I'm working on it lol Expect something in the future Not the *near* future but when I have the opportunity

Ugh~

A nazi massacre against soviets in 1941 How exactly is that at all relevant to the current situation? Is sucking the toes of Putin messing with the chemistry in your head? I support a sovereign nation that got invaded by a has-been world power experiencing a superiority complex and you wanna focus on an event from over 80 years ago involving 2 completely different governments and conflicts That is a bizarre mindset

@@shockwaveairhistory The Ukrainians were the killers, not the Germans!!!!

Unfortunately a lot of luxury tourist aircraft startups have been proposed and practically none of them succeed past the prototype stage, any that start service usually end up defunct in a small time frame. Unfortunately the "money needed" to "audience willing" ratio for flying slowly over the empty ocean is insanely not viable. Especially when you consider the note I have at the end of the video that expresses how excited floatplane crews were to move onto the much safer and reliable land planes. Floatplanes just aren't viable commercially or safety-wise The 314s niche was short lived and exclusive in a bad way, but it was that last step in world unity. To that end, a single half built replica in scotland... as one of the quintessential, de facto icons of aviation, it doesn't do it justice

In the West indies this would work perfectly between Islands for tourism and small farmers.

Agree with the audio thing. Microphones have always been an Achilles heel. Gonna try to invest in a better mic for next video, or maybe I just need to learn how to work an equalizer. You'd think my resident guitarist Jimbo would know these things but he's kind of a moron when it comes to finesse

@@shockwaveairhistory i got a studio with warm audio pre amp and a presonus audio mixer. Its harder when you got like 4 mics on a drumkit. Dude should be able to get a mic working lmao

Step one would be learning what the heck any of those devices are lol Presonus sounds like some word I'd make up on the spot

Thanks his name is Sigo

That's a little harsh... I'm sure a kindergartner could draw something with some better proportions than the Gorbach...

I aim to entertain

That's crazy cause this video loves you too

If you'd like to point out examples, I do look to improve my research, generally speaking I get most of my info off of wikipedia and if it seems off, I'll cross reference it

@@shockwaveairhistory Frequently meshing the models from 1974, 1976, b, and ignoring the 90s upgrades of the a's models while somehow also putting them front and center was confusing as hell, as well as confusing the armament used on each model during each year, not taking into account sustained turning capabilities and instead focusing on pure tight-turning rates with no regard for energy balancing...I actually ended up accidentally really upsetting my friend who sent me this video because I kept pointing out the inaccuracies...I'm working on a project that's at 39 pages now detailing many, many, many late 3rd gen and early 4th gen aircraft if you want a sneak peek - also, the A model of the Tomcat was always gen 3.5+, as it couldn't supercruise, did not have a super advanced radar (the AWG-9 was built on very old architecture and was severely limited due to this), couldn't dogfight, couldn't multi-role due to never being equipped with bombs or any guided weaponry until the 90s right before it got decommissioned...you get the idea. Almost all of the F-14's feats and awe are from straight-up propaganda, with the A-10A being equally guilty of this.

