Thanks everyone for the well wishes, still feeling a bit under the weather but its a vast improvement :) Also If you're wondering why I switched from saying "two-one-four" to "two-fourteen" half way through the video its because I recorded this over two days and forgot what way I was saying it; I hope it isn't too annoying but I didn't have the energy to re-record the whole thing.
It's ok man. We've seen worse on UA-cam lol Glad your feeling better just keep taking care of yourself. Green tea fresh sliced lemon if possible if not then lemon juice concentrate and honey will work wonders.
Dear Mr. Hangar, Was completely focused on content and did not notice the extremely minor non-issue. Thank you for your work, wonderful detail, and smooth narrative. Harold (Ps I know you are not Mr. Hangar, lol)
61 years and five days after the Wright Brothers took to the air the SR-71 Blackbird took to the air. Someone could have been witness to both events during their lifetime. As you so rightly said 'what an amazing era of aviation.'
@@bigblue6917 This reminds me of a story my Great Aunt told me back in the 80s. The first time she saw an airplane it was a slow biplane shortly after WW1 flying over her family home in Upstate New York. Suddenly she saw papers being thrown out of the cockpit; So she & her two older brothers quickly ran out into the field to see what he'd thrown out. Only then did they discover that once you're in the air ... apparently you have to get creative if you feel the need to drop a deuce. lol What a first impression of aviation, right? Imagine that by the time this story was told to me the SR-71 could no longer fly over the Soviet Union with complete immunity & the Soviets were wrapping up production of their Mach 3+ MiG-25s.
@@athelwulfgalland In a game of technological oneupmanship. I once met a woman who was born just before Benz made his first car and lived long enough to see the first Moon landing.😀👍
I'm so glad you're showing this airplane. A friend of mine's father spent quite a bit of time as a crew member on one of these planes back in the 1930's. They were responsible for surveying the western US using this airplane. All open cockpit, he said they froze to death on many flights. I knew of this planes from books but was so grateful to hear directly from someone who actually flew in it. He served in WWII in India near Burma flying supplies to many places but certainly flying the "hump" to China. Thanks Rex
Great recount! Do you recall, or care to share any more say, personal accounts or anecdotal crew stories of your friend's exploits flying the YB-9? It's a fair assumption that the number of people able do it faithfully is limited and becomes even more so as time go by. You're a select few my friend. As I digress a bit; It's interesting how easily the unofficial/undocumented particulars of certain points in time (momentous or mundane) can fade into obscurity due in part to 'in essence' the linear way (currently kinda understood) information embedded within those points propagates thru history; once the pathway is lost, the information stops. But is never destroyed. Forever recoverable as confirmed by the Quantum no-hiding theorem. K, back on subject. rofl
My grandfather was an engineer for Boeing. He brought home stacks of glossy 8x10 photos of the assembly line of the B-9 in every phase of the assembly. My dad gave them to me because he was going to throw them out. I kept them for years and then back in college whenI was dum and young I through most of them out.. to this day I kick myself every day. Great video
I've watched quite a lot of your videos and I'm amazed at the level of research and information. It's easy to get information on the darlings of aviation, but it's great to get the genesis and insights that led to the perfection of that technology. I sit watching and in my mind, and with hindsight I'm thinking ". Well why didn't they do this,or that?" Love it. Gets you thinking eh?
The photo at 3:57 I believe is Mt Rainier in WA. Pretty cool, I can walk outside and see that mountain. Mustve been so cool to see those old planes flying around back in the day
I really enjoyed all the pictures of the yb9 flying. Working in South Seattle for a number of years, I know the Boeing Field area quite well. Next time you see this video, alot of the old brick building are still there, but you wouldn't see a trees much and Interstate 5 runs next to the field. It was nice watching the air traffic come and go while (st) sitting in a traffic jam. Thank you and I'm happy your feeling better Cheers👍🤠
Looking at this plane and its evolution I can see the B-17 beginning to come from this program. The large tail the three blade of props. The wings have that distinctive look as well.
