shop and a new one in place at ground level for 162 it could reach just under 800 kilometers per hour at 20,000 feet; can reach about 850 kilometers per hour with the added benefit of engine efficiency; flight time was approximately 30 minutes at ground level or closer to 90 minutes at higher altitudes, in case the pilot had to remove an ejector seat, the reason for its inclusion was to ensure that the pilot cleared the area around the jet engine which was located just behind the main cabin there were two variants of the 162 but the only difference between these two types is their offensive decoration, but the me1 62 a 1 had 230 millimeter guns, the ME 162 a 2 had 20 millimeter guns, the 20 millimeter wooden variant was mass produced.

As discovered in testing, the 30 millimeters caused damage to the aircraft due to recoil. A unique feature of the 162 design was that the wingtips dropped downwards, the reason for this is to decrease stall speeds at low speeds, making it easier to land at lower speeds, this may be a small plane, but surprisingly with its maximum fuel load, its weight will be more than 3 tons. The 162 had light nose armor and bulletproof glass intended to protect the pilot from the bomber's defensive adornment. You should add that the 162 had retractable landing gear. It may not seem like a big deal, but for late-war German aircraft design, you'd be surprised how many prototypes and mass-produced planes flew over me without landing gear. when landing skidding because the BA 349 broke up in the air and the pilot had to use a parachute while the plane's engine fell to the ground on its own parachute 4m and 162 is not exactly rare since 300 of them were manufactured, but I think it is worth it place on this list almost none of the 300 saw combat it is said that the 162 resulted in a total of one enemy aircraft shot down and even for that aircraft that was shot down there are conflicting reports as to what did or did not happen and whether credit actually went to anti-aircraft weapons on the ground for a plane that had almost 300, there are always no images available and that is because the video recordings of the test flights of the planes were destroyed before the end of the war for a simple name.

The Englishman is the people's fighter, how Volkswagen was meant to make simple cars that everyone could drive. This plane was supposed to be easy to fly for new recruits in Germany's air force. This could not be further from the truth. The 162 had flight characteristics that even those experienced. Aircraft pilots struggled to overcome the high speeds necessary for landing were a major obstacle to overcome for new trainees in the 116th. Mass production began just after January 1945, when the war was already considered lost and the first production units obtained two squadrons in February. It wasn't until April, when the first 162 first saw combat, that most of the manufacturing of the 162 was done by slave laborers who are unskilled and willing to work in the horrible conditions they worked in assembling the planes. in dark, damp caves underground for many years.

Brutal underground SS slave factories have been established near the end of the war. Their goal was to assemble the Wonder weapons that were saved in the Reich. We can all see how it turned out. A similar story about how prisoners recovered by urinating on the glue. used in aircraft assembly for urine would cause the glue to break down over time, reducing its effectiveness, but the glue was used in much of aircraft assembly, it is a relatively undetectable method of sabotage that would cause failure in moments high stress on the aircraft structure. The thing is, while peeing on the glue helped it break down faster, the glue used in their sweatshops was already flawed.

A manufacturing plant producing a very large proportion of Germany's industrial glue was bombed, resulting in substitute glues being used. Used in aviation assembly, these substitute glues tended to become more acidic over time, causing them to break down, most of the six were lost due to poor manufacturing quality rather than fire truck fires. enemies, structural failures, etc. There was a case of a 162 pilot ejected and killed because the canopy did not open. More than 600 162s were in production when Germany surrendered, 162 fought to be the regime's saving grace, but it showed how short-sighted and desperate the Third Reich was. .

Votes in all 162 were found in testing, but all warnings were ignored just for this fighter to go into mass production. Production of the aircraft had begun before testing of the design was completed. It is not unusual in times of war for a design to be frozen even if there are flaws, small changes can be made but only with permission and even then only if they are simple and will not change factory assembly lines. Normally these designs are considered acceptable, but what is not acceptable is for the wings to fall off your plane, something is slightly wrong if that is happening there are many 1-6 two on display in museums around the world number one the Messerschmitt me-262 its power plant is agents 2 vs 1 this plane was already doomed from the start of the planning phase there is a reason why this is the only plane to be powered by pole jets, well that is if we don't count the v1 manned variant, rates Allah fi 103 are Reichenberg, there was also another pulse powered aircraft, the yonkers EF 1 to 6, but it never flew powered, so technically it doesn't. t count for me3 2a was first designed in 1941 with its original purpose of being a parasite fighter, the idea was that it could be attached to heavy bombers to provide bomber cover in a configuration similar to that of the mr. planes when enemy fighters were seen near the formation, free aid was separated and intercepted, they also thought about towing the plane instead of mounting it on the bomber with its wooden structure and cheap engine design, they fought so that they could be manufactured four of these.

For the cost of a conventional propeller-driven fighter, early hopes were to build 1,000 of these, but nothing came of it. There are many problems with pulse jets that make them not ideal for airplanes. Heavy powered bombers normally fly their sorties at high altitudes, as jets do not operate. good at high altitudes, so it is not an ideal engine for an aircraft that is intended to operate at high altitudes. There were several variants of the free to help with the only difference between the types being their power plant, there was a bipolar boat without a motor and a glider. the single jet engine of lost design, although the first designs were made in 1941, first flew powered in 1944, nine were made in total, two of them were unpowered gliders and the other servant was powered by twin thrusters to anuman for the mass production variant it would have been twin 20 millimeter cannons one of the many problems with pulse jets is that they fail quickly they are not designed to last v once they were built to fly for just under an hour the engines no longer Jet engines are characterized by their simplicity, low construction cost and high noise levels.

Another problem with flying to a project was that later Jets would cause so much vibration in flight that the plane would begin to shake. One solution to address this problem was to relocate the engine from the rear tail of the aircraft. - under the wings, this change did not solve the vibration problem, but it helped alleviate the risk of the plane shaking completely, like all other German fighters of the late war, there were armored plates and tempered glass to protect the pilot. a frontal attack during the design phase it was decided that it would be too complicated to install an ejector seat on the plane with the time and resources they had it was easier to design a system with explosive bolts that could be detonated by removing the tail section from the plane to land because the plane would land on a retractable skid when it was clear that this move would not be used in its planned fight of all the forces that could perhaps become a 500 kilogram suicide weapon in the nose or a larger bomb could be placed, the Plane could be launched from a medium bomber and the pilot inside the fried ape would fly the plane toward its intended target.

This idea was abandoned as it was combated, although it could be much easier to do with the manned v1. variant, the ideal piloted suicide weapons were later launched by the Air Ministry although they were already a squadron of volunteers assembled when they were fully loaded for me 3 2/8 they weighed more than two and a half tons their maximum speed was 800 kilometers per hour with speeds in level flight. being around 600 kilometers per hour, nothing came up with thisproject, in the end it focused on other fighters that would be more successful, well there you have it, those are my 5

rarest

WWII German planes that actually flew, there are tons of other planes. that may have easily made it onto this list but this is my top 5 list after all leave in the comments what new things should have been on this list but be careful and I may have already mentioned it in another of my top 5 lists if you like this video i'm sure you'll enjoy my other top five so you should check them out anyway thanks for watching and i hope you enjoyed your time please like, comment and subscribe.

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