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After Henry Ford invented the wheel, who was the genius who thought we could actually put them on airplanes? Or had Ford had that idea but they had to wait for Chevrolet or somebody to invent the airport?

Not true about the "downward kink..." that was primarily for aerodynamic efficiency. The Hellcat swung the same diameter prop, 13' 1". It did however allow for a shorter MLG strut, allowing rearward retraction.

To have got as far as it did with this beauty, the French builder unwittingly created a de facto R&D platform for the rest of the industry to learn from. No doubt its rivals looked upon the protracted demise of their competitor’s prototypes with a grim sense of schadenfreude. Of course all of these flying boats were doomed within a few years of the events described here by the arrival of land-based airliners that were so much more powerful, efficient, and convenient for passengers to board. In the winner-takes-all battlefield of emerging technology, outside observers like those of us who lack the killer instinct are saddened by the unfairness of market forces that devastate the risk-takers and reward the opportunists who steal their ingenuity and then build what they know will work, and go on to enjoy the profits. Aviation in particular is an industry subject to merciless Darwinian extinction of those coming in second, where but for an insight here and an economy there, it is only after the fact the winners are differentiated from the losers.

Thank you! Really enjoyed this episode. Sorry about the copyright issue, Bon Chance!

So which side did they sell most of them too?

Hello - Welcome to the world's largest, most beautiful, most luxurious, transcontinental airliner, death trap.

Thanks!

the NEED for youtube to stop or at least allow us to block the scam ads has gone from money making for them to taking part in ripping everyone off

Ball-bearing runs were also done by "civilan" BOAC mosquitos.

Was the spruce goose much bigger?

The L 23 looks almost exactly like the Japanese fighter using the Daimler Benz engine. It makes me wonder if Swedish aviation was watching what Japan was coming up with BEFORE Japan entered the war. This is only conjecture. Those headphones look quality. Do a deep dive on the Cessna 335. Push pull craft used a lot in Nam. Please.

I was hoping they parked those beauties in the deserts of Australia but nope. What a terrible waste. Great video!

"Each" of anything is singular. "Each of my videos" is still singular, even though it ends in an S. Each of your videos _does_ take whatever it takes, OK? They all do whatever each and every one does, see? (Your general proposition is, if a person can't identify their subject, they don't know what they're talking about.)

YOU CAN'T KILL SOMETHING THAT. WAS. NEVER THERE. B29 S. WE'RE. NEVER. USED. OVER. EUROPE. ONLY. IN. THE. PACIFIC. AGAINST. JAPAN.

There aren't any babushkas (grandmothers) alive anymore in Ruzzia who would tell the relatives that attacking Finland is a very bad choice indeed. I'm thankful beyond words what my grandfathers did to defend our country. Kiitos (thank you) Niilo & Ake <3

Great video! I'm a life-long aviation buff but I had never heard or this airplane. Such a beautiful plane!

Inter- war charm. I like it. Your bothering to learn the correct german pronounciation too. Im a year late telling you but no ones perfect. But you come pretty close. Impressive.

Why not? The Brits used the Wildcat, renamed as the Martlet, although they were not overly impressed. As the Brits didn't have a good marinised version of any of their fighters and the Americans were the foremost manufacturers of carrier based planes, it made sense to use Corsairs and I think they played with Hellcats too.

Would it be possible for us (actually just me) to have you pay me to assist with demonetization mitigation?

What a behemoth.

Rudel- Great Pilot on the Russian Front!

I’d say the even larger Martin Mars is little known also.

There was not cannons,only 7,7..

Emblem of the Finnish Air Force: Quality replaces quantity. Today, we have our wonderful friends from the Viking countries supporting us as well.

Kuopio is not in Western Finland. It is in the Eastern Finland.

why are you using ai voice models of the voices of people from other channels is the writing also some algorithm? seems like

This was beautifully informative and I sat through the self published ad but appreciate the timestamp datum.

Those "Flying Boats" were a little ungainly looking but they were/are amazing machines!!!! The Military "PBY" was a real beast! And she could take a beating and still make it home!!

The Airbus A380 isn't much bigger, but add a zero to the amount of passengers. 😂

More French crap ,thank god those days they could cook.

@16:03 Lockheed C-130 Hercules amphibian in the background 😆

Das ist russische Technik und Mentale überschätzung des Piloten-Asses..!

