I'm 66 and my mom was a Rosie the Riveter in Fort Worth. She passed away at age 96. Great video Mike! 👍🏻

I am 80 years old. I took my first lesson in 1958 (Piper Cub) and I retired as a B-767 captain in 2003. I lived through much of the history you just reviewed. EXCELLENT job, Sir. Very interesting. Oh, my father flew B-25 bombers during WWII.

I spent 34 years in Renton Boeing building 757`s and 737`s I retired four years ago. good video

Amazing production numbers. My father flew the A-4 Skyhawk (nicknamed the Scooter) in Vietnam.

Another great video Mike! What’s mind boggling to me is the massive quantities of passenger planes we have flying with essentially a stellar uneventful flying record. Every time I take a flight I realize I’m simply boarding a flying bus, and that same “bus” is making dozens of flights every day.

Another great and very informative video, Mike! It's amazing just how long many aircraft have been in production, still useful decades after initial design, while others were obsolete even on their first flight.

Engines manufacturing video now required, please ❤❤

Mike, I still remember seeing my first 707 at LAX back when I was a little kid, it's still my favorite jet airliner. Thanks for working in a great Mid-Century model box...... Mike, thanks again for all your time, work and posting...... mike

Another great video Mike.

Mike my father was stationed in the Philippines and New Guinea during WW2, and my sister still has many Photos of him at Bases with B-25 bombers behind him, as always great Video.

Thanks Mike! Very interesting information, and fantastic photos & images. I especially enjoyed the WWII 'production line' photos. Seeing so many aircraft under construction - and under one roof - was incredible.Well done! 👍

Great video and this only touched on planes that went into production. The geneology of planes like the F-18 (rooted in the F5) and the legacies of planes that never were like the F108 (A5 and the AWG9 weapon system for the F 14) are also fascinating. The F86 started out as a straight wing Navy plane and ultimately returned to the Navy as the Fury. Lots of great stories out there. Thanks for doing these.

Thank you Mr. Machat for another very informative and great video. Of the 39,000 NIKE missiles built, I think about 35,000 were fired at Godzilla.

Another Monday morning smile maker! The numbers of all the different aircraft are amazing. Great video!

Another interesting video. Really like the photos of the P-51 and the P-47. What would the price be today for brand new of those two. Your team has put together a wonderful video. Thanks for sharing.

Any video that starts of with a C-130 Hercules has gotta be awesome! (as my dad has over 10,000 on them, and most hours in Australian RAAF history for the C-130)

TY as usual.

The Beechcraft Bonanza, still in limited production today, went into service 76 years ago in 1947 as you say, but the prototype first flew in December 1945, almost 78 years ago.

Yet another fascinating video!! Top marks.

Very much enjoyed the video. Thank you so much!

Really enjoy these vids especially as you always include a model kit touch! Thank you. How about a Prototype/model kit comparison? ie, Martin Seamaster/ Revell kit?

Stellar video Mike. I was shocked and surprised at some of these production numbers and comparisons. Photos and images are top notch as well. Always enjoy your excellent work. And, thanks so much for taking me up on my suggestion. I learned a lot.

Thanks. Always enjoyable productions from this channel. Looking forward to your next work. Suggestion for a future topic, cutaways and or those aircraft with “all” their weapons/accessories laid out on the ground. Spent hours as a youth looking at these, matching the numbers to their descriptions.

Another great video, Mike. Always enjoy your theme approach to these. Another "only one" to add to your list: the A.V. Roe Canada C102 Jetliner. First jet airliner to fly in North America (1948) and first to carry jet airmail. Never to go into production due to a myopic government. Thanks Mike.

Such an interesting subject ... aircraft manufacturing has always been an amazing subject for me, thanks a lot for this video :)

A very, very nice presentation. Nicely balanced. Thank you.

3:20 Note in the upper right corner a glimpse of the camouflage which completely covered the Douglas Long Beach buildings and parking lot, giving the appearance from the air of rolling farmland (complete with fake farm buildings IIRC). Must have worked pretty well, given that the buildings still existed when I showed up in 1979.

Excellent work! Thanks Mike,we appreciate the longer format.

Mike, as always - great video, Kudos! One typo if I may: the Lockheed "Salmon" tailsitter was the XFV-1, not XFY-1 which was the Convair "Pogo".

You can also say the 707 lives on in 2023 as the 727 and 737 (still in production) share the same fuselage and nose as the 707! 👍😎👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Great video Mike! Excellent information! Greetings from Brazil!

As always, a very good, interesting and illustrative video Mike! Kindest regards.

An outstanding presentation, Mike !! The Pogo was the XFY-1, and was tested here in San Diego at Brown Field airport.

Man! Great info...don't know where you got all that info but thanks for sharing it with us.

Absolutely fantastic episode Mike - really enjoyed this 'headcount' summary. (Man, that's a pile of aluminum!)

This was another great episode. I was waiting for you to talk about the great B-52 and it's amazing longevity; like the Ever Ready battery that keeps going & going & going...but instead, you showed us the A-4 Skyhawk and the great C-130 Hercules, both of which first flew in 1954. So....question: I looked up the B-52 and it first flew in...1952....??? What's up with that; is there a technicality here that I am not aware of? A personal story: Way back in the late 50's-early 60's, my grandmother would buy me a plane ticket to fly to Dallas to visit her during the summer. She loved taking me to Love Field and talked & talked about those smoking 727's that I flew on...she loved them...!! She was real "hip" for a grandmother...LOL..!!

