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 :)

@MartinCHorowitz

Жыл бұрын

The Grumman Lunar Module

@steveshoemaker6347

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again my friend....Shoe🇺🇸

@verstappen9937

Жыл бұрын

Ok I’ve got a huge request because it’s not a traditional video for you. PLEASE make a video on the French Leyat Helicar. Attempt #13 (also haven’t given up on asking for the SU-47 but the Leyat is even more interesting)

@aussiefan354

Жыл бұрын

Junker JU87 Stuka mate

@iamarizonaball2642

Жыл бұрын

Please do a video on the Saunders Roe Queen!

The Kittywake looks like a tugboat with wings. Interesting video

@mpetersen6

Жыл бұрын

And your pilot on todays flight is Tugboat Annie

@robertdragoff6909

Жыл бұрын

@@mpetersen6 LOL! Of course! And in flight entertainment….. Rock band Heart!

Speaking of flying boats, I'd absolutely love to see you cover the Short Sunderland! Such a cool plane.

@jamesstuart3346

Жыл бұрын

Second the motion. Machine guns, bomb racks and RAF crockery!

@timwhite4301

Жыл бұрын

I too would like this

@maciek_k.cichon

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesstuart3346 I mean yes, but Sandringhams are also nice.

@mebymyself2816

Жыл бұрын

I go for that, my father-in-law served on them post war.

@RexsHangar

Жыл бұрын

It will definitely be covered!

I know they are technically and practically less useful than standard aircraft but there is a special place in my heart for flying boats. I'd love to own one myself one day. But with GA prices now it looks like it won't happen.

@davidcool5189

Жыл бұрын

Get yourself a second hand Cessna, a cheap aluminum boat, and some duct tape. 👍

@captain61games49

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcool5189 lol good escuse for death

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

They are very practical if you live next to a lake.

@dixieduffy7

Жыл бұрын

@@markawbolton but the price! GA is so stupidly expensive now. I could buy a house or the HU 16 and live in it.

@Burhanontheranch

Жыл бұрын

I fantasize about modernizing a Catalina complete with a fancy glamping interior, glass cockpit, modern engines and avionics, shower, kitchen, cabin A/C, solar panels, the works. I need to rob a few armored cars first.

Oh I do love me some flying boats/seaplanes....I am gonna enjoy this immensely. Thank you for the upload Rex.

From almost the other end of Saunders Roe's history, there was the SR/A1: the first (only?) ever jet fighter flying boat. And thanks to visionary aircraft collector Peter Thomas, one of the A1s survives in fine condition in a UK museum.

@grizwoldphantasia5005

Жыл бұрын

Look up the Convair Sea Dart.

@mikehipperson

Жыл бұрын

The SR/A1, despite its looks, was a transonic aircraft beating many of the contemporary land based jets of the time for speed!

@rayjames6096

Жыл бұрын

The SR.A1was subsonic and slower than than all other jets at that time.

@janvanhaaster2093

2 ай бұрын

@@grizwoldphantasia5005 That is not a flying boat but a floatplane.

@grizwoldphantasia5005

2 ай бұрын

@@janvanhaaster2093 That is not useful, that is a quibble.

So based entirely on the designs 🤔 I'm assuming Saunders also designed my neighbors pontoon boat. Box on a box on floats, and the wings were removed to reduce air resistance. However, I do want one...

The Catalina is another flying house. The room inside is insane!

@someguy-qb2rs

Жыл бұрын

It's a shallow hulled flying boat, you should see a Mariner or a Sunderland

@naughtiusmaximus830

Жыл бұрын

@@someguy-qb2rs I saw one outside the Oakland airport. Not sure the model but it was a monster.

Rex uploaded, day even better

I hope you continue with the flying boats theme. I find them fascinating

At first glance, to me at least, it looks like a flying tugboat. Good video!

My aviation career is dragging me to high efficiency aircraft where L/D less than 20 is considered shabby. I intend to use Rex's renegade aircraft to torment my coworkers.

I got to say I love Flying Boats! I live about 2 miles from the old Saunders-Roe HQ and its surprising how little they are celebrated. Although the SR-1 is sat in a local museum and is probably the most beautiful vehicle i have ever seen.

Whatever one might think of the weird design, these early years of aeronautics certainly gave birth to a plethora of strange and fascinating constructions. So many lessons we today take for granted had to be learned from the very beginning, often with the price being the lives of men dreaming of flight.

@allenfenwick6257

Жыл бұрын

The price was too low.

@sim.frischh9781

Жыл бұрын

@@allenfenwick6257 It kept being paid.

Thanks for another great video. 👍 I would love if you would make a video on the Boeing 314 Clipper. A plane that I'm technically so in love with. 🥰

Thanks to you, Perun, Animarchy and Drachinifel, my love of military history has been rekindled, thank you for that.

Finally an aircraft I have never seen or heard of. Well done digging this footnote aircraft up. Some Sikorsky S-22 principles woven into Saunders work here.

In the 1970s I used to take a Grumann Goose from Prince Rupert to Skidegate in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Water level was right at the bottom of the windows. Very cool.

