F.A.Q Section - Ask your questions here :) 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: How do you decide what aircraft gets covered next? A: Supporters over on Patreon now get to vote on upcoming topics such as overviews, special videos, and deep dives. 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.

@TrixielleRose

4 ай бұрын

The Saab J-32??

@TrixielleRose

4 ай бұрын

Maybe the F-82 Twin Mustang?

@Sturminfantrist

4 ай бұрын

OV-1/JOV-1 Mohawk, why not a Army aircraft of the Vietnam era?

@aabumble9954

4 ай бұрын

Could you someday make a video on the V-bombers or give them their own three separate videos?

@na3044

4 ай бұрын

Can we read that list somewhere?

I appreciate your shorter videos because I very rarely have the time to watch your long ones, but then feel that I'm missing some content I'd like to see.

@nethascotx24

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. This way, we still get some bit of aviation history, even without needing time for a full hour!

@matta.747

4 ай бұрын

Nice on brake time

@tobyrobson2939

4 ай бұрын

There are plenty of other youtubers already offering short videos for people with shorter attention spans. I simply don't see the point of Rex repeating a form and format that's already out there.

@Kevin-mx1vi

4 ай бұрын

@@tobyrobson2939 It's not a short attention span, it's lack of time. Some of us have commitments that break up our available free time. Wives, children, grandchildren, daily chores, social lives, etc.

@babboon5764

4 ай бұрын

@@tobyrobson2939 WHAT? ..... TLDR

Such a lovely design! The similarity to the P-26 is obvious, but it also is a mediterranean sibling of the Japanese A5M.

Your long videos are the best, and I mean that not just about your work, but about all KZread aviation videos.

Yes, love the "bite-size" videos!

I would love to see a video on the Hawker Hunter...

And 27 served with the Royal Chudistani Air Force.

I’m from the us and I know I’ve been up too late when I see Rex uploaded 25 seconds ago.

@williamromine5715

4 ай бұрын

Same here, in Montana.

@RolftheRed

4 ай бұрын

Dang - 8 mins for me... LOL

I always thought that the peashooter looked like somebody tried to arm a Race Plane.

Yes! More italian planes please, they have many little known or unappreciated aircraft. Great work once again!

Approve the bite size format! Love it to precise, this has the right feel to it. While I love your in depth journeys into obscurity of French interwar bombers at a phd thesis scale, this is a nice addition to stay in touch with the audience on a regular basis without the need for us listeners to clear up schedule to do so : ) . Thank you for providing the content, love your work!

One of my favourite interwar aircraft and one that I always feel bad about screwing up my rare AZ Models 1/72 plastic kit of when I was a teen

@danhubert-hx4ss

4 ай бұрын

I really like this kite, it has charisma.

@The_Modeling_Underdog

4 ай бұрын

Something to make feel better, mate. Everyone botched that build. Even for AZ's early standards the Ba.27M was a dodgy kit at best and a dog at worst. Cheers.

@benhooper1956

4 ай бұрын

@@The_Modeling_Underdog Cheers, I remember the 2D windscreen cut out foxed me as I lacked the scratchbuilding skills then that I still lack now lol

My son flies business jets now, but we love interwar designs. Thanks.

Great video, Rex...👍

Rex your content rocks!! Thanks

Both long and short videos are excellent! Don't stop the mix.

Finger’s crossed for a video on the Travel Air Type R!

Looked really nice. I have to give it that.

I love the pint-size history, and love the channel. One of my favorites. You've introduced me to soooo many aircraft I'd never heard of, and as a result, Airfix has had a small jump in sales. LOL.

Good Day Rex …. you’re really producing content at a rate I can barely keep up with..it will help me get over the ascetic shock of the French Interwar Bombers Series.. maybe if they had drooped loaves of Warm French bread 🥖 as their designers seem to have intended…that might have been a more effective deterrent

Great video. I agree with a previous comment. These short videos are also good.

Thank you! Short is better for me. Great video!

I’d love to see you do videos on depression era racing aircraft. The airplanes were fast and precarious, their pilots even more so.

Nice!

Great vid. Love the looks of this aircraft. The "obscure" A/C used by China in the 30's is a fascination of mine.

