Cheers. Plenty of good info and apparently solid research.

Your accent is hard to understand what country are you from ?

I don't believe for one minute that P&W had any intention of providing Australia with any engine, just stall tactics to kill off any possible competition. The P&W R2800 Double wasp was the same as in the Corsair which we had, should have just grabbed an engine out of that and cloned it.

My late dad who lived in Blackpool until he was old enough to join the RAF during WW2 told me that he and his mates used to watch test flights of newly built Bothas over the sea to see how many of them would fall into the waves below ...

Not pronounced jasta it's pronounced yasta jeeez

Your crucifying his name please say it right

It's pronounced rickt hoffen not richhoffen

I was thinking earlier today about exactly what point in the war it became clear to any thinking Japanese that they were going to lose, and my conclusion was that it was this battle that did it. Though they'd suffered previous defeats they were still hopeful about coming back from them, but this battle showed that they were outmatched, that even with their best preparation they couldn't move their troops around at will to reinforce where they wanted to, and the best they could hope for was to try to lose as slowly as possible.

I like how the pilot sits so high.

It would be cool to have a restored Sterling in flight condition for special commemorative events. Vintage aircraft just have a way to bring out the emotions of times gone by.

Wait a minute…! 😂

Wow another plane I didn't know about. And the Buckingham too. Thanks.

What is that delta winged plane in your intro?

Great pics ! Really well done !

The only complete Handley Page Halifax in North America is at the National Air Force Museum in Trenton, Ontario, Canada. It's something to see!

Thank you so much for a REAL narrator instead of AI. It is so much nicer to listen to a person.

I may not be able to tell you what I had for breakfast, but I do recall being on the observation deck at Chicago's Midway Airport at age three in 1961 and witnessing for the first-time numerous gloss white TWA Constellations and Super Constellations on the Midway tarmac. Great history of the Lockheed Constellation as you really got the facts straight on this iconic propeller airliner. Thanks for sharing!

Hell yeah, I got a mention

British engineering at its finest!

I am from Uruguay, 85. I did see P-51 Mustangs in operation here in the fifties. They were acquired in the US by our Air Force (FAU) and later sold to the Bolivian A.F. I still remember the white trails as they passed overhead and the buzzing of their powerful engine. Then I saw one at "close quarters" in a downtown static exhibit !

At 1.58 minutes, there appears a sketch claimed to show a Beaufighter Mk 1F. It shows an American P38 Lockheed Lighting. At 3.21, bottom right, there is a sketch that shows an imaginary single engine aircraft that looks a bit like a Hurricane, but only a bit. This is sloppy and unworthy of being shown.

My father flew this aircraft with 199 squadron. it was while captain of a Stirling he won the DFC after an engagement with a night fighter that all the crew managed to survive. he was called the "The lucky Aussie" as no one was killed or hurt on any mission he flew in this aircraft. There were many

Reminds me of a podracer

Thanks .. Now I have to watch 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' again.. which got me into history and amateur archeology!

A great video. Thanks for sharing your research. I found this video - and your terrific channel - while researching some Indiana Jones themed artwork. Here is a link to a video which includes the fruits of my labours. Thanks again. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqfHhp6sgJaBZrs

A great video. Thanks for sharing your research. I found this video - and your terrific channel - while researching some Indiana Jones themed artwork. Here is a link to a video which includes the fruits of my labours. Thanks again. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqfHhp6sgJaBZrs

Another Great video. Never ceases to surprise me just how many historical aircraft are tucked away in various locations around Australia. As a note I grew up in Adelaide and Parafield airport in the North of Adelaide have some pretty cool aircraft as does the Naval air station NAS Nowra on the NSW's South coast. Cheers

Great video, plenty of information, thanks

Great video mate. Keep up your efforts and I'll look forward to the next one

Thanks for the interesting vid.

TB as in TBF stands for torpedo bomber it was also capable of dropping bombs but only in shallow dives not the steep ones usually linked with dive bombers.

Mispronounced the airplane name it's pronounced Waco like the city in Texas.... WAY-CO.. Not pronounced Wacko

The only wacko is the narrator who can't pronounce Waco (wayco) correctly!

