MIflyer
Captain
Note that unlike every other air force in the world, the USAAC and USN were flying fighters that carried drop tanks for over a decade before the war started. The reason was simple: our country is just too damn big to not use them.
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Now as Greg is found guilty of everything, what is the verdict:
1. Firing squad
2. Electric chair
3. Gas chamber
4. Hanging
Or maybe he is one of the few who dares to post interesting WW2 aircraft videos, right or wrong.
I have covered this so many times in my videos, just keep clickin kerching kerching kerchiiiing. To keep the clicks going, Greg behaves in a way that would have had him charged, court martialled or meet an unfortunate accident if he did it in 1940-45. Only in the mad world of Youtube can you argue that you wont go through your incorrect calculations again because you have "covered it so many times". So, five times wrong means you got it right in the end due to the boredom factor.Now as Greg is found guilty of everything, what is the verdict:
1. Firing squad
2. Electric chair
3. Gas chamber
4. Hanging
Or maybe he is one of the few who dares to post interesting WW2 aircraft videos, right or wrong.
Even in a huge country like the USA, any government body dropping metal containers on the land part filled with fuel would have questions to answer. They cost money and are a freakin nuisance. Sods law says you start hitting people and buildings and poisoning the cattle's water trough.Note that unlike every other air force in the world, the USAAC and USN were flying fighters that carried drop tanks for over a decade before the war started. The reason was simple: our country is just too damn big to not use them.
Slow starvation due to poverty restricting grocery money?Now as Greg is found guilty of everything, what is the verdict:
1. Firing squad
2. Electric chair
3. Gas chamber
4. Hanging
Or maybe he is one of the few who dares to post interesting WW2 aircraft videos, right or wrong.
Even in a huge country like the USA, any government body dropping metal containers on the land part filled with fuel would have questions to answer. They cost money and are a freakin nuisance. Sods law says you start hitting people and buildings and poisoning the cattle's water trough.
Of course, but in a peacetime USA the times they would be dropped would be few and far between. That is why I cant understand anything about the "bomber mafia" conspiracy around "drop tanks". It'th comleth horth thit.You do realize that they weren't dropped each flight. They almost always landed with the airplane.
They may have been droppable in an emergency. Like forced landing (dead engine?).Of course, but in a peacetime USA the times they would be dropped would be few and far between. That is why I cant understand anything about the "bomber mafia" conspiracy around "drop tanks". It'th comleth horth thit.
There is lots of interesting stuff on the development of aircraft in the period, however in terms of the bomber mafia conspiracy nonsense you need the creative powers of JK Rowling and Harry Potter to connect the planes in your post and a P-47 being short of fuel in deep penetration operations over Europe in 1943, and I dont care how long the word Maaaaaaaaaaaaafffffffia is dragged out it ith horth thit.They may have been droppable in an emergency. Like forced landing (dead engine?).
Obviously a fighter group being deployed from California to the east coast is not going to scatter drop tanks across the US, even assuming that the intermediate airfields had spare drop tanks. But the ability to get rid of even a fume filled tank when landing in a farmer's field might save both plane and pilot. Which means that there were both breakaway fuel fittings and a release mechanism built into the plane/s. Some of the US biplanes had two tanks, one in the fuselage and one tank mounted under the fuselage.
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Not an aerodynamic tear drop shape
Most captions say "detachable" but not quick release or droppable.
Close up
Most sources say the planes held 50 US gallons inside and the external tank held another 50 US gallons.
The external tank goes back a long way in US service.
Just showing, without the whole song and dance, that auxiliary/external fuel tanks went back over 10 years before the start of WW II (1939) in US service. What doesn't seem to show up is why the US moved away from them. And they did, however unlike Europe the US kept a long range requirement, long in 1930s terms. They simply stuffed a lot of fuel tankage inside the airplanes in question and eliminated the external tank. P-36s could hold 160 US gallons of fuel. However the performance numbers were taken at 105 US gallons and the plane was restricted in flight maneuvers while carrying more than 105 US gallons. The plane was both overloaded and out of CG for certain maneuvers.There is lots of interesting stuff on the development of aircraft in the period, however in terms of the bomber mafia conspiracy nonsense you need the creative powers of JK Rowling and Harry Potter to connect the planes in your post and a P-47 being short of fuel in deep penetration operations over Europe in 1943, and I dont care how long the word Maaaaaaaaaaaaafffffffia is dragged out it ith horth thit.
You forgot the French speciality : guillotine.I find incorrect information to be uninteresting. I prefer my information to be correct.
As other have said, they were not dropped on peacetime missions except in emergencies.Even in a huge country like the USA, any government body dropping metal containers on the land part filled with fuel would have questions to answer. They cost money and are a freakin nuisance. Sods law says you start hitting people and buildings and poisoning the cattle's water trough.
There are some really good, informative and accurate YT channels and most of the authors welcome constructive criticism.Now as Greg is found guilty of everything, what is the verdict:
1. Firing squad
2. Electric chair
3. Gas chamber
4. Hanging
Or maybe he is one of the few who dares to post interesting WW2 aircraft videos, right or wrong.
Now as Greg is found guilty of everything, what is the verdict:
1. Firing squad
2. Electric chair
3. Gas chamber
4. Hanging
Or maybe he is one of the few who dares to post interesting WW2 aircraft videos, right or wrong.
You forgot the French speciality : guillotine.
Sentenced to speech therapy to make listening to his videos easier.
And to a writing workshop to help make the video script more concise and shorter.
He's not great, but he's far from the worst.
There is another channel where the creator was accused of being an AI voice!