Wow they really went for it with the boat motif. I mean it looks like a little boat with wings attached to it. Quite an interesting aircraft!

Rex your channel is top notch mate atb

The cough can be frustrating. You can ask you doctor for stronger cough medicine if it continues to bother you. Thank you for the great videos.

Most interesting and enjoyable, as ever!

I enjoy your presentations, they are a very concise, and indepth look at aviation history from the beginning up to today. I like the fact that you show, both successes, and failures. It is fun to watch the beginning of some of aviations most famous contributors, thank you for this trip through time, see you on the flipside.

Interesting as always. Loved the aerial shot of Brooklands in its heyday.

Good stuff. I love your videos!

Thank you great presentation

Fascinating history, for a very obscure type. I've always been intrigued by adjustable camber wing designs.

Thanks!

wonderful video!

Wonderful video thanks

The title reminded me of the song House That Used To Be A Ship by Murry The Hump, but I can't think of a witty humorous pun to connect them.

Neato. Such a cool Vid. Thanks.

Thank you

Brilliant video. The Saunders Kittiwake reminds me of the flying boats R J Mitchell designed.

My brother recently meet a couple at church who knew one of our uncles. Somehow he kept it secret that he was a pilot. His friend owned a couple of WW1 bi-planes in the 60's and 70's and he flew them all the time. Taking his wife on trips around the country. We can only suppose because of the size of our family...he didn't want to get hammered with "Take me! take me!"

Feel better!! 😚

Love all the seaplanes.

Excellent.

I have always loved flying boats as well, there is just something about them.

I love all airplanes, in 1976 as a 16 year old we took a trip to New Hampshire, we'd go snow skiing in winter and camping or hotels in summer, I'm Boston guy so it's pretty close, we drove by a seaplane and the sign said, $ 5.00 for a 1/2 hour flight, are you kidding me, even way back then that was too cheap to pass up, it was a very old seaplane, single prop, probably from the 1950's, so hell yeah, the old girl kinda struggled to get airborne but what a flight, very cool. Most fun I ever had for 5 bucks, well, LSD was 2 bucks a hit back then.😉

Yet another product of the famous Columbine Yard at East Cowes! The Kittiwake was the first in a long line of Saunders seaplanes that led eventually to the magnificent Princess airliner and SR/A1 jet fighter. I still feel that Columbine itself deserves a video by one of the major history/transport channels here on KZread such as Rex.

Great video about a flying boat of which I knew nothing. Please keep up the great work (and if you could fit in a story or two about Sunderlands or Empire class, would be great).

get well soon! :)

hello great presentation, you have skills, saludos

If you'd like to see how that type of wing works check out Mike Patey's Scrappy build of his bush plane with leading and trailing edge slats and flaps. Awesome video, I grew up on the Isle of wight close to Saunders Roe and my grandparents had quite a few friends who were involved with that business during the war.

Would be interested to see your take on the fairley firefly. My grandad flew in one during ww2

Pretty sure I've seen one of these in an episode of _TaleSpin._ That show was always pulling deep pulls of interwar aviation if you knew what to look for.

If you're going to have structural failures, symmetrical ones are less of a problem than asymmetric ones.

@benholroyd5221

Жыл бұрын

I don't know. I'd rather only lose one engine than 2. Or of you want to get pedantic with my pedantry. I'd rather only one engine fall off.

This looks right out of a Miyazaki film.

Thank you for the interesting video. Have you considered an episode on the only aircraft designed and built to carry other aircraft: the Akron and Macon airships(note built). Short careers but neat craft.

@oliviersavard8676

Жыл бұрын

yes that would be neat

I always liked this one.

I think the thing looks awesome.

thanks

I can hear the comments about this slightly faster flying tugboat flying into the comments section faster than a tugboat can pull a cargo ship.

@joedingo7022

Жыл бұрын

so about 5-6 knots?

saab tunnen ("flying barrel"), folland gnat (the sabre slayer), lockheed (?) trislander, twin otter.

@BeaufighterGaming

Жыл бұрын

Twin otter🥵

Interesting aircraft that I have never heard of. Fascinating. So many dreamers ahead of their time disappointed by visionless investors.

Definitely ahead of its time, shame that it failed as project. But at least it flew...

As a lover of flying boats, many thanks for this addition. I couldn't believe it when you said 1921, it looks so much later. Unfortunately, later might have been a better time for it, with so much innovation to be mastered - full marks to them, but as you say, it's not innovation that sells an aircraft.

I'm an aviation enthusiast, have been since the late 1970s...and have NEVER heard of this thing...

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

Yeah me niether. Rex always brings out the surprises. One day he will invent one entirely and fool us all. Look forward to April. ;-)

You get the feeling that if the wings were removed you'd have the basis for an interesting boat.

@stevetournay6103

Жыл бұрын

That's been done, though not with this thing...houseboats have been made from a Canso (Canadian-built PBY Catalina) and a Boeing 307 Stratoliner, among others.

