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  1. Even if you discount the jet "kill" the PO-2's ability to annoy the living edited out of both the Germans, and the Americans, is not something you can dismiss. Might not have won either war, but you can't say the PO-2 didn't do it's part. And that's before we factor in all the OTHER roles the PO-2 did as well as keeping the enemy up at night.
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  2. Word up to Paramount for providing you with the info needed to make this video, not many manufacturers would do that for a YouTuber.
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  3. Tell Ian at Forgotten Weapons. He may want to add these to the Ebonian Army table of allowances.
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  4. thats what you get for putting out good content, and thanks for the work.
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  5. I don't know how you keep coming up with such great content, but I'm grateful that you do.
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  6. Obscure prototype: "exists" War Thunder: [free real estate meme goes here]
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  7. Yet again you have me, a military nerd, saying “ I had no idea...”. Outstanding work, love your channel.
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  8. "War, what is it good for?" Youtube documentaries, that's what.
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  9. Greetings from Bulgaria! I remember reading about this plane around 25 years ago in one of the Bulgarian aviation magazines from the time (still got the old thing somewhere). I do not take that old info as 100% accurate (as the sources back then were worse than now), but there are a few interesting things to mention. First, the planes never got the canons and remained armed only with the machine guns. I think that was part of the reason they were used only for training. In a sense those B.524 were better armed that the B 135. The details of the story of the only kill are a bit hazy, but i remember it was done by one of the instructors. It was also implied that the deed was sort of a "dare" by the trainees as they thought that the two machine guns were useless and the instructor was proving them wrong. I take the second part as an urban legend though. On a separate note, once the communists took over in September 1944, a lot of things changed (for the worse). After the war, the army was rapidly rearmed with soviet equipment and all "nazi" weapons and vehicles were scrapped. That is also a reason none of the planes from the time survived to be in a museum or something like that.
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  10. it looks somewhat right, but rather wrong at the same time
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  11. Kudos for mentioning the long forgotten hero of China, Bob Short, and for covering the Demon. You may not be aware of this, but the Demon sired an offspring, the Curtiss-Wright CW-22 Falcon trainer. My Dad's best friend owned and operated one in north Florida when I was kid. At the tender age of six he took me up in it. I sat in my Dad's lap while Bill put the plane through its paces. What I remember most was how loud it was and how steeply it could climb. Sadly, Bill was killed in it a few years later when the engine stalled during takeoff due to insects (mud daubers) clogging his fuel line.
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  12. Talk about a face only a mother could love.
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  13. Grandfather spiked his 25pndr and carried the sights onto a destroyer in Dunkirk only to have the navy chuck it overboard as excess weight.
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  14. If it looks right if will probably fly right. If it looks wrong, it is probably a Blackburn. Great video. Between you, Rex and Greg, we are all spoiled for aircraft content.
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  15. Another great show Ed. Always thought the F5 was a pugnacious little fighter . Looks like Northrop got kicked in the nuts to the tune of $1billion + ! Ouch ! Thanks Ed.
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  16. Well, I'll be damned - a flying step ladder
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  17. Dear France: "Barnstorming" does not mean actually flying a barn.
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  18. Appreciate you covering this forgotten conflict
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  19. Sea harriers in the Falklands war shot down a number of Pucaras (similar to the Bronco) in one on one combat, you don’t get more manoeuvrable than the Harrier!
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  20. Virgin Gangster: Drive-by Chad Gangster: Fly-by
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  21. Your attempt to provoke me into leaving a comment will fail.
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  22. The Fins had a knack for turning for want of a better word “loser’ aircraft into winners even making Finnish pilots aces in some of them. Anyway Ed STILL waiting on the Blackburn Firebrand story 🤨😁
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  23. 4:44 You spoke surprisingly well. There was a mix of Portuguese and Brazilian accents, but other wise it was very precise. Cheers!
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  24. The reasoning was even more logical and brutal than that. The allied ships were turning into AAA farms and their radar assisted gun laying with proximity fused munition, combined with radar directed CAP's and superior fighters, were devastating. We're talking about 80% to 90% loss per sortie. Conventional attack was suicide anyway. (source for this are interviews that Military History Visualized did with Justin, who is a scholar studying the pacific campaign)
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  25. OK! Now I understand why 2 names were used for the P-40 in RAF (and Commonwealth) service! Thanks Ed.
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  26. Before he retired, my wife's uncle had risen to Financial Vice President of Kaiser Corporation. He joined Kaiser in the 1930's, and opened the first books on Kaiser's Fontana steel plant. He told me that toward the end of WWII Kaiser was looking for ways of diversifying and investing the money they had made building Liberty ships. That's why they bought Fleetwings. When that didn't work out, they joined with Joseph Frazer, CEO of Graham-Paige, to make cars under the name of Kaiser Motors. That company merged with Willys-Overland in 1953, and in 1963 became Kaiser Jeep. The life of Henry J. Kaiser would made a good movie.