Amazing the number of monoplane designs that came out quickly after wwi but didn't make it out fast enough to be fully fielded before WWII started. Even jets were in design late 1930s for many countries.
I'm really enjoying this channel, it's right up there with some of the other greats like Mark Felton, Ed Nash's Military Matters & Military Aviation History!
@@TheStig_TG I'd seen a couple of their vids but never subscribed for some reason. It looks like they ceased production some time ago though? Any idea why?
Another great video. I remember years ago playing War in The Pacific, a very very long and incredibly detailed game on the Pacific War 1941-45. The one that fascinated me for a few reasons was the A5M "Claude" which is in many ways similar to the P-26. Fascinated if you could do a video on it.
It certainly looks like the tail and rudder were different between the 214 and 215 as well as the engines. Cool designs that gave a family look with the P-26.
That was a truly awesome overview. I also loved your recent P-26 Peashootet video too. I’m a massive interwar aviation fan, especially USAAC and USN/USMC aeroplanes from this period. And no, I’m not American. Any chance you could do a video on the USAAC interwar biplane bonnets, such as the Keystone and it’s contemporaries? You’re my new favourite aviation channel.
It came along at a time when advances in aviation were coming along so fast, a plane or engine was almost obsolete when the first one came out of the factory.
Many people fail to see a point that few saw in WWI, where an aircraft could fly to a strategic target and bomb it. Most of the limitation was simply payload and range. The most menacing military weapon up to that point was a battleship appearing and firing inland to targets 2-3 miles away and steaming away. Something that could travel 5-6 times faster and not be limited to shoreline bombardment was considered dreamy. Mobilizing a high speed Army in those years meant advancing at 15 MPH, but losing it's ability to fire when exceeding 5 MPH. Tanks served to fill that gap, but still had limited operating conditions and required many people to support the operation of every tank. The bomber aircraft was a terrifying concept few really accepted as a part of future warfare. Those fighting a gentlemen's war considered flying bombers "out of bounds". This set up one of the biggest military policy failure confrontations in history.
The idea of semi-retractable landing gear was that if the landing gear failed to extend, you could do a belly landing with the wheels touching the ground before the fuselage, noticeably reducing the damage to the airplane! This continues to this day with the A-10's main gear's wheels sticking out!
I think it more amazing that in a very small time frame, and not during a war, that development went from a modest two engined bomber in the B9 to the incredible B17
That poor rear gunner! This might be out of the scope for this channel but does anybody know what a gunner would wear on a long flight in this plane? My new favorite channel.
You can tell by the earlier B-9 wing/ tail, that it had a lot of influence on the Boeing 247 passenger liner afterwards. " if it aint broke, dont fix it."
Thanks for more information on a rare subject. Your videos are great and I'm always looking forward to the next one. I've always been fascinated with the XB 15. Not a lot of info on that one either. It's interesting to think about all those aviators who later rose in the ranks to run the various U.S. Army and Navy commands in WW 2.
Would love to see a video dedicated to a French plane as I don’t think you have one yet. One really cool one I think is the Farman 223 (also known as NC.223) I personally think it’s a fairly neat configuration for a bomber. Cheers!
Best wishes for a full recovery, Rex. Hopefully that will be soon. Interesting programmes. I inherited some very interesting books on aviation as it existed in the 1930s. These books were my Father's. I remember as a kid being raised in the 1950s being nonplussed at the sight of then modern aircraft having Swastika designs on their vertical surfaces ie the tail. For most of us, German aviation began in 1939 as Luftwaffe types. Little kids, eh.
