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Excited to get a jacket painted with my Uncles old unit...

Rather interesting that a few years ago there were no airworthy Mosquito's in existence and in 2024 there are now several. Being of mostly wooden construction creates obvious long term survivability issues. Aircraft at the time were not expected to survive in combat for very long in the first place.

I'm so glad that your Ju-52 is still flying! It has always been and still is my biggest dream to fly one myself but at the time I'm just flying gliders to get my license.

A very cool plane. I immediately thought that it would take off from the concrete and was surprised. takeoff and landing on a dirt runway is also a test for a glider. A good and even coating is pleasing. www.youtube.com/@airplanemodelsinscalefroma110

From what I have read , the Mossie could be a bit dicey with a single engine landing. Post war RAF pilots had to practice asymmetric landings , after so many fatal crashes the policy was stopped. Not being a pilot this explanation could be BS . But increasing power to the live engine too forcibly would cause a flick roll . The great Night Fighter Ace and test pilot John Cunningham's dictum was extra speed , his thinking better to walk away from a crash at the far end of a runway , then to be dug out at the beginning.

We used to have a Stearman at my local flight museum that got sold back east recently. It was the coolest to watch it fly

*SWEET!*

At 18:15 quote: "The 88mm was probably the most powerful gun of World War Two they could sink a ship with this almost as easily as a torpedo" ummm... No. Just stop. Credibility lost. Sounds like a U-Boat could surface next to the battleship USS North Carolina and win a gunfight. All in fun, i did enjoy this video.

One of my favorite ww2 planes

If you're waiting on the Brits, you're backing up. So many brilliant ideas/improvements in technology during WWII.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for this "podcast". I kind of followed the black sheep history as much as I could. Thank you to you, James Oberg 7662 for your time. God Bless you.......I spent 25 yrs in Special Forces....

The plane that saved Britain was the Spitfire, not the Mosquito.

An absolute eargasm

Excellent work

What a fine piece of machinery. Thanks to all of you for keeping these girls flying.

Why is every aircraft "the one that saved Britain"?😂 I think the Hurricane holds that honour without any doubt. If the Battle Of Britain had been lost the rest would have been academic.

Wow, look at that recoil, moves the whole airplane. God bless all who served and those who serve today. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🙏

2 or 3 years ago my pal and I went to an airshow in Granite falls, Minnesota. We toured their museum. It struck me they had a wing jig capable of making or restoring multiple P 40s!!

It's a fresh rebuilt P&W 1830. So a little over powered. : )

Great job guys!

この色って本当にあった色なのかな... パッと見現用飴色っぽいけど結局明灰白色が劣化したのが飴色っぽくなったって言う話を聞きましたが...

ヘアーセーバートゥーサイ 🇯🇵

So beautiful.

If you get a chance visit the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach. It is phenomenal. ❤

Loved the series while I was growing up!

They run one somewhere out at the Eugene Airport. Not sure if this is the same team but working out there I see it flying around all the time. Beautiful bird.

I was in that happy crowd!

Oh my Gosh. I cried I cheered and lived vicariously through this exceptional video. Thank you for the most tremendous experience even though I can only dream of taking the stick on this fabulous aircraft. Thank you ❤

OK, Pappy. Flying TIgers.

The most efficient and useful fighter 0f WWII. Allison V12 power.

