Between this and Drach's six hour Patreon Drydock, I am convinced that this is a coordinated hitjob on the schedule of everyone who is into 20th century tech history
UA-cam: *massively pushes short-form content* Quality content creators: *oh, my viewers prefer long videos, let's make a movie* Love it, Rex, thank you!!!!!!! Take notes, YT...
This video sparks an interest in the growth, mergers, bankruptcies and a acquisitions of the American aircraft industry throughout the history of what is now basically 3 giant companies....I'd love to see that vid
The DC-3 quickly became my favorite in MSFS, and after 100 hours I'm more than eager for a Rex-style history of the company. Your timing is impeccable and you spoil us with such a lengthy video. Goodnight!
Nice, the Douglas Aircraft is one of the more interesting companies. Back in the early 80's my dad's friend had a DC-3 he flew out of Zephyrhills, ferrying skydivers. Once, they took me up in it when dad went skydiving. After dad and the rest of the skydivers jumped, dad's buddy had me come to the cockpit, and sit in the copilots seat. I was amazed watching him calmly handling and explaining all of the levers, dials, buttons, and toggles. That was a hell of a day.
My dad worked here as an experimental development mechanic. He built the part that held the two tell wings and the vertical wing tail. He named me after this company. Douglas
Suggestion: that one time the US tried to make a nucular-powered jet-engine for their stealth-bomber. The exhaust-fuel was U-238 salts if memory serves... yum!
I’m compiling a comprehensive list of airplanes from the history of flight and your videos are instrumental in my research. My grandfather was in the USAAF from the 1920s through the 1950s and he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in WWII, where he worked with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. Thanks for your detailed work.
Thank you for the effort and well presented story of Don Douglas and his company. One of his aircraft designs is amongst my five favorite aircraft - the Skyraider or Spad. I am a business entrepreneur of 40 years, and love to read about and greatly admire self made men and women. I have read Henry Ford's autobiograghy many times - My life and work which was written during the production years of the T model. Again, thank you.
This is a brilliant documentary, excellent details and pictures throughout the journey of Douglas.. I've been watching it over 2 days and have totally enjoyed every moment, thankyou for being such a good narrator and doing so much research... Love it , huge thumbs up
It was an extraordinary pleasure for me to watch the video and listen to your voice while I built a scalemodel in 1/35. And before that I watched your legendary video about the Do X. For the 3rd time... I love your way of telling stories and even if I don't always understand everything 100% because I'm German, I never find it difficult to keep track. Thank you very much for that.
This MD history brings a tear to my eye! As a former USAF F-4 and F-15 pilot, and a retired Airline pilot, I really loved Micky Dee aircraft. I flew the DC-10, MD-10, and MD-11 for close to 20,000 hours.. MD built great aircraft!.. and for the Boeing people... they are good airplanes.. but I preferred MD.. ( I flew the B-727, B-747, and the B-777)
Whewwweeweeeeew 3 and *half* hours of Rex's aviation babble?(I mean that in the most endearing way, I know Rex puts enormous amounts of research in.) Count me in!!!
Not an aircraft nerd or historian, nor do I work in the industry. It's just interesting to see how people with larger testicles than me solved problems with little to none hindsight to work off of. Like building a machine to keep a bunch of primates airborne... Ape together strong... 😁
The onboard mechanics on the Douglas World Cruisers were originally Non-Commissioned Officers. However, it was discovered that at many destinations the rank of the mechanics would make awkward for them to attend welcome ceremonies. So the US Army promoted the sergeants to lieutenants.
Lol, I paused video and closed app with about 10 min left, to do something else for a minute, and when I re-opened, the app showed the video in my history as fully viewed. I guess at 95% complete they assume I was just skipping out on the final 10 seconds of patreon names that most vids would have. But I'm like "No, I still haven't heard about the merger!"
Lovely to see an Air New Zealand DC-8 pop up a few times! Thanks for making this. I knew less than nothing about Douglas aircraft other than the DC3s. And the early jet airliner story is invariably told in terms of either the genius of the boffins at De Havilland, or else the triumph of Boeing's vision for the future.
