Hearted Youtube comments on Ed Nash's Military Matters (@EdNashsMilitaryMatters) channel.

  1. This channel is a gem.
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  2. I don't know if Ed has backroom staff to help out - but I unsubscribed from Dark Skies due to their lacklustre scripts and generic footage of aircraft other than those being discussed. Sure - they come across as more polished, but that just hides the fact that their content is shiny turds rather than Ed's rougher-but-accurate offerings. When it comes to facts I like mine to be accurate rather than shiny. Good work Ed.
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  3. My Dad is in one of those photos!
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  4. I suspect that visibility of the ground from the cockpit may have been an issue on landing. It's still a very interesting design! If he had lived, it makes one wonder what he could have accomplished.
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  5. I find your analysis and observations fascinating Ed. Not only your encyclopaedic knowledge of aircraft types, but your posts that raise awareness of little known "unattractive" wars that the media ignore, yet still cause untold suffering and injustice. Good for you mate.
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  6. Ed, the FF was developed into the J2F "Duck" by adding the center line and wing floats, and keeping the retractable landing gear. My grandfather flew them out of NAS Dinner Key (Miami, Florida) and almost sunk one in Biscayne Bay during War 2.
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  7. Great video as usual, Ed. This channel is becoming a favourite, along with Mark Felton, Tank Chats from the Tank Museum, and Drachinifel.
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  8. There is a non-flying replica at Soesterberg defence museum in The Netherlands. It's a beautiful little plane.
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  9. Congratulations! What a fantastic achievement.
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  10. Haven’t felt so attracted to an aircraft since I was 5 and saw my first Lancaster. This is that lancasters cute little baby.😍
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  11. Yep, the super-lincoln aka the super-super Lancaster, or the super-super-super Manchester...
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  12. Modern firearms design has plateaued with the modern AR18 derived polymer lower aluminium upper rifles like ACR, FN Scar, FB MSBS, HK433, Iranian Fateh, CZ 805 Bren, Bren 2 and now the Type 20.
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  13. R37 holy FW-190. Had to give it a double take... I wonder.....
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  14. Not to be confused with the OTHER B-26, the Marauder. Always annoyed me that they chose to rename the A-26 to the B-26 as there was already a B-26 that used to exist
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  15. In 1988-1990 I served in the 318th FIS, working on F-15A/Bs. We once went to Miramar to fly against the F-14s. The exercise area was too small to use the Phoenix missile and after all, this was a dogfighting exercise, which the missile was not useful for. We wiped the skies with them all week. Then on the last day, they got to use the phoenix and on the screens back at the base, they became coffins 50 miles outside the exercise area. The main reason the Eagles could beat the Tomcat was that a swing wing fighter is always displaying its energy state by the position of its wings, so the Eagle could take advantage of that to get a superior firing position.
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  16. Hi Ed. I love how your channel has gone from being mainly about unusual planes to being about whatever random thing occurs to you on that particular day. Keep them coming.
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  17. I'm 64, and as a kid, i used to visit my elderly neighbour who had been a pilot on the western front... he told stories and had photos of the daring do's that had happened 40 years before.. that generation was "special".. cheers and happy new year 🍻
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  18. Outstanding information and History My uncle worked in C-119’s and C-123’s during the vietnam war…he mentioned to me that the 119’s had wear issues in the booms that required constant attention and inspection If you’re ever in the USA you can see 119’s on display in Tucson, AZ…and I also believe in Dayton, Ohio at the Wright Patterson US Air Force Mueseum
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  19. What is there to say other than the usual : Awesome video ! Never heard of this plane yet it was such a fascinating story ! I hope Ed's non aircraft videos get as much notice as these, the quality of this channel cannot be overstated !
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  20. Yeah, the early-mid 50s was sort of a black hole for naval carrier aircraft. On the USN side there was the Cutlass and the Demon. What seemed to help the better USN designs of the period was sticking with a single engine to save weight. The Fury, Tiger and Cougar were all smaller than the Scimitar, despite the US fielding larger carriers. But I guess the US benefitted from being able to field multiple planes to fill different roles, rather than forcing planes into a "jack of all, master of none" situation.
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  21. I often dis-include the D.VIII, Siemens-Schuckert D.IV, Sopwith Snipe, and others from "best fighter of WW1", but it's hard not to acknowledge them and add qualifiers. They were essentially like the super props of WW2, too late to really do anything, but surely would have been great had they had more time. Whenever I talk about the SE5a, D.VII, SPAD XIII, I am always thinking of these planes in the back of my mind as well.
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  22. In this episode, Mr Nash struggles to not call a plane ugly for 3 and a half minutes
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  23. If you don't want a certain aircraft to enter mass production, damage it and claim a cadet pilot ran into it.
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  24. Yak-38 was also known as "Match", "Grill", "Blowtorch" e.t.c. in USSR AF for it's ability to fall flat onto aircraft carriers deck, setting it self, it's pilot and surroundings on fire.