Well done and interesting.

Wow never even heard of this beautiful goose before! Such potential wastes when we all know Potez would've been the best fit for the period, which is strangely needing to go back to flying boats, since nothing in the skies today can survive on the waves, in case of emergency

The RN could have used those Corsairs in Korea on HMS Triumph and Unicorn as part of the UN forces there. A shame all the way around, but that's how Lend-Lease was negotiated thru a parsimonious Congress to get into the war. A tangent: There has been discussion about recovering some of the TBD Devastators that went down with the USS Lexington in the Coral Sea and building a complete one or more from the pieces. This doesn't bode well for them.

Heroes fight like Greeks. Lest we forget.

OMG - no de-icing??

Not Amphirite, but Amphitrite.

Cool video weakened by weak scripting/grammar.

Good video and accurate for the most part. A few errors you may want to correct. Supercharging: all Allison's were equipped with an internal single stage supercharger just like the Luftwaffe planes. P-39 was single speed, the 190 was two speed and the 109 was variable speed. P-39 single speed was high gear and overboosting was prevented at low altitude with reduced throttle initially and by mid 1942 was automatically controlled by an automatic manifold pressure regulator. Altitude: The P-39N/Q had uprated engines. A standard P-39N had a service ceiling of 38,500' (FW190 34,000') and climbed at 2650 feet per minute at 20,000' (FW190 1900fpm), so if the P-39 was a low altitude plane then the FW190 was more so. No plane could withstand the disadvantage of altitude performance on the Eastern front and still have the victory record of the P-39. It shot down more enemy planes than any other American fighter, It was fully the equal of the Luftwaffe planes at all altitudes. Turbocharger: The turbo was deleted from the P-39 (and P-40) to get them into service ASAP. The turbocharged P-38 didn't enter combat until December 1942 and the P-47 didn't see combat until May 1943. The P-39 (and P-40) were available for combat in 1941. The Allies would have been hard pressed in 1942 without the P-39.

Nice instruments and layout at 8:50. Particularly compared to many of the Soviet fighters.

On our channel you can listen Finnish fighter ace Antti Tani`s interview. For now, it`s in finnish, but will add subtitles soon.

High five for the Brit that can pronounce Italian.

So, weather. Early in my Coast Guard career I was on a High Endurance Cutter (think lightly-armed frigate) doing Ocean Stations, also called Weather Patrols. We had three a bit over 1/3 of the way across the North Atlantic and the Europeans ran three on their side. We ran a navigation beacon, chased weather balloons twice a day to keep them on radar as long as possible, did oceanographic work. And were there. One mid-Atlantic passenger seaplane ditched successfully near a Coast Guard Cutter. (Bermuda Sky Queen, 1947, Ocean Station Charlie) The program was surplus to requirements by the time I was involved (1970-72) - the civilian airliners had better navigation equipment than we did, and the aircraft doing transatlantic flights were much more reliable than in the early days. It was discontinued in 1974, and a lot of our ragtag fleet of Navy-surplus WW2 seaplane/PT boat tenders, destroyer escorts and the like got a much-deserved retirement. (My ship was built in the 1960s and still soldiers on in the Philippine Coast Guard.)

For half of the video, you rant about Me155! Frigin' cronophage!

Now thats a big Cant.

The dates of various events werent dope. The animations were. I guess the band didnt show up. Maybe you gave them the wrong date too.

Liked and subbed. Thank you for all your hard work.

The Spitfire sent to America in 1939 was was to interest American manufacturers in building Spitfires. I remember reading that Evaluation of the Spitfire claimed two deficiencies. Short range and lack of structural strength (it was believed the plane could not survive flying through a thunderstorm). So American manufacturers stuck with American specifications and designs.

The small one was more to test hydrodynamics & water handling than flight characteristics. Lots of B-26 Marauder factory footage. I suspect their trouble with securing contracts had to do with their performance on the P3M contract. "15 tons of steel"? These planes were built of aluminum. Production of PBM-5's began before the end of the war & some were deployed to the Western Pacific before Japan surrendered. The comment about "accidents in the post-war years" is illustrated with a PBM-3 wearing early 1942 insignia. Classic aircraft; typically spotty TH-cam documentary...but thanks for the color footage!!!