Great video! I really enjoyed it and appreciate the improved content over the original. One nit… unlike NASA, NACA is only pronounced by the letters “N-A-C-A”.
A small correction needed, the DC-3 and C-47 are not the same airframes, the C-47 has stronger bulkhead and thicker flooring, plus the Cargo Doors, the DC-3's military counterpart is called the C-53 Skytrooper. Most C-47's were converted to Passanger Carriers, but most were used as Cargo Carriers up north in Canada and Alaska post war
Very excellent work. Particularly liked the analysis of the difficulties, faced by so many big companies, as they managed the changeover from 'founder old-guard' to 'new guns' leadership in a background of rapid technological development. Sadly the escalating complexity & cost of modern large-scale engineering development has meant inevitable consolidation in virtually all product areas. With so few organisations working in any given area it has made much of the engineering world an increasingly boring space of product convergence with little of the amazing & exciting product variety around in the ~1920s - ~1960s. This has brought about extremely sophisticated, capable and cost effective products, though.
I learned so much from this. Absolutely fascinating. To my shame, I knew very little about the civilian airliner story, having been a militiary aircraft fan from a boy. I now realise what I should have realised much earlier - that the military and civilian stories were inextricably intertwined.
It seems that most creators I watch or listen to have been met with success after disregarding time constraints and providing quality information for as long as a given story takes to tell. Look at Hardcore History, episode length went out the window and listeners poured in by the thousands. Algorithm be damned. Thanks for making this fascinating content.
You keep asking silly questions about the uses of the Mosquito. Can I suggest you do a little research - it was THE first true multirole combat aircraft. It had around 40 variants and was used for practically EVERYTHING. Fighter, bomber, precision strike attack, recon, anti submarine, anti ship (rockets, torpedo and highball), nightfighter, V1 interceptor, pathfinder, secret cargo/passenger carrier etc. Also, being made predominantly of wood, it absorbed rounds rather than being shredded like aluminium aircraft were. Luftwaffe pilots could claim 2 kills if they could manage to down a Mossie - that should tell you something.
48:53 USPS actually has an armed SWAT team. Kind of nuts to me that even as late as the early 1930s, most aircraft manufacturers were still building their planes completely by hand. Ain't going to lie. I teared up a bit over Jr and Sr overcoming their relationship issues. Despite his dad basically disowning him over his marriage, he was still there for him when he needed it. Course it probably helped that he too got divorced, basically proving his dad right when he said "Don't marry that woman." Despite the company's eventual collapse, it cannot be denied that Douglas aircraft saved thousands apon thousands, if not tens of thousands, of lives with just three models. The TBD Devastator The SBD Dauntless THE C-47 SKYTRAIN
Between this and Drach's six hour Patreon Drydock, I am convinced that this is a coordinated hitjob on the schedule of everyone who is into 20th century tech history
you might be right.... who cares about resposibileties, long live DRACH AND REX
I would guess that these creators have significant watcher overlap
No more doom scrolling, I just need hours on a topic without hyperactivity, without distracting tangents, just one theme and a good narrator.
UA-cam: *massively pushes short-form content* Quality content creators: *oh, my viewers prefer long videos, let's make a movie* Love it, Rex, thank you!!!!!!! Take notes, YT...
Exactly !
Shorts and A.I. generated crap is killing UA-cam.....the down fall of UA-cam will be his next video lol
This masterpiece is why anyone who likes aircraft and watches youtube is very lucky!
A 3 and a half hour history of Douglas Aircraft? You absolute legend.
As the MD people have done to Boeing, they also did to Douglas: They let the business majors run things instead of the engineers.
McDonnell has now managed to murder two perfectly good aircraft manufacturers.