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love this stuff, thanks for the in-depth research :)

War Thunder please

Flying boats were the thing in the 1930s because relatively few airports had terminal facilities and long enough runways to accomadate large passenger aircraft; which no airline wishes to invest in until they were present. Flying boats could use already existing docksides and port facilities. World War Two broke that "chicken vs. egg" paradigm, as suddenly a huge amount of transports, namely C-47s (DC-3s) and C-54s (DC-4s), among other aircraft, were readily available, and even after being refitted with passenger seats and related comforts, quite cheap to acquire. Also, many civilian airports had been expanded both in runway length and with a suitable passenger terminal to accomadate troop movement during the War. As for the German Flying Wing, while it's a remarkable mockup for the film, it's somewhat anachronistic, as by 1936, the actual research of various designers, like the Horten Brothers, was still in its infancy. The Luftwaffe had only just been publicly acknowledged, and its iconic combat aircraft like the Messerschmitt Bf 109 or the Stuka were still on the drawing board or just being flight tested. The Luftwaffe actually at the time had less aircraft than the Polish Air Force, but, of course, that would change rather quickly. Also, IF for some reason the Germans had such a remarkable plane (never mind how the hell did they get a company of infantry with all its light weaponry into BRITISH-controlled Egypt, never mind a bit later the "Nazi" sub pen on some isolated island in the AEGEAN sea some three years prior to WWII erupting? I'm sure the Royal Navy, let alone the Hellenic Navy (Greece) and the Turkish Navy would have had something to say about that!), would they risk it where an ordinary Junkers Ju 52, in LUFTHANSA markings, could have been flown in? The STOL capability of the "Tanta Ju" would have made it far more suitable to landing at and taking off at what was obviously an improvised airfield at Tanis. Indeed, I'm sure the officers and men present, including Oberst Dietrich (Wolf Kahler), didn't just waltz into Egypt in UNIFORM, nor did they just casually have all their gear, weapons and ammo included, in a few trucks, crossing over, probably on the Coast Road, from Italian-controlled Libya. More than likely, an advance party, overseen by Belloch and perhaps a Heer engineering officer, in civilian attire and probably under an alias, had local labor construct the airstrip and set up the facilities; with the men being surreptitiously flown in, and the GERMAN trucks had probably been acquired locally, as MB trucks were exported, rather than shipped all the way from Germany. We see a few Morris trucks, and probably if the production crew could have gotten their hands on a Bedford, that'd been even better. Anyway, it would have made no sense for the Germans to risk what would have been a hugely advanced aircraft for its time in hauling even uber-sensitive cargo, and even with that twin 7.92 mm machine gun turret, it's still a sitting duck if the RAF intervenes.

Reuben Fleet was my Great Grandfather. Very cool video.

Subsequently: pronounced "sub-se-kwent-lee"

The heading is wrong as North American did not design the Mustang to British specs !!! Kindelberger and Atwood had been working on a new modern fighter before the Brits showed up looking for P40's !! Hell Kindelberger had been to Germany and England before the war checking out what was being built. He worked with NACA on the laminar flow wing, the aerodynamic, and rhe new type Radiator housing. Why when the Brits showed up asking NA to build the P40 he and Atwood refused to build an obsolete fighter and they offered the Brits a new fighter better than the P40 !!! Brits had no choice but to accept, they needed fighters and that is why North American delivered the first plane 112 days after signing the contract !!!! You do not do the research and designing a the best fighter in 112 days without having done ALL the preliminary design work !!!!

Need this in warthunder

No , the Rolls Royce of the sky ......

It's a W-Ay-Co not a W-ah-Co.

The guy who Harrison Ford, fought was a great wrestler, Bomber Pat Roach.

Pronounced WAY-co.

It is highly unlikely that Dr. Jones, traveled on a DC-3. The first aircraft were only delivered in June 1936 and the final travel version, with 21 passenger seats, was only delivered towards the end of November. Likewise, there were no bazookas in 1936. But who cares about details... I would have found it much more exciting if you had said something about the German submarine that had luxurious outside cabins...

Short Brothers were actually based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, not England.

Shorts are an Irish company, not English. You can describe them as a British company

Waco is way-co not whack-o like you.

Way-ko