The Heinkel He 219 Uhu was not fully recognized by the German military during World War II

The narrator's comment about Mosquito NFs "bitchslapping" He 219s is a little off base. The Mosquito NFs success have a lot more to do with the mission profiles than the relative performance of the aircraft. German night-fighters were tasked with hunting and destroying Bombers, so that's what they focused on doing. British night-fighters were tasked with protecting the bomber stream by hunting German night-fighters. If their roles had been reversed there's no reason to believe Mosquitos would have faired any better than the Uhus. In a WW2 night fighting scenario detection is everything and it is much easier to find your enemy when you can just hang out near the bomber stream you know they will be intercepting. Night fighters don't dog-fight one another so discussion of agility and climb performance is largely irrelevant whilst speed matters only in as far as it was required to affect the interception. In the vast majority of cases, the target - be it a bomber or a night fighter - simply wouldn't know they were being attacked until they were already being hit by cannon fire. As an aside, I assume the stripped down high speed version of the He 219 you allude to is the A-6. Although it is true that none were built from scratch, A-2s could be converted into the A-6 configuration in the field. Meanwhile, the A-7 variant, which made up maybe about a third of total He 219 production, was even faster - at least on paper.

My favorite plan of WW2. TY for showcasing it.

This plane was light years ahead of it's time. The JU-388 was another highly advanced aircraft including a pressurized cockpit.

I think this is a beautiful aircraft. Looks like 500mph+. Infighting and underperforming engines certainly rendered it ineffective, though. Too bad for the Axis...and good for the Allies!

One thing missing - schraeke musik ( guns firing upwards)

The UHU (Eagle Owl) Heinkel 219 was one of the most advanced night fighters ever created up to that point in history. The UHU was a technologically advanced combat aircraft. Especially with the pressurized cockpit which allowed heat and comfortable conditions while flying which the pilots, navigator/gunner's absolutely loved. After years of having to wear all sorts of heavy clothing and heated gear due to the extreme temperatures at altitude, now the pilots could literally fly in shorts and a t-shirt comfortably if they wanted to although they did not do that. Supposedly their were about 12 successful ejections by German Pilot's/Navigator/Gunner's flying in the UHU during the war and all personnel survived the ejections. The only thing close to this plane was the United States' P-61 Black Widow. The UHU was arguably the better plane due to that huge cannon that pointed upward allowing that UHU to just fly up under any plane (mostly bombers) and unleash one huge BURST upward using that cannon and the plane explodes immediately! There were even accounts where UHIU's crashed after firing their cannon, then the plane above breaking apart and coming downward right onto the UHU that had just fired upon them. Hauptman Manfred Meurer, a famous night fighter ACE crashed into an American made bomber in his UHU killing both crews including Meurer.

Imho „Schräge Musik 🎶“ is one of the most badass (and strangest) aviation inventions of WW2

This aircraft is a great looking machine. What hurt it most were the same issues most German WW2 aircraft had, namely, engines which had to make do with lower octane fuels. BTW, comparing a metal aircraft to a wooden one when talking about weight isn't really a fair comparison. If you really wanted to do that though maybe look at some of the final Ju-88 versions that were almost as fast and maneuverable as the Mosquito, despite being made of metal.

He 219 was designed as a multi-roll aircraft.

I thought the UHU had huge clear canopy for observation work

Also looks like a preying mantis, to me.

Superb visibility

It looks a little like a snub nosed A-10 Warthog in front. Too bad. Great stuff, thanks!

Excellent video, thank you.

Excellent video, thank you. One thing about the Germans in WW2 they did have some really cool equipment. I remember seeing a picture/drawing of an over wing passenger pod on a JU 87 Stuka, did it exist or was it a what if fantasy picture? Thanks again, all the best, 👍👍👍👊✌️🇬🇧🌍.

At wars end 1945 at a airfield called Fliegerhorst Grove (Nato airfield Karup) there stod a whole squadron Heinkel 219 when the germans walked home to germany from Denmark , they were sadly enough scrapped

Fantastic writing guys. The He219 is one of those planes that some people seem to love. I don't see the attraction myself. As night fighters go the Bf 110 has to be my favourite. Adapted from an able if slightly disappointing heavy day fighter, it went on to carve a unique niche in aviation history. 👍👍

At about 8:50 there are first pictures of a Junkers 88 night fighter (more to follow) and at 9:58 there is a Messerschmitt 110 night fighter - if those where intentional, would be good to say it... Anyway interesting video, thanks!

Nothing special out of two liquid cooled 44 litre engines. The only thing it offered was being a bit smaller than a Ju88.

When speaking german take hot potatoe out of mouth😂