"Special extended edition" we're reaching LotR levels here
But not Das Boot uncut levels
@@Daniel_cheems we'll eventually get there
Leave those for Drach.@@Daniel_cheems
The next 3 hours and 30 minutes now has a purpose
Listening to rex and petting dogs is now my agenda for the day
I have a wonderful documentary to learn about aviation and hopefully not fall asleep, but I usually end up listening to these 3 or 4 times.
One of the few youtube 3 and a half hour vids worth watching 🎉
I'm impressed 👏
Yes
no it doent
This video sparks an interest in the growth, mergers, bankruptcies and a acquisitions of the American aircraft industry throughout the history of what is now basically 3 giant companies....I'd love to see that vid
I'm 2 and a half hours in and I am RIVETED. Thanks Rex for having an engaging narrative and I have to say, astonising level of research.
Having watched all of Drachinifel's anything up to 6 hour marathon Dry Dock's, I don't consider 3½ hours of Rex isn't in the least part excessive. 😁
The DC-3 quickly became my favorite in MSFS, and after 100 hours I'm more than eager for a Rex-style history of the company. Your timing is impeccable and you spoil us with such a lengthy video. Goodnight!
I see Rex's Hangar, I click....as simple as that!
Nice, the Douglas Aircraft is one of the more interesting companies. Back in the early 80's my dad's friend had a DC-3 he flew out of Zephyrhills, ferrying skydivers. Once, they took me up in it when dad went skydiving. After dad and the rest of the skydivers jumped, dad's buddy had me come to the cockpit, and sit in the copilots seat. I was amazed watching him calmly handling and explaining all of the levers, dials, buttons, and toggles. That was a hell of a day.
My dad worked here as an experimental development mechanic. He built the part that held the two tell wings and the vertical wing tail. He named me after this company. Douglas
Much respect to the work ethic it takes for a 3 hour video with editing and narrating the video. I can only imagine how many hours it took to finish
Alright! Another Rex video! Beats watching/listening to the Minnesota Vikings for sure.
Finally a video I can fall asleep to and rewind at a later date.
Glad to have the extra details that didn’t make the shorter version
Q&A / Request Section - Ask your questions, or post suggestions, here :)
What’s the hardest and easiest part of making your videos?
Also if I can request at the same time; the R3Y trade wind would be pretty cool
I have an idea for a funny video. If you could mix the planes from one country to another at the start of the WWII what would you do?
Could you do a video on super props
Suggestion: that one time the US tried to make a nucular-powered jet-engine for their stealth-bomber. The exhaust-fuel was U-238 salts if memory serves... yum!
Rex if you still take requests, I would really like to see a video about the WW2 romanian IAR 80 fighter. Thanks!
Thanks!
I’m compiling a comprehensive list of airplanes from the history of flight and your videos are instrumental in my research. My grandfather was in the USAAF from the 1920s through the 1950s and he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in WWII, where he worked with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. Thanks for your detailed work.
I've been longing for an extended version of the Douglas full history video and all I can say is... It's super worth the wait! ❤
Thank you for the effort and well presented story of Don Douglas and his company. One of his aircraft designs is amongst my five favorite aircraft - the Skyraider or Spad. I am a business entrepreneur of 40 years, and love to read about and greatly admire self made men and women. I have read Henry Ford's autobiograghy many times - My life and work which was written during the production years of the T model. Again, thank you.
This is a brilliant documentary, excellent details and pictures throughout the journey of Douglas.. I've been watching it over 2 days and have totally enjoyed every moment, thankyou for being such a good narrator and doing so much research... Love it , huge thumbs up
It was an extraordinary pleasure for me to watch the video and listen to your voice while I built a scalemodel in 1/35. And before that I watched your legendary video about the Do X. For the 3rd time... I love your way of telling stories and even if I don't always understand everything 100% because I'm German, I never find it difficult to keep track. Thank you very much for that.
This MD history brings a tear to my eye!
As a former USAF F-4 and F-15 pilot, and a retired Airline pilot, I really loved Micky Dee aircraft. I flew the DC-10, MD-10, and MD-11 for close to 20,000 hours.. MD built great aircraft!.. and for the Boeing people... they are good airplanes.. but I preferred MD.. ( I flew the B-727, B-747, and the B-777)
LOOOONG form documentaries can be good or bad, you are definitely in the Very Good category.
