Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1.  @rbeard7580  I've also read that the Air Force did the math and found that for the cost of buying and changing all the engines in the fleet, they could just keep burning fuel for years on end, making it easy to put off the project.
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  2. The Continental Navy was formed by the rebellious Congress after the revolution started. Also, many of the states had their own navies, in particular Pennsylvania had a navy which saw fierce combat on the Delaware River near Philadelphia.
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  3. I've heard of the Tower, but not this incident. Great vid.
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  4. Great story. I knew about the German POWs, there was a camp not far from where I live. NPR did a story about the gentle treatment of Germans in US camps, and how sometimes Americans got resentful of it, especially after finding out about the concentration camps, and when lots of Americans came home in caskets. It's interesting to note that German POWs were also put to work on farms during the American Revolution when many captured Hessians were sent to farms in German-speaking Pennsylvania, many of them electing to stay there after the war, from what I've heard.
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  5. 3:38 You have a photo of the locomotive General Haupt, and standing on top of the embankment to the right is the man for whom the locomotive is named, General Herman Haupt of the US Army, a civil engineer famous for organizing and operating railroads for the Union army during the Civil War. He's worth an episode maybe.
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  6. Wow, bombardier almost pulled a real life Major Kong, all he needed was a cowboy hat!
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  7. Thanks to your post there will certainly be more.
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  8. It was a safe place and quite civilized. It's not like he left them in Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan; it was jolly old England.
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  9. The Navy and Marine Corps have safety magazines and training films that show gruesome accidents, the results of not following safety rules. There was a magazine article that showed what happened when a Marine didn't duck down as he walked away from a helicopter with drooping blades. The blade swiped the top of his head, scalping him. His cranial helmet probably saved his life, but there was a photo of the scar on his head and what is probably a permanent bald spot. Another incident was a Marine who improperly disassembled the nose landing gear of an A-4 Skyhawk, resulting in him laying on the hangar floor with the nose of the jet on his chest. Marines came out and lifted the jet off of him by sheer muscle power, but he didn't live long. A Navy mechanic was trying to get up to the cockpit of an A-6 Intruder, so he thought he would just back his plane tractor up to the side of the jet and stand on top of the tractor. He failed to notice he was approaching the engine intake, which hit his back and forced his body forward onto the steering wheel and jamming his foot on the accelerator. He was crushed to death by his tractor. There is a famous video on youtube of a sailor on a carrier flight deck being sucked into the engine of an A-6. He was fortunate that his body was jammed against an inlet vane before he reached the spinning engine blades. His cranial helmet got sucked through and damaged the engine, while he had nasty injuries. Flight decks are particularly dangerous places, because with all these engines running all around you you cannot rely on your hearing to protect you. My dad served on a carrier in the 1960s and witnessed a man walk into a propeller, killed instantly.
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  10. You should do a segment on Pithole, Pennsylvania. A ghost town of the oil rush.
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  11. I always thought ectoplasm was something they made up for Ghostbusters.
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  12. And the corollary: if someone is trying to take away your arms, you're next on the oppressed list.
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  13. 12:35 Technology Connections where are you!
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  14. Plus, it was a simple formation flight, so possibly they figured it was an excuse to log some extra flying time and didn't consider it to be particularly dangerous. It's not like GE was asking them to fly through Soviet flak fire supersonic at treetop level or something.
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  15. This sounds a lot like the SapceShip2 accident that happened a few years ago when Scaled Composites was testing their new rocket plane out. The plane was supersonic with the rocket engine lit up when the tail section unlocked and started to deploy as it would for reentry, tearing the plane apart, and the pilot suddenly found himself flying supersonic without an airplane. He managed to survive, but the co-pilot was killed.
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  16. Hard to figure out who the good guys are? Not to me. Rescuing children from an abusive communist dictatorship that would've targeted them for their racial background is pretty cut and dried to me.
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  17. Interesting side note: There existed for a time an unshielded nuclear reactor called the "Lady Godiva Device" which was used by US nuclear scientists in nuclear weapons research. Basically, it had two fuel elements, one was suspended above the other, and when released it ran down a rail through a hole in the second element, and for a brief moment as it passed through criticality was achieved a burst of neutrons and other radiation was produced for testing. As the element fell through the hole the reaction stopped. The device was operated remotely, of course, being near it when this happened would be bad for your health to say the least. If you search on it there are photos out there.
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  18. Replacing the coal fired boilers with nuclear reactors to produce steam does the trick.
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  19. Why is that indecent? Did the ship not cover herself properly?
