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  1. 'Pretty nice looking bird' - I noticed that - only because I've been in quarantine since Nov...
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  2. They knew where she was the entire time. They just never sent anything down to look at her. Also many ships survive nukes. That’s why they decided it was inefficient to use nukes on surface ships.
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  3. Actually one of my favourite spits. I remember reading as a kid pilots saying it was the best to fly! Thanks for this 👍
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  4. With that range, could have been a bomber escort? What might have been. Again, interesting vid. Thanks for posting.
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  5. Ed keeps delivering. Also check out the book "Desert Sniper". Sitting on my bookshelf with pages bent from reading. Certainly a recommendation.
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  6. When I was a kid I got to ask a Blue Angel the best part of being a Blue Angel and he said for him it was the chance to fly the F11 again. He said it was the sweetest thing he had ever flown and had passed through it earlier in his career and missed it ever since. Then he said the Navy answer was more along the chance to do PR for the Navy, but (with a wink and a thumb-up) really F11. So of course my next model purchase was a F11 in BA colors.
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  7. Thanks. The Privateer was one tough, lumpy beast; it made Liberators look sleek. I was always fascinated by those waist turrets. Inside the fairing, they were self-contained ball units, with the gunners riding inside. I can only imagine the ride during an engagement, with the plane yanking and banking while the gunner was trying to track the target--Airsick City!!
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  8. The reason the plane was test flown in Evansville, Indiana instead of Farmingdale, NY is because the former Republic aviation plant currently at Highway 41 and St. George housing a plastics warehouse and Sugar Steel warehouse is a short drive from the former Chrysler plant on Maxwell Ave. And Garvin currently housing a warehouse for Escalade Sports. My Grandmother worked at republic in 1944-45. I drive past the plant everyday on my way to work, but when I was growing up it was the big blue Whirlpool building. If you want a fun story in war production look up everything made in Evansville between 1943 and 1952. Everything from .45acp to LST's, to P-47's, to IHC M1 Garands were built here. Btw, most people get it wrong that IHC Garands were made at the old Republic plant. They were assembled at the IHC plant across town where my grandpa worked after the war. Behind the Republic plant there's still berms where they test fired the browning mg guns on the P-47's and other planes they refit and repaired behind the plant. On the Vanderburgh County 4h fair grounds up highway 41 at Boonville-Newharmony Rd. There's still 1 or 2 I think still of what used to be many many when I was a kid ammunition bunkers spaced out on the back 40 where 40mm AA ammo and 75mm tank ammo was stored after being manufactured during the war.
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  9. This video is a perfect example of why I watch your channel. You cover the less flashy stuff most don't care about if they know of it at all, but that is still worth discussing.
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  10. As one of the Myanmar , i can say this video is very detail and informative to those who don't know what's happening inside Myanmar revolution. Those who work and find money are passively involving in the revolution while some of our friends, family members those who can go to remote areas fight with tatmadaw head to head. The war is depressing but we will win no matter what. Those who lives in the city like me donate money to those who find in front lines.
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  11. Beardmore: when you're 12-greats grandfather had the biggest beard in the village...
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  12. 10k from 100k Ed I can remember where you had 3-4k subs so glad your channel has grown onwards and upwards
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  13. In 1928 BMW acquired a manufacturing licence for the Pratt & Whitney Hornet and Wasp 9 cylinder single-row radial engines then produced a developed version of the Hornet as the BMW 132 9 cylinder single-row radial. BMW then used components of the BMW132 to produce the BMW 139 14 cylinder 2-row radial used in the early Focke Wulf 190 and intended for the Bf 109X/V21. This process of evelopment based on existing engines mirrored Prat & Whitney;s process of developing the Double-Hornet and Double-Wasp engines. The German RLM did attempt to purchase a licence for the Pratt& Whitney Twin-Wasp in the early 1930's but before Government fundingmapproval was received the U.S. classified it as a "strategic assett" and not for sale. Given the family simililarity between the P&W Twin Wasp and the BMW 139 it was logical to use a Twin Wasp as these had been in production since 1932 versus the 139 which commenced development to prototype in 1935. Given the interest in obtaining a manufacturing licence for the Twin Wasp I would wonder if P&W hadn't already provided samples before the sale was halted. There may be some similarity here between the way the German RLM acquired 4 Rolls Royce Kestrel engines by trading a Heinkel He70 Blitz to Rolls Royce as an engine test bed. The Kestrels then turned up in the prototypes for the Bf 109, Ju 87, He 112, and Hs 122 rather to the surprise of the British who thought they would only be used in the He 70
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  14. Did you say Assadist or A Sadist, Ed?