My word, what a master piece, again. Just absolutely fabulous material as always. Thank you so much for all this work. You rock, harder than ever.
Whewwweeweeeeew 3 and *half* hours of Rex's aviation babble?(I mean that in the most endearing way, I know Rex puts enormous amounts of research in.) Count me in!!!
Eatin good today, first this masterpiece. Then Not A Pound's Super Sabre
I straight up love these videos you put out. TOP NOTCH!!!! quality!!!
Not an aircraft nerd or historian, nor do I work in the industry. It's just interesting to see how people with larger testicles than me solved problems with little to none hindsight to work off of. Like building a machine to keep a bunch of primates airborne... Ape together strong... 😁
Ook.
Thank you, I just love these long format in depth harangues, & listen to them over & over again.
Thank you, Rex. A superb documentary.
Thanks Rex, the long form and detailed video is greatly underrated by UA-cam.
Rex, you legend. This fascinating history, that I didn't know I needed, got me through a 4 hour drive. Thank you!
Really good in-depth survey .. fascinating and enjoyable. Thank you.
Love it, so fascinating to get the details behind so many historic & iconic moments
Absolutely fantastic documentary, your usage of so many different images and videos is wonderful. Thank you so much for putting this together!
Love your long form videos dude! Thanks for making this! (Love the short ones too, they’re all great!)
The onboard mechanics on the Douglas World Cruisers were originally Non-Commissioned Officers. However, it was discovered that at many destinations the rank of the mechanics would make awkward for them to attend welcome ceremonies. So the US Army promoted the sergeants to lieutenants.
I thought three and a half would be over the top but every minute had it’s purpose
Needed this. Internets been out all day and my phone is all I have so this saved me from boredom
Lol, I paused video and closed app with about 10 min left, to do something else for a minute, and when I re-opened, the app showed the video in my history as fully viewed. I guess at 95% complete they assume I was just skipping out on the final 10 seconds of patreon names that most vids would have. But I'm like "No, I still haven't heard about the merger!"
3 1/2 hours of aircraft history to fall asleep to. Lovin' it!
The Boeing B-52 said "hold my beer" and to this day, that beer is still being held.
Lovely to see an Air New Zealand DC-8 pop up a few times!
Thanks for making this. I knew less than nothing about Douglas aircraft other than the DC3s. And the early jet airliner story is invariably told in terms of either the genius of the boffins at De Havilland, or else the triumph of Boeing's vision for the future.
I read somewhere that the DC-8 was the first commercial aircraft to fly at Mach 1, I worked on many of these during the 1970’s good airplane ✈️
Finally something to fall asleep to
Well done indeed! I look forward to the sequels! 🙃
Great job! Very torough, very interesting!
Great video! I really enjoyed it and appreciate the improved content over the original.
One nit… unlike NASA, NACA is only pronounced by the letters “N-A-C-A”.
Been waiting all day to watch this!
Superb job Rex, thank you.
A small correction needed, the DC-3 and C-47 are not the same airframes, the C-47 has stronger bulkhead and thicker flooring, plus the Cargo Doors, the DC-3's military counterpart is called the C-53 Skytrooper. Most C-47's were converted to Passanger Carriers, but most were used as Cargo Carriers up north in Canada and Alaska post war
Have no idea who u are but thanks to the algorithm, im 3 hours into this insanely detailed video 😂
Very excellent work. Particularly liked the analysis of the difficulties, faced by so many big companies, as they managed the changeover from 'founder old-guard' to 'new guns' leadership in a background of rapid technological development. Sadly the escalating complexity & cost of modern large-scale engineering development has meant inevitable consolidation in virtually all product areas. With so few organisations working in any given area it has made much of the engineering world an increasingly boring space of product convergence with little of the amazing & exciting product variety around in the ~1920s - ~1960s. This has brought about extremely sophisticated, capable and cost effective products, though.
time well spent today.