Fantastic video! Can you do the histori of the italian p 108 bomber?

Together with Pasped Skylark one of my favorite half sport half military kind of plane of that era

I like the short videos

Good to see the short format return.

I have never thought very much for Italian aircraft designs, but the Breda 27 looks like it would have been one of their best, it needed a bigger engine and more speed. Well, I guess you win some and lose some.

@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe

4 ай бұрын

Think again. Please? Armani designed Italian aircrew gear as well.

I had no idea that the legendary Travel Air "Mystery Ship" would become the basis for an Italian fighter used against the Japanese by the Chinese! A great story. The example at 0:53 was used by Shell for research and eventually bought by its pilot, the famous Jimmy Doolittle, shown in the photo. He modified the airplane to use a Wasp Jr. 560 hp engine, which clearly was too much as on the first test flight a wing disintegrated and that was that. Doolittle was the Cat with Nine Lives and survived after parachuting out at 300 feet!

In a world where the Northrop Alpha and Boeing Monomail flew in 1930, all the bi-planes and wire-braced monoplanes seem very old-fashioned or maybe ... antique.

I enjoy the short aircraft overview videos, well done.

Well, if you want to do a *short* aircraft video, the Goblin is probably the top contender. For a *longer* one perhaps the B1 Lancer?

Kinda weird for some of us from the Netherlands whenever there is mention of 'Breda' aircraft or guns: there is a town overhere in the south of the Netherlands called Breda :-)

@triumphbobberbiker

Ай бұрын

Braida or Breda (suburban meadow) is a Longobardic word. Given that Longobardic was akin to old Saxon, that is not strange

This strikes me as another one of those designs that are a great what if they had cantilevered surfaces and modern engines questions.

Will you do a compilation of season 2 just like the last one

It would be fascinating to know the Chinese service history of the Berda.

4:45 The main landing gear wheels seem really large. Is this the case? If so, would it be an adaptation to allow operation from extremely rough fields? BTW, great work on your part!

6 MINUTES???? MY POPCORN WASN'T EVEN READY!!!

A short topic, but a very interest one. 🙂👍

Of course retractible landing gear is way better than fixed. I was comparing the pros and cons of more streamlined versus unstreamlined landing gear.

Chunky? She is positively svelte when compared to a Gee Bee!

I often wonder whether fixed landing gear with streamlined spats or trousered legs were any more aerodynamically efficient than landing gears without them, considering the added weight, maintenance and expense? Mind you they did look rather more stylish.

@boobah5643

4 ай бұрын

I don't think you're asking the question you think you're asking. Are retractable landing gear more aerodynamically efficient? Unquestionably yes. The downsides of retractable gear are complexity (and therefore expense and maintenance) and fragility.

This I believe was during the time the Chinese were working with Curtis .

You could have a longer video cut up in parts. Part 1 development Part 2 deployment Part 3 upgrades and newer versions or something like that.

Great idea, take a racer aircraft and turn it into a fighter (with minimal modifications) what could possibly go wrong? 🤦‍♂

As much as i love your videos Rex and appreciate it takes time to produce and edit them when are you going to start covering jets?....im not saying every video going foward has tp cover jets as that would be silly nor am i saying it has to be a modern jet but the closing footage on your videos is that of jet aircraft.

This looks very close to the P26 innit? Oh its only a coincidence

This feels so wrong to be commenting in a vid that’s posted less than an hour ago

If you could sub-title your statistics and measurements in Imperial units, it would be greatly appreciated.

Kinda looks like the successful Wedell-Williams race plane of the early 30's

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Prefer the shorter videos!

It disapointed the Italian expectations rapidly

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It's always a Type R, isnt it?

What happened to the Travel Air company? Other than the race airplanes, they don't seem to have done very much?

@TimTheInspector

4 ай бұрын

Travel Air had a very successful line of biplanes and were building cabin monoplanes but the depression hit hard and they sold to Curtiss-Wright who continued to sell some of their designs under new names. The founders of Travel Air did okay for themselves in the long run though as they set up new companies; Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna, and Lloyd Stearman.

