F.A.Q Section Q: Do you take aircraft requests? A: I have a list of aircraft I plan to cover, but feel free to add to it with suggestions:) Q: Why do you use imperial measurements for some videos, and metric for others? A: I do this based on country of manufacture. Imperial measurements for Britain and the U.S, metric for the rest of the world, but I include text in my videos that convert it for both. Q: Will you include video footage in your videos, or just photos? A: Video footage is very expensive to licence, if I can find footage in the public domain I will try to use it, but a lot of it is hoarded by licencing studies (British Pathe, Periscope films etc). In the future I may be able to afford clips :) Q: Why do you sometimes feature images/screenshots from flight simulators? A: Sometimes there are not a lot of photos available for certain aircraft, so I substitute this with digital images that are as accurate as possible.
Can you do a video on the development of Australia’s aircraft production industry (pre war) & for something more esoteric, the development of the Aviation industry in PNG
[predictable] Fairey Fulmar [/predictable] It's more the system that it was used with that's interesting but there's surprisingly little out there on it that's accessible to the casual reader.
Considering the fact that throwing flying things at other people has been effective in stopping people since time immemorial, I'm glad that the transition between 16" cannon fire to aircraft delivered disruption in a naval sense is so well documented. I might be a bit slow on the best days, but I love it when folks share contextual knowledge.
Now if we can just get The Amber King to invite you onto one of his deep dives and reveal you as The Fabricator General of Mars that a lot of us suspect you to be then this time-line will be complete. _All praise the Omnisiah😌_
Beyond delighted even though we all know this was going to happen sooner or later. I’m happy to live in an era where we can all share in this very niche conversation at great lengths.
I have such a negative mindset about social media nowadays what with all the misinformation, culture war garbage, etc.; it's refreshing to remember that the internet enables all these wonderful, obscure communities to thrive.
Ironic in a way the guys who crewed & flew from the carriers would probably be astonished how the technolgy's advanced that it enables this And maybe not so surprised - but perhaps disappointed - that for all their efforts ....... in terms of achieving world peace progress is a dubious claim
@@robcaulfield58that’s how the internet used to be and how you’ve gotta use it now. Ignore and block channels/people that participate in BS and just subscribe/follow your ninche interests. I love TH-cam because it’s entirely niche car stuff, history, music theory/production and planes for me. The algorithm just doesn’t show me political stuff, drama videos, product reviews or any of that crap side of TH-cam.
Drach talking about the ships that land the tanks described by Chieftain while Rex talks about the planes flying overhead all while Greg talks about all the engines and the aerodynamics of all three units. Also, maybe Ian explaining all the variants of machine gun in use.
Just want to take this moment to thank Rex's Hanger for such quality content. I never thought I would be so into old airplanes til I met channels like yours! 🥰 Thank youuu
This is exactly what I came here to say. My father grew up in the 1930s, and was fascinated by military planes that were being introduced at that time, and by military planes used during the first world war. Once you add the military planes introduced during the second world war (which were riveting for everyone whose country was at war) and the planes at the dawn of flight, that covers the entire prop era of military aviation, and we talked about planes. So I was going to be a fan of this channel, but I'm still amazed at how many planes Rex covers in detail, including obscure planes that my father and I never talked about. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
@Cheka__ Venom Geek Media 98's TH-cam channel. It's focused on Star Trek. There are at least a couple of videos where they compare Star Trek navy (ship classes, etc) with real-life navy. There are also one or two videos where they basically sit in a car going to or returning from an event and just basically geek about Star Trek and other stuff. Never knew watching two guys in a car could be so entertaining.
Yes, indeed, could they not have included homing pigeons, as a first in the use of "aircraft" in a naval setting? Lol. Not entirely out of the question.
Man, this was great! I thoroughly enjoyed this. Drach is such a great guest to have on and you two compliment each other's expertise perfectly. I really enjoyed these long deep dives just going in depth into the history of a particual subject. This was great and i hope you do more long form deep dives like this future!
Yes they make a lovely couple don't they! I am subscribed to both. Both have great content and have given us all hours of joy and informed commentary!.
Yes, when you are going from the 180mph Bristol Bulldog of 1929 to 1939 and having the 300mph (and change) and 8 machine gun armed Hurricane and Spitfire coming into service, picking a carrier wing for the inter war era is a tad tricky. Every year an aircraft was coming into service, and the same year there was a prototype that would fly something like 10% higher and faster that would be in service in about 2 years. For those old enough to remember, the CPU clock cycle wars of the 1990's is much the same.
