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.

Feel free to leave you questions below - I may not be able to answer all of them, but I will keep my eyes open :)

In a mirror universe, aviation channels tell the stories of innovative engines that fail because the airframes never come to fruition.

"The Super-Fighter that was betrayed by its engine." A story as old as the aviation history itself.

The sole surviving Curtiss XP-55 Ascender (#2 of 3) has been restored and sits in the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Aviation History Museum, aka, The Kalamazoo Air Zoo. I've seen her up close and personal several times; she's a beauty.

Interesting concept that seemingly had a lot of potential. The Japanese Kyushu J7W Shinden is worthy subject for your attention.

As soon as I hear "the design was to use an engine under development," I know it's going to be a bad day.

The fact that this plane began life before the USA was even in WWII showed how rapidly aviation design was moving back then.

The trajectory of the aircraft from when the Wright Brothers first flew in 1903 to what was being done by the end of WW2 is unbelievable. I heard once that the entire distance of the Wright Bros first flight could have been done inside Hughes H4 Hercules aka the Spruce Goose that was assembled and "flew" 44 years later.

I’m not sure how confident I’d feeling about jumping out of a pusher aircraft.

Amazing looking plane, it’s a shame for its deficiencies.

"Mr. Burns: We'll take the spruce moose! Hop in!"

This plane that looks like it came from Crimson Skies is actually a treat to fly on FSX IMO.

So many stories like this in ww2. A lot of teething problems with early jets but they had less complexity than late piston engines. A great "what could have been"

''Half Swan. Half Goose, Alexander is a Swoose...'' Novelty hit by Kay Kyser and
His Orchestra..
''Swoose'' was also the pet name of an early model B-17.

Experimental is the stuff you learn from.  It doesn't always work as hoped.

There is something timeless about this design.  I am certain it could be perfected now.  Those guys came soooo close. 👏🏻

Pusher designs are famous for often needing their cooling systems to be supplemented by fire extinguishers.

Was there ever a successful fighter fielded with independently aim-able guns like those seen here? I feel like we’ve seem quite a few of them in the reject pile.

That photo showing the XP-54 being maintenanced and checked by all those personnel, really hammers back the message that after each failed project, there are many professionals that tried their utmost, worked off their asses, to try and make it succeed.

Rex's lessons are also great to learn sophisticated English - Greetings from Germany