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Let's try this Italian airplane video idea one more time. Look for it this coming week. I'm working on it now and it's almost done. My previous Italian airplane video, which was on the Macchi C.200 was kind of a flop. I thought it was a decent video, but it's one of my least watched videos on a WW2 airplane. Now it could be that it's not an interesting airplane, or it could be that there just isn't much interest in the Regia Aeronautica stuff. I guess I'll find out soon enough.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Greg

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I made one little comment in my last video on NACA and it's strangely started to take on a life of it's own in other areas of social media. I'm putting up a quick video to nip this in the bud. My regular viewers understood exactly what was going on, or were at least smart enough to simply ask in the comments. However some others took the info and ran into the dark corners of the internet to use it to add fuel to an ongoing conspiracy theory. As that was not my intent, I'm squishing this right now, or in a few mins when I get this video loaded up.

Greg

P.S. I'm really proud of how smart people in the comment section are on this channel. Most of them knew to just ask me before coming up with some wacky conclusion. Also, you guys collectively had been really good at finding errors. For example the pressurized wind tunnel wasn't to test at different density altitudes. I'll post a correction in the description for that video.

1 week ago | [YT] | 869

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RV video. So, I'm required to put up a video about RV rental for tax purposes. I'll talk about the RV itself and economics of a rental RV vs. a rental car and hotels. Plus we did hit the USAF museum in Dayton, Old Rhinebeck, Ft. Ticonderoga and more.

I guess if you don't want to hear about the pros and cons of a Cruise America RV rental, then don't watch it, but I promise to make it at least somewhat interesting. I should have this up either late today or tomorrow.

1 month ago | [YT] | 758

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The sponsor for the D8 video has been axed. The video will go up within a couple hours.

1 month ago | [YT] | 665

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So I was at the Dragstrip yesterday getting times for the latest tune on my 2024 EcoBoost Mustang and I ran into a youtube automotive celebrity.

I saw a guy behind me in the staging lanes standing next to a 2nd Gen "Camaro" and he looked familiar. I approached him and he turned out to be Eric Weingartner who is a pretty big deal in the V8 world. I didn't get to talk to him much, but he seemed like a great guy, pretty much the same guy you see in his videos. He was even wearing the same hoodie he is wearing in the video below. It's a pretty good video and he does a good job explaining the traction issues everyone was having on this day.

https://youtu.be/MlbzTygUyes?si=RlzSQ...

His point about traction yesterday was exactly right. I had two good runs and then not a single good launch because of the track getting wet from exhaust.

If you leave him a comment, mention that you found him from my link.

1 month ago | [YT] | 57

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I just watched the movie Nuremberg. The short version is, the movie itself is just OK, but Russell Crowe did an amazing job playing Hermann Goering. Maybe I should start doing movie reviews on my channel to combat the AI onslaught within the aircraft and history genres on youtube. Never mind, I'm not going to do that, other than maybe a top ten list here and there.

My P-63 video just cracked 100,000 views, but needs another 20,000 in the next week to fully fulfill the sponsor's wishes. It doesn't look like that's going to happen. I put up shorts to try and boost it, but that didn't really work. On a personal level, I'm proud of that video so I'm fine with the views it has. It's also been well recieved by you folks, which really makes me happy.

The D8 video is up next. It's sponsored by a WW1 game. You might find me on IL2 flying it on the Berloga server trying to get some footage. Any of you that come and shoot me down might be immortalized in a video.

Greg

1 month ago | [YT] | 1,100

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Patreon Members, I forgot to mention the preview for the next video is up in the Patreon section.

Greg

1 month ago | [YT] | 198

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I'm close to putting up the next video. It's a bit different for this channel in that it's more about the man than the machine. The man is a relatively unknown WW2 ace. The machine in this case is the P-47 as it was this man's weapon of choice.

We get a bit into the duality of man in this one. There are people who can be a stone cold killer in one aspect of their life and a compassionate friend of humanity in another. A Jekyll and Hyde sort of thing. For those who didn't read the book, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were the same person.

This isn't going to be a regular thing, but I just felt the need to make a video about a pilot for once rather than being all about the plane, although of course there is still stuff about the planes.

Greg

P.S. the preview video for this one is up ad free in the Patreon section.

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A couple updates, I know the Shorts are a bit irritating when you have already seen the full video. I get that, but I have to put them up to try to attract a wider audience for the main video.

That said, I do wish my P-63 video would do a bit better, so I'll be putting up a new short in support of it today. Ideally it needs to have 120k views in 30 days to please the sponsor. It does not look like it's going to make it. Any help you can give would be appreciated. In retrospect I should probably only take sponsors on popular well known airplanes, however in this case the timing made that impossible.

On that subject, I have a sponsored video coming on a WW1 airplane. The sponsor specifically wanted a WW1 airplane as they produce a WW1 game.

The next video is about a little known, but very interesting P-47 pilot. His exploits are the stuff of legend and I'm excited to tell the story. I don't cover the human side of things here all that often, but I will say that I think one of the most interesting things about war is that it brings out both the best and worst in people. In the case I'll be talking about, we see both of those things.

Greg

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The P-63 video is premiering at noon central time today about an hour and 15 mins from now. I'll be on line to answer questions in chat if needed.

This is a sponsored video, so there will be a big ad for World Of Warships. I do add some actual historical info into that add to keep it interesting. At least I think the stuff I put in in interesting, you guys will let me know.

Please stay until the end because I use some of the footage from that game to talk about more naval trivia relating to WW2 destroyers that you may find interesting and you likely have not read or heard about before unless you served on one of these ships.

As for the P-63 there is a lot there to talk about. I already covered the engine in a previous video on the Two-Stage Allison, so this video is more on the development, performance, misconceptions, and the plane's actual record as a warplane. Some moments relating to the cold war will be controversial, but are absolutely true. I tried to keep that part light and family friendly. I'm sure you guys will let me know how I did.

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to reading your comments.

Greg

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