Enjoyed many of your video, if you was going to doing another doc I would love to see more enterwar years fights and bombers like Douglas b7, I do enjoy the lineages of each brand and style cowling wind tunnels very interesting stuff moved in a fast pace
The interwar era is a very interesting one, and apart from the P-26 and P-36 there aren't any other American planes of that era I did know about. So keep them coming. The B-9 was a sleek looking aircraft, but crew comfort and performance was low on the list of thoughts, strange for a country which gave cabs to locomotive crews first worldwide. Especially considering that 180MPH in freezing temperatures is much harsher than at 40MPH on a locomotive, where you still have a hot boiler in front of you as well.
There are production motorcycles that have higher top speeds. Down-the-highway speed is perceptually much faster than up-in-the-air. Been there done that. (But only 150 mph, for a short time.)
Interesting these US Army Aviation advances. You mentioned the Boeing 246 bomber. The Boeing 247 began an era that to this day sees Boeing as the longest successful airliner producer.
Could you do a video on the M.B. 157? I see that you tend to cover less well known aircraft here, and I think this french fighter definitely fits the criteria.
what a great step forward for the airmen to have the latest and greatest monoplane....the Keystone was still in operation but runout and had issues that the new Boeing would solve...soon the enclosed cockpit would come and weather flying was not as draining on the crews who sat exposed to the rain and wind and oil infused snow in the slipstream of the Keystone.....
What’s going on under the wing between the landing gear struts with those multiple wires/posts sticking down at 7:22? Antenna most likely but what radio in 1932? Also remember, all this work going on at Boeing and Martin was in the depth of the depression. Great videos you are putting out! Keep them coming!
I appreciate the details about the preference for radial vs inline designs. Their big frontal has always seemed like a deficit. Since they lasted into the jet age maybe radials and their competition could be a topic? I do have a fondness for the weirdness of the JUMO opposed piston engines and wonder why they had little use.
Radials were usually lighter and more reliable than water cooled engines . Drag disadvantages disappeared with better and better cowling designs. After WW2, the V-12 liquid cooled stuff was slowly plowed under by poor operating economics, and ended up being a technological dead end.
the shot with the radials installed looks like Boeing field behind the old red barn. I think about were the rear parking lot to the museum of flight is now. I think I've stood on or near that spot. looks like s end of beacon hill in the background.
Outstanding videos, I've been wanting to find a channel like this. May I suggest adding Knots in addition to MPH and KPH, since it's the current ICAO standard? Thanks for the content!
At the time knots weren't used, so all the documentation would be in mph or kmh depending on the origin of the aircraft. And there'd be a difference between US and British mph as well.
Great video. America should bring back that paint design for the tails. Also, just an FYI, you can say NACA in the same way you would say NASA. Not N-A-S-A.
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Thanks everyone for the well wishes, still feeling a bit under the weather but its a vast improvement :) Also If you're wondering why I switched from saying "two-one-four" to "two-fourteen" half way through the video its because I recorded this over two days and forgot what way I was saying it; I hope it isn't too annoying but I didn't have the energy to re-record the whole thing.
It's ok man. We've seen worse on UA-cam lol
Glad your feeling better just keep taking care of yourself. Green tea fresh sliced lemon if possible if not then lemon juice concentrate and honey will work wonders.
Hadn't even noticed. :)
Dear Mr. Hangar, Was completely focused on content and did not notice the extremely minor non-issue. Thank you for your work, wonderful detail, and smooth narrative. Harold (Ps I know you are not Mr. Hangar, lol)
Hope you get better.
May winds favor your health, Drachinifel of the Skies.
Within 25 years of the YB-9's first flight, the supersonic B-58 took its first flight. What an amazing era for aviation.
61 years and five days after the Wright Brothers took to the air the SR-71 Blackbird took to the air. Someone could have been witness to both events during their lifetime. As you so rightly said 'what an amazing era of aviation.'
