Latécoère is pronounced: "Lah-tay-coh-air" and not: "Lat-tuh-core" And Proteus is: "Pro-tee-yuss" Not: "Pro-Tay-us"

A wonderful celebration of a wonderful aviation life. Thank you Mike. Thank you Craig.

Keep sending everything you can.

I am very glad you did this as I love to see women excel!

Nicely done!

A great plane ,great idea to put u boats out of work. Fly everything to Europe.

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One of my cousins went to a Catholic high school next to the Nike emplacement just north of Los Angeles International Airport. About 20 years ago I did some work at the former Nike site on top of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The site has been taken over by the city of Rancho Palos Verdes city hall and it happened to contain a USGS first order survey marker that we were using as a reference point for testing satellite land surveying products. We had equipment located in what used to be one of the Army maintenance shops. There are public hiking trails on the land and one of the trails going past the building is named Nike Trail. I imagine most people seeing the trail name nowadays assume it must be named after the shoe company because it’s a walking trail.😅

Very interesting video. I love aviation. Just suscribed.

Mike, What an outstanding presentation. I am a new subscriber. Just wondering if you remember the small company Aircraft Rebuilders in LGB just past the end of Runway 25L? That is where I did my Private pilot. The owner of that company had both A & P and a CFI certificates. After flying in the AF, went to UA. Eventually got to fly the DC-8-71. It actually was my first window seat.

When my Dad served with VMF-451 at MCAS El Toro they were designated an interceptor group with the F-8U2, if I remember correctly. He also flew the FJ-4 (F-86) and F-9F-8.

The NACA was NOT the predecessor to NASA, it was a federal agency devoted to aeronautical research established in the 1920s to improve aircraft performance. It developed for instance the standards for propellers, cowlings and cooling flaps plus better aerodynamics. NASA was created under president Eisenhower to oversee and coordinate developments in space and aeronautics. This was done to stop the unnecessary bickering and competition between the different military branches over what rockets to use. It meant for instance; that the best rocket to use was the Atlas rather then the Redstone for space exploration.

Can you do something like this for the US emergency services. They usually are unencrypted mobile vehicle and portable on oerson hand helds to a central repeater to the dispatch. Hovering around 155mhz and 46mhz. I know there was talk of them going to trunkated signals for years. Havent seen it in my area yet. There is some means of the units identifying themselves since it shows up on a scanner and can be filtered by that.

Thank you so much. I miss MCD.

Very good, thank you.

That was fantastic, thank you.

Here in Australia I never saw these multiple AC kits, man what a present that would've been for Birthday or Christmas.

"downloaded from the airplanes" 😂😂😂😂

Atlantis Hobbies is releasing the WV-2 (Later EC-121) It would be nice if they make the Tradewind.

Back around 1972 I had the blue angel's set of four F4 phantoms in one kit...wish I still had it

Air force command was established on my bday 3/26 but i was born 40 years later

Thanks for restoring some great memories of flying sail planes in the 80’s for me!

Thank you mike.. 1958 - Wow.. I was born in 1960 and I am very sure I built many a kit with your artwork upon them. Thank you for the memories you created for us and revisit them with these amazing Videos. Semper Fi

Very, very interesting indeed. I’ve been in aviation all of my working life. You’ve captured a real slice of history with your artistic skills. Excellent work!

I was traveling at the time, but I missed this video. Yesterday my friend and I did a live stream ranking the 'sexiest USAF fighters of the 1950s."

Another excellent and informative presentation! Thank you!

An Excellent and informative presentation. Thank you!

Ps. the R4360 was not the most powerful piston engine ever made. The Lycoming XR7755 was more powerful.

😅🤣😂😅You said with reference to the 1943 field dark room, "The need for speed " Mobile dark room where they can , and I quote , Develop the photos as soon they were " DOWNLOADED FROM THE AIRPLANES " You meant obtained from the airplanes . Computers were not capable of "downloading from airplanes as of yet. Airplanes of the time had very crude computers generally dedicated to one system. None of them were capable of downloading images.

Air West was acquired by Republic in 1980 and Republic was merged into Northwest about 1985.

I never flew on Ozark, but I always admired the logo on their tails.

The evolution of the logo is a neat story in itself.

Great ! Starfighter stands out as probably the greatest of alltime.

Saw the XB-1 #1, at the USAF museum, in Dayton, before they moved it inside. Didn't see the B-58 though, it was being restored. It's a fantastic destination, I recommend it to everyone.

Fascinating Mike, thank you, I had never heard of that proposal before.

Not unlike the McDonnel F-15. However, Asymmetric thrust in an engine failure would have been an issue, perhaps more severe than the F-14.

This is the best thing I ever saw.

The swept wing, cigar fuselage, and podded engines, established the template moving forward.

McDonnell Stiletto & The F-104. I've always found it a bit strange that Kelly Johnson, was inspired by that.

I've heard that the B-21 is significantly smaller, than the B-2. A future topic ?

Thanks!

Original H 50 featured United DC 8 regularly.

Sky bus resembles a couple of Britsh early medium transports.

A lot of people don't realize that before ww2 the swastika was a symbol of luck and nature. Then the german socialists got their hands on it. Now it's a symbol of dread. That's how I felt hearing that the name of this plane was rainbow. Unfortunately rainbows are ruined now because they're so associated with child sexualization and pee drinking.

Thank you for these very interesting informations. Those designs show, how fast the world of aircrafts and generally the technical world changed at that time.

What a beautiful airframe. Classic early postwar lines for a speed design, showcasing an aestehtic that was too quickly (IMO) abandoned.

Everywhere I look I see a top speed of 470MPH which is slower then the XP-47J.

hughes suffered substantial brain damage in the crash.

That was well done, thanks

Great video, but might have been worth mentioning that the effectiveness of AA's bare metal aesthetic was slowly reduced by the increased use of composites in airframes, starting with their a300s (tail and engine cowlings)