(Lot's of text warning because I genuinely enjoy this type of discussion) To address the "front and center" aspect of the different models, the main thing is finding relevant footage to display at relevant moments, and when it comes to 20th century military hardware, there's often not enough of it to fit perfectly in for many instances of a script. Especially when the visual differences between models is so minuscule. When it comes to the exact and intricate details regarding flight performance... That's not what this channel is about. If you want to read off a flight manual, there's plenty of other places to get that type of content. Unless it's a truly stand out statistic, I don't find things like "energy balancing" or "best rate of climb vs. best angle of climb" to be very interesting as it kind of just ends up being a bunch of numbers on a chart. I want to excite people about aviation stories, not lecture them on how different altitudes affected pitch rates and things like that. As for the Tomcat being Gen 3.5 vs 4, well I find supercruise and dogfighting ability to be... restrictive (?) figures to measure by. There are only a handful aircraft in history to supercruise. Many of them limited production. As for dogfighting, well gen 4 really went hard on missile combat *Especially in the BVR aspect. Not to be Mr. Dogfighting is Dead but you have to admit, the successes of long range missiles against air targets has proven far more effective than dogfighting ability ever since F-4's facing Fishbeds in Vietnam. So to call the F-14 "not gen 4" because it can't supercruise and has bleeds energy in a turn feels.... harsh. I actually have a video discussing the intricacies of fighter generations and how their loose definitions can lead to weird results, I'm interested in that essay you've got, maybe that discussion would peak your interests. Not to mention it was labeled as the 1st Gen 4 fighter. So naturally it wouldn't have all the bells and whistles like a Eurofighter does. As for ground striking ability, while I understand why it never got good equipment to do that, given how much effort went into making it a dedicated interceptor, it certainly would have helped it's case when decommissioning given how much real estate the plane has. Like I say in the video, it certainly has the lifting ability to serve a multirole's job. I wish. I try not to be a beacon of propaganda, for example I hark on the F-86's claimed 10:1 K/D as being untrue it that video, but at the same time, like I said, I want to thrill the audience. I became interested in aviation because of how it excited me, not because of on paper statistics. Of course the Tomcat couldn't "pop the brakes and he'll fly right by" in reality, but the story of a Tomcat pilot beating a Hornet pilot in a turn fight because he sneakily dumped his fuel to reduce mass is both true and exhilarating. On a final note, like I said earlier, I do most of my research off easily available sources, and almost always that means exact or direct documentation is off the table. 1. I have a day job, I can't be reading entire flight manuals so I can be slightly more technically correct about a statement most people won't think about. 2. Doing that would be expensive. If I bought all the best documents, manuals, archive footage, memoirs of relevant parties, and historian analyses relevant to a video, I'd be $500 in the hole every production. So sometimes I can't figure out the exact time-to-reach-takeoff-speed or who exactly was the combat controller during a certain engagement or I have to use footage of a P-51D when a P-51H is being discussed, but those are the sacrifices I have to make in order to make a production that's interesting to listen to and watch.

@@shockwaveairhistory There are tons of tools you can use to find out more about this stuff without spending any money - a lot of declassified material has been popping up over the last few years, so that's a great start. The F-14's not gen 4 because its radar was very easy to notch and really only had a superb range and was pulse-doppler, but that really bad notching knocks it down a few pegs (ignoring its horrific reliability), as well as its engines being wholly terrible - every TF30 model besides the F-111F's TF30-P-100's during the 70s and 80s was entirely awful, and this model only beats the others due to output at all airspeeds, but the cost led to that model being replaced by the P-109 in the 90s. And fighter generations in the west are defined by the technology *and* effectiveness in all forms of aerial engagements. So taking out one of those and ignoring half of the other can't exactly be taken that seriously. My project's at 44 pages now, and will be publicly available once I write the pages detailing every model of almost every A2A missile used on mainline fighters and interceptors in the 60s-90s.

I do wish I could have found more time to discuss the details of the ASF-14 which would have been a good way to highlight the F-14's shortcomings by discussing the improvements proposed in the Super Tomcat, but that video was already beyond longer than it should have been. Unfortunately no matter how much work I put in, there's going to be 2 things, 1. Something I say that's just outright incorrect that somehow slipped it's way onto my script and passed through my fact checking. 2. There will be a detail that someone was really excited to hear about and I don't mention. While I've gotten at least 1 thing in every video, my goal has always and will always be to entertain, even if I have to apologize something after the fact. Thankfully I don't think I've made any truly experience ruining errors, just slip ups in the details.

Booze is not a military asset. But good morale is a very valuable military asset.

Yeah, I was really tempted to use actual images instead of text, but between KZbin's content policy and well... some people just don't need to see that... I opted out. Not images for the faint of heart but history people really should be aware of.

1k has always been my big goal, glad to have you on board

Dude I've tried like a half dozen times to make a floatplane in stormworks... I just end up disappointed every time lol

@@shockwaveairhistory this is the first one that hasn't immediately rolled on me lol

Then your designs are more advanced than mine hahah Best I've managed is a plane that's wings fold to fit on a train car and a reactor powered ship which travels 2 m/s and irradiates the surrounding levels to lethal levels lol

Always appreciate people who stick around for more than 1 video lol, I don't know how much attention KZbin will give an 2.5 year old video but ya know what, I'll give it a whirl

Definitely didn't have to google what that was, cause I'm just a smart guy like that.

Hey I looked into it and the name "Canupp" does not show up anywhere on wikipedia's list of WWII Flying Aces en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces?wprov=sfla1