Sorry for this belated comment. I have just finished watching this thought-provoking video. Many thanks Rex. I am ex-RAF but I always hankered after the FAA because it flew F6Fs and F4Us. By the time I was thinking of joining it (1968), the FAA was flying death-traps (Scimitars and Sea Vixens). Eventually I joined the RAF and flew helicopters! I think one of the reasons that FAA was so unprepared for WW2 when compared to the IJN's air arm (i.e. the FAA's lack of suitable aircraft, tactics and training - see the note below) was because the amalgamation of the RNAS and RFC aircrew in the RAF drained the RN career structure of the aircrew input which could have kept the RN much more air-minded. (Note: in WW2, the FAA's first encounter with a U-boat resulted in some of the attacking Skuas dirching beside the U-boat because the aircraft hit the debris and spray from their own bombs.) The RN's admirals did not include a Yamamoto, the FAA lacked a Fuchida and a Genda. There was one RN admiral who was air-minded enough to consider multi-carrier task group ops in the 1930s but his ideas were shelved during the Abyssinian crisis and never revisited. Funding would have been a problem but perhaps an air-minded cadre on senior and flag RN/FAA officers could have seen the FAA enter WW2 with, say, the Hawker Sea Hurricane, the Hawker Sea Henley and the Fairey Sea Battle (as a torpedo and level bomber with a similar performance to the B5N Kate) together with a well-practised concept of ops. With hindsight, I think the UK would have been better served in WW2 had the RAF been formed to provide just the air defence of UK and an independent strategic bomber force. The RN should have retained the RNAS with all the superb skills it had honed in WW1 and the RFC should have been retained to support the Army using the effective close support tactics developed in late 1917 and 1918. In WW2 it took the RAF three and a half years of combat before it could offer the effective and decisive close air support that it achieved first at the battle of Al Hamma in Tunisia in March 1943. Keep up the good work.
Is drach the rex of ships or is rex the drach of planes? Even though Rex is a relative newcomer I put him in the same tier, really looking forward to see where he takes it. You go Rex!
Much thanks for your united effort. I am subscribed to both of you. This effort taught me things I had only guessed at or not considered. Future history is always a mystery due to conditions and how we respond to them (especially our biases and limitations). I trust these lessons will have been learnt well by our present decision makers (history would indicate this is doubtful). Please keep up your great efforts at intelligent and well researched investigations.
The last reference I was expecting was a Battlestar Galactica, that’s fun Drach can you do a breakdown of the ship? Rex, your videos always teach me something new about aviation keep flying.
Oh happy day !!! I've been waiting for this collaboration...this is fantastic 👏 Oh yeah...its all coming together now. Next Rex is gonna get with the Chieftain then the triangle will be completed.
This is a pretty interesting topic. I feel like not many people know about early naval air operations, since Pearl Harbor was the first example of how viciously effective they could be. Good stuff, gentleman!
What a great and informative collaboration! Thank you both for lending your time and deep knowledge! Rex, it would be interesting to see a video outlining the differences in IJN and IJA aircraft designs both interwar and WWII.
I've been watching both your channels for a while now, always entertaining and educational. Enjoyable, too! This is the first time I've seen either of you, and I'm quite surprised at how young you both are, considering your extensive knowledge. Thanks for making stuff worth watching.
Re: the use of the Napier Sabre as a Fleet Air Arm powerplant.....This actually happened with the early model Blackburn Firebrand but history repeated itself as the Sabres were all required for Typhoons and Tempests and the Firebrand eventually entered (post-war) service as a strike fighter powered by a Centaurus radial.
Not sure an engine that was a famous maintenance nightmare and had a habit of catching fire if a backfire occurred is what I'd like to have on a carrier. ;) So maybe it was all for the best in the end that this didn't happen.
You and Drach should have a contest to see who can say the word “whilst” most often in every posted video. Love both of you guys. Keep up the good work!
Thank you getlemen for a wonderul discussion and discourse on what for many of us must be a little known topic. Not only that, the information was delivered so well and was fascinating throughout. Thank you again.
Good Lord, Rex. This presentation must have been a lot of work. Well done. Also, your interviewing skills are so subtle. Very nice. This conversation is way beyond entertaining. Thank you and your team for getting it all delivered.