I learned so much from this. Absolutely fascinating. To my shame, I knew very little about the civilian airliner story, having been a militiary aircraft fan from a boy. I now realise what I should have realised much earlier - that the military and civilian stories were inextricably intertwined.
A hugely impressive piece of work!
It seems that most creators I watch or listen to have been met with success after disregarding time constraints and providing quality information for as long as a given story takes to tell. Look at Hardcore History, episode length went out the window and listeners poured in by the thousands. Algorithm be damned. Thanks for making this fascinating content.
"Not afraid of long informative videos" nah we love this shit bro
I did read that a DC3 in India during ww2 damaged a wing and lacking a spare, a DC2 wing was installed. Nicknamed the DC2-1/2, it still flew fine.
Excellent detail in this doc
Excelente vídeo ! Não é fácil condensar uma história rica em detalhes tendo pouco tempo para isso!
A balmy 30 degrees in north Iowa. Don't be slipping on that ice Mike . It gets harder to get back up as we age lol.
So short, not sure why it’s not 100 hours long 😅
17 min. In, its Los Angeles, not Los Anglese
That was way better than lord of the rings
Im about to catch some of the most heavenly zzzzz's of my existence with this one
48:53 my friend, have you not heard of the US postal inspectors?
TFE?
@randomlyentertaining8287 yep
There was a documentary and book on this topic by Michael White.
The best documentaries, like Grateful Dead concerts, are always more than three hours long.
Please! Like and Subscribe before the engrossing content sucks you in to the point that you forget to eat or go to work.
At 1:45:32 between the cockpit and the navigators position is that the wine rack?
for the algo. awesome job lad 😎
Amazong Video, very happy I stumbled across your channel by chance
You’ve spoiled us yet again, Rex!
around 01:49:02 - all this needs is one of those maps that one got in Indiana Jones' montages
Bloody fantastic vid. Only complaint is Rex referring to Airlines as AIRLINERS.
Excellant photos!!Merci
You keep asking silly questions about the uses of the Mosquito. Can I suggest you do a little research - it was THE first true multirole combat aircraft. It had around 40 variants and was used for practically EVERYTHING. Fighter, bomber, precision strike attack, recon, anti submarine, anti ship (rockets, torpedo and highball), nightfighter, V1 interceptor, pathfinder, secret cargo/passenger carrier etc. Also, being made predominantly of wood, it absorbed rounds rather than being shredded like aluminium aircraft were. Luftwaffe pilots could claim 2 kills if they could manage to down a Mossie - that should tell you something.
Thanks rex
WONDERFUL photos
Well done
Thanks mate , that was epic.
Subscribed. Love your work.
In about 3 or 4 different ways, this is why I still bother getting out of bed in the morning.
Great job bloke.
You could do a whole channel, dedicated to missiles, especially as nobody else has!
oh snap, 3 hours!!!! RIGHT ON!!!
Always enjoy Rex's quick-fire key-point precis 🙄
WTF U tube, this has be
en out seven HOURS and I'm just notified?
It's going to take me several sessions to finish this one. 👴
48:53
USPS actually has an armed SWAT team.
Kind of nuts to me that even as late as the early 1930s, most aircraft manufacturers were still building their planes completely by hand.
Ain't going to lie. I teared up a bit over Jr and Sr overcoming their relationship issues. Despite his dad basically disowning him over his marriage, he was still there for him when he needed it. Course it probably helped that he too got divorced, basically proving his dad right when he said "Don't marry that woman."
Despite the company's eventual collapse, it cannot be denied that Douglas aircraft saved thousands apon thousands, if not tens of thousands, of lives with just three models.
The TBD Devastator
The SBD Dauntless
THE C-47 SKYTRAIN
I look forward to your coverage of the F4D. The ford just looks rigght.
Is the wreck of the Seattle still up there on that mountain?
out of all the aircraft you have covered, I wonder which one is the intro?
Føroyar mentioned 👍