@@bigblue6917 This reminds me of a story my Great Aunt told me back in the 80s. The first time she saw an airplane it was a slow biplane shortly after WW1 flying over her family home in Upstate New York. Suddenly she saw papers being thrown out of the cockpit; So she & her two older brothers quickly ran out into the field to see what he'd thrown out. Only then did they discover that once you're in the air ... apparently you have to get creative if you feel the need to drop a deuce. lol What a first impression of aviation, right? Imagine that by the time this story was told to me the SR-71 could no longer fly over the Soviet Union with complete immunity & the Soviets were wrapping up production of their Mach 3+ MiG-25s.
And 60+ years after that we're still stuck with the B-52...
@@athelwulfgalland In a game of technological oneupmanship. I once met a woman who was born just before Benz made his first car and lived long enough to see the first Moon landing.😀👍
@@jwenting A bit like using Zeppelins in Viet Nam
180 MPH in an open cockpit - wow - I can't imagine how cold that would be.
I've done it, hundreds of times. No big deal, if you have your goggles strapped on tightly.
Or how about 180 in a rainstorm? Crazeee!
@@MsMsmak I'm VFR only - so I wouldn't be up! But you are so right.
@@mirrorblue100 🙂
@@MsMsmak>>> _"OH, HAIL NO!"_ 😉
I really love the way it looks for some reason... a true symbol of its time.
It looks like a Cox U-Control trainer with 049 engine and plastic pilots. No?
Ngl that era has a very unique and awesome style imo
Then you’ll LOVE the USAF Museum in Dayton, OH! I could see it from my bedroom window when I was a kid.my dad’s plane is there, coincidentally.
Has a bit of a Russia-late 1930s look to it from the front.
flying pencils
I'm so glad you're showing this airplane. A friend of mine's father spent quite a bit of time as a crew member on one of these planes back in the 1930's. They were responsible for surveying the western US using this airplane. All open cockpit, he said they froze to death on many flights. I knew of this planes from books but was so grateful to hear directly from someone who actually flew in it. He served in WWII in India near Burma flying supplies to many places but certainly flying the "hump" to China. Thanks Rex
I suppose given their speed at the time it would make sense to use it for survey use. That's fascinating!
Must have had a lot of crashes if they froze to death 🤣
do not break the 8th commandment!!
My Besties Grandpaw Tyson flew the Hump too
Great recount! Do you recall, or care to share any more say, personal accounts or anecdotal crew stories of your friend's exploits flying the YB-9? It's a fair assumption that the number of people able do it faithfully is limited and becomes even more so as time go by. You're a select few my friend.
As I digress a bit; It's interesting how easily the unofficial/undocumented particulars of certain points in time (momentous or mundane) can fade into obscurity due in part to 'in essence' the linear way (currently kinda understood) information embedded within those points propagates thru history; once the pathway is lost, the information stops. But is never destroyed. Forever recoverable as confirmed by the Quantum no-hiding theorem.
K, back on subject. rofl
My grandfather was an engineer for Boeing. He brought home stacks of glossy 8x10 photos of the assembly line of the B-9 in every phase of the assembly. My dad gave them to me because he was going to throw them out. I kept them for years and then back in college whenI was dum and young I through most of them out.. to this day I kick myself every day. Great video
It's absolutely wild to see a monoplane with open seats. The 1930s were CRAZY
My favourite was the Tupolev TB3. It took paratroopers... on the wings!
This rate of video releases is staggering! Keep up the amazing work! 11/10
Its all thanks to a diet of coffee and cheese 😅
Love your coverage of all these evolutionary inter-war designs; it's one of my favorite eras of aviation. Wishing you a speedy recovery!👍
I've watched quite a lot of your videos and I'm amazed at the level of research and information. It's easy to get information on the darlings of aviation, but it's great to get the genesis and insights that led to the perfection of that technology. I sit watching and in my mind, and with hindsight I'm thinking ". Well why didn't they do this,or that?" Love it. Gets you thinking eh?
I love the coverage of interwar aviation. It’s a fascinating topic that isn’t explored as much as it deserves. Thanks Rex!
Excellent production Rex! I always wondered about those aircraft. Thanks!