A perfect start to my Saturday! Just sitting here enjoying my morning cuppa, waiting for the temp to increase by a few more degrees before I head out to the range for some ballistics testing.
Great video, great cooperation. Despite this subject being one i've spent a fair amount of time on myself, you still managed to extend my knowledge notably, well done.
Lots of opinions with this one, and a surprisingly high percentage of correct ones from both presenters. One of the best shows ever with a coherent look at a complex multinational situation.
There are a lot of things that make our lives easier and this is one of them. This is the hands free that I needed. It’s sturdy very easy to figure out and adjust. The material is great water resistant and easy to clean. My 3 month old got use to us quick. I cook clean walk with her in it. She’s happy to be close to me and I love having her that close.
Hi Rex...will you be doing a part 2 of this...such as how and why steam catipults and angled flights decks came about and how carrier jet operations differ from piston engined aircraft.
Insane picture of three-floor aircraft carrier (middle floor has the turrets, the other two decks both have around 8 aircraft on them) at 57:49. I had no idea this was a thing.
Excellent video! I had to get used to the different format but that was only a minute or two, and for the rest it was a fascinating hour and a half of listening that was never boring. Must have taken you ages though to find and insert all these great pictures though! 🙂
WOW!!! what a great piece of work. Much longer than your norm ,but worth every second.I leaned so much. I especialy picked up that bit about synchronising watches. I also got a few laughs from the sardonic comments about the other european countries carriers.
Well I would have to say that having two of my favorite characters corroborating on two of my most favorite subjects…😎😎 90 minutes just..flew by!! Appreciate both of your efforts in your respective fields!!😅 Thank you for the great work on your content! From ..America!🇺🇸🔥
2:53 Interesting...reminds me of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, specifically of the Huxley "Hydrogen Breather", a living one-man (or one-woman) scout balloon that you just...strapped into...and went up in. What a cool little history concept, I never realized the inspiration of the design came from real life!
It is great to have both of you discuss ships and aircraft together. Once aircraft were able to go aboard ships, nearly every naval vessel has had to be designed with planes in mind, either to carry them, or to require defense against them.
Excellent suggestion regarding TIK! He's a military historian who belongs in the Rex/Drach level of knowledge . . . and I'll bet Drach knows who he is !
My opinion on the whole armored flight deck versus larger air group is that there was no right answer... as long as designers had to deal with the treaty restrictions, they had to choose one or the other and live with limitations imposed by that choice. It wasn't until the shackles were removed that much larger ships such as the Midway class allowed them to have their cake and eat it too! 🎂
It also heavily depended on what they were facing. While in most combat situations larger air group was probably superior, Armored flight decks proved very effecitive against Kamikazes. While Essexes hit faced long drydock time, In case of Ilustrious class it wast mostly a case of "all right boys, bring out mops and buckets"
F.A.Q Section
Q: Do you take aircraft requests?
A: I have a list of aircraft I plan to cover, but feel free to add to it with suggestions:)
Q: Why do you use imperial measurements for some videos, and metric for others?
A: I do this based on country of manufacture. Imperial measurements for Britain and the U.S, metric for the rest of the world, but I include text in my videos that convert it for both.
Q: Will you include video footage in your videos, or just photos?
A: Video footage is very expensive to licence, if I can find footage in the public domain I will try to use it, but a lot of it is hoarded by licencing studies (British Pathe, Periscope films etc). In the future I may be able to afford clips :)
Q: Why do you sometimes feature images/screenshots from flight simulators?
A: Sometimes there are not a lot of photos available for certain aircraft, so I substitute this with digital images that are as accurate as possible.
Something from Blériot?
Can you do a video on the development of Australia’s aircraft production industry (pre war) & for something more esoteric, the development of the Aviation industry in PNG
I would absolutely love to see somthing on the history of the P47 Thunderbolt
[predictable] Fairey Fulmar [/predictable] It's more the system that it was used with that's interesting but there's surprisingly little out there on it that's accessible to the casual reader.
9:00 I would have loved to hear a bit more on the use of scout planes by german commerce raiders during the first WW
This was exceptionally fun!
Thank you for coming on! :D
I can't wait to go home and watch the hell out of this. Thanks for making my night gentlemen.
