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Offline ScepticalScotty

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Gregs Airplanes
« on: January 25, 2022, 12:09:28 PM »
What a fantastic channel and very educational. I have found out all sorts of things about WW2 aircraft I had no clue about. Not exactly WW2, but his latest one on the Bearcat was a real eye opener. In more ways than one. I always thought it was a fast fighter, but since watching his video I now realise that all came at quite a cost. Its no mere chance that Corsair production finished 3 years after Bearcat production finished - yet it was of earlier design and conception. How? It was a much better all round fighter thats how. Live and learn.  :bow:
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Re: Gregs Airplanes
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2022, 12:24:00 PM »
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Re: Gregs Airplanes
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2022, 02:25:35 PM »
Also a fan-but I think one needs to be enthusiastic and willing to learn!

The Corsair was used in the Korean conflict-the Bearcat not so much.

Which reminds me, read "Devotion" in which the Corsair and Bearcat feature.

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Re: Gregs Airplanes
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2022, 12:56:28 PM »
I started with his series on the P47, which has been one of my favourite US fighters since I was a kid. Mainly due to a magazine I got in the 70s called "Wings" that came out every week and was built up to be (pre internet) a multi volume aviation encyclopeadia beyond comparison. There was a big article on "Gabby" Gabreski and his love of the P47 and desire to keep it after most had changed to the P51. I know that Greg in his channel makes quite a point that the hard graft of wearing down the Luftwaffe home daylight defence was mostly done by P38 and P47 pilots in 42 and 43 and early 44. 
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Re: Gregs Airplanes
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2022, 05:56:29 AM »
Don't mind him but Ed Nash's Military matters I think is better IMO, Mega Projects has quiet a bit of aviation content as well.

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« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2022, 08:27:57 AM »
« Last Edit: January 28, 2022, 09:37:45 AM by John A »
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