Well, at least enough to fit a cup holder in the cockpit.

I'd have thought dodging an incoming aircraft when things didn't go quite to plan during landing would have been higher. But then again you've probable got more experience of these things than most of us.

I wouldn't mind seeing that one myself.

Oh God the Autism got loose. Sorry man 😅

Weren't the Ozzie A4's sold to NZ, then leased back for a while? The Corsair (IV) as a Naval plane was redundant for Ozzie use, there was no requirement at all seeing we had no carrier after HMAS Melbourne. RAAF had their Mirages anyway.

I've also noticed a few aircraft from this period where without the markings you'd be hard pushed to tell which navy it flew for.

While the rest of us.🤨

it is truly tragic what is happening to the internet glad we can still subscribe to stuff on youtube and follow creators who we have already vetted ourselves

As opposed to "Pirate" and "Cutlass." Crusader was synonymous with "Gun Fighter." I worked on the A-7B as an AD-2 with the Lobos of VA-305. Good, solid aircraft. But the A-4 "Scooter" is cooler.

I’m pretty sure (but not absolutely sure) contrary to Ed the A7 was not a USMC aircraft.

I worked A-7ds luv them in till you.need to change these eng seals razor blade city...

Yeah, I've always referred to "all-metal" as just that, and call metal and fabric "mixed construction", especially on the fuselage. I'm probably wrong with that 😁

Indeed, that was the F-8

NGAD? *fingers crossed*

You’ve missed out a corsair

@@andrewpease3688 oops, fixed

I'd say we are due to add another.

@@franklester4011 too bad Vought doesn't exist anymore.

@@franklester4011 Perhaps something like a Northrop F-24 Corsair?

I want to say yes but don’t have a specific example I know that Bolingbrokes where used on the west coast for sub patrol into the later part of the gear

Good point!

But not a drop to drink.

Its a noble US Navy tradition. If you ever want a laugh check out Drach's video on the shenanigans the Navy used to have to use to crowbar cash out of the 19th century congress, basically Congress refused to pay for new ships but they would allow repairs to existing ships. Once a ship was judged to no longer be capable of use, ie even the rats wouldnt serve on it becasue it was so rotted and Congress was finally convinced it needed a refit the navy would drag it up in a drydock, strip it down to parts and reuse about three planks and the name plate. What went in as a rotten twelve gun sloop came out as a shiny twenty four gun frigate that was, in literal ship of theseus mode, the same same ship! Honest! Navy funding in the 20s was just as bad, theres probably a Navy planner still trying to explain how those biplanes have given good service, look how easy they are to modernise with the new monoplance conversion. Same name, Same plane though! Honest!

There were a few, but this one was particularly frightening. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNGmm5iS2qjThmQ.htmlsi=txtHzaB0bUhYi20z

@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters LOL! ok that was scary, but I meant prop infront of the cockpit (at the front) but large radial behind cockpit, linked via a shaft (like the AirCobra)

@@RemusKingOfRome They probably did think of it, but then preferred water cooled inline, as there's be less engine "poking out" into the airstream. After all, the water cooled engines a re designed to be totally covered by fuselage and cowlings. Whereas, except for very few, radials are air-cooled and the cylinders require a lot of exposure to said air.

There was a mid engine radial experimented with in Italy but it had overheating problems

The Japanese J7W Shinden had a mid-mounted radial, but a pusher prop. It would have made an interesting jet conversion.

You are very good at contradicting yourself 🤣🤣 unless there is a new type of flexible metal fabric

@nigelsmith7366 The all metal construction refers to the load bearing structure of the aircraft ie there is no wood.

not by me or anybody else who uses the term which I have heard hundreds of times in my life.

Is the M1 pronounced Garand or Garand? I've also heard it pronounced Carbine, Thompson, Abrams, Combat Car, and Motorway.

@@erikwellerweller8623 My dad worked for the NACA and later NASA, a 39 year career.

You are so wrong lol

@@nigelsmith7366 No I'm not