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Did you ever pick up a shell fragment? Jagged, razor sharp and pretty hot. Helped you visualise what damage it had done!

Gorgeous aircraft and a great show!

I love how the B52 always gets a de facto pass fir all the new toys that get developed 😂

its all about using the best available resources for mission criticality... training is not war training for war is not the same as war, the two should not be confused training facilitates readiness and capability... warfighting is using that readiness and capability then recycling what ever is left after each mission. People need to wake up thinking that flying training flights is equal to war, its not. If near peer war happens it is mostly up to the technology pilots don't matter nearly as much once dog fighting became missile standoffs. People still need to fly manned aircraft but I am skeptical of how much actual pilot combat skills really matter as it just feels like itis checklists and routtines and engaging systems. Its being made a lot more than it is maybe I will be proven wrong but its basically how good your missile and sensor systems are.

“Gripen” translates to “The Griffin” in Swedish, the “-en”suffix is the equivalent to “the”. So saying “the Gripen” is like saying “the the Griffin”

In my sincere opinion, the best option the GDI has against stubborn NOD ground targets 🤘

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Wow... what a treasure trove of information. Kudos to you and all your supporters for producing this ! Thanks !

Love your content 🤘

Thanks!

Thanks Chris & everybody that contributed to this, excellent !

I really enjoyed that! I grew up around those wonderful B-25 Mitchells and I miss them greatly!

very informative

My father maintained the radios in B25s operated by 139 Wing, 2nd Tactical Airforce, RAF. He actually flew in one when the wing moved up from Brussels to Achmer aerodrome near Osnabruck and the war ended a few days later. There is a B25 restored into 139 wing colours and named "Grumpy" after one of the wing aircraft. In 1999, I attended an air show at Dunsfold with my parents. This was where 139 Wing was based, and Grumpy was as the show, and I watched her start engines and take off. As I recall, the engines were Wright Cyclones which had 14 cylinders in two circles of 7.

Love the clip art picture for this video.

how did the german counter part work? Was there something compareable?

Beautiful aircraft and an awesome video. I wonder if the aircraft was one of the original "Catch-22" bombers. Maybe you can do a video on the original "Catch-22" movie and the efforts to gather a fleet of B-25s for the film sometime in the future.

My absolute favorite aircraft of all times. Last year I made 300 km to see it in Salzburg Airport...just to discover it was under maintenance and not available for public. I watched it from 84 m with some glass in between...

Thanks so much for showcasing Miss Mitchell and our museum!

One wonders what performance with the BMW radial would have been like.

Beautiful

14:06 praise the military aviation history lord with his glorious 190 meters in height!!

Another outstanding presentation. Thank You!

I love the hat :) great video!

Is it true this fighter is delivered flat pack, with wordless instructions?

Aircraft appears as new.

That was a fantastic video! What a beautiful airplane. Thank you for that informative tour!

Beautiful plane. I’ve just started nerding out pretty hard on WWII planes, I’ve always been more of a tank or general history dude. I have to thank you for all of your videos and the work you’re putting in making them. I have been watching a lot of them lately and your channel stands out and is a notch above the others that I have seen. Thanks!

Consider the different roles, the Luftwaffe was primarily concerned with shooting down U.S. bombers (B-17, B-24). Their analysis suggested that 5-6 20mm rounds, 2-3 30mm rounds, were needed for a kill, but only about 2% of rounds fired hit. The U.S. fighters primary target was Luftwaffe fighters, the rate of fire and the number of guns meant 6 x 0.5 (8 in P-47) was adequate for the role.

RE: Waist guns Were waist guns effective? The USAAF flew many bombers with waist guns. Cannot think of any other air force that did. Were waist guns effective or a waste of resources?

Unnecessary for the quick-firing 6pounder anti-tank gun. The Mollins gun reloaded automatically.

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Can you actually believe they launched a bunch of those off an old aircraft carrier without a Steam catapult? It still amazes me. Was it the Hornet ? I forget. Incredible.

Absolutely gorgeous aircraft and excellent Inside The Cockpit. Informative and enlightening to see so much love and care put into this.

watching this video has me wondering if Colonel Moran can fit inside the tail turret of a B25?

Bad planning and no escort fighters.

Still kool

14:00 All of this is BS we all know the engines were not included in the test 229 constructed for radar testing nor were the fuel tanks included. Whats more damming is they painted it with 25k /gal paint no guns and the weapons were all designed to be mounted externally. So this entire "stealth" debate is nonsense. It just wasn't. The thing is bad ass! Its not stealthy at all.

Very interesting data. I wonder if similar conclusions could be gleaned from data from the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, where the ratios of fighters/AA guns would have been different.

Beautiful, my examiner for my Private Licenece-and later fellow Instructor- flew B-25's for RCAF. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

A B-25 flew over my house at low altitude while leaving a small regional airport, airshow. I heard it well enough in advance to run outside. I was totally gobsmacked! It sounded like dozens of hot rods going over me.

14:06 You're 190 meters long?!?

One of the last remaining Stukas is in the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology. I went there with my young German exchange student and said "Wow... that's a Stuka!"... and she didn't know what I was talking about... haha. I guess that is probably a good thing.

I kept expecting you to start singing cotton eyed Bo

it was amazing to see how they seem to fit so much into the B25...and also as usual a great tour...

Great vid on a fantastic plane. Why are the control surfaces fabric covered and not covered in aluminum?

Got to ride in a B17 at Oshkosh 2 years ago... Was so hard to mentally justify the cost at the time. Once I climbed in and those Wright engines started that chonky, throaty roar, and smelled that burning oil, money was no object. Pretty much still smile just thinking about it. Met some great guys, or maybe I should say, I met a bunch of normal guys (including a Brit) of all ages, who were all having a great time and had smiles from ear to ear...it was like a bunch of kids at Willy Wonka's. My favorite was peeking my head out the radio operator's window (they take out the plexiglass insert and just have the metal bar grid, so you can fit your head up and into the slipstream...so freaking awesome...just take off your hat first. Fly 'em while they can still be flown, is my advice to anyone who loves militaria, history or aviation. Obviously Chris checks all 3 boxes.