I write books on aviation technical history to de mythify subjects. This is one of the best accounts of the 'beams'. No stupid music or flashing graphics and the commentary is clear and well paced without any of the overdramatised nonsense which many youtubers use to get attention. 10 out of 10. I will look for more of your output. Thank you. (search Transonic book Chris Freer)

Criminal this doesn't have hundreds of thousands of views.

I read about The Battle of the Beams many years ago but never have I seen such a detailed yet succinct explanation. Brilliant. Thank you very much.

The content on your channel is wonderful. More of this history please! It’s cool to see the evolution of VORs and ILS. Thanks for Thoroughly entertaining channel

I'm a commercial pilot and a check airman, I have been following your channel and almost never skip any video you upload. I must say your videos are very informative and well researched. Thanks for all the hardwork you put into creating them for the benefit of all of us who loves anything aviation. I hope your channel gets more subscribers. It's simply impressive. 👏👏👏👏👏

After reading "Most Secret War" written by Dr RV Jones (head of scientific Intelligence MI6 during WW2), your presentation here is a brilliant illustration of what he details from his own memoirs. Thank you!

If you ever find yourself in Berlin, go see Templehof! It wasn't damaged at all in the war, it's totally intact. It's a park now and you can hangout on the runways. Super cool.

Thank you for this great explanation and graphics! You made it so easy to understand.

This video was a fascinating explanation of WW2 electronic navigation. Thank you for posting! Subbed!

Really appreciate your work and research. It’s crazy how things evolved in such a short amount of time. Love this format as well.

Your ground school is epic enough, now this! Fast becoming my top YT channel. For my next rating I am definitely using your syllabus. Keep it up!

I'm training for my PPL right now (preparing for checkride) and planning a career in aviation - this type of content just makes it even more interesting to learn about! great work man, gonna try out the IFR ground school once I get to my instrument rating

I love learning about WW2s contributions to the advancements of aviation as well as this awesome and rich history of early forms of localizers, VORs and ILS systems. Love your content. Keep up the great work! I’d love to see more videos like this!!

I really enjoy the history of how we got to where we are today - thanks!

Amazing!

Just a side note, there was a radio beacon (NDB) in Stornoway Scotland, the New aircraft were to home in on after crossing the Atlantic. The Germans set up and NDB on the same frequency, and much more powerful up in Norway, just a few degrees off course. Lots of brand new aircraft & crews landed in Norway. My Dad was a B-17 navigator, and knew about it when they crossed. He said he saw the needle start to quiver, finally showing about 10 degrees of course. Ha! That's the Germans. They carried on by his calculations and right on time, the ADF needle swung towards Stornaway. They made a right turn when the hit land, and continued on down to RAF Valley, Wales

Wow Cool! Learned something new.

Amazing video! I've always wondered how IFR "started".

Really blessed that I found this channel. Keep up the high quality content!

This video was 🔥🔥

On July 6, *1920, US Navy* seaplane pilots used a radio compass *to locate and navigate their way to a ship 100 miles offshore,* marking *the first use of radio navigation by an aircraft.*

So interesting

I love how simple the idea of combining opposing morse signals to create a narrow beam with a constant tone is, and that you just need a AM radio receiver for it. I've tried low frequency radio range navigation with the A and N morse signals using the Wing42 Boeing 247D in MSFS, it's not as easy as it sounds :D

I'm a pilot and we still train and use some of the old school ground based radar services like VORs. Crazy to think that they crossed oceans with dead reckoning.

Mostly correct. However, one of the episodes of the BBCs "The Secret War" series (1977) discussed this. Scientists couldn't figure it out on their own. So they bugged their Luftwaffe POWs quarters and one of the POWs made a vague comment which led the British to go back to their planes and pore over all the equipment with a fine tooth comb. That is when they found the receiver.

Absolutely...who doesn’t like a taste of compared to what. Kids these days ...no idea where vortices evolved from. Outstanding .

So cool

Seriously, your videos are awesome! With this one, you've taken it next level! You're a professor, right? Are you also a CFI or just an aviation enthusiast? What kind of plane do you fly?

Great video, fascinating history.

Maybe this is why the allies bombed only during the day and VFR which was much more dangerous than at night. Many years ago I read about this but had forgotten it. Excellent video with very high "Gee Wiz Cool Factor" (GWCF+8.7). Thanks😁

My mother was a "wax" (enlisted female) in the Army and stationed in England. She said it was really scary when the German Bombers flew overhead and dropped bombs.

Interesting video. I never knew about this. Well done.

Fascinating, thanks

super interesting! you should do a video on the british radio navigation systems like gee and oboe

Interesting!

Great video. 👍🏻

Damn this is awesome

Moonlight Sonata raid was Coventry, not Birmingham....

3:24. subtitles on. " the germans shifted tactics to KNIGHT bombing" 😵

Why didn't they take earth curvature on consideration?

We humans are very inventive when it comes to ways of murdering each other! So very sad.

The line of sight proves the earth is flat.

I'm astounded how we got suckered into believing the heliocentric pagan model that does as it said, puts the pagan god helios at the center of the soul lure system. I can use math, science, video evidence and logic to easily show the earth is NOT a spinning ball, and yet people cling to it and deny their sense, logic, and reason for what? This I would like to know.