Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles

This video is Patreon only and should explain why the kill ratios were strongly in favor of the Germans early in the battle but shifted towards the RAF as time went on. I'll cover: The big change in German tactics, The changes in pilot experience levels. The improvements in RAF command and control T

Greetings everyone: At 5pm central time the premier of the new 109 vs Spitfire video will be active on youtube. Right after it ends I'll active a Patreon only video, it's not the same video, it's on a different subject. The public video is 109 vs Spitfire in a technical sense, speed charts and so on

As promised, I cover the Battle of France and talk about why the French Air Force failed. It's not because the Germans caught them by surprise as is often claimed. I'm planning on having a lot more Patreon only videos as the onslaught of AI slop on youtube is ruining that platform. Here is the link:

The first video in my 109 vs Spitfire series is up. It's a Patreon Preview and it's only the first 22 mins, but that's more than most channel's entire videos. In this preview I'm focusing on the engines, props, and the maximum speeds of the planes. The full video when it comes out will cover all the

I'm sorry there hasn't been a new video in a little while. The 109E vs. Spitfire Mk 1+2 is getting really big. There is a lot to cover. The first video will be a Patreon only release, a preview of sorts, but still pretty long. The second video will be the full Battle of France comparison which is th

I'm sorry for the delay but this video has grown a bit. One of the complexities is figuring out just what configuration the 109E was in during the Battle of France. I had though that they were still using Variable Pitch props, but now I think it's more likely the vast majority had constant speed pro

The 109E vs. Battle of France and Battle of Britain Spitifres won the poll 61 percent to 39. Interestingly the poll on youtube was the opposite, but as you folks know, it's the Patreon poll that counts. I really appreciate all your support and your help in the poll. The next video will be on startin

The Wright Brothers Canard video has new audio and should be up in a day or two. I also added a lot more about French aviation as I got a lot of questions about that in the previous version. Additionally, the April 1st video is done, I'm just waiting for the artwork from Spacer and it will be up wit

Greetings everyone, I'm happy with the content of the 109F video, but I want to re record it with the new mic, and while I'm in there I'll include more on the 109F with wing cannons now that I have actual pictures of the plane. Not much is known about them, but we do know that it never made it into

https://rumble.com/v76n3ku-messerschmit-bf109f-was-the-high-point-of-the-109-series.html I'm still working on improving the audio. I think this version is the best one yet, and from now on, if youtube makes me sensor something, I'm putting the uncensored version on Rumble as I did here. Greg

This is NOT the full video, just a short Patreon exclusive preview. Please give me some feedback on the audio. I know I need to improve my video's audio quality, so this is an attempt to do that. In this clip it's been professionally cleaned up by https://mypodcastlab.com/ , they are here in Tulsa.

The next video will be about my favorite 109 variant, the F model. The one after that will explain why the Wrights made certain design choices that seem odd now. They did have good reasons for everything they did, or at least good at the time. For the Wright video I'm going to take a quick weekend t

I would probably fund it through kickstarter or something similar. It will take me about 6 months to do it. I'm considering a book on the Wright Brothers and very early aviation, much like what you'll see in the debate today. Or a book about the Drop Tank fiasco in WW2, which I think is at least as

The debate will go up today no matter what at 12 noon central time. It's really long, about two hours. Magnar and I will be there in chat to answer questions and we may be on live after the debate as well. Greg

Well, best laid plane of Mice and Men.... Although the debate is pre recorded Magnar, Andrew and I all want to be online to answer any questions after the debate. Timing that has turned out to be a little tricky and we couldn't make it happen today. Hopefully tomorrow, shooing for somewhere between

The debate was not streamed live, it was recorded which was done to make sure the quality would be good and we wouldn't have a repeat of the technical problems we saw with the last debate. I feel pretty good about my performance. Of course I would always like to do better, but when shooting from the

I have been wanting this debate for years. My opposite is another airline pilot youtuber who knows his stuff. I think this one is going to be good. More information is on the way. Greg

I'm trying to get this one finished up in the next few days. I think the folks at NACA are not mentioned often enough considering the huge effect they had on the air war. Greg

I just watched Nuremberg in the theater with my youngest child. He is a 23 year old boy with Down's. He loves going to the movies. Russell Crowe knocked it out of the park with his portrayal of Hermann Goering. If he doesn't win some sort of award for this, the system is rigged. The movie was otherw

If you haven't heard of Boleslaw Gladych aka Killer Mike Gladych, you have missed out on one of the most exciting pilots of the war. I'll cover his exploits in this video. It's just a SHORT PREVIEW video, the full video should be up tomorrow. Oh and yes, I know the preview is not in the correct form

I have two videos coming soon, like in the next three weeks. One is about a specific pilot, probably the most interesting P-47 pilot I could talk about. I don't normally do stuff about the human side of WW2 aviation, but this is one I really want to do. Next up, I have a sponsored video. The Sponsor

This whole thing is a bit frustrating. I get comments every day from people claiming so and so invented the airplane. Yet nobody will step up to plate and back it up. So far TWO different airline pilots have agreed to debate and then backed out. They don't say they back out, they just cut off contac

I'm actually a bit worried about the sponsor approval part. They specified some crap about no controversial topics, but there was no way to talk about the P-63 and not have that bleed into the cold war, and wow did that lead to something that's going to be quite controversial. I did try to keep it l