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  20. 7:49 Carrie Fisher's dad
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  21. The Amazon thing was always stupid. Lots of large drones buzzing around the airspace sharing the sly with airplanes and helicopters is a major hazard, and of course it's also a huge privacy breech to have drones equipped with cameras and other sensors buzzing around your house, even if it's the neighbor's delivery. (Not that Amazon gives a damn about privacy)
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  22. I really think it's rude when people constantly harp on this. Lots of people don't speak English, either, but you don't expect him to translate, too, do you? The strongest economy in the world uses English units, so maybe it's in your best interest to learn a bit about them. They are historical units, used in old literature, so it's worth the time. And for the record, Americans do use metric, maybe more so than even they realize. Beverages are sold in liters, some foods are sold in kilograms, the US military uses kilometers, and any American who receives science or engineering education has to learn metric to the point where it's second nature. Rough conversions in your head are not difficult, if you just take a few minutes to learn and memorize them.
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  23. You need to get a bow tie for the History Cat.
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  24. Cut me off in traffic, eh? Wrong answer buddy.
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  25.  @lawrencelewis8105  LOL I don't know. Maybe the metric guys can tell you how many soccer fields it is.
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  26. 6:10 that's a hell of a way to mount a horse. Lots of ways to screw that up.
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  27.  @cindycraig3164  Fiestaware! I was trying to remember the name of it. I heard about it in a photography class once, when we were looking at a magazine article featuring photographs made from uranium salts (as opposed to the usual silver salts in ordinary black and white photo prints). Which is another thing: you can use uranium, among other heavy metals, to make photographic prints with, also it's not the best idea, since it is toxic and there are other metals like platinum and palladium which are easier to work with and not radioactive.
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  28. Wow, British generals just seemed for a long time to be forever stupid and so nonchalant with the lives of their troops.
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  29. The Tech Lords are today's elitist robber baron types. Will be interesting to see what kind of awful stuff they are up to behind the scenes some day.
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  30. 2:38 how is that guy sitting comfortably on top of conical steel objects?
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  31.  @rcmedia9516 Bless your little heart.
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  32. Cool story if true, but of course without GPS the captain of the Warrimoo wasn't really able to say where the ship was enough precision to actually do this. He probably just got as close as he could and declared it to be so in order to entertain his passengers and crew.
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  33. Way to make your kids hate the History Guy.
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  34.  @neilpuckett359  Chester Nimitz grounded a ship when he was a young officer. Could've ended his career, but the Navy gave him another chance and now look at him. Leads the Navy in victory against the Japanese Empire, has a nuclear carrier named after him, winner of life.
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  35.  @BeachsideHank  I guess I just need guys like you to cheer me on. Thanks.
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  36.  @ronfullerton3162  SW radios are easy to find. Just go to Amazon and search. I have two of them, cheapos. I wanted to get one of those really nice big Grundig units you used to see at Radio Shack years ago but couldn't find what I was looking for. One of mine is a smaller Grundig with an analog tuner and the other is a Chinese make and has a digital tuner. The analog Grundig gets better reception.
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  37.  @bruce2357  Yeah, me too, though I was younger. I also remember the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia when one of the clowns in the parade flashed a "Fuck Iran" button to the news camera on live TV lol.
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  38. Weird story, and weirder still that I may have seen this very airship on TV as a kid in the 70s on Wide World of Sports or the Indie 500 or something. This reminds me of an article on Wikipedia I read once about "mystery airships". In the late 1800s and early 1900s, before fixed wing aircraft were common and long before the concept of alien spacecraft was in the public consciousness, there were several reports of unidentified flying objects, which many believed were airships or balloons flown by eccentric mad scientist types or the like.
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  39.  @skyden24195  There were a handful of sizeable boat battles on Vietnamese rivers between the US Navy and North Vietnam, IIRC. Bosuns Mate First Class Willie Williams was awarded the Medal of Honor for a battle in which he led two patrol boats into battle on the Mekong Delta.
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  40. 8:12 I'm always struck by that photo of Wyatt Earp; it's amazing how much Kurt Russel nailed the look of that character in the film Tombstone. That could be a photo of Russel in costume.
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  41. You know what doesn't kill viruses? Toilet paper.
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  42.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  That makes it even sadder.
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  43. This story further cements my dislike for George A, Custer. The more I hear or read about Custer the more he comes across as an ass.
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  44. Aaaand Mercy has been attacked in LA by an idiot locomotive engineer who ran his locomotive off the tracks and tried to ram the ship because "it looked suspicious". SMDH
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  45. Makes me thinks of the Kraftwerk song Neon Lights.
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  46. IIRC it was conceived to be able to bomb Germany in case Britain got overrun but spent too much time in development to enter service in the war.
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  47.  Jennifer Temple  If what happened? A big project got canceled? Happened all the time, still does. Look up the YB-49 bomber, or the A-12 Avenger attack plane. Or, as I stated, the B-70 Valkyrie bomber. Boeing is currently going through convulsions over the lost sales of the 737 Max.
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  48.  Jennifer Temple  Well, if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon.
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  49.  Jennifer Temple  What was your point?
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  50. 10:19 lol need some help there, buddy?
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