Considering the fact that throwing flying things at other people has been effective in stopping people since time immemorial, I'm glad that the transition between 16" cannon fire to aircraft delivered disruption in a naval sense is so well documented.
I might be a bit slow on the best days, but I love it when folks share contextual knowledge.
@@jonathanwerner3664 And ... shooting Airplanes at each other was very much what they were doing.
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Now if we can just get The Amber King to invite you onto one of his deep dives and reveal you as The Fabricator General of Mars that a lot of us suspect you to be then this time-line will be complete.
_All praise the Omnisiah😌_
Beyond delighted even though we all know this was going to happen sooner or later. I’m happy to live in an era where we can all share in this very niche conversation at great lengths.
I have such a negative mindset about social media nowadays what with all the misinformation, culture war garbage, etc.; it's refreshing to remember that the internet enables all these wonderful, obscure communities to thrive.
Ironic in a way the guys who crewed & flew from the carriers would probably be astonished how the technolgy's advanced that it enables this
And maybe not so surprised - but perhaps disappointed - that for all their efforts .......
in terms of achieving world peace progress is a dubious claim
@@robcaulfield58that’s how the internet used to be and how you’ve gotta use it now. Ignore and block channels/people that participate in BS and just subscribe/follow your ninche interests. I love TH-cam because it’s entirely niche car stuff, history, music theory/production and planes for me. The algorithm just doesn’t show me political stuff, drama videos, product reviews or any of that crap side of TH-cam.
Drach & Rex on the same show .It does not get any better than this!
Drach and The Chieftain (possibly discussing amphibious landings) might get close...
Greg enters the chat…
@@rednaughtstudios was gonna say, need greg also for ultimate youtubeness and all the learning
Drach talking about the ships that land the tanks described by Chieftain while Rex talks about the planes flying overhead all while Greg talks about all the engines and the aerodynamics of all three units. Also, maybe Ian explaining all the variants of machine gun in use.
@@gato2 We'll need Military History Visualized to talk about the ground troops and tactics, then Steve to review the period rations.
Just want to take this moment to thank Rex's Hanger for such quality content. I never thought I would be so into old airplanes til I met channels like yours! 🥰 Thank youuu
This is exactly what I came here to say. My father grew up in the 1930s, and was fascinated by military planes that were being introduced at that time, and by military planes used during the first world war. Once you add the military planes introduced during the second world war (which were riveting for everyone whose country was at war) and the planes at the dawn of flight, that covers the entire prop era of military aviation, and we talked about planes.
So I was going to be a fan of this channel, but I'm still amazed at how many planes Rex covers in detail, including obscure planes that my father and I never talked about.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The Trinity actually quartet: Rex, Drachnifel, Chieftain and Greg's Planes
I am falling into this rabbit hole too! Now I am crazy to learn more about the Hawker Hart after seeing Rex's video of it...
Much fun. Much aviation Much nerd. Much exciting dialogue and discussion from the two best creative people I know.
Didn't expect to see you here lol.
From Romulan warbirds to aircraft carriers Drach is sure making the rounds. Excellent colab by the way.
Where is Drach talking about Romulan Warbirds? I'd like to see that.
@@Cheka__ th-cam.com/video/Vz3HT3I7r0E/w-d-xo.html
That is part one of eight.
@Cheka__ Venom Geek Media 98's TH-cam channel. It's focused on Star Trek. There are at least a couple of videos where they compare Star Trek navy (ship classes, etc) with real-life navy. There are also one or two videos where they basically sit in a car going to or returning from an event and just basically geek about Star Trek and other stuff. Never knew watching two guys in a car could be so entertaining.
Yes, indeed, could they not have included homing pigeons, as a first in the use of "aircraft" in a naval setting? Lol. Not entirely out of the question.
Years ago I wrote something like “Rex is the Drachinifel of aircraft“.
Now both legends in one video - it can‘t get any better.
So great when two of my favorite youtubers come together. Great video, hope we get more colabs between the two again.
Love these collabs with Drach, hope to see many many more between you two!
The synchronised clocks rotating beacon system is truly ingenious! Although I would be VERY nervous my watch might fail if I was a pilot...
Man, this was great!
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Drach is such a great guest to have on and you two compliment each other's expertise perfectly.
I really enjoyed these long deep dives just going in depth into the history of a particual subject.
This was great and i hope you do more long form deep dives like this future!