In the Battle of Britain, the nation of the British Isles won and the English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish) - employees of all production plants, not only armaments, doctors, teachers, railway workers, drivers, salesmen. In the fight against the bandit German onslaught, they were helped by pilots, engineers, technicians, auxiliary personnel, etc. from the British Commonwealth countries, as well as pilots from Poland, Czechoslovakia and other countries. It's a pity that the English command trusted foreigners so late. They repeated the mistake of the French in May 1940 and did not issue their good planes to Polish pilots. Only in the last decade of the war did they give the Poles aircraft scrap, and they shot down over 60 German planes - and certainly damaged over 30. The commander of the field airport in northern France told the Poles on the day of their evacuation to England, - on behalf of the French, I apologize to you for all the humiliation you have experienced on our soil. I'm ashamed of France. A quote from this farewell can be found in the memoirs of many Polish pilots, published after the war. At the end of April 1945, over 20,000 pilots, technicians, operators, gunners, navigators, radio operators and support staff served in the Polish Air Force. More than 2,400 pilots and aircrews (bombers) died on the Western Front alone. Poles fought in the air, on water and on land, they were the 4th largest Allied force in terms of numbers. They fought from September 1 to the end of August 1945 on all fronts of the 2nd World War. Polish intelligence throughout Europe provided over 65% of reliable intelligence materials, they handed over the plans for the Atlantic Wall. They gave the English and French all the secrets of "ENIGMA" at the end of July 1939 along with physical encryption machines. They provided full documentation of the V1 and V2 rockets (Prof. Groszkowski from P.I.T. and scientists from the Warsaw University of Technology - pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Groszkowski) along with key parts of these rockets. In addition to the English and Norwegians, they participated in slowing down work on the German atomic bomb (A.K. przystanekhistoria.pl/pa2/tematy/armia-krajowa/90782,Wywiad-Sil-Zbrojnych-w-Kraju.html; - www.polska-zbrojna.pl/home/ArticleShow/36455) And at the end of the war they were betrayed, and Poland was placed under the occupation of the CCCP for over 55 years. Professors: Roger Moorhouse, Norman Davies, Antony Beevor, Evan Mawdsley, David Irving and others - concluded that everyone won the war, in a sense even the Germans. The only losers were Poles and Poland. Unfortunately, this is the truth. ipn.gov.pl/pl/publikacje/ksiazki/187023,Polacy-i-Brytyńczy-w-lepszu-wybuchu-drugiej-wojny-swiatowej.html Janusz Groszkowski - Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia“First one cannot be forgotten! Fighter pilot Władysław Gnyś” czcams.com/video/IS4hT_pP3Ns/video.html

Odd, we in the UK largely consider the men of the First World War our greatest generation. Our regard for the "Pals" is rather profound.

thanks do we have any idea of the kind of material paintings that were used by these people? Many thanks for the video and all the work

What good is it with no 😢sound

*The Flying Tigers didn't lose a plane. Until it was absorbed into the Army on July 4, 1942,* *the American Volunteer Group set a matchless record. Officially destroying 299 enemy planes,* *while losing only 8 of their own pilots in combat.* *There is little doubt that easily twice this many Japanese aircraft were shot down.*

Really exciting stuff! Can’t wait to see her flying again!

in the 80s i met an old man here in Denmark , he told me he was a veteran from the finnish war flying buffalos, and he once killed some civillins in a bus , they where mixed in the russian convoy he was attacking. i have no clue if any of it was true , but i belived him.

Very nice enemy plane! 😎👍😺💪🍀💙🍀🐺

My father took me to see Tex hll, I was just over 5yo. It was at Mr Hill's home in Chicago suburb, a s[lit level ranch. He had one picture of a P-40 on his wall, a 5x7.

great presentation..i did couple dives on the U 352 BACK IN THE 90S...tough job being on a U-boat in the war

Tell us about the Fi-156 Stork in the background.

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Gorgeous aircraft. How tempting it must be to just throw it around like it was stolen. Very good walk around man

Nice balance. 🙂

What happened to the pontoon

This was great. I’m so happy someone is documenting this. I’ve seen the pics the army did during the war and those are excellent but this is a fantastic project. Keep it up. 👍 I can imagine the fear the crews would have if shot down over Germany. The jackets could kill you. I can understand why they’d stop putting certain things on them. I’m also sure these guys became superstitious as hell wondering why they got lucky and so many others didn’t.

1:48 How is this plane moving?

What a sound!

My father worked with these in darwin during the war, they were painted black, they mined Japanese harbours and rescued downed airmen.

Absolutely beautiful. The PBY is one of the most important aircraft of its time, which played so many crucial roles in many theaters of WWII, like this particular one did in the battle of the Atlantic. My favorite fun fact about the Catalina is that to this day, it still holds the world record for longest-duration 'commercial' flight. In 1943-45, Qantas flew a route from Perth to Sri Lanka, which was only ~3600 miles but since the Catalina only cruised at a leisurely 110 knots, they were in the air 28-32 hours, giving the route he unofficial name 'flight of the two sunrises'. In order for it to stay up that long, they turned the plane into a flying gas can with a max useful load of 3 passengers and 150 lbs of mail.