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  15. You'd think the USN would then learn a thing or 2 about building a modern anti-shipping missile. I've heard the arguments in favor of a subsonic one but its definitely a gap in the arsenal. The Harpoon is getting up there in age.
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  16. Once again thank u Ed for keeping us updated with myanmar when mainstream media has failed to do so
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  17. Very glad to have found this channel.
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  18. Thanks Ed. I had no idea of this ....everyday's a school day !
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  19. I am originally from Bangladesh (neighbouring Myanmar) and I must say , your videos are very well researched. Nobody really bothers to make informative and accurate videos about that part of the world in general. Thank you for making this series.
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  20. Good video, just pointing out some of your concerns regarding adaptability. Gripen has the most advance avionics of any of the contested including the F-35. It is self certified and can allow both hardware and software upgrades independently. Adaptability for Gripen is way more potential than any airplane flying today. So regarding adapting to future threats, Gripen is the easy choice. Also the avionics allow a transfer to Canada to own the features and upgrades, you will not get this capacity from any other than SAAB.
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  21. It looked like a thoroughbred fighter! What a beautiful and apparently sound project! After many long years of passion for aircraft i'd never heard about it: thank you Ed!
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  22. Congratulations, Edd! Your videos are brilliant 👏
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  23. Pretty damn good video, Ed. The Yak-41 was an amazing story for It’s time. I wasn’t surprised at all when I heard about the purchase Lockheed made for the technical and testing data. If I recall correctly, they were very interested in the technology surrounding the engine, for good reason.
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  24. A great video on an aircraft that essentially took 'acoustic stealth' to an extreme level and provided great advantage. Vids like this one are why I subscribe. Cracking stuff.
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  25. The G in Reggiane and Regia is soft, closer to a J. like the G in in "agitated" or "ginger". The hard G in Italian is followed by an H, same as the C and CH. Examples of an hard G and hard C in English that use the same spelling would be words like gherkin and orchestra.
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  26. Ah, the Fart Bomb......brings a hole new meaning to ‘Sniffing out the Enemy’. When you do locate them, just throw a match in their general direction and KABOOM 💥!!.......be like a Daisy Cutter 🙂
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  27. Just like Glasgow, every time they play their little games up North they come a cropper.
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  28. The Piper was marginal in its handling according to one its pilots I talked to. Yes it could get airborne and dispense the loads but just barely and Piper was betting they could fix the instabilities once they had a contract and could do the full development needed. Nice idea on paper but the wing was optimized for its original role, not heavy hauling/low altitude close in maneuvering. Every time this bird gets discussed there’s always an omission of the Sky Raider. That was a proven COIN truck, rugged and reliable as an airframe. On paper, a turboprop version would be more viable than the Mustang. Back to point, the Enforcer was a stillborn boondoggle looking for a taxpayer lifeline. Pedigree and romance have nothing to do with bombs/rounds on target and PK.
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  29. Great video, thank you. Sorry to be a pedant, but McMahon is pronounced McMarn
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  30. Mate, these short stories are awesome.
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  31. The B534 has really nice lines for a biplane.