@nightjarflying

4 ай бұрын

Travel Air merged with the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in 1929.

@WALTERBROADDUS

4 ай бұрын

@@TimTheInspector Okay. There was a whole lot of turnover and mergers going on back then. It seems like a lot of the airplane companies kind of sprouted from working for somebody else. They just seem never to become bigin like the airline Market or military Market.

I like your shorter videos but I also like your longer videos. You have a very innate way of making dull facts interesting.

I can never understand why many modern looking 1930s aircraft, like the Beoing P26 and the prototype Spitfire, still used 2 bladed propellers (here's the Breda using a 3 bladed one). Does anyone know a reason for this?

@birlyballop4704

4 ай бұрын

Look for variable-pitch and/or constant-speed propellor. Briefly, 'cos technology.

@nightjarflying

4 ай бұрын

An aerodynamic ideal prop with minimal drag - the most aerodynamically efficient, will theoretically have ONE blade though the problems with that are obvious. More blades can absorb more torque from the engine, but if your engine is not a high powered design, then two blades is better than three. In other words one aims for the minimum number of blades that are capable of absorbing the available engine torque. Engine torque rose dramatically during WWII due to superchargers & fuel improvements - going from [approx figures] 800 horsepower to 2,400.

Is there a list of planes in the pipeline for coverage? If so, I’d like to add the Conwing L-16, a neat but overlooked aircraft. Those of you familiar with it, if you know, you know.

Italian "Mystery Ship"

Personally, I like the shorter videos on a single aircraft.

More Japanese aircraft! Google Translate is our friend.

Thanks for the shorter overview, I find them far easier to be able to find the time to watch, also at 67 years old, I have the attention span of a three year old... Look a squirrel...

I prefer their guns

hooray, I am first to comment!!! please keep up the good work Rex

@68Boca

4 ай бұрын

Please, get yourself a hobby. Or when you grow up , a girlfriend!

Rex, if you do read this, have a think before committing to too many more short form vids. The original (and still growing) hardcore of your viewership are people with a genuine interest and fairly good knowledge of aviation history. The short form is probably better suited to gamers and casual interest viewers. Id really hate to see you cut the head off the golden goose and lose your USP. That could quickly become a race to the bottom, given some of the comments being offered here. I believe your current output will stand the test of time and probably become a proper source of academic reference in this own right. But to keep that legacy, you'll need to stick to your guns. Yes it requires more effort, time, resources and almost certainly delivers less initial income to produce a proper A to Z documentary history of a given aircraft, - but it's that attention to detail that makes your channel what it is. KZread and the web is stuffed full of fluff and trite output. Dare I mention Dark Skies or Aircraft Encyclopedia as just two examples of short form aviation videos which fall way way below your standards and which I believe contain errors and hyperbole. Keep the short form for aircraft about which not much more can be said. But please please please don't abandon the long form video as your priority.

@CathodeRayNipplez

4 ай бұрын

True but some subjects, like this one for example, do not warrant an epic movie length production.

@tobyrobson2939

4 ай бұрын

Which is why I made exactly that point - thanks for repeating it ;)

This plane reminds me japanese Mitsubishi A5M. Boeing is too fat.

First :)

...as long as you save the short format for aircraft that have few records to go on to start with, that's fine with me. But don't lose your USP - proper in-depth research and history from beginning to end. If you pander to the goldfish attention span demographic, I'm afraid you might start to lose some of your core subscribers.

Breda, terrible football club, failed to hold against the Germans in 1940 and I'm not feeling these Dutch aircraft either 😂☘️👍

I would subscribe as you narrate in English but I'm not going to sit here and convert foreign metrics...sorry.

@MatterusOD

4 ай бұрын

Hi. I think Rex uses the measurements of the original country of manufacture at the time of manufacture. If you watch videos of aircraft built in France or Germany or China then you will get metric as they were built and flow by countries that use metric. If you watch say one on WWII American or British aircraft you will get the Imperial measurements pertinent to the country of manufacture. Its called researched based accuracy. Rex is broadcasting to the world and so caters to all, not just one country, and to an audience who wants to learn new things and be informed, not those with insular views.