Another under powered monstrosity. Can't imagine this thing on one engine.

@ecyor0

Жыл бұрын

It really is striking how *many* design failures can be summed up as "underpowered engine". Really makes you appreciate how crucial the advances in precision machining and material science were to the industry as a whole.

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

Not a terible plane to be in during a forced landing at 40 mph though.

The F4-F also had it's landing gear raised by a hand crank.

Looks similar to a bi-winged, shortened fuselage, half-sized cabin & cockpit PBY Catalina. Sounds like an egg-laying-milk-pig that didn't do one aeronautical thing well.

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

How about short field landings?

Nice 1 m8, another goodie, thanks, keep up the good work, stay vertical Eh!

I cannot believe I have never heard of this aircraft.

OK, this airplane qualifies as comical! And that is saying something considering some of the flying machines that come out of Rex's Hangar.

Love me some Nausicaä-esque plane shenanigans

That looks like Brooklands at 0:40ish. Much as I love that old track, I don't really understand why it was included in a video about flying boats. The last time I checked, Weybridge was still some way from the coast...

When are you going to do "Those Magnifiscent Men In Their Flying Machines"? Oh Yeah, another great video.

Funny... Kittywake... the USS Kittywake was the name of my father's 1st assigned Naval Ship when in the US Navy. It was a Submarine Rescue Vessel. It now serves as part of an artificial reef in the US Caribbean Islands.

Very interesting indeed! The Princess' many great grand parent. Is there any possibility of you doing the SARO P.192 'Queen', which was, if memory serves, the largest flying boat ever designed?

@RexsHangar

Жыл бұрын

Currently trying to get a copy of her 'draft' blueprints from the national archive, its one of my favourite aircraft never built.

Hey, a flying and floating camper van. I'll buy that.

Out competed by Blackburn? That's gotta hurt!

Anyone been noticing more adult movie bots on KZread recently?

@th3narrat0r5

Жыл бұрын

Ironically after KZread said they’re trying to crack down on them and that they’re taking steps against them

@grafspee569

Жыл бұрын

ye am reporting everything I see

@philbyd

Жыл бұрын

Yes especially anything to do with Ukraine

@Vandal_Savage

Жыл бұрын

It's the collapse of civilisation...

@JohnWayneCheeseburger

Жыл бұрын

Always on car videos I find em

My British favorites are the Walrus, and the Viking as in the movie The People that time forgot or the one with John Wayne's son Patrick....

I have just realised that I need a flying house!!! :D

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

Wouldnt it be grand? There would have to be lots of runways or lakes though.

Not gonna lie. I would live in one.

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

You bet. It would make the perfect off Grid RV.

You speak with a Trans-Atlantic accent. Liked and Sub'd.

The Saunders company was eventually bought out by AV Roe after he left his own company Avro. It was always small but produces some exceptionally advanced but ultimately non-starter aircraft - the SR A1 Jet Flying Boat Fighter, The Pricess the gigantic ten engined Flying Boat Airliner and the SR75 Rocket and Jet Supersonic Interceptor.

@paulqueripel3493

Жыл бұрын

And some big hovercraft.

You can tell pioneers by the number of arrows in their back.

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. All of those ideas were good ones.

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

Actually the aileron one kinda sucked ..I would be interested if flaperons might have worked far better but we dont know what the "lift devices were" ... The thing about the aerons being a problem on the water? Often you get to take off directly into wind. Probably more that they seem clunky. Hey what would I know?

Ok I’ve got a huge request because it’s not a traditional video for you. PLEASE make a video on the French Leyat Helicar. Attempt #13 (also haven’t given up on asking for the SU-47 but the Leyat is even more interesting)

6:00 ha ha ha haaaaa perfect

Honestly, not bad technology wise for 1921.

Then, it's a flying houseboat! Or a flying boathouse? Anyway, after some eyesore-inducing airplanes, how about the elegant Dornier Do 26 flying boat in the future?

I remember that anime, "Flying House." The first christian anime I'd ever heard of. But an actual flying house would be awesome. I'd love to have such a thing.

I rathe like the appearance of the Kittiwake.

I've always wanted to take something like this and make it into a home. Fly anywhere across the US and fish right out the front door

I suspect the odd placement of the aileron had more to do with trying to dodge the patent on the aileron held by the wright corporation.

Very interesting it's great hearing about these planes that look like they were designed by a mad professor 😆

Looks like the kind of thing your eccentric next door neighbour is building in his shed!

This thing trundled right out of a Ghibli movie and nobody noticed.

All hail the tall boi

It needed a balcony, then it would have really been something to see.

What was the pretty three engined plane at the end of the video please?

Starting at 0:43 is that Brooklands Raceway?

Was stainless steel available for cables & fittings back then, or was most of their 'hard' metalwork still in brass?

@zeusapollo8688

Жыл бұрын

Galvanized

👍👍

The side view made me think of the plane in mad max 3

Clever, people were used to travel on ships, so you make it look like an actual boat, complete with deckhouses,etc.

Revisit the kittiwake!!!