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  32. The defensive mindset which led to the Roc, Skua and Fulmar reflected the RN's faulty thinking on carrier warfare. They saw the aircraft as assets which needed to be sheltered by the ships instead of the other way around: use the aircraft offensively to protect the fleet from submarine and surface threats as well as air threats. This is why they lost carriers like the Courageous and Glorious early on in the war.
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  33. "They were both built by the same american company..." MiG Bureau: "Is this your first time?"
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  34. A polite discussion regarding WWII? Now that's optimistic.
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  35. Another example of fantastic content, created for us by Ed, who somehow always has time to listen.
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  36. Congratulations. The same Elbonia in Dilbert. The number 1 exporter of Mud.
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  37. Respect to You Ed Thanks for caring enough to raise the profile of this long and bloody conflict
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  38. Thanks for sharing this. Back in the late 50's, my father served in the USMC as a mechanic for these planes (which were still in service with the Marines). I will share this video with him. He has a copy of one of the photos you have used here, sitting on his desk.
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  39. Fascinating stuff, well researched Ed. In some 1940 documents of aircraft designer Neville Shute Norway (better known as the novelist Neville Shute), lodged with the Nuffield College Library in Oxford, are outline plans for a large amphibious flying boat. It was capable of carrying four small parasite "satellite" torpedo bombers. These were futuristic-looking aircraft with pusher engines. Strangely the post-war "Planet Satellite" aircraft that looked like something out of a "Dan Dare" comic, designed by Major John Dundas Heenan was almost identical in shape to Norway's "Satellite" bombers. Strangely Norway's files show his design was meant to be offered up to American manufacturers to build for Britain (this was before lease-lend and Pearl Harbour). Dundas Heenan was one of the British representatives in the USA at the time arranging for the production of armaments for Britain. It has been suggested that Dundas Heenan got his inspiration from Norway's plans, although the "Planet Satellite" was smaller and lower-powered than Norway's original conception.
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  40. You overlooked Motorcycles, several thousand where abandoned, mostly Triumph 3SW's and Norton 16H-WD,s and Big Fours. The loss was so large that civilian models had to be requisitioned to fill the gap until new orders could be fulfilled. Triumphs Coventry factory was destroyed by an air raid on the 14th of November, and they had to fulfil one urgent order from a disused tin church in Warwick till their Shadow factory in Meriden was completed. Alongside Triumph, Norton, Royal Enfield, BSA, Ariel, and Velocette to a lesser degree, continued to restore the numbers to well over 150.000 machines. Motorcycles played a crucial role in communications from Brigade HQ to outlying units in the days before encryption.
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  41. I do hope Mr. Nash will cover some of the more eccentric Swiss Cold War era jet designs.
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  42. I was able to visit USS Texas, while on a trip to Houston, 8 years ago. It was astonishing. I really cannot imagine it being 1920 and seeing her at her glory and then being a sailor on her, to fight in BOTH, World Wars and many other battles. I'm glad they found this beast, lying in her grave, sunk, but still on our minds. The men back in the those days, had the absolute biggest balls, of any men, ever.
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  43. If a B25 and a B26 had a passionate night together...
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  44. Ed. I tried to write a reasonable excuse for this spine chilling turn in warfare but erased my utterance as nonesense ! Ed. If your worried l think we all should be !
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  45. Greetings from Australia, I love your stuff and coverage of more forgotten or obrsqure aircraft or even exhonerating the bad name of some aircraft in the process (such as the Skua). Keep up the good work!
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  46. Congrats on 100k !
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  47. Two F-4 Phantoms against two F-15 Eagles. A young boys nightmare. Thanks Ed for another great video.
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  48. Manchester the British He177. Identical problem, coupled engines.
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  49. Great stuff! Can't wait to hear your pronounciation of the DB 605 engined successor to this plane, the Pyörremyrsky. Only one ever built.
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  50. I also believe that Martin-Baker is STILL a FAMILY-owned business! A rarity nowadays! I know at least 3 pilots who are still here because of Mr Martin's invention!
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