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if u hear the machine gun you still alive on the battlefield

of the "men you have flown it".... there are some very significant women who have flown and destroyed Americans enemy with skill and precision. Just want to correct the commentator on that.... "Col. Kim "Killer Chick” Campbell was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism after successfully recovering her battle-damaged aircraft following an intense close air support mission during which she was hit by a surface to air missile." Jonathan

The problems that Germany had with their innovative aircraft is that Hitler often intervened personally to determine what a new aircraft would be used for. And not just aircraft. He demanded that the FW-190 and the ME-262 be used for tactical bombing. Everyone else knew that was foolish, of course, but defying him was not conducive to your health. If the FW-190 and ME-262 had been used exclusively as fighters they might has gotten parity in aerial combat and set back allied strategic bombing back significantly. Maybe even better than that, and leading to recovering air superiority. (That is a bit of a stretch of course.) But he did the same with the StG-44 rifle. He wanted the project cancelled but was defied and some few units have a superior weapon that set the course of the future in military small arms.

Okay... if I was LTC John Marks, calling me "Karl" might get you a busted nose, especially for an American officer. But, everyone has their own humor tolerance. That said, after 37 years I imagine he knew his aircraft like you know your wife. He likely no more than thought something and his body and aircraft simply responded unconsciously. As for the A-10 itself, Tom Clancy coined the Soviet nickname "Devil's Cross" in his book Red Storm Rising. Though the Russians never actually called it that, (more's the pity) but if I was on the receiving end, it would make some perfect sense. The Russians did build an aircraft for the same CAS mission, the Sukhoi SU-25, which is a credible aircraft, but still doesn't hold a candle to the Warthog. Likie the A-1, it might be called ugly by some, but it's effectiveness and practicality and lethality make it absolutely beautiful in my opinion. I can imagine for a ground-pounder that seeing one of those overhead gives you a great sense of relief. Army and Marine Corps loves to give Air Force six kinds of hell on a regular basis, but not the A-10 pilots.

This is one of my favorite of vintage military aircraft. Its beauty is in it's practical and solid construction and it's capability. My father, who served a couple tours in Vietnam, said that they were more confident and relieved seeing those in the sky.

Nice video you should be like at 1000 subs by now

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Didnt Skyraider drop torpedoes in Korea? At a dam?

Beast that kickedass

I was with the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam in1968. The Skyraiders were a common sight back then. The ability to hang around for extended periods was much appreciated by the infantry. Seeing them make attack runs was a nail biter because of their slow speed compared to the jets. They were exposed to more return ground fire but I never saw one get hit.

The Australian butcher bird got its name because it hangs its prey up like a butcher hangs meat. I feed them grated cheese.

Informative and well narrated. Thank you.

You pronounce the e at the end of Luftwaffe as a short e as in "end"

The „Würger“ is a bird first described in 1758. It is a type of starling that due to its call is also known as a Shrike in English. The biological genus type is the „Lanius“ which is Latin for butcher. This classification was chosen because of the bird‘s largely carnivorous diet. With regard to the plane - it is only known as the Butcher Bird in the Anglosphere, I assume because it sounds brutal and therefore conforms to Nazi stereotypes. Even in German aviation literature the name „Würger“ is rarely mentioned. It is generally referred to as the FW-190, analogous to identifying the Me-109, shorthand really.

Würger (german): Strangler (engl.) I don't know why it was called so??

The F82 was powered by two Allison V-1710 engines.

"The Airliner Designed By Clowns And Supervised By Monkeys" Boeing Defamation Lawyers have entered the chat.

I like the first generation. I flew on one of them once.

The title 😂😂

The only clown is the author

Very enjoyable! I have an appreciation of this rugged beast and you've explained it well.

Great episode and very informative! I knew of this aircraft but I had always believed that only a few prototypes had been built. Clearly, I was mistaken. Being credited with the US's last aerial victory by a piston-powered aircraft is an honor to the aircraft all to itself. My previous assumption of it was the second cockpit was occupied by a radar operator. The fact that it had full dual flight controls was obviously as great advantage as you point out. Given all that wing real estate I am surprised it only carried 6 .50 caliber machine guns in the center section. I would have thought there would be accommodation for something heavier like Hispano 20mm cannons, etc. However, that may have made gunnery more precise as the pilot would not have to consider the convergence zone of his guns, much like the P-38 with its nose-mounted guns. Thank you for this very informative and enjoyable expose of this iconic machine.

