What are reliable YouTube sources? (1 Viewer)

[Tom Fey]

Fairly new channel "AEHS" with mixed-era aviation content and an emphasis on engines. I'm a member of the AEHS, so I am indeed biased.
View: https://youtu.be/khnYsZTttBo

 

[Deleted member 68059]

Fairly new channel "AEHS" with mixed-era aviation content and an emphasis on engines. I'm a member of the AEHS, so I am indeed biased.
View: https://youtu.be/khnYsZTttBo

This is good ^^

(I have to also disclose that I am a lifetime AEHS member )

 

[33k in the air]

A couple of other YouTube channels worth a look.

UK Aircraft Explored — This one covers British WWII aircraft.
Deutsche Avionik — This one covers German radio, radar, and other electronics during WWII.

 

[Barrett]

I've found Wingleader consistently innovative, accurate and hard-working.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCilkhNFgOpt0PazjyXoF7dQ

Also recommend this for rare/high quality imagery for Planes and Trains (Automobiles, not so much) https://www.youtube.com/user/airailimages

 

[33k in the air]

Just came across this YouTube channel:

B-17 Flying Fortress

From the channel's 'About' section:

This is the YouTube Channel of my B-17 web site and database B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies

I am researching the history of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and sharing my results. My focus of research is to identify B-17s and crews lost in combat. Telling their untold stories. Source of the most of the pictures and footages is the US National Archive.

From watching several of its videos, it appears the channel does what it claims to do. Primary source documents (e.g. route maps, after-action reports, etc.) are shown onscreen. Most of the videos are about five minutes long, but some are longer.

 

[pinehilljoe]

this was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I poured through the TV Guide hoping to find it each week, if you were lucky you could watch it a few times a year. The B-17 effects are the real deal, no CGI. Directed by Howard Hawks.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBPr21oXUdE

 

[SaparotRob]

I haven't seen that in years.

 

[pinehilljoe]

I haven't seen that in years.

Air Force is available on Prime

 

[The Stannum Crusader]

It doesn't help that the incorrigible moron Malcom Gladwell wrote a crap book of the same name, which my son could better (my son is two years old and eats fruit he smeared over his own face and then dropped on his trousers).

The book by the way "The bomber mafia" is basically an extended magazine article. It has literally zero primary source archive research and only manages to be a book at all by using a x10 font size, it has about 20 words a page and is thinner than your little finger.

Well crap! I just bought that book, I haven't got around to reading it yet, but what's wrong with it? Being not that large doesn't immediately get rid of all credibility. What's wrong with it?

 

[tomo pauk]

Well crap! I just bought that book, I haven't got around to reading it yet, but what's wrong with it? Being not that large doesn't immediately get rid of all credibility. What's wrong with it?

Seems like that the primary sources were not consulted. If that is true, books can be pretty much just the opinions of a writer, and not something that is factually correct. Nothing wrong with having the opinions, but it means that the work is pretty much worthless for someone that likes facts more than opinions.

 

[The Stannum Crusader]

Seems like that the primary sources were not consulted. If that is true, books can be pretty much just the opinions of a writer, and not something that is factually correct. Nothing wrong with having the opinions, but it means that the work is pretty much worthless for someone that likes facts more than opinions.

From what I've read it isn't just opinions, in LordHrdThrasher's video of the same name I think he's using the book as a source, and his video was very good.

 

[tomo pauk]

From what I've read it isn't just opinions, in LordHrdThrasher's video of the same name I think he's using the book as a source, and his video was very good.

That the book is not based on primary sources was verbatim from the user you've quoted.

 

[The Stannum Crusader]

That the book is not based on primary sources was verbatim from the user you've quoted.

I don't understand first of all how he could know no primary sources were used, its a book about bombers and bombsights, how could it not have a basis in fact

 

[tomo pauk]

I don't understand first of all how he could know no primary sources were used, its a book about bombers and bombsights, how could it not have a basis in fact

The member's name is Calum Douglas. You can contact him at twitter and facebook.

 

[GrauGeist]

Just because something is in print, doesn't make it authorative.

 

[The Stannum Crusader]

Just because something is in print, doesn't make it authorative.

Yeah, I'm returning the book, thanks to all for helping let me know about it before it was too late for returns

 

[GrauGeist]

Yeah, I'm returning the book, thanks to all for helping let me know about it before it was too late for returns

It may be a long read, but check out the thread titled "A New Book In My Library".

You'll find a good discussion there about what's popular for forum members.