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  25. "Peed all over their collective barbecue" 😂 Man knows how to turn a phrase.
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  26. All this is true, Ecuador won that dogfight and gained air superiority.
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  27. A veritable harvest of death. I saw this on the news but the media basically ignored the relevant details and background. Nobody covered it like you did. Thanks for the quality coverage Ed.
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  28.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  He did, but sadly we lost him in 2017. RIP Captain Jayendrakumar.
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  29. The corsair also has the additional advantage of requiring less hangar space and half the hours spent in engine maintenance. Carrying more aircraft with higher availability per airframe greatly increases a carrier's firepower.
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  30. Clint Eastwood. Best Russian pilot ever.
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  31. I've come to the conclusion after 36 years in aviation that I know not a lot about WW2 military aviation. Another gem 💎 Ed. Great name Spiteful.
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  32. “Every fan Boi of the Warthog...” that is everyone, literally everyone! Even if they don’t know it they are.
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  33. "How many wings should we add?" Designers: Yes
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  34. Thanks Ed. I was in Syria in 1994 and 2000 working on an archeological dig on the banks of the Euphrates river. i visited Aleppo and Manbij. Syria has always held a special place in my heart as the people are incredibly welcoming and very proud of telling their history. I deeply hope that one day the world wakes up to the incredible history of the place and the government becomes stable enough that westerners can inject the tourism funds they've put into Egypt, Jordan and Turkey.
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  35. Impressive commitment by the EU. I'm going to write to my MP to see if I can get him to advocate for the UK to do something to match it, even if it's just more infantry weapons. I feel like Putin was trying to exploit a perceived decline in the unity and spirit of the West as a whole, but the heroic resistance of the Ukrainians has reinvigorated it.
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  36. The best"pirate"in aircraft terms in the jet age was without doubt the Blackburn S2 Buccaneer
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  37. No frills, no gimmicks, no fancy intros, Ed gives us just what we want....... Bite sized nuggets of rare military aviation history.
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  38. 'Does my bomb look big in this?' In all seriousness though, i bet he was mortar-fied about the whole thing. XD
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  39. After being a pilot for 45 years, I finally learned how the F-5 came into the U.S.A.F. inventory. Thanks! I would love to see you do a comparison between the A-4 and the F-5 if you're ever looking for a topic. I never knew the A-4 and the F-5 were ever competitors. Sincere thank you for all your work on these videos. I look forward to them.
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  40. Hi Ed, I used to think I knew all or most of the WW2 era aircraft.....I was so wrong! and I have never enjoyed being so wrong in my life :-) I love your videos, keep up the good work
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  41. I personally witness 4 ejections at close range with Martin Baker ejection seats, all from AV8-A Harriers while in the Marine Corps in the 70s. They had what we called zero a zero seats. That is you supposedly could eject safely on the ground with zero airspeed, ie while sitting or in a Hoover. One day I saw this happen, while working on a generator on top of a Harrier at the end of the line closest to the runway, at Cherry point, North Carolina while assigned to squadron VMA 513, the Flying Nightmares. While on very short final, landing, at approximately 75 feet and only about 200 feet from me the pilot ejected. It was very dramatic. The plane, luckily veered away from me and crashed in a huge ball of orange flames, I could feel the heat. The pilot got about two swings in the chute coming down and landed, completely standing up. Yep, he didn't even go to his knees, he simply walked away.
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  42. My Dad was one of those lives saved. 6 Sep 65 N. Vietnam Capt. J.T. Clark
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  43. You can pronunciate the "eil" part of Pfeil like the "Ile" from mile. Anyway great hearing about those rare Japanese Late war fighters
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  44. Not only did you do a wonderful job with the mirage 4, you gave the reason France left NATO 's integrated command and the strategic objectives of the french deterrent in clear and simple terms. Good job !😊
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  45. One of the many reasons I love Ed Nash's videos, the pictures match what Ed talks about. On the rare occasion that he doesn't have a picture to match the subject, he uses one that is similar but lets you know it is not quite right, see 11:04 . Far too many YouTubers could not care less whether the video matches, as long as it gets views. My hat is off to you Mr. Nash. Once upon a time I thought I knew about aircraft, but I have learned so much from your channel! Próst from Atlanta!
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  46. My Father-in-Law was a flight engineer on these and the AC-130 during Vietnam supporting MAC-V SOG in Laos and Cambodia. He later adopted several Cambodian kids in the 90’s (one of them is my wife) as penance for his involvement in the “shadow war”. Another not well known Vietnam era gunship that would make a good video would be the Fairchild AU-23 Peacemaker.
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  47. This channel keeps getting better and better
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  48. Surely Fridge Raider?
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  49. Scored the FAA's first victory against Do-18, although the majority of the formation escaped. Sank the Konigsberg.... Fought over Dunkirk..... It was there when it was needed!
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  50. TL;DW? “If you thought a goblin shark was ugly… imagine it with wings”
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