Wehrmacht Never Expected 155mm Long Toms To Obliterate Bunkers From 14 Miles Away

Wehrmacht Never Expected 155mm Long Toms To Obliterate Bunkers From 14 Miles Away

The IMPOSSIBLE P-47 That Broke Physics and Saved Pilots' Lives
When a 7-ton fighter dove at 550mph, physics said the pilot was dead. One engineer's "impossible" hydraulic system proved physics wrong.
In 1942, test pilot Harold Comstock was diving his P-47 Thunderbolt at 550mph when the unthinkable happened - his controls locked solid. At 28,000 feet and climbing toward terminal velocity, he was supposed to die. Instead, he discovered the secret that would make the P-47 the deadliest ground-attack fighter of WWII.
This is the untold story of Alexander Kartveli, the Georgian immigrant engineer who refused to accept that "compressibility" was a death sentence. While other fighters disintegrated at high speeds, his P-47 pilots were pulling out of 600mph dives and living to tell about it.
What you'll discover:
How a simple trim tab technique saved hundreds of pilots from certain death
The revolutionary hydraulic dive brake system that rewrote the rules of aerial combat
Why German jets couldn't out-dive a "primitive" piston-engine fighter
The engineering philosophy that changed aircraft design forever
Combat footage and stories from pilots who lived through impossible dives
From the California desert test flights to the skies over Nazi Germany, this deep-dive reveals how one man's obsession with "impossible" hydraulics gave Allied pilots a weapon no enemy could match - the ability to dive faster than physics should allow and pull out alive.
The P-47 destroyed 9,000 locomotives, 86,000 railroad cars, and 68,000 trucks. But its real victory was over the laws of aerodynamics themselves.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 - The 550mph Dive That Should Have Been Fatal 08:30 - Alexander Kartveli: The Engineer Who Refused Limits
18:45 - When Physics Becomes Your Enemy: The Compressibility Crisis 28:20 - The Trim Tab Technique That Saved Lives 35:10 - "IMPOSSIBLE" Hydraulics: Engineering the Ultimate Dive Brake 45:30 - Combat Results: How Physics-Breaking Fighters Won the War 52:15 - Legacy: Modern Aircraft That Still Use These Principles
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