Greetings everyone. I'm putting up a video about the two-stage Allison V-12s that were built near the end of the war. This video is intended to serve as a prologue to the P-63 video that's going up in early to mid October. It should be up within an hour or less, and youtube is going to run a test wi

I'm 59 and if you're anywhere near my age, you likely know exactly what the NAZI party was. It was the National Socialist Worker's Party in Germany, which of course was a disaster for all involved and that's putting it lightly. The younger generations, generally people in their 20s seem to have no i

My P-63 video is coming along pretty well, and I have two big updates about it. First, as I am making it, I realized that the engine set up is so different from every other WW2 fighter that the engine alone needs it's own video, so I'll put that up first. If it's all in one video I think it bogs it

The total was 52 to 48 percent in favor of the King Cobra. All in all that's pretty close. The Macchi actually won on youtube by 5 percent, but it's you, my dear patreon members that count. I'm starting on the P-63 video right away. Greg

There is a new sim coming, it's Aces of Thunder and I think it's important. The simulation world does two things for us. First it allows us to experience these planes in a setting something close to reality. Sitting in a virtual reality cockpit and looking around provides a perspective you just neve

I'm finishing it up right now. Space made a couple nice images for the video. The C.202 image was an accidental bonus but I'm using the image in the video so it worked out. I'll have mug with these images up soon as well. I'm interested to see if Italian planes do well on my channel. I really like t

Channel Update. I'm almost done with the Macchi C.200 video. With any luck it will be up in a day or two. I'm not sure how well videos on Italian airplanes will do, but I'm about to find out. If it does well and I'll make more. I have heard that the release of Aces of Thunder is close. I'm going to

The trip to Old Rhinebeck was a lot of fun. I'll put up a video today giving a short tour of the facility with a talk about some of the airplanes there. There is a lot I have never talked about before, not only WW1 airplanes but some general things about early aviation like Glenn Curtis' attempt to

I think I'm way over due on making videos about Italian airplanes so that's coming. I'm also going to make a video about my experience at Old Rhinebeck. That was quite a trip. I have to make the rental RV tax deductable so I'll include a review of the Rental RV in there somewhere, probably at the en

I'm uploading it right now. Eric Brown was a high accomplished pilot, but his statements on U.S. fighter dive performance are in opposition to literally every other source on this, U.S. sources, German sources, and other British sources. I think he really believed what he was saying, it's just that

Veritasium, a huge channel with 18 million subscribers has a number of videos about a wind powered car that has a speed record of 2.8 times wind speed while going direction downwind. Here is one such video: https://youtu.be/jyQwgBAaBag?feature=shared There are number of videos on that channel which

The recent Hellcat video is doing pretty well. Thank you everyone for that. By the numbers I need it to reach 120,000 views in the first 30 days for the max sponsorship payout (the payout caps at 120k views). It looks like it will be close but just might get there. The next video I put up will be a

Pol or not, I decided I just can't bring myself to make this video. I'm not sure why not, but I just can't do it. It's obviously not the loss of life, I talk about war all the time, and I have no problem with talking about older accidents, in fact there are two I would like to get into, however this

The poll was 79 to 21 in favor of covering this. Here is the deal, it's so bad that I'm making this one a NON monetized video, no ads, also 18+. With non monetization it won't hit the algorithm and only my usual viewers are likely to see it. It's also going to be very plain and dry, me talking and j

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So far so good. Our adventure in the rental RV is going well. Upstate New York has been great, we saw Ft. Ticonderoga and rode a Rail Bike on an adventure that crossed the Hudson river. My wife and I will be at the Flight Sim convention in Rhode Island on Saturday. I'll get there when it starts at 9

I won't be answering comments on youtube for the next couple weeks as I'll be heading out on my trip. If all goes according to plan I'll be at the USAF museum in Dayton early on Thursday, Old Rhinebeck on Saturday and on the following Saturday at the Flight Sim Expo. If any of you see me there pleas

There is so much misinformation going on about this, I'm thinking of addressing it in a video. Enough information is kow known that some of this nonsense is easy to dispute. Should I bother with it, via a short, probably no more than 5 min video.

It may take a few mins to process, especially for higher resolutions, but when it's done it will be at the link below: https://youtu.be/8kFxOdyUo8A?feature=shared

The J2M2 Raiden cockpit tour video is loading into youtube right now. I expect it will take another two or three hours to finish as it's a big file. I made it in V.R. which is new for me. It's not perfect, I need to get better at it but I wanted to get it done. I now have a sponsorship for this chan

In June, my wife and I are taking a rental RV to a few exciting spots. The USAF museum in Dayton on the 19th of June. Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome on the 21st and 22nd and finally the Flight sim convention in Providence Rhode Island on the 29th. I am going to use the opportunist to get data for upcoming

Please read the video description, but the short version is that I think I'm going to do more of these Patreon only videos. The video linked below is a bit of an experiment as I'm learning to use in cockpit V.R. footage. I'm also trying to learn more about Japanese airplanes. They are much more diff

This is a short video and a preview of what I'm working on. As a bonus it features a lot of footage from a new simulator that will likely hit the market this year. I was granted early pre-Beta access. One of the problems when writing about Japanese airplanes is the huge discrepancy in performance st

Greetings everyone. I'm working on a video about a lesser known Japanese fighter, the Mitsubishi Raiden. As with all videos on Japanese aircraft, this one is taking some time to make but I think you will be happy with the final product. A new sim/game, Aces of Thunder features this plane as a flyabl

https://youtu.be/GvnFW1EV1Hk?feature=shared