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  27. I was with the AGRESSORS (crewchief) at Nellis AFB from 1980-83. We actually received literature and brochures on the F20. It was to be the new plane for the squadron. (57AGS / 64th AMU). When I see photos of #57 w/ Michael Christiansen ( my trainer out of FTD) stenciled on the canopy I trip down memory lane. I also had an unbeknownst appearance in the movie RED FLAG. After launching out an aircraft one of the film crew walked up to me and told me my launch was going to be in the movie. (They had been filming launches from the THUNDERBIRDS' hangar.) Hadn't thought about those days in a very long time........
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  28. There a old usage , if a aircraft looks right it is right. This plane looks the business ! A second thing, if you can do a thing yourself is always better then relying on others . The Israelis did a remarkable job with this aircraft . A remarkable effort !!
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  29. I'm pretty sure that the key to getting the HARMs to work on the MiGs is the addition of the Teddy Bear Weapons Officer seated left front. Most visible at the 4:50 mark.
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  30. Couple more also-rans that were said to make the 52 superfluous: B-58 Hustler XB-70 FB-111
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  31. I can't even recall hearing about this fighter and I've been a pretty avid reader about WW1 and WW2 aircraft design thanks again for the video
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  32. Just a hint in Australia we say "R double A F" for the RAAF, and thanks it was an interesting story relating to my Home town of Darwin in Northern Australia where these aircraft actually protected the City in which I live!
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  33. Okay….cookie rpgs? I wouldn’t dare put this in a piece of fiction. Great video!
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  34. Never underestimate the perversity of aero engineers. My father was one, and he came up with damnedest ideas.
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  35. A small correction, the SH 37 was built for maritime reconnaissance, not strike. The 'S' stands for 'Spaning' in Swedish which in this case translates to reconnaissance. The H is for 'Hav' i.e sea . It had an improved radar with longer range but carried less extensive camera equipment than the SF37 version. It did have the ability to carry anti-ship missiles but maritime strike was very much a secondary mission compared to the critical reconnaissance work.
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  36. I like how the narrator goes from dramatic, “The monster of Ickham Pond” to a somewhat enthusiastic, “Which is near Canterbury, in Kent!” This sound like a “Dad’s Army” episode.
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  37. Apart from the evacuation of the Greek royal family. I knew little of its service. An excellent telling of its immense contribution accompanied by wonderfully sourced photos, thank you.
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  38. When 'Guess i picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue'... seems to be an appropriate quote. ;-)
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  39. K21 is not on the table. Poland is looking at AS21 Redback chasis with own ZSSW30 Turret to suplement M1A2 Abrams heavy division. IFV Borsuk will be paired with K2 tanks in lighter armored divisions.
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  40. The Second prototype is now in The Egyptian AF Museum in Cairo , and the third is exhibited in the Egyptian Aircraft Factory in Helwan south of Cairo
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  41. For the algorithm. 🙃
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  42. Ed, you've done it again. I knew nothing of this aircraft. Thank you. ☮
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  43. Excellent mini-documentary. The P-39 was a visually stunning looking aircraft. With lot's of promise but introduced to early. Thank you Ed, this is the way mini+documentaries should be. Fast moving, with out fillers. If you can't tell I really enjoyed it :-)
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  44. Outstanding video, as we have come to expect. You need to teach people how to make videos. Short, full of information, interesting and zero wasted time. Many other videos waste the viewers time with long, and boring, introductions. Thank you, not only for the great content, but for great time management in each video!
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  45. Thank you Ed, this is utterly depressing and terrifying in equal measure... 🖖
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  46. wow, thanks Ed, much appreciated. between you and Rex's hanger, YouTube is getting some great obscure/lesser known aircraft content. thanks for your work.
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  47. This guy's story to hospital staff sounds believable. I slipped while walking past a five inch rocket and BAM! I'm at the hospital getting laughed at.
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  48. Donate. Donate. Donate. And don't forget to Donate. The sooner this is all over, the sooner everyone can go back to their families.
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  49. C.714's career in Finnish Air Force was even worse than you described. Out of six planes delivered, only four were made flight-worthy. Out of those four, first two completed planes crashed on landing while being delivered from State aircraft factory to 30th Squadron at Pori in 3rd and 4th of September 1940. Based on those landing accidents, the other two completed planes were immediately banned from flying and the two unfinished ones were left uncompleted. They were officially removed from inventory in May 1941, but actually never flew after those accidents. The parts that survived to this day came from two unfinished ones that were given to mechanics school as instructional airframes.
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  50. Greetings from Argentina. An important use that was given to the Lincolns in addition to those mentioned in the video was to "bombard" the first Argentine Antarctic bases with supplies until the construction of landing strips.
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