Can you, please, convert mph in kmph in subtitles at least?

it’s not bad, it’s not noticeable unless you strain yourself to hear…

Probably 'ronavirus. Take care of yourself & keep up the excellent content.

Hi Rex, top tip, if you’re feeling rough depart to your pit with a bottle of whiskey, or in your case as you are down under, a bottle of Bundaberg. It will do absolutely nothing for the cold but after you’ve polished it off you won’t give a damn anyway. I just love the channel and the effort that you put into it to find these weird and wonderful aircraft.

Just wondering if you could do a video on the flamethrower cough remedy, feel better soon

There's no denying Italian design flair.

Amen!

Both the French and the Italian aircraft were very unique in their own ways like no one else!!

This one, above all other flying Italians, has captured my imagination the mostest 😂❤

How nice to be able to "land" in the ocean

@@JTA1961 A lesson too often forgotten these days... yet so obvious an advantage on a planet largely covered in water, forests and mountains.

thank you for sharing this tale!

That's a neat bit of history honestly, thanks for sharing! 😊

What happened to the aircraft?

Great movie! It really brought home his love of aviation.

That was based on one of the SM Schneider Trophy racers 😎 but these designs were certainly imaginative and not without their early successes give the short period of time between The events at Kittyhawk and Santos Dumont s flight in his Bis Canard and these pioneering crossings👍🏼.

​@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 The Curtiss Seaplane? Aye that was one the Schneider designs, but I meant the S.55-alikes we see in the Regia Marina fleet shots (when they are pursuing the cheeky rascal, Marco).

@@Dr_Robodaz Its been quite a while.. the one im thinking of is a Porco Rosso one... Its a single motor and boom but the hull hangs underneath. Let me have a look and i will see if i can find a link 🙂 Savoia S 21 porco Rosso But the Macchi 33 is the inspiration.

All the Sea Pirate planes were designed by Miyazaki, although would have been funny seeing them fly irl

I discovered this plane several years ago and from that discovered float plane racing of the day as well. Italy made some absolutely beautiful racing float planes, but the SM55 was/is always a favorite.

@@whirving S.55 is so odd it makes all the way around and becomes beautiful 😂😂😂 the racing Macchi floatplanes were elegant like vintage sports cars, I hope Rex makes a video about che M.39 or the M.C.72.

Exciting that someone is making a replica of the S55. If I were very rich I think this is the first airplane I would try to make.

​​@@marcinna8553the replica in question is only 1:8 scale of the original and with the use of modern materials and fuels This is because it's a university project and it's used as an opportunity to teach the students how to design, engineer and build at least a modern small scale drone A full scale replica is also being built at the Volandia museum using mostly the same techniques and materials of the time by former employees of Savoia Marchetti, but it won't be flyable and will have "cuts" in it to show some cross-section of the internal structure of the wings and hulls to show how it was built

Innovative, but not enourmously practical, I suspect. Even the S.66 only had a top speed of 167 mph, at a time when most flying boats could do 200+ mph.

They are still remembered in the RAF by the term Balboa the name of the officer who led the squadrons world tour... Its used to describe any rolling tour of aircraft. They were slow but very stable on take off and landing and they had space for great range on tour. Makes a nice flying RC scale model ..

@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 Balbo, Balboa is Rocky.

@@a.b.6233 👍🏼 I couldnt remember how it was spelt ...and using my phone i find it tends to change words anyway at times i dont always spot it.🤷🏻‍♂️

@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 I'm sure that Rocky is more famous than Balbo so Balboa will pop up first in any search.

USCG rescue crews: the last American units to use flying boats IIRC

One of the better movies with USCG SEA AIR RESCUE aircraft in it was “The High and The Mighty”.

better than climbing on a wing to fix a six engine plane!

G'day, Ah, not quite. The Flight Engineer spent their time watching and worrying about Fuel flow, Coolant and Oil Temperature and Fluid-levels - all manually monitored and controlled. The Hatch was to go through when Oiling, maintaining, pre-flight inspecting, and Hand-Cranking the Flywheels of the Inertia-driven Starters. Actual In-Flight Maintenance, outside of Zeppelins (and even they stopped the Motor being worked on...) was pretty much the preserve of C.P.T. Ulm refilling Southern Cross's Right Engine Oil Tank in-flight, standing on the Undercarriage Struts..., with Oil taken from the failed Left Engine, at night, during a Storm, over the middle of the Tasman Sea...! And, he did it 3 times during that one flight, too... And I'm pretty sure a Wellington Crewmember (Navigator, Wireless Operator ?) got a VC for going out to extinguish an Engine Fire at night, with a portable Extinguisher, getting there by punching and kicking through the Wing's Fabric Covering to use the underlying Geodesic Structure for Hand-&-Toe-holds....(!). Imagine that one..., 150 knots of Slipstream, minimum, beating holes in the Aeroplane to gain a purchase, to be able to poke the Nozzle in through the back of the Cowling-Flaps to extinguish the Fire. Which he succeeded in doing, too, before climbing back to and through the Fuselage Windows - despite having been badly burned on both hands in the process. In-flight Engine Majntenance is an Emergency last resort, as far as I know. Anybody who lives through making a go of it is lionised as a Hero forever afterwards, specifically on that account ; as far as I can recall. Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

I would love to have a PBY as a flying house boat, such a neat design. I'd love to see a double hull Catalina!

Or alternatively, do an april fools video about some of the seaplanes and flying boats of Porco Rosso!

@@thomaszinser8714 that would be better because they were based on real planes I do believe. Or at least prototypes.

The plane in this video made a quick appearance in Porco Rosso. I'm watching it again whilst typing this comment. ^^

@@teaandmedals nice.

It certainly flew like one: maximum ceiling 1670 feet.

It's a cool plane.

There’s an English pusher sea plane called a walrus, saved many downed air crews in ww 11.

Do you perhaps know why DC 9's have their engines thrust angled downward?

​@nhytg376tgyuu765gjmg It is because thst is the direction the air is traveling at that location. The engines are behind the wing, and the wing pushes air downward. So as the plane travels, the air is pushed down behind the wing. So the engines are aligned with the flow of the air at that location.

Is it really so hard to type out "to"?

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you can say more with hand sign’s than voice 🤣

Jackal?? 😄

The users and pilots of the plane praised its handling, but perhaps the science didn't yet fully understood why they were so nice to fly and land. It's said that during WWII many British night bomber crews were saved by the ground effect when a badly damaged bomber with most of engine power gone slowly closing the surface of the Northern Sea didn't finally hit the sea, but continued flying when the bolster of air pressure between the wings of the bomber and the sea surface kept the plane unexpectedly still airborne.