Been binging your videos, liked and subbed
The photo at 3:57 I believe is Mt Rainier in WA. Pretty cool, I can walk outside and see that mountain. Mustve been so cool to see those old planes flying around back in the day
Yes, it is Mount Rainier
Summer is coming. You will again see B-17s. A-26s, T-6s, P-51s flying around.
A fascinating tale. Isn’t it amazing how far Boeing progressed in just 2-3 years with their giant B-15 and then the iconic B-17 and B-29 models.
Saw this beauty in your peashooter video, and for me it completely stole that show.
I really enjoyed all the pictures of the yb9 flying. Working in South Seattle for a number of years, I know the Boeing Field area quite well. Next time you see this video, alot of the old brick building are still there, but you wouldn't see a trees much and Interstate 5 runs next to the field. It was nice watching the air traffic come and go while (st) sitting in a traffic jam.
Thank you and I'm happy your feeling better
Cheers👍🤠
Looking at this plane and its evolution I can see the B-17 beginning to come from this program.
The large tail the three blade of props. The wings have that distinctive look as well.
Agreed, you can see the 'family resemblance'.
the tail as well..i’d even say the fuselage and nose were influenced by the B9’s nose and fuselage
I love how derpy the early 1930 designs look lol
Thank you for using both units. Much more understandable now!
Amazing the number of monoplane designs that came out quickly after wwi but didn't make it out fast enough to be fully fielded before WWII started. Even jets were in design late 1930s for many countries.
I have absolutely binged your videos these past few days. Love the informative content and quality narration!
I'm really enjoying this channel, it's right up there with some of the other greats like Mark Felton, Ed Nash's Military Matters & Military Aviation History!
One Mark Felton is quite enough.
@@marksbikeexports5123 Eh?! You don't like Mark Felton's work? Wow! I'm surprised since I always find his work pretty comprehensive & informative.
And Atomic Cafè
@@TheStig_TG I'd seen a couple of their vids but never subscribed for some reason. It looks like they ceased production some time ago though? Any idea why?
@@athelwulfgalland There videos were usually spaced out by some time
Thank you for a very informative and well done channel
Excellent video as usual. Thank you for these. Keep them coming 👍
Great work as always thanks
Another great video. I remember years ago playing War in The Pacific, a very very long and incredibly detailed game on the Pacific War 1941-45. The one that fascinated me for a few reasons was the A5M "Claude" which is in many ways similar to the P-26. Fascinated if you could do a video on it.
The A5M is a very elegant plane, would to see Rex have a deep dive on it
Back when Boeing was good. Thanks for the video!
Love this configuration, very informative/educational...thank you
It certainly looks like the tail and rudder were different between the 214 and 215 as well as the engines. Cool designs that gave a family look with the P-26.
Thank You for adding the metric values in the video! 🙏
This was a great video. Thanks for taking the time to research and put together this video.
That was a truly awesome overview. I also loved your recent P-26 Peashootet video too.
I’m a massive interwar aviation fan, especially USAAC and USN/USMC aeroplanes from this period. And no, I’m not American.
Any chance you could do a video on the USAAC interwar biplane bonnets, such as the Keystone and it’s contemporaries? You’re my new favourite aviation channel.
I have a loooong list of "lesser known" interwar and cold war planes that I want to cover :)
Thanks for the video.
Fascinating that only a few years later development had given the Americans the B17 and B29.
These were models 214 & 215. The Fortress was Model 299.
It came along at a time when advances in aviation were coming along so fast,
a plane or engine was almost obsolete when the first one came out of the factory.
Amazing unknown airplane! Great video!
this is binge watch worthy
Good video. Nice to learn something new!
Never underastood the obsession with open cockpits. For fun, sure. For war, no?
Looks much better than the more or less contemporary Do 11 / Do 23
yooooo another upload! hell yeah
Reminds of TB-3. Care to do a video about it?
