Comments by "Gort" (@gort8203) on "Real Engineering" channel.

  1. I appreciate the attempt at explaining an often misunderstood subject, but this video contains just enough information to mislead the viewer into thinking everything presented is accurate. i think it should be taken down and not re-posted without some deeper research.
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  2. What a bunch of hype. This was not a fatal flaw, it was simply an area were the BF-109 has a slight and temporary advantage in begin able to bunt without the engine skipping. Most useful to spoil the aim of a Spitfire pulling lead for a shot, but not a huge advantage for the 109 in trying to fight a Spitfire.
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  3. There can be only one system of measurement? Spoken like a true global totalitarian.
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  4.  @solomonarbc  I know what a turbine is, as they did back in the 1930s when this plane was designed, and they used various terms such as exhaust driven supercharger, turbine driven supercharger, or turbo-supercharger for short. That's because the important constant is what it does--how it is driven is a variable. Exhaust driven superchargers have since become so common that pronouncing all those dreary syllables is too much trouble for those raised with a short attention span, so a shorter term came into vogue. The fact that the newer term now dominates doesn't make the other terms inaccurate. But instead of accepting that and learning something, you want to enforce use of the first term you ever heard, because that makes it the only term in your mind. You're the kind of person who thinks someone employing the original and correct pronunciation of the word "forte" is ignorant, because you have only heard the incorrect pronunciation so often used by the actually ignorant. Mispronunciation eventually became so widespread that it overpowered the correct pronunciation, and became officially acceptable in the media. So I now have to mispronounce the word incorrectly if I don't want others to think I'm the ignorant one. You seem to favor such changes that accommodate ignorance rather than inspire education and understanding. You could open your mind to a little bit of learning, but you prefer to stick with what you already know, and even enforce it on others. You would have made a great instructor at a Khmer Rouge reeducation camp.
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