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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?  
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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.

Additional information: All photos of the Ju 390 V2 (registration RC+DA) that show it in flight are photomontages created after the war. Quasi a joke of German students, which very quickly became a self-runner. The Ju 390 V2 never left the ground

The Luftwaffe was such a mess, especially in procurement that it's almost surprising they didn't insist that the 290 and 390 were able to dive bomb...

Udet: "But can it dive bomb?"

Also, speaking of gigantic German planes, why not cover the BV-222 and bv-238 flying boats?

No, I wasn't sitting here refreshing the screen. Why do you ask?

15:56 ah yes the JU-390. Anyone who remembers "Secret Weapons Over Normandy" would remember the JU-390 being used by Nemesis; be glad James Chase and the Battlehawks destroyed them using the then ultra secret XF5U.

Jesus I wasn't expecting the captain to have as little information about how the plane rapidly disassembled itself lol

I'll watch all of it later.
A late friend of mine was the chief test pilot, Versuchflieger, of the 390.
That was Flugkapitän Hans Pancherz. He also made the worlds second ejection in a real scenario with the 290 I think. Later he was supposed to break the sound barrier with the Ju 248, but that never happened as we all know.

Best Greetings from Sweden.

Those big Junkers had definite aesthetic appeal.

Another 290 survived and ended up in Farnborough, England. What test purpose it forefilled there (if any) I don't know but it ended up dumped in Happy Valley, where it appeared in photos of a public "Captured Enemy Aircraft Types" exhibition around 1948 before, presumably, being disposed of as scrap.

The A8 and B2 have so many dorsal turrets, they start looking like shitposts fake blueprints  ^^

My grandfather was a test pilot for the Ju 90 series - one of the very few who survived. One of my favorite stories of his (apart from the crash with one of those giants) was the wind speed testing at 3000 m at the tip of the opened rear cargo/parachute bay door. Secured by a washing line (sic!).

Thank you so much for covering this plane it's been a long time favorite of mine and critically underrated

Excellent work as always, on an indeed quite forgotten but interesting giant. I would have liked though that you would drop a word about the JU290Z, the projected zwilling version reminiscent of the very real He-111Z

Smiling Albert Kesselring might have been an utter genius at defensive land warfare but his actual job was not supposed to be handicapping the German offensive aerial  capabilities for ever and ever and all time. Bad Albert

Asking why WW2 Germany failed at anything is sort of like asking why a two-year-old failed at calculus.  The Germans never had a chance, and Hitler was too stupid to recognize that fact.

They might have had a chance to win the war (or at least most of Europe, except Britain and the USSR) if before they started it, they had secretly stored up about ten years of fuel in bomb-proof facilities, created about 200 atomic bombs along with 100 super long range very high-altitude bombers capable of air refueling with similar tankers.  However, most likely the USA would discover their plans and already had measures in place to counter them.

The designation "der große Dessauer" was a word play on "der alte Dessauer", Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau, who was the oldest but one of the best generals of the early reign of Frederick the Great. Junkers' production plant was in Dessau

It really is a shame none of these beautiful huge aircraft have survived in a museum

Interesting video. The most talked about German four engine plane seems to be the 'Condor'  FW200 as it is always spoken about in convoy search and observation reporting.  Other than the Gigantic I wasn't aware that Germany produced such aircraft that you spoke about in this video.