Good job! I'm a 43 year retire Boeing guy. The 707v737 comparison is correct! I think about that all the time.

Mike, I'm a big fan of your art, books & videos. How about a future video on the subject of TAIL NUMBERS, civil and military. Where did the 'N' come from? What are the letter/number combinations on the sides of US military aircraft? Keep up the great work. Thanks!

Wow!

Thank You!!! Mike!!! It's Mikeee!!! and, He likes It!!! - but for me, I Like it Too!!! Equally!!!! Have a Beautiful Day!!! Kelly!!!

Love your videos. Reminds me of a presentation you’d see in a hotel or hotel conference room back in the 70s and 80s. Maybe I misunderstood your quote about Robinson being the last maned aircraft manufacture in Ca post C-17 pre B-21 but the F-18 has been built at the old Douglas facility in El Segundo by Northrop since the 80s. Keep up the great work Mike. Throughly enjoy every video you put out.

Another great video, good work. Perhaps you should look into adding license/ reverse-engineered Dc-3 from Russia the LI-2 to total.

Ooh...you included the XB-19 and not the Convair XC-99 (C-99 after official certification). The giant spin-off from the B-36 had a successful career through 1957. We're on the same page about the hotrod Convair 880/990. Real beauties designed for European short hops.

Great thing about being OLD.... I have been cargo on the rarest Airliners in history. OOOH the good old days.

I worked at Aero Commander in Bethany, Ok in 69’ bending wing spars. Then came the draft.

I’m surprised that the 747 in all iterations didn’t make your list in some form. Another one off passenger jet was the Canadian built A.V.Roe Jetliner. The Comet beat the Jetliner to New York by one day.

Bomber number go down in accordance with their destructive power. The B-21 is the first to buck that trend.

Air lingus must be doing well with that many planes being built.

Bravo! (I liked flying the 152 more than the 172 - too much airplane for just one guy)

It’s hard to imagine that at one time we actually built things in this country and in California less and places like New York we had massive factories. We employed thousands of hard-working Americans but greed took over and now we outsource everything and now with all these DEI initiatives we have Boeings falling apart in the skies. It used to be pride before profit in this country.

I just realized that even today aircraft are mostly made by hand.

The picture of Messerschmitt Bf109 is a Romanian WWII era G, and i think was produced under licence at IAR plant Brasov.

21 B-2's I think, Mike

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Mike, I didn't make it two minutes into this piece before something caught my eye. At 1:43, the Connie pictured in front of Hangar 309 is odd for a couple of reasons, the first being the scimitar-tipped prop blades and other being that the carb intakes on #1, #3 and #4 are covered over. Do you have any info or know where I can find the photo(s) of this bird?

Actually, the most-produced airliner that was made in Europe seems to be the Tupolev Tu-154, (1.026 planes built) and not the Caravelle (282 planes).

Obscure Department: any numbers for surface-effect bombers and airliners? P.S. Still awaiting a separate video on these weird aircraft (Russia only?). PPS: saw that vertical take-off fighter at Silver Hill, MD in the '80's.

Same beer can aluminum also

My brother flew a C130 Coast Guard ice patrol.

Only one DC-1

Didn't you forget about Gulfstream building planes at Long Beach Airport?

Perhaps I missed the specifications for the list in question, but I'm somewhat surprised of the absence of mention in the category of "only one made/produced," that being the Hughes-Hercules Flying Boat. (I'm likely messing up the designation, but I'm sure you know which airboat I'm speaking of.) Regardless, interesting video.

Your favorite photo (the one at Long Beach with the B17 has my late grandmother in it as during workd war twp she worked at that plant she finished the war as a supervisor ie section lead or similar level and on her dresser she fad this photo aa well as other memorabilia... Sadly that's now lost.

What do those aircraft have in common? I bet the answer is *_RIVETING._* {Please don't hit me...🤭} Also: *I ❤️ BLEEDAIR BLIMPS!!!!*

Alas, California has successfully killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. Good weather, next to the ocean, plenty of potential workforce… yet manufacturers have left in droves. Good to see a new B-21 being built there now.

Wonder if you've heard this one. I knew some one (we'll call "X") that worked in an X aircraft plant making X wings in X country. He told us a story that that the foreman and inspectors had to chide the workers for writing, shall we say "unpleasantries" using felt magic markers on the zinc dichromate coatings inside the wings. Anyway, only 110 of them crashed. Uncertain if the FAA ever mentioned markers in its reports.

Mike, aren't you kinda splitting hairs with the DC-3/C-47production numbers? I'm sure that pretty much all of us AvGeeks know the difference, but it's still basically the same bird. And IIRC, a majority of the 'DC-3s' that are still airworthy originally rolled off of the production line as a C-47. It's kinda like when someone calls a Boeing 720 airframe a 707, or even better, the Lockheed Constellation. Is that a L-049 Constellation, C-69 Constellation, L-649 Constellation, L-749 Constellation, L-1049 Super Constellation, C-121 Constellation, R7V Constellation, EC-121 Warning Star, or a L-1649A Starliner? Basically the same airframe, but... Sorry for getting wordy, but I'm sure that you get my point. 🙂

But not a one of them is _red...._

Douglas built C-130s??? (2:05) Really?