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Sabrejet said:
This is my "B-17 engine change" effort: any idiot can do it (obviously):

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Interestingly enough, the s/n 41-24486 is a legit assignment to a B-17F of the 306th BG.
Sadly, it was downed by flak during an attack on St. Nazeire's sub pens on 9 November 1942. All aboard were KIA.
 
SaparotRob said:

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Very good find and a perfect explanation of the new AI-plague. I noticed that the videos in question started showing around the same time as the books on Amazon we were discussing (with the author Every A-hole Is) . So the abomination is massive!
Here's the point though: people like the reviewer, like us, other history- and aviation-fans etc. will not take those videos, books etc. seriously. I will never quote a source like that here or anywhere else. But people who DON'T KNOW HISTORY and just want to learn something new, will say: WHO CARES how many bombers exactly were downed on that day and did the fighters use armor-piercing or incendiary ammunition. WHO CARES if they show you a B-17 from the ETO in a movie about the Battle in Bismark sea and so on. I believe the trap is already set: nobody remembers the exact numbers from WWII, hundreds become thousands, thousands become millions. B-25 becomes B-52 and crashes into the Empire State Building, maybe piloted by Luftwaffe crew, trying to bomb New York.
I hope, I really do hope that some computer-guru (this is my word for IT-guys but for hackers as well) will create a small tool. program, app - you name it, to be installed on PCs, phones and other devices that can recognize AI-generated content, pictures and words and immediately send you a warning. Today we still laugh over the "creations" of the AI, mismatching planes with ships. Tomorrow IT will be much, much better. And will laugh over us (if it could laugh).
 
Books aren't the only source of ASS airplane info.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSm1bMT_R6gWWII US Bombers is consistently the best youtube channel for this kind of info. He has all kinds of period reports; graphs; and data. It has come to the point that you HAVE to be very careful about looking at new or unsubscribed content. Vet a few known sources and don't go to any new sites. I can't believe that the new stuff is outperforming him. And the amount of this is only going to increase A LOT.
 
SaparotRob said:

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I came here to link this, only to find I'd been scooped. WWII US Bombers is a really good channel. For his homegrown presentations, he continually supplies official documentation or occasionally first-hand accounts for support, and when he does offer an opinion, which is not too often, he clearly announces it as an opinion.
 
special ed said:
Now ... There is a design idea for Airbus!
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Useless fact.

The first company to register the name Airbus was a Canadian airline in the 60's and I bet that Airbus Industry had to pay well for the Canadian rights to the name.

Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) launched a service called the Airbus from the old downtown Edmonton airport to Calgary because the new Edmonton airport was way out of town and cost typically a $40 taxi fare to get to or from. The Airbus fare was $12. You carried your own baggage on/off and stacked it yourself like on a bus. They left every x minutes or when the plane was full - whichever came first. They started with a DC-4, within months had several Lockheed L-188 Electras and soon replaced those with Boeing 737s.

PWA was usually referred to, prior to this, as Please Wait Awhile, Pathetic Western, Pray While Aloft, Piggly Wiggle Airways, or other less flattering names

The average wage at that time in Alberta was about $300/month.
 
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