Oh, and also - amazing decision to put CC with that few subscribers. I very appreciate that.
Many people fail to see a point that few saw in WWI, where an aircraft could fly to a strategic target and bomb it. Most of the limitation was simply payload and range. The most menacing military weapon up to that point was a battleship appearing and firing inland to targets 2-3 miles away and steaming away. Something that could travel 5-6 times faster and not be limited to shoreline bombardment was considered dreamy. Mobilizing a high speed Army in those years meant advancing at 15 MPH, but losing it's ability to fire when exceeding 5 MPH. Tanks served to fill that gap, but still had limited operating conditions and required many people to support the operation of every tank. The bomber aircraft was a terrifying concept few really accepted as a part of future warfare. Those fighting a gentlemen's war considered flying bombers "out of bounds". This set up one of the biggest military policy failure confrontations in history.
The idea of semi-retractable landing gear was that if the landing gear failed to extend, you could do a belly landing with the wheels touching the ground before the fuselage, noticeably reducing the damage to the airplane!
This continues to this day with the A-10's main gear's wheels sticking out!
Well, if by "to this day" is the early 1970s, when the A-10 was designed... :D
I love the front of these old bombers, it reminds me of old cars.
This Era was so amazing. Technology drove the entire spectrum of American industry.
I think it more amazing that in a very small time frame, and not during a war, that development went from a modest two engined bomber in the B9 to the incredible B17
Brilliant - thank you!
Rex, this was my favorite video, no one reviews these old lost planes
Thanks . I love these 30s AC. I hope the Shrike is on your list.
believe it or not, it served a huge role in future, more beloved designs: the classic shape of bombers in the late 30s/40s started with it.
Thanks for making a video on this
That poor rear gunner! This might be out of the scope for this channel but does anybody know what a gunner would wear on a long flight in this plane?
My new favorite channel.
Long John's,fur line over coat,flight suit and scarf. I'm probably forgetting something
@@warhawk4494 goggles, leather helmet and gloves.
Awesome work Sir thank you
You can tell by the earlier B-9 wing/ tail, that it had a lot of influence on the Boeing 247 passenger liner afterwards. " if it aint broke, dont fix it."
The speed of changes in the industry at that time leaves you feeling that you'd have to run to stand still.
Thanks for more information on a rare subject. Your videos are great and I'm always looking forward to the next one. I've always been fascinated with the XB 15. Not a lot of info on that one either. It's interesting to think about all those aviators who later rose in the ranks to run the various U.S. Army and Navy commands in WW 2.
Great video!
interesting about the open cockpits - seems odd especially since a closed cockpit would help to reduce drag. thx for the vid
"change was in the Wind" - no pun intended ...
I love those interwar designs
Amazing!
thank you!
You should do videos on their experimental airliners.
AMAZINGNES!!!
Would love to see a video dedicated to a French plane as I don’t think
you have one yet. One really cool one I think is the Farman 223 (also known as NC.223) I personally think it’s a fairly neat configuration for a bomber.
Cheers!
Its on my list! Waiting for a book to arrive that covers a lot of French planes...then I have to work on my pronunciation 😅
Best wishes for a full recovery, Rex. Hopefully that will be soon.
Interesting programmes. I inherited some very interesting books on aviation as it existed in the 1930s. These books were my Father's. I remember as a kid being raised in the 1950s being nonplussed at the sight of then modern aircraft having Swastika designs on their vertical surfaces ie the tail. For most of us, German aviation began in 1939 as Luftwaffe types. Little kids, eh.
Lovely aircraft
Enjoyed many of your video, if you was going to doing another doc I would love to see more enterwar years fights and bombers like Douglas b7, I do enjoy the lineages of each brand and style cowling wind tunnels very interesting stuff moved in a fast pace
You can make a brick fly better if you put enough curvy bits on it. Brilliant.
gotta say the mono mail looks very cool that cockpit is waaay back though might be very hard to land
Thank you
"Bricks with curvy bits" Ho Ho !