Always a good time to have Drachinifel in a video!
Absolutely wonderful to see these two together!!
Yes they make a lovely couple don't they! I am subscribed to both. Both have great content and have given us all hours of joy and informed commentary!.
Oh my god I was waiting for this collaboration to happen. If only The Chieftain was here too, then we'd have all *3* covered.
Aircraft carriers transporting tanks ?
@@philvanderlaan5942 Sometimes if needed in wartime! But usually the tanks are very clumsy 'aircraft'.
@@philvanderlaan5942 RAN during Vietnam. The former carrier HMAS Sydney was used as a vehicle transport during Vietnam
Rex+Drach+Greg picking apart naval air battles would be best
amphibious tanks with air support!
Awesome to see two such enthusiastic and well-regarded TH-camrs working together like this. Thanks Rex and Drach!
Having both Drachinifel and Rex equals a wonderful insight into the world of naval aircraft carriers.
I could listen those gentlemen for hours in any topic not alone just planes and ships.
Yes, when you are going from the 180mph Bristol Bulldog of 1929 to 1939 and having the 300mph (and change) and 8 machine gun armed Hurricane and Spitfire coming into service, picking a carrier wing for the inter war era is a tad tricky. Every year an aircraft was coming into service, and the same year there was a prototype that would fly something like 10% higher and faster that would be in service in about 2 years. For those old enough to remember, the CPU clock cycle wars of the 1990's is much the same.
Oh my god. This is really happening. I can't quite believe it. This is the best crossover of all times. :D
Sorry for this belated comment. I have just finished watching this thought-provoking video. Many thanks Rex.
I am ex-RAF but I always hankered after the FAA because it flew F6Fs and F4Us. By the time I was thinking of joining it (1968), the FAA was flying death-traps (Scimitars and Sea Vixens). Eventually I joined the RAF and flew helicopters!
I think one of the reasons that FAA was so unprepared for WW2 when compared to the IJN's air arm (i.e. the FAA's lack of suitable aircraft, tactics and training - see the note below) was because the amalgamation of the RNAS and RFC aircrew in the RAF drained the RN career structure of the aircrew input which could have kept the RN much more air-minded.
(Note: in WW2, the FAA's first encounter with a U-boat resulted in some of the attacking Skuas dirching beside the U-boat because the aircraft hit the debris and spray from their own bombs.)
The RN's admirals did not include a Yamamoto, the FAA lacked a Fuchida and a Genda. There was one RN admiral who was air-minded enough to consider multi-carrier task group ops in the 1930s but his ideas were shelved during the Abyssinian crisis and never revisited. Funding would have been a problem but perhaps an air-minded cadre on senior and flag RN/FAA officers could have seen the FAA enter WW2 with, say, the Hawker Sea Hurricane, the Hawker Sea Henley and the Fairey Sea Battle (as a torpedo and level bomber with a similar performance to the B5N Kate) together with a well-practised concept of ops.
With hindsight, I think the UK would have been better served in WW2 had the RAF been formed to provide just the air defence of UK and an independent strategic bomber force. The RN should have retained the RNAS with all the superb skills it had honed in WW1 and the RFC should have been retained to support the Army using the effective close support tactics developed in late 1917 and 1918. In WW2 it took the RAF three and a half years of combat before it could offer the effective and decisive close air support that it achieved first at the battle of Al Hamma in Tunisia in March 1943.
Keep up the good work.
HMS Ark Royal had a major flaw. Her engineering spaces lacked compartmentation. Once she started flooding it was really all over for her.
Oh hey, another crossover. Two of my favorite historical creators.
For Drach, this is a true "briefing" being less than a three hour presentation! 🙃
The Sopwith Cuckoo seems like a rather fun and interesting aircraft. It's also a rather capable aircraft. Rex, I'd like to hear more about it.👍
Different? Different!? You know what I think about things that are different? I love it! Excellent video, brother. Great job!
Impressive guest. This channel is growing in leaps and bounds. Well deserved for the obvious effort that is made.
Very interesting, gentlemen. Follow both of you and really enjoyed the collaboration :)
Two of my favorites, back together again! Today's gonna be a good day!
Fantastic, the light carrier concept was very interesting,this was a great success,well done guys
Huge fan of BOTH channels! Thank you!
Is drach the rex of ships or is rex the drach of planes?