Boeing is a trash company

Wow, those are very smart clowns and monkeys, impressive

Planes built 8764 Active 7848 -> 90% Boeing 737 NG / MAX Only. the 100- 200 - 300 - 400 - 500 not included. Therefore, the number of clowns buying the MAX, out numbers the number of clowns building it. Gets better, the new elected Presiden and staff members, come from the Trump Brothers Circus 🤹‍♂ 🤹‍♂ I refuse to become one 😋 have to give you credit. For people to see and leave comments on your channel, you use clown material to get the numbers for TH-cam. Geniuses, must hand it to you 👍

6000 sold says the Max is a great airplane.

this video title is hilarious.😂

It was nice at least to see so many video clips and shots of the restored XP-82. She was the second prototype out of the North American Aviation Factory. It was a 13 year project to bring her back to life, the last two of which I had the privilege of participating in. At present she resides at the Valiant Air Command Warbirds Museum in Titusville, Florida and is kept at airworthy status. Bill Parks - Tom Reilly XP-82 Restoration Team Member

it was first called the P-82, --** P is FOR PURSUIT --**^^** THEN IT WAS REBRANDED AS THE F-82, the F is for FIGHTER.

Says who when did it ever fight other than being a weird prototype .

So why didn't they up grade it to a jet engine

Question is if America had built these plane s at the start of the war would the conflict went on as long as it did

That's what you call a wingman. No matter what you do, you just can't shake him.

DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN!!! The Twin Mustang was NEVER EVER EVER a "P/F-82"!!!!!!!!!!!!! When it was conceived, first flown, and entered into active service, it was the "P-82," and when the USAF became a stand-alone separate service (....gee, can you even tell me WHEN that was....or HOW it was done?), it, along with ALL of its contemporaries, went from "P" for "pursuit" to "F" for "fighter"........"P/F-82" sounds as ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS as "P/F-51," "P/F-47," "P/F-80," or ANY OTHER CONTEMPORARY FIGHTER that was in service at the time of the transition. The ONLY airplane where this does NOT sound ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS is with the F/A-18 Hornet, which is its ACTUAL USN designation. STOP IT!! STOP IT!!! STOP IT!!!!!!!! ALSO, it was called a "pilots' dream" because it had ZERO TORQUE (even ALMOST zero torque when running single-engine, because of the arrangement of the counter-rotating props, AND the Aeroproducts props used a BLAST OF COMPRESSED NITROGEN to INSTANTANEOUSLY feather the propellers, which pilots LOVED....no long nail-biting moments waiting for a prop to feather while trying to maneuver with a dead engine) AND it had 17-to-1 BOOSTED AILERONS....THAT'S some damn POWER STEERING!!! THESE THINGS are why they loved it....the other things YOU mention were SECONDARY at best. Did you write your script from a COMIC BOOK somewhere???? ....Wikipedia???? However, VERY nice pictures and newsreel footage....I do have to give you THAT nod for not including stand-in footage of maybe a P-61, B-25 or F-100 or something, like so many TH-cam aviation content creators DO. RESEARCH "Tailwinds," RESEARCH, instead of CLICK-BAIT!!!! There are A LOT of REALLY GREAT aviation BOOKS out there (......you remember BOOKS don't you?.....), even in your LOCAL PUBLIC or UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, so you don't even have to BUY THEM.....just saying (...and UNIVERSITY libraries typically have some REALLY cute INTELLIGENT girls running around in them too...BONUS!) ....UGH!.....

So they couldn't get P38 Lightnings?

I’m surprised so little has been presented about this unique aircraft. I never knew this bird existed in operational roles.

I believe there are a whole lot of facts in this video that are incorrect. The Army Air Force needed a plane to help support the invasion of Japan. The F-82 was originally designed as a long-range escort fighter for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress in World War II

Other than the extra pilot which was a good idea for easing the load, too much was made of the range and armament. The P47N had range just as long albeit with tanks. All versions had six fifties with some had eight. While faster than the P47N by about 25mph, the turning radius mandated by all that wing area of the P/F 82 would have made it a sitting duck in a turning fight with late model enemy fighters. Also I can’t imagine bringing one of those aboard a carrier.

There is a lot of information about Edgar Schmued in Wikipedia and other sources in the internet.

Another juunk channel. Get the details correct AI...

...the P-61 Black Widow was also a pretty cool plane...

Somehow, North American Aviation hammered together 2 pudgy P-51 Mustangs into something insanely awesome, and this is why the engineering of this era will always fascinate me.

This was and still is a beautiful prop aircraft. It could haul ass, go forever, and kick some serious ass with the machine guns from the of the two cockpits.

Packard Merlin V-1650 engines were only used in the first two prototypes. Production P-82 aircraft had Allison V-1710 engines with an auxiliary supercharger for high altitude performance.

Much too long

Pathetic video full of errors.

Great video !!!

XP-82 P-82… F-82… Never PF-82!

The radar of the P-61 was the SCR-720. Not as was stated the AN/APS-6. That is a mistake.

Air & Space magazine had a great article about someone who has restored one and is flying it. Also, they didn't just use two P-51's. The dimensions are mostly different from what the P-51's were.