The interwar era is a very interesting one, and apart from the P-26 and P-36 there aren't any other American planes of that era I did know about.
So keep them coming.
The B-9 was a sleek looking aircraft, but crew comfort and performance was low on the list of thoughts, strange for a country which gave cabs to locomotive crews first worldwide.
Especially considering that 180MPH in freezing temperatures is much harsher than at 40MPH on a locomotive, where you still have a hot boiler in front of you as well.
‘Monomail! Monomail! Monomail!’
Sincs I was 9 years old and saw the arup s-4 ive been obcessed and crazy about homebuilts.
Could you do a video about the Curtiss A-8/12 Shrike?
There are production motorcycles that have higher top speeds. Down-the-highway speed is perceptually much faster than up-in-the-air. Been there done that. (But only 150 mph, for a short time.)
Interesting these US Army Aviation advances. You mentioned the Boeing 246 bomber. The Boeing 247 began an era that to this day sees Boeing as the longest successful airliner producer.
Could you do a video on the M.B. 157? I see that you tend to cover less well known aircraft here, and I think this french fighter definitely fits the criteria.
Wait, NACA already existed in 1927? That’s awesome! Thanks, Rex.
Very nice plane, in Germany we had the Dornier 23 that looked much similar.
what a great step forward for the airmen to have the latest and greatest monoplane....the Keystone was still in operation but runout and had issues that the new Boeing would solve...soon the enclosed cockpit would come and weather flying was not as draining on the crews who sat exposed to the rain and wind and oil infused snow in the slipstream of the Keystone.....
What’s going on under the wing between the landing gear struts with those multiple wires/posts sticking down at 7:22? Antenna most likely but what radio in 1932? Also remember, all this work going on at Boeing and Martin was in the depth of the depression. Great videos you are putting out! Keep them coming!
please always provide metric unit conversions
Rex, you are so prolific……but don’t stop.
@RexsHangar >>> 👍👍
i was hoping you do the b-9 as its an important step towards the b-17.
The great Grandfather of the B-17!
M.F. ...................start of the killer Bs ????????
I appreciate the details about the preference for radial vs inline designs. Their big frontal has always seemed like a deficit.
Since they lasted into the jet age maybe radials and their competition could be a topic?
I do have a fondness for the weirdness of the JUMO opposed piston engines and wonder why they had little use.
Radials were usually lighter and more reliable than water cooled engines . Drag disadvantages disappeared with better and better cowling designs.
After WW2, the V-12 liquid cooled stuff was slowly plowed under by poor operating economics, and ended up being a technological dead end.
the shot with the radials installed looks like Boeing field behind the old red barn. I think about were the rear parking lot to the museum of flight is now. I think I've stood on or near that spot. looks like s end of beacon hill in the background.
Outstanding videos, I've been wanting to find a channel like this. May I suggest adding Knots in addition to MPH and KPH, since it's the current ICAO standard? Thanks for the content!
At the time knots weren't used, so all the documentation would be in mph or kmh depending on the origin of the aircraft.
And there'd be a difference between US and British mph as well.
@@jwenting I understand, it does make comparing speeds a bit more difficult for me, but that wouldn't be the case if I got more used to mph/kph.
always wanted to model the b9 and the b10
Great video. America should bring back that paint design for the tails. Also, just an FYI, you can say NACA in the same way you would say NASA. Not N-A-S-A.
YB-9? I say why NOT B-9?! and Y1B-9? Why one indeed?! Why not two?! ....I'll see myself out...
Nobody was intimidated by a bomber named "Benign".
Boeing must have liked the profile on that tail fin. Drew it just the same for the first B-17😊
No Boeing plane would be complete without a photo with Mt. Rainer in the background.
Surprising that they were still using open-cockpit design.
Those interwar bomber designs had shorter shelf-lives than bananas.