Even though Rex is a relative newcomer I put him in the same tier, really looking forward to see where he takes it.
You go Rex!
I think the second one.
Well that was a delightful interview, you can tell when someone has real enthusiasm for a topic.
Much thanks for your united effort. I am subscribed to both of you. This effort taught me things I had only guessed at or not considered. Future history is always a mystery due to conditions and how we respond to them (especially our biases and limitations). I trust these lessons will have been learnt well by our present decision makers (history would indicate this is doubtful). Please keep up your great efforts at intelligent and well researched investigations.
Been waiting for this crossover episode for years, I'm a huge fan of carrier history and this is an amazing recap
The last reference I was expecting was a Battlestar Galactica, that’s fun Drach can you do a breakdown of the ship?
Rex, your videos always teach me something new about aviation keep flying.
So say we all
Oh happy day !!!
I've been waiting for this collaboration...this is fantastic 👏
Oh yeah...its all coming together now.
Next Rex is gonna get with the Chieftain then the triangle will be completed.
Wonderful Video.
Thanks to both of you for another fabulous collaboration.
How much good will and inspiration those two people have brought to the World. Truly a meeting of icons.
This is a pretty interesting topic. I feel like not many people know about early naval air operations, since Pearl Harbor was the first example of how viciously effective they could be.
Good stuff, gentleman!
What a great and informative collaboration! Thank you both for lending your time and deep knowledge! Rex, it would be interesting to see a video outlining the differences in IJN and IJA aircraft designs both interwar and WWII.
I've been watching both your channels for a while now, always entertaining and educational. Enjoyable, too! This is the first time I've seen either of you, and I'm quite surprised at how young you both are, considering your extensive knowledge. Thanks for making stuff worth watching.
Nice !! A coop with Drach joins two of my favorite channels ! Add Greg’s airplanes next ;-)
Greg's Airplanes is excellent. Love his engineer's perspective.
coup not coop.
I HATE young people!
What a collaboration!! Well done for getting together for it! So interesting, and in so many ways. Congratulations both
Thankyou both. The two of you revieve a quarter of my attention. I'm so pleased to see both faced. You are my favourites.
11/10! Factual, time line, development by two really knowledge people. Both channels are really excellent, thank you.
Great combination of two epic channels!
WoW Rex that's one hell of a conservatory you've got ( yes I know) thanks for the content with Drach. Kind Regards
Re: the use of the Napier Sabre as a Fleet Air Arm powerplant.....This actually happened with the early model Blackburn Firebrand but history repeated itself as the Sabres were all required for Typhoons and Tempests and the Firebrand eventually entered (post-war) service as a strike fighter powered by a Centaurus radial.
Not sure an engine that was a famous maintenance nightmare and had a habit of catching fire if a backfire occurred is what I'd like to have on a carrier. ;) So maybe it was all for the best in the end that this didn't happen.
@@jbepsilon If it catches fire you just throw it overboard. Just ask the US Navy😉
And the Typhoon also got a Centaurus radial (as the Sea Fury).
Simply wonderful - really, really enjoyed this special!
You and Drach should have a contest to see who can say the word “whilst” most often in every posted video. Love both of you guys. Keep up the good work!
Wright Brothers used catapults on their first aircraft in Dayton, OH. They just didn't use or need very strong catapults.
Oh wow. I didn’t expect this collaboration. Awesome
Thank you getlemen for a wonderul discussion and discourse on what for many of us must be a little known topic. Not only that, the information was delivered so well and was fascinating throughout. Thank you again.
This is the best carrier development video I've seen. I love both your channels.
Good Lord, Rex. This presentation must have been a lot of work. Well done. Also, your interviewing skills are so subtle. Very nice. This conversation is way beyond entertaining. Thank you and your team for getting it all delivered.
An awesome breakdown of the period and material by Drachinifel. It's great to see colaboration like this!
An excellent collaboration! Loved it!
A perfect start to my Saturday! Just sitting here enjoying my morning cuppa, waiting for the temp to increase by a few more degrees before I head out to the range for some ballistics testing.
Great video, great cooperation. Despite this subject being one i've spent a fair amount of time on myself, you still managed to extend my knowledge notably, well done.
Absolutely fantastic video! Thx so much!
Thanks!
I love this, thanks for collaborating! Really interesting and informative!
Lots of opinions with this one, and a surprisingly high percentage of correct ones from both presenters. One of the best shows ever with a coherent look at a complex multinational situation.
Great work Rex and Drach! Fantastic discussion.
Wonderful collaboration !!! What a great combination !!!
These crossover episodes between Rex and Drach are the best!
This was just great and super fun. Thank you!
Thanks guys; you are two of my favorite content providers!
THIS is the crossover I've been waiting for
There are a lot of things that make our lives easier and this is one of them. This is the hands free that I needed. It’s sturdy very easy to figure out and adjust. The material is great water resistant and easy to clean. My 3 month old got use to us quick. I cook clean walk with her in it. She’s happy to be close to me and I love having her that close.
Wow. This is way more interesting than I expected it to be. Great conversation! 👍👍👍
Yay for collabs of awesome creators!
Hi Rex...will you be doing a part 2 of this...such as how and why steam catipults and angled flights decks came about and how carrier jet operations differ from piston engined aircraft.
Great collaboration, I think you guys were like, how do we get to show as many great photos as possible ?
Insane picture of three-floor aircraft carrier (middle floor has the turrets, the other two decks both have around 8 aircraft on them) at 57:49. I had no idea this was a thing.
That’s Kaga or Akagi lol
as a naval aviation lover this was amazing
Excellent video! I had to get used to the different format but that was only a minute or two, and for the rest it was a fascinating hour and a half of listening that was never boring. Must have taken you ages though to find and insert all these great pictures though! 🙂
WOW!!! what a great piece of work. Much longer than your norm ,but worth every second.I leaned so much. I especialy picked up that bit about synchronising watches. I also got a few laughs from the sardonic comments about the other european countries carriers.
Thanks for the long-run video fellas... You and your bro.
It t was very interesting & definitely appreciated.
What a blast guys, keep it up !
Two of my favs streaming over a topic I was secretly wishing 4.. I'm over the moon)))) Keep up this amazing work, i cannot thank you enough..)))
Nice. Collaboration with Drach. Most enjoyable.
Alas a dream has come true! Thank you! This is a great morning.
My new favorite aircraft historian, teamed up with everyones favorite Naval Histographer, what could be better? outstanding show gentlemen
Great episode! Thank you both.
Well I would have to say that having two of my favorite characters corroborating on two of my most favorite subjects…😎😎
90 minutes just..flew by!!
Appreciate both of your efforts in your respective fields!!😅
Thank you for the great work on your content!
From ..America!🇺🇸🔥
As we used to say in wardroom poker games, “Here’s a pair to draw to”. Excellent discussion gentlemen.
WOOOO! I’ve been rewatching your P-40 videos for the last 3 days waiting for a new video lol
So awesome to see this happening
2:53 Interesting...reminds me of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, specifically of the Huxley "Hydrogen Breather", a living one-man (or one-woman) scout balloon that you just...strapped into...and went up in. What a cool little history concept, I never realized the inspiration of the design came from real life!
It is great to have both of you discuss ships and aircraft together. Once aircraft were able to go aboard ships, nearly every naval vessel has had to be designed with planes in mind, either to carry them, or to require defense against them.
The narration combined with the photos was excellent. Great show. Best I have seen i years
The collaboration we have all been waiting for... Now u just need to give TIK a call...
Who?
Tik??
youtube.com/@TheImperatorKnight
Excellent suggestion regarding TIK! He's a military historian who belongs in the Rex/Drach level of knowledge . . . and I'll bet Drach knows who he is !
please no! he would just ruin any video with misplaced rambles on how the nazis are socialists feeding the nutjob right winger slice of his fanbase
Marvellous stuff. Thanks both
Hell yeah!
This video is going to be great.
Excellent, great interview.
My opinion on the whole armored flight deck versus larger air group is that there was no right answer... as long as designers had to deal with the treaty restrictions, they had to choose one or the other and live with limitations imposed by that choice.
It wasn't until the shackles were removed that much larger ships such as the Midway class allowed them to have their cake and eat it too! 🎂
It also heavily depended on what they were facing. While in most combat situations larger air group was probably superior, Armored flight decks proved very effecitive against Kamikazes. While Essexes hit faced long drydock time, In case of Ilustrious class it wast mostly a case of "all right boys, bring out mops and buckets"
I love these collaborations! It's like putting Marmite on a cucumber sandwich! Brilliant!
Congratulations on shaving! Looks much better.