Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Sopwith Cuckoo

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  1. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:46:36Torpedo-bomber preferences from the Cuckoo to the AvengerQ&A
  2. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    11:15Shallow water makes aerial torpedo entry a design problemNotable Point
  3. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    17:06Cuckoo production runs ahead of carrier readinessNotable Point
  4. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    35:22An aviation flagship has to coordinate several kinds of carrierNotable Point
  5. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    54:11Three carriers simplify a difficult strike packageNotable Point
  6. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    1:06:16An earlier Cuckoo makes the strike plausibleNotable Point
  7. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    1:09:12A quarter of the torpedoes hitting would still cause heavy lossesNotable Point
  8. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    19:07The Sopwith Cuckoo and the planned 100-aircraft strikeChapter
  9. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:07:56Two plausible paths to a Wilhelmshaven carrier strikeChapter
  10. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:12:06How an earlier Cuckoo order could reduce production delaysNotable Point
  11. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:15:37Single-seat Cuckoos made navigation the key constraintNotable Point
  12. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:25:28Gun delays and engines behind the proposed 1916 carriersNotable Point
  13. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:25:28Purpose-built carriers enable a two-wave attackChapter
  14. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    8:18How early did Japan consider a carrier strike on Pearl Harbor?Chapter
  15. Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...
    8:27Harbor-attack planning before TarantoChapter
  16. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    10:31World War I precedents for attacking fleets from the airNotable Point
  17. Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...
    26:54Why the Air Ministry disliked the Sopwith CuckooQ&A
  18. Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...
    28:26What the Sopwith Cuckoo was designed to doQ&A
  19. Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...
    3:39:12Converting all four Admiral-class hulls into raiding carriersQ&A
  20. Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'
    1:52:04Why early aerial torpedoes might still threaten WilhelmshavenNotable Point
  21. Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:05:21A 1916 carrier-air strike against WilhelmshavenNotable Point
  22. Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers
    24:24How quickly could Fisher build the carriers?Notable Point
  23. Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers
    30:59What an early purpose-built flight deck could get wrongNotable Point
  24. Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion
    28:13Aircraft growth drives carrier and air group tradeoffsChapter
  25. Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion
    31:11The Sopwith Cuckoo begins a carrier strike lineageNotable Point
  26. Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion
    1:01:03Carrier strike supplies mobile long-range firepowerNotable Point
  27. The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...
    50:08Did the Sopwith Cuckoo use a torpedo-tension wire?Q&A
  28. Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist
    54:34Would carrier work-up delay the Courageous class beyond 1916?Q&A
  29. The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers
    22:56Japanese officers learn from British carrier and torpedo-aircraft trialsNotable Point
  30. HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution
    18:06The planned 1918 torpedo strike on WilhelmshavenChapter
  31. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    40:19Why carriers cannot replace battleships in the 1920sQ&A
  32. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    0:43Why the Sopwith Cuckoo marks a carrier-aircraft turning pointChapter
  33. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    18:07Murray Sueter's demanding 1916 torpedo-aircraft requirementChapter
  34. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    22:14Blackburn production and the narrow window for a 1918 raidNotable Point
  35. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    25:26Cuckoo and Swordfish dimensions reveal two different generationsChapter
  36. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    32:08Production, torpedo training, and carrier embarkationChapter
  37. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    33:30Destroyer-towed targets moved Cuckoo training beyond harbor attackNotable Point
  38. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    34:11Good handling, troublesome engines, and replacement by the Blackburn DartChapter
  39. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    35:27The Cuckoo's designer leads into the Hawker aircraft lineageNotable Point
  40. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    38:27Japanese naval aviation followed the Cuckoo from the beginningNotable Point
  41. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    52:27A Cuckoo pilot faced a hundred-mile strike aloneChapter
  42. Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI
    1:08:57A fleet in harbour was no longer a fleet in safetyChapter
  43. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    17:50Aircraft advocates were decades ahead of their machinesNotable Point
  44. Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response
    49:59Carrier torpedo bombers before twin-engine conceptsQ&A
  45. An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)
    22:51The development path from Cuckoo to SwordfishNotable Point
  46. Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary
    1:48:33From Sopwith Cuckoo to Swordfish: more than a similar silhouetteNotable Point
  47. The Plan for Taranto: Taranto Long Patrol P3
    16:56The Swordfish as a stable torpedo-strike aircraftChapter
  48. The Beginnings of Naval Aerial Strike: p1 Taranto Long Patrol
    13:21The Sopwith Cuckoo and early aerial-torpedo limitsNotable Point
  49. Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…
    2:35:30The planned 1918 carrier torpedo raid on the High Seas FleetQ&A
  50. Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?
    16:33How a Sopwith Cuckoo raid could have forced a German sortieQ&A
  51. Hawker Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s
    1:27:31Why aircraft development rarely begins with one specificationNotable Point
  52. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark
    1:30Taranto as the product of long preparationChapter
  53. Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark
    14:43Could an earlier aircraft have achieved Taranto?Q&A
  54. Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark
    45:12The First World War roots of a harbour strikeChapter
  55. Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark
    1:05:16From Wilhelmshaven's channels to Taranto's shallowsNotable Point
  56. Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)
    0:53From Leeds workshop to naval aircraft makerChapter
  57. Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)
    7:45The Swift as a